Karim’s homeland
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A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
Karim lives in Ramallah, which is in the West Bank and just 16 kilometers north of Jerusalem. It is highly regarded by Palestinians because of its professional and educational heritage. The people of Ramallah were strongly involved in the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts. Former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat’s tomb is in Ramallah, although officials hope that one day he will be buried in Jerusalem, as he wished.
Fischbach, Michael R. “Ramallah.” In Mattar, Phillip, ed. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, Revised Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. (accessed March 12, 2008).
Photo credit: tgraham
View Seth Ackerman’s “Losing Ground”, which shows the changing map of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from Harper’s Magazine, December, 2001. [This is a PDF file]
The living conditions of Palestinian refugees living in Gaza.
Video below 4mins 40 "A short clip from the award-winning film 'Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority."
For more info please visit http://www.occupation101.com/.”
West Bank Illegal Settlements
Video below 2mins 10:A West Bank family suffers as illegal Jewish settlements encroach on their land and property.
Promises - a film
(See the school library for a video copy of the complete film.)
Trailer below 3mins: Israeli-American B.Z.Goldberg introduces seven Palestinian and Israeli children who talk about their points of view on the conflict in their land. Some of the children agree to meet each other and talk about their lives. This is the trailer for the film, which was made between 1995 and 2000. For more information go to The Promises Project.
