ethnic cleansing ... from the general's son

... dedicated to those who still think Palestinians are not reasonable ...

 Palestine Before 1948 ...

Source: Britannica Encyclopedia
 

 Palestine Now

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 the general's son ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_OcCXvT6Y#t=1518

Miko Peled ...

One white racist promising another white racist another man’s land ...

zion ... 

gift of one white man - balfour ... to his friend another white man - rothschild ... in England ... and the gift? ... another man's land ... far far away ... Palestine

 (8:18)

 

Palestine cannot be reduced to the West Bank and Gaza  ...

 the entire country IS ... PALESTINE

her story contradicts the zionist narrative

(27:29)

the massacre of Deir Yassin ... thankfully as a result of the massacre the Arabs left ... and zionists could build and develop the state of israel ...

(28:28)

peace processes were attempts to bring the Palestinians to surrender ...

zionist - zero-sum game ...

thousands of Palestine prisoners ... not charged ... kids who throw stones are terrorists ...

the rights of people to resist  racist colonial regime ...

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The Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.^[1]

The text of the letter was published in the press one week later, on 9 November 1917.^[2] The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate for Palestine. The original document is kept at the British Library.

and this was the Palestinian response to the declaration ...

On November 1918 the large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration. The document stated:

...we always sympathized profoundly with the persecuted Jews and their misfortunes in other countries... but there is wide difference between such sympathy and the acceptance of such a nation...ruling over us and disposing of our affairs.^[31]

Source: HERE

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and this is how Israel is populated ... to validate its existence ...

a tenet of zionism ... ALIYAH

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thank you ... for reading ... listening ... 

and ... 

trying to understand ...

Menggaul tanah ... and Gelora di darat ... Menunggang angin lagi

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Alhamdulillah syukur ... 

AlhamduLillah syukur ... out of gelora lautan  ... and back on the nourishing solid ground kurnia Allah SWT yang banyak diabaikan ... tengok saja sepanjang perjalanan Seremban - Kuala Pilah ... tanah-tanah terbiar ... although now much better with padi being cultivated all over again ... AlhamduLillah.

image ... http://zahariz.com/ ... more about this below ...on  menunggang angin di darat ...

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first ...
menggaul tanah ...

i am back in Baitul Maqdis ...  my thoughts that is ... and i have been wanting to share some of it on the Jordan Valley and its agricultural bounty.
Life moments are zooming so fast that I can only afford to offer a preview today ...

jordan valley ... google image

throughout the year ... winter spring summer or fall ... the valley is never left abandoned ...it appears to me that it's value is when there is less ...
when abundant such as ours ... sadly it is frequently abandoned ...

  life of a widow surviving on farming in the Jordan Valley
... for more please visit her here ...
http://jordantimes.com/family-run-ghor-al-mazraa-farm-a-lifeline-of-sustenance

lowest point in the area where the four seasons merge comfortably into each other ... for a land most fertile ...

Jordan Valley just ahead of the Dead Sea ... which we crossed on the way from Amman to Baitul Maqdis ...

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and gelora di darat ... menunggang angin lagi ...

my sister directed me to this lone brother's amazing  journey (i had written lone wolf initially then i realised how wrong that was because he is not a predator ... rather an explorer of Allah's  (SWT) gift)

i realised the similarity of what he did at one stretch of the journey when he was cycling ahead of the wind and how he flew on cycle towards his destination in no time ...

again i am humbled by the same thought of how the gelora in the ocean propelled the original sailors from Tanah-tanah Melayu to the southern continents and back ...

barren land ... fertile land ... Allah SWT gives everybody a method for surviving ... MasyaAllah

please follow the Brother's journey ... here

http://zahariz.com/

we make du'a for his health and safety ...
so that we may also learn through him ... what we are not able to do ourselves ...

Friday of fear ...

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Alhamdulillah syukur ... for Friday of bless and barakah ... selawat dan salam ke atas Junjungan Rasul ... اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

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but for some ... Friday is feared ... because on this day every  week ... without fail they see the ummah gathering ... giving their souls to the Almighty ... and this is too much for some ...

and that is the reason why every Friday there is issue about Palestinians entering Masjid Al Aqsa for Juma'at Prayer ... so for today let us pray that peace prevails in the Haram Al Sharif ... Ameen.

