They say that tomorrow is Eid, summer is gone, winter has arrived, then New Year, then summer again, Ramadan and Eid, and I stumble every day in a whole world designed from my nightmares.
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Is Jewish suffering morally equivalent to Palestinian?
‘I find it strange, bizarre in fact, that every time someone talks of Palestinian suffering they are either guilty of anti-semitism or somehow belittling the memory of Jewish suffering during the holocaust.
Continue readingI Am You…!
If I must die…!
Continue readingIf I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale.
___Dr. Refaat Alareer, 23 September 1979 – 6 December 2023
Let it free…
When we become desensitised.
When you see death more than one time
When you lose all your memories, life and friends
Continue reading‘Til folks with guts…
Laws are made by people
And people can be wrong
Once unions were against the law
But slavery was fine
Women were denied the vote
While children worked the mine
The more you study history
The less you can deny it
Say a rotten law stays on the books
‘Til folks with guts defy it
___Tal Mitnik, 2023
One day at a time…!
Most of us are blessed to enjoy the safety from freedom. We get up to follow our routines, we go to sleep hoping to wake up the next day, nicely relaxed inside our safe homes.
Continue readingI Grant You Refuge…!
I grant you and the little ones refuge,
the little ones now asleep like chicks in a nest.
They don’t walk in their sleep toward dreams.
They know death lurks outside the house.
__ Hiba Abu Nada. Palestinian poet, novelist, and teacher killed by israel’s air strike, at Gaza, Oct10th, 2023
Protean Magazine published this translation of “I Grant You Refuge”, one of the last compositions by the Palestinian poet.
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