I have prepared a Christmas postcard in Arabic. However, I’m not sure if I’ve split the sentence correctly. In Arabic, people read the text from the last word to the first. On the other hand, I wonder if the letters are too big a font size. The Arabic sentence translated into English goes:
”May peace be upon us this Christmas.”
The lower one is lined unidiomatic. I left it here because it is linked elsewhere.
Please enlarge the card by clicking on it with the mouse cursor.
Hello everybody,
It is time to design an Xmas Card. This winter, I would like to use an Arabic version to inform people in Gaza that we have not forgotten them. There is one major problem in front of me. I don’t know anything about the Arabic Language. The Google translator translated the following sentence, ”May peace be upon us this Christmas,” like this
السلام علينا في عيد الميلاد هذا
The translation might be quite all right, but I head to the brick wall when I try to put words in more than one line so that the phrase looks nice on the postcard, or Google hits its head to the wall. That’s why I ask if anyone could tell me if the words are all right and how to divide them a) into two and b) into three lines.
Now I use one line as follows, but it doesn’t look nice:
Here is the empty postcard template if anyone wants to compose their own Arabic Xmas wishes or divide my text into two or three lines.
Free Xmas Cards 2023
As always, I’ll give Xmas cards in good time so that you have time to send them to your loved ones and add your wishes.
I have written the words to the tune of the Finnish folk song ”Niin minä neitonen sinulle laulan kuin omalle kullalleni.” The song’s name is impossible to translate literally, but it means, ”I am singing to you, my young one (maiden), like you were my darling.”
Verse 01
I’m singing from the bottom of my heart to make the world a peaceful heaven.
Please, Mother Earth, release your angels from the woods we’ve fully disregarded.
Verse 02
Let your supernatural creatures tell us there is one unbiased God.
He gives every living being a spirit and redeems it when the time’s up.
Verse 03
Please give me a sign that it is the worst of sins to steal the life of a child
so that I have the strength to defend God’s gift whatever books are telling.
Tapio Rautavaara sings the folk song ”Niin minä neitonen sinulle laulan”
Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli professor of education at Hebrew University, lost her daughter in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Nurit turned her grief into a quest for justice – the end of the Israeli occupation, which she considers the reason for her daughter’s death, and the uprooting of racism from Israeli schools
I have sent such a petition to some members of the Finnish Parliament:
Thinking of your children and the children of Gaza
Europe is making a big mistake by wanting to solve the Middle East problem by supporting Israel and covering up the atrocities committed by Israel. At this point, Europe goes over the lowest fence because it doesn’t want people to realize Europe’s part in Israel being so aggressive.
Without hundreds of years of oppression in Europe, Jews would not have had a reason to leave Europe, where their relatives lived for more than 1,000 years. Unilaterally supporting one party from the Middle East becomes a bill that our children must pay when the collective conscience starts ringing due to the wrongdoings.
The success of the current European-backed policy would require that soldiers kill all Palestinians. It certainly wouldn’t have been possible without the Third World War. Europe should have the backbone to stand behind what it has done. It starts with condemning all violence. It does not erase the sins committed by our ancestors, but it prevents us from making more mistakes that future generations will be ashamed of. The demand for equality also concerning Israel would give us reason to be proud of our actions, even the current ones.
What can we ordinary people do other than march in protests? We can contact the MP we voted for by phone or email.
Decision-makers can turn their backs on demonstrations, but not easily on the people when we approach the decision-makers personally.
I have sent a petition to my MP. He has not responded, but the more people contact him, the harder it is for him to close his eyes from the anger. Please do the same.
Id es plus facile pugnare pro pace cum tu habe aliquo alio in tuo mente quam bello et cruditate. Nos debe implere nostro accumulatorios. Ideo hoc ad vos tabula parvo:
Lingua Latina vulgaris
Meo Latino sine flexione
Interlingua
Puera erat in silva, sed nunc illa est in caelo et potestis facere nihil.
Puera esseba in silva, sed nunc illa es in caelo et vos pote facere nihil.
Puera esseva in le foreste, ma ora illa es in celo e vos pote facer nihil.
Hello everybody,
I have seen that we ordinary people have only one weapon we can use against war machinery and hate, which is tearing us in pieces. It is love. I dream about the whole world doing something together. We could stand still for one minute simultaneously in the world and sing some melody. I have written one. Even if I have finished the work, I’ll send it here.
The idea of that song is that the world gives so much love to Mr. Biden that he feels terrible and thinks of something other than dropping bombs over the world. If he keeps this strategy alive, it will lead him to a situation where he must use more and more weapons. I just read that he has demanded that one social media platform must shut down. I don’t know if this is true, but controlling is spreading in the Western world like it has done in Russia earlier.
If some reason prevents me from finishing this song, I hope that one of you will sing it and add a couple of verses to it. I am about to write about the hatred that Jews have experienced in the world and how that hate keeps them on their toes the whole time. When the USA gives Jews weapons instead of physical strength, the hate train keeps on running. These events won’t be suitable for humanity. All this nonsense is coming back to us in some way, sooner or later, and the hate is even more significant than it is today.
I am puzzled, as I am sure many others are, how it is possible to cut off electricity, food shipments, and water supply in an area of Gaza where half of the residents are under 18 years old. Israel’s actions meet the hallmarks of war crimes.
Western European governments have addressed this injustice less than the fact that Israel has the right to defend itself. Protecting children’s lives and defending Israel are not opposites. Israel can defend itself even if food and medicine shipments are allowed to Gaza, and the supply of water and electricity in the area is guaranteed.
Without going into too much detail about the situation in the Middle East, I hope all people will put aside ideology, politics, and religion. Put your conscience first and do everything to save the children of Gaza. When their lives are guaranteed, start arguing again among yourselves about who owns the land where Palestinians and Israelis live. Protecting children’s lives is not a matter of opinion. It is the duty of all of us as human beings.
Yelling Rosa
2023-10-28
PS If you feel we should prioritize the children’s lives, please forward this message. You can also write your petition for the children of Gaza, and feel free to quote excerpts from this article without mentioning my name.
