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| Huwaida Arraf |
When one imagines land of Occupied Palestine, thoughts of the current
situation leads some to believe that the conflict is solely between
Muslims and Jews.
How many Christians are aware that Bethlehem is surrounded by the Apartheid
Wall? This wall is 8 times longer and twice as high in comparison to
the Berlin Wall which was built in Germany. If one had to travel from
Jerusalem to Bethlehem one would need to cross many check points
resulting in the total travel time to increase by upto four fold.
Christians (should) also value this blessed land as Jesus (PBUH) was
born in Bethlehem, at the present day Church of Nativity, and the
Virgin Mary was born in the Old City in Jerusalem (see attached
pictures).
The following are three common myths regarding the land of Occupied Palestine.
Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian activist, academic and spoken word artist.
She is currently a Phd. candidate in Political Science at York University in Toronto.
She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) promoting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestement and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in Canada, and an organizer of the international Israeli Apartheid Week.
She is a member of the steering committee of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott Initiative (PACBI).
Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.
This is a transcript of her poem "We teach life, sir"
