Greetings from here. Here in Gaza, we welcome you from our vast and abundant sea; a sea of stories, tales, migrations, travels. We are grateful for your dedication and solidarity and to the flow of human conscience, and to an inevitable justice that is surely coming … We welcome you from our vineyards, where the sun sings lullabies of its beginnings, full of colour, casting bronze shimmers as it sets over our eternal, passionate sea. We welcome you from our ancient and ever-renewing olive trees. We welcome you from the Mentar Hills in the south all the way to the highest point, in our Galilee. Our library, our consciousness, our heritage, and our memory is embroidered in all colours … in light, joy and good omens. They are shelling our homes, every house a Hiroshima; souls leave us, dreams depart and so do memories. In a moment we become racing numbers on a television screen; a moment before was a moment of life. So I tell the thickheaded fools that know nothing of life this: we are coming, we are ever-present. Because it is Gazas patience that has painted the light of hope, the stories of young women and night lanterns. It will not be much longer for this night, they will not shatter its morning, they will not extinguish its heart. [It is] Gaza the voice that has defeated cannons and battered their tyranny with an all-encompassing hope. We love you, people of the Balkans; our partners in pain and pride. Sarajevo and Gaza are witnesses to the injustice of history, relentless in the conscience of history. film director Abdel Salam Shehadeh
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:54:54 +0000
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