By Vijay Prashad
Operation protecting area, Israel’s seven-week bombing crusade and flooring invasion of Gaza in the summertime of 2014, ended in part one million displaced Gazans, tens of hundreds of thousands of destroyed houses, and greater than 2,000 deaths—and, but, it was once simply the most recent in an extended sequence of attacks continued through Palestinians remoted in Gaza. yet, following the clash, polls printed a startling truth: for the 1st time, a majority of usa citizens lower than thirty stumbled on Israel’s activities unjustified. Jon Stewart aired a blistering assault on Israeli violence, and a video of a UN spokesperson weeping as he was once interviewed in Gaza went viral, showing on Vanity Fair and Buzzfeed, between different sites.
This publication strains this swelling American reputation of Palestinian pain, fight, and desire, in writing that's own, lyrical, anguished, and encouraging. the various top writers of our time, equivalent to Junot Díaz and Teju Cole, poets and essayists, novelists and students, Palestinian American activists like Huwaida Arraf, Noura Erakat, and Remi Kanazi, provide voice to emotions of empathy and solidarity—as good as anger at US aid for Israeli policy—in intimate letters, appealing essays, and livid poems. this can be a landmark paintings of debatable, devoted literary writing.
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Palestine struggles. It pushes back. In the next bed sits Egypt. It is silent. Its pockets are filled with US dollars, handed over in exchange for a signature at Camp David. Jordan is on the floor. It looks sad, shaken. It does nothing. Nearby the King of Saudi Arabia seems to be speaking about war crimes, sucking his oxygen container in jerks, wondering why it is taking so long for Israel to vanquish his enemies inside Palestine—Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian wing. No one comes to Palestine’s aid.
For two nights in January 2013, 300 activists set up camp there. They called their village Bab al-Shams, the gate of the sun. The name comes from the novel by Elias Khoury, Bab al-Shams (1998), which tells the story of a Palestinian couple, Younis and Nahila, one a fighter in Lebanon and the other a defender of their home in the Galilee. The couple meets secretly in a cave called Bab al-Shams, their haven. ” They had no rockets, no weapons. The young activists came out of the popular resistance committees.
The state has revoked 14,000 residency permits from Palestinians throughout the West Bank since 1967 and counting. It has destroyed 26,000 homes belonging to Palestinians to date. In some instances the ethnic cleansing is outright brutal: building the Wall through homes, lands, lives; residency permit revocation; and settler takeovers. Rifqa al-Kurd (Umm al-Kurd) is ninety-two years old and originally from Haifa. She has been living in Sheikh Jarrah, an East Jerusalem suburb, since 1956. Sheikh Jarrah, along with Beit Safafa, Issawiya, Shu’fat, Silwan, and Beit Hanina, are all Palestinian suburbs of East Jerusalem that stand in the way of Israel’s master plan to Judaize the city.
