first of all, i'd like to say how wonderful your site is. i'm icelandic and danish, but i feel palestinian. i actually tell people that we are all palestinian, even those that don't know it! i shall write more another time, but what i have been wondering is where i could purchase a map of palestine, with also the old names of all the golan heights. my husband is syrian, from golan, and i feel it's extremely important for our son to 1) know the truth about palestine, and 2) know where he's from. i saw an interview with edward said on tv5 the other day, and he had this lovely framed map of palestine. needless-to-say i was envious! any chance somebody could drop me a line with an address or link where i can see a REAL map of palestine, golan, everything, the way it should be and will, insha'Allah. NOT the way it is at present.

thank you.....i said to my husband the other day, wouldn't it be nice to get into a car and travel from damascus to al-Quds and then to jaffa? wow...we all have to keep that dream alive, that's something israelis CANNOT take from any of us. we know the difference between right and wrong, and no amount of media bombardment will change that! i'm in the process of writing a book on palestine, maybe it wouldn't be famous, but if i can reeducate just a few souls, then i have tried.

good luck, Allah makum!
wa shoukran, mashan il-web-site!

anna traustadَttir...long icelandic name, means daughter of trausti (trausti is trausta in the genitive), "bint trausti", bil-arabi! hee hee!

Palestinians ...

I was really impressed when I visted this website ...but it made my heart aches that many palestinians visit there country through this website ,, I am a palestinian who is living in palestine but i have not been in most of the palestinian cities check pionts turned our lives to hell ...I have been living under occupation all my life long ..but still i cant get used to the idea of being occupied ...It is just feel very painfull and provoking when i see an israeli creatures, who doesnt belong to this country woundering in my country while i cant move in my own city and palestinians are not allowed to enter there country ,,,I am writing this e-mail from the old city of jerusalem .....and I can tell you ...the situation is not to our benifit ,,,,,
Viva Palestine

Brother Jews and Muslims, please be aware that we are all the sons of Adam and obey the One G-d which takes no partners and begets no sons. There is more in common between Judaism and Islam, the only 2 truly monotheistic religions on Earth than with any other religions.

In fact Islam is an advanced form of Judaism. Please see the site: http://www.jews-for-allah.org

This site helped me see the light and convert to Islam. I'm Jewish by birth and Muslim by faith. I appeal to all the Jews and Christians who come to this wonderful site to look into it and embrace Islam, the religions of human brotherhood.

Fellow Jews, in Islam we are brothers of the Palestinians and Israel will become one state for both our peoples. See why tens of thousands of Jews embrace Islam. Read stories of Jewish converts, including former Rabbies.

Peace to all of you.
I am so proud of this site and many others dedicated to keeping the memory of our Palestinian cities and villages alive in our hearts and minds. I am a second generation Palestinian born as a refugee in lebanon.My great uncle was one of the last group that defended the old city in Acres. When the city fell he went into hiding for 10 days then he was captures , tortured and jailed for number of years then was eventually released . we lost contact with him as my grandfather fled acres with the rest of the family by land and ended up in tripoli lebanon.we heard that my great uncle got married and had kidds but we don't know anything more about him. My Grandmother have told us the accounts of that sad day and made sure that we remembered that my great Grandfather was the Imam of AL Jazzar masjid and my father still remember the streets of the old cit and its famous wall. Long Live Palestine A'edoun

hello relatives
iam fidaa mahmoud fahed alsheik taha, living in haret-hreik beirut. lebanon,having BS degree in Accounting and management and working with an international organization dealing with palestinian youth, NPA here in beirut.
iam very happy to join this wonderful site
hoping to keep in touch with you palestinians and specially from zeeb all over the world, and to know each other since all what we know is the names of families that we heard from our parents and grandparents.
salam

As a citizen of Kyriat-Gat, which was built near Iraq el Manshie, I was very upset every time I walked on the road, going for example to the Cemetery, and passing very near the place where Iraq el Manshie was. I thought that on this very spot, people lived, worked, prayed and were buried. I thought "where is their mosque, where is their cemetery ?". May be it is an unrealistic dream, but I beleive that it would have been better to have still an Iraq el Manshie as a neigbouring village to Kyriat Gat, with old people who would telle us stories of the past about this region. neither Kyriat Gat instead of Iraq el Manshie, nor Irak el Manshie instead of kyriat Gat but both of them. Isaac LEVI ALVARES

I do not find any of the quotes showing the "anger of the zionist government" of israel. From the quotes I have read, I can explain to any one out there any quote, so any one out there, if any quote makes you angry, tell me which one and I will shed light on it.

p.s. - I do sympathize with the situation of your peoples.

