80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth

[SherriMunnerlyn]

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- "An 80-year-old Palestinian man recalled memories of the destroyed village of his youth for the TV program, "A memory that never rusts," describing a landscape destroyed by Zionist forces in the 1948 conflict known in Arabic as the "Nakba," or catastrophe.

Jameel Deif-Allah Sawalma offered recollections of his long lost village of al-Auja, near Jaffa, before it was overtaken and destroyed."Our village plains were wide like a palm, al-Auja river was to our west and our soil was red like a beet," he said. "There were no rocks, and we planted it with watermelons, melons, beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, sesame, lupine, oranges and lemons."*Sawalma recalled fishing from the nearby river using hooks and sleeping bills to knock the fish unconscious, as well as the run back home to cook them, while fish traders used large nets to catch the famous Jaffa fish.*He recalls the two schools they had in the village, and how he studied at one until the 3rd grade. "I used to study maths, Arabic, the Quran and to this day I remember the poems I memorized," he added, and recited some of the poems he learned decades ago. Sawalma’s weary memory still holds an image of how al-Auja River meandered through their lands, and how it flooded in the winter. He talked about the red brick houses of the village, the horse-drawn carriages on the dusty streets, and their wooden or metal wheels which he used to repair for a living.*

Sawalma concluded with the harsh recollections of the Nakba, when him and his family were forced out of the village and had to march to Qalqiliya and the to al-Far'a refugee camp.*A dream that never leaves him is to return to the river, fish from it and walk in the fields of his village, a place that exists only in memories now.

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth | Maan News Agency

Dreams to return to a land one has been ethnically cleansed from never die.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and a practice that violates intl law and a practice still ongoing in Palestine today.

 

[Hossfly]

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- "An 80-year-old Palestinian man recalled memories of the destroyed village of his youth for the TV program, "A memory that never rusts," describing a landscape destroyed by Zionist forces in the 1948 conflict known in Arabic as the "Nakba," or catastrophe.

Jameel Deif-Allah Sawalma offered recollections of his long lost village of al-Auja, near Jaffa, before it was overtaken and destroyed."Our village plains were wide like a palm, al-Auja river was to our west and our soil was red like a beet," he said. "There were no rocks, and we planted it with watermelons, melons, beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, sesame, lupine, oranges and lemons."*Sawalma recalled fishing from the nearby river using hooks and sleeping bills to knock the fish unconscious, as well as the run back home to cook them, while fish traders used large nets to catch the famous Jaffa fish.*He recalls the two schools they had in the village, and how he studied at one until the 3rd grade. "I used to study maths, Arabic, the Quran and to this day I remember the poems I memorized," he added, and recited some of the poems he learned decades ago. Sawalma’s weary memory still holds an image of how al-Auja River meandered through their lands, and how it flooded in the winter. He talked about the red brick houses of the village, the horse-drawn carriages on the dusty streets, and their wooden or metal wheels which he used to repair for a living.*

Sawalma concluded with the harsh recollections of the Nakba, when him and his family were forced out of the village and had to march to Qalqiliya and the to al-Far'a refugee camp.*A dream that never leaves him is to return to the river, fish from it and walk in the fields of his village, a place that exists only in memories now.

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth | Maan News Agency

Dreams to return to a land one has been ethnically cleansed from never die.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and a practice that violates intl law and a practice still ongoing in Palestine today.

Why, Frau Sherri, no doubt there are 80-year olds who survived the war in Europe and remember the towns that they and their ancestors lived in for thousands of years. However, these people are not obsessing over it but have gone on with their lives. Of course, there are probably millions of Hindus who remember the towns they had to leave when their land was carved off to make the country of Pakistan. Don't you think that all those Christians from Syria who have become refugees will remember their little towns in years to come; however, I think they will have the fortitude to eventually make new lives for themselves elsewhere.

 

[Beachboy]

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- "An 80-year-old Palestinian man recalled memories of the destroyed village of his youth for the TV program, "A memory that never rusts," describing a landscape destroyed by Zionist forces in the 1948 conflict known in Arabic as the "Nakba," or catastrophe.

Jameel Deif-Allah Sawalma offered recollections of his long lost village of al-Auja, near Jaffa, before it was overtaken and destroyed."Our village plains were wide like a palm, al-Auja river was to our west and our soil was red like a beet," he said. "There were no rocks, and we planted it with watermelons, melons, beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, sesame, lupine, oranges and lemons."*Sawalma recalled fishing from the nearby river using hooks and sleeping bills to knock the fish unconscious, as well as the run back home to cook them, while fish traders used large nets to catch the famous Jaffa fish.*He recalls the two schools they had in the village, and how he studied at one until the 3rd grade. "I used to study maths, Arabic, the Quran and to this day I remember the poems I memorized," he added, and recited some of the poems he learned decades ago. Sawalma’s weary memory still holds an image of how al-Auja River meandered through their lands, and how it flooded in the winter. He talked about the red brick houses of the village, the horse-drawn carriages on the dusty streets, and their wooden or metal wheels which he used to repair for a living.*

Sawalma concluded with the harsh recollections of the Nakba, when him and his family were forced out of the village and had to march to Qalqiliya and the to al-Far'a refugee camp.*A dream that never leaves him is to return to the river, fish from it and walk in the fields of his village, a place that exists only in memories now.

