PalestineRemembered.com was founded for the following reasons:
- To emphasize that the CORE issues of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict are the DISPOSSESSION and ETHNIC CLEANSING
(compulsory population transfer to achieve political gains) of the
Palestinian people for the past five decades. In our opinion, the
conflict would have been at the same level of intensity EVEN if both
parties had been Jewish, Muslims, or Christians.
- To create an easy medium where refugees can
communicate, organize, and share their experiences amongst themselves.
The refugees are encouraged to attach their stories, memories, pictures,
movies, music files, join discussions at the message board and guest
book sections, directory service listing of the refugees and their
contact information, and URL links related to each listed town.
- To provide a comprehensive source of information
about the villages and cities that were ethnically cleansed, looted, and
destroyed by the Israeli army. At each town's homepage, you will find
pictures (both before and after 1948), the current status of the town,
the Israeli colonies that occupy the town's lands, a brief history of
the town before and after Nakba, detailed accounts of atrocities and any
acts of terror, personal accounts from the refugees themselves, and
above all live interviewes where refugees recite their experiences, in a
visual form, before, during and after al-Nakba.
- To preserve the memories and the experiences of
Palestinian people around the world, especially the 726,000 Palestinians
refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, farms, and
businesses as a result of the 1948 war. Currently, the dispossessed
refugees number 5.9 million and constitute the great majority of the
Palestinian people. On the political front, so far their voices have
gone unheard, and we at PalestineRemembered.com hope to amplify their
voice in cyberspace.
- To increase refugees' awareness of their rights
to return to their homes, farms, and businesses based on United Nations
General Assembly resolution 194. Based on this resolution, every single
refugee has the right to go back to his or her home, and to be
compensated for any loss of their properties, pain, and suffering.
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Added: May 2006