Sonja KarkarAbout This Video
The old lie that Palestine was a dry desert
waiting for a people is just
that – a lie. This clip allows people to see the
beauty of the Palestinian
people before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered
and made into refugees by the State of Israel.
Music Joaquin Rodrigo, lyrics Helmut Lotti,
sung by Lotti.
It is impossible not to be moved by the evocative images
of Palestinian society in happier times when people
lived and loved in freedom. The man-made catastrophe that
decimated that society in 1948 is still ongoing today as Israel
reduces the Palestinians to a sub-human existence under its
savage and merciless military occupation.
As the Australian prime minister prepares to move a motion on 12 March
honouring Israel’s independence, these images remind us of the immorality of
such a declaration because Israel’s existence cannot be viewed separately
from the terrible injustice done to the Palestinian people.
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