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a-typical · 6 months

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— On Palestine: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé (2015)

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godzilla-reads · 3 months

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“Exploring the Palestine case is therefore crucial for understanding where we stand as human beings and what we stand for. Finding a solution to this question could then open the door to a new vision, to a new world, to new possibilities for all of us.”

—Frank Barat’s Introduction to “On Palestine” by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

#godzilla reads #Frank Barat #noam chomsky #ilan pappe #on palestine #book blog #bookworm #booklr #reading #book quotes #book excerpt #free palestine #read Palestine

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garadinervi · 7 months

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Angela Y. Davis, On Palestine, G4S, and the Prison-Industrial Complex [Speech at SOAS, London, December 13, 2013], in Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, Edited by Frank Barat, Preface by Cornel West, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2016, pp. 51-60

#graphic design #speech #book #prison industrial complex #angela davis #frank barat #cornel west #haymarket books #2010s

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thingsthatmakeyouacey · 5 months

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“And so if we say abolish the prison-industrial complex, as we do, we should also say abolish apartheid, and end the occupation of Palestine!

In the United States when we have described the segregation in occupied Palestine that so clearly mirrors the historical apartheid of racism in the southern United States of America and especially before Black audiences the response often is: "Why hasn't anyone told us about this before? Why hasn't anyone told us about the segregated highways leading from one settlement to another, about pedestrian segregation regulated by signs in Hebron not entirely dissimilar from the signs associated with the Jim Crow South. Why hasn't anyone told us this before?"

Just as we say "never again" with respect to the fascism that produced the Holocaust, we should also say "never again" with respect to apartheid in South Africa, and in the southern US. That means, first and foremost, that we will have to expand and deepen our solidarity with the people of Palestine. People of all genders and sexualities. People inside and outside prison walls, inside and outside the apartheid wall.

Boycott G4S! Support BDS!

Palestine will be free!”

—“Ferguson Reminds Us of the Importance of a Global Context” (2014, PDF), Angela Davis interviewed by Frank Barat.

#palestine #ferguson #Angela Davis #prison abolition

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beljar · 7 months

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– Read About Palestine –

⚡️Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

⚡️On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

⚡️The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

⚡️The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

⚡️The Way to the Spring Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

⚡️The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

⚡️Except for Palestine The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

⚡️Palestine A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha

⚡️Where the Line Is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh

Israeli-Palestinian Discourse // Quotes

Artworks: Palestine', c1930s by Donald Mcleish // Masada on the Dead Sea, Palestine, 1859 by Edward Lear // Jaffa, Recruiting of Turkish Soldiers in Palestine, 1888 by Gustave Bauernfeind // Gourds Grown as a Vine in an Arab Garden, Palestine, 19th Century // Hishams Palace, West Bank, Palestine by Vivienne Sharp // Palestine', c1930s by Donald Mcleish // Palestine, from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, Plate, 1570 by Achille Cattaneo

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fairuzfan · 6 months

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hi! i just want to clarify first of all that im pro palestine, but a lot of people in my life aren't. ive been looking for ways to convince them but tbh im kind of lost. ive tried showing reports from websites like al jazeera but that's been dismissed out of hand because they're a middle east jounral and thus must be biased (pointing out that stuff like cnn then must be biased too because they're american hasn't worked lol). so, do you know of more "unbiased" resources/journals/etc, or anything that can argue for palestine? sorry if this is badly worded its pretty late. appreciate everything you've done btw 🇵🇸

No worries, I totally understand where you're coming from.

I guess I wanna ask for clarification—do you know what resources they personally are willing to accept? I can provide from Jewish scholars/voices if that'll help.

The issue is, not many USAmerican/European sources are unbiased, and they often spout imperialist propaganda. So if they're looking primarily for those types resources, I'm afraid I cannot really give you too many.

Here's a segment from an Angela Davis interview from Democracy Now that I like: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/28/angela_davis_25th_anniversary_taped_segment

Also her book Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement: https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Constant-Struggle-Palestine-Foundations/dp/1608465640

Angela Davis is often pretty vocal about the harms of imperialism throughout the world and specifically mentions Palestine in her activism. I suggest looking to her writings also.

Can't say I know too much about DemocracyNow! though.

Some other scholars/orgs are:

Jewish Voice For Peace: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

If Not Now: https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/

Ilan Pappe (he's specifically "Israeli", if that will help at all)

Frank Barat

Noam Chomsky: https://chomsky.info/

Modoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/ Now I don't totally love Mondoweiss all of the time but if the people in your life are really against learning from non-Palestinian sources they might be ok to introduce them. They do have Palestinian writers and editors tho.

