But web tools make them easy to find.
Take for example Wikipedia's Arabic-language entry on Nabi Saleh. As we
, someone doctored the Wikipedia text shortly after we first publicized it.
But this past weekend, we found the original Arabic text as it had appeared on Wikipedia in May 2013. We saved the original Arabic text to
here, and a partial English translation to
here. They are archived now thanks to the wonders of the Internet, and safe (we think) from the destructive attentions of those who feel compelled to re-invent the past.
That deleted Wikipedia text is
the village of Nabi Saleh paying tribute to its own viciously violent true self: to its warriors, to its killers, to its dead fighters, and above all to its favourite daughter, the one who smiles on-camera when she recalls how many innocent Jewish children she blew to pieces in the Sbarro pizzeria, our daughter Malki among them.
Virtually everyone in Nabi Saleh is a member of the Tamimi clan. That includes
our daughter's murderer and the murderer's husband who is also her cousin - and also a convicted murder of Jews. And also freed in the
catastrophic Shalit Deal [in 2011]. (They now live in Amman, Jordan). And also a hero of those self-proclaimed peace-loving, non-violent villagers.
UPDATE: December 20, 2017: An alert reader (hat-tip ELEA) points out that the JumpShare link above which used to show the English translation of the now-wiped earlier edition of the Arabic Wikipedia page about Nabi Saleh is gone. Since there isn't much time available to us today, the easiest solution for now is to simply copy-paste the Google Translate translation into English of the
Wikipedia Arabic text. So here it is, unedited and fresh from the translation machine:
Original source: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/النبي_صالح_(قرية)
Location
The village of Nabi Saleh is located
northwest of the city of Ramallah and is about 20 km away. It is said that this
village is located in the middle of historic Palestine, where it stands tall at
the top of a mountain where it can see the Palestinian coast and the inner
cities of Palestine such as Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The village is bordered
by the villages of Beit Rima, Deir Ghassana, Kafrein Rawa and from the
east the town of Umm Safa and the farms of Nubani and Arora and from the south
monastery Nzam and Cooper and from the west Aboud.
Etymology
This village was named after the
Prophet peace be upon him because of the presence of the Prophet Saleh inside
the village, which is considered one of the most important historical monuments
in Palestine. It is believed that the Prophet peace be upon him died in the
village because of the tomb inside the shrine was said to the Prophet peace be
upon him, This is because of conflicting beliefs between the Palestinian city
of Ramle and areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and others, but it is hard in
the subject that the Prophet peace be upon him has a shrine located in the
village of Prophet Saleh see it clear once you reach the village.
Population
The population of the village of
Nabi Saleh, according to official Palestinian statistics, about 550 people,
most of them, or 98%, are from the Tamimi family, which originated in the city
of Hebron in the south of the West Bank and are said to have come from Hebron
to live in the Prophet Saleh and Deir Nizam and different areas because of the
fertility of its land and its beautiful location and land And live in the
village of Nabi Saleh dozens of refugees who fled their towns in Palestine
after the occupation of Palestine in 1948, lived in this village and became over
time an integral part of the history of this original village, in addition to
the presence of more than 1500 people Of the villagers They live in the
diaspora specifically in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Lebanon, the United
States, Brazil, Britain and various parts of the world, as well as dozens of
families who preferred to live in Ramallah because of work there.
Climate
The climate of the village
of Nabi Saleh is a wonderful and distinctive climate in all seasons of the
year. It is cold and snowy in most of the years and heavy rains. It is moderate
in the summer. The temperature does not exceed 35 ° C and the fresh breeze from
the Palestinian arena Opposite to the village of Prophet Saleh.
Education
The village of Nabi Saleh is one of
the most educated Palestinian sites compared to the population of the village.
