[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: Being in Time

[robert graham]

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From: Gilad Atzmon <gilad at gilad.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Subject: Being in Time
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 1. Gilad Atzmon: Being in Time
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Dear ladies and gentlemen.

I will begin my talk with an unusual confession. Though I was born in
Israel, in the first thirty years of my life I did not know much about the
Nakba, the brutal and racially driven ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian
population in 1948 by the newly born Israeli State. My peers and myself knew
about a single massacre, namely, Deir Yassin but we were not at all familiar
with the vast scale of atrocities committed by our grandparents. We believed
that the Palestinians had voluntarily fled.  We were told that they had run
away and we did not find any reason to doubt that this had indeed been the
case.

Let me tell you that in all my years in Israel, I have never heard the word
Nakba spoken. This may sound pathetic, or even absurd to you -- but what
about you?  Shouldn’t you also ask yourself -- when was the first time you
heard the word Nakba? Perhaps you can also try to recall when this word
settled comfortably into your lexicon. Let me help you here -- I have
carried out a little research amongst my European and American Palestinian
solidarity friends, and most of them had only heard the word Nakba for the
first time, just a few short years ago, whilst others admitted that they had
only started to use the word themselves three or four years ago.

But isn’t that a slightly strange state of affairs? After all, the Nakba
took place more than six decades ago. How is it that only recently it found
its way into our symbolic order?

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 2:03PM Gilad
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"Nothing will change until that which was taken from the Palestinians by
force is taken back by force"

I consider myself very lucky to have had the opportunity to attend the Cafe
Palestine conference at the weekend. The topic being The Boundaries of
Discourse. Being primarily a woman of action, I do not generally get the
chance to listen to so many intellectuals speak on a wide range of subjects,
I am more familiar with activism at the "sharp end" having participated in
land convoys and the flotilla aboard the Mavi Marmara.

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