{"id":90310,"date":"2017-04-10T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90310"},"modified":"2017-04-09T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T19:06:28","slug":"deir-yassin-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/deir-yassin-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Deir Yassin to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 Apr 2017 – Today is the anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin (also the Norwegian day of trauma: German 1940 invasion).<\/em><\/p>\n

On 9 April 1948, my mother\u2019s friend in school (both studying to be teachers, school in Jerusalem) chose to go back to her village of Deir Yassin. That was the last time my mother saw her young friend Hayah Balbisi and this victim of Zionism remains etched in memory of my 84 year old mother. Deir Yassin was not the first, last, or the largest massacre committed by Zionist forces during that era of ethnic cleansing. But it was prophetic and emblematic for us because its deliberate effect was magnified to scare the villagers (even some survivors were paraded in the streets of Jerusalem and loudspeakers told of more impending massacres).<\/p>\n

Dar Al-Tifl Al Arabi orphanage was created to house the surviving orphaned children. Dozens of massacres were committed just in the six weeks leading up to Israel\u2019s creation and dozens after. Over 500 villages and towns were depopulated in the bizarre 20th century attempt to transform a multi-cultural\/multi-religious Palestine to become the \u201cJewish state of Israel\u201d. And the price tag is still being paid in areas like Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Egypt.<\/p>\n

Today also saw terrorists bombing Christian Churches on Palm Sunday; over 120 were killed or severely injured. Our condolences to the victims and our thoughts and prayers with the injured. I look back at seven years ago on a Palm Sunday when we breached the wall of apartheid (at least for a short while before we got arrested).<\/p>\n

Please see this video:<\/strong><\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wsX3P_ADk34&feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n

Jesus rode a humble donkey into Jerusalem then. Our donkey and mule (and accompanying humans) were all arrested on that Palm Sunday 9 April 2010.<\/p>\n

What would Jesus do in our troubled world today? Alas, so many lies flood our airways, so much misinformation, so many deluded people (some Palestinians even supported the US bombings in Syria and Yemen). I will end with a poem I wrote in 2011 when we commemorated Deir Yassin as Israel bombed Gaza killing so many civilians. Then I need to go back for the long nights as we prepare to open our museum and botanical garden (palestinenature.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Deir Yassin to Gaza<\/strong>
\nby Mazin Qumsiyeh, written on the way back home, dedicated to Juliano(*)<\/em><\/p>\n

My kind old mother laments
\nDecades of memory that transcends
\nFake Gods and fake peace offers
\nwho bless nichsayon<\/em>(**) and slaughter
\nour eyes fail to see or just lament
\nblood of a child licked off a pavement
\nBy stray thirsty cats
\nwith more morals than army brats
\nOur ears fail to hear
\nvoice of Dr. Izzeldinne echoes
\n\u201cI shall not hate\u201d anguished cries
\nAfter three beautiful daughters
\nWith a tank shell and a niece in slaughters
\nOur noses fail to smell
\nThe whiff of death mixed with gun powder
\nOr the vomit of our tortured
\nOur hearts fail to feel
\nthe punctured womb by the old home
\nthe severed girl\u2019s head by the mosque dome
\nMutilated,
\ndismembered,
\ndisconnected
\nOur fingers fail to touch
\nan anguished young mother
\nLooking for a child
\nJews, Christian, Muslims wail
\nThe lost humanity to no avail
\nthe generals must have their joy
\nto test their newest toy
\nin Gaza white phosphorous back in use yesterday
\nimpunity from war crimes thanks to the US of A
\nbillionaires must make more dollars
\nzealots must sacrifice children at altars
\nGabriel can stay a knife but not drones
\nAnd hate can murder a thousand Julianos
\nWhile the apathetic multitude watch TV
\nObliviously focused on their shopping spree
\nBypassing love and responsibility
\nChasing gadgets, hate, and vanity
\nNext news bulletin… get the experience
\nNext anniversary\u2026 awaken the conscience??<\/p>\n

NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(*) The Jenin Freedom Theater and Juliano in his own words (excellent video by
\nJen Marlowe):<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pQGqmLyunm0<\/p>\n

(**) Nichsayon<\/em>: Hebrew for (ethnic) cleansing.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh is a member of the<\/em> TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine. He is a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join the<\/em><\/strong> BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS<\/em><\/strong> campaign<\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

DON’T BUY<\/strong> PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> BARCODE<\/strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> 729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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