Palestine Festival of Literature 2009

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Duration: 4 minutes and 29 seconds

Country: Palestine

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Video Blog

Producer: O R Hamilton

Director: O R Hamilton

Views: 76 (1 embedded)

Posted by: palfest on May 25, 2009

The Israeli army's failed attempt to shut down PALFEST's opening night.

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Hi!
Hello, how are you? How are you?
Hang on everybody, Hey everyone
They are saying they are going to close us down,
But the French Cultural Centre has very kindly offered us their hospitality
We are moving the opening of PalFest 09 to the French Cultural Centre
We're walking down there now
French Cultural Centre
We were shut down before we started. We showed up at the Palestine National Theatre
To inaugurate the festival, and
we had a reception, and food and drinks on the table
and a whole, I don't know maybe ten, armed Israeli police came in
and said that we had to close down and that we were not allowed to do our literary event
And fortunately the French Cultural Councillor was there
and he offered to host us at the French Cultural Centre which is where we are now
I am very thankful to all of you for coming
I am very thankful to Jean Paul and the French Consulate in Jerusalem
for hosting us in a very quick reaction
And I am very thankful to all of those who took the time
and spent the effort to come from abroad
in order to meet in Jerusalem
We need you in order to break the siege around the city
We need you in order to open our minds
We need you because we do not want the occupation to succeed
sealing our minds, our heads and our thoughts
Thank you very much for coming

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