A group of Palestinians , more than 250 men and women made something my generation will remember , they made the impossible in Jerusalem and set up the first Palestinian village in its East occupied part since 1967.
More than 250 men and women inspired by the Occupy movement "Started proudly in Egypt and Tunisia" and decided to occupy their own stolen land in Al-Tur which is originally owned by a Palestinian man.
Al-Tur is being called by the Israeli government as E1 Zone and as usual , as the habit of that government it violates all international agreements and treaties , the government in Israel decided to build an illegal settlement in E1. We are speaking about 4000 settlement units built on a Palestinian land.
E1 is an area of about 13 square km that falls on confiscated Palestinian land East of Jerusalem between Ma'ale Adumim settlement, which lies on occupied West Bank Palestinian land, and Jerusalem.
But yesterday Palestinian men and women decided to establish their own village on that land , Bab Al Shams village.
This is an ideological free movement made from Palestinians who got sick from their political movements whether PLA or Hamas , this time the people do lead their movements for real.
Photos from Active Stills.org
Before you debate about the Palestinian rights and you say what you want but according
the Security council's 242 resolution Israel has to withdraw from the land it occupied in 1967 including East Jerusalem where Bab Al Shams village is.
The village is set up already in a land owned by a Palestinian man whose ancestors got its contract since the Ottoman Empire.
Now Bibi wants to evacuate those locales of Bab El Shams , roads are already blocked by IDF and IOF. Of course the
Israeli high court did not give Stinky Bibi the right to evacuate the new Sun's gate from its people but I fear sooner or later that little village will be attacked by IDF and IOF. As I hinted
the main roads are blocked and Palestinians are reaching to the village through mountains. The food and medical supplies come from Palestinian areas.
Here is a photo showing the medical team in the village.This is so Tahrir spirit. May Allah protect them.
We expect that they will be attacked any minute now.
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The stars of the sun's gate village by active Stills |
The revolution continues indeed. Tahrir spirit is there, oh yes baby the true Tahrir spirit.
You can follow the news of
Bab El Shams village on Facebook here.On twitter you can follow the amazing hashtag
"Bab Al Shams"
Bab El Shams means The sun's gate and it is the name of an epic novel by Lebanese author
Elias Khoury about the Palestinian agony in the 20th century. The novel is known in my generation more as
a sad film directed by Egyptian director
Yousry Nasrallah. Now Khoury sent online message to the people of Bab El Shams on
his official Facebook Page. It says the following :
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The sunrise in the village |
A message to my people in Bab El Shams village. I will not say "I wish I were with you because I am with you. I see you and I see how the dream has become a reality on your hands rooted in the land. Mahmoud Darwish had once written "there is what on this earth what makes life worth living" , when you built your amazing village you restored the meaning to the phrase and you become the children of this land .. and its masters.
This is the Palestine which Yunis dreamt of in Bab El Shams novel. Yunis had a dream of words and the words have become like wounds bleeding and you the people of Bab El Shams have become words writing down the dream with the ink of the future .. and returning Palestine to Palestine.
I see in your village all the faces of the beloved ones that have become absent in the way back to Palestine. Palestine is the date for all those strangers kicked out from their land. You are the children of the land , its olive and oil.
You are the olive of Palestine that is enlightened by the sun of justice , you build your village enflaming the fire of freedom. "Light Upon light"
I see in your eyes a nation reborn from the ruins of the on going Nakba. I see you and words grow in my heart. I see words and you grow inside me till you reach and storm heavens.
In the end I have one request , to accept me as a citizen in your village to learn with the meanings of freedom and fairness.
Elias Khoury
Beirut
12 January 2013
It is a small thing but very big for Palestinians and Arabs in general.
May God protect Bab El Shams village and its great people.
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To the sun's gate |
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