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Jordan News
6 days ago
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- Jordan News
Accusations of 'Supporting Terrorism' to Justify the Expulsion of Palestinians - Jordan News
It appears that the Israeli occupation considers the Gaza file 'closed' — now shifting its focus to a new phase of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinians both within and beyond the 1948 territories. In a politically and security-motivated move with implications far beyond the Green Line, Israel began enforcing a new law in May 2025 allowing the revocation of citizenship and residency of Palestinians from the 1948 territories under the pretext of 'supporting terrorism.' اضافة اعلان This law's ramifications are not limited to Palestinians within Israel; it poses a broader threat to the West Bank, fueling a sense of fear and uncertainty among Palestinians and endangering their national and geographic future amid ongoing policies of displacement and cleansing. The connection between this law and the reality in the West Bank is evident in several critical aspects: First, the law legitimizes the principle of collective punishment and silent expulsion — a strategy long familiar to Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. Legal deportation of Palestinians from within Israel parallels daily practices of the occupation in the West Bank, including arrests, forced displacement, and land confiscation. Together, they form a unified strategy to diminish the Palestinian presence, whether inside the state or in the occupied territories. Second, promoting 'national loyalty' as a criterion for citizenship revives and reinforces apartheid-style policies. It deepens the divide between Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship and those in the West Bank and Gaza, further weakening national unity in the face of occupation. Third, the law signals a dangerous shift in Israel's policy toward Palestinians. It's no longer just about direct security targeting, but also dismantling legal foundations that protect basic rights. This trend undermines stability in the West Bank, where many now feel the occupation is deliberately working to dismantle Palestinian social cohesion using oppressive legal tools. Amid growing tensions in the West Bank, such a law is likely to inflame popular anger and escalate resistance, potentially leading to a renewed cycle of violence. Palestinians view the law as a collective attack that reopens the wounds of forced displacement under the guise of security — a narrative increasingly hard to justify by any local or international authority. In conclusion, Israel's expulsion law targeting Palestinians of 1948 is far from an internal matter. It is part of a broader systemic effort by the occupation to dismantle Palestinian identity and presence everywhere. The Palestinian response must therefore be unified and coordinated — from within the 1948 territories to the West Bank — to confront these policies threatening the very existence and future of the Palestinian people. Now more than ever, the international community must step in to oppose these practices that blatantly violate international and humanitarian law, and which place all Palestinians under the threat of displacement and repression.
CairoScene
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
This Palestinian Initiative Digitally Recreates Art Lost to Genocide
If all the parts of Theseus' ship are gradually replaced, is it still the same ship? If an artwork exists only as a digital image, is it still the same, or has it become something new? In a world where art often seeks permanence and immortality, what happens when entire bodies of work are erased, not through the quiet decay of time, but by deliberate, systematic destruction? In Palestine, the answer unfolds through the initiative DNA: A Code of Life and Identity, spearheaded by ArtZone Palestine. This ambitious project does not merely document loss; it resurrects the erased, reimagines memory, and challenges the very ontology of artistic existence. For decades, Palestinian art has been subject to both systemic erasure and episodic obliteration. From the Nakba of 1948 to the present war on Gaza, archives, museums, and personal collections have been destroyed. Yet, in this forced silence, ArtZone Palestine finds a voice. At the core of DNA is a radical proposition: what if the digital remnants of obliterated artworks could serve as their DNA, allowing them to be reborn in new forms? This project, which showcases approximately 800 digital images of lost works, is not just an exhibition; it is a defiant act of survival. "The 'DNA' initiative is not merely about preserving images of lost artworks; it's about confronting cultural annihilation and asserting our identity," says Mahmoud Abohashash, an advisory member of ArtZone Palestine. "By engaging with these digital remnants, we challenge the forces that seek to erase our existence and narratives." The lost paintings, sculptures, and installations within DNA exist not as passive records but as active materials for reinvention—palimpsests layered with history and new possibilities. Digital replication, often dismissed in traditional art discourse, is transformed here into a lifeline. The digital realm does not merely archive; it reactivates, allowing new