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth | Maan News Agency

Dreams to return to a land one has been ethnically cleansed from never die.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and a practice that violates intl law and a practice still ongoing in Palestine today.

Why, Frau Sherri, no doubt there are 80-year olds who survived the war in Europe and remember the towns that they and their ancestors lived in for thousands of years. However, these people are not obsessing over it but have gone on with their lives. Of course, there are probably millions of Hindus who remember the towns they had to leave when their land was carved off to make the country of Pakistan. Don't you think that all those Christians from Syria who have become refugees will remember their little towns in years to come; however, I think they will have the fortitude to eventually make new lives for themselves elsewhere.

And, let's not forget the five Egyptian Christians killed at a wedding.

Attacks on Christians by Islamic militants rise in Egypt - CBS News There is video of this news story.

(CBS News) CAIRO - A top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested Wednesday by the military government. It's part of the crackdown on the Brotherhood, which advocates a strict Islamic government. Essam El-Erian went into hiding when the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Since then, Islamic militants have stepped up attacks on Christians.

While this may be a new story, it is often repeated in the Middle East.
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[MHunterB]

And of course there are thousands of Jerusalemites who were force out of their homes at gunpoint, by the Jordanian Army - simply because they were Jews. They remember how life was before they were besieged and shelled and given an hour to get out.......

Then there are the hundreds of thousands of people from all over the ME who were ordered out of their homes and off their land by various Arab League governments - stripped of their citizenship, all they owned stolen from them, before they were dumped at the border. And this was done ONLY because those people were Jews.

Yet the OP has never once acknowledged that any of this was done - that these people were targeted for this ethnic cleansing because they were Jews.

 

[proudveteran06]

The " Christian" never had any comment about Muslims killing Christians. " Jesus" forgot to teach her that

 

[Hossfly]

The " Christian" never had any comment about Muslims killing Christians. " Jesus" forgot to teach her that

Jesus didn't have to contend with Muslims. They weren't spawned yet.

 

[Beachboy]

The OP

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- "An 80-year-old Palestinian man recalled memories of the destroyed village of his youth for the TV program, "A memory that never rusts," describing a landscape destroyed by Zionist forces in the 1948 conflict known in Arabic as the "Nakba," or catastrophe.

Jameel Deif-Allah Sawalma offered recollections of his long lost village of al-Auja, near Jaffa, before it was overtaken and destroyed."Our village plains were wide like a palm, al-Auja river was to our west and our soil was red like a beet," he said. "There were no rocks, and we planted it with watermelons, melons, beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, sesame, lupine, oranges and lemons."*Sawalma recalled fishing from the nearby river using hooks and sleeping bills to knock the fish unconscious, as well as the run back home to cook them, while fish traders used large nets to catch the famous Jaffa fish.*He recalls the two schools they had in the village, and how he studied at one until the 3rd grade. "I used to study maths, Arabic, the Quran and to this day I remember the poems I memorized," he added, and recited some of the poems he learned decades ago. Sawalma’s weary memory still holds an image of how al-Auja River meandered through their lands, and how it flooded in the winter. He talked about the red brick houses of the village, the horse-drawn carriages on the dusty streets, and their wooden or metal wheels which he used to repair for a living.*

Sawalma concluded with the harsh recollections of the Nakba, when him and his family were forced out of the village and had to march to Qalqiliya and the to al-Far'a refugee camp.*A dream that never leaves him is to return to the river, fish from it and walk in the fields of his village, a place that exists only in memories now.

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth | Maan News Agency

Dreams to return to a land one has been ethnically cleansed from never die.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and a practice that violates intl law and a practice still ongoing in Palestine today.

 

[Hollie]

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

How cruel that the Arab armies forced so many of arab beggars and squatters to flee so that the hoped-for Jew genocide could get underway.

On the other hand, and speaking of genocide, the huge increase in numbers of Pal-arabs directly contradicts the screeching coming from Sherri with her continued conspiracy theory promotion of some claimed "genocide" of the Pal-arabs.

There must be some explanation she can cut and paste from Maan News Agency, AKA, The Conspiracy Network.

 

[irosie91]

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

How cruel that the Arab armies forced so many of arab beggars and squatters to flee so that the hoped-for Jew genocide could get underway.

On the other hand, and speaking of genocide, the huge increase in numbers of Pal-arabs directly contradicts the screeching coming from Sherri with her continued conspiracy theory promotion of some claimed "genocide" of the Pal-arabs.

There must be some explanation she can cut and paste from Maan News Agency, AKA, The Conspiracy Network.

