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The underground voice in politics -- poems, and news about Palestine, the Middle East and more.
Location: Middle East
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I Speak of Palestine
I speak of your insistence
on believing what you’re told
to be so blind:
you must have learned
what not to know
to be so cold that you can say
“These people do belong
inside this tomb.”
They cannot move
or live
or eat
And, yes,
I speak of Palestine.
You cannot hold
its fate is just
and not be part
of grinding up
their bones and blood
to mix with desert earth
and olive oil
to build your state, your jail;
a wall surrounds
their place, like this:
a torture room
a starving field
a stolen home
a human shield
a bullet for a child
and poison gas on village streets
their food, their food!
Their food is gone
you cleanse
and push
and punish
taking what you want
to have for you alone.
We know it’s rape,
and though the world records
your names and deeds,
the future courts and trials
will not revive
the dead, displaced and missing.
And yes, I speak of Palestine.
- By Robert L. Green, VTJP, 2006
Discussion Forum
Hello World! Greetings from Palestine
Started by Nada Jung. Last reply by Nada Jung Aug 14, 2020. 1 Reply 1 Like
Turning waste to gold in Gaza
Started by Nada Jung. Last reply by Nada Jung Dec 18, 2019. 1 Reply 3 Likes
Peace Heroes - Tareq Promo
Started by Eva Libre. Last reply by Eva Annemarie Jul 17, 2019. 1 Reply 2 Likes
Martin Luther King Jr. In Palestine
Started by Eva Libre. Last reply by Eva Libre Apr 24, 2015. 3 Replies 0 Likes
If Arabs Were Germans and Israel's Frontiers Were the Berlin Wall
Started by Eva Libre. Last reply by Béatrice LATEUR LACROIX Jun 14, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What is the Alnakba ?
Started by Eva Libre. Last reply by Béatrice LATEUR LACROIX May 25, 2011. 1 Reply 1 Like
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Comment by Eva Libre on September 18, 2016 at 2:57pm
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During the evening of Saturday the 1st of October 2016, a live streaming will go on from Gaza to Brussels during the Nuit Blanche.
Artists living in Gaza will tell about their life in Gaza. For more information see and to follow the streaming: gazaalive.com
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An African-American gospel choir is the Greek chorus for a Palestinian play on Martin Luther King Jr. which tours the West Bank preaching nonviolence. The choir is apprehensive about working with Palestinians whose American media image is that of angry, violent terrorists. For the Palestinian actors, Americans are unconditional supporters of their occupiers. It is a personal and cultural exchange where, over the course of the journey, their ideas about each other are radically transformed. Happy to finally visit the Holy Land, the choir witnesses life in the occupied territories, perform in a unique theater inside a refugee camp run by Juliano Mer-Khamis using art as an alternative to violence, and meet Fadi Quran, a young leader of a nonviolent movement for justice. At the end of their tour reality will astonishingly mirror the play on MLK, a man who died for his beliefs.
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Banksy’s Christmas Card Shows a Bible Scene Abruptly Interrupted by Middle East Conflict
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Comment by Béatrice LATEUR LACROIX on November 30, 2012 at 7:52pm
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Let's continue to unfold Peace on Earthand let's create a whole world which include all countries : Earth will be (and is already now) our planet, our world ;-))
Love and Peace for Earth and all form of Life on it.
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Possibly the best map of the world ever? Click here to find out all the countries that voted to recognise Palestine: http://en.avaaz.org/s/mambab
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Comment by Isabelle Cyr on November 25, 2012 at 8:49pm
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Roger Waters - We Shall Overcome
"Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the US tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-Jan 3rd 2010 I saw no reference to Gaza or the Freedom March or the multi national protesters gathered there. Anyway I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of " We shall overcome". It seems appropriate."
Roger Waters
Lyrics
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
Deep in my heart
I do believe
That we shall overcome
Some dayAnd we'll walk hand in hand
we'll walk hand in hand
we'll walk hand in hand one day
Deep in my heart
I do believe
That we'll walk hand in hand
One dayAnd we'll break down the prison walls
We will tear down those prison walls
Together we will tear down the prison walls on that day
Deep in my heart
I do believe
That we will tear down all those prison walls
On that dayDeep in my heart
I do believe
That we will tear down those prison walls
On that dayAnd the truth will set us free
The truth will set us free
The truth will set us all free
On that dayAnd deep in my heart
I do believe
That the truth will set us all free
And we shall overcome
On that day
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I'm fan of your last post Eva ;-))
Peace and Love for all Beings.
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Banksy in Palestine
"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"
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