Nahida Izzat – some facts about my beloved Palestine
By Nahida Izzat • Sep 14th, 2008 at 21:51 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism
Photo by Ahmad Omar (this was originally written in response to a comment by a Quaker activist. The entire conversation may be seen at Palestinian Mothers, the web network for those with Palestine in their hearts, no matter who they are or where they come from). I have befriended and cooperated with many Quakers over the years, and I deeply admire their commitment -and yours- to peace, and the time and efforts that you give towards achieving this goal.
However, there is a fundamental issue that tends to be overlooked, oversimplified and ignored by those lovely, compassionate and peace loving people; they are inclined to blame and condemn both sides equally; i.e they equate the immoral actions of the criminal with the understandable reactions of the victim.
Equating the instinctive response of the oppressed -who have been massacred, humiliated and dehumanized day in and day out for generations-, with the aggressive and brutal acts of the oppressor is a severe deviation from justice am afraid.
Morally speaking: how -for the love of God- could we condemn those who are being slaughtered when they try to push their butchers away?
Some times the only way to sincerely help a criminal is by stopping him from committing more crimes.
There is nothing more helpful and supportive to the tyrant criminals than teaching the man who has been constantly crushed and incessantly raped, victimized and butchered not to defend himself.
The ACTION of AGGRESSION and oppression is NOT the same as the REACTION of SELFDEFENCE.
To teach otherwise and to condemn equally both the oppressor and the oppressed is not upholding well with ethics and morality.
God looks with tenderness, love, forgiveness and compassion at those who are severely abused, exploited and browbeaten so much so that they are forced to react.
"Beware of the plea of the oppressed, for he asks God most high only for his due, and God does not keep one who has a right from receiving what is due."
Our disapproval must be focused on those who initiate aggression, oppress nations, and commit genocide.
We can not possibly equate the actions of oppressor with the reaction of oppressed.
Did we not know that
A man
With a knife
Against his throat
Has the right
To push His butcher
Away!!
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Bishop Desmond Tutu
To give an analogy;
If a thief comes to your home, kills some of your children, kick some of them out, and lock you in the basement for sixty years, while raging havoc in your house and garden.
Then you are told that the only solution is to negotiate with the murderer thief; however the thief refuses to talk to you because you words are unpleasant and they disturb his peace; as you keep making noise in the basement, and you throw some fire works out to your garden to get the attention of some neighbours with conscience.
Then finally the police intervene, and then after arming the thief to his teeth they persuade him to agree to talk to you.
At long last the thief agrees to talk to you, but he comes with a list of demands, including:
No talks about your children, who’ve been kicked out
No talks about any room in the house
No talks about his incessant torture of your children
No talks about allowing you to use the bathroom upstairs
No talks about which corner of the basement he might give you
Furthermore, he demands that you respect the facts on the grounds, and should never ask to resolve the injustice by going back to how things were 60 years ago.
Not only that, he demands also that you accept his right to exist in your house forever, and his right to control your water supply, electricity, food, and movement.
Then to add the icing on the cake, of course, you are not supposed to moan or mention your pain over the past sixty years.
You must only be grateful, that the murderer thief would humble himself and talk to you.
I am intrigued to find out what would YOU do if you were in that situation?
Would you accept sharing your house with the thief and live in the basement?
If you say you do, I would like to see you openly inviting some zionists who settled in my stolen farm to come to yours and share it with you, and if they come fully armed I hope you don’t mind, and that you accept them graciously.
If all the Quakers would live by their word and do exactly what they want us to do; i.e. offer their homes to the zionists, that would be a breakthrough.
All we need is a few millions to do this ultimate act of sacrifice by being a living archetype, in fact that could be a vital approach to a peaceful solution and a good lesson to us all.
Dear John, we humans find it easy to moralise and pass judgements, but much harder to live by what we preach.
Future of Palestine
We, the Palestinians, cannot accept any solution that does not address the MAJOR issues in this lopsided "conflict," those major issues are:
1) We are equal in our humanity therefore should be treated equally
2) We have been wronged, our rights, our land and our identity have been robbed from us and must be given back
3) Jews are neither an ethnic group nor a special people, they have no privilege over us or any other human being, hence, they cannot claim ownership of Palestine simply because of their Jewishness
How could the world expect the Palestinians to recognise Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, when in fact that is not only killing the dream of every Palestinian refugee of returning home, but it also gives a precedence to a unique situation.
