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    Re: There was village called Sireen Archived Message

    Posted by Subhi on June 7, 2020, 7:45 pm, in reply to "Re: There was village called Sireen"

    Sireen was a village in Palestine and Qasim a Palestinian, forgive me if I have misunderstood you.

    we seem to be colonizing ourselves now, just like the 70's when colonial policing was brought home,

    what made me think of Qasim was how he captures a world falling apart without contrived heroic narratives but with the banal agony, treachery of authority

    and just that feeling when the pit of your stomach falls and you feel nowhere left to stand nothing left to clutch to, not bad in itself but challenging, in general in the West people rarely give the Palestinians much credit for their many astonishing achievement.

    I have a copy of "All That Remains" by Rashid Khalidi (the Khalid in his name identifies him as a descendant of Khalid ibn 'l Walid)

    A record of the Palestinian Towns and Villages occupied or destroyed by Israel in 1948, it is as you would imagine a huge volume.

    https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story661.html


    As I read all you post I am happy to tell you I am surrounded by swifts, one nesting right above a door, disconscerting when it (they I presume) fires out like little sqeaking missile past your my ear, a whole miasma of midges, spiders, it is an iverterbrate rich environment, foxes, feral cats hedgehogs bats owls badgers raptors and mink and copyu..pheasants and water rails and a great murder of crows, because everywhere are messy edges and unkempt borders and great stands of gorse, marshy hollows and trees mighty deciduous trees..sweet air and clear babbling streams..and even I would recognise a strange face should one ever again venture out here.

    https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story661.html

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