Your efforts are highly appreciated. It is crucial that Palestine remains in the minds of every Palestinian and Arab.This remembrance is the sure way of not letting the Zionists win.Palestine will always be in every palestinian heart.

Hi
Iam very proud of what ive seen and what ive read here,thanks amillion for ur great effort for bringing this great work to life.
Truely Yours
Y.I.ALDWAIMEH

Since the current "crisis" with Iraq started, the Israeli Army has killed an American peace activist working in Palestine - running over her with a bulldozer, they have killed another, shooting him in the face, and most recently a British peace activist was shot and seriously wounded while working with Palestinian children in the occupied territories.

Could it be that the Criminal Government of Israel is using the war in Iraq as a divertion - in order to have a go at the international peace activists in Palestine?

Thank For Infomation
Allahuakbar

Hello my friends, Greetings and thanks so much for the hard work . I am Nedal from Al Faraa camp. I am the webmaster of Al Faraa website. Let us have some contacts to see if its possible to include your website in our links OR to copy some pictures from your website. The people of our camp really came from the villages ( Al Falujeh, Al Sawalmeh , Qaqun , etc...). Again thanks and be in touch . NEDAL SAWALMEH website http://alfaraa.vze.com

Israel Invented Modern-Day Terrorism using USA as a Vehicle to Deceive the Whole World and Mislead it, in order to Enlist Freedom Fighting in Palestine under Terrorism and keep Sharons Killing and Destruction
as a legitimate reaction in Palestine. The first victims
were the Palestinians and the Arab Rulers who were all cheated by that.
Long time ago, Israel succeeded in convincing USA and
paved the road for this war going now in & against Iraq.
Last week, Biased Col.Powel, US Secretary, officially put it and clearly confirmed what his Zionist Bosses are determined on, Israels Security and Safety which comes first to them, as I understood it.
This is what Mathew a US citizen put it here on this
Website, April 2,2003. ؟I feel, as an American, the current Illegal War on Iraq is nothing than an excuse for Zionists US government to take over Iraq one of Israels biggest enemies.؟ This is what he felt and believed. Thanks Mathew, I do agree with you. The US Zionists, trying to convince their people in USA by engulfing the outside Reality and Purposes of such war, were Sadam and his Mass Destruction Weapons that endanger USA, imagine this! But the Hidden purposes on the other side at the back were, Safety and Security of Israel first then the Gulf Oil, which were both, the real true reasons for this illegitimate and illegal war.

This website is unbelieveably informative. Indeed my prayers are for peace. I am working on a school project and am trying to find some information about the Palestinian Churches. Is there anybody out there that could tell me about the churches or direct me to the information.

Hi everyone, my name is Matthew, I reside in Los Angeles, Ca. I've been studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a year or so and I feel for the Palestinians. I'm angry at the U.S. government and the Zionist that control it. Check out my website: http://www.matthew.jeeran.com I feel, as an American, this current war on Iraq is nothing more than an excuse for the Zionists in the U.S government to take over Iraq, one of Israel's biggest enemies. I think that the land of Iraq is crucial in the original plans for Zionist occupation years ago when ZIONISM started. Of course, in the Jewish controlled media here in the U.S., we never hear ANYONE say the word ZIONISTS. it's politically incorrect, yet true. My sister converted to the Muslim faith over 10 years ago(she lives in Qatar)and we've spoken much on the subject of Jewish sepremecism in the U.S. media and government. I pray for PEACE to prevail in this terrible and illegal war, and hope to help expose the ZIONIST that control this country. All the best to all reading..PEACE TO PALESTINE!!! Matthew www.matthew.jeeran.com