Most of its young men and women are students in the university. Some of them
have completed intermediate certificates, including higher certificates in
different disciplines. Most notably Professor Walid Al-Tamimi is a Palestinian
lecturer currently living in Jordan. Books and books that speak about the
countries of the world and the political, economic and social future of
emerging countries such as Iran, China, India and others, Samir al-Tamimi,
a Palestinian writer who held many positions and was a member of the
Revolutionary Council of Fatah for more than 10 years and responsible in the
institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Abdul Rahman
al-Tamimi, water engineer and Palestinian expert and Taysir Al Tamimi, General
Manager of Arab Bank and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestinian Banks
Magazine. Nawaf al-Tamimi, an expert on political affairs,
Politics
The village of Nabi Saleh took a
great place in the Palestinian political history. It was during the first
Intifada to announce the start of the Intifada when the first statement of the
unified leadership of the Intifada came out from inside this small village. It
was one of the titles of the Palestinian steadfastness in the first and second
intifadas, bringing hundreds of prisoners among its women, A martyr on the
altar of freedom They: -
·
The martyr
Mustafa Abdel Razzaq Tamimi
·
Martyr Bakr Ali
Al - Tamimi
·
Martyr Abdul Muti
Ahmed Tamimi
·
Martyr Ahmed
Mousa Al - Tamimi
·
Martyr Atef
Mahmoud Sarhan
·
Martyr Abdul
Ghani Al - Tamimi
·
Martyr Sami Odeh
Al - Tamimi
·
Martyr Rushdi
Mohammed Al - Tamimi
·
Martyr Abdul
Hafiz Tamimi
·
Martyr Awad
Ismail Al - Tamimi
·
The martyr Taher
Hassan al - Tamimi
·
Martyr Jihad
Yousef Al-Tamimi
·
Martyr Anis
Yousef Al - Tamimi
·
The martyr Asima
Mohammed Tamimi
·
Wafaa Roshdy Al -
Tamimi
·
Shahida Wadad
Ismail Tamimi
·
The safe martyr
Saad al - Tamimi
The
most prominent prisoners of the village of Nabi Saleh are: - Ahlam al-Tamimi: -
captive prisoner was imprisoned for 11 years and released in the prisoner
exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. Tamimi had participated in a
bombing in Jerusalem in the second intifada was sentenced by Israel for 1600
years and was released recently. Nizar al-Tamimi: He is the husband of the liberated
prisoner Ahlam al-Tamimi and spent 18 years in the prisons of the Zionist
occupation and was released in the exchange of prisoners. Ahmed
Yousef al-Tamimi: - He spent 18 years in Israeli jails and was suffering from
acute renal failure and was released in the exchange of prisoners. Said
al-Tamimi: - He has been in prison for more than 19 years. And other
prisoners, children and women.
Popular resistance in the village of
Nabi Saleh
As a result of the continued Israeli
occupation of the land of the village of Nabi Saleh and the surrounding
villages, the children of this village and their brothers in Nizam monastery
began weekly marches and activities to demand the removal of the settlement and
the return of their stolen rights. This conflict erupted after the Zionist
settlers seized the water of the villagers and other lands under pretext It is
a religious territory for Jews, which aroused the anger of the Palestinians,
and continued these activities since 9/12/2009 so far, the occupation forces
attacked the march using the forms of force and the threat, causing the burning
of dozens of homes with gas bombs and wounding dozens of injuries And the
martyrdom of the martyr Mustafa al-Tamimi in late 2011, the arrest of dozens
and the threat of demolition of houses and the imposition of tight closures and
night raids aimed at stopping the activities of the Prophet Saleh, which Israel
considered by the press that it is a germ must be eliminated in the bud
especially with lifting the ceiling claimed by the Popular Resistance Command
in the Prophet
Tamimi Press: Nabi Saleh’s Media
Interface
With the passage of days after the
start of the popular resistance in the village of Nabi Saleh, Tamimi Press
began to form a well-known and prestigious media platform, speaking on behalf
of this village and its popular resistance and reaching its message to the
world and working to document the violations of the occupation. This media group,
founded by the young Mohammed Attallah Al-Tamimi, Journalist Hilmi al-Tamimi
and photographer Bilal al-Tamimi monitored all the violations of the occupation
army and its evils against the village and was able to communicate with local,
Arab and international media and with various institutions in the United
Nations, the Red Cross and others. Mei Press normal with simple tools and
techniques appeared on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and became more widely known,
and continues to expand its deployment day.
Official institutions
In the village of Nabi Saleh, a
number of official institutions have been officially established in the
Palestinian Authority, which serve the citizens and contribute to the
development of the village. They are: - The Council of the Prophet Nabi Saleh:
- one of the most active councils in Palestine which provides basic services to
the residents of the village and supervises their daily lives. Al Nabi
Salih Club is a socio-cultural sports club that has achieved many local sports
achievements in regional tournaments and has worked at the cultural and social
levels through the establishment of summer camps which have become an annual
tradition and a number of events and festivals. Al Nabi Saleh Cultural
Center: - A center located in the village that carries out various cultural
activities in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture. Fateh Movement -
The site of the Prophet Saleh: - It is a dynamic and active movement
organization at the national and Fatah level. It provides services to the people
of the village and conducts national activities on many occasions and
communicates with other sites. Women's Committee:
Prophet Saleh season
As the village of Nabi
Saleh is the site of the Prophet peace be upon him was established in the
village season of the Prophet Saleh every year from 1996 until 2000, where this
tradition stopped because of the annual occupation and siege imposed on the
village and the establishment of the barrier at the entrance, These events were
Palestinian musical and popular groups from Palestine inside 1948, from the
West Bank, Jordanian and Palestinian artists, high-ranking officials and
diplomats. They performed plays, patriotic and comic, and markets were set up
in the village squares. Palestinian and various institutions on this
season and sponsored annually.
The translation was done by machine and yes, there are lots of mistakes. But it's not hard to get the sense they wanted to convey.
You can probably see that the focus on a warrior past doesn't fit all that wonderfully well with the more recent efforts to depict Nabi Saleh as a bastion of non-violent "resistance". Which probably explains why all of the text above has been erased from where it originally appeared.
