Feeling Palestine

  The Main Dilemma Today: What if Elections Take Place? The main dilemma facing Palestinians today, which could even be understood as true for the Arab world in general, is people's choice when faced with elections. The choice is limited to two undemocratic forces in their essence. These forces are linked in their agenda to outside influences or countries and thus don't consider the country's best interest or its people. So having elections in and of itself is a problem. On the one hand, people often wonder whether there should be elections because they might live under harsher conditions socially and politically if the Islamist forces win. On the other hand, there is the question of remaining under the governance of a possibly corrupt, Western-supported, and illegitimate rule. The two main forces on the ground here in Palestine follow the same paradigm. There is the Palestinian Authority, although without true control, and other parties connected to the Authority in th...

  / Clarifying Two Main Misunderstandings 1)                A major misleading argument, in my opinion, is the issue of security. Israel claims that the checkpoints and the wall are necessary measures for self-defense. These checkpoints and the wall did not exist before the first and second Intifada.  As ‘violence’ increased from both sides, or Palestinians view this as armed resistance in response to an imposed harsh reality, these checkpoints and this wall were gradually built and fortified. However, these checkpoints and the wall never deterred resistance, nor did they bring security to Israel. Instead, they fragment Palestinian existence even further and increase Israel’s grip on the land, the Palestinian population, the resources, and even on its diplomatic dogma, and thus its power. As a result, the more desperate Palestinians get, the more the need to resist and fight since our survival and liveliho...

The first part of the video is in English, and the second part is in Arabic, presented by the Palestinian poet Tamim Barghouti and I translated it into English below. Debunking The Israeli Biblical Narrative  This was a speech given by the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Dani Danon, in 2019. “Today I will present to you the four pillars that prove the case for Jewish ownership of the Land of Israel.  The first pillar is the Bible; the Jewish people’s rightful ownership of the land of Israel is well documented throughout the Old Testament and beyond. The second pillar is history. The Jewish claim to the land of Israel is confirmed time and again, not just with Jewish history but through the history of the world. The third pillar is a legal claim; our rights to the land are codified in international law including in the document that founded this very body. And the fourth pillar is the pursuit of international peace and security, a stronger and safer  Israel mean...

  Debunking The Israeli Biblical Narrative  This was a speech given by the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Dani Danon, in 2019. “Today I will present to you the four pillars that prove the case for Jewish ownership of the Land of Israel.  The first pillar is the Bible; the Jewish people’s rightful ownership of the land of Israel is well documented throughout the Old Testament and beyond. The second pillar is history. The Jewish claim to the land of Israel is confirmed time and again, not just with Jewish history but through the history of the world. The third pillar is a legal claim; our rights to the land are codified in international law including in the document that founded this very body. And the fourth pillar is the pursuit of international peace and security, a stronger and safer Israel means a stronger and safer world. Let us discuss our first pillar of proof, the Bible. The Jewish people’s right to the land of Israel is mentioned over a dozen times ...