engagements, new audiences, and new meanings to emerge. Abohashash reflects on this shift: "These works live on, not as secondary copies but as primary artifacts of resilience. They carry within them the history of their own erasure. Their presence in the digital space is not a shadow of what once was, but a new form of existence that challenges our notions of originality. Anyone can now have a piece at home that reminds them of what humanity had to suffer and is a witness to one of the most brutal episodes in human history." The erasure of Palestinian art is not just about the physical destruction of canvases, sculptures, and archives; it is an assault on the knowledge systems that sustain cultural identity. If an artwork exists only through digital remnants, oral testimony, or collective memory, does that knowledge retain its validity? If a painting was burned, but we know it once existed, does that knowledge make the loss any less real—or does it transform the painting into something that still "exists" in memory? It is difficult to know if Israeli soldiers looted artworks from the homes they raided—assuming any of them even place value on Palestinian art. As ArtZone Palestine states on their website: "The very notion of going to fight 'human animals' contradicts the idea of seizing artworks created by these 'animals,' as that would remove from the victim the inhuman label that justifies the executioner's unspeakable savagery." The looting of cultural artifacts is a historical constant in times of war and occupation. The removal of art is an erasure of identity, a deliberate dismemberment of a people's heritage. But in Palestine, there is an added paradox: the very act of stealing Palestinian art would necessitate acknowledging its value—a contradiction to the dehumanization that justifies destruction. All that remains of these lost works are images saved by their owners on mobile phones or laptops. DNA is not just a collection of images to be viewed and forgotten; it holds layered, invisible stories and questions. "This is an evolving, participatory endeavor. The project invites artists, writers, and thinkers to engage with these lost works, to create from their absence, and to envision futures where art is not just recorded but reactivated," Abohashash tells CairoScene . This approach mirrors the broader Palestinian experience: an ongoing negotiation between memory and reinvention. Traditional historiography seeks to fix the past in place, but Palestinian memory—like DNA—functions in a fluid, living relationship with history. The destruction of art is an attempt to erase cultural presence. DNA subverts this by ensuring that lost works remain in memory and active circulation, taking new forms through digital engagement and reinterpretation. A central question remains: does an artwork that exists only digitally retain its essence, or has it become something fundamentally different? In an era where the digital is often dismissed as ephemeral, it paradoxically grants a kind of permanence that physical works lack. If an artwork is digitized, shared, and replicated indefinitely, has it died—or has it achieved immortality? If an artwork can be infinitely copied, does it lose its singularity? In the case of DNA, replication is not a dilution; it is survival. The digital copies are not weaker than the originals; they are their afterlives, their testimonies. Why do we continue to place value on rarity rather than the art itself? The digital sphere, often dismissed as intangible, paradoxically offers a new kind of permanence. Unlike physical works, which can be burned, bombed, and obliterated, digital works are replicable ad infinitum—just like the immortality of the Palestinian cause. "We are not just recovering images," Abohashash asserts. "We are recovering the very right to remember." In a world obsessed with the permanence of things, DNA offers a counter-narrative: an insistence that what is lost can still live, that what is erased can still speak, and that art, like memory, is never truly gone—it merely awaits its next incarnation.
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Readers sound off on pro-Israel media bias, Greenland's size and Cuomo's record
Ambler, Pa.: Corporate state media and politicians describe what Israel has done in Gaza (photo) as a war rather than the slaughter and starvation of imprisoned Christian and Muslim refugees. They characterize a prison outbreak as an invasion, as if the people imprisoned in Gaza weren't driven off their land during the Nakba of 1948; that peaceful demonstrations called the Great March of Return were stopped by Israeli snipers in 2018-19. They trumpeted unsubstantiated allegations of baby-killing and sexual violence by Hamas on Oct. 7 while downplaying substantial evidence of sexual violence and torture of Palestinians by Israeli forces. It reminds one that Black men were once seen as predators in America while white men raped Black women and lynched Black men with impunity. They are quiet about Israel's long-term support for Hamas and warnings it had prior to Oct. 7. They don't mention the Arab Peace Initiative. Why does the media call those who protest apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide 'pro-Palestinian'? Aren't they simply human beings with a conscience, neither 'pro' nor 'anti' any tribe, religion or nation? White