Apartheid's 60th Anniversary

Palestinian women of the village of Battir, source

All week long, I have been trying hard to ignore anything to do with the 60th anniversary of the Nakbah. Maybe because all the optimisim and faith I can muster will not make the fact that the Apartheid state of Israel has been allowed to exist and excercise its brutality for the past 60 years any less depressing. Not only has the Apartheid state been allowed to exist, it has been given unmatched support from most of the world.

Will the people who fled from Jaffa, Acre, Baysan, and Nazareth sixty years ago ever return to their homeland? Probably not. Will there grand, grand children? I am not sure.

What I am sure of though is that there grand, grand children, and their children will never forget what happened to their forefathers and will not easily give up their right to return to their homeland, no matter how hard that is to swallow by the rest of the world.

Tune in to Radio Intifada: April 5, 3-4 pm

RADIO INTIFADA 4-05 - WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED! Deir Yassin, Land Day and Free Speech Radio

RADIO INTIFADA

Voices from Kolkata to Casablanca

Voices of struggle, Voices for change

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3-4pm

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
In remembrance of Deir Yassin & Land Day,
Celebrating Free Speech Radio

On April 9, 1948, 124 Palestinians in the village of DeirYassin outside Jeruslaem were massacred in a prelude to what Palestinians call the nakba – the catastrophe – that led to the expulsion and flight of 750,000 Palestinians from what became Israel. 28 years later, on March 30th, six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed and 100 injured as they went on strike against massive land confiscations in the Galilee.

This week’s program commemorates those events with a focus on the ongoing struggle for peace and justice waged on the ground by Palestinians, Israelis and internationals – and their refusal to be silenced.