Conference Five

What Palestine means to me!!

Palestine the holy land:
P: perfect place to live and care.
A: adorable people I always gain.
L: Living there gives me strength to dare.
E: Everyone had a gorgeous memory there.
S: Surrounded by beautiful views this can’t be anywhere.
T: True love was found everywhere.
I: I thank God for being such a citizen there.
N: Never thought it will be a crime to stay there.
E: Eyes to see misery and wont that’s what I meant by Palestine and who wouldn’t care.

The holy land:
T: Taking care of others is Palestinian dreams and it came true.
H: Hell yea, I won’t let any stranger kill that truth.
E: Emigrants stayed there and I don’t have any clue.

Holy Land:
H: Holding each other at bad time, do you find that in your country dude?
O: Open minded people, we need someone to understand is it you?
L: Law price and empty house that; what Israel’s soldiers forced us to do.
Y: Yellow grace, that’s our case, helps us, is it hard for you?

Land:
L: Lovely land and that’s what we do by own hands.
A: Almost perfect because of the separated political bands.
N: Nervous people, that’s what you will find if you touch our land.
D: Does Palestine look like that for you or you need another prove to stay back?
That’s my feelings people leave us alone or I’m talking to the hand!!

Conference Four

B’Tselem
In the reading of B’Tselem it’s a report gives us information about the cave residents they were existed in the southern West Bank of Palestine, Israel declared this area as (closed military area). They were endless fighting between the people living there and the settlers living in the settlements inside this area. The cave residents getting there basic needs from food in grazing the flocks of sheep and goats besides farming, getting the water there is two options: rainwater gathered in cisterns and water purchased outside the closed area that is brought to them by tanker. Many attempting to expulsion the residents from their place and removing them without even give them compensation for there losses and the suffering they caused to them by the settlers and their damages when the police destroy their tents and prevent them from building and refusal to permit and develop.
They were facing many kinds of abuses from the settlers and from the soldiers. They were train shooting and most likely hit the civilians. Many orders are issued from the high court kill the people lived in this area and forcing them to leave everything their homes and tents and all their stuff.
In my opinion these people should take all their rights as human being living in this earth, and also according to Geneva Convention the Fourth one to protect civilian who find themselves in the situation of war or under occupation and respect them and keep on their lives like all the humans without denying their existence.

Conference Three

The wall of separation and discrimination:

In April 2002 the Israeli government approved the plan to construct a wall in some parts of the West Bank and in June 2002 it approved the construction of the first phase of the project. The construction of the wall began in June 2002 continues until today 2007.
The wall of separation is being built inside the occupied Palestinian territories; separating families away from each other and away from their agricultural land which is the source of living for most of the families nowadays.
The Israelis are also confiscating some Palestinian lands to build the wall on, which is violating the International Humanitarian Law.
Israel’s barrier, still under construction is expected to reach at least 403 miles in length (700 kilometers), and the current height of the wall is 25 feet (8 meters).
This wall putting us in many difficulties as an ordinary people and students, when am talking about ourselves as students the wall preventing us from reaching the university, and it takes so much time and much cost of money, because we have to take two or three buses or even another alternate way to get in the university, all these challenges besides the borderlines, check points, the mean soldiers we are forced to live with them day by day.

Conference two

Memory and the Literary Imagination
Sharon and mother in law:

This woman was described what happened with her through the war, and in same different and hard conditions she forced to find her in it, such as living with her mother in low in the same house in the West Bank in Ramallh through forty two days full of misery, curfew, closing roads, violence and the blocks were the occupation put them in the Palestinian faces leaving them without a choice of living. And she wrote everything happen during the Gulf war in 1991, when she was one of the few Palestinian people having Jerusalem identity card which they acquired by gas mask from the Israel Civil Administration when the other couldn’t have it.
While Galit about the political situation for the Jerusalem as a city, Galit named Jerusalem as daughter, prostitute, bereaved mother …. . And every power comes to it wanted to be its master. Each culture passed must put its traces in it. And Galit named as its cultural naming. Like shes telling everybody that it’s our turn to print our traces even by force and nobody can forbid us.

Conference One

Introduction to the living Jerusalem Project, Culture and communities

Amy focused when she talked about Jerusalem that Jerusalem as a home of three religions, the Muslim and Christian and the Jews religion. And the Jews believe that they have a culture inside Jerusalem such as Palestinian Muslim and Christian.
She shows that there is similarity of some traditions between the Palestinian Arab and the Jews like the party of Henna before the wedding day in the Arab culture, either with the Jews, and the closing days of holiday days such Saturday and Fridays.
Saud Amiry spokes about the occupation divided sides in Palestine the west side and the east side. And she talked about the difficulty for the peasants to reach Jerusalem which they came from different villages to sell their field from vegetables and fruits when they suffer a lot just to sell it in Damascus gate in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem has a historical value, that’s why Israeli policy control on it and trying to change the demographic population of the city by building a new style of buildings inside the old city and the settlements around the city.
The culture effects on everyone in his behavior and in building his house, dealing with the people living around him and in every part of the individual life.

about jasmine

my name is jasmine am twenty one...I am a student at Al Quds university and I am a Palestinian native of Jerusalem.what about me hhmmmm...its hard to talk about ur self but i will try all my best to describe my personality,,,I`m a simple creature that u can deal with,,am taking every thing in easy way..I hate hard stuff, I like cats unfortunately i didn`t have one:( my mom hate all these animals. Am working as an actress in the national thearter called (Alhakwati thearter) its nice and cute job and in this work we are visiting many places in paletine and do our play shows in these places its realy another kind of life...i have a lot of fun :D in it...anyway, about my studying am studying in a Law School and i will become a lawyer in the future not a lair hehe as they told us in a law school.

am living the life where it takes me :) am looking forward to have an important position in the future...future future this word make me sleep and dreaming in the next day of my life and to hope that day bring me some good thing to but it into my memory.