Merry Christmas from Palestine - I am from there
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I am from There
I come from there and remember,
I was born like everyone is borne, I have a mother and a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends and a prison.
I have a wave that sea-gulls snatched away.
I have a view of my own and an extra blade of grass.
I have a moon past the peak of words.
I have the godsent food of birds and olive tree beyond the ken of time.
I have traversed the land before swords turned bodies into banquets.
I come from there. I return the sky to its mother when for its mother the sky cries, and I weep for a returning cloud to know me.
I have learned the words of blood-stained courts in order to break the rules.
I have learned and dismantled all the words to construct a single one:
Home
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14 Comments on “Merry Christmas from Palestine - I am from there”
Merry Christmas and Happy new year everyone (or should I say happy holidays? :p)
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p.s :loved the caricature
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Home: A concept that shakes my being with its possibilities, but leaves me searching for its meaning with an insatiable hunger. Is home really “where the heart is”? Or is it a place where you are accepted when the rest of the world has abandoned you and pushed you into a corner, riddling you with labels, stereotypes, and hate?
Hypothetical questions, not looking for answers.. Just thinking out loud.
You are hitting a cord, Lulu
Home is the struggle and the valiant and principled people whom we encounter who ease the burden and who also struggle and who inspire. For me they include Mahmoud Darwish, Edward Said, Archmandrate Hanna Atallah, Reverend Mitri Rehab, Patriarch Michael Sabbah, Azmi Bishara, the artists Vladmir Tamari and Kamal Boulatta, Professor Ben Dor, Marcel Khalife and the fallen: the poet Kamal Nasser and the writer of “The Land of the Sad Oranges,” Ghassan Kanafani,the fallen shaheed who met tanks with rocks; the little boys, most of whom did not live past their teens, whom the lovely Jewish mother of Mer Khamis taught drama during the first intifadah and who were killed during the second intifadah, home is honoring the children of the first intifada, who encountered a state whose policy was to break their bones, home is our Jewish friends such as Marlene of Al-Awda, Ellen Cantarow, Gilad Atzmon, who never fails to speak at his concerts of the horrors inflicted upon Palestinians, Israel Shahak, Leah Tsmel, Felicia Langer . . .
Home is peace with justice which means that the world will one day enforce UN Resolution 194 which recognizes the inalienable right of Palestinians to return to their homes. Home is maintaining a principled stand in spite of adversity. Home is never wavering for what in one’s heart one believes is right.
Asalaamu alaikum sisters in Islam. If a muslimah wanted to leave the deen, how should she go about it? I’ve lost complete faith in Muhammad (saws) and cannot believe in Allah, jinn, angels, and imaginary things anymore. I want to become one of the atheists. I mean no offence. My husband doesn’t know about this, so please, any advice may help. Ma’asalamah.
Shahidah,
You already are an atheist now. Not believing in a religion (Deen), or God (Allah, Jesus, Krishna, etc..), that by itself is a new belief. I mean, after all believing in a religion (any religion) or not believing in any is by itself a belief in something. Now you can call it what you want. So, I can’t understand what you are expecting from your question! To tell you how not to belief? Or to tell you how to become an atheist? Both have no answer. It is either way having faith in this or that. That’s all what it takes.
Hope that makes it easy on you ?
A simple CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR would be enough this time without the usual - and unusual- adjectives that we add to those two occasions as we do with many others.
I hope this winter spreads a warm blanket of mothers’ prayers and children’s laughs all over Palestine and the rest of the arab world wherever there is a soul in need.
Peace to the world ..
And please, what is the source of this cartoon? It’s magnificent.
Thank you.
Amen!
Sorry, Amal. I don’t know the source of the cartoon. I got it by email from a friend.
season’s greetings.. all the best for 2006 and beyond
Your cartoon made me laugh and cry. I made my first trip to Palestine in October, and when I listened to the Christmas story on December 24 at church, I wondered what would happen to the Christ child if Mary and Joseph tried to enter Bethlehem now. I have heard that over 57 women have given birth at checkpoints and seperation walls since their inception, and of those 1/3 involved the death of the mother or the infant.
My wish for 2006 is that Christians worldwide unite with Muslims in their nonviolent condemnation of occupied Palestine.