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5/15/2008
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A happy ending?
Where the lovers reunite, and walk into the setting sun on the beaches of Jaffa
i would like to see all palestinians back home . this is my version of a happy ending!
I'd love to participate in establishing the inevitable justice. Inevitable by all the universal laws known by man. Would love to be an effective participant.
To Palestine:
With Hope
I agree 100% with qwaider. more on this in my last post
http://babeldebate.blogspot.com/
كما قلت، تحرير نكاباتنا أولاً، وبعدين الله بفرجها
Qwaider: Jaffa's a good setting, and the lovers should be an Arab and a Jew.
That'd be the happy ending
Anonymous,
as much as i wouldn't mind such ending, I doubt it'll ever happen.
Do you honestly believe that co-existence (Based on a foundation of justice and equal rights)is possible?
And what's with the use of 'Arab' today around the blogsphere?! Today marks the 60th anniversary of the PALESTINIAN nabkeh not the 'Arab' one!
Iman, you're right. I got caught in the shortcuts of vocabulary.
How can there be an end game when my family land is taken by force and my grandmother's house was invaded? A happy ending for me is to give that back to my family. How?
Hi Ana, You asked how?
How about starting with Palestinians returning their votes to their ancestral towns and villages? How about voter registration of all refugees/diaspora, using Out of Country Voting (OCV)? linking registration to their ancestral towns/villages?
See: www.phl-ocv.net
I guess I'm too far to tell something, maybe we don't understand properly what does this mean because we've never lived that situation, but I really hope to see a happy ending too.
Thanks for your thumbs-up on StumbleUpon, I really appreciated it. If you want to contribute to my blog with memories and shots, I'd be very glad to publish them, as you said you lived in Rome some years ago, so feel free to write me and stay tuned. Thanks again, I'll follow you too, your blog is very interesting!!
Thanks for accepting, I look forward to receive, know and publish your stories about your stay in Italy. Let me know if you need a guest blogger for something in your blog in exchange ;-)
Ciao!!
Thanks for sharing your honest and passionate thoughts.
Once upon a time over an intense late night chat with Richard Gere, he shared how he believed it was important for people to imagine in detail a better situation for themselves or that which concerns them.
He had just finished chatting with a bunch of regional journalists and media leaders and tried this little experiment on them. He asked them to close their eyes for a couple of minutes and image a solution and life thereafter for the Palestinian/Israeli issue. When they opened their eyes, they couldn't do it. They couldn't imagine beyond the obvious pains. They kept saying the but, unjust, right of, etc, etc...
Anyway, when the group departed and him and I spent time debating this. He kept saying it's vital to imagine forward the details of life beyond the problems that concern us. That was three years ago, and I can't get that conversation out of my head.
With every day that goes by I think he's very right. We have to imagine beyond. We have to create a minute by minute, day by day account of life that transcends the bad. Once we imagine it in all its details, sights, sounds and tastes, we may be able to work towards achieving that.
Hope and imagination are vital, once we see that picture clearly, we can probably work towards making it a reality.
Imagining beyond is hard work.
Hi ArabianMonkey,
How about imagining voting for your own representatives, to speak for you at peace negotiations? Imagining the world sees 2 million+ diaspora/refugee voters voting, linking their votes to their ancestral land? Maybe a week before elections to the Knesset!
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