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- To emphasize that the CORE issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are the
DISPOSSESSION and ETHNIC CLEANSING (compulsory population transfer to achieve political gains)
of the Palestinian people for the past six decades. In our opinion, the conflict would have been
at the same level of intensity even if both parties had been Jewish, Muslims, or Christians.


- To create an easy medium where refugees can
communicate, organize, and share their experiences amongst themselves. The
refugees are encouraged to attach their stories, memories, pictures, movies,
music files, join discussions at the message board and guest book sections,
directory service listing of the refugees and their contact information, and
URL links related to each listed town.

- To provide a comprehensive source of information about the villages and cities that were ethnically
cleansed, looted, and destroyed by the Israeli army. At each town's homepage, you will find pictures (both
before and after 1948), the current status of the town, the Israeli colonies
that occupy the town's lands, a brief history of the town before and after
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- To preserve the memories and the experiences of the Palestinian people around the world, especially the 726,000 Palestinians refugees
who were ethnically cleansed from their homes,
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million and constitute the great majority of the Palestinian people. On the political front, so far their voices have gone unheard, and we at PalestineRemembered.com hope to amplify their voices in cyberspace.

- To increase refugees' awareness of their rights to return to their homes, farms, and businesses based on
United Nations General Assembly resolution 194. Based on this resolution, every single
refugee has the right to go back to his or her home, and to be compensated for any loss of their properties, pain, and suffering.

- To respond to the widely popular Zionist myth that: "Palestine was a country with no people for
people with no country", at length we have responded to this myth.
With the help of our online community (made up of tens of thousands of refugees), visitors to the site can verify how Palestine has its people who
are rich with history, culture and values.

- To reach out to Israelis so they can feel the human behind this "Palestinian" or "the enemy", who was forced out
from his home, farm, and business to make way to persecuted European Jewish
refugees. We are proud to be one of the few mediums where Israelis and Palestinians can reach out to each other and meet, of
course other than at the humiliating checkpoints. It should be noted, that the
majority of the site's page views comes from Israel, and many of the pictures
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and Jews around the world support the Palestinian struggle for justice and are
willing to do their part in bringing an end to the wrongs of the past.

- To send clear and an unambiguous message to all the Westerners that the
Palestinian people cannot be crossed for what they have sinned against
their Jewish citizens. Palestine and its people cannot be the saviors
for their tortured conscious and souls for what they have done to the Jews who
used to call Europe home. Their blind support to the "Jewish state" and its
racists policies is blindly guided with their guilty conscious. Locking Jews,
Palestinians and Arabs into eternal struggle will neither bring peace to the
Middle East nor to the whole world.
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If you respect Moses and G-d's promise to Jews why you, Arabs go against G-d's word? He promised Jews Israel! You do not believe his word?
One more thing: why in Koran Jews are blamed for everything? They are humiliated? Is it because Koran spreads Love between people?
Now, whoever had an opportunity to read my comments watch how they will be deleted in 5 minutes. This is because Arabs can not take truth!
In 1948 two nations Jews and Arabs were given an opportunity to live side by side in peace in Israel, but Arabs refused and waged wars against Jews. Who is the guilty one? The one who does not want peace! Arabs do not want peace with Jews. They are greedy. That is why they loose!
If Arabs were not greedy and cruel like animals they would live side by side with Jews in Peace.
Because of their own stupidity and greed Arabs around Israel have problems.
As an American I am outraged that we would have any role in displacing Palestinians from their homes, much less with such cruelty. Without a doubt Palestinians have a culture, art and heritage and a country until Israel was permitted to seize property. I make it a point to find out where candidates stand on this issue before voting. I no longer vote for anyone who I think will blindly support Israel. They have become a menace to the world and need to be told they can not continue to expand at the expense of the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, my country which was founded on the premise of religious freedom for all is becoming narrow minded and only see 9/11 as a beginning, not the slap of awareness it should have been. It was horribly wrong but so is the occupation of Palestine. I want to know who decided to remove Palestine from the maps of the world. Israel is a thief and a horrible neighbor.
