Rafeef Ziadah - 'We teach life, sir', London, 12.11.11

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RAFEEF ZIADAH is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. 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.

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[VirginiaTagz]

#OpFreePalestine

[BlazingSoulz]

...history has never been right or wrong.....history is really just another word for nationalism.....EVERY country rectify the events and mainly catalogs good or sufferings the country had gone through. Naturally, no self loving country would admit to be at fault - so the other country would be portrayed as bad....And as time proceeds, history will only be more disoriented....What's done is done. Leave it be people, we should focus on the current - the future; on humanity and not ethnocentricity

[killie04]

@gtlcg Jews and Muslims - google Operation Danny, that was the start and it'll give you a chance to out your Zionist spin on it. Of course there have been Jews there for 1000s of years, but 100,000s of alien Europeans, people with no connection whatsoever to the ME (really!), invading and ethnically-cleansing Palestine is unacceptable. It is truly sad for the children of these invaders but they shouldn't be there. Re Muslim chant - I'm not a Muslim, I just know right from wrong. Don't you?

[gtlcg]

@illumoari

Jews and Christians still do live in peace. Muslims would have been living in peace as well if they weren't so hostile and violent and so fixated on destroying a Israel. THIS is why we're witnessing this sad joke today. For as long as Arabs wants Israel destroyed, there won't be any peace and things will only get worse.

Just think this through in your head. What would happen if Muslims stopped hating so much to the point they're sending their kids to be martyr suicide bombers?

[gtlcg]

@killie04

(02)

You've had Jews and Muslims live on the same piece of land. Jews have been living there way before Muslims. A state is to be created, what would make more sense, a Jewish or a Muslim state? Muslim because their population exploded? You defy all common sense. If that's the case, Jews are the majority now and therefore it should be a Jewish state.

I have to say, it almost sounds as if you're ending most your posts with a Muslim chant.

[gtlcg]

@killie04

(01)

For the 101st time, all Jews have connection to this land. Jews were there first, so why are you presenting it as if Muslims should do Jews a favor and give them a tiny piece? You're implying this is a Muslim land. It's just mind boggling how people like you have the nerves to even make such claim which is contradictory to history, religion, archeology and most importantly, common knowledge.

[K1222221]

how many years has this woman been in Canada, it sounds like she is trying hard to hold on to her "Palestinian" accent

[illumoari]

@gtlcg Jews always had their place there, before the creation of the state of Israel, muslims, jews and christians lived in peace! it was only when the illegal immigration, and the doctrine of zionism started to flourish that the relations worsened! ppl forget that at one point in history, Arabs accepted to host jews who fled the holocaust, but they came with the idea that they owned that place, and that's the attitude that got us to the sad joke that we're witnessing today!

[killie04]

@gtlcg Jews in th eME - for the 100th time, there have always been Jews there. That's why I support a tiny Jewsih enclave within a sovereign Palestine, with access to holy sites. But 100,000s of alien Europeans ad others,people with no connection whatsoever with the ME, shouldn't be there. The promises that other foreigners gave them should never have been made. They shouldn't be there, never mind behaving with such inhumanity. The mistake will be rectified. Keep your eye on Egypt after June.

[gtlcg]

@illumoari

I didn't make any mention as to who was in the Middle East first. I'm not disagreeing with you (although the fact you're talking about people who no longer exist does make a difference), but Jews have been living in Israel over a THOUSAND years before Islam ever came to be, so how can one claim that Jews have no place there?

I'm all for Muslims, Christians and Jews living together, but wanting Israel destroyed has not worked in Muslims' favor so far.

[gtlcg]

@illumoari

Expelled Palestinians, Christians and Muslims? I'd love to see where you've heard or read that.

And please knock it off with that apartheid nonsense. Israel is probably the only country in the world that lets its enemies serve in the government. Yes, Arab-Israeli citizens serve in the Israeli Knesset (congress-equivalent). Sad, I know.

Jerusalem is and has always been a Jewish city. Those that have lived there still do - Jews, Christians and Muslims.

[gtlcg]

@killie04

Did you really just say Jews have nothing to do with Israel? Did you really just deny Jews have always lived in Israel? Do you know how absurd this sounds? It's like claiming Native Americans have nothing to do with America.