In Palestine, Something Miraculous Happens


By Nahida- Exiled Palestinian

 

In Palestine 

 
Terror reigns
Psychopaths claim dominance
and a “G-d given right to rob, kill and maim
 
In Palestine
Terror reigns
 
Smiles … wiped of innocent faces
 Little girls weep
Little boys butchered
Babies are slain
In Palestine
Terror reigns
Criminals are the law
They bomb, they shoot, they smite
With mini-nukes they wipe life out
In Palestine
Terror reigns
Without “lamp-shades”, bodies mutilated
Without “cremationovens”, toddlers charcoaled 
 
Without “gas-chambers”, Tiny tots… exterminated
In Palestine
Terror reigns
Aggressors crowned with victim-hood”
Their victims… “anti-Semites”, “filled with hate” !
They murder then cry
Sneer as they lie
They twist and deceive, innocence they proclaim
 Apart from themselves, Everyone to blame
 
In Palestine
 
Primary colours no longer three
 Red and green, black and white
Freedom painted red… Love is green
Sacrifice and faith black and white
In Palestine
 Out of the ashes humanity rises tall
 Resilience leaves you you speechless
Courage takes your breath away

and in contrast 

Bottomless cowardice

As never seen before

In Palestine
Something miraculous happens
 The more people die
The more hope is born!
Hope… Astounding
 Bequest of the Divine
 
Seen in every face 
Written with every name
 

Gaza Speaks


By Nahida Exiled Palestinian

LOOK AT ME

I would love to write poetry about love,

Paint rainbows and butterflies,

Roll in a meadow

Enchanted with rosebud scent

Run down the hills with open arms

Embrace the Earth

Inhale the Sky

But… How can I?
How can I?
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I would love to to dance for love,

Spin with jubilant nightingales

Swept off my feet

Twirl and sway

Besotted, entranced

As I sing a lullaby

I would love to fly

Roam the cosmos before I die

* * *

But how can I?

How can I?

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I would love to sing for love

Flung open the gates of my soul

Invite the world in

Tuck it all under my wings

Rock back and forth

Caress its wounds

Whisper “I love you” in its ear

See it heal

Before my eyes

* * *

But how can I?

How can I?

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I would love to close my eyes and see children smiling

Tell them stories of lily-like fairies in faraway lands

No guns pointing at their heads

Not of bullets shrieking or missiles exploding

No blood, no tears, no prison bars, no sighs

But

How can I?

How can I?

How can I?

How can I?

There is a dagger in my heart

I am hurting

Hurting

I bleed

I cringe

I cry

HUMANITY, WHERE ARE YOU? 

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I am being slaughtered

Under your watchful eyes

I am cold… cold…. cold

I cringe

I cry

Humanity, where are you?

Why do you turn your face away?

Why do you keep looking the other way?

I am here

Languishing

In Palestine alleyways

Humanity, where are you?

Look at me

See me

I am here

Sighing

Fading away

In Gaza’s alleyways

I cringe

I cry

Humanity,

Enough turning the other way !

Turning a deaf ear

Turning a blind eye

 

While I,

and oh ! My poor children

Die

Conflict of Interest and the Obliteration of Concept of Liberation


By Nahida – Exiled Palestinian
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population“. ~~ [41] The Koenig Report

We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves.” [42]~~ Shlomo Lahat,  mayor of Tel Aviv

We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters.” [43]~~ Uri Lubrani, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion’s special adviser on Arab Affairs

We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel … Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.” [44]~~ Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces

Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are in this small country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries – all of them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left“. [39]~~ Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department

Source

Through many years of campaigning for Palestine, I came to realize that the movement is heavily infiltrated by Jewish Zionist and anti-Zionist activists, thus affecting at core level the path, aims and strategy of the movement. These elements have also managed to influence many in the movement including some Palestinian “intellectuals”.