Bismillah,
Asalam ou w'alaikum my fellow brothers and sisters. I am a Canadian born Palestinian and Muslim. First and foremost may I say that Allah ys3ed hum fi Falasteen ya Rabb. My heart, and soul is in Palestine. To all u non believers out there u must believe me when I say we WILL return to OUR homeland one day. Only Allah knows when but like I said it will be done. We must continue to be strong and put our hands together and pray for this day to come which it will Insha'Allah. The tears of our mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and grandmothers and grandfathers will NOT go in vain. We have faught too long and too hard and yes we have all lost many loved ones Allah yirham hum, but justice will be served Insha'Allah. The evel zionists will get what they deserve. I would also like to request that if anyone knows of any other web sites please let us know. LONG LIVE FALSTEEN!!!!! BI ROH, BI DAM, YIFDIGEH YA FALASTEEN!!!

Hello,
It seems to me that if one is an Arabian hell raiser, one just goes to "Palestine" and persuades some child to wear a dynamite bomb to kill Jews and they will see Heaven and the 72 Virgins they missed on Earth.
This has worked for Arafat who may live forever and seems to have that "perfect possession" necessary to be a "Palestinian" activist. May he die soon and have pork in his mouth! Arafat has killed and maimed more innocent people than Hitler, his idol. The Moon God really protects those he owns.

I am an American who is ashamed of my governments complete support of the Israeli government. The Israelis with Sharon at the head, are the new nazis. I will continue to do whatever I can to get the truth out, here in the U.S. Our media is so biased towards Isreal that without much education, it is hard to see what is really going on.
Keep Fighting for Freedom!

I hope more and more people visit your site. The truth will emerge, keep up the good work, it is appreciated.

hey palestina,

I´m muslime and i have seen at www.imslambosna.com the KAMPANJA "BOJKOTUJMO IZRAEL".

that right. I dont buy protucts from this companys.

have a nice day.

cu
the invader from germany

assalamu alaikum My name is Mariam, originally from Lifta (West of Jerusalem), but unfortunatly I've never been to Palestine, inshallah one day we will all return and i hope i live to see that happen. I really appreciate your work, this is a great website, i was looking all over the internet for our family tree until i found your website, may allah bless you. long live palestine.

With unrelenting hatred against all who hate, I sign in with thanksgiving for a Site that seeks rememberance and good solutions for people who have lived together for thousands of years, all of us.

LONG LIVE PALESTINE

I share my deepest feelings for my fellow palistinian brothers & sisters who are going through the difficult times in the history of islam and who are being brutually murdered by zionist entity and the whole muslim ummah reamin silent to this day and they will be answerable on the day of judgment for their silent behaviour .my heart really goes out to those families whose homes have been demolished whose children had been killed and are left at the mercy of world facist regime .may allah bring the day of victory for muslims for the sacrifice that they have given to preserve the sanctity of alquds.

Great site keep up the good work visit our site and please sign our guest book. reporapo.com

I read these responses from concerned people around the world and can only wonder why people seem to think there ever was a country called Palestine. Where was the intifada when you were ruled by Jordan? Where was the intifada when you were ruled by the Ottoman Turks? Why didn't the world come to your aid when Jordan ruled all of present day Israel and the Palestinian territories? Why? How did a Ghandi through his peace movement overcome the British Empire and gain independence for a gigantic country called India. I am not supporting any of the attrocities that Israel has inflicted on the Palestinian people nor am I supporting the Islamic radicals attacking the Israelis, but it seems to me that if you people, both Palestinians and Israelis, keep going down the same path of conflict it will never end. You have an old Man ( Arafat) running your government. Whether you consider him a terrorist or freedom fighter he has dammaged your cause not helped it. I personally believe that the Arab world needs to get rid of it's dictators and allow a democratic system to be put in place in order to assimilate with the rest of the world instead of the isloation, fear and mistrust that most Americans currently feel about this troubled part of the world. I would love nothing more than to one day travel to a free and independent Palestine with my family and take in your beautiful country and culture but I don't think that will ever happen because of the constant hate.

