August 14, 2006

An Interview with Dr. Ismail Zayid, President of the Canadian Palestinian Association

Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from 1947 to the present has caused monumental devastation to the exiled, those hundreds of thousands who were forced from their homes and never allowed to return. Dr. Ismail Zayid’s family suffered this unspeakable horror in 1967 when their village of Beit Nuba was erased from the face of the earth by Israeli bulldozers....

Dr. Zayid: They came back having seen the village being systematically dynamited and bulldozers by more Israeli troops arriving to complete the job...... They related that some 18 elderly and disabled people, who were unable to move out, were buried under the rubble of their homes. These included an uncle of my mother, Mohammad Ali Bakr. A middle-aged relative of my mother, Lutfi, was shot in cold blood. [Read full article]

 

October 14, 2005

A Refusal to Disappear

Exiled toddler, refugee camp survivor, retired teacher - Rezeq Faraj won't let Montrealers forget about ethnic cleansing.

by Dave Himmelstein

I.    ROOTS
For Rezeq Faraj, ethnic cleansing is not a historical abstraction.

It's a three-year-old waking to real-life nightmare. Swept up in the arms of his older sister, Nejma. Unfolding chaos. The family is preparing to flee the village of Deir Rafat. So are all the other villagers. Zionist militias are on the way, and residents know what to expect. Deir Rafat will become one of hundreds of Palestinian villages bulldozed, ploughed over, and erased from maps issued by the newly created state of Israel. [Read full article]

 

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