Of course, I do not object to the participation of Jewish supporters in the Solidarity Movement with Palestine, however I strongly object to them having leadership and senior influential positions in the Movement:

NOT because they are Jewish;

NOT because of some alleged primitive irrational “hatred” for Jews;

and certainly NOT because of some ridiculous claim of “hidden anti-Semitism”;

But simply because of CONFLICT OF INTEREST, whereby many of those supporters actually and  admittedly harbour love, warm feelings and affection towards the “Jewish state” and its “population”. Many in fact have close relatives and family members who live in occupied Palestine.

Through this configuration, and motivated by sentimental attachment and kinship loyalty, they were keen to obliterate the concept of LIBERATION and to remove it completely from the vocabulary of activists, and inserting instead the concept of “two people, one future“, i.e. “working for justice” has been twisted to mean working for peace and security for both “Israelis” and Palestinians.

Some other consequences of allowing such elements at the heart of the Solidarity Movement is their STEERING the movement towards a position more favourable to “Israeli” Jews through the continual deflection from understanding the role of  international Jewish organizations in financing, promoting, sustaining and  defending the “Jewish state”.
This inappropriate form of control aims to polish up the ugly image of  racist Jewish “Israelis”, by prohibiting discussions related to four main identifiable problems and forbidding the scrutiny of  these vital topics:

1) The problem of the Ideology of Jewish Supremacism. (access to information denied by accusation of anti-Semitism)


2) The problem of Global Jewish-Zionist Networking.
(access to information denied by accusation of anti-Semitism)

3) The problem of idolizing the Holocaust -which is used as a tool to further Zionists aim. (access to information denied by accusation of Holocaust denial)

4) The problem of manipulating world policies through False-Flag operations. (access to information denied by accusation of being a conspiracy theorist)

 Disinformation leads to a misguided Solidarity

The suppression of the crucial information listed above has succeeded in blurring the vision, aims and strategy, thus steering the Solidarity Movement away and causing it to go completely off track.

Whereas, activists are prevented from scrutinizing or analysing these alarming problems through smear and intimidation;

Whereas, the concept of LIBERATION has been removed from the vocabulary of activists only to be replaced by “security for both“, and “equal rights for all” including land-thieves, mass-murderers and serial-killers;

Whereas, debates are framed and political discussions are limited to a mere criticism of some “Israeli” policies;

Whereas, activists are allowed only to analyse the Palestinian problem through the paradigm of two words,  Imperialism and Zionism;

Whereas, the greatest danger to Palestinian Struggle for Liberation is the trap of the so called “abandoning Zionism; (for what is abandoning a word or a concept when they keep the loot?)

Whereas, instead of supporting the FULL LIBERATION of Palestine, activists are tricked into promoting the ANNEXATION of what is left of Palestine, thereby creating defacto an even greater “ISRAEL”;

Whereas, activists are prevented from understanding the motivator and animator of the Jewish-Zionist occupiers’ sadistic behaviour (i.e the concept of “choseness”, an ideology of racism and supremacy));

Whereas, attempts are made to actively “normalize” a militaristic supremacist society, thus creating a false image of that society;

Whereas, deception and lying to Palestinians and the world was used by pretending that “It is possible to achieve equality with such supremacists”;

Whereas, activists are prevented from understanding the methods used to influence world-governments policies and public opinion (by deflecting from examining the work of the global Jewish-Zionist Networks including those who present themselves as representatives of Jewish communities, and deflecting from scrutinizing Mossad’s international criminal work and their False Flag ops.

Whereas, activists were prohibited from understanding the way the Holocaust is used as a justification to the theft of Palestine, the ongoing ethnic cleansing of its indigenous people and the permanent usurpation of Historic Palestine;

With all the above, it becomes clear that the Solidarity Movement has been hoodwinked and steered away from being a vibrant campaigner for the Liberation of Palestine into an agent of protection of the interest of the occupiers and their international network of support, with its powerful lobby , financial support  and human resources.

