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Communist women fighters of Palestine, 1960's Image
Leila Khaled, fled in 1948 when zionists massacred entire villages & expelled 80% of Palestinians from their homes. As Palestinians have no right to return, she hijacked a flight going to Tel Aviv & made the pilot fly over Haifa, just to see her birthplace (inhabited by settlers) ImageImageImageImage
Soha Bechara, Lebanese Christian communist. At the age of 20, sick of brutal Israeli occupation of South Lebanon, she attempted to assassinate & injured SLA militia chief in charge of occupation. She was put in Khiam illegal death camp, tortured, & left in a 3x3 cell for 10 years ImageImageImage
The prison was regularly condemned by humanitarian orgs. After an intense campaign in her favor, she was released in 1998. I had relatives tortured in Khiam. It was turned into a museum when the resistance kicked out the zionist occupiers in 2000. I visited & saw the horror.
When I visited, people took turns going in the cells & shutting the doors. Prisoners stayed in dark& small solitary confinement for yrs. I asked to go inside & the tour guide said not for children. I still went & when they closed the door I couldn't even see the shape of my hand.
It's an experience I'll never forget & thankfull my parents allowed it (Dad was a prisoner). It shaped my view on prisoners of zionist jails forever. They're not spoken about enough. With all the tortured abuse, neglect, criminality of it, coming out alive is a feat in itself.
Warning: torture. If Zionists are so shamlessly barbaric and inhumane in public, imagine in private. ImageImage
The prison was turned into a museum to document the atrocities of the racist Zionist occupiers but they tried to bomb it in their 2006 war on Lebanon. No matter what they do nothing will erase the humiliation this colonial power suffered at the hands of the resistant natives.
Our home in SL which Israel bombed in 2006 & then dropped 1000s of cluster bombs resembling toys in the field, as usual. Most valuable loss was the 100+yr generous mulberry tree seen behind us. It brought shade & comfort to the whole yard & it was every grandchild's first cradle.
Also if anyone knows what song I'm singing please let me know 🥴🥲😅

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Mar 14, 2022
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This is in Qalqilya, WB Palestine. Singer is Mohamad al-Arani. This type of folkloric Palestinian "dahiya" is usually sang at events or bachelor parties such as this one. Singers go back & forth with impromptu comebacks to each other that rhyme. Usually preceded by poetic "Ataba"
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May 25, 2021
I will be translating Sayed Hassan #Nasrallah's speech on the occasion of the National Day of Resistance and Liberation.
#Nasrallah: I apologize for my absence, I was going through health problems which prevented me from making speeches. We have been through important, historical days, & since the first day I've been talking with resistance factions in Gaza, which I will mainly talk about today.
#Nasrallah: I congratulate you all in this month of May on two great victories shared by Palestinians & Lebanese. May 25, 2000, victory of lebanon's resistance against occupiers. May 21, 2021 to the great Palestinians and their resistance. God bless fighters, martyrs, injured...
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May 25, 2021
On May 25, 2000, through armed resistance, South Lebanon liberated itself from the 18 yr Zionist occupation & the barbaric Israeli torture of civilians in death camps. A first in Arab history. Thread of celebration footage on one of the worst days in zionist colonizer's history.
This video depicts the renowned moment when the tortured prisoners of the Khiam death camp in South Lebanon were freed by their own families. The stories from the women and men detained by the criminal genocidal Israeli occupiers are outrageous and beyond inhumane.
The zionists invaded SL mainly because it welcomed Palestinian refugees & espoused their cause & their resistance groups. The Southern Lebanese paid a heavy price which they maintain they're ready to pay again anytime in defense of the occupied lands & the oppressed Palestinians.
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