As an American, I have to admit that I was always in favor of the Israeli side of the story until I did some independant research on my own and went out and purchased a copy of Jimmy Carter's book "Peace, not Apartheid". The Jewish controlled media in my country distorted the true picture of the conflict and I am ashamed to have not realized this sooner. I believe this conflict can only be solved by making many more people aware of the truth. I fully support the Palestinian cause now.
مهما فرقت بيننا الايام تبقى قريتنا في وجداننا على الرغم من اننا لم نشاهدها لكن نحن اليها كما لو اننا كنا فيهانتمنى دوماان نمضي فيهابعض ساعات لنسامر من هم من لحمنا ودمناونشاركهم همومهم ويشاركوننا همومنا ولا هم اكبر من هم الرجوع الى الوطن .
I am very proud to be from LIFTA. It is a beautiful village filled with history,Honor and respect. Thank you for sharing with us your hard work.
We are looking for intellectual, creative and educated people from around the world to join our initiative United 4 Palestine please visit us at united4palestine (dot) net and spread the word.
The United States gives more economic aid AND military aid to Israel than any other country, financing Israel’s settlements in the occupied territories and supplying it's military aggressions. The reason for this is that pro-Israel organizations are THE most effective lobbyist working the US Congress. They out-spend pro-Arab and pro-Muslim lobbying groups (combined) by a ratio of about 70:1. Developing a major plan to increase lobbying efforts to the US Congress needs to be a top Palestinian priority.
Israeli policy toward arabs is not smart. The military advantage of Israel will not be for ever. Israel is a small. Arabs has oil. One day arabs become stronger. They will not forget the years of humiliation. They will respond by any means. What does Israel hope for in the future. The more abuse of arabs now the stronger respons will be in the future. None state has been strong for ever.
Hi,
For one second, let's assume your correct.
Does it imply that you lived in Palestine over 2000 years you have the right to ethnically cleanse and dispossess the indigenous population?
If you are correct, can the Arabs of Spain who lived in Spain for 800 years have the right to ethnically cleanse and loot Spanish properties?
Most importantly, how do you prove that you a direct decedent of those Jews who lived in Palestine 2000 years ago?
How do you know Palestinians aren't the same Jews and you are not a convert to Judaism?
The simply and honest fact is : You are in Palestine because of European anti-Semitism, because of their organized pogroms which robbed their Jewish citizens of dignity, human life, and in my opinion also much of your humanity. Now you are more like turmented abused child who survived centurieds of persecution and finally you got your chance to prove yourself; sadly on somebody else's expense. In that respect It should be noted that Palestine was pillaged and raped for 200 years during the crusade Genocide and not even a single person of those so called Zionist lent a hand to cleanse it from the Crusaders. Conveniently, they have left the job to the Goems/Gentiles? I have written an article on the subject called the Spartan Jew, click below: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story11920.html
How can one side deny the rights of the other side to a homeland?
Palestinians have been yearning for their homeland for over 60 years. Refugees have kept keys of their homes and pass it from generation to generation.
Jews have been yearning for their homeland for 2000 years. They didn't keep keys, but their prayers to go back to their homeland echoed in every breath they took, wherever they were forced to live.
Does time heal the wounds and yearnings, or does it only makes them stronger, more sacred? I say the latter. You admit you will never forget, so how do you expect the Jews to forget?
Palestinians cannot claim for their homeland on the basis of history (whether near or far), if they don't accept the Jews' right for their homeland based on history (whether near or far). And the same goes for Jews. One side's legitimacy of claim is equivalent to the other, and if you deny one side's legitimacy, you deny your own side as well.
The only solution for the end of this struggle is two states, living side by side. Israelis are not going anywhere, and neither are Palestinians. The unrealistic fantasies of both extreme ends of the narratives are the only ones fueling the continuing of bloodshed and suffering. Most people on both sides want a reconciliation and the chance to live a normal, peaceful, life. Seek life, love, and a good future for you and your children, and not constant struggle based on a past you cannot change. This region can be one of the most prosperous in the world, if both sides stop fighting and respectfully agree to march forward to a solution. We will ALL benefit from peace, and we ALL lose from the never ending struggle.