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if we could not perceive the difficulties faced by our Palestinian brethren in the Occupied Territory ... please read this piece ... just a piece of many such pieces written by many who have seen and felt the need to make it known to others ...

http://www.foa.org.uk/news/omar-and-the-checkpoint

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Under the 1940 agreement Jordan is the administrator of the Haram Al Sharif ... but now Israel wants full control ...  more details here ...

Saving the Haram Al Sharif Masjid Al Aqsa

Masjid Qubbat As Sakhrah (Dome of The Rock)

Masjid Al Aqsa (with the black dome south of Dome of the Rock)

... inside Masjid Al Aqsa (also referred to as Jami' Qibli) and the Dome of the Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmkvCKMmOE

inside Masjid Al Aqsa ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfTzwX_mpgI

Haram Al Sharif is the entire walled compound or courtyard of Masjid Al Aqsa and The Dome of the Rock ... 

at 8:08 of the second video is the underground Masjid Marwan. It is just next to Masjid Al Aqsa. It used to be a stable after the Muslims were defeated by Christians hundreds of years ago ...

at 10:54 is the Buraq Wall - the western wall of Masjid Al Aqsa which the Jews refer to as the wailing wall ... 

it is referred to as the Buraq Wall by Muslims because it was narrated that the Buraq that transported RasuluLLAh SAW was tied at the site on The Night Journey Isra' dan Mikraj ... on the night when the Prophet SAW was lifted to Heaven, the Buraq stayed back ...  you may ask why the need to tie the Buraq ... it was not about securing ... rather it is just an indication that it needed to stay put while waiting for the Prophet SAW return.

Allahu'alam ... Allah SWT is Most Knowing ...

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an anxious incident at the Buraq Wall during our ziarah resulted with us having a new nickname for a Sister ... Kakak Buraq ... The sister was on her own exploring the Buraq Wall from the Masjid side, when she was separated from our group ... when we were ready seated for lunch within the Old City ... we realised she was missing ... after a long while ... and anxious search by our Brother Palestine Guide ... Allah SWT brought her back to us ... AlhamduLiLLAH ... but it was a truly anxious longgg minutes for all of us ... because the walled city along with its narrow streets and structures is like a huge maze ...

so please always stay alert of your jema'ah (group) where ever we are ...

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by the way we had that lunch ... at Buraq Restraurant ... a very uniquely built underground restaurant.

 

google image - not from the restaurant - but my favourite bread and spread.

AlhamduLILLAH ... for masyaAllah fresh and nutritious food served  while we were there ...

 but never forget the less fortunates who were also there ... especially when we were in Amman where Syrian Refugee Children were out in the shivering cold ... hungry ...

may Allah SWT ease the burden of those affected ... by war ... and occupation.

Aameen

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aina Umar ...

 Di manakah Umar ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXmG7-_THw

AstaghfiruLLAH ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOIuy6-wS0

You're dangerous ... if you are under fifty ...

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

 

Alhamdulillah syukur ... for rain ... it's been quite awhile and we had a late evening rain yesterday ... sabar insyaAllah ... and doa that this hot spell will pass soon insyaAllah ... 

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this late night post is just to share this ... you're feared if you are under fifty ...

http://www.foa.org.uk/news/thousands-pray-at-police-checkpoints-after-aqsa-restrictions

http://www.foa.org.uk/news/israel-to-limit-access-to-al-aqsa-mosque

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while searching for an illustration i was led to this site ...  http://30masjids.ca/day-1-jami-mosque/

 

do visit ...

 

 

 

 

Tear down the wall ...

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Alhamdulillah syukur ... for strength and preseverance ... for syukur and sabar ... for the ability to reflect and learn ... for imaan and istiqamah ... istiqamah is to tear down our own wall of ego ... for a total submission to Allah SWT ...

of being steadfast

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then may Allah SWT help us tear down other walls of life ...

the groves beyond the wall ...

http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=322

among its value ... super tasty olive oil ...

http://www.kyoto-nicco.org/english/project/palestine/information/the-place-for-delicious-olive.html

more about the wall ...
http://realifeinmalaysia.blogspot.com/2014/02/palestine-judaism-zionism-and-wall.html


And here's what the son of an Israeli General said ... 
  Tear Down The Wall 

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why stones? i asked our Palestine Brother Guide about those stone throwing incidents ... "it's not about the stones ... it's their niat  ... because whenever they throw those stones deep in their heart they are remembering and making do'a for the fire stones that rained on Abrahah" ... as described in Surah al Fil - The Elephant (Surah 105) ...