Great site - Keep up the good work.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - MARTIN LUTHER KING.

Dear All
I wish that we can be back to our Iraque al manshia one day .We need to have the freedom ,we need the peece ,the independence which we lack since many years .

afaf

You are all in my prayers although I am in Canada I care a great deal what happens in your part of the world- we are all praying.

My name is Cheryl and I have been working for the cause of Palestine since the late 1980s. Oddly, I was introduced to Palestine by a fellow student in a donut shop.

I used to meet friends at the shop every week, and quite frequently, I saw an intriguing looking man with dark hair and bright blue eyes. He usually looked sad, and one day I decided to introduce myself.

He told me he was from "Palestine," and not wanting to seem ignorant, I looked it up on the world map but couldn't find it. When I inquired as to why, he began his story. Frankly, I thought it unbelievable, and I lectured him on the freedoms inherent in democracy and our "free" press.

Somehow he restrained himself from becoming angry with me for my combination of arrogance and ignorance, and simply suggested some reading. I read, and my eyes were opened. There was no going back.

17 years after that fateful encounter, I am still an active peacenik. I went to the historic march on Washington last year and was so moved by the support (and the sea of Palestinian flags) that I couldn't stop crying.

I have an entire library of books on Palestine, and I have written countless letters on behalf of this cause. Palestine is in my heart. I love you, especially our brave Children of the Stones.

Please make an effor to check out the following sites guys: whatreallyhappened.com and stopafghanwar.net

Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,

I am really impressed with the contents of your website.
Keep up the good work by exposing the falsehood and proclaiming the truth.

Sheikh Muhammad Masoom Bagdadi(South Africa)
http://mysite.freeserve.com/masoombagdadi
e-mail:[email protected]

i see this web site as a medium for palestinian to fight their own right.
i wanna see this web to continue the creative work and never give up. assalamulaikom

I was very impressed that an American, starting from scratch, would recognize the suffering inflicted upon Palestine in just several hours of reading. Would that the nation would pick up their books or open their computers and FIND OUT. Someone said that for evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. I came to this site looking for memories of when we drank Latrun brandy 45 years ago and was surprised to find so much other information. Thank you for your site.

Wonderful Forum!

Please understand that not everyone in the west supports USA/Israel. I am a British Christian and I pray to God that you will return to your land.
Visit http://www.lmec.org.uk/

Sabera: I agree in principle with the idea of Palestinian refugees having a right to return to Israel, but what is to happen to us, Jews? There are some 4 million Palestinian refugees waiting to return to Israel, but there are 5 million Jews in Israel and 1.5 million Israeli Arabs. Surely, Israel is too small to absorb an additional 4 million Palestinian refugees!? Can Israel survive if the number of Arabs becomes larger than that of Jews?

The end result would be to turn Israel into a defacto Bi-National state in which the Jews will be a minority. What guarantees can the Jews get of future decent treatment from the Palestinian majority?
Will this merely swtich tables and the Palestinians change places with the Jews? Will today's refugees become tomorrow's oppressors?
Can we get along in Israel/Palestine under a Bi-National platform? Right now, neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian leadership, political class or intellectuals manifest any interest in this kind of arrangement.

What are your thoughts?

This message is for all the palestenian those love Palestine!!
i wana say that one day we will returen..
we will fight .. and the israelian will pay back for every thing...
we have to start with our selfs! do what you want but dont forget our mother land.. PALESTINE

The only solution to the Palestinian conflict is a Bi-National State. In this state, both Jews and Palestinians will have equal citizenship rights. The country can be modeled on the Canadian Federation, where English and French share the land with equal rights.

To split such a small land into two states would condemn both successor states to poverty; together in a Confederation, Jews and Palestinian can prosper and heal the wounds of 54 years of conflict.

Its time for Peace, its time for Democracy.