It exempts the Jewish people from being treated like the rest of humanity, as based on their Jewishness alone, they demand special treatment, preference, and exemptions from all the laws that bind the rest of humanity:
They demand to take someone else’s land for a claim that this right is given to them by God.
They demand to have superiority over another group of people who don’t share their Jewishness.
A cousin of mine, who is Palestinian of course but was working as a teacher in occupied/ stolen Palestine (the zionist entity that some call “israel”)
My cousin was trying to be friendly to a Jewish teacher, so he said to him: “you know, we are both cousins, we are all children of the same grandfather, we must find a way of living together in peace”.
The reply of his colleague was chilling -
He said: “yes indeed we are cousins, but you must remember that you are the children of Hagar, the slave woman, and we are the children of Sara, the free woman; therefore, you must realize that you the Palestinians, will be forever our slaves”.
This nauseating mentality IS the root of the problem in Palestine:
This supremacist attitude
This arrogance
This contempt of the other
This superiority complex
Firstly: they justify their attack and occupation of the already inhabited land of Palestine by a claim of a God-given right made exclusively to the Jewish people.
Secondly: they see themselves superior with the false claims such as being God's chosen people or being light unto the nations or of making the desert bloom.
Thirdly: they want to preserve a Pure Jewish state at all costs; even if that means dismissing the rights of all others
Fourthly: they, unlike any other nation, are getting away with every violation of human rights imaginable without ever being held accountable for their crimes
Are we ever going to see a change of attitude within this community?
It’s only through a real alteration of the Zionists’ mind-set that a solution could become possible.
We, the Palestinians, we can compromise, we can negotiate, we can share, we can give much, but ONE thing, and ONE thing only, that we CANNOT negotiate, nor compromise, and that is our HUMANITY.
We might be able to forgive the zionists, and move on
We might be able to share our land even with previous enemies
But what we will never be able to do is accept them as our superiors
Nor would we welcome them while they are still committing their crimes of murder, theft and oppression.
Reconciliation is only possible with a revolutionary change of attitude within the Zionist community.
And that’s is not up to us to do
The ball is in their court now, and has always been
It’s up to the Jewish people themselves who live in occupied Palestine to work on that change, if they want to spare themselves God’s justice.
People can take oppression for so long, but there comes a time when a threshold is reached, then things could literally change overnight.
Their might will not protect them then
What will, is what they’ve managed to preserve of their humanity.
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As with regards to violence and attacks on civilians, Hamas is not proud to kill any innocent person, it has continuously offered cease-fire and a complete halt of attacks on civilians but that was ALWAYS rejected by israel.
Hamas offers to renew cease-fire with Israel
Friday, June 16, 2006
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/15/hamas.ceasefire/index…
Israel rejects Gaza cease-fire offer
Sep 21, 2007
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411457380&pagena…
Ehud Olmert rejects Hamas' offer of cease-fire in Gaza Strip
23/12/2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937196.html
Olmert rejects Hamas cease-fire offer
Tue., December 25, 2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937511.html
ISRAEL REJECTS HAMAS CEASE-FIRE OFFER AS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS DEEPENS IN GAZA
April 25, 2008
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0425/p99s01-duts.html
Israel rejects Hamas cease-fire offer as humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza
Fri Apr 25 08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080425/wl_csm/odu0425
As for the other point about israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state I would say:
To start with; there is no country/ government/ system/ regime on earth that demands the right to exist and makes that demand “holy” and unquestionable.
Yet again, israel, with its self-proclaimed righteousness and with the virtue of its special-ness, feels entitled to ask those whom she robbed them of their homes, of their dignity, and of homeland to recognise her right to steal and thrive at cost of their genocide and ethnic cleansing!
Israel feels no shame in demanding to be recognized as a racist entity (as a Jewish state).
Israel feels no shame in demanding to exist at the expense of hundreds of annihilated villages, hundreds of thousands of corpses, and millions of homeless refugees.
Israel feels no shame in demanding the right to build its nation on the destruction of another.
Israel feels no shame in expanding what she acquired by sheer brutality at the cost of devastated landscapes and ruined ancient alleyways.
Israel feels no shame in demanding that the world should adore its glory at the melody of weeping widows and howling of terrified little ones.
