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Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr Filasṭīniyyah (PLO)

“There were soldiers there, also officers, but not a single one helped us defend ourselves,” Al-Azza continued. “I am a Palestinian citizen. I don’t have a voice, I don’t have a weapon, I don’t have security or soldiers who will defend me.".https://www.972mag.com/hebron-mass-settler-attack/

 

this space in which i squat 

to type does not contain me

in future years i will be gone,

all the signs and signifiers 

of my presence will fade

as surely as the grave,

until they can longer be read

my wildest flights, my tersest verse;

only snippets of code

will, if anything, be saved

digital or analogue imprints

to be replaced by other signs

or signifiers of hope or discontent

no longer at ease here,

in the old dispensation*

keen to strike out and ensure

the second coming will be known

as the IDF slouches towards Bethlehem**

to terrify ordinary Palestinian families.

with the settlers very presence demanding

Palestinians leave your homes

Palestinians leave your land

in Hebron, this Christmas.

 

* - TS Eliot 'Journey of the Magi'

** - WB YEATS, 'The second coming'

 

◄ Torn: a poem for Christmas

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John Marks

Sat 24th Dec 2022 00:24

....and things will not get any better for Palestinians under this extreme right, ultra-nationalist regime in Israel.. Settlers are racist anti-Arab zionists (usually American or Russian) intent on stealing Arab land and intimidating Palestinian people. They make apartheid South Africa appear liberal.

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sat 24th Dec 2022 00:06

Thank you John, for your post.
The voices of many Jewish people, including some soldiers in the IDF, who object to the ill-treatment of the Palestinian people are being repressed in the UK media.

The lies being spoken on this subject, by people in high places in the UK must be confronted.

People of goodwill must do what they can to speak truth to power, in the face of injustice.

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