...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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The Paleostinian Authority Ministry of Culture condemned the Israeli Arab poet Suleiman Daghash on Saturday for participating in the funeral of his grandson Sufian, an IDF soldier who was killed in Gaza last week at age 21.
The ministry called for the withdrawal of all honors conferred on the poet, an Israeli citizen from the Druze minority, mentioning in particular an award bestowed upon him by the General Union of Arab Writers in 2017.
Daghash hails from the Druze-majority city of Maghar, in northern Israel, and is considered an outsider figure among Israeli Druze. Unlike the vast majority of his community, he rejects the idea of allegiance to the State of Israel, and throughout his work he asserted his Paleostinian national identity.
In the Druze minority, all men are drafted and serve in combat units at a higher rate than Jewish Israelis — about 80% versus 50%. Daghash refused to serve in the Israeli army and so did two of his sons, according to Paleostinian journalist Younis Tirawi.
A video circulated on social media showed Daghash at the funeral, eulogizing his grandson, whose coffin was covered in an Israeli flag. A number of IDF officers and soldiers were also present at the ceremony and carried the coffin.
In his speech, the poet said: "How can I accept that I will carry your pure coffin, and that you will be buried before me? Wouldn’t it be fair for me to be in your place, and you in my place?" He then added: "I hope that Sufyan’s blood will be the last blood that falls in this war or in any other, and that a just and comprehensive peace will be achieved in our region."
Druze holy mans, including the sect’s spiritual leader in Israel, Sheikh Muakfak Tarif, also attended the funeral.
Daghash was the first author to be awarded a special literary award for "1948 Paleostinian writers," assigned to Arab citizens of Israel by the General Union of Arab Writers in Algeria in 2017 to celebrate their "steadfastness" as Paleostinian citizens of Israel, according to the Paleostinian news agency Wafa.
Paleostinian intellectuals reacted with outrage to Daghash’s presence at a military event.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...i, Secretary-General of the Union of Paleostinian Writers, wrote on the Union’s official page that the body rejects the eulogy by a Paleostinian poet for "a soldier who contributed to the killing of our people in Gaza... Whoever is awarded the literary prize for 1948 Paleostinians [i.e. Arab Israelis] must respect Paleostine and its culture of resistance, and be humble in the face of the blood spilled in Gaza and the West Bank."
The secretary-general called for stripping Daghash of his awards, saying: "The author removed himself from the cultural context of Paleostine."
Various Paleostinian authors also condemned Daghash’s appearance at the funeral next to IDF soldiers, lambasting him for presenting himself in his Facebook profile as "an ambassador of Paleostinian poetry in the global poets’ movement."
Author Yassin Ezz El-Din, quoted by the UK-based daily al-Quds al-Araby, wrote that "many Paleostinians live this dichotomy: Their hearts are with Paleostine and their swords are with Israel. The excuse is always that there are specific personal circumstances. But today, there is no room for ambiguous positions or for standing in the middle. If you are not with Paleostine in words and deeds, you are with Israel."