Tuesday 5 May 2009

Nakba

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by الفلسطينية



My peers, you and I, were too young to understand what the whole story was about. On that night, though, certain threads of that story became clearer. In the morning, and as the Jews withdrew threatening and fulminating, a big truck was standing in front of our door. Light things, mainly sleeping items, were being chucked into the truck swiftly and hysterically.

- Ghassan Kanafani, Land of Sad Oranges.
I am too young to remember. But I have not forgotten. The Nakba continues with various acts of ethnic cleansing:
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