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Tory Party declares war on British servicemen and women

Cinderella Palestine

Poetry for Palestine

Mama, habibti mama

When you hold me in your arms

Don’t you cry

Hold your tears,  show me your smile

Where I am now, there are no bombs

No bullets shooting, no guns

No more fear and no more pain

All quiet and serene

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Mama, habibti mama

When you search where my room once was

If you find my Eid dress

Never to be worn, for I am gone

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Don’t be sad, for I am really fine

When you kiss my favourite pink shoes

Don’t cry, the stains on them

My shoes in heaven are rainbow and clean

I can put them on all by myself, now

Then I jump, I float and fly

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Mama, habibti mama

If you find baba, when dust and smoke settles down

Tell him not to cry

Hold his hand and say: “your daughter is fine”

Her translucent wings are made of stars

Her dress has no blood stains, no more

Silk with sparkles, her favourite…

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Baba Stop Sobbing

Poetry for Palestine

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Baba habibi

Don’t hide your eyes in pain

Don’t bow your head down in sorrow

Lift it up, hold it high

look up, look up

You may see my grin and twinkly eyes

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Baba, I kiss your heart, stop sobbing, don’t cry

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If you could see me now

You would wipe your tears

and jump of joy

Now, I go to bed with no fear

No longer do I need to block my ears to sleep

No longer do I wet my bed at night

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Up there, where I now reside

No F16 fly above

No drones, no gas, no smoke

No bombs fall from sky

Only the face of Most loving

Angels humming

Stars shimmering

and dancing butterflies

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“Please stop!”: Pope makes plea for peace | News , World | THE DAILY STAR

With his voice appearing to crack with emotion, the pope broke off from his scripted remarks to make a direct appeal for fighting to end.

“Please stop! I ask you with all my heart, it’s time to stop. Stop, please!”

While he made no direct reference to the situation in the Gaza Strip, the comments came after a humanitarian truce broke down Sunday with the resumption of fighting in which more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians including dozens of children, have been killed.

“Brothers and sisters, never war, never war! I am thinking above all of children, who are deprived of the hope of a worthwhile life, of a future,” he said.

“Dead childen, injured children, mutilated children, orphaned children, children whose toys are things left over from war, children who can’t smile any more,” he said.

via “Please stop!”: Pope makes plea for peace | News , World | THE DAILY STAR.

Hamas announces 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire | News | DW.DE | 27.07.2014

(Deja vu WWl where opposing armies bombarded each other as truces came closer just to show they could – we laugh or wonder “what the…?” but more people die and truces falter, just because those controlling the fighters but not on front lines want to “look” strong – fail. Hamas says yes, Israel says no, then Israel says yes and Hamas says no. You put your right foot out, you pull your right foot back, you put your left foot in and pull your left foot back and shake it all about – that’s hokie-pokie war!)

The militant group Hamas has announced that it has agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce. This came as heavy fighting raged in the Gaza Strip after Hamas broke a previous humanitarian ceasefire observed by Israel.

via Hamas announces 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire | News | DW.DE | 27.07.2014.

Woe unto thee, ye “Israel” !

Poetry for Palestine

Micah 2: 1-4

Woe to those who plan iniquity,

to those who PLOT EVIL on their beds!

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At morning’s light they carry it out

because it is in their power to do it.

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They covet fields and seize them,

and houses, and take them.

They defraud people of their homes,

they rob them of their inheritance.

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Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster against this people,

from which you cannot save yourselves.

You will no longer walk proudly,

for it will be a time of calamity.

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In that day people will ridicule you;

they will taunt you with this mournful song:

‘We are utterly ruined;

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You drive the women of my people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away my blessing

from their children forever.

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Get up, go away!

For this is not your resting place,

because it is defiled,

it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

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Micah 3

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The Most Wanted Middle-Eastern Terrorists

Pride's Purge

The FBI has released pictures of the most wanted middle eastern terrorists:

FBI Most wanted terrorists

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Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is publishing a full list of all the names and ages of the children killed in Gaza:

www.btselem.org

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Related articles by Tom Pride:

Daily Mail: Gaza residents make striking impression during Israeli assault catwalk

Explosions at Manchester school kill at least 16 women and children

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Special Edition: Gaza

All well worth reading if you want/need fresh perspective and understanding

Nervana

Gaza

Photo via AP

After 18 days of bloodshed, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 12- hours pause in Gaza. I took this opportunity, to collect articles that are, in my opinion, worth reading about the crisis in Gaza. 

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Israel Creates Free Fire Zone of Death – warns displaced Gazans not to return home on threat of death | Maan News Agency

The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a statement that those who stayed on in the neighborhood past the end of the ceasefire would be “putting their lives in danger,” as the army is expected to resume a heavy assault that has taken nearly 1,000 Palestinian lives so far.

via Israel warns displaced Gazans not to return home on threat of death | Maan News Agency.