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people were displaced in the time period to which
baby murdering isa-respecting sow refers------but the isa-respecting sow ---has
decided that only a very few were important. Of course it is a great tragedy that
so many of the displaced persons have been uses as PAWNS by their fellow
isa -respecting pigs and dogs for the past 80 and more years HUNDREDS
of millions far more lucky were embraced by their own-------and now live
like human beings

 

[Lipush]

I remember my grandmama used to dream about the ranch her father used to own when she was a child. it had open fields where they raised their food, and a great valley to run into as a small girl.

She remembered vividly how the arab teens came, burned down her house, set the fields on fire, and forced their family away. She remembered each scent, each flower, each stone.

I don't recall her obsessing over coming back. Her house was destroyed. So is this man's village.

Time to move on.

 

[Politico]

Good for him. So many don't have their memories at that age.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

The OP

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- "An 80-year-old Palestinian man recalled memories of the destroyed village of his youth for the TV program, "A memory that never rusts," describing a landscape destroyed by Zionist forces in the 1948 conflict known in Arabic as the "Nakba," or catastrophe.

Jameel Deif-Allah Sawalma offered recollections of his long lost village of al-Auja, near Jaffa, before it was overtaken and destroyed."Our village plains were wide like a palm, al-Auja river was to our west and our soil was red like a beet," he said. "There were no rocks, and we planted it with watermelons, melons, beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, sesame, lupine, oranges and lemons."*Sawalma recalled fishing from the nearby river using hooks and sleeping bills to knock the fish unconscious, as well as the run back home to cook them, while fish traders used large nets to catch the famous Jaffa fish.*He recalls the two schools they had in the village, and how he studied at one until the 3rd grade. "I used to study maths, Arabic, the Quran and to this day I remember the poems I memorized," he added, and recited some of the poems he learned decades ago. Sawalma’s weary memory still holds an image of how al-Auja River meandered through their lands, and how it flooded in the winter. He talked about the red brick houses of the village, the horse-drawn carriages on the dusty streets, and their wooden or metal wheels which he used to repair for a living.*

Sawalma concluded with the harsh recollections of the Nakba, when him and his family were forced out of the village and had to march to Qalqiliya and the to al-Far'a refugee camp.*A dream that never leaves him is to return to the river, fish from it and walk in the fields of his village, a place that exists only in memories now.

Around 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

80-year-old Palestinian man remembers destroyed village of his youth | Maan News Agency

Dreams to return to a land one has been ethnically cleansed from never die.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and a practice that violates intl law and a practice still ongoing in Palestine today.

You quote the OP with the letters OP highlighted above it in Big Blue letters.


Anything to say about the plight of this 80 year old Palestinian or Israels ethnic cleansing documented in the OP?

Israel's ethnic cleansing in Palestine is widely written about.

I refer you to the book by Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine.

You can purchase it on Amazon.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

"The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing".Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the Middle East.

Focusing primarily on Plan D (Dalet, in Hebrew), conceived on March 10, 1948, Pappe demonstrates how ethnic cleansing was not a circumstance of war, but rather a deliberate goal of combat for early Israeli military units led by David Ben-Gurion, whom Pappe labels the "architect of ethnic cleansing." The forced expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians between 1948-49, Pappe argues, was part of a long-standing Zionist plan to manufacture an ethnically pure Jewish state. Framing his argument with accepted international and UN definitions of ethnic cleansing, Pappe follows with an excruciatingly detailed account of Israeli military involvement in the demolition and depopulation of hundreds of villages, and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arab inhabitants. An accessible, learned resource, this volume provides important inroads into the historical antecedents of today's conflict, but its conclusions will not be easy for everyone to stomach: Pappe argues that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues today, and calls for the unconditional return of all Palestinian refugees and an end to the Israeli occupation."

*[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1851685553/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1]The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine:Amazon:Books[/ame]

 

[irosie91]

[COLO

Anything to say about the plight of this 80 year old Palestinian or Israels ethnic cleansing documented in the OP?

Israel's ethnic cleansing in Palestine is widely written about.

I refer you to the book by Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine.

You can purchase it on Amazon.

WHAT "plight" is that? He is one of HUNDREDS of millions of people
who fled the turmoil of the 20th century I have been
hearing about-----THAT PLACE BACK THERE ----from relatives since I was a baby.
ALL fled something-------in fact all fled "isa-respecters" You made no point
sherri----other than the fact that are you dim witted. OVERWHELMINGLY----most
of the displacement of people in the 20th century----other than that
which took place in the FAR EAST and even most which took place in Southeast
Asia -------was the result of the filth of "ISA-RESPECTERS"----still ongoing ---
especially in the Middle east------ISA-RESPECTING DIRT------today strews the
gutters of syria with dead infants----and it is accelerating in Egypt,---right now.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Dr. Ilan Pappe on The Nakba of Palestine

 

[irosie91]

oh gee YET ANOTHER outdated pallywood production------
featuring a desperate failed scholar

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

National Press Club address featuring Professor and Dr. Ilan Pappe.

 

[irosie91]

oh gee-----yet another pallywood production featuring a desperate worn out ---
publish or perish --------victim

 

[Jroc]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGqpFxogRg]Refugee - Arab states told Arabs to leave Israel in 1948 war - YouTube[/ame]