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Sunday, August 15, 2010
The African Palestinians..
The
hurt within is about the double siege these folk are living within: One
by Israelis, the 2nd by their skin..!! Can you "Taste" such a feeling..?
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=418097797876
North vs. South, Black vs. White, Upper
vs. Lower, etc.. it is part of the humane legacy; which bitterly can't
live without..!! Yes, a fact we should not deny, but to accept and have
to live with.. It is one of the few documentaries addressing the issue
in simplicity and straightforwardness..
http://www.redhillfilms.com/africanpalestinian.htm
In the Moslem quarter of Jerusalem?s Old City very near one of the great
doors to the Dome of the Rock compound is the African Palestinian
community. Viewers journey through the Damascus Gate, passing the Via
Dolorosa and an Israeli ID checkpoint to find the African Palestinian
quarter. The filmed meeting is with one of the community?s leaders, Ali
Jiddah. Ali is an expressive analyst of the conditions Palestinians live
under and speaks of the psychological, economic and political damage
being caused by the continued Israeli occupation. He refers to the
separation wall from a perspective of having lived his entire life
behind occupation and prison walls. Ali also gives a brief history of
the African Palestinians living in Jerusalem, and the film includes
still photographs of members of this community.
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1378
Currently some forty African Palestinian families live inside the old
city, many of whom reside within 50 feet of the center. Upon talking
with Adam, the center?s young director, one gets a sense of how proud
the community is of its identity. ?Many of our ancestors were pious
Muslims who came from across Africa to defend Al-Aqsa from military
conquest,? I was told by Adam and others in the center. ?They stayed and
married and their children grew up here. ?We are as Palestinian as
anyone else but we also remember and our proud of where are great
grandfathers came from and sometimes visit or stay in touch with our
other family members in Africa.? Aside from the various wars which
brought Muslims from Africa to safeguard the sanctity of its Muslim Holy
Sites, other Africans settled in Palestine after spiritual pilgrimages
to the land?s various holy sites, including of course the Al Aqsa
Mosque.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=416911
The African Palestinians that I have been most acquainted with are
located in the old city of Jerusalem, with an estimated 80 to 95
families, not people but families living in the old Mamluk-era prison,
on both sides of an alley way in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem,
abutting up against one of the major doorways of The Noble Sanctuary. So
this old Mamluk-era prison was given to the African Palestinians by an
earlier Sheik. And the families were given the title, somewhat official,
of guardians of the mosque because of their proximity to the major
doorway. OK, those folks have pretty much remained there in the Muslim
quarter. But their relatives are founded largely in Jericho, but also in
Jenin, Rafah and in other places and also the refugee camps in Syria
and Lebanon. Especially young African Palestinians who were refugees
from the 1967 war. So we see, and we bump into, and we meet African
Palestinians not just in the old city, but also in Jericho.
http://adilsud.blogspot.com/
The African Palestinians..
The
hurt within is about the double siege these folk are living within: One
by Israelis, the 2nd by their skin..!! Can you "Taste" such a feeling..?
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=418097797876
North vs. South, Black vs. White, Upper
vs. Lower, etc.. it is part of the humane legacy; which bitterly can't
live without..!! Yes, a fact we should not deny, but to accept and have
to live with.. It is one of the few documentaries addressing the issue
in simplicity and straightforwardness..
http://www.redhillfilms.com/africanpalestinian.htm
In the Moslem quarter of Jerusalem?s Old City very near one of the great
doors to the Dome of the Rock compound is the African Palestinian
community. Viewers journey through the Damascus Gate, passing the Via
Dolorosa and an Israeli ID checkpoint to find the African Palestinian
quarter. The filmed meeting is with one of the community?s leaders, Ali
Jiddah. Ali is an expressive analyst of the conditions Palestinians live
under and speaks of the psychological, economic and political damage
being caused by the continued Israeli occupation. He refers to the
separation wall from a perspective of having lived his entire life
behind occupation and prison walls. Ali also gives a brief history of
the African Palestinians living in Jerusalem, and the film includes
still photographs of members of this community.
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1378
Currently some forty African Palestinian families live inside the old
city, many of whom reside within 50 feet of the center. Upon talking
with Adam, the center?s young director, one gets a sense of how proud
the community is of its identity. ?Many of our ancestors were pious
Muslims who came from across Africa to defend Al-Aqsa from military
conquest,? I was told by Adam and others in the center. ?They stayed and
married and their children grew up here. ?We are as Palestinian as
anyone else but we also remember and our proud of where are great
grandfathers came from and sometimes visit or stay in touch with our
other family members in Africa.? Aside from the various wars which
brought Muslims from Africa to safeguard the sanctity of its Muslim Holy
Sites, other Africans settled in Palestine after spiritual pilgrimages
to the land?s various holy sites, including of course the Al Aqsa
Mosque.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=416911
The African Palestinians that I have been most acquainted with are
located in the old city of Jerusalem, with an estimated 80 to 95
families, not people but families living in the old Mamluk-era prison,
on both sides of an alley way in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem,
abutting up against one of the major doorways of The Noble Sanctuary. So
this old Mamluk-era prison was given to the African Palestinians by an
earlier Sheik. And the families were given the title, somewhat official,
of guardians of the mosque because of their proximity to the major
doorway. OK, those folks have pretty much remained there in the Muslim
quarter. But their relatives are founded largely in Jericho, but also in
Jenin, Rafah and in other places and also the refugee camps in Syria
and Lebanon. Especially young African Palestinians who were refugees
from the 1967 war. So we see, and we bump into, and we meet African
Palestinians not just in the old city, but also in Jericho.
http://adilsud.blogspot.com/