{"id":173359,"date":"2020-11-23T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=173359"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:24:52","slug":"i-only-wish-that-the-truth-has-a-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/i-only-wish-that-the-truth-has-a-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"I only Wish…That the Truth Has a Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

All your armies. All your fighters,
\nAll your tanks and all your soldiers,
\nAgainst a boy holding a stone,
\nStanding there all alone,
\nIn his eyes I see the sun,
\nIn his smile I see the moon,
\nAnd I wonder I only wonder,
\nWho is weak and who is strong,
\nWho is right and who is wrong,
\nAnd I wish — I only wish,
\nThat the truth has a tongue.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the<\/em> TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine, a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em>campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

DON’T BUY<\/strong> PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> BARCODE STARTS WITH<\/strong> 729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All your armies. All your fighters,
\nAll your tanks and all your soldiers,
\nAgainst a boy holding a stone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[2221,120,1829,1030,87,267,1029,487,2395,88,771,1027,427,85,868,109,287,1572,985,880,292,70,126,1025,886],"class_list":["post-173359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-checkpoints","tag-conflict","tag-coronavirus","tag-fatah","tag-gaza","tag-geopolitics","tag-hamas","tag-human-rights","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-israel","tag-nakba","tag-oslo-accords","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-poetry","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-settlers","tag-social-justice","tag-state-terrorism","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173359","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=173359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264224,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173359\/revisions\/264224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}