people who believed in human and democratic rights for all during the Civil Rights era were called 'N-lovers.' American Christians believed slavery was biblical. Nothing has changed. Evangelicals today believe that it's righteous for Israel, founded and led by non-religious people, to rob, oppress and kill its neighbors. Why do many Americans ignore, minimize or excuse the violence the ruling class has dealt to innocent people around the world? Corporate media, in a nation ranked 55th in the world for press freedom, peddles false narratives, minimizes our crimes and publishes without challenge lies by government officials, politicians and those paid to shape public opinion. It has become the voice of the ruling class, a mouthpiece for monsters, and the heralds of the gods of war. Rob Baker Williamsville, N.Y.: Israel's foes don't have a leg to stand on. How do we know? They advance anti-Israel arguments that are patently and demonstrably false because the truth doesn't support their positions. For example, Voicer Michele P. Brown misquoted former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. His actual quote was: 'They [Arabs] only see one thing: We have come here and stolen their country.' Brown deliberately left out the first part to make it appear that Ben-Gurion was admitting theft. This is false. He was referring to the unfortunate and false Arab perspective. Israel is fighting a seven-front war of self-defense against its mortal enemies. Brown and her fellow travelers are trying to pile on, but they only have the ammunition of falsehoods. Trying to kick the country while it's down is morally bankrupt. Daniel H. Trigoboff Bronx: To Voicer Rob Weissbard: You say that Mahmoud Khalil wholeheartedly supports Hamas and Hezbollah. Show me where he has said that. You, on the other hand, wholeheartedly support a country that bombed an American navy ship, the USS Liberty, during 1967's Six-Day War, killing 34 and wounding 171. W. Twirley Bedford, N.Y.: Khalil, students and thousands of ordinary people throughout the world are not celebrating the killings of men, women and children on Oct. 7. They're protesting the slaughter of men, women and children by the Israeli army since Oct. 8, 2023 — to date, more than 60,000 dead, including 17,000 babies and children, thousands buried under the rubble and thousands more taken hostage and disappeared in Israeli prisons. Céline Secada Sunnyside: To Voicer Toby F. Block: I don't think it was accurate to say that '400,000-700,000 Palestinians left Palestine.' The late, great Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin admitted in his autobiography that Ben-Gurion ordered the Israeli army to expel tens of thousands of Palestinians soon after Israel was established (maybe even more). Of course, we have to acknowledge that there were atrocities committed by Arabs against Jewish Palestinians, such as the massacres of about 70 Jews in Hebron in 1929 and about 80 Jews traveling in a caravan to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem in 1948 (in retaliation, the Irgun and the Stern Gang murdered an estimated 150-200 Palestinians in a village called Deir Yassin). We must always acknowledge that there have been innocent people killed on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just as innocent people were killed by Irish Republican Army terrorists, Ulster Defense Association terrorists and the British Army. John Francis Fox Bellerose: On Tuesday, I fell again for the seventh time due to cancer and a knee that is bone-on-bone. This happens on my job at Northeast Plumbing in Mineola, L.I. This occurs at a number of different locations. Thanks to the kindness of strangers, friends and co-workers, they got me up and onto my feet, not to mention the EMS workers. I guess at 76, it is time for me to retire and take better care of my wife Eva, who is on an oxygen machine. I only work 14 hours a week now and have been with the company for 45 years due to caring and kind employers. Please keep me in your prayers. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Plainview, L.I.: Trump, who is well-known to be obsessed with the size of things, is probably driven to annex Greenland — even by military force — because he vaguely remembers how big it looked on the wall map in his 1950s third-grade classroom. As a schoolteacher, I know it looked as big as Africa, but that was because it was a Mercator projection flat map, which distorts the apparent size of land masses far from the equator. On those maps, Greenland looks bigger than South America (which is eight times larger) and as big as Africa (which is 14 times larger). Trump needs to take a look at Greenland's actual relative size on a globe. He says we need Greenland for national security purposes, but I believe he partly wants it for his big ego. If only Trump had been in one of my third-grade classes where each student had their own globe on their desk! Richard Siegelman Ledyard, Conn.: 'Trump and the Magic Sharpie' may make for a good book title but it's useless as a policy strategy. Lisa Allen Manhattan: Our federal government has scrubbed the word 'climate' from its records, but Americans know that climate warming is already getting us into serious trouble. In New York, which should be a climate leader, Gov. Hochul is delaying critical climate policy as if we had all the time