The world needs justice, so it won't be destroyed be evil people.

hello again people! I have already sighnd the book but Im back to again ask you to pop over to a political debate forum where we are currently discussing U.N. resulution 194 right of return. I started the topic and I am up against zionest Jews and other people who are biased toward them. The ignorance is astounding. Please come over and help me out. See what they are saying and respond to them. Just obey the rules of the forum no swearing and no threatning any one. But tell your stories and feelings talk to these people. You simply post messages and they post back to you. Its not a chat room. Here is the web site
http://go.compuserve.com/PoliticalDebate?LOC=us&SEC=1&MSG=1818518
First click on view message sections
then click on we the people
then click on topic Right Of Return
or any other topic there if you like. Or start one of your own by clicking on create new message.

please, Please come. Im only a meek little American who loves you very much. You think I dont understand. How can I when I have not lived it. But even though you might not believe me I feel it as if I lived it my self. Your pain has become my own pain. come to the forum and read what I have said to them and you will see.
Gods blessings on you all
Carol ann
(batnigi)

I am so glad to have found this site. That post by the Jewish Rabbi made me cry. I never thought I would hear words like this from a Jew. Now this is someone truly in search of peace. I am an American. I converted to Islam 10 years ago. My husband is Palestinian. I have been participateing in a political debate forum for the past year. I sure could use some help from all of you. Free speach public debate forums are the best way to get your storys told. Please do come and join us. I must warn you there are some really hatefull unenlightend people in there but there are also some very nice ones as well and so much smarter than you think. Please come on over :http://go.compuserve.com/PoliticalDebate?LOC=us&SEC=1&MSG=1818518
first click on "View message Sections" choose a catigory. The best one is "We the People" click on that and read all the topics and click on one you like or start one of your own by cliking "create new message".
Hope to see you there.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be apon you. Keep up your courage and your strength but most of all your faith.
love to all
Carol Ann
In the forum they know me as "Bat"

I will once again respond to Rabbi Ginsburg's claism that Zionism is a secular heresy. It is true that there are factions within the Jewish community over the existance of the state of Israel independent of the coming of the Messiah. But it is one thing to carry an opinion, and another to publicly criticize the existance of the state that provides Jews with their only protection from world anti-Semitism. Never forget that this was the context in which the state of Israel was established. While it may not have precluded the rights of the Palestinians to enjoy their own self-determination, it was viewed as the sole opportunity for the survival of the Jewish people. taken in this context, you Rabbi Ginsburg have no right to criticize it.

Not ALL Jews are bad, and not ALL Palestinians are good. This Hitler-like way of thinking is a sign of BIGOTRY, usually developed by brainwashing youngsters. The keyword is ALL. Beware of this terrible disease, and if you're infected already and you're old enough, than try to find a cure. Knowledge, logic, and rational thinking usually help.

I am a Canadian Palestinian young lady born in Canada but my blood and soul is in Palestine. I just want to tell everyone not to give up the fight because we will one day overcome Insha'Allah. All our struggles will not go in vain. We may not have an army but we have something much stronger than an army...we have roots and dreams, and most of all we have Palestine. We may not have won the battle but we WILL!!! win the war. So do not be discouraged my brothers and sisters we will get back what is rightfully ours. Insha'Allah

We have received this rather lengthy email, which we have decided to publish to convey to Palestinians that not all Americans are the same.

Webmaster


Dear Webmaster:

I have bookmarked your website. I have a few comments that I feel are important to share--not because they're mine, but because I feel they give insights into what's wrong with Americans. And that has to be addressed, because Americans vote, and our elected politicians depend on our votes. The American vote can overpower special interest lobby groups.

We are uneducated as to what's going on in the Middle East. I've been studying it for over a year. I'm neither Muslim nor Jewish. I think I'm a pretty average, "garden variety" American. If I had any bent in the beginning, it was that I found Arabs to be somewhat frightening. I'd read stories about female genital mutilation, the subjugation of women and in some cases, life-or-death decisions over them by male family members, complete with stoning. Some Arab nations are truly backward. But not all.

I started from the same blissful ignorance that I feel plagues most average Americans. Israel was a romantic story of an incessantly dispossessed people who'd just been through a true holocaust by any standard, and who finally got their home.

