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Free Palestine (extra bonus: entry 6)

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Celebrities opinions on  the conflict oppression Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip and rocket fire from the enclave’s ruling Hamas group this week mark the biggest flare-up since the seven-week Israeli war on Gaza in 2014. (AlJazeera) In May 2021, after the IDF attacked and killed innocent Palestinians that live in Ghaza in order to steal their homes away like they have been doing for decades, some of my favorite celebrities decided to speak about the whole situation. I was surprised to see that people were quite interested in what has been happening, whether they support Palestine or Israel because I always thought that middle eastern news did not interest many, and especially not western people.  Rihanna “My heart is breaking with the violence I’m seeing displayed between Israel and Palestine! I can’t bear to see it! Innocent Israeli and Palestinian children are hiding in bomb shelters, over 40 lives lost in Gaza alone, at least 13 of whom were also innocent ...

Free Palestine (entry 5)

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      The Palestinian struggle never stops... Unfortunately, on May 6, 2021, the deportation of the Palestinian family of Sheikh Jarrah near East Jerusalem increased tensions between the Palestinians and the Israeli government. The Palestinians were driven out of their own homes (that probably date older than Israel) so that the Israeli government could maintain the majority of the Israeli Jewish population. It is mind-blowing to even think about how Palestine is supposed to be the Palestinians home but for the sake of both sides, even after fighting and opposing it, the powerless Arabs had no other choice than to observe Palestine slowly turning into Israel. In addition to this mockery, in October 2020, the Israeli government ruled to expel more than a dozen Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah, their own city, in order to maintain a “population balance” of 30 to 70 people, trying to limit Palestinians to 30% of the total population as stated by  Rashid. Words ...

Free Palestine (entry 4)

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 Illegal settlements continue as more and more Palestinians are being murdered by Israeli Soldiers Like I mentioned earlier, the murder of Palestinians is not something new and has been going on even before 1948. Therefore, in the 1967 Middle East War, Israel, unfortunately, occupied East Jerusalem and illegally seized the west bank that they consider the "heartland" of the Jewish history as written by AlJazeera.  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbYrbK1CS8  "Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have since moved into settlements that are regarded as illegal under international law." (AlJazeera)  This is Outrageous and inhuman! The violence and murderous behavior that the Israeli soldiers are committing goes against Palestinian freedom. Thus, the courageous  Mohammed Daadas was waving his Palestinian flag to honor his country in front of the Israeli soldiers. Mohammad was participating in a riot against the continuous illegal expansion of settlements that ar...

Free Palestine (entry 3)

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  " Can Israelis and Palestinians See Eye to Eye? || Creators for Change | Middle Ground " As a young Muslim, Arab, South Lebanese woman who lived in Lebanon my whole life, neighbor to Palestine and Israel, I have learned the importance of history and how much it affects our daily lives. During all my years living in the Middle East, everyone talks about how bad Israelis are and that they are the enemy therefore, I decided to finally form my own opinion by doing my own research 6 years ago. I remember when I was around 14, I saw my favorite content creator on youtube, "Jubilee", download a new controversial video where they brought people with opposite points of view to discuss their opinions.  Link of the video that I highly recommend watching:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jj8vne0ca0  I am not going to hide the fact that, at first, I was scared. Usually, every time I see Palestinians and Israelis in the same sentence, it's either another fight, attack, bom...

Free Palestine (entry 2)

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 1948  The moment that marked the history  It is important to note that after WW1, Palestine, which was under British control, was the victim of a series of violent outbreaks. Now, instead of kicking the jews that are trying to build a nation on  another existent land  (Palestine), the UN proposed a "Partition Plan", dividing Palestine into two states: Arab Palestine, and Jewish Israel, while keeping Jerusalem under the UN control, when it clearly should be for the Palestinians!! At 4 pm, Rothschild Boulevard and David Ben Gurion officially declared Israel as an independent state: "Israel strives to develop the land for the good of all its residents, it would also ensure social and political rights to all citizens without   discrimination of religion, sex, or race."  None of that happened. In fact, it is unfair, cruel, and unreasonable that, after this speech, and "between 1947 and 1949, "at least 750,000 Palestinians from a 1.9 million population were...

Free Palestine (entry 1)

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Zionism, Anti-Semitism, Free Palestine, colonization, Arabs, Muslims, and Israelis... In this blog, you will be reading how the illegal state of Israel was formed without acknowledging the natives of the land, also known as the Palestinians, who are suffering injustice to this day. Free Palestine P eople like to call what is currently happening between Palestine and Israel a two-sided situation, or even a conflict, but here is where they are wrong. The illegal and one-sided creation of the Israeli state took the lives of many by oppressing for nearly half a century the indigenous people of the land, the Palestinians (فلسطيني). I n order to be objective, one should not be neutral. People can have different points of view, therefore that does not mean that the truth should be somewhere in the middle or that there is a common ground. Similar to that, "Israeli colonialism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is an objective fact. Maintaining a neutral position on this war crime is not...