An 'Al-Nakba ' Poster

A Palestinian woman walks past a poster made for the 60th anniversary of the 'Al-Nakba ' (The catastrophe) in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 3 May 2008.

The 'Al-Nakba ' (The catastrophe), is one of those events that should have never occurred, just like the recent remembrance of the Jewish holocaust just a few days ago.

But those two horrific events did occur and is now apart of history, as well as every year a holiday to remind us of these great sorrows.

As I have mentioned before, it is a great hope that one day we should not feel the sting of the sorrow of such events as these.

As for the Palestinian Diaspora, as for those who also suffer in the Jewish Diaspora, that relief is more in sight then ever before.

Nevertheless, one thing about events like these, is that too often ones emotions seem to run high and I often wonder why emotions tend to give a person a type of verbal lockjaw or writer‘s block?

Just thinking, what upset’s me about events like these as well as wars, is they usually come about because someone told a lie to someone else, to create these types of situations and people not realizing for a time it was a lie; that the outcome is these horrific events. I guess, one can say this is a good object lesson, of why one should not tell a lie or the fact that lies are a creation of Satan.