ID Card
Mahmoud Darwish
Write it down! I’m an Arab
My card number is 50000
My children number eight
And after this summer, a ninth on his way.
Does this make you rage?
I am an Arab.
With my quarry comrades I labor hard
My children number eight
I tug their bread, their clothes
And their notebooks
From within the rock
I don’t beg at your door
I don’t cower on your threshold
So does this make you rage?
Write it down!
I am an Arab.
I am a name with no honorific.
Patient in a land
Where everything lives in bursting rage
My roots were planted before time was born
Before history began
Before the cypress and the olive trees
Before grass sprouted
My father is from the plough clan
Not from the noble class
My grandfather was a peasant farmer
Had no pedigree
Taught me the pride of the sun
Before teaching me to read
A shack to guard groves is my home,
Made of branches and reeds
Are you pleased with my status?
I am a name with no honorific.
Write it down!
I am an Arab.
Hair color: charcoal
Eye color: brown
Attributes:
A cord around the quffiyeh on my head
My hand as hard as rock
That scratches if you touch it
My address:
I am from a forgotten abandoned village
Its streets nameless
All its men in the fields and quarries
Does this make you rage?
Write it down!
I am an Arab.
You have stolen my ancestors’ groves
And the land we cultivated
I and all my children
Leaving nothing for us and all my grandchildren
Except these rocks
Will your government take them
Like people say?
Therefore,
Write down on the top of the first page:
I do not hate people
And I do not steal from anyone
But if I starve
I will eat my oppressor’s flesh
Beware, beware of my starving
And my rage.
MidlifeCrisis (10-11-23), Stephanie (25-12-23)
:
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist” — said Indira Gandhi
^^ be a good summation of This region over the last many decades / hundred years .
How , that under Ottoman rule all Jews , Arabs , Christians could live peacefully next to each !?
: because at the time None were trying to Exclude others from a land .
From River to the Sea — as it was before : in peace , in unity even if prays to a different ‘god’ .
But now clenched fists all around .
I do what I want. I cannot do otherwise.
Launcelot (10-11-23)
Stephanie (12-11-23)
The problem is that all reasonable voices/dissent is being actively neutered and has been for the longest time.
Israel is among the most fascistic rightwing theocratic ethnonationalist anomalies on the planet.
The Isreali Knesset passed legislation some time back that made it illegal for the President to pardon anyone who killed a Prime Minister.
Why? Because they knew there was a good chance Netanyahu would pardon Yigal Amir, the extremist that assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.
Why? Because Amir was doing exactly what Netanyahu wanted.
Israel is fucked.
Scrumhalf9 (12-11-23)
I’m not interested in behind the scenes PM dissertations on the subject .
If you wish to still address the topic and perhaps respond to your blatant
misinformation / lack of experience : please do so here on the thread :
Originally Posted by Palatine
DO Click on my Link : it’s a 1 minute video of Muslim people praying in Al Aqsa Mosque ,
and how the Muslims Supposedly control all their holy sites .
Palatine , in fact you “Cannot think of a single holy site that is controlled by Israel” .
Please comment on that short bit of footage , won’t you ?
I do what I want. I cannot do otherwise.
Aug 11 , 2023
BEFORE the terror attack .
: occupied West Bank and the way things go day-to-day >>
Short Video : https://youtube.com/shorts/JOf_woeTH...n-rjbBcT-iqfyp
I do what I want. I cannot do otherwise.
Other opinions are allowed
Age doesn't equal maturity - just look around !
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