I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I am a journalist. I am a mother. I am a Muslim. This blog is about the trials of raising my children between spaces and identities; displacement and occupation; and everything that entails from potty training to border crossings. My husband is a Palestinian refugee denied his right of return to Palestine, and thus OUR right to family life. Together, we endure a lot, and the personal becomes political. This is our story.
Journalist, mom, occupied Palestinian-all packed into one.
Israel acts not just with absolute impunity, but with the support of western powers: that is the message that has been reinforced in Jericho. See my full article in the Guardian's new Comment is Free blog.
posted by Laila @ Thursday, March 16, 2006
4 Comments:
I commented on another article in Comment is Free after seeing your link (using www.bugmenot.com which allows you to bypass registration by using others' login details).
Your article was very interesting. We get such a skewed view of the news here in Britain that we have to go and search out 'the other side' for ourselves.
I love the picture of you and your son. On TV here, we only ever get the 'newsworthy' pictures from Gaza (usually of fighting) - and forget that there are ordinary people in extrodinary circumstances there, trying to get on with their normal family life.
What utter nonsense. The PA and Israel had a deal signed in 2002 about these prisoners. The PA decided it wasn't bound to the terms of the deal. So Israel decided it wasn't bound either.
It's time the Palestinian people learned this elementary lesson.
Palestinians have enough problems as it is.
Please don't add the chechen problem to the mess.Its the palestinian responsibility as it is a EUROPEAN one.
Yasse
Laila,
Pls contact me - rgizbert@hotmail.com re: al Jazeera International - vthe new engliosh language al Jazeera channel.
Thanks.
rg
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