Hamas and the Jewish state:
Our problem – as Palestinians- is not with the Jewish people nor is it with Judaism; our problem is with the injustice inflected upon us for almost a century now.
For no crime (except being Palestinians) we were made to be the sacrificial lamb of Europe’s sins, we paid the price for Hitler’s crimes against the Jewish people.
Neither Hamas nor any Palestinian would have any problem getting along with any ethnic or religious group of people. As Muslims we’ve done that for centuries. In fact the golden age for the Jewish people was when they lived under Islamic rule and as they escaped the inquisitions of Europe to find refuge and protection in Muslim lands.
But, we have serious problems with ethnic cleansing, injustice, oppression, racism, fascism, tyranny, and the claim of superiority of one nation over another.
Unless these issues are justly addressed and resolved, our world would remain in turmoil.
Hamas are constantly been asked to recognize “Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state”; but no one seemed bothered with the fact that “Israel” never recognized “Palestine” or the Palestinians’ right to exist on their own land. No one seems to be bothered with the fact that “Israel” hasn’t and never had any defined borders that they want us to recognize.
But most importantly no one seemed to question the morality and ethical grounds on which “Israel” was founded.
Israel not only has no right to exist as a Jewish state (for the apparent racism that’s embedded in this definition) but also has no right to exist as a state and a political system. Period.
Reasons:
firstly:
The moral and ethical grounds upon which “Israel” was founded are extremely problematic:
a) When the Zionists adopted Palestine as a home land for all the Jewish people they ignored the fact that Palestine had already its own native Palestinian inhabitants, with a very small Jewish minority of 2.5%.
b) The early Jewish refugees did not come with a friendly attitude with intentions to live in peace with the native Inhabitants of Palestine, but rather with the mentality of colonising and ethnically cleansing of the natives.
c) They did not come with olive branches in their hands; rather they came with tanks and machine guns, they engaged in extensive terror attacks on the native Palestinians, they were building their armed forces ever since until it became the fourth most powerful state in the world today.
d) The natives were never asked and their opinions were dismissed by those powers who decided to give away Palestine -which the don’t own-
e) Israel’s recognition as a state (by the United Nations and the International community) was conditional to Israel abiding by UN resolutions including the right of return of Palestinians; which were never implemented by Israel.
Secondly:
The continuous existence of such a state (as defined by the hegemony of one particular group “the Jewish” over the rest of its citizens) is deplorable logically, legally, and morally:
a) Logically unacceptable; as by definition “”Israel” is a Jewish state; in order to maintain its exclusive “Jewishness” it denies millions of exiled Palestinians their basic human right; namely the right of return to their homes and their families.
b) Legally unacceptable; for the inability of this entity to comply by the conditions laid out by the international community, and inability to abide by any UN resolution.
c) Morally unacceptable; for the fact that since its inception over the past 60 years, this entity managed to prove to the world time and again the decay of its moral fibre; as it sank deeply in the abyss of wickedness and inhumanity., through displaying her acts of terror, cruelty, and ruthlessness with no shame or remorse.
The continuous existence of such a state is morally questionable; as by definition “”Israel” is a Jewish state; in order to maintain its exclusive “Jewishness” it denies millions of exiled Palestinians the right of return to their homes and their families ignoring their basic human rights.
When Hitler called for a purely Aryan state the world got up in arms against such an exclusive racists regime.
How can such a state demand the right be recognized and to be secured when the very foundation on which it was established are immoral? How such a state should continue to exist when by its very definition it is insular, exclusive, aggressive and racist?
What I as a Palestinians would like to see is an all inclusive state of Palestine, on the whole land of historic Palestine, a state for all its citizens, where all races, religions living side by side on equal grounds.
A state with no walls between its peoples; where no one is denied their basic human rights for their religious or non-religious beliefs, no one is denied justice for their race; no one is prevented from returning to their homes on the basis of their ethnicity. If that should mean an end to a racist exclusive Jewish state so be it.
(by the way the Jewish state is NOT the Jewish people).
And if I may speak as a mother, seeing my beloved Palestine divided is like seeing my baby chopped in half!
It pains me enormously, I would rather accept to share my baby with an impostor mother, who claims my baby as hers, rather than having him sliced into two pieces.
