The Holy Family, Palestinian Youth and Palestine’s Zionist Problem

Photo (taken in 2014/Rima Najjar): A boy in AbuDis, a suburb of Jerusalem in the Holy Land behind Israel’s annexation apartheid wall the Jewish state built to keep Palestinians out of Jerusalem. The boy’s sweatshirt says “Palestinian”.

There is a saying in Arabic (taken from a verse in the Quran) “عسى أن تكرهوا شيئًا وهو خيرٌ لكم” which translates into “Perhaps you hate something that is good for you.” This was the text on which Lebanese novelist and prominent public intellectual Elias Khoury built during his intervention (Arabic) at the Palestine Forum symposium (Dec 12, 2020) entitled: “Palestine means…