" 1) Have you not seen what your Lord did with the army of the elephant? 2) Did He not utterly foil their schemes? 3) He unleashed flock after flock of birds against them, 4) pelting them with stones of hard-baked clay, 5) making them like stripped wheat-stalk eaten bare." 
Tafseer of Surah al-Fil

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Baitul Maqdis Latest

Memory of The Last Sajadah 20 years on ...

Hebron Massacre 25 Feb 1994

Remembering Hebron

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remembering the promise of Allah SWT ... in all matters of this life ...

In the long run evil in the extreme will be the End of those who do evil; for that they rejected the Signs of Allah, and held them up to ridicule 

(Quran Sharif, Surah Ar-Rum, Ayat 10)

Surah Ar-Rum

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May Allah SWT strengthen our Imaan and guide our every step ... ameen Allahuma ameen ...

 

Separation Wall West Bank ... Google image 

 

Palestine ... Judaism ... Zionism ... and The Wall

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Alhamdulillah syukur ... AlhamduLillah syukur for nikmat iman dan aman ... mudahan semua sihat dan dalam rahmat Allah SWT sentiasa Ameen Ya Rabb ...

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the ziarah to Baitul Maqdis opened up a floodgate of the Palestine history both recent and ancient ... and my trying to make sense of them ...

for today let me share this ...

http://www.nkusa.org/Historical_Documents/TheRabbisSpeakOut.htm

an extract ...

Rabbi Ahron Cohen, rabbi Manchester, England
My Friends, we are here today to protest against the terrible wrongs which have been perpetrated and continue to be perpetrated against the Palestinian People by the Zionist illegitimate regime (known as Israel) in Palestine. My colleagues and I here today come under the banner of Neturei Karta which is the name of the opposition philosophy to Zionism held by Orthodox Jews.
You may well ask: how come we Jews are here protesting in support of Palestinians - who many would think of as enemies of the Jews? The answer, my friends, is that the Palestinian dispute is with the Zionists and not with the Jews. Zionism and Judaism are two completely different and opposing ideas. Orthodox Jews sympathise entirely with the Palestinian cause. Jewish Orthodox teaching is totally opposed to Zionism on grounds of religious belief and on grounds of Jewish religious values of humanitarianism.
Our belief, going back thousands of years, teaches us that the Jewish People are and have been for the last two thousand years or so in a state of exile decreed by the A-lmighty because they did not maintain certain high standards expected of them. We have been dispersed around the world and our duty is to live as loyal subjects of which ever country we are in. Furthermore, we are forbidden to attempt to form our own regime in Palestine. And we are warned of dire consequences if we attempt to override this prohibition. To do so is considered a rebellion against the A-lmighty. So, on grounds of religious belief we have no right today to form a regime in Palestine.
The Zionist philosophy, formed about 100 years ago by irreligious non-believers, is that the Jewish People have to fight their own way out of exile. They do not accept in any way the religious prohibition of this action and their approach to the matter of exile is diametrically opposite to the religious passive approach.
But perhaps what is more understandable to the non-Jewish world in the opposition of Judaism to Zionism is the fact that the Zionist ideology was to take over a country with an existing indigenous population and to form a sectarian State irrespective of the consequences to that indigenous people, depriving them of their homes and country. This was a shocking contravention of humanitarian justice. Humanitarian justice is also a tremendously important element in Jewish Religious values. The Zionists have thrown this completely overboard in their nationalistic quest for a State of their own. On these grounds too Orthodox Judaism opposes them entirely.
Because of the above the whole idea of a Zionist State is a flawed concept and is the underlying cause of the strife in the Middle East. As Jews, we are ashamed of our brethren who have followed the Zionist path and we wish to state that Zionists do not in any way represent the Jewish People as they would like to have the world believe. (Approximate Transcript of speech given in Trafalgar Square, London, in connection with the Al Quds demonstration march in support of the Palestinian cause, October 30, 2005)
It constantly amazes me when I observe the protestation of nations such as the USA and the UK that they must protect and preserve the rights of the „democratic State‟ Israel against threats to its existence, when the whole concept of Israel was and is patently non-democratic, and when by a short look back in history it can be seen that the whole Zionist State was begat by the very violence (and the UK was a victim of this violence) against which these countries now protest…

