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The Free Palestine Movement is officially led by Yasser Qashlaq, [2] while Saed Abd Al-Aal serves as the commander of the organization's paramilitary wing. [ 1 ] [ 15 ] Saed Abd Al-Aal is the son of Muhammad Abdel-Al, a member of the leadership of the Ba'ath Party's Palestinian branch in Syria and former Yarmouk Camp official. [ 5 ]
The different versions of the slogan that developed over the time emphasize different aspects of the Palestinian struggle. The version min an-nahr ʾilā l-baḥr / Filasṭīn sa-tataḥarrar (من النهر إلى البحر / فلسطين ستتحرر, "from the river to the sea / Palestine will be free") has a focus on liberation and freedom.
However, some Palestinian refugees in other parts of the world may speak a different dialect from Palestinian Arabic. In the West Bank, there are many Israeli settlements in which, since the early 20th century, Hebrew has become more common. Palestinian citizens of Israel are also likely to be bilingual in both Arabic and Hebrew.
The displacement of the Palestinian people on that date is still marked every year on “Nakba Day”, named for an Arabic word for “catastrophe” and on which Palestinians give speeches, hold ...
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign says the UK Government, through its “endorsement” of Israel, has been rendered “complicit” in the deaths of people in Gaza.
Arabic manuals for the "Syrian dialect" were produced in the early 20th century, [10] and in 1909 a specific "Palestinian Arabic" manual was published in Jerusalem for Western travelers. Palestinian Arabic is a variant of Levantine Arabic because its dialects display characteristic Levantine features:
At the graduation ceremony of New York University Abu Dhabi this May, a student wearing the traditional Palestinian black-and-white keffiyeh scarf shouted “Free Palestine!” as he crossed the ...
There was no Palestine in the Western sense of a nation-state and no Palestinian people in the Western sense of a national group taking explicit possession of and improving its national territory. By Western definition, Palestinians, like many other native peoples around the world, did not exist.