Originally published here: Palestinian Mothers Network
Nahida Izzat is a Jerusalem born - Palestinian refugee living in exile for over 40 years. She was forced to leave her homeland, Palestine, at the age of seven during the six-day war. Nahida is mathematician by profession, a mother of 3 children by career, an artist by hobby, and a returned-refugee to a free Palestine by optimism, hopes and anticipation.
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You should bring John W. words too:
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In'sh'Allah, Nahida, justice will indeed be the hallmark of the eventual reconciliation in the middle east between Palestinians and Israelis. And I agree with most of the points you raise here, and will forever admire you for your courage.
I do have a different opinion — apparently — about one thing, though.
I agree that it will mean living in the lands with equal rights for all — even those once seen as inferiors — even in joy!
I do not, think, however, that there will be a return to 'status quo ante' — the way things were before. Let me explain.
I have seen many, many Restorative Justice processes at work. They require agreement among all the parties.
True Restorative Justice means that Truth & Reconciliation Processes of some kind will take place, such as were held in South Africa. The results might not be perfect, but the peoples of the lands will cry together at the great harm that has been allowed to come to pass. They will form elements of common narrative where they bring themselves to a place where they can embrace the other. The haters and the most aggressive of the usurpers will be marginalized, and the policies of the region will begin to reflect common goals among the nations.
An ocean of light will flow over the ocean of darkness, as George Fox, the creator of Quakerism, prophesied.
As I see it, the Hamas articles calling for the killing of Jews and the abolition of Israel will have to fall by the wayside somehow. Similar attitudes and weaknesses of the Israelis will have to end as well.
The Right of Return will indeed have to be balanced out with the Law of Return. A large 'middle way' contingent will have to be grown, in each of the populaces, which sees their way clear to honoring *both* in ways that are both reasonable and feasible.
Yes, I am attacked incessantly over on MEPEACE because I point to justice as the solution. But it is Restorative Justice that I am calling for. Most people in the world don't understand the distinction between Restorative Justice and punishment 'justice', which merely continues cycles of violence. They think that punishment justice will just bring wave after wave after wave of violence. So they think I am calling for punishment justice or 'payback' (retaliation), or that what I am calling for would let others do that to them. I am sure it would not.
I would like to personally hear your account of why you and how you were banned in MEPEACE. I do not think it could happen with you doing nothing whatsoever that some might find objectionable. If you were to rejoin right now and say you have a budding hope that peace with justice can be reached, I think you would be allowed to stay.
If you were banned before because you were calling for justice, that is because somehow people were hearing that as 'punishment justice', and/or interpreting remarks like 'all the stolen lands returned to the rightful owners' as a call to a return to the way things were before the Naqba. Don't you know that is impossible?
But things can be *better* than the way they were before if the peoples of the region join together with hope and optimism, and commitment to the guidance of the self-same G-d (Allah) that they all worship.
I speak as a peacemaker, here to help mend the wounds and bring the recovery.
John Wilmerding
Former Secretary
United Nations Working Party on Restorative Justice
Member, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
I hope you asked his PERMISSION to reprint them. If not, do so immediately and if he gives it to you, fine. If not, leave a comment here saying it wasn't given and I will delete.
you can ask him too about it
This is a message from a Palestinian mother to the zionist occupiers who wiped PALESINE off the map, and who are still engaged in ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and collective punishment of a whole people
I Believe in Miracles
You can break my bones
My free spirit is invincible
You can cause me the loss of sight
The light of my insight
You’ll never take away
In the shadows of darkness
Lies the corpse of your might
***
You can destroy my house
The windows of my hope,
You cannot break
The pillars of my faith
You can never shake
***
You can threaten me
With weapons of death
And mass destruction
Implanting fear in my heart
You cannot achieve
Nor can you cut off
My divine connection
***
With a missile
You can tear my body apart
My soul however
Is out of your reach
And is forever intact
***
You claimed victory in six days!
Victorious are those
With a dignified gaze
Facing tanks with tender flesh
And only with stones,
The F16 fighter blaze
***
You can never defeat my will to be
Because my power that you cannot explain
Grows from within the roots of my pain
***
You depend on the United States
For wealth and war supply
My infinite strength stems from
My creator, the One most high
***
I can show you the way
To victory, just say:
“In the name of God
Most gracious, Most merciful
The loving, the Just
The source of peace and light”
Strip away your greed and lust
You’ll be surprised!