I guess if its more that they're unwilling to trust SWANA news sources, you could show them The Institute for Palestine Studies, which is associated with Columbia University.

This list was a little difficult because I can't say I'd always recommend these sources (except, well, Angela Davis—I really look up to her—and Institute for Palestine Studies), but it could be a good introduction if they're rejecting other places that have more reliable reporting. If they're willing to accept these places/people, then you could move on to more Palestinian led sources.

I don't know if this helps, but you could say that they should listen to the Palestinian's POV because you'd always asked the people directly involved in a situation what their viewpoint is? Might help shift their understanding.

There are more sources that I thought about adding, but I need to look into them a little more. I might add on to this list later.

Let me know if any of this helps at all or even if it didn't, I'm genuinely really interested to see what they have to say.

#palestine #gaza #info post

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politijohn · 6 months

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might you have recommendations for a book to learn more about the history and geopolitics of the middle east?

i'm having trouble understanding what the u.s could possibly hope to gain from its support of israel - does this somehow enhance its position globally? what good is that? i've tried reading some internal relations blogs, but they reference a lot of concepts / history i don't know, and i struggle to connect it to a critical perspective

sorry if this a dumb ask ): the cruelty in gaza and the west bank are completely unjustifiable and i don't ask to find reasons to think otherwise. i'm trying to understand the UN vote, which i have trouble parsing as anything other than insane

Gonna put this out for everyone to respond with their recommendations! Some books I know of but haven't read, personally:

On Palestine - Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Frank Barat

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

Question of Palestine - Edward Said

Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh

The Butterfly's Burden - Mahmoud Darwish

Except for Palestine - Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Nakba - Ahmad Sa'di, Lila Abu-Lughod

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi

The Thistle and the Drone - Akbar Ahmed

#asks #books #palestine

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princelestats · 4 months

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Frank Barat: Talking about the abolition movement, even with my kids, I’ve noticed when we’re playing my little boy says, “Okay, well, if you’re bad, you’ll go to jail.” And he’s three and a half years old. So he is thinking bad = jail. This also applies to most people. So the idea of prison abolition must be a very hard one to advocate for. Where do you start? And how to you advocate for prison abolition versus prison reform?

Angela Davis: The history of the very institution of the prison is a history of reform. Foucault points this out. Reform doesn’t come after the advent of the prison; it accompanies the birth of the prison. So prison reform has always only created better prisons. In the process of creating better prisons, more people are brought under the surveillance of the correctional and law enforcement networks. The question you raise reveals the extent to which the site of the jail or prison is not only material and objective but it’s ideological and psychic as well. We internalize this notion of a place to put bad people. That’s precisely one of the reasons why we have to imagine the abolitionist movement as addressing those ideological and psychic issues as well. Not just the process of removing the material institutions or facilities.

Why is that person bad? The prison forecloses discussion about that. What is the nature of that badness? What did the person do? Why did the person do that? If we’re thinking about someone who has committed acts of violence, why is that kind of violence possible? Why do men engage in such violent behavior against women? The very existence of the prison forecloses the kinds of discussions that we need in order to imagine the possibility of eradicating these behaviors.

Just send them to prison. Just keep on sending them to prison. Then of course, in prison they find themselves within a violent institution that reproduces violence. In many ways you can say that the institution feeds on that violence and reproduces it so that when the person is released he or she is probably worse.

From Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

#freedom is a constant struggle #angela davis #angela y davis #quotes #palestine

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djservo · 4 months

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cutting it soo close to the wire oopsie but i'm here!! 2023 is out, 2024 is in. also in: your december reading update? did you hit 50 books read? what are your 2024 reading goals, anything that suprised you about your 2023 reading other than falling in love with Dennis Cooper?

