NAKBA 2007 ?

We, as Palestinians, are situated in a very delicate phase right now.
The last few days, seem to demolish all the good things we tried to build in Palestine,
It seems as if we have forgotten who is our real enemy is.

The Nakba, is our tragedy. Since 1948 we are suffering from that tragedy, since our brothers and families have been forced to leave Palestine.
But this year, the feeling is that we are having a new Nakba..
For a long time the situation and the anarchy in Palestine are not improving and even getting worse...
Sometimes it feels as if we ruined all of our hopes by these fights and anarchy.
What reason do we have to fight between ourselves? It is so brutal seeing brothers fight each other.
We do have options!
We do have hopes we can accomplish!

We should not give the enemy reasons to invade Gaza. There is no reason we should help the enemy by killing our selves! It shouldn’t be like that! We need to be united, and keep the force for one enemy..

I have a friend that likes to draw caricatures, and he asked me to publish some of his works in here.I hope that soon I will add his caricatures in here and maybe my friend will be famous someday because of me?!

Asad al nimr.

AND WHAT ABOUT THE SIEGE?!

Hello everyone,
I want to show you a poster that I have found in the internet, and I really feel it tells our story.Many of my relatives in ramallah lost their jobs!
And have no income! It is not a rare thing to be unemployed in Palestine. Till last year economy was growing in a very slow pace but it was growing…

unfortunately after the Hamas government was elected the Palestinian economy has deteriorated very fast. the result is very clear ... many people in here are unemployed for many months! In the poster that I have put here you can see men who used to work and earn money for their families at home, but now, these men are unemployed, and earn no money.

"The Palestinian workers without work and no income"- this is the phrase that is written on the poster.

p.s – in the next few days I will have something new in my blog.

Asad al nimr.

PICTURES ON THE WALL

So much is happening in Palestine for the last few weeks, but there are not so many successes..

I heard on news that the minister of the interior, hani alqawasmi already wants to resign the government..

the tahdiya in Gaza is crumbling, there are no indications that our finance minister had really succeeded in breaking the economic siege.

But as I wrote you in my last post, there is a beam of normality
Ramallah's contemporary dance festival has started and I even got a ticket to one of the shows. The performance was by the okhela dance theatre of South Africa. This dance company is concerned with empowering young people through dance and theatre. In the web site of the dance festival it was written that this dance group "uses dance and theatre as a tool to explore ways and means to break down existing barriers".

The performance they put on was by the name – "pictures on the wall". It tells the story of period of the apartheid in South Africa, and that the South African's put the blame of every misfortune or mistake the encounter today on the apartheid shoulders.
The show was very interesting, and I really enjoyed it.It made me think about our own "apartheid and wall".. there is no doubt that the Israeli occupation is the cause for many of our problems, but maybe regarding some of the problems such as the anarchy in our streets, the blame is not only on the occupation.

And we must look into our leaders eyes, and ask them to put aside their own interest, and work together trying to save our Palestine!

For those who are interested in seeing pictures from the festival- please visit their website:http://www.sirreyeh.org/

asad.