By abandoning the concept of LIBERATION, the Solidarity Movement is led to a cul-de-sac where a just solution can NEVER be found. Thus the Movement is rendered paralyzed and totally ineffective.

When activists are prohibited from promoting the Liberation of Palestine, as to not hurt the “sensitivities” of those who worry about the future of Jewish “Israelis”, i.e. perpetrators of egregious crimes, of them losing privileges and being brought to justice, then some soul searching and profound ethical re-evaluation is much recommended.

When activists are diverted from exploring the underlying racist and  supremacist ideology behind zionism, and when they are hindered from discovering that this ideology is neither accidental nor peripheral, but essential characteristic of “Israeli” society, then the Solidarity Movement loses a key argument to galvanize public opinion, in spite of the fact that this public opinion is overwhelmingly opposed to racism and supremacy.

When activists are slandered for discussing the global Jewish-Zionist Networks which has been vital for the survival of  the Zionist entity, through their financial, moral, political and even militaristic support, the Solidarity Movement (willingly or unwillingly) not only fails to neutralize such networks, but it actually participates in protecting these
networks and deflecting away from their criminal activities.

When on one hand activist’s attention is steered in one direction, namely the rejection of a soon to be irrelevant and defunct word, Zionism, and on another hand they are forbidden to reject the material manifestation of Zionism, namely the presence of mainly criminal occupiers under the banner “Israel”, then the outcome of this literally schizophrenic outlook, is an oxymoronic circular race, going nowhere.

When activists are obliged to look at Palestine only through the prism of alleged “uniqueness” and “eternity” of Jewish suffering, and through the absurd concept of a “national homeland for the Jews” at the cost of another people’s existence, then the Solidarity Movement acts as an enemy against the inalienable Human Rights of Palestinians to live on their ancestral Homeland, with unobstructed sovereignty, like any other peaceful Nation..

When a Solidarity Movement frames the quest to resolve the situation, with antisocial parameters such as alleged “rights” for Jewish foreigners to settle and to own, -and this with total impunity, land they conquered by terrorism and on which they still perpetrate atrocities tantamount to slow genocide, then this strictly controlled PSM is an irrefutable collaborator of a “final solution” which consists of expatriation, genocide, ethnic cleansing, robbing an entire population of its basic Human Rights, only to be enslaved under the thumb of a supremacist collective,, who enjoys ruthless power, equipped with an enormous arsenal, absent of even the remotest sign of guilt or remorse, let alone considering the normative procedure of Restitution and Compensations.
Such “final solution” would become a Carte Blanche for future conquests, future unrestricted genocides, endless wars; basically human regression.

By insisting on squeezing the Palestinian struggle to fit the apartheid model of South Africa, it is a double whammy:

Firstly, presenting the Zionist entity as a normal state with a few apartheid policies that can be changed is fundamentally false:

a) what is happening in Palestine is not mere segregation and apartheid, what is going on is ethnic cleansing, wiping a country off the map and slow genocide.

b) Racism in the “Jewish state” is ideological, grounded in “sacred” texts, unlike South Africa in which racism was a momentary convenience, reflecting opportunistic fulfillment of self-interest of a white minority.

Secondly, when activists are spoon-fed with the mantra of “Equal rights, One State, Two People”, offered as a model of solution  rather than other successful models of Liberation, such as Algeria for example, that means the Solidarity Movement  participates in whitewashing the century-old Zionist crimes, such paradigm gives a lee-way to the thriving of an illegal genocidal expansionist racist entity.

Like North America, South Africa was conquered and subsequently ruled by white Europeans several centuries ago, i.e. BEFORE International Law adopted through the Nuremberg Principles right after WW2, explicitly prohibited land acquisition through military conquest, and clearly defined Crimes Against Humanity, amidst them Wars of Aggression and Conquest , Genocide and Instigation of Wars & Crimes against peace, and War crimes  to be the worst categories of crimes. All the latter Crimes having been, and still are in even worse manner, perpetrated by  Jewish Israelis..

