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Would You Believe: 'My Father's Land'

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday December 04, 2002 13:55author by kahootz

Would You Believe 'My Father's Land' 22:10, RTE 1, Thursday 5 December 2002

Salah Afifi made the headlines when he was arrested this summer, imprisoned for 7 days and deported by the Israeli Authorities for taking part in a peaceful protest march in a small town near Nablus.

It was Salah's first time to visit Palestine, for him the journey to the West Bank was part of a quest for truth and for his roots. Salah grew up in Portmarnock on Dublin's Northside - Half Palestinian but wholly Irish. This week's Would You Believe hears Salah's story - a very personal insight into his discovery of his Palestinian inheritance.

Related Link: http://www.rte.ie/tv/wouldyoubelieve/thisweek.html

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Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
author by quotation service for inter-cultural-ethnic-linguistic- - social-tribal-stream-stuff.publication date Wed Dec 04, 2002 18:27author address ”diasporia?author phone ipsiphi

Do thāinig bean an leasa
le Black & Decker,
do ghearr si anuas mo chrann.
D^fhanas im ōinsdeach ag fźachaint uirthi
faid a bhearraigh sī na brainsī

==============================The fairy woman canme with a Black & Decker. She cut down my tree. I watched her like fool cut the branches one by one.

.....lots of it......
.....maith an cailīn...

Thit a ^tōin as mo bholg
is faoi mar a gheobhainn lascadh chic
nō leacadar sna baothāin
līon taom anbhainne isteach orm
a dhein chomh lag san mź
gurb ar źigin a bhī ardū na mźire ionam
as san go ceann trī lā.

=======the bottom fell out of my stomach and as if I got a good kick or a punch in the guts a weakness came over me that made me so feeble I couldn^t lift a finger for three whole days.

Murab ionann is an crann
a dh^fan ann, slān.

=Unlike the tree
which happily, heathily grew away.

Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
author by quotation service for inter-cultural-ethnic-linguistic- - social-tribal-stream-stuff.publication date Wed Dec 04, 2002 18:31author address ”diasporia?author phone ipsiphi

Do thāinig bean an leasa
le Black & Decker,
do ghearr si anuas mo chrann.
D^fhanas im ōinsdeach ag fźachaint uirthi
faid a bhearraigh sī na brainsī

==============================The fairy woman canme with a Black & Decker. She cut down my tree. I watched her like fool cut the branches one by one.

.....lots of it......
.....maith an cailīn...

Thit a ^tōin as mo bholg
is faoi mar a gheobhainn lascadh chic
nō leacadar sna baothāin
līon taom anbhainne isteach orm
a dhein chomh lag san mź
gurb ar źigin a bhī ardū na mźire ionam
as san go ceann trī lā.

=======the bottom fell out of my stomach and as if I got a good kick or a punch in the guts a weakness came over me that made me so feeble I couldn^t lift a finger for three whole days.

Murab ionann is an crann
a dh^fan ann, slān.

=Unlike the tree
which happily, heathily grew away.

Palestinians
author by Despublication date Thu Dec 05, 2002 23:31author address author phone

This programme will be seriously misleading, there are no Palestinians, Golda Meir said so. How do we even know that this guy is really a Palestinian?

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