in the world. Now she wants to put off the Advanced Clean Trucks rule under pressure from truck manufacturers and dealers, who would rather have us breathe dirty fumes than act responsibly to clean them up. She's also balking at getting the All-Electric Buildings Act off the ground by making sure all the regulations for it have been updated. To be clear, ACT and AEBA are already law. Hochul just needs to take her foot off the brakes. Matthew Schneck Mineola, L.I.: Re 'The facts on Cuomo and the COVID nursing homes' (op-ed, March 12): In judging Andrew Cuomo's stewardship of the Empire State during the pandemic, one is compelled to paraphrase Mark Twain: There are lies, damn lies and media distortions. As Paul Francis notes, 'Statements that insinuate that Cuomo was responsible for unnecessary nursing home deaths in New York are demonstrably false.' While he may never attain the rhetorical heights of his eloquent paterfamilias, Cuomo is a sui generis politico whose pragmatic approach to governance elided the differences between liberal orthodoxies and conservative principles. As governor, Sheriff Andy wielded power effectively, if pugnaciously. Whatever transpires in the mayoral race, he should heed Marcus Aurelius: 'Although others may at times hinder me from acting, they cannot control or impede my spirit and my will. Reserving its judgments and adapting to change, my mind bypasses or displaces any obstacle in its way. It uses whatever opposes it to achieve its own ends.' Rosario A. Iaconis Ocala, Fla.: I believe if the FDNY is blocked by a car illegally parked by a hydrant, the car windows should be broken immediately so hoses can be used. Too bad for the person endangering humans by blocking hydrants. Let them pay for their windows if they impeded our valiant firefighters from saving people. Lynn Miller
Memri
13-03-2025
- Politics
- Memri
Fatah Facebook Page Posts Graphic Glorifying 1978 Coastal Road Terror Attack Against Civilians, Including Children
A Facebook page of the Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, posted a graphic glorifying the March 11, 1978 coastal road terror attack, commanded by Fatah member Dalal Al-Mughrabi. The graphic shows civilians hostages sitting in the bus hijacked by the terrorists, and the body of one of the hostages lying on the floor. The graphic was posted to mark the anniversary of Al-Mughrabi's death and of the attack, in which 35 Israelis were killed, including 9 children, and 71 were wounded. Fatah and the PA mark the anniversary of the attack every year with memorials for Dalal Al-Mughrabi and her teammates, attended by Palestinian officials, and with publications that extol them and which spread a false narrative claiming that the attack targeted Israeli soldiers, rather than civilians. [1] The graphic posted this year is therefore unusual in acknowledging that the targets were civilians, including women and children. Conversely, the PA mouthpiece Al-Hayat Al-Jadida stuck to the false Palestinian narrative in a March 12 article about Al-Mughrabi which presented the attack as a heroic military operation against a bus "whose passengers were all soldiers." The following are details about Fatah and PA publications released this year to glorify Dalal Al-Mughrabi and the coastal road massacre. Graphic On Fatah Facebook Page Praises The Attack While Acknowledging That It Targeted Civilians On the attack's anniversary the Facebook page of Fatah's Awda ("Return") television channel posted several graphics praising the attack and its field commander, Dalal Al-Mughrabi. One of these was the aforementioned graphic, which shows Al-Mughrabi shooting in a bus full of civilians, including women and children. The text that accompanies the picture states: "Dalal and the members of her cell managed to reach the main road to Tel Aviv and to wage a battle with the forces of the occupation army. Dalal took a Palestinian flag from her bag, kissed it humbly and flew it over the bus… She saluted it in an unprecedented historic scene which is regarded as the ceremony that marked the establishment of the Palestinian state." [2] The graphic on the Facebook page of Fatah's Awda channel PA Daily Continues To Spread The False Narrative: Dalal Al-Mughrabi Detonated The Bus, Whose Passengers Were All Soldiers The PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida re-published a biographical article about Al-Mughrabi that reviews her life story and falsely presents the attack as a heroic operation against soldiers. [3] The article says: "Al-Mughrabi was born in 1958 in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, to a family from Jaffa that fled to Lebanon after the Nakba of 1948. She studied at the UNRWA primary and junior high schools in the camp, and already as a schoolgirl decided that she would join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and the Fatah fighters. She took many lessons on fighting and guerilla warfare, and trained with various kinds of weapons. In these courses she stood out for her courage, bravery and intense patriotism… "Dalal and her team managed to reach Tel Aviv and hijack a bus full of soldiers, and waged a firefight with Israeli forces and others outside the bus. The action resulted in hundreds of killed and wounded on the Israeli side, and in light of these heavy losses, the Israeli government dispatched a special