On which planet are we ? Tell me !

Where is the Zahtar, where are the olivetrees ?

Where is the world, so proud it CAN send humans on the moon ?

How Can people see this beautiful place transformed in lunar soil ?

How can people watch these canned killings ?

How can this happen ?

Why aren't they all surrounded by the colours of the rainbow ?

Photo and edit by : Ahmad Mesleh

www.ahmadmesleh.wordpress.com

Note : "As a result of the separation barrier’s construction, 3,920 dunams of Ni’lin’s lands (30% of all accessible lands) have been de-facto confiscated; this is in addition to the 1,973 dunams on which Israeli settlements have been built since 1967."

Source : http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9530

Justice is waiting

Pillar of gold stone....... ................

Goldstone report

...................................Report of justice

Justice waits sitting on cold stone

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PS : photo is not mine, I found it so beautiful I just did some editing

Simple gestures among Foly

Seing the gas canister too near a friend unable to run,
Putting a plastic bag around his head, like a gaz mask,
he runs and throw the caz canister away


It was this Friday


In Bilin (Bil'in) little village of Palestine



Palestinian Occupied Territories


Like every Friday, villagers, their Israeli friends and friends from the International Community went to the place where, in middle of what used to be their olivetrees'hill, the Wall of Apartheid is standing in the form of a barrier. For the time being, as barriers tend to become enormous concrete walls.

What's concrete, like every day, and Friday, is the shootings of the Israeli Occupying Forces. They shoot and shoot, they even kill, sometimes, harm, wound, and fill the lungs of these simple people who week after week demonstrate pacifically, and totally unarmed.

Photos : from film-stop of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT077JME1X0

Sometimes, when one might just feel a bit desperate in front of this unhumanity replayed, again and again, under different forms, wondering why things don't budge for the better, watching from a distance, through a video posted, Here, suddenly, you just dream of a Time Stop. Because what you see is just like a proof that Beauty, Humanity, to Care, to Protect, to Feel will prevail. No matter what... This spirit will win.

No need of teargas canister to feel teary,

watching them on their country this wall tears apart

it's concrete tears of tenderness and respect that makes blurry eyes

"Gaza-Strophe" : Poetry and Strawberries

http://www.dailymotion.com/cinemeteque


The film Gaza-Strophe (Catastrophe means Nakba) was done just "the day after". After the killings "in camera", closed, some people could come in Gaza. Like Samir Abdallah, one of this documentary film-maker explains, it's a work still in progress, made of different scenes. Here is Poetry and strawberries...

A beautiful part of a moving documentary-film made by Samir Abdallah and Kheridine Mabrouk
Note that these parts have been subtitled in french, english, italian ...

We come back with images of Gaza, Palestine, this country which looks more and more like a metaphore. We entered in Gaza, the day after the last war and we discovered with our friends from http://www.pchrgaza.org/ the scale of the "gaza-strophe". Testimonies of dozens of witnesses of this israeli war against Gaza, made us enter in the palestinian nightmare. Still, our friends of Gaza offered us poetry, songs and even "Nokta" (little short stories full of fun or insight)

(Please note that the translation from french to english is mine and doesn't engage the realisators of this film)

Link to the official site of the film :

http://www.gaza-strophe.com/

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French :

Avec le lien ci-dessus, sur "cinemeteque - dailymotion" il est également possible de voir la version en français de ce moment aussi émouvant que fort.

"Nous rapportons ces images de Gaza, Palestine, ce pays qui ressemble de plus en plus à une métaphore.Nous sommes rentrés dans Gaza au lendemain de la dernière guerre et découvrons, avec nos amis délégués palestiniens des droits de l'homme, l'étendue de la « gaza-strophe ». Les récits de dizaines de témoins de la guerre israélienne contre Gaza, nous font entrer dans le cauchemar palestinien. Malgré cela, nos amis Gazaoui nous ont offert des poèmes, des chants et même des "Nokta" (*blagues ou histoires à raconter)… "

Autres infos sur le site officiel, en français

http://www.gaza-strophe.com/

War ants of Demolition

In blue : Israeli settlements

In red : Israeli military base (one is in the middle of a nature reserve, the light zone in green)

In green : Israeli "outpost" sort of future settlement

You see ?

Demolition warrants... demolition war ants

Today, 15.11.2009

Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli forces distributed demolition warrants to nine Palestinian families from the Al-Hathalin area south of Hebron, near the Karmiel Israeli settlement.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=240064

Source of the map :

http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=2153

http://www.arij.org

It's a clear colonisation

A BLATANT violation of the Fourth Geneva Conventions as these people will not only loose their home, but their source of living

And that to prevent ethnic cleansing, deportations, and what this all mean as suffering, it's strictly forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Conventions too.

For two eyes, between stone and wall in Ni'lin

Photos : print-screen of a part of Ahmad Mesleh's blog

The photographer of the demos of Ni'lin Village and all their different activities, Ahmad, is the Youth coordinator of Ni’lin youth Center, writes news reports in arabic and english and works as a volounter of the Red Crescent. He has a blog where you can discover more of his photos and different creations as he uses his computer for creating all sort of presentation material.



http://ahmadmesleh.wordpress.com/


Every week, you can see his work, and a lot of his photos are simply inspiring ...
like this one...


"For two hands, of stone and of thyme ..."

Between the fumes of gas canisters and other toxic sort of things poured upon these young people unarmed but with simple stones, I don't suppose you can smell the logical odour one could have the pleasure to enjoy... while sitting under the olivetree, behind, nearly dead and struggling for life like them...

But if ... if you could sit down, there
because you want to stand up, near them
if criquets would sing,
Seing this image,
the little branches behind ...
the words of the poet would arise, too, in the air ...
No need of ryhme
Just Thyme
Za'tar
Some art ...


..."For two hands, of stone and of thyme
I dedicate this song.. For Ahmad, forgotten between two butterflies" ...

Mahmoud Darwish

Source poem : Ahmad Al-Za’tar Mahmoud Darwish
http://www.adab.com/en/modules.php?name=Sh3er&doWhat=shqas&qid=85

Fall of Wall in Nilin

In front of a Wall like a remake of Iron Curtain ...

Armed with an iron will

And their cameras

After the fall, a curtain of teargas canisters and other projectiles

Photos : film stop of the video you can see here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xh4ouc8Lac

Note : This Wall is in middle of Palestinian soil, this Wall is illegal, as the presence of everything (settlements, settlers, israeli occupying force, who even arrest Palestinians who resist in throwing stones and crying slogans against this wall)

Ich bin Biliner ...

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Film stop of this Friday's manifestation in Bilin, resisting the wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcTk9ySDa4