Just my two cents. A Salam aleikum.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
To Damshek
You can establish your jewish state on your properties in your origin state your came from, but not on our properties in our stallen nativeland PALESTINE. Of which will be back for Sea toRiver and from Naqoura to Um-Rashrash.
So, you should understand our promise and keep it in your mind in minds of all zionsims:
The right of return
The Covenant and the promise of
I renew my covenant and promise to go back to Palestine no matter how long or be short. and whatever and how built fort or walls . I will return by God willing.
But what is said about the settlement out , I say, would give me the entire globe with easts & wests, mountains and the two nods , as an alternative to Palestine I will not accept,and if they said in your right the sun and in your left hand , the moon I will not accept, even if they said the dollar and the yen are yours and the euro ,riyal also yours I will not accept. I recommend my children after me to be on this Covenant and promise
.وكما عدت اليك بروحي ساعود اليك بجسدى وبابنائي واحفادي او احفاد احفادي يا فلسطين
As promised here's soul has came back to you, with my body & with my sons and grandchildren, or with their randchildren,I will be back, O Palestine
ساعود ، ساعود ، ساعود
I'm going back, I'm back, I'm back
باذن الله.
God willing.
I am an Israeli and a Zionist, and I completely agree that Palestinians have the right for self determination and their own state. However, I fail to realize why so many people on this site deny the very same things from the Jews. There are 48 Muslim coutries in the world, more than a BILLION muslims, comprising around 1/8 of the world's territory- and one Jewish state, roughly the size of New Jersey. Are we REALLY such a threat to you all? I think most of you beleive Zionism to be something that it's not.
Again, I'm all for establishing a Palestinian state next to the Jewish one, AND MOST ISRAELIS AGREE WITH ME. We're not the devil, people, we just want to be safe in our state.
Read George Steiner's
THE PORTAL OF SAN CRISTOBEL
for a Jewish Intellectual's comparison of Hitler to Zionists
I'm an American without any direct connection to Isrealis or Palestinians. I have been reading up on Zionism in recent months. What has shocked me the most is that while the Nazi's were perpetrating horrific crimes against the Jewish people, Ben-Gurion and the Zionist hierarchy in Palestine were plotting very brutal acts against the Palestinians in order to create a Jewish state... acts that they carried out.
I come from Indonesia, this conflict seems quite long indeed. and many make hard all races, religions and ethnicities. but, forgive me if the whole Zionist destroyed by a group of people tired of the crime to all mankind. And the Zionist it would run into the woods and die for their evil caused by the smoke of death. I make sure that
Thank you for your profoundly important work.
Excellent site, I have put a link on my blog.
"Deception Has Always Been The Name of The Zionist Game."
The eminent historian George Antonius once said:
"Veiled Zionist propaganda is active, highly organised and widespread; the World press is largely amenable to it, it commands many of the available channels for the dessemination of news and more particularly in the English speaking world"
That's one of the reasons why I have subscribed to this site. There are millions and millions of people, like myself the world over, who sympathise with the plight of the long suffering Palestinain people and their numbers are growing. More and more people are beginning to see the light. The criminal Nazionist regime, same as once the white South- African Apartheids regime in the past, may be in control at this very point in time, but not for ever that's for sure. The Nazionist rogue regime, same as once the white supremacy regime in SA, carries the very genes (DNA) for its own demise.
:/ hm, are we not all terrorists in a way?
But that is stereotypical, so I guess not.
To the many people of this world:
I do not know if saying something mean about a group of people will really help in any way, is it not just adding more fuel to the fire?
And, What if a person in a group was not like the rest of the people, but you still call that group as a whole something unkind. that would be saying that one person who might think differently does not even exist in the world, and all the world is just filled with a bunch of rotten people. That is a sad thought D:
Try looking at things through all points of views. Friends, enemies (who may end up to become your great friends :D, doesn't it happen a lot with children? they fight a few days ago, and now they are good friends. ) , and many others.
