Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian feminist, lawyer, educator, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council , has been a human rights activist for many years. She is hated by the Israeli regime not just for her activism in support of Palestinian prisoners but even more, for her efforts to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) .
She has been arrested many times, held in ‘administrative detention’, meaning no trial, no charge, no legal representation.
Khalida was arrested at her home in Ramallah on October 31, 2019. She was sentenced to two years in prison for “inciting violence” and belonging to a “banned organization”, with reference to the PFLP. She is due to be released from prison in September.
On Sunday 11 July , her daughter Suha died of a cardiac arrest in Ramallah.
Palestinian lawyers pleaded for Khalida to be allowed to attend her daughter’s funeral.
The Israeli prison authorities refused!
In her grief, Khalida Jarrar wrote the following heartfelt message.
I am in so much pain, my child, only because I miss you.
I am in so much pain, my child, only because I miss you.
From the depths of my agony, I reached out and
embraced the sky of our homeland through the window
of my prison cell in Damon Prison, Haifa.
Worry not, my child.
I stand tall, and steadfast, despite the shackles and the jailer.
I am a mother in sorrow, from yearning to see you one last time.
This doesn’t happen except in Palestine.
All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell.
With a kiss on her forehead and to tell her I love her
as much as I love Palestine.
My daughter, forgive me for not attending the celebration of your life,
that I was not beside you during this heartbreaking and final moment.
My heart has reached the heights of the sky yearning to see you,
to caress and plant a kiss on your forehead through the
small window of my prison cell.
Suha, my precious.
They have stripped me from bidding you a final goodbye kiss.
I bid you farewell with a flower.
Your absence is searingly painful, excruciatingly painful.
But I remain steadfast and strong,
Like the mountains of beloved Palestine.
Lois Griffiths is a Human Rights Activist.
Lois, thank-you for sharing this very moving poem.
The Jewish regime have demonstrated how the persecuted can quickly become the persecutor. Given an ‘inch’ by the allies they have taken the proverbial ‘mile’ enabled by the NY bankers, and condoned by the world’s continued silence about their disregard for the terms of settlement.
The Media Yawns at the Israeli Army’s Death Squads
By Gideon Levy August 02, 2021 “Information Clearing House” – “Haaretz”
” Israeli terror is at it again. The Israel Defense Forces’ death squads chalked up another successful week: four bodies of innocent Palestinians piled up between the two Fridays. There doesn’t seem to be a connection between the four incidents in which four sons were killed, but the link cannot be broken.
In all these cases, soldiers chose shooting to kill as the preferred option. In all four cases another way could have been chosen: Arrest them, aim for the legs, don’t do anything or simply don’t be there at all. But the soldiers chose to kill. It’s probably easier for them that way.
They come from different branches of the army with different backgrounds, but they share the incredible ease with which they kill, whether they have to or not.
They kill because they can. They kill because they’re convinced that this is how they’re expected to act. They kill because they know that nothing is cheaper than the life of a Palestinian. They kill because they know that the Israeli media will yawn and not report a thing. They kill because they know that no harm will come to them, so why not? Why not kill a Palestinian when possible?
They killed a 12-year-old boy and a 41-year-old plumber. They killed a 17-year-old youth and a 20-year-old young man attending a funeral, all in one week. An Israeli slogan during the 1948 war went “To arms, every good man,” leading later to the concept of the IDF’s “purity of arms.” Four in one week, for no reason, with no hesitation, with no terrorist facing them. Four executions of young men with dreams, families, plans and loves.
None of the four endangered the soldiers, certainly not in a way that justified lethal fire. Thirteen bullets at a car driving by innocently, carrying a father and his three small children. Shooting a plumber holding a wrench and claiming that he was “moving rapidly toward the soldiers.” Three bullets at the stomach of a 17-year-old who was on his way to take his brother home.
All this can be called terror; there is no other definition. All this can be called the actions of death squads; there is no other description. It sounds horrible, but it really is horrific…..”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56686.htm
aom, yes. If only we could all keep both eyes open when looking at these issues! Trying to solve centuries old problems by school yard “they did it first” rhetoric will get us no where – With the entrenched attitudes and misinformation I’m afraid the carnage will continue.
OK “history” buffs. Here is a question.
For around 700 years (5th century through 11th century CE), the area we now call Palestine was majority Christian.
How did this come about?
Was it through:
A massive influx of Christian immigrants?
The adoption of Christianity by the Jewish?
The adoption of Christianity by non-Jews?
Other?
Its a serious question. Please provide references to substantiate your answers.
Found this Brewer but so far have only done a brief skim. Looks interesting at first glance.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265378812439955
No takers from our resident Kahanists aom. Why am I not surprised?
700 years of Christian History is a great deal more than:
“The extended kingdoms of David and Solomon, on which the Zionists base their territorial demands, endured for only about 73 years…Then it fell apart…[Even] if we allow independence to the entire life of the ancient Jewish kingdoms, from David’s conquest of Canaan in 1000 B.C. to the wiping out of Judah in 586 B.C., we arrive at [only] a 414 year Jewish rule.” – Illene Beatty, “Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan.”
Another period of rule was the Hasmonean Herodian era – you should note that national rule in the age of empire was tenuous everywhere for long periods of time.
Was there a Jewish majority till the 4thC? (when Rome adopted Christianity) Were Christians a majority after Moslems arrived around 600CE?
A Palestinian student has been incarcerated for being the member of a left wing student group.
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