Where's that picture of the empty desert that became Tel Aviv?
Interesting name for a hand puppet, Fufu. Doesn’t that have a related meaning in Samoan? lol
Tel al-Rabi’ = direct translation of Tel Aviv. *Rolleyes*
Glad to see they're simplifying the message for the little ones. From Imam Ibrahim Mudyris on Peace Partner TV a couple years ago.
The following is the text of the Friday sermon, broadcast on official PA television on February 4, 2005:Imam Ibrahim Mudyris:
"We do not love any land more than the land of Palestine. Had the Jews not expelled us from it with their planes, their tanks, their weapons, their treachery around us, we would never leave you, O Palestine. (Quotes Muhammad, who promised he would return to Mecca as a conqueror).
We tell you Palestine, we shall return to you, by Allahs will. We shall return to every village, every town, and every grain of earth which was quenched by the blood of our grandparents and the sweat of our fathers and mothers. We shall return, we shall return. Our willingness to return to the 1967 borders does not mean that we have given up on the land of Palestine. No!
We ask you: Do we have the right to the 1967 borders? We have the right. Therefore, we shall realize this right with any mean it takes. We might be able to use diplomacy in order to return to the 1967 borders, but we shall not be able to use diplomacy in order to return to the 1948 borders.
No one on this earth recognizes [our right to] the 1948 borders [before Israels existence]. Therefore, we shall return to the 1967 borders, but it does not mean that we have given up on Jerusalem and Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramla, Natanyah [Al-Zuhour] and Tel Aviv [Tel Al-Rabia]. Never.
We shall return to every village we had been expelled from, by Allahs will. Why? All the international laws deny the Palestinians their real borders. We might agree, but in the name of Allah, our grandfathers blood demands that we return to them [the borders]. Your fathers' blood was shed there, at the villages, at Ashqelon, at Ashdod, at Hirbia [a village between Gaza and Ashqelon, where Kibbutz Zikim is located today] and at others places, hundreds of villages and towns. [Their blood] demands it from us, and it shall curse anyone who will concede a grain of earth of those villages.
Our approval to return to the 1967 borders is not a concession for our other rights. No!... this generation might not achieve this stage, but generations will come, and the land of Palestine... will demand that the Palestinians will return the way Muhammad returned there - as a conqueror.