Enjoy the transformation
Of your soul and heart
***
Examine your deeds and
Put your life to the test
Can you see what wrongs you’ve sown?
Were you planting roses
Or were you planting thorns?
***
Listen to your heart,
The true story you shall hear
Let your soul vision be your guide
The picture will be ever so clear
***
A few words are all you need to say:
“Forgive me God”
And all your sins will be washed away
***
“I’m sorry Palestine”
For all the pain I caused you
“I’m sorry children of Palestine
For being so cruel
Digging your graves
I’m not your superior
You are not my slaves”
***
Heaven will be yours
And on Earth will be peace
When you begin to care
***
In my heart you’ll find a place
And my land we can share
***
I believe in miracles
And that day I shall see
Because God is only just
God is only fair
Dear Nahida,
we are different people who live on this earth. we come to be in opposite side of a conflict as people call me Israeli and call you Palestinian.
I born in relative safety and miraculously grew up to be a person who think we all deserve the condition of safety to our children.
as You answer me with poems for any time I engage to talk I see the emotional level of reaction and understand that us Israeli I do not have your trust, and better not to trust you as you expect me to be punished.
Sadly you do not expose your human side where you can see I am a no sheep no wolf I am human as you seeking better life for our children.
Those who attempt to beautify the ugly fascist racist face of zionism, who apply themselves as a dripping lipstick on the lips of a pig in a futile attempt to revamp its gruesome features
Those who delude themselves that if they use their lovey-dovey words they could disguise the true vile nature, the wicked chauvinistic ideology and incessant crimes of the monster of zion
Those who feel no shame in defending a disgraceful entity which happened to be established by terror and maintained by terror and continue to exist by terrorising those under its control
Those who act as a pathetic frayed fig leaf trying to conceal the obscenity and hideous disgrace of their state which was audaciously built upon the destruction of another nation
Those who ludicrously still marvel at and admire the naked emperor’s clothes when everyone in the world could see his pitiful nudity
Those who utter their disingenuous wishes to coexist in peace while choosing to live in a state of denial with their heads in the sand by refusing to acknowledge or remedy their injustices and wrong-doings
Those who refuse to listen to the voice of reason and the call of justice, and muffle each and every sound that asks for it
Those who silence any call for GENUINE and TOTAL reconciliation and block every REAL endeavour that gives an honest diagnosis and point out to the genuine healing process which would lead to reconciliation
Those who attempt to deceive the world by accusing every defiant and decent individual who insists upon full restoration of rights, dignity and humanity of Palestinians, by accusing him/ her of extremism, fanaticism or support of terrorism
Those who endeavour to cover the rays of truth with a sieve of lies
Neither do I desire to waste my breath on, nor do I have the interest to talk to
They are worthy only of their karma
Collaborators of crime, who want to escape responsibility, keep the status quo, and dismiss the due rights of their prey under the disguise of nonsensical words like: “we must accept facts on the ground”
“We must not look back in time”
“We must look forward to the future”
What future, you hypocrites?
What good is a future built upon denied massacres and genocide?
What good is a future built upon incessant theft and lies?
What good is a future, in which the criminals would neither acknowledge their wrong doings nor have the desire to remedy the wounds of their injured victims
What is the meaning of words when actions counteract?
Have they never came across the saying “Actions speaks louder than words”?
Over the past sixty years you had your say and you did what you chose to do,
And now,
Well, guess what?