Furthermore, this “one-state, two people” approach fully ignores the unbalanced premise of the reality on the ground, and the implication such proposal would have – namely the finalization of the aims of the racist, expansionist and exclusionary Jewish Nationalist experiment called “Israel”. It would de facto annexe all residual Palestinian post-1967 Bantustans, and attach them to what would inevitably be “Israel” no matter what convoluted name would be attached to. Because indeed, there is no need to be a rocket scientist to know full well who would keep the arsenal, who would keep the apparatus of power, judicial, militaristic, executive, financial, etc, all the while the demand granting equal rights to all, includes supremacists and invaders who have no historic or legal rights to the land, who are still flocking to Palestine as we speak, armed to the teeth by their support networks in US-America.

Insisting on following the South African Anti Apartheid model as a strategy, rather than pursuing the path for Liberation would be FATAL to the Palestinians legitimate aspiration of freedom and liberation.
such solution would mean granting the Zionist occupier a comprehensive and “peaceful” take over, and unrestricted control over our land and our lives.

Furthermore, by allowing infiltrators to target and marginalize Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists who call for Full Liberation, the Solidarity Movement exhibits serious symptoms of loss of focus and confusion, wasting time and effort, to the sole benefit of the occupier.

Zionist Jews did not come to Palestine with olive branches to begin with, they did not come with peaceful intentions of co-existence with the indigenous population. They gushed in like savages, terrorizing unarmed peaceful farmers and land tenders, they tortured and imprisoned, they came to destroy, “cleanse”, conquer and dominate.

A century on, their racist ideology, their use of terror, and their abominable psychopathic behaviour has only intensified, and drastically. The vast majority of that artificial “society” -and for very specific supremacist ideological reasons– are unwilling/ incapable of viewing the “other” as equal and over the passing of time they have shown to be unwilling to become modest or peaceful , let alone remain peaceful.

Would any decent human-being force a mother to marry the murderer of her child?

Would any decent human-being find it acceptable to force a child to live with his paedophile abuser?

Would any decent human-being accuse these people, child and mother of “immorality” or call them “unrealistic” for refusing to tie their future with their abusers?

 

Through the delusional “Equal Rights, One State, Two People” proposal, the FACTS ON THE GROUNDS would remain unchanged, and probably aggravated, since these FACTS, stock and barrel, would remain in the hands of SUPREMACISTS.

This is NOT a solution.



An INFORMED Solidarity would regain it clarity of vision and could be steered back to track

No fair-minded person would talk about a practical, realistic future solution without considering the following:

  • FULL LIBERATION of Historic Palestine. The Holy Land must be free from atrocities committing racists. A way must be found, to bring reason to the Holy Land, and there is no other way than to evict foreign criminals.
  • FULL SOVEREIGNTY of the Palestinian Nation over their ancestral country: Palestine, with a constitution and a political system of their own independent choice. For the sake of International Peace and Security.
  • A Palestinian JUDICIARY and IMMIGRATION System, will respectively prosecute former “Israeli” criminals and their associates, and/or grant or decline on an individual basis, a Right to Remain, based on criteria solely to be defined by said Immigration and Integration Services. Anyone who can prove non-participation in the ex-Israeli occupation apparatus, and who has demonstrated ability and willingness to a respectable and law-abiding conduct, will probably obtain a chance to gain unrestricted Palestinian citizenship, with equal rights.
  • RETURN, RESTITUTION and COMPENSATIONS: Palestine and the Palestinian Nation at large, are entitled to full and unconditional Restitution of their land and property whenever possible, assorted with appropriate Compensation for more than seven decades of deprivation and slow genocide, Cultural destruction, and a whole array of atrocities and usurpation.

