Tag Archive for Palestinian culture

| November 2, 2013
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Photo album of Gaza wedding: Happy groom 15, bride 14 yrs-old

Reuters photographer scurries to take pictures, as Palestinian teenager poses with his newly-wed bride.  

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I got a phone call from a friend asking if I wanted to photograph a wedding in Gaza. I told him I wasn’t interested but when he told me the groom was 15 years old and the bride was one year younger than him, I rushed to the location immediately.

Happy young couple - Photo: Reuters

Happy young couple – Photo: Reuters

After arriving I saw people celebrating in the street not far from the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip. Among them was a young Palestinian boy being carried on the shoulders of relatives and friends. Continue Reading »

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| October 18, 2013
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Palestinians Hurt While Torturing Cattle in Gaza

 

The Gazans did not contend themselves to simply slaughtering the animals, but first engaged in torture. The cattle predictably responded by attacking their tormenters.

By Israel Today Staff

 

 

At least 125 Palestinians in Gaza were wounded while torturing and slaughtering cattle in the streets as part of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha, Palestinian media reported.

Palestinians Torturing Cattle - screenshot

Palestinians Torturing Cattle – screenshot

Gaza has five official slaughterhouses, but wait times were hours long, so a great many Gazans decided to do their own public butchering for the holiday, which is typically accompanied by much feasting.

But, as videos and pictures posted to the Internet revealed, many of the Palestinians did not contend themselves to simply slaughtering the animals, but first engaged in what can only be described as torture. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2013
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Abbas’ PA to provide ‘cash rewards’ to murderers released from Israeli Prison

 

Palestinian Authority cash prizes intended to honor prisoners’ “sacrifices & in order to guarantee them a suitable standard of dignified living.”

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
 

 

The Palestinian Authority government decided on Tuesday to provide “grants” to Palestinian prisoners who were recently released from Israeli prisons.

Freed Palestinian prisoner prisoner Hosni Sawalha greeted by niece as he arrives Ramallah.

Freed Palestinian prisoner prisoner Hosni Sawalha greeted by niece as he arrives Ramallah. – Photo: Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters

A statement issued by the government following its weekly meeting in Ramallah said that the “grants” were being presented to the prisoners in honor of their “sacrifices and in order to guarantee them a suitable standard of dignified living.”

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| June 7, 2013
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French gov’t subsidizes museum’s glorification of Palestinian suicide ‘martyrs’

France’s Culture and Communications Minister, Aurélie Filipetti has yet to close an exhibition where his office subsidizes the glorification of mass murdering random Jewish civilians.

By JTA

 

A Paris museum subsidized by the French government opened an exhibition of photos of Palestinian suicide bombers, which the museum calls freedom fighters.

Death 33The exhibition of 68 photos entitled “Death” by Ahlam Shibli opened on May 28 at the Jeu de Paume museum of contemporary art in Paris.

The museum’s website describes suicide bombers as “those who lost their lives fighting against the occupation,” and the exhibition as being about “the efforts of Palestinian society to preserve their presence.” Continue Reading »

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| May 20, 2013
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Nazi flag hanging over Arab village’s Mosque outside Jerusalem

The Tazpit News Agency posted a photo of a Swastika flag flying high over the Arab village of Beit Ummar, just south of Jerusalem.

by The Commentator

 

Israel’s Tazpit News Agency this morning reported that hundreds of residents of the Gush Etzion area were “astounded” to find a Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Ummar. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were notified immediately, claims the report.

Nazi flag flying right near the mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Omar. - Photo Tazpit News Agency

Nazi flag flying right near the mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Omar. – Photo: Tazpit News Agency

The flag, as can be seen from the image provided, was found by residents who were driving to Jerusalem on Monday morning. Continue Reading »

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| April 16, 2013
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Hamas bulldozes 3,000-year-old Roman seaport for military training

Hamas military wing destroys part of ancient Roman, Byzantine harbor, slated as UNESCO heritage site, due to “urgent need” for military training site.

By JTA

 

 

The Hamas-run government in Gaza bulldozed part of a UNESCO heritage site to expand a military training zone.

Palestinian diplomats at UNESCO - Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Palestinian diplomats at UNESCO – Photo REUTERS Benoit Tessier

The military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, bulldozed a part of the ancient Anthedon Harbor in northern Gaza along the Mediterranean Sea last month, the Al-Monitor news website reported.

The 3,000-year-old seaport discovered in 1997 was named an international heritage site by UNESCO in 2012, and is the oldest harbor in Gaza.