My friends, of course no one but no one wants violence. But I have a dream which may now seem unrealistic (but who knows): if those who have the power to deliver were to announce sincerely, “We are prepared to abandon the sacred cow concept of a sectarian Zionist State and to discuss its dissolution in its present concept and form,” you would have peace in Palestine. Jews and Arabs are perfectly capable of living peacefully with each other, as they have done for centuries, if the cause of their conflict is removed. It is obvious to any objective observer that the cause of conflict in Palestine is the very existence of the flawed and criminal concept of the Zionist State. Peace will not be achieved until that concept is dismantled. The governments of the world could bring this about and our prayer is that this should happen peacefully and speedily. (Talk at the Houses of Parliament, January 31, 2006)

But we do have a problem and that is that the Zionists have made themselves to appear as the representatives and spokespeople of all Jews and, with their actions, arouse animosity against all Jews. Then those who harbour this animosity are accused of anti-Semitism. So although it is abundantly clear that opposition to Zionism and its crimes does not imply hatred of Jews or anti-Semitism, however the wrongs of Zionism are a cause of anti-Zionism overflowing into old fashioned anti-Semitism; and, paradoxically, Zionism itself and its deeds, instead of being a remedy for anti-Semitism, are in fact the biggest cause of anti-Semitism. Furthermore Zionism actually feeds on anti-Semitism. (Talk to the Cambridge Students‟ Union, February 6, 2006)

Jews against Zionism

http://www.nkusa.org/activities/demonstrations/20140126jobbik.cfm

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 among the results of Zionism ...

Life in the shadow of the wall ... Source

Wall against the Palestinians  ... Source

more about the wall and its consequences here ...

http://www.settlerwatch.com/en/publikationer/muren/

the groves on the other side of the wall

The Last Sajadah ... 15 Ramadhan 1414 ... 25 February 1994

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

AlhamduLillah syukur ... followed through the appointment with the Dr today ... more blood test ... and alhamduLillah much much better results ... syukur

a few telling drops of blood ... and a definition of your pain or well being ... masyaAllah

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image source ... http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/2012/08/17/ibrahimi-mosque/

but the buckets of blood that have been spilled 20 years ago in the mosque shown above reflected a different kind of pain ...

let me take you back to Baitul Maqdis ... to the high city of Al-Khalil (aka Hebron) and the massacre of those who were in fajar sajadah ...

The last sajadah of the Jamaah in Masjid Nabi Ibrahim (AS) in Fajar Solat of Friday 15 Ramadhan 1414 (25 February 1994) (Where was I?) leaving 29 dead and more than a hundred wounded ... shot while prostrating in the second sajadah of Subuh (Fajar) solat. May the mercy and blessings Allah SWT be with them. More would have been massacred but the gun man ran out of bullets  … 

more details here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre

and here ...

http://palestinefrommyeyes.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/the-19th-anniversary-of-the-ibrahimi-mosque-massacre/

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The city's name Al-Khalil refers to Prophet Ibrahim AS ... and the mosque complex houses the Maqams of Prophet Ibrahim AS, Prophet Ishak AS, Prophet Ya'akub AS and the wives ...

 our Brother Guide informed us that the entire mosque and the maqams were accessible to Muslims before the massacre ... after months of curfew ... the Palestine Muslims were again allowed to enter the complex ... and found that maqam of Prophet Ya'akub and his wife  had been walled off and made inaccessible for the Muslim visitors ...

so near ... yet so far we could here and see the Jewish visitors through see-through railings next to the Muslim visiting areas ...

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 Israel Security Police in the Mosque ... google image ... source here news source October 4 2011

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the colour of our spilled blood was no doubt the same ... red ... but our pain are much much different ...

May Allah SWT keep the ummah firm and guided in their steps ...

Allahu'alam

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Sajadah in the courtyard of Masjid Al-Aqsa ... The Dome of the Rock in the background.

image source ... here

and ...

Palestine News update ...

http://www.imemc.org/article/66861

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for those who have the time and the means ... Ramadhan and Eid in Palestine is an option indeed ... Kakak (my adopted sister) who organised Umrah and Hajj Travel did mention that Umrah quota is getting smaller so those who would like to spend their Ramadhan in the Haram Al-Sharif can opt to go to Palestine instead ...

May Allah SWT ease and reward those who travel and seek His Sanctuary ...