Make no mistake, the fate of Palestine will be the forbearing sign indicating the shape of our future. By failing to liberate Palestine, we forfeit International Law, and that unambiguously opens the gates to an abyss. Any predatory group equipped with some military, would be vindicated to conquer and destroy whatever they want, wherever they want, on the primitive basis of military force. Basically a staggering regression back into the Stone Age methodology, expanded globally by contemporaneous weaponry’s range and effect, which is biocidal, and instantaneous .

In conclusion, in this war-ridden era it has become a matter of acute urgency and prime
importance, that Nations reconvene as a Community, to fulfill its responsibility to Restore International Law, as well as to affirm universal  principles of ethics, in order to stop the bloodshed and destruction of our beautiful planet, by stopping predators and warmongers by all means necessary.

Lala-Land: Minimizing Genocidal “Israel” as mere Apartheid and the Myth of “One State”


This poll which clearly concludes that “Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank comes as a slap in the face of those so called “supporters” who want to trick Palestinians into accepting the so called “One State” solution as an alternative to liberating Palestine, thus inviting “Israeli” Jews to EXPAND and ANNEX the entire land of Palestine, while knowing that such fabricated “society” is rampant with supremacy and racism. Those who tirelessly advocate for “equal rights” for thieves and mass murderers conveniently “forget” that such “solution” would only help finalize the Zionist project.

How can “equal rights” ever be achieved when 70% of “Israeli-Jews” believe they are the “chosen”. It’s about time that our “supporters” took into consideration that ideological component which create such racist supremacist “society” and foment hatred and contempt of the “other”. It is crucial to understand such glaring factor -which they adamantly refuse to integrate into the equation, before suggesting “solutions” to Palestinians.

Promoting the one state solution – i.e the state of Israel – that will annex all the Palestinian land including those of 1967 and will grant equal rights to all, including supremacists and invaders who are still flooding to Palestine as we speak. Such solution would means that we give the occupier our blessing to finally their Zionist project and “peacefully” take full control over us.They are and they still would be running full momentum the apparatus of power; military, social, financial, economic, logistic, legal, educational, basically FACTS ON THE GROUNDS as usual would remain in the hands of SUPREMACISTS.

“One State with equal rights for all” is allegedly the “great solution”, the carrot, the bait which has been swallowed by some SOROS Fellows Palestinian “intellectuals” to the delight of Zionists. One Land, Two people UNDER THE BANNER OF ISRAEL !

This is NO SOLUTION. The only acceptable solution is the FULL LIBERATION of PALESTINE. and PERPETRATORS MUST BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. Otherwise we will end up being slaves in our own land, because we are aware now of the supremacist ideology of our occupiers who -because of centuries of ideological indoctrination, lack the ability to view other non-Jews as equals.

Post-Zionist “Israeli” intellectuals and their supporters realize that time is running out for their entity, it is simply not possible for them to save and preserve their “Jewish state” without making a “deal” with Palestinians which would grant them legitimacy and absolve them from future prosecution for their crimes against humanity.

They understand that they need to reach a final settlement with Palestinians which would allow them to secure their permanent presence and control in Palestine, a land they illegally conquered and to polish their severely damaged reputation with the least possible “cost” and maximum gain.

Their “perception-management” experts approach fame-craved Palestinians, offer them platforms, open career-doors for them in return of promoting the sell-off  of the concept of liberation, and of preparing the ground so that Palestinians would give up on their rights and aspiration and voluntarily accept the final take over of their Homeland. They do so by presenting the illegitimate creation of the Jewish state i.e the theft of Palestine, the dispossession of Palestinians, ethnic cleansing and slow continuous genocide as mere “apartheid” comparable with South Africa, forgetting that the European occupation of South Africa occurred centuries before the establishing of International Law, Geneva Convention and Nuremberg Principles which declared genocide, wars of conquest and wars of aggression as illegal, all of which “Israel” is guilty of.

