{"id":99560,"date":"2017-10-02T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=99560"},"modified":"2017-09-30T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:42:02","slug":"truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/10\/truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truths became fragile outcasts<br \/>\ndrowned refugees denied even their pasts<br \/>\nor those refugees silenced<br \/>\nby Zionist media murdered<br \/>\nOrphaned and denied futures<br \/>\nTortured and robbed of cultures<br \/>\nkept behind ghetto walls<br \/>\ntaboo subjects in conference halls<br \/>\ntruths sinking?<br \/>\nrapidly shrinking?<br \/>\nbecoming nameless?<br \/>\nfaceless<br \/>\npowerless<br \/>\nmentionless<br \/>\nlies multiply?<br \/>\noccupy<br \/>\npeople&#8217;s minds<br \/>\nflash that blinds<br \/>\npolarising<br \/>\ncolonizing<br \/>\ncalcified hearts<br \/>\nbroken in parts<br \/>\nStanding with the persecuted truths<br \/>\nwe are hunted by mean untruths<br \/>\nBut it is our solemn option<br \/>\nto offer orphan truths&#8217; adoption<\/p>\n<p>Though numerous&#8230; all lies end<br \/>\nTruths return and never bend<br \/>\ntruths humble and meek but remain here<br \/>\nloud for those who want or wish to hear<br \/>\nyou can see them, hear them, taste them<br \/>\nfeel them and know them<br \/>\nIn helping a hungry child smile<br \/>\nin walking the extra mile<br \/>\nin a shared simple meal<br \/>\nin every emotion we feel<br \/>\nin a sparkle in a student&#8217;s eye<br \/>\nin the pain that we cry<br \/>\nin a lover&#8217;s embrace<br \/>\nin a friend&#8217;s grace<br \/>\nin generous giving<br \/>\nin gracious receiving<br \/>\nin never tiring<br \/>\nof true loving<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>29 Sep 2017<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mazin-Qumsiyeh.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mazin-Qumsiyeh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/em><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> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan<em> and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine,<em> a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/palestinenature.org\" >http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><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<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truths became fragile outcasts<br \/>\ndrowned refugees denied even their pasts<br \/>\nor those refugees silenced<br \/>\nby Zionist media murdered<br \/>\nOrphaned and denied futures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99560","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=99560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}