In contrast to the Taliban, Al Queda, Unita, the Contras and Renamo, the Palestine liberation Organisation was not a terrorist organisation but a liberation/resistance army yet it was labelled terrorist by the CIA and Mossad. The tragedy of this is captured in a poem by Nizar Qabbani: We are accused of terrorism: if we defend the rose and a woman and the mighty verse ... and the blueness of sky ... A dominion ... nothing left therein... No water, no air ... No tent, no camel, And not even dark Arabica coffee!! ... We are accused of terrorism: if we write of a ruined homeland the ruins of a homeland torn, weak ... a homeland without an address and a nation with no name. ... A homeland forbidding us from buying a newspaper or listening to the news. A dominion where birds are forbidden from chirping. A homeland where, out of terror, its writers became accustomed to writing about nothing. A homeland, in the likeness of poetry in our lands: It is vain talk, no rhythm, imported. Ajam, with a crooked face and tongue: No beginning No end No relation to the concerns of the people mother earth and the crisis of humanity. ... A dominion ... going to peace talks with no honour no shoe. ... A homeland, men piss in their pants ... women are left to defend honour. ... Salt in our eyes Salt on our lips Salt in our words Can the self carry such dryness? // We are accused of terrorism If we refuse to die with Israels bulldozers tearing our land tearing our history tearing our Evangelium tearing our Koran tearing the graves of our prophets If this was our sin, then, lo, how beautiful terrorism is?
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:00:47 +0000
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