{"id":201916,"date":"2021-12-27T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=201916"},"modified":"2021-12-22T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:15:11","slug":"oh-palestine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/12\/oh-palestine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your sisters stayed in their palaces
\nWith golden chains and shameless lies
\nSome grinned and aided criminals…
\nOthers chose to veil their eyes
\nSome justify rape and expulsions
\nOthers prayed to their silent gods.<\/p>\n

When you thought they had their fills
\nIn that dry June of decays,
\nThey climbed over the hills
\nTo finish the ghastly deeds<\/p>\n

Sickening became the violations
\nDark masses on your strong arms
\narms that gently lifted orphans
\nArmenian, Circasian, Hebrew and Druze
\nFractures on your white breasts
\nThat gave milk to hungry babies
\nBruises on your gentle fingers
\nThat wiped the tears from so many eyes
\nYour sad eyes bear their marks
\non a kind face that gave millions hopes<\/p>\n

Maddening deafening sounds
\nOf violent bloody rapes
\nOf countless lengthy reports
\nOf motions, plans, and resolutions
\nthat sacrificed justice and truths
\nat the altar of greedy egos<\/p>\n

Whither the dreams of childrens?
\nIn awakening consciences?
\nIn olive trees or returning birds?
\nIn time, distance, or struggles?
\nIn awakening hearts?
\nDeep in majestic mountains?
\nBeating beneath silent deserts?
\nOccasionally erupting “intifadas”?
\n1920..29..36..56..87…2000…<\/p>\n

The lost men hopelessly lust for power crums
\nendlessly argue about keys
\nWhile she struggles to break the doors
\nAnd tear down the suffocating walls
\nClans and Tribes follow mirages
\nand weaklings imagine strength in lies<\/p>\n

But in the end no one denies
\nYour ancient spirit survives
\nTo help heal all bruises
\nyours and ours
\nWhen the sun again shines
\nOh Palestine<\/p>\n

2005<\/em><\/p>\n

____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Published in <\/em>Human Liberation (Nakba 48) Vol 1, No 1, Sept 2005<\/em><\/p>\n

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