Comments for My life as a Palestinian http://sous1970.wordpress.com If you log then please blog Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Are you a PLU? by Khaldoun Hajaj http://sous1970.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/are-you-a-plu/#comment-4 Khaldoun Hajaj Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:43:30 +0000 https://sous1970.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/are-you-a-plu/#comment-4 Hi Suhail you have a lovely website. I also feel a bit like you. Being Palestinian opens up so many identities. My partner and I have travelled the globe over the past few years. She is an Australian born lebanese and I am Palestinian. Whilst she always longed for home in Sydney i never thought about coming back. Though having made the economic jumpp from Refugee to Exile I am now more maudlin and brooding about what life ought to be about. Also being uprooted with an Australian Passport provides one with a certain freedom of choice. We can almost choose where we belong and come from. I have sort of created an imaginary homeland in my head...but somehow I always end up finding myself in Paris. I would love to know what you mean about Arab Nationalism. I sued to be quite ardent about it, however, I really dont give a shit any more. Infact the only thing more fucked up than Nationalism is religion. Thankfully we have plenty of these two commodities in our home lands. Have you ever read a book about the late Weal Zaiter. He was assassinated in by the Mossad in Rome in 1972. Look him up! See you sometime in Sydney. Hi Suhail

you have a lovely website. I also feel a bit like you. Being Palestinian opens up so many identities. My partner and I have travelled the globe over the past few years. She is an Australian born lebanese and I am Palestinian. Whilst she always longed for home in Sydney i never thought about coming back.

Though having made the economic jumpp from Refugee to Exile I am now more maudlin and brooding about what life ought to be about. Also being uprooted with an Australian Passport provides one with a certain freedom of choice. We can almost choose where we belong and come from. I have sort of created an imaginary homeland in my head…but somehow I always end up finding myself in Paris.

I would love to know what you mean about Arab Nationalism. I sued to be quite ardent about it, however, I really dont give a shit any more. Infact the only thing more fucked up than Nationalism is religion. Thankfully we have plenty of these two commodities in our home lands.

Have you ever read a book about the late Weal Zaiter. He was assassinated in by the Mossad in Rome in 1972. Look him up!

See you sometime in Sydney.

]]> Comment on Are you a PLU? by Gaby http://sous1970.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/are-you-a-plu/#comment-3 Gaby Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:57:05 +0000 https://sous1970.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/are-you-a-plu/#comment-3 I think lots of people are Plu's but many take on the easy labels and pander to others needs to categorise. For myself being anglo saxon and born in australia my nationality is not often questioned here but when travelling overseas people couldn't believe that I was an Aussie that I spoke like I was english or didn't fit their preconceived notions of what Australians should look and behave like. I also try and resist labels and feel somehow diminished by them 'single mum' or 'arty type' carry with them a bucket load of baggage which might or might not be aspects of me. I want to be understood on my own terms and not simplified as a type of person. What is most interesting about people is often the contradictions and complexities that make them up. We don't live in a B Grade movie with cardboard cutouts so why are we treated as if we need to give a character description of ourselves based on nationality, race, marital status, sexuality and job in the first 2 minutes of meeting someone? Anyway enough of my rant - goodluck and keep questioning! Gaby I think lots of people are Plu’s but many take on the easy labels and pander to others needs to categorise. For myself being anglo saxon and born in australia my nationality is not often questioned here but when travelling overseas people couldn’t believe that I was an Aussie that I spoke like I was english or didn’t fit their preconceived notions of what Australians should look and behave like. I also try and resist labels and feel somehow diminished by them ’single mum’ or ‘arty type’ carry with them a bucket load of baggage which might or might not be aspects of me. I want to be understood on my own terms and not simplified as a type of person. What is most interesting about people is often the contradictions and complexities that make them up. We don’t live in a B Grade movie with cardboard cutouts so why are we treated as if we need to give a character description of ourselves based on nationality, race, marital status, sexuality and job in the first 2 minutes of meeting someone? Anyway enough of my rant – goodluck and keep questioning!
Gaby

]]> Comment on Are you a PLU? by Marcy Newman http://sous1970.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/are-you-a-plu/#comment-2 Marcy Newman Sat, 13 May 2006 09:14:57 +0000 https://sous1970.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/are-you-a-plu/#comment-2 Mabrouk on your blog, habibi! This is a great first post. I look forward to reading your respones to living and working in Ramallah. Salam, Marcy Mabrouk on your blog, habibi! This is a great first post. I look forward to reading your respones to living and working in Ramallah.

Salam,
Marcy

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