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| April 12, 2013
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PA Open Museum to Invent 200-Year-Old Palestinian History

Everyone knows the Jews, of course, changed the original version of the Bible. That’s what happens when someone controls the media.

And everyone knows that Jesus was a Palestinian.

And everyone knows that Rachel’s Tomb is actually the Bilal ibn Rabah mosque, dating back more than 2,000 years before Islam was founded.

By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

 

The cornerstone was laid Thursday for a new museum north of Ramallah to show off 200 years of the culture of “Palestinians,” another Arab effort to invent a past that has no future.

It is a lot easier to convince the world that Israel is “occupying its land” if Arabs can show that the “Palestinians” existed 200 years ago and were not invented by Yasser Arafat.   Continue Reading »

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| April 12, 2013
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Facebook prevents PMW from exposing Palestinian promotion of hate speech

Facebook allows Palestinian promotion of hate speech but prevents PMW from exposing it

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

 

Following Palestinian Media Watch’s bulletin exposing the PA TV broadcast of a girl reciting a poem referring to Jews as “enemies of Allah, descendants of pigs,” Facebook, like YouTube, decided to remove PMW’s post.

Facebook: “We removed the following content you posted or were the admin of because it violates Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.”

 

Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities stipulates that “you will not post content that is hate speech” or “incites violence.”

While Facebook is preventing PMW’s exposure of the PA’s hate speech, Facebook’s policy has not been applied to the explicit terror promotion and terror glorification by Fatah on Facebook, which PMW has documented, all of which were posted by Fatah’s Facebook page administrator:

Fatah in Lebanon encouraged violence and terrorism by posting a picture of a mother dressing her young son with a suicide belt. Continue Reading »

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| February 4, 2013
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NGO and IDF Prevents Environmental Catastrophe by Arabs in Samaria

The Israel Civil Authority, along with the assistance of the IDF have cleared out 20,000 cubic tons of garbage from an illegal Arab dump in Samaria.

By David Lev

 

The Civil Authority and the IDF has cleared out 20,000 cubic tons of trash from an illegal Arab dump in Samaria, after ongoing appeals from an environmental organization. The Yarok Achshav (“Green Now”) group expressed its satisfaction at the resolution of the issue, preventing further damage to the environment by Arabs in the area.

The site of the dump, near the Arab village of Kafr Duma, was situated right atop a well that tapped directly in into the large aquifer that runs under Samaria. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2012
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6 Palestinians arrested, 1 sentenced to 30 days in prison for eating in public during Ramadan

Leading PA cleric: “Our streets are Islamic,” therefore even non-Muslims should be “severely punished” for eating in public during Ramadan

By Itamar Marcus & Barbara Crook

 

 

Six people have been arrested and one sentenced to a month in prison for eating in public during the month of Ramadan, according to the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper. Under Islamic law, eating is prohibited from sunrise until sunset during the entire month.

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A Palestinian police patrol passes  the Stars & Bucks Cafe in Manara Square in Ramallah – Photo: Getty Images

In addition, the Chairman of the PA Supreme Court for Shari’ah Law said PA law should prohibit even non-Muslims and those who cannot fast for health reasons from eating in public during the month. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2012
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Arab Protest in Bethlehem Denounce Uncurtailed Violence Against Women

Dozens of women & rights activists in Bethlehem demanded stricter laws to stop the violence against women.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

Dozens of women and rights activists in Bethlehem demanded stricter laws to end violence against women.

The crowd demonstrated at the site where a 29-year-old woman was stabbed to death before witnesses in broad daylight just two days earlier by her estranged husband.

Women chanted demands that the government punish those who attack them, and held banners demanding respect for women.

Police said Nancy Zaboun’s husband had beaten her Sunday night, according to the Ma’an news agency. But when officers were called to the scene, they only asked him to sign a pledge not to do it again. Continue Reading »

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| August 1, 2012
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Romney’s integrity invokes Erekat’s fury

How could Romney possibly praise Israel’s culture over the ‘Palestinians’? Is he not aware of Palestinian poetry, music and art? Let’s just take a look at Palestinian culture.

By Ruthie Blum
At a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Monday, U.S. presidential contender Mitt Romney made a few statements that got Palestinians’ blood boiling. It was bad enough, as far as they were concerned, that the Republican candidate had asserted, at the previous day’s press conference, that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish state. But when he had the gall to praise Israel as an economic wonder in the face of adversity, well, that was going way too far.
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