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Palestinian kids theatre in London

palsolidarity | 19.08.2005 15:42

Palestinian kids from Balata refugee camp, West Bank, perform traditional dance and theatre showing the origins of their life as refugees @ St Georges theatre, Tufnell park

A'edoon - We Will Return

Making their world debut with this UK tour, youth from
Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine will make a stop to
perform their powerful original piece, A'edoon
in London on Tuesday the 23rd of August, at St Georges
Theatre. Alternating between dance and drama, this
innovative performance takes the audience through a
rollercoaster of the extremes of human emotion - from
pain and sadness, resentment and outrage, to laughter
and finally inspiration and hope.

The children of this group come from extremely
difficult backgrounds; usually from homes missing
family members in prison or murdered. To combat the
despair and isolation of their situations, they have
created an artistically captivating and politically
poignant form of resistance, A'edoon.

Originally based on Marcel Khalife's
'Ahmed Al-Arabi; this production chronices
the expulsion of Palestinians from their village and
their ensuing oppression as refugees. While the
people are trying to continue their lives by building
schools and houses, the Israeli soldiers come back,
attempting to force everybody to move again, to become
refugees a second time over. As the camp inhabitants
scatter and panic, a young boy is lost. Attempts by
his sister to find him are to no avail, as it slowly
dawns upon her that he was killed by the soldiers.

Half of the performance is Dabke, a traditional
Palestinian dance. Focused on the legs, the boys and
girls fly brilliantly across the stage in unison and
in time with the music, wearing beautiful locally
produced costumes. The music and singing is live,
performed by members of the group.

23rd August, 8pm
St George's Theatre
49 Tufnell Park rd
Tufnell park tube
suggested donation £5 - noone turned away.

contact:

 better_noir@yahoo.co.uk /  info@balatacamp.net
 http://www.balatacamp.net

palsolidarity
- e-mail: info@balatacamp.net
- Homepage: http://www.balatacamp.net

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Praising Suicide Bombers

20.08.2005 09:35

Please come and watch lovely Palestinian sing war songs, and songs about killing Jews. It's so endearing.

Children singing war songs


Master Race Doctrines

20.08.2005 19:03

INDYMEDIA, what's the word for jews spewing racist filth against non-jews like the poster above??? And given the massive growth in this behaviour, which has directly led to the murder of millions of non-jews since WW2, can someone please explain why the Pope forgot to condemn this recently.

Please remember that the recent invasion of Iraq has informed all of us that Saddam complied with all the UN requirements originally drawn up after the first Gulf War within a few years of the end of that conflict. The sanctions that illegally continued past this date, and led to the slaughter of more than a million Iraqi kiddies (and eventually the recent invasion that has murdered 300,000+) happened for ONE reason. Since the First Gulf War, an endless stream of lies (more usually called propoganda) was carefully created to prevent Iraq normalising its position in the world. The vast majority of this propoganda (90%+) was jewish (more usually called zionist or israeli) in origin.

The ONLY polls that showed a clear majority in favour of the recent war against Iraq were those that questioned people on the basis of jewish faith or ethnic identity. The same goes for polls testing enthusiasm for war with Iran. The parallels with nazi Germany are staggering. Hitler created his support entirely on the basis of how Germans had been perpetual victims in the past, and needed to fulfill their rightful destiny against a world that would not willingly give them a break.

Since WW2, many ethnic groups have suffered terribly, and the jews DO NOT number amongst them. Since WW2, many ethnic groups have done far better than mere population numbers would suggest, and the jews are probably at the top of this table. So why, when the Pope is feeling sorry for different people on this Earth, do we even get to hear him mention the jews. In any FAIR list, based on need and ACTUAL post-WW2 history, they should be as near down the bottom as all the people of the West (since we share the same recent good fortune).

Want to fix the problems of the world, simple- set the level of compensation for every human killed by conflict at the SAME value. EVERY Iraq killed as a CONSEQUENCE of our invasion paid at the same level of compensation given to victims of the Lockerbie bombing, paid by the UK, US, Israel and the other willing invaders. The Iraqis can likewise pay the same to the families of our dead soldiers. Dead jews in and around Israel will get the same deal, BUT Israel will pay likewise for EACH and EVERY non-jew they have killed since the formation of Israel.

Now do you see how it goes- who is it that squeals when each and every one of us become equal, and our deaths cost £20 million pounds each??? Will the Iraqis, given the ratio 300,000+(them) to 10,000+(us). Or what about the jews, since they have killed 10's (and probably 100's) of times more than their losses, when taking the land from the Palestinians and others. Of course, in reality, the Israeli's wouldn't even care about this fantasy scenario, since they'd pass the bill on to the United States, as always.

I really wish that Humans, once and for all, would understand that ALL Master-Race Doctrines are inherently evil. And how do we spot such doctrines. Well, if a group of people are clearly doing well for themselves, but keep telling us that they are victims, and deserve MORE consideration than other groups of people who are obviously suffering REAL hardship and persecution, then we have a clear example of a MASTER-RACE DOCTRINE. Past example include the Mongols in China and the Middle East, the Europeans as colonists in Africa and the Americas, the Nazis, and the Hutu's
in Rwanda. Today we have the US, and the so-called zionist-identity (closely linked in many ways, but not the same).

Of course, the mindset created by a Master-Race Doctrine needs a human evil and ruthless enough to exploit it (often a person who DOES NOT subscribe to the theory himself since racism is a sign of an INFERIOR intellect, and leaders of men, regardless of evil, need to be smarter than that). Understand that in our age, that man is called Blair, who in reality cares as little for the jews as he cares about the rest of us. We are all merely a means to an end.

twilight


Palestinian War Songs

27.08.2005 08:20

Dear twilight ,
Learn some Arabic, and you will undertand that palestinian songs are all about war. You can't blame the Jews for that. put the blame squarely where it belongs, in the hands of the palestinain parents and the teachers who are inciting children to sing these songs.
These songs and dances always seem charming to non-Arabic speakers.

Ali ibn Sharmootah