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The unarmed struggle, like writing, is one of the main means of palestinians Struggle historically and important figures such as Asmaa Abu Ayyash show how to join the cause through literature and art

Every night there are cinematographic works in Beita. The boys, sitting in their plastic chairs and with laser pointers, make noise and point their lights at the Israeli settlers to make them leave. These Israeli colonies, according to international humanitarian law, are illegal, article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
This typology of civil resistance is a political action which uses peaceful, non-violent methods where there is a wide variety of activities that challenge a specific power, force, policy or regime.
These Palestinian resistance movements began in the early 20th century, first against the Ottoman Empire and later against the British Mandate and then with Jewish emigration to the region. But the beginning of the peaceful struggle does not take place until the second Intifada. These structures of non-violent civil resistance gave a massive and generalized character from the base of political and social mobilization. From merchant strikes and the boycott of Israeli products, from the refusal to pay taxes or non-compliance with military orders, they are the protagonists of these peaceful uprisings, according to Novact.org.
Endurance based on perseverance showed that Palestinians want to be in their land and for this reason different political movements developed educational demonstrations to refuse some measures. The universities became in one of principal places for the resistance and this form of non-violence started growing up in 2005, so their resistance is base on the creativity and for this reason many palestinian say no to the force.
Asma Abu Ayyash is member of Palestine Writers League and she has published two books with her own money because she has the necessary to tell the worl what is happening in her land: “I wrote this novel, especially for my father and also for people who lived the same things as him. Thousands of people have suffered and they still continue suffering. For this reason, I must write '', she says while explaining that writing is one of the non violence resistence.“I had to write about their feelings and how they were shocked with this situation. Testimonies show the situation in which many people have lived”, adds. She was born in 1953 in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. After the Nakba, her parents had to flee their home, leaving behind memories, feelings, clothes, and the memory of a lifetime.
In 1948 they had to flee from Yaffo (Jaffa, the old city of Tel Aviv) as it was occupied by Israeli soldiers. They had no choice but to leave their forever home.
Asma lived in the countryside until she was 18, then she went to Jordan to Amman to study, where she began working as a journalist to comment on the cause and struggle of the Palestinian people. She had to be a refugee in Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan. It was his form of resistance, it was his way of continuing to shout what was taken from his parents: his home.



“Writing and drawing is a form of resistance because words can hit more than a bullet, but also using guns when there is a struggle is a way of resistance. We can't conduct negotiation because this has to be from the same side and we are not in an equal situation”
With tears in her eyes, Asma tells the story of her family. He still remembers when his father told him that after the Nakba he saw his land again. The center of the whole story that happens in the book about Yafa, is about my father. My father returned to Yafa in 1989 and returned in 2002 as a visitor. When he returns to his land to his country, he does not find his house, it was destroyed. When he goes as a visitor to Yafa or he was walking in the streets, he saw his friends with whom he lived in Yafa, after 54 years, they returned to Yafa and saw all the friends. He felt weird, they started crying, it was a very emotional moment.
Since 1977, on or around November 29 of each year, the United Nations commemorates the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. That same year 1947 the General Assembly of the United Nations approved resolution 181, which is known as the “partition resolution”. Since this resolution was proclaimed, only one state has been legally created: the state of Israel. That is why November 29 is such an important day, as it provides an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine remains unresolved.
In 2017, after a survey carried out by the Palestinian Center for Policy And Survery Research, only 23% think that non-violence is the best means to achieve an independent State of Palestine.
“Mother of a Stranger”, the second book of Asmaa, is so called because Yaffa has always been a port city. It opened its doors to sailors and merchants. Everyone came to work, to visit… The people of Yafa are very familiar. Its port was always full and it was a very lively city. He welcomed all foreigners with great hospitality. They all felt at home.
That is why when I decided to talk to experts about Yafa, one of them told me “ahh Yafa, the mother of foreigners, (in arab: Yafa am gharib) always welcomed everyone with hospitality, that is why she is called that” Yafa represents the original land of the Palestinians, it represents the true Palestinian identity. When she returns after visiting her real home in Yafa, she feels that this is her real home. Asma now lives in Ramallah, but she doesn't feel the same anymore, she realizes that her real home is in Yafa. That is why I always try not to forget the streets of Yafa and its history. “I will never leave Yafa” “Palestine map it’s like a cheese and all people make one piece”.
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the correct is that the occupation actually attacked and fight against the art and artists . the occupation targeted the art and artist as other kind of palestinians means of struggle. they arrested many of Artists and confiscated their work and they attacked the many art exhibitions ...etc.

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