58th Nakba Anniversary
Today marks the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (expulsion of Palestinians from their land).
Yes their land, Palestine, which to so many people is just an “imaginary” name for a place that does not exist, populated by unrecognizable people…
Let the world think whatever they like, let them claim there’s no such thing as a Palestine, let them deny the rights of Palestinians, let them enjoy wiping Palestine off the map, let them taste their triumph in making the world believe Palestinians are no victims, they’re nothing but terrorists and heartless beasts, let them insist on kicking anyone with Palestinian blood out of Palestine, let them manipulate and change facts…but they’ll never be able to delete generations of memories, present and future. They’ll never be able to brainwash us, they’ll never be able to take away the pictures we kept in our minds of our families and loved ones there; they can’t simply steal the smell of Palestinian olive trees and citrus farms we used to pass by every day; and they’ll never succeed in killing our longing to the fresh Palestinian breeze that tickles our noses every time the word Palestine is mentioned.
No matter how hard they’d try, Palestine is there, it has always been there, Palestinians are there, they’ll always be and nothing can change that.
- More remembering the Nakbah:
- IMEU
- Electronic Intifada
- In Remembrance of Those Living Dead
- 58
- Al Nakba Continues
- On Nakba Anniversary
- Remembering Palestine’s Nakba