But I understand completely that it isn't as easy as written here. :/ Thoughts are so complicated. And I don't think I am conveying my thoughts that well.
I hope we will be able to come up with a way to resolve this conflict.
It is painful to watch other people suffer. We are all humans and have equal rights, no matter what race or religion. The unknown is feared by many, but once they know more about the unknown it isn't unknown anymore so there is not need to fear and hurt. We all just have to take that step forward :D
If everyone could give with a kindred spirit, it would be a world filled with nice people :D
I think there is joy in others' happiness, like a laugh is contagious.
:]
(This may seem irrelevant but just pointing out, why must people fight even on the internet, on this site where people are trying to resolve this conflict not create a larger one.)
MOshe , cannot believe such arrogant and denial in you Israelis !! , you are always making your selves the victims where you are the criminals ,terrorist , ugliest , materialist , and thievish the history ever had , you will keep going to the top with your arrogant until you fell down again to the hill , this is your destiny in Palestine , this is where the way you are following is taking you, to HILL
Dear Moshe,
Nobody can force others to forget a stolen right of them. It's a psychological fact that you can not deny. Moreover, the facts tells us the oppisite about who is in the picture. And for you as a jew, of course you know that sometimes you have to suffer for long time to get your right back. And we will see :)
Big cheers
Nice propaganda site pals.
Israel is now in charge, Palestinians are out of the picture.
This is how it should be!
:) cheers
As an Israeli I was raised and told the Palestinian left on their "Own free will" As achild I did not understand any of it and swallowed the Zionist propaganda cliches.I arrived at the conclusion that the ethnic cleansing was a premeditated Zionist plan to turn Palestine into a so called "Jewish Democracy"
The Israeli Education minister,Gideon Saar,has instructed the term Nakba be removed from Israeli history books which makes your work highly significant in preventing the rewriting of History.
While much (perhaps all) of what you document on this site is absolutely true as a matter of historical record, the tone with which the information is presented, the singular attitude towards Israelis and Jewish people, is exactly the sort of thing (from all sides) that keeps that guarantees this conflict will keep going on and on and on. I think at least some readers will understand what I mean.
interesting site and trove of historical information. Balanced .Keep up the good work.
From singapore, michael tai
لقد كبر حنضلة اليوم نكبة أخرى
أصبح عمره واحد وستون نكبة
هو ما زال ينتظر أن تقرع أجراس العودة ويعود..
كل نكبة وأنت بخير يا حنضلة
with due respect and appreciation to your efforts in bringing up this site i have a suggestion to include antar ben shadad saying in your mission statement in which he says:
لا تسقني كأس الحياة بدلة بل اسقني بالعز كاس الحنضل
كاس الحياة بدلة كجهنم و جهنم بالعز افضل منزل
Dear Saramugsy,
I have watch your recommended link of http//www.frumchat.com/vidfeeder_view.php?id=fIjs1TT5-sc&keyword=boycot Israel. I have no dispute on the contribution of the jewish scientists, engineers & doctors to human race. I admire and respect their dedication and i am thankful to be able to be benefited whether directly or indirectly from their inventions. I praise & regarded them highly. I think every normal human being with reasonable logic & a sound mind would be agree with me.
However, even with all the contribution and all the dedication, it is still cannot justify any kind of Zionist's crime on humanity. I cannot agree with your theory that because you have save me, then you will entitle the right to kill me. No you still don't. It is a crime irregardless of what your contribution to me was before.
Besides, those scientists, doctors & engineers who have dedicated their whole life passionately invent, innovate & perfecting life saving medicines or apparatus, are definitely not the same group of people as those Zionist whose entire life is to ambitiously, passionately, affectionately planing of the torturing, killing and ethic cleansing of the indigenous inhabitant, merely to achieve their political goal- a total Jewish & Jewish only state in a arab majority state. Their are fundamentally contradicting each other on their life's goal.
