Another side to hear

There was a talk about Palestine last Thursday. I went and was supposed to write about it. Now a few days have passed and I am trying to make sense of what I heard that day. Should have written about this on that day.







I was an interesting talk. title: "Palestine: Past and Present". An Israeli historian was giving this talk. I am not quite sure of who organised this event, but I believed the Action Palestine may have some part because there were some of them giving some speech.


The lecture theatre was quite full. Many attended the event.


Trying to summarise, or rather points on what Ilan Pappe talked about that day:
- He tried to simplify his talk to 3 major struggle that the Palestinians have to go through since 1948.
- The Israelis action towards the Palestinian land must be called colonisation, occupation or such, without any doubt.
- Israel was and is still conducting ethnic cleansing on their effort to conquer the Palestinian land.
- He mentioned that Israel tries very hard to create a shield of complexity upon the situation that they are involved in their evil ways. eg: We rocketed or destroyed the mosque and schools because... well it is very complex... so just leave it to us to handle the situation of these terrorists. The situation is not complex, it is just pure evil.
- He also mentioned that people of the world should not be afriad of engaging the Israels. They will bring up frabications upon fabrications. At a point, the truth will of course emerge because of all the fabrications.

There was a lot more he talked about, but of course, I can only understand and remember a few points. There was a lot of questions and points from the audience too. Ilan Pappe clarified a few things:

- He believes that Israel is wrong and that there are ways to solve their problem. Learn from history, there are many examples of countries that have resolve quite similar problems (Malaysia maybe?we are very culturally diverse.heh). The problem is that on the Israel side, they do not want to venture into this way because they have a lot to gain otherwise. On the Palestinian side, there is also a lack of community leaders that could represent the whole nation.
- He believes that the zionism from early years have evolved into something different. Ideologies may hold the same name but the essence of it changes through time and situation. Zionism back then is not the same of what it has become now.
- He mentioned that there are quite a number of young Israeli do not want to get themseves involved in this war. They do not want to give service to the millitary. They are willing to venture other options.
- He does not condemn Judaism. I don't know what is his situation on religion but I personally want to think him as a secular jew.huhu.
- He is a true academia. He is always going for the truth. I was told he was actually expelled from the university he work in Israel because of his believes.


This is the poster of that event. Ilan Pappe. He had written a book titled: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). I was told that it was a good book.







Below is a pamplet that was given to the audience. Info on the pamplet can be read here. There are also other facts and information on the Palestine struggle.







Doakan lah agar Allah memberi kemenangan kepada yang haq dan memusnahkan yang batil. Amiin.