tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post5087539789487219715..comments2024-03-28T09:40:50.705-07:00Comments on SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: PALESTINE THROUGH THE EYES OF ALICE WALKERNoor al Haqiqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324677503909144567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post-62302994279673860042009-07-28T20:17:48.878-07:002009-07-28T20:17:48.878-07:00I agree completely with you. I remember the proble...I agree completely with you. I remember the problems of the South as well and know this. She is coming from what she knows. What she went through is so imprinted in her soul that this is her basis of comparison so I appreciate that for what it is. I thoroughly understood where she was coming from in doing so. <br /><br />BUT what inspired me to work up this piece with images as I have was the way her own skills and experiences allowed her to capture the whole stories of these individuals so poignantly with just a few lines. <br /><br />After so long of posting and looking at images and weeping over this horror, she just seemed to touch me in a way that left me in tears for hours. I crumbled and it took someone to pull me together, and that has never happened in my life.<br /><br />Nor I do not compare it with South Africa either. SA was brutal for years but this in generations and there is no end in sight. And it gets harder and harder. Life in SA is not good. I am quite aware and have white friends there who just do not see a problem, much as the everyday Israeli. <br /><br />Sigh, nothing is perfect. Thank you for your input. I was not finished this before you read it. .smile. I had not completed my opening passage. Got hung up finding art ... tired of posting horror photos for Palestine. Just for once, I wanted pretty.Noor al Haqiqahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324677503909144567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post-22227585458133153252009-07-28T18:45:26.790-07:002009-07-28T18:45:26.790-07:00I read Alice Walker’s article with interest. There...I read Alice Walker’s article with interest. There is no doubt that Walker writes well, with intense feeling and charm. However, the parallel she draws between the Palestinian of today and the South African people of the past is invalid and inappropriate. It is true that the South Africa government of the early twenty century up to the ’70s practiced apartheid; but not genocide to its indigenous people in the way Israel is doing for over sixty years now. Also South Africa is not better off today, as Walker seems to imply in her writing, than what used to be before Mandela took over.<br /><br />Nadir Martellosheddinglighthttp://www.sheddinglight.infonoreply@blogger.com