{"id":104491,"date":"2018-01-08T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=104491"},"modified":"2018-01-03T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:27:13","slug":"salima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/salima\/","title":{"rendered":"Salima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salima, my Palestinian sister,<br \/>\ncome, let&#8217;s build a miraculous bridge<br \/>\nfrom your fig tree and your vineyard to mine<br \/>\nover the boiling suffering<br \/>\nwars and the Intifada.<\/p>\n<p>Salima, my dear friend,<br \/>\nwhen will we laugh again<br \/>\nlike two women<br \/>\ninstead of crying bitterly on<br \/>\nthe gravestones<br \/>\nof our fallen sons?<\/p>\n<p>You and me, my friend,<br \/>\non this miraculous bridge,<br \/>\nfrom your olive grove to mine<br \/>\nfrom my orange grove to yours<br \/>\nin the scent of jasmines in bloom,<br \/>\nholding us by the hand<br \/>\nwhispering secrets about our loves,<br \/>\nour children, our parents, our projects,<br \/>\nand our ardent desire<br \/>\na bright blue sky and a night<br \/>\nirradiated with stars, pearls of peace.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want to be your oppressor,<br \/>\nyou do not want to be my oppressor<br \/>\nneither your jailer nor my jailer &#8211;<br \/>\nwe do not want to scare ourselves<br \/>\nunder our vines and fig trees<br \/>\nin a torn metal horizon<br \/>\nby bruising and bloodshed<br \/>\nof our children,<br \/>\nby stones, bullets and missiles.<\/p>\n<p>My dear Arab sister,<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s hurry to build<br \/>\nthis bridge solid and free<br \/>\nnear which each of us<br \/>\nwill be able to sit with your baby,<br \/>\nunder his vine and under his fig tree<\/p>\n<p>And no one can scare us,<br \/>\nAnd no one will be able to trouble us.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ada-aharoni.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-68571 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ada-aharoni-e1515000352776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Ada Aharoni is founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iflac.wordpress.com\/\" >The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace-IFLAC<\/a><em>. She is<\/em> <em>an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salima, my Palestinian sister,<br \/>\ncome, let&#8217;s build a miraculous bridge<br \/>\nfrom your fig tree and your vineyard to mine<br \/>\nover the boiling suffering<br \/>\nwars and the Intifada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}