Comments on: Fragments: Indexing Memory

By: Al Nakba: Expelled from Home and Native Land but not from History « National Council on Canada-Arab Relations | Conseil National des Relations Canado-Arabes

Mon, 17 May 2010 05:43:02 +0000

[...] Contrary to Golda Meir’s famous sentence (“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.” — Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969), Palestine was a land with a thriving people. Holding onto shards of memory for six decades of exile, Palestinians, in the words of British-Palestinian filmmaker Omar Al-Qattan, know it â€œis clearly impossible to return to point zero… Butt it is also impossible for any Palestinian to honestly pretend that the trauma of 1948, or of the subsequent dispossessions and forced exiles which afflicted us and continue to do so, are no longer central to our lives. Nothing makes much sense without those memories and that history.â€ (Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod, quoted in PulseMedia). [...]

By: Al Nakba: Expelled from Home and Native Land but not from History. By Bahija Réghaï « Kanan48

Sun, 16 May 2010 23:56:05 +0000

[...] Contrary to Golda Meir’s famous sentence (“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.” — Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969), Palestine was a land with a thriving people. Holding onto shards of memory for six decades of exile, Palestinians, in the words of British-Palestinian filmmaker Omar Al-Qattan, know it “is clearly impossible to return to point zero… But it is also impossible for any Palestinian to honestly pretend that the trauma of 1948, or of the subsequent dispossessions and forced exiles which afflicted us and continue to do so, are no longer central to our lives. Nothing makes much sense without those memories and that history.” (Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod, quoted in PulseMedia). [...]

By: Equal Rights Progress in Cuba « Indigenous People’s Literature Weblog

Equal Rights Progress in Cuba « Indigenous People’s Literature Weblog — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:28:07 +0000

[...] Contrary to Golda Meir’s famous sentence (“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.” — Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969), Palestine was a land with a thriving people. Holding onto shards of memory for six decades of exile, Palestinians, in the words of British-Palestinian filmmaker Omar Al-Qattan, know it “is clearly impossible to return to point zero… But it is also impossible for any Palestinian to honestly pretend that the trauma of 1948, or of the subsequent dispossessions and forced exiles which afflicted us and continue to do so, are no longer central to our lives. Nothing makes much sense without those memories and that history.” (Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod, quoted in PulseMedia). [...]

By: Huma Baig

Huma Baig — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:44:26 +0000

and how ignorant are we,all the developed nations and humanity,who can save the animal from cuelty but cannot save the humans cruelty aginst another innocent and oppressed. How hippocrate of us all. embarrased HB