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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story By Ramzy Baroud Just read this book. It made me think of the chant I hear at rallies: Gaza, Gaza, don't you cry; Palestine will never die. The Zionists never dreamed that more than 60 years after Israel was declared a state they would still be dealing with the Palestinians. Ben Gurion wrote in 1948: "Not one refugee will return. The old will die. The young will forget." Ramzy Baroud mixes the personal and the historical as he writes about his father's militant struggles against the Israelis, his dashed hopes that Nasser would be the savior of the Palestinians, his bitterness at the betrayal of Anwar Sadat as well as the daily survival tactics of living in a refugee camp. What was it like to flee the Nakba, trying to keep your family together while avoiding Zionist gangs and strafing airplanes? What survival tactics do you develop when Israeli soldiers frequently barge into your house without warning and you have have 5 adolescent sons? How do you function when an entity that is intent on your destruction is in control of your economic survival? He puts it all into the larger context of the development of the PLO, the Islamic Brotherhood, Hamas and the politics of Arab nationalism. I contnue to be amazed and humbled by the bravery and tenacity of the Palestinians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K2VpARDkzw ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