It’s time for us to speak and for YOU to HEAR our say:
you are not welcome in our stolen land of Palestine with your existing mentality
Before we accept you and welcome you as guests in our land hat you have stolen:
Go
Repent
Wash the blood off your hands
And weep
Weep the souls of the little ones you’ve murdered
Weep the innocent villages you’ve destroyed
Weep the blessed olive trees you’ve uprooted
Weep the tears of little girls you’ve orphaned
Weep the mutilated bodies of small boys you’ve devastated
Weep the tens of thousands of youth you’ve disabled
Weep the tens of thousands of homes you demolished
Weep the millions of aching hearts of refugees you’ve created
Weep the soil of the Holy Land you’ve polluted
Weep the stream waters and ancient wells you’ve poisoned
Weep the hundreds of thousands of bodies you’ve tortured
Weep the hills and orchids you’ve disfigured
Weep the alleyways you’ve dissected
Weep the landscape you’ve cut to pieces
Weep the towns you’ve bombed to oblivion
Weep the dignified women you’ve dishonoured
Weep the enduring elderly you’ve humiliated
Weep the infants you prevented from getting to hospitals
Weep the laughter and giggles of tiny ones you’ve muted
Weep the scents of herbs and blossoms you’ve suffocated
Weep the farms you’ve destroyed and confiscated
Weep the culture of embroidery, humus and falafel you’ve robbed and claimed
Weep the prophets’ messages you abused and defiled
Weep the Divine Guidance you’ve violated
Weep the Ten Commandments you’ve corrupted
And when you weep long enough, hard enough and sincerely enough, you will discover that don’t need to come to us begging us to talk to you or to forgive you, you won’t need to go around the web scattering, boasting and blathering about peace
Because if and when your repentance is genuine it will automatically show in your actions
You will know then what you have to do and how to do it, to be forgiven
And then and only then, you WILL find “peace” that you allegedly seek
G-d is endless wisdom of peace
G-d is endless wisdom of humanity
G-d promised us all the land he created for us
no one own the land
on one own history
everyone have responsibility to raise his children to peace and to serve G-d
you know it, and seem you do not see that you are working against the one G-d and his prophet Mohamed
Mazin Qumsiyeh told me that Prophet Mohamed saying "wise or good person is one who holds himself from anger" .
http://www.mepeace.org/profiles/blog/show?id=661876:BlogPost:101505
You never seem to realise, Neri, that a simple act of admitting that Zionism has done this, an ideology that people have followed, and maybe they don't call themselves Zionists, but they are doing the Zionist project, at the expense of the Palestinians … yes, this simple act of admitting it and regretting it and asking for forgiveness for all the harm done is the beginning, the first step to take.
Don't go telling us what Mazin told YOU and thinking that this means he agrees with your point of view about playing nice and moving along. We know Mazin and his determination to the unification of his land and the justice for his people, and while he is not a Muslim, he knows well many things about the religion that most of his people follow, and using him to Justify the words of the Prophet in order to silence the anger of the oppressed is a game I don't think Mazin would like to be used in. Why not ask him if it's appropriate to quote him in this way?
Dear Mary,
I learn a lot from Mazin and Nahida and this does not mean they are agreeing with what I think. I never claimed that. The Mazin quote that explain Islamic perspective “wise or good person is one who holds himself from anger” is something that show that the Muslims as any other human being recognize the importance of wisdom to produce the good which is transcend anger, it does not make it disappear.
About you talking for others, I have a question to you. You stated for many times that you are a good friend of Nahida, and that she wish to communicate. so tell me, is this poetic discussion is the only way we can communicate?
I think we need to put things striate as I see the Palestinians condition and the Zionist movment as one of the causes of it I have a lot of reasons to consider different solution that the one Nahida describe in her poems. ignoring my kind of voice, as ignoring Nahida voice just make the solution "one sided" where it actually lock us in this bloody dance of the conflict which just bring more hardship on the palestinians.
we all have one future to share, we need the wisdom Mohamad is talking about.
Neri, your voice is tainted and false. We've seen you in action, you play manipulative games.
If you can't respond to Nahida's thought in verse, don't bother any other way. You simply are not able or ready to listen.
I Am So blessed
I am so blessed
Being a Palestinian
Being a refugee
For over fifty years
I am so blessed
I wasn’t in the tank
With an army uniform
Killing and destroying
To frighten people away
“It was a barren land”
Later on to say!