I read 12 books last month man it was a blur!!

ok there's just too many for me to indulge in any rambling so I'm gonna try and keep things short n sweet

Nana Vol. 1-3 by Ai Yazawa - I was never really into manga growing up but this is like exactly the type of story and style I wanna wrap myself up in always!! so much fun!! the rumors are true, I love a roommate story!!! I read each one in a single sitting so I wanna pace myself thru the rest of the series so that I don't spoil + finish it all at once </3

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury - honestly not as fantastical as I was expecting for some reason but it reminded me of Coraline which was fun! I could see Neil Gaiman getting inspo from this (edit: literally just looked it up and yes Gaiman indeed cites him as a direct influence yup yup)

Out of Time by Samira Azzam - something almost Steinbeck-like in these vignettes of everyday life in a very culturally-specific way that I really enjoy. really insightful introduction that mentioned how although most her stories didn't explicitly mention Palestine, they still were recognizable as a Palestinian existence + therefore shaped a sort of Palestinian consciousness for readers that were often blocked from accessing their own culture in academic settings

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - I can't believe it took me this long to read something by Toni Morrison / that I never read her in any English classes?? like she seems so foundational to the grand scheme of American literature.... ridiculous! so phenomenal and gripping and darker than I expected. not just an engrossing story but also a really intentional and haunting use of language that really sinks you into that world/shifting perspectives

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat - this is like the only Palestinian book my local library has (shameful!) so I checked it out on a whim and was so surprised at what an amazing memoir this is!!! touching and vibrant and left me so eager to read her follow-up memoir based around her teenage years. I feel like this is a great introduction to Palestinian literature in general bc while it does (obviously) tie in the history and reality of occupation, the amount of love & detail given to the everyday things - merely going to school or playing with her brothers - was so enlightening and relatable

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - the first/main story, SantaLand Diaries, is still one of my favorites - I love stories about odd jobs + boy does Sedaris have so many tales to tell about those!! reread this in one sitting before I sent it off to a friend who seems to find herself in a new odd job each year so I figured she'd resonate

Gaza in Crisis and On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé, edited by Frank Barat - 2 separate books but I'll talk about them together since they're companion pieces. surprisingly accessible, probably due to the format of essays mixed with interviews. On Palestine echoed a lot of the sentiments of Gaza in Crisis so I'd recommend On Palestine for a sort of "updated" version (and in my opinion, more thorough). a good stepping stone for some of the meatier/more history-dense books on my TBR

Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - yknow the thing about recipe bloggers who will intersperse their super personal life story into the recipe? this is like a whole book of that it's kinda iconic... honestly a little juvenile and ridiculous at times but I had a fun + have made hot chocolate every single day since reading this which literally wasn't even one of the recipes included/the title itself comes from like 1 short part towards the end but still... Ms. Esquivel's impact... the movie adaptation was really well done too, captured the magical realism surprisingly well without making things look hokey + Man I just love food in film!!!

Good Sense & the Faithless by Michelle T. Clinton - beautiful sexy thoughtful angry hopeful healing.... I really love her and I'm glad I ended the year with this!!

YES I surpassed by goal which honestly did surprise me bc if you recall I sliced my 50 down to 36 a few months ago because 50 didn't seem feasible at the time, but I guess the lesson is to never underestimate winter reading!! still I'm playing it safe and declaring 40 as my 2024 goal... for now.... a few weeks ago I made a little reading syllabus for the year where each month is a different theme (except for january + august to give myself some time to get the wiggles/impulsive reads out ya know) and I mostly sourced from books I already own or books in my TBR so I'm really excited to have more structure to my reads + actually get through some of the books in my ever-growing TBR!! shameful and embarrassing that it's nearly at 1k books like GOD just READ them, woman!!! I think I'm also surprised at how many graphic novel collections I read (3!) which maybe shouldn't be that surprising bc I always have a good time with graphic novels but I think these particular reads opened the door to a buncha different authors and artists and literary circles which ofc I'm always grateful for! yay reading!!

#asks #cheesehair #reads

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xiphactinusfish · 3 months

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Palestine Book List:

Children's and Young Adult:

Baba, What Does My Name Mean?: A Journey to Palestine by Rifk Ebeid, Lamaa Jawhari

Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Story of Childhood Memories by Wafa Shami, Shaima Faouki

These Olive Trees by Aya Ghanameh

Farah Rocks series bu Susan Muaddi Darraj, Ruaida Mannaa

Squire by Nadia Shammas, Sara Alfageeh

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation by Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson Jr

The Boy and the Wall by Amahi Bishara

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine by Refaat Alareer

Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq

Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition by Reem Kassis, Noah Eilouti

Zain and Mima Stand for Palestine by Eman Kourtam, Sophia Soliman, Darah Rateb

Adults Nonfiction:

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadesh

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim et al.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis, Cornel West

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Frank Barat

Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color by Michael R. Fischbach

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia

Adult Fiction and Poetry:

Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

Blood Orange by Yaffa As

The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham

To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha

Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi

Hijra by Hala Alyan

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Guapa by Saleem Haddad

#palestine #palestinian #palestinian authors #books about palestine #book list #this list is a teaspoonful of available literature regarding palestine #you can always request that your local library buy them #please feel free to add additional titles

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a-typical · 6 months

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— On Palestine, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé (2015)

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useless-englandfacts · 6 months

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obviously i agree with the boycotts but ppl are taking it a little too far. like im a mcdonalds employee, and ppl have been releasing rodents and smashing windows of mcdonalds buildings???? like that is not helping the palestinian people AT ALL. the ppl in charge of the company do not give a shit if u break a few windows or whatever, all its doing is potentially hurting employees just abt earning the living wage.

smashing windows at a mcdonalds will not make netanyahu think "oh id better stop the attacks on gaza". its performative. literally just don't go to mcdonalds. do a regular boycott.

also ppl acting like it's difficult to boycott starbucks.... like we live in the uk there aren't even that many starbucks????

yeah peopels priorities are really weird and im honestly hoping general election doesn't get called early bc i want to actually be able to vote

i'm not disagreeing with you that vandalism makes life difficult for mcdonald's employees. nor do i disagree that a 'regular' boycott (i.e. non attendance) is easier and more effective. boycotts are only effective if they come with education, planning, and targeting to maximise both understanding and impact in making israel a pariah state. otherwise it's just a bunch of people doing random stuff.

however - and i don't wish to be rude - i also don't think that drawing attention to isolated incidents that represent a minority of (purportedly) pro-palestine action is helpful either. and concluding that people's [implied: widespread] priorities are therefore really weird is quite the generalisation. bear in mind that the news can't/won't report on people not going to mcdonald's or starbucks because it's impossible to falsify, but people breaking windows is not.

i could go into a wider discussion of how successful boycotts work, but noam chomsky and ilan pappé do a much better job with frank barat in the book 'on palestine', so i would recommend reading that instead to get a better idea of what i mean.

as for a general election, there's no incentive for rishi sunak to call it early at the moment so i wouldn't worry. i'm not sure that mcdonald's, starbucks, boycotts, or even palestine will feature highly on the list of priorities for uk voters though - rightly or wrongly. and at the moment neither of the two main party leaders support a ceasefire, so what is the likely outcome anyway?

#on the last point i know there are other parties but i'm talking about the overall winner #set to be keir starmer atm #asks #palestine #admin dominique

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garadinervi · 7 months

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Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, Edited by Frank Barat, Preface by Cornel West, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2016 (Internet Archive here)

Cover Design: Abby Weintraub

#graphic design #typography #book #cover #book cover #angela davis #frank barat #cornel west #abby weintraub #haymarket books #2010s

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variantoutcast · 3 months

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My nonfiction to read list as of Feb 2024 ⬇️

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1923 by Anne Applebaum

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Connie Burk, Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" by Judith Butler

Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis with Cornel West & Frank Barat

The Silent Sky: The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon by Allan Eckert

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman

The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

In the Dream House by Carmen Machado

Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan

Full list including fiction and poetry on my Storygraph

#postings #to read list #to be read

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republicanidiots · 3 months

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From Ferguson to Athens, via Mexico, it is clear that many governments are reproducing the tools that Israel uses to repress Palestinians. The replication of those same tactics, methods, and often weapons serves as proof that the Palestinians are now used as guinea pigs for experimentation. -- "On Palestine" Frank Barat, Noam Chomsky, 2014

#palestine #israel #genocide #murder #politics

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beljar · 6 months

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Israeli-Palestinian Discourse

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When does a native become a settler? by Yuval Evri, Hagar Kotef

Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965) by Fayez Sayegh

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

Zionism and Colonialism by Gershon Shafir

Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe

The Palestinians’ Inalienable Right to Resist by Louis Allday

On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

Read About Palestine // Quotes

Artworks: Bethlehem Street Scene Photograph No.1 - Bethlehem, Palestine by Lantern Press // Approach to Caipha, Bay of Acre, Coast of Palestine by William Henry Bartlett // Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, Palestine, C1927-C1931 // Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Ramla, Palestine, C1930S by Ewing Galloway // Light Shining in Church of the Nativity Photograph No.2 - Bethlehem, Palestine by Lantern Press // The Market, Haifa, Palestine, C1920S-C1930S // Holyland Land Palestine - 1650

@liriostigre

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