Tag: palestine
member name: Safi Abdi
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July 06, 2006 06:10 PM EDT --
I wrote this when the democratically elected Hamas came into power and the whole western world went into uproar.
Something tells me Gatherers need this to widen their perspective.
I must say I am . . .
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July 04, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
Palestine:
it's come to this: mere statistics
and tired data clogging the corridors.
the figures on any single day
may vary.
in the newsrooms.
stringed together the murders
in the eye of the camera . . .
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May 23, 2006 12:18 AM EDT --
Living side by side in Palestine... is it possible?
It was early in the morning when they came. My father and elder brother had just returned from the mosque and Mother was nursing my baby sister. I had . . .
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July 27, 2006 05:27 AM EDT --
The following thoughts were inspired by Ariel Sharon's 2004 visit to Washington. For details as to why Sharon was grinning so loudly beside his host George Bush please follow this link:
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June 12, 2006 12:33 PM EDT --
The Palestinian boy
Happy his lot could've been
Chasing ball
Carefree under the open sky
Dreaming in colors
And of the scent of roses.
But there are no bouquets for this boy
Just coffins and the . . .
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June 13, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
Are all Terrorists equal? Or are some Terrorist more equal than others?
For the sake of clarity let's call them:
Terrorist A......Terrorist B.......Terrorist C......Terrorist D
Terrorist . . .
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July 06, 2006 05:47 PM EDT --
What's there to say ?
To a human thrashed;
A woman beaten here
A baby bashed there
Up against a wall
A population utterly pressed.
What's there to say?
Happiness . . .
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July 10, 2006 04:42 AM EDT --
If
I were a bird
I'd build my nest
In some corner
Out of sight.
If I were a bird
I'd perch
On the branch
Of a palm tree
And let Ache
On the wings
Flutter away.
But . . .
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July 25, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
The Midlle East's only democracy has 9850 Palestinian prisoners in its jails. 359 of the prisoners are children. These children are not only mistreated they are not even provided with medical care . . .
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August 05, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
To celebrate Olmert's bloodletting of Lebanese and Palestinian children and women, our lady Condoleeza Rice had parroted, on behalf of her boss, a rather sinister terminolgy. Out of this painful . . .
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August 28, 2006 06:51 AM EDT --
Is thrashing Islam a Christian thing to do? Is bashing Islam an article of faith in Christendom? Is vilifying Islam a Commandment in the Bible? Or is the centuries old Christian enmity born out of pure . . .
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July 12, 2006 04:52 AM EDT --
The absolute love
Of a spirit calling the beloved
To her bosom
Lip-service never satiates.
Hearts are aggrieved
At an unfairness celebrated.
With every tear shed
With every tiny . . .
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January 21, 2008 09:27 PM EST --
It was on a dark Sunday when he came. When we last saw him on TV prior to that day he was in Zionist-land, patting the shoulders of his 'peace-loving' friends, and giving the poor . . .
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July 10, 2006 05:11 AM EDT --
It's the closures
The wires coiled
The child trampled
The might employed
The land confiscated
The liberty destroyed
The human disgraced
The injustice endorsed
An occupation legalized
A whole . . .
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June 29, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
The story of a child
Not combat attire.
The story of a child
Disarrayed in the rain.
Columns of tanks in battle array
And a woman carrying a pitcher of the rain.
She is . . .
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December 28, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
To all who wait for the doomsday to light
To all who rejoice at the death of a child delight.
A wound only so much pain can toil
Hunger and anger what a brew to boil.
Devils get hitched rain . . .
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July 22, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
if there is anything the Arab/Muslim street has been unanimous about is that Arab rulers have sold their souls. Whatever doubts people might have had about these corrupt individuals and their apparatus . . .
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July 23, 2006 07:43 AM EDT --
My dear President, Master and Dispatcher, please listen to me. Will you drop that golf club and come sit near me? Closer, closer, President. Now what do you see behind the mask? Do you see any trace of . . .
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August 05, 2006 04:36 AM EDT --
Listen to the bulldozers rumble
Sharon'd stoked up trouble
Don't grumble or tumble
Stretch that blanket
In the debris trodden.
Beware that tent UN strutted
Beyond the stars for cover, don't . . .
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March 04, 2008 06:32 AM EST --
The absolute love
Of a spirit calling the beloved
To her bosom
Lip-service never satiates.
Hearts are aggrieved
At an unfairness celebrated
With every tear . . .
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