A Jerusalem dish that terrorizes the occupation and settlers
Eating “Maqlooba” at Al-Aqsa .. Another reason for persecuting Jerusalemites
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Palestinian cities, and in particular the city of Jerusalem, are famous for a popular popular dish called “Maqlouba”, which is cooking meat or chicken with rice, with the addition of many vegetables, most notably eggplant, potatoes, and cauliflower, and after its maturity, stir the cooking pot inside Seder shaped flat bowl, Maqluba is ready to serve hot.
This popular dish, whose roots go back to the era of the leader Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, where the Jerusalemites presented it to him when he conquered Jerusalem and liberated it from the impurity of the Crusader occupation at the time. With the succession of years and centuries, “Maqlouba” became the most prominent food that adorns collective banquet tables, conquering the six continents of the world. And the near and far will taste its taste, which made its way from the first of the two kisses and the third of the Two Holy Mosques.
Successive generations over time inherited the Jerusalemite dish of Salah al-Din, which became a title for defiance and steadfastness on the thresholds of the gates of Jerusalem, and within the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Jerusalemites present it to everyone who presented Al-Aqsa praying and stationed on Friday throughout the year, and throughout the month of fasting.
As a result, this traditional Jerusalem dish has become a major cause of terrorizing the occupation and settlers. Within the basements of Israeli detention and intelligence centers, occupation officers interrogate Jerusalemites about the "upside down".
Upturned for all
The two Jerusalemites, Hanadi Halawani and Khadija Khweis, are the most prominent in cooking large quantities of maqluba, and serving them to everyone who made their way from the West Bank and the cities of the occupied Palestinian interior, to visit Jerusalem, and pray in the courtyards of its blessed mosque.
And not only that, Halawani and Khweis, along with their female companions in Rabat inside the Temple Mount, and forcibly removed from it, offer the popular Jerusalem dish to its residents, who are subjected to Israeli rulings, requiring them to be kept away from Al-Aqsa for periods ranging from two months, and exceeding one year, so they pray next to each other. The Blessed Mosque at its antique gates and the alleys of the old town, and after the prayer was completed, they were surprised by a hot "upside-down" that wrapped around them, with the phrase "Welcome to the hospitality of Al-Aqsa".
Al-Maurabit Khuwais is ordered to be removed from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not to enter its courtyards, for a period of six months, which was issued against her by the occupation forces last February, but she nonetheless insists on preparing the upside-down throughout the days of the fasting month, and being near Bab al-Silsila to feed all Whoever passes to Al-Aqsa, which he is forbidden to enter, and prays inside its courtyards during the days of the month of mercy and forgiveness.
Symbolic messages The
upside-down Jerusalemites cook inside homes and present them to worshipers and sanctuaries, a purely Jerusalemite custom, carrying several goals, most notably, preserving the historical heritage stretching back thousands of years, over time and eras, according to the researcher in Jerusalem affairs and history Fakhri Abu Diab.
Abu Diab said to "Emirates Today", in an exclusive interview, "The other goal is the symbol that the "upside down" bears, to deliver a message to the occupation and its leadership, that the residents of Jerusalem will turn the decisions of your settlement plans and your aggressive practices upside down, and that they are ready for the challenge and steadfastness in the face of All arbitrary attacks, to protect our blessed Aqsa and our historical sanctities, and to address all decisions of closure, arrest, and deportation.
He added, "The symbolic messages of the people of Jerusalem to the occupation do not end. If you keep hundreds of Jerusalemites away from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and praying and i'tikaf inside its courtyards, we support them, and rally around them, so that they become more powerful and able to confront all the decisions of the occupation against them, and we prepare for them what our ancestors offered for righteousness." Al-Din Al-Ayyubi, and it is Al-Maqlouba, whose first name was "Al-Badnajia", because eggplant is the main ingredient in cooking our Jerusalem dish."
“Maqluba al-Jakar” By
moving to Bab al-Amoud, the most important gates of the old town in the Holy City, Jerusalemites gather inside its green outer courtyards, and sit on its historical terraces. The sight of the occupation soldiers, who turn around them from all directions.
Hence, this popular Jerusalem dish was called “Maqluba al-Jakar”, as a sign of the steadfastness of the people of Jerusalem in the face of the occupation’s practices, and their indifference to all the attacks carried out against them.
The researcher in the affairs and history of Jerusalem says, “The “Maqlouba” dish is linked to the Palestinian existence and heritage throughout historical times and eras. The Jerusalemites presented it to Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, the victory dish, when he came to them as a conqueror, but today it is presented to all Al-Aqsa pilgrims, as it symbolizes wrath “Jaker.” The occupation forces, which pursue Jerusalemites everywhere, especially in the courtyards of the Temple Mount.”
He points out that eating the upside-down inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa daily, has appeared clearly and clearly since the donation of Bab Al-Asbat in Jerusalem, on July 14 of the year 2017, when it was considered inside the Jerusalemite houses, and presented throughout the Old City and the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa, in order to support all Participants in the sit-ins, in order to strengthen the presence of Jerusalem.
Prosecution and investigation
of “Maqlouba” creators. They are subjected to interrogation by occupation intelligence officers, about the reasons for preparing Maqluba, and presenting it inside the alleys of the Old City leading to Al-Aqsa. There are those who are being pursued by the Israeli forces against this background. Among those who have been repeatedly exposed to this is the Jerusalemite Hanadi Halawani.
The occupation has arrested Halawani dozens of times since 2012, and she has been behind bars in Israeli prisons several times, and she was considered upside down inside the prison, which angered the intelligence officers, as one of them shouted to her, “You make upside down in prison, at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and inside it!?” .
The researcher in Jerusalem affairs says, "After the gift of Bab Al-Asbat, the "upturned" became a symbol for Jerusalemites, while the occupation views it as a charge directed at the Mourabitat, as it is one of the types of Jerusalemites' resistance to its arbitrary practice.
Abu Diab goes on to say, “Maqlouba” terrifies the occupation, so it pursues and arrests everyone who prepares, brings and eats this food, so that his forces get confused as a result of this, claiming that the gathering on the thresholds of Al-Aqsa and inside its courtyards to eat the Jerusalem dish, gatherings of terrorist cells, are planning something. These gatherings are still intimidating them, forcing them to hysterically pursue and arrest Jerusalemites.
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