But all is not well. It took me under an hour on links through Google.com as a starting point, to begin getting pretty disturbed by what I was reading. It was not at all what I expected. I didn't sleep well that night. The next morning, I read more.

A year of reading foreign news websites (and moderate ones, at that--e.g., Ha'aretz, and Jordan Times, both of which do tell the same stories) as well as some more radical ones (both rabid Zionist as well as rabid Islamist) plus pages and pages on the UN website, it's been quite an education. Not at all what I expected.

I cannot imagine having a tank rumble into my driveway, giving me 15 minutes notice to get my dogs, my family photo albums, my children, my elderlies and any valuables I can sell for food, out of the house before it will be bulldozed into rubble, and life as I know it will come to an abrupt halt.

I cannot imagine having my livelihood depend on trees that I've carefully tended, and before me, my father, and before him, my grandfather, and before him, his grandfather, uprooted. For a bypass road or for a separation wall.

I cannot imagine having lived peacefully in a village, and then having hostile foreigners, powered by the excuse of their religious interpretations, destroy my village, torch its generator (with the promise that a replacement will be torched), and contaminate my water supply.

I cannot imagine having to start out for my workplace at 4am instead of 8am only to travel 5 miles to be there by 8:30, because a checkpoint is in between, never knowing how long it will take to get through it. Or if I will get through it. Depending on the officer on duty (an 18-year-old), I may be shot, and it may well not get recorded, and will very unlikely be in the news. Every day would be a goodbye to my family with unknown results.

I cannot imagine not being able to leave my house for days, or weeks at a time, or if I do venture outside, I will possibly, and in some cases, probably, will be shot with a bullet that could kill me, but at least could make me bleed and likely get infected. (I could lose that precious leg because I cannot imagine, under those circumstances, additionally not being able to be transported to a hospital to fix it.)

I cannot imagine being locked up and contained with five frustrated children into a small house in the heat of summer with sparce food and water, probably not refrigerated. They would drive me nuts!

I cannot imagine having my electricity lines cut by another human being and having my water supply stopped.

I would soon have nothing left. Meanwhile, I'm a valuable human being, I think, I'm intelligent, I'm definitely a great mother, I bake an outstanding apple pie, I sacrifice for my children, and my mother loved me and taught me well.

The American voter needs to understand this and get outraged. Bombing the Trade Center won't cut it. That just draws lines in the sand and creates equally mindless obstinance, increasing hate. It obliterates inquiry into the cause of the conflict. We all get caught up, on both sides, in a shark feeding frenzy. We snap up everything in sight. Mindlessly.

It's so stupid. Every dollar that's spent supporting "terrorist" operations or defenses against "terrorist" operations only feeds obstinance and wastes resources that could feed and nurture many people and make so muich better their lives. To that extent, we are, ironically, potential partners in destruction.

Our current road is not an effective way. It doesn't work for anybody. All our dollars would be better spent educating the American public (and other publics) as to what the situation really is in the Middle East. All our resources could, so much more intelligently, be pooled together to focus on examining the root cause of the problem and rein it in, giving it limits and assurances so that it can finally go to sleep for a night. It makes no sense to be bombing one another when we could so much more intelligently be educating one another.

Sincerely,
Carol

I agree! It seems that Israel's system of government is a Jewish Democracy, not a real Democracy. I feel that what Israel has been doing for the past 60 years to the Palestinian people is horrible. Surely, they should sanctioned by the U.N., yet as I'm sure you are aware, they are backed by the U.S., and the U.N. isn't about to do anything to anger the U.S. I have one more point though, however it doesn't necessarily relate to democracy. It seems that on television, there is far more coverage of suicide bombings against Israelis than there is about the West Bank Offensive, even though far more Palestinians have died than Israelis. This is a mis-conception to many people though. One of my fellow classmates (a Jewish person that has never been to Israel) argued that more Israelis are killed than Palestinians. I presented him the figures of April 2002, and he called them a lie. Several other classmates of mine were also astonished. I think that much more needs to be done to let people know the suffering of the Palestinians.

Dobra strona tylko nikt nie pisze po polska
Good Bles !