Short Palestinian Poems

  Joe B. warns Bibi
    Israel needs to be disarming

  not one Palestinian to be harming ~
    Bibi finds Joe B. less than charming


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Rashida Tlaib is quite the politician, we see
Professing to be so very sorry
   For putting her pro-Palestinian druthers
   Above her desire to visit her aging grandmother...

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Everyday news heard
Palestinian in Gaza City bombarded
Israel claimed land inherited
Baby cries 
Mother shed tears
Many weeps
Never you deceit 
This is a blood tears


Kg. Delima
Kota Kinabalu
January 17, 2009
11:45AM...

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Here and there 
Everywhere
Like an exhalation

Here and there
Everywhere
Spasmodic Hiroshimas

Here and there
Everywhere
Ash in wings of foam,
Sandal-less dodders
Violently envious of
Fallen leaves

Transience naked 
Here and there
Everywhere-

Nowhere 
The eel...

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Pro-Palestinians shout
     What about?
   "How can you support
     Gaza's occupier?"

   Those who shout
     are rather dumb louts
   Gaza's occupier since 2007
     is (surprise!) ~ Hamas!

   Israel withdrew in 2005
     eighteen years ago
   Ever since then Gaza has been
     100 percent Palestinian...

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They cut down the olive trees
and shoot the farmers, unarmed, in the belly, 
in plain view of IDF soldiers, relishing the moment.
How sweet it is to die under the shade of their olive trees,
that bind them to their tortured history.
And the wind that blows the branches dancing
oblivious to their terror, beating their conspiracy.
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   Laying the ground in Gaza
     for a humanitarian pier 
   attacked by terrorist explosives today
     though the world does not find that weird…

   For it’s ‘normal’ for Hamas, which governs the Gazans
     to deny them basic human needs ~
   leaving to Israel (and the USA) millions of
     hungry Palestinian mouths to feed  
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who, US?
by Michael R. Burch

jesus was born
a palestinian child
where there’s no Room
for the meek and the mild

... and in bethlehem still
to this day, lambs are born
to cries of “no Room!”
and Puritanical scorn ...

under Herod, Trump, Bibi
their fates are the same —
the slouching Beast mauls them
and WE have no shame:

“who’s to blame?”...

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The PA declares 
       a 'Day of Rage'
     of murdering Jews
       like beasts uncaged

     May God avenge the PA's hatred and fury
       May Heaven see fit the PA to bury



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     The Palestinian Arabs (PA) in Israel have
     declared next Friday a 'Day of Rage.' No 
     more shall I 'sit idly by,' friends. Jews
     everywhere are under siege....

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The Palestinian memory is a divine chapel
for the ones who are faithful to it,
keeping hope.
Memory is light, a prayer, a sojourn, a treasure,
that makes us dream, of a free Palestine.
They might resort to genocide,
but memory delivers a fatal blow,
that saves the day, that keeps intoxicating our imagination. 
The whole parade of bombs can never extinguish its fire;
memory is the brush fire, on history's canvas, from river to the sea....

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   'From the River to the Sea'
    76% of Palestinians agree

       the murder of twelve-hundred civilian Israelis
       ~ an occasion for celebration with glee
       


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   Based on a survey about Hamas' attacks on
   Israel, taken Oct. 31- Nov 7 by the indepen
   dent 'Arab World for Research & Develop-
   ment,' a public opinion research firm based
   in the Palestinian territories. 
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The stench of death permeates the air, filled with sound of bomb explosions and
occasional siren of ambulances; the Israeli flyers ordering mass evacuation litter the ground; they are good for a poor writer's research notes, on the limits of human barbarism.
The right-wing Jews now talk of settlers' return, and the mask has fallen.  Soon the apocalypse will be replaced by a new Gaza, bereft of any Palestinian traces, sufficient cause to continue the mayhem without a pause....

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   The renowned Columbia professor, Edward Sa’id
   influenced many thousands in thought and in deed

   Pre-1970, Edward told us he was Lebanese Christian, interestingly
   Post-1970, he was suddenly a Palestinian Arab refugee  



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   From my Dartmouth days, 1968 - 72, I remember how prominent
   and revered a figure Prof. Sa'id was in both academia and on the
   international political scene... Infuriating!

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