انفِر بأقصاك ما استطعتَ فإنه مسراكَ
واعكِف على أبواب صبرك إنّها
ساعات حسمٍ تُهلك الأفاكَ .
يا رابطين على جراح مسيرنا
يا عاكفين على تراب أسيرنا
والله ذا التاريخ في صبر لكم يتحاكى .
انفِر كفاكَ تخاذلاً -يا حرقتي-
هذا الأسير أيا فتى مسراكَ
انفر خفيفاً أو ثقيلاً لا تزِغ
شيطانُ عجزكَ بالهوى أغواكَ
لا تعجزنّ عن الدفاع أيا بعيدُ بنصرةٍ
حتى ولو في شقّ حرفٍ إن أغاظ عداكَ
يقررون عليه الرحيل. يسحبون الأرضَ من تحت قدميه. ولم تكن الأرضُ بساطاً اشتراه من السوق، فاصل فى ثمنه ثم مد يده إلى جيبه ودفع المطلوب فيه،وعاد يحمله إلى داره وبسطه وتربع عليه فى اغتباط.
لم تكن بساطاً بل أرضاً، تراباً زرع فيه عمره وعروق الزيتون. فما الذى يتبقى من العمرِ بعد الاقتلاع؟ .. في المسا يغلقُ باب الدارِ عليه وعلى الحنين.. تأتيه غرناطة.. يقولُ يا غربتي! راحت غرناطة.. يسحبونها من تحت قدميه, ولم تكن بساطاً اشتراهُ من سوق بالانسية الكبير ( ثلاثية غرناطة )
سلسلة الصور دي إهداء لروح ستنا رضوى عاشور
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Glimpse of Granada (20)
This series of photos is dedicated to the beautiful spirit of Radwa Ashour
الجاليري دا تقريباً أصغَر مكان دخلناه من ساعة ما وصلنا دَهَب, البوابة بتاعته بتشد اي حد معدي انه يتفرج ويتصور جنبها, لما تدخل جوا هتشوف الحاجات دي على ضوء خفيف جاي من برة مفيش نور تاني بالنهار, المكان من جمال الحاجات اللي فيه عمرك ما هتحس بضيقه, ولو هاوي تصوير مش هتفتكر انك تشتري حاجة وهتفتكر ان المكان دا معمول عشان يتصور بس
Every year since 1976, on March 30, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land