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.
Ok, something's obvioysly amiss in the comments section and I'm not sure how to fix it-I did a test run and no comments are being posted. I'm going to try to disable moderation to see if that works, then contact blogger. Any suggestions welcome!
posted by Laila @ Sunday, November 26, 2006
2 Comments:
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Below is contact information sent to me from occupied Palestine by a Palestinian friend. I find it to be the only effective way to help Liala,her son Yousuf, and her parents to cross over to her home in Gaza. Yes, that is a heartbreaking story. It just highlite the suffering of all Palestinian. I read her acount twice in the last week. I don't know how can red-blooded human being could remain silent after reading her acount. I am glad she posted the picture of her son Yousuf. It is very powerfull. He is the age of my youngest son, and has the same name as of my oldest son Yousef. If I may add one more thing, here goes:
After the Nazis proscuted,dehumanised and killed 6 million Jews, everybody asked, " Where are the good German?"
Please let us learn from history. Don't let happen again. It takes only few minute to drop a line for Israeli officials. Urge them to open the gate and stop treat Palestinian like Liala and her son Yousuf like the Nazis treat them.
That is only support that this young lady and her family needs.For those of you who are good at writing, you could write a letter to the editor to your hometown newspaper, Israeli press, and or even submitt a guest column about Liala story and her suffering. How is her family is split apart as a result of Israeli repressive policies toward Palestinians. That is a human intrest story that many papers love to run. I have done , and I know I can you can too. Blieve me you, you would sleep better atnight afterwards. Thank you inadvance. And good luck to UM Yousuf [the mother of Yousuf in Arabic]
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
TSGT-USAF[Ret.]
Westerville, Ohio
elyousseph6@yahoo.com
Where do we write, yell, scream...hard to know, but let's try with those that have the key to the gate. It's not that I think they will reply, but they need to know the world is watching:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Address: 3 Kaplan St, Jerusalem 91919
Phone: +972 2 6705555
Fax: +972 2 -6705475
Email: pmo.heb@it.pmo.gov.il
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz
Address: Defense Ministry, 37 Kaplan St, Tel Aviv 61909
Phone: +972 3 6975349
Fax: +972 3 6976218 / 691 6940 / 696 2757 / 691 7915/
Email: sar@mod.gov.il; pniot@mod.gov.il ; aperetz@knesset.gov.il
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520
# Main Switchboard: 1-202-647-4000
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