For this reason, and to achieve their aim of minimizing the crimes of  the Zionist entity, by promoting South African Anti Apartheid model instead of say Algeria Liberation model, they have engaged in what they call “anti racist” campaign that has targeted Palestinians and pro Palestinian activists who dared to expose the deadly supremacist ideology of the majority of the occupiers of Palestine, and who exposed the global Jewish-Zionist role and influence. This vicious campaign attempts to marginalize any voice, -Palestinian or otherwise, who instead of succumbing to enslavement in their own Homeland, make the perfectly legitimate call for a perfectly lawful LIBERATION OF ALL PALESTINE.

Supporting the illegal state of Israel by presenting it as a normal state with some apartheid policies that can be changed, and by calling for the EXPANDING of the state to include what is left of Palestine. we simply sell our souls.

Still live in La-La-land about “Israel”?

Time to wake up: The Map of the “Greater Israel” even is hammered on their currency

 

Electronic Intifada: Integrity and Consistency Please!


I wonder if “Electronic Intifada” would show some integrity and adhere to its declaration as stated here by publishing my comment (captured in a screen shot below) and by adding my name to the list of signatories of those who oppose ALL forms of racism and bigotry?

I wonder if “Electronic Intifada” would show some consistency in opposing ALL forms of RACISM, BIGOTRY and SUPREMACY by also OPPOSING and EXPOSING  the most dangerous form of it, namely Jewish Racism?

I call the most dangerous because of three reasons:

1) Many of those who adhere to such form of racism hold senior and highly influential positions in the global political arena.

2) As it happens, they also sit on hundreds of nuclear heads with the potential to destroy our planet many times over.

3) The nature of their racism and supremacy runs deep and scores very high,  first because it is Ideological and second, it classifies mankind into two distinct species: Jews (chosen with a special divine Jewish soul) and Non-Jews (who no matter how good  they are can never achieve the moral, intellectual or spiritual standard of the “chosen”)

I wonder if “Electronic Intifada” would show some honesty and integrity in supporting freedom of speech and stop censoring my comments (I was censored many times on EI) and publish my comments with the same degree of enthusiasm they publish comments by Jewish-supremacist Kabbalists

here

here
here
NOTE: The Kabbalist book Tanya (now removed from the internet, but I have saved copies, for those interested) explicitly declares that unlike the Jewish souls, “The souls of the nations of the world, however, emanate from the other, unclean kelipot which contain no good whatever

URGENT… BREAKING NEWS


Goodness is Life

 

 

We all have seen the crime scene

Broadcasted live on our TV screens

We have seen the blood flowing

We have heard the deafening screams

The murder-weapon is known to all

Signed “with love” by some “chosen souls”

It thundered down with a “gracious” fall

A sigh of relief

followed the storm

It can’t get worse

We all exclaimed

We’ve hit rock bottom

We’ve seen it all

No my dears not so fast

That is simply not precise,

Far from it!

I forgot to tell you,

Mr Worst is yet to come

He is knocking at our doors

.
 .

The camp of gory fantasise their “glory”

Huffing and puffing for their “mighty rise”

“Smite them all” their favourite hymn

Biocide became the madmen surname

Demons of Death, their middle-name

.

Just over there, across the divide

The Camp of Goodness noble, steadfast

A home for love, heart open wide

Not a predator nor a beast

Aggression is vice, he greatly abhors

But when pushed down, he has a bite

For the sake of truth, he lays down his life

Just like life, rich and mysterious

Majestic… graceful… vigorous … arcane

Patience is his middle name

Kindness fills his heart and soul

 
* * * * *

O dear friends, heed my call

“Survival of the fittest” is one big lie

The kind and righteous are the heirs

Most able to love, care and share

With open arms, they fully embrace

Dawn fast approaching, open your eyes

Laws of nature can’t be destroyed

Humanity is here to stay

Forces of darkness knows no way

To put off the light of one faint ray

Swarms of evil can’t exterminate

Seeds of nature, resilient, most pure

Thrive and survive, Divinely signed its DNA

 

Dear friend It’s not a pretty game

But
Abyss is a choice, so is Paradise

Avoid the void, shift your paradigm

Come what may, don’t ever lose hope

With glad tidings, I speak to you

Before the crowd, I gladly proclaim

Polarisation, well on its way

No standing on the fence, as per today

Blessed are the kind, blessed are the meek

Blessed are the ones who stand for the weak

David and Goliath, don’t you recall?

