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HIDDEN HISTORY, SECRET PRESENT: THE ORIGINS AND STATUS OF AFRICAN PALESTINIANS

By Susan Beckerleg, translated by Salah Al Zaroo

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project was made possible by a Nuffield Foundation, Social Science Award, administered by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

I wish to thank my colleagues working on European Union Avicenne Initiative Projects for their advice and support, in particular Salah Al Zaroo and Gillian Hundt. My husband Abudi Kibwana Sizi assisted during two visits to the Palestine. In the Nagab and Gaza many people helped to put me in touch with colleagues, neighbours and friends of African descent. They include Ibrahim Abu Jaffar, Adnan El Sanne, Fatme Kassim, and Shahada Ebbweini.
Last but not least, I wish to thank all the people of African descent who talked with me in Jeruslaem, Gaza and the Nagab. They are not named so that their privacy can be maintained.

INTRODUCTION

This report summarises the findings of a project has addressed a neglected and sensitive area of research about the history of Palestine. The history of the region has been turbulent and has involved the settlement of peoples from Asia, Africa and Europe. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, Palestinians …

In the upcoming Annapolis conference, no doubt the subject of refugees will come up. The PA, Hamas and the Arab nations demand that all the descendents of Arabs who left Israel when Arab nations attacked Israel in 1948 be allowed to return with full rights and compensation.

But there is another large group of refugees to be considered by anyone interested in justice, and that is the 850,000 Jews, Christians and other minorities who fled or were driven out of Middle Eastern and North African nations because the Islamic nations persecuted their minority, especially Jewish, citizens during the Arab-Israeli wars.

House Resolution 185 IH intends to declare that the issue of the injustice done and the losses sustained by Jewish refugees from Islamic nations must be considered equally with the demands for settlement and reparation of Arab refugees from Israel.

Why are we telling you about this?
HRES 185 IH has been referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Contact your US Representative and urge them to support this bill and bring it to a full house vote in time for the Annapolis conference. You can bring a little more justice to the “Peace Process” by lobbying for this resolution.

The …

Starting this Sunday, our local “peace and justice” group is sponsoring a New Mexico tour by the anti-Israel group “Wheels of Justice“.
They will be in Albuquerque for 3 days, Santa Fe for one day, and Deming for one day. The schedule is below.

The organizer contact for all the events is Katherine Huges-Faitelch 505-480-9008
The co-sponsor is the Middle East Peace and Justice Alliance, an allied group with
The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice
Both of these groups and the Wheels for Justice group are heavily sponsored by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a racist group founded to with the aim of bringing in naieve Americans and Europeans and their money to help destroy Israel, in agreement with the Hamas and Palestinian Authority charters. They knowingly and actively protect and support Arabs who attack Israel. Read about the ISM and its network here

Albuquerque

Sunday, April 22 from 7:00-9:00 pm

Presentation Smith Brasher Hall, CNM Albuquerque

Monday, April 23 at 8:30 pm

UNM Al Salaam students organization

Tuesday, April 24 at 8:30 pm

UNM Progressive students association

Santa Fe

April 25 (is being organized)

Deming

April 26 (is being organized)

Why are we posting this?

So you know and can greet the …

United Nations Security Council Resolution 54; July 15, 1948

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The Security Council,

Taking into consideration that the Provisional Government of Israel has indicated its acceptance in principle of a prolongation of the truce in Palestine that the States members of the Arab League have rejected successive appeals of the United Nations Mediator, and of the Security Council in its resolution 53 (1948) of 7 July 1948, for the prolongation of the truce in Palestine; and that there has consequently developed a renewal of hostilities in Palestine,

1. Determines that the situation in Palestine constitutes a threat to the peace within the meaning of Article 39 of the Charter of the United Nations;

2. Orders the Governments and authorities concerned, pursuant to Article 40 of the Charter, to desist from further military action and to this end to issue cease-fire orders to their military and paramilitary forces, to hike effect at a time to be determined by the Mediator, but in any event not later than three days from the date of the adoption of this resolution

3. Declares that failure by any of the Governments or authorities concerned to comply with the preceding paragraph of this resolution would demonstrate the existence of a breach of …