And please do not exploit these outstanding contribution by using it as a threatening tools to others' on their objection on the Zionist's cruelty. I believe as most peace lover believe, that we object only the cruelty, inhumane, torturing, killing & ethnic cleansing by any form but not to any person, any race, political body or religion. Should Zionist have not done and is not doing and will not do it anymore of their cruelty to others, there will be no objection, boycott of any form whatsoever for sure. But once again, the Zionist regime does not represents all Jewish and all Judaism believer...
How bliss can this world be if those brilliant invention and innovation the Jewish scientists, doctors & engineers have contributed, were not marred by the Zionist regime's bloody inhumanity. It would be considered perfect! The good name of those good people is smeared by the regime's inhumanity.
And I think, the boycott of course cannot inflict the kind of effectiveness as compared to military force to halt the Israel's military advance & offensive. It is purely to raise awareness among the world community of the Israel/Zionist inhumanity and as a form of pressure from all over the world. We still have a choice. We may not live in extravagance if we choose to boycott those products, we may not enjoy as much as those who decided to blind their conscience by supporting the inhumanity activity by continuing using those products, we may not be as healthy or as wealthy, but we will not suffer significant neither. We have a choice to use other brand if we had to use any kind of this product. We are happy enough to live in less advanced, less developed life if our little change or little sacrifice can help to stop the inhumanity. We will live & die in peace, free from using products, which R&D funded by the blood of innocent children, men & women. We do not want blood in our hand and our children's hand.
Wish all the peace lovers luck & courage!!!
Dear peace lover,
Search for professor Dr.Norman Finkelstein on the web for more analysis on the Israel/Palestine conflicts. I am sure it is an eye opener for those who have not know him. Facts from sources e.g. annual UN general assembly result, international court of justice verdict on Israel's border, settler, the Wall, Jerusalem & the Palestinian refugees' right, amnesty international human right organization, the human right watch organization, Israel inland human right organization B'TSelem reports on human right issue in the middle east.
Listen to his lecture, it is educative, mind opener & most of all, truthful with facts from reliable & world wide recognize organization & judiciary body!
God bless him!
CONGRATULATIONS.. brothers and sisters managing this GREAT WEBSITE !!! This super cyberINFORMATION package about our BELOVED PALESTINE will in my opinion occupy the CORNERSTONE for the ROAD BACK TO OUR RIGHTFUL HOLYLANDS when PALESTINE will become A REALITY despite the zionists false claims and deception.
I am writing to you from Israel, having read parts of the site and the comments below. First of all I am impressed to see such a commitment to non-violent struggle (this is not the type of struggle we are usually exposed to in Israel); as a jew, I can clearly sympathize with your longing for your lost homes.
I really believe though that you should concentrate on practical solutions, which means solutions that the Israeli people can leave with - literally. Billy's observation that we (jewish-israelis) are paranoid is not far from the truth, unfortunately. However, it seems that many Arab and Muslim groups are doing the best they can to convince us that our paranoia is justified.
Like most of you, we live in a constant internal conflict: I am a jew with almost-extreme left-wing political views, I respect all people and especially my neighbors, and my dream is to live and grow my kids in my peaceful country, and to be able to travel Beit-Lehem, Lebanon, Syria and so on. I am also a soldier that will do what is needed to protect my family and country against those who try to physically harm them.
It is easy to see that the fascist powers in Israel gain strength whenever we sense a threat - be it a Qasam rocket or cries for our destruction from Iran. I believe that this is also true in the other direction - whenever Israel acts in an aggressive way the extreme Islamists gain power. This is very destructive for all of us, and I hope our nations will find the way to reject those who seek violence and death.
Let us handle our fascists, and you handle yours, before it is too late.
Shalom and Salam,
Reshef
I do not know if it will help or not but I keep a fairly active blog and a YouTube channel. I also belong to several on line groups which have lively exchanges of ideas. I post this address as often as I can when faced with ignorance about the Zionists and Palestine. In the last week I would say at least 30 times.