unit, under the command of Ehud Barak, to intercept the bus and kill or arrest those in it. [This unit] used planes and tanks to besiege the [Palestinian] fighters, prompting Dalal Al-Mughrabi to blow up the bus with everyone in it, killing the Israeli soldiers. When the [Palestinian fighters] ran out of ammunition, Barak ordered to spray them with machineguns, and all of them were killed." [4] Fatah Movement: The Day Of The Attack Was The Day Fatah Established The Palestinian Republic In The Heart of Tel Aviv, With Dalal-Al-Mughrabi As Its President A post on the Facebook page of the Fatah Information and Culture Commission likewise glorified the massacre, presenting it as the moment of the establishment of the Palestinian republic, as stated by the poet Nizar Qabbani. [5] It said: "…March 11, 1978 was the day Fatah established the Palestinian republic in the heart of Tel Aviv, an independent and sovereign republic [that existed] for four hours… Its first president was Dalal Al-Mughrabi. The Palestinian flag was flown in the depth of the occupied land, on a 95-km road…" [6] "March 11, 1978 was the day Fatah established the Palestinian republic" ( March 11, 2025) "Dalal Al-Mughrabi and her comrades established the Palestinian republic" ( March 11, 2025) [1] In the memorials Al-Mughrabi is presented as a model for emulation and a paragon of Palestinian womanhood. See e.g., MEMRI reports: Special Dispatch No. 8773 - Palestinian Authority, Fatah Continue To Glorify Terrorists Who Carried Out Attacks Against Civilians – June 1, 2020; Special Dispatch No. 7708 - New Series Of Fatah Booklets For Children Glorifies Terrorists Such As Abu Jihad, Dalal Al-Mughrabi – October 12, 2018; Special Dispatch No. 6830 - Fatah And Palestinian Authority (PA) Officials, PA Press Commemorate Terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi, Glorify Her Actions – March 16, 2017; Special Dispatch No. 6351 - Fatah Commemorates Female Terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi At Palestine Red Crescent Center In Ramallah – March 17, 2016; Special Dispatch No. 6344 - On International Women's Day, Palestinian 'Al-Quds' Daily Lionizes Terrorists As Paragons Of Palestinian Womanhood – March 10, 2016; Special Dispatch No. 5246 - Palestinian Authority Praises Female Terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi – March 20, 2013; Special Dispatch No. 2862 - Veneration for Dalal Al-Mughrabi on Palestinian Authority TV, in PA Dailies, and on Israeli Arab Websites – March 17, 2010; Special Dispatch No. 7380 - Palestinian Authority And Fatah Glorify Terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi And The Contribution Of Other Female Martyrs And Prisoners To The Palestinian Cause – March 12, 2018; Special Dispatch No. 7708 - New Series Of Fatah Booklets For Children Glorifies Terrorists Such As Abu Jihad, Dalal Al-Mughrabi – October 12, 2018. [2] March 11, 2025. [4] Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (PA), March 12, 2025. [6] March 11, 2025.
Express Tribune
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Al-Nasr mosque in West Bank's Nablus set ablaze during Israeli army raid
Listen to article The Israeli army on Friday raided several mosques in Nablus, located in the northern occupied West Bank, setting fire to the historic Al-Nasr Mosque in the Old City. According to the Palestinian official news agency Wafa, large Israeli military forces stormed multiple mosques, vandalizing their interiors. The agency reported that Israeli forces deliberately set fire to the Al-Nasr Mosque and blocked firefighters from extinguishing the blaze. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that the fire completely destroyed the imam's quarters, damaging the mosque's walls and carpets. Al-Nasr Mosque, one of Nablus's most significant historical landmarks, was originally built as a Roman-era church before being converted into a mosque in 1187. The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs condemned the Israeli raids on Old City mosques and the deliberate burning of the Al-Nasr Mosque. In a statement, the ministry said, 'Israeli forces stormed Al-Nasr Mosque in Bab al-Saha in the Old City at dawn today, set it on fire, and prevented Nablus municipal firefighters from extinguishing the blaze, causing extensive destruction.' 'Israeli forces raided several mosques in the Old City without warning, desecrating their interiors,' it added. Nablus Endowments Director Nasser Al-Salman also denounced the 'brutal Israeli assault' on Nablus's mosques. 'Such actions have been unprecedented since the Nakba of 1948, and they reflect Israel's blatant disregard for religious, moral, and international norms that guarantee the right to worship and access holy sites,' he said, according to the statement. Salman urged human rights and legal organizations to take immediate action to prevent Israel from continuing its violations against religious and historical sites. Tensions have been running high across the West Bank, where at least 930 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 7,000 others injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, according to the Health Ministry. In July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel's long-standing occupation of Palestinian territories illegal, calling for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
