Palestinians Eat 'Iftar' Meal

Palestinian children prepare to eat their 'Iftar' meal offered by Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum, during the third week of Islam's holy month of Ramadan in the city of Nablus, on 17 September 2008.

Palestinians eat their 'Iftar' meal.

During Ramadan it is very common to share meals among the Ummah, which is usually greeted with much happiness and joy, because everyone that is Muslim, which makes-up the Ummah; is like one very large family that cares about each other.

In this particular case, the Palestinian people was most graciously honored with this old tradition.

Furthermore, as it is within related families as an occasion to get together during Ramadan, to break the fast and enjoy each other’s company; which is something I have always enjoyed and even at time’s, for someone to bring along a friend to share the meal for there always seems to be plenty for everyone.

I laugh about this now that I am older, but this kind of reminds me of something my mother use to say when I was a child, "if anyone left the table hungry, it was there own fault." I will admit there was times that I was told there wasn’t enough food, even though it turned out not to be so; the reason being I think, was my mother was a good manager.

Since I am now grown, there has been time’s in the past when I have suffered from extreme hunger and it seems when everything got very desperate; some how the food always seemed to appear. These time’s were usually when there were assassination attempt’s on myself, the worse was 2003 after my first husband was martyred; to early 2005.

But in the last few years, except for what happened during Hurricane Gustav, most everything has been good; for I have a good husband.