Be the little Davids of our time

Exactly like us, he only had a stone

 

Don’t waste time in pitiful blues

Shed off your pride and grumpy moods

Run to the arms of those who love you

Wipe off your tears and start a new

.

Beloved Jerusalem


Ten measures of sorrow God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of pain God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of agony God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of heartache God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of suffering God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of trauma God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of patience God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of endurance God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of bravery God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of benevolence God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of determination God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of generosity God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of modesty God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of tenderness  God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of blessing God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of kindness God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of joy God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of wisdom God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of elegance God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of peace God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of harmony God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of tranquility God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of grace God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of  sweetness God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of compassion God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of gentleness God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of mercy God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of faithfulness God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of devotion God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of love God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of beauty God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of hope God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Ten measures of holiness God gave to the world

Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest

Only in Palestine


In Palestine, good and evil assemble

In a stark contrast

Staring eye to eye

Epitome of enigma

 

In Palestine, heroism meets cowardice heads on

Standing side by side in broad daylight

No concealment, no pretense

 

In Palestine, kindness puts bitterness to rest

Mercy descends, flakes of heaven, embraces the world

Malice melts away, hiding in rat-holes

“Never forget and never forgive” mantra is brought to shame

 

In Palestine, walls all around

Yet, sitting on the fence is no longer an option

Hearts connects swimming in ether, divine

 

In Palestine, prophets, saints and angels graduate

Words of wisdom cascade abundant

Yet, of sorcery, fiends and devils froth into being

 

In Palestine, hatred is a chain, millennia old

Pulling beasts to Hell of depravity

Yet, love dances with poise and grace

 

In Palestine, meadows of endurance blossom in parched soil

Painting the horizon, Arcadia masterpiece

Tears of elation and whispers of devotion flow

 

In Palestine, tenderness is a melody, hummed by Gaza shores

Filling hearts with beauty and joy

Healing wounded girls and boys

 

In Palestine, love is a rainbow, shimmering above

Lifting to Heavenly splendour

Anguished pained nostalgic souls

 

In Palestine, faith is an ocean

Patience is a globe

Hope is a sky of infinite scope

 

In Palestine, sinners are repentant

The pious clothed in modesty

Lovers are the guides

 

In Palestine, brothers cherished

Sisters crowned queens,

Children adored, fathers revered

Under mothers’ feet Paradise laid down

 

In Palestine, the hungry is fed, the prisoner is embraced

The lost will be guided and truth-seeker will find

 

When you are a Palestinian


A poem by Shadi Abdul-Kareem

Translation by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

When you are a Palestinian 
You would need daily practice of hiding tears 
And swallowing huge chunk of wishes 
 Overflowing from your reality
 In front of which you stand flabbergasted 
Wondering who’d find the genie’s lamp 
That would bring back your olive tree, 
the straw tray and the sea fragrance? 