I am so blessed
Being under curfew
For most of my life
I am so blessed
I wasn’t with the army
Erecting high walls
Shooting at civilians
At every check-point
I am so blessed
Losing my father
In one of their raids
I am so blessed
That it was not I
Flying planes of terror
Firing that missile
Then Laughing and rejoicing
The mission was a success
I am so blessed
Watching my brother
Being taken away
I am so blessed
I wasn’t one of those
Kicking till he bled
From his nose and head
I am so blessed
Burying my baby
With a bullet in her heart
I am so blessed
I wasn’t that soldier
Who took a baby’s life
Nor was I his mother
Who welcomed him a hero
When coming back home
I am so blessed
Sleeping in a UN tent
Shivering in the freezing cold
I am so blessed
I wasn't that settler
Who occupied my home
Justifying massacres
With a "PROMISE SO DIVINE"
Then, tossing and turning
All night long
Wondering what's wrong
Haunted by his deeds
Searching like mad
For a long lost peace
Which he can't find
I am so blessed
Holding David’s stone
In my little hand
I am so blessed
I wasn’t giant Goliath
With mass-destruction might
Seeing himself invincible
With no hope in sight
I am so blessed
The Two-Letter Word
Did you know that, sometimes
Doing nothing is a Crime
Sometimes
Thinking nothing is a crime
Sometimes
Feeling nothing is a crime
Sometimes
Saying nothing is a crime
For …
Oppression thrives on silence
A dignified stand, then
Can be ever so grand
A brave, wise decision, then
Would be an inspired vision
A righteous feeling
Of sadness or anger, then
Can out-weigh
Joy, delight and wonder!
A two-letter word, then
Can be stronger than a sword!
When JUSTICE is slaughtered
When oppression prevails
When evil is O.K
And Satan glorified
When GOD finds no room
In His children’s hearts
We have to be prepared
Then,
If only just to say
The two-letter word
NO
.
Mean while business is as usual in occupied Palestine
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http://www.imemc.org/article/57056
Israel to construct dump in Nablus, just as archaeological discovery made
http://www.imemc.org/article/57034
Settlers burn Palestinian olive groves, crops in several West Bank areas
http://www.imemc.org/article/57032
Six Palestinians, three Israeli soldiers wounded in anti-wall protest in Ni'lin http://www.imemc.org/article/57052
Israeli soldiers spray protestors with blue liquid in Bil’in
http://www.imemc.org/article/57048
Former Israeli military and intelligence officials active in Arab countries
http://www.imemc.org/article/57035
UN-GA chief calls for adopting resolution 181 which calls for partitioning Palestine
http://www.imemc.org/article/57057
Then “israel” uses its pitiful hasbara mouthpieces to cover up its vulgarity and vile crimes!
That is what the Mischief Makers DO
But what the Mischief Makers deceptively and misleadingly blather is peace peace peace
I along with every principled person with conscience in the world, repeat to their deaf ears:
STOP your CRIMES evil doers, then talk about security
Give JUSTICE wicked ones, then talk about peace
But Mischief Makers cry peace, but what they mean is war; they scream freedom but what they mean is enslavement; they shout democracy but what they mean is democracy for their own kind.
The Quran describes such people whose words contradict their deeds:
“And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only. Are not they indeed the mischief-makers? But they perceive not." (2:11-12)
But mischief makers perceive not
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dear nahida
is it our future based on defeat of one side
Did G-D intended to choose between his/her children?
You created evil unionism in your mind, the ugliness of our current reality call for all of us as we all humans undr our words, we all recognize where we need to go, we only differ in the how to get there.
Let European Jews go back to Europe
Let Arab Jews go back to Morocco
Arabs go to Desert
Give this land to G-d Because He promised it to too many people.
(A poem posted on wall of Hebrew University's Men bathroom)
Hamas doesn't claim to kill all Jews in Palestine – it's the other way around. Guru of Shaa party and many Zionist Rabbis are on record for saying – "It's wrong to be merciful to Arabs." OR "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." – Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994.
However, the self-denial Israeli HASBRA mole here – would not know that!!!
shaukat ,
There some wisdom in this Gordy knote we are all part of, and indid I think that G-D as a sign of us all is the only entity who can climes "ownership" on earth.
Our task today, as humans, irritation to resolve this conflict in a way that will enable us to create a future that include all of us.
when you'll see there is no BARBARA MULE here and that I know respect and listen to your sources too.
Take care
Shaukat
Funny poem which suggest that we are all in one Gordian Knot . Alexander the Great used his sword to be the next ruler of Asia. I hope we are wise enough today to use other methods to free the Palestinians-Israeli Knot.
The common Jewish-Israeli idea is not to kill all Palestinians as it is common to expect that some peace agreement will lead for stable relationship. Extremists Parties as Kahana were banned.
But I agree with you that Hamas is far more moderate then what the Israelis usually can recognize, this is part of our tendency to Demonize the enemy. same as your expectation of me to be HASBRA mole here and assume I do not know Israeli and non Israelis writers of the conflict history.