This site is wonderful when confronted with some idiot who makes the usual Israeli claims about "making the desert bloom" or "they hurt us poor Zionists, those big bad Muslims". I usually post it along with, "go HERE and then tell me that I do not speak the truth!"
This Canadian woman has never felt hatred in my heart all my life. But it blossomed in my spirit last week with the things I saw and read. I live outside the Matrix and have for a long time, but I had never realized just how awful that country has been. Bad, yes, but detestable and Satanically driven... well now I know.
One good thing about this horror is that the eyes of the world have been opened. Also now the fools have lost all claim to lay the Holocaust on all of us to manipulate us via manufactured collective guilt.
I hope to get some of your films up in Google or YouTube as well, although the latter is now patrolled by the ADL and they tend to be a tad... tricky at times.
Thank you once again!
may peace upon Palestinian. I am a chinese muslim from malaysia. While we are outraged & heartbroken by the Zionist terrorism & massacre over Palestine, its people & its land, I strongly feel that people around the world should unite together against the brutal Zionist offensive. Well i am not prejudice towards any race or religion but the brutality & cruelty, barbaric & hypocrite of both the Zionist & US government, is simply inhumane.
Pls visit ifamericaknew.org, for more info. I hope all arab countries can united together against the israel & US despite their political or sect differences. I strongly believe that every human being irregardless of race or religion, who has a heart, would never be able to accept what the Isreal & its Allie are doing for the past few decades in Palestine, after they have visited the web.
As we all know, Israel is strong & powerful because of the backing of the USA. Moreover, US is seen even clear as the poppet of Israel, with the US's withdrawal on supporting the cease fire resolution on the recent UN special meeting, a resolution that US Secretary of State Condoliza Rice had helped to craft, after a phone call from Israel president Ehud Olmert to Bush.
I agreed like others, a worldwide boycott of products by the US & Isreal (from fast food Mc D, can drinks Coca Cola, levi jeans, starbuck cofee franchise, coldgate tooth paste,to hollywood movies),will definitely give some serious impact to their economy. We may choose certain targetted product if we are not able to boycott all of them but pls organise among your groups and i am sure it will be fruitful. Malaysian gruop has opted to boycott 3 major prodcut officially, which is Coldgate tooth paste, starbuck coffee & coca-cola, while other product is at individual's own choice. By this, their military funding & backing by these multimillion corporate would be jeopardised & stop them from being military too advance & offensive. in drastic case, cease usage of US dollar. switch to your own currency in trading rather that using the US dollar would definitely curb the US economy as the US has no gold reserve to back up their currency. The US is rich because the world is lending trillion of dollars to it by buying the US government bond. Their rich is merely rely on their foreign loan thru their bond. i do not know how exactly this works but i am sure it will give impact on them.
I also hope that the arab countries can unite as one & use their wealth & oil as their token to pressure the US to stop the onslaught directly. They can surely do much more than just boycott.
So, this is what the world & ordinary people, peace lover like u & me can do, when the UN has failed to do its bid to promote peace & justice. let alone impose any sanction or the sort to the faulty party.
Finally, I hope we, the world can stay together & stand united as one, in our non violent demonstration to the cruelty of Israel & the US involvement in this unjust & criminal war. The people of america, if only u knew, where has your tax money been going & why your economy is crushing...because the bush government has spend it on Israel & its agenda...
I am heartbroken for the people of Palestine and am truly disgusted and horrified by the slaughter of thousands of innocent men, women and children by the facist and barbaric Israeli government while America and Europe look on and do nothing. I pray that the decent people of the Western World will open their eyes to this horror and help the Palestinian people in any way we can.
I love your site!
The comments below are very well thought out Billy. I would never guess your age by the maturity and completeness of your thought processes. Your parents must be very proud of you. I hope you go far in this world.
Now get the leaders to listen to them.
I have posted a banner to the site on my blog. I hope that's OK. I thought the more to the site the better. Please email me if that's a problem or issue. I'll be doing features on each of the activism sites I have on my blog.
I've learned a lot here and still have much to learn.
God bless you and all who are working toward returning Palestine to the Palestinians.
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