When you are a Palestinian 
You wouldn’t dare to broaden your smile 
The ghosts of Alaqsa would encircle you 
And the blood of Saladin which runs in your veins 
Would remind you whenever you attempt to smile 
That your smile is a betrayal… punishable by history 

 

When you are a Palestinian 
You cannot dream solo 
There is always someone with you 
Rather taking control 
And whilst others dream of wealth, power, wife, children 
Your dream is 
A nap beneath an orange tree in Haifa 
A cup of coffee by the shore of Tabareya 
A prayer that rises up to heaven
 Following the footsteps of the beloved 
When you are a Palestinian 
You’d live in a state of unceasing absence of normal life
 No wakefulness… no sleep 
No work… no rest 
No awareness… no unconsciousness 
Without the remembrance of Palestine;
 
How was Palestine!
What became of Palestine!
And what will happen to Palestine?
When you are a Palestinian 
You would live a stranger in your homeland 
And a stranger outside your homeland 
 You would provoke all kinds of feelings
You’d be an instigator of pity, some times 
An instigator of sadness, some times 
An instigator of curiosity, some times 
An instigator of admiration, many times 
When you are a Palestinian 
You’d work tirelessly 
Promoting a redundant commodity 
Called DIGNITY
No longer in circulation 
Since new dictionaries of morality have been invented 
When you are a Palestinian 
 You will unavoidably get an illness called melancholy 
You will infect all those who know you
 And those who gaze at the caged tears in your eyes 
And those who’d listen to the howl of mosques, churches and stones in your voice 
When you are a Palestinian 
You would enjoy an extraordinary memory 
You’d remember the number of sand grains under the sea
 The voice of every muezzin 
The laughter of every child 
You’d remember the colour of dawn 
The flavour of sleep
 The scent of rain 
You’d also remember those black nights 
The voices of their monsters and their moves 
You would remember the smell of death mixed with gunfire 
You’d remember the wailing of widows
 And the moaning of little girls 
You’d remember your footsteps towards the oblivion 
Every tear, and over which soil granule it fell 
When you are a Palestinian 
You’d discover the value of numbers 
You’d fall in love with them 
Or hate them 
A strong bond will anchor you 
Since your name became a number 
Your history, a number 
Your home address, a number 
Your lost-family members, a number 
Those who died, who imprisoned, who were torn to pieces… numbers 
The days you squandered -or squandered by- in refugee camps… a number 
Your dreams and failed prophecies of the day of your return… a number
 You’d appreciate indeed the value of numbers 
You’d be filled with gratitude to those who invented numbers 
Otherwise your life would’ve been lifeless, and numberless 
When you are a Palestinian 
You’d live in chronic yearning to a past you never knew 
And to future you would never know

 

When you are a Palestinian 
Words of love would not matter to you 
Nor the stock market
 Nor festival celebrations here and there
 It would not matter to you if nights became endless 
Or if days disappeared forever
 It would not matter to you if the year is twelve months 
Or twelve watermelons 
It would not matter to you if people ascended to the moon 
Or if the moon descended to them 
It would not matter to you if a party loses the election and another wins 
It would not matter to you if a country is triumphant and another defeated 
All what matters to you is that PALESTINE WAS STOLEN
And IT MUST BE OBTAINED BACK 

 

When you are a Palestinian 
You would abruptly stop talking
 And leave the story unfinished 
The poem without an ending 
As most likely the ideas in your head would become overcrowded 
So much so that they’d run over each other 
And you’d have to stop writing or talking immediately 
To attend the funeral of those thoughts which have been squashed 
And died before even being born 
Therefore
I will cut short my speech 
Leave to give my condolences in exile
 Where thoughts pass away 
Because they refuse to survive 
Without a HOMELAND

PALESTINE, Not Just a Name!


Palestinians

No more, a bunch of refugees

Palestinians

Not a mere oppressed and dispossessed victims, struggling for survival

 

Palestinians

A symbol of courage, determination

endurance and inspiration

 

Palestinians

Professors of endurance and dignity

Spearheading the battle of justice and freedom

On behalf of humanity

 


Palestine

 No more, a mere geographical location

Palestine

No longer a closed chapter in a book of history,

as they intended it to be

 

Palestine

A poignant story,

A beautiful vision,

 A passionate cause,

 An exquisite poem,

 A melody for freedom

 An inspirational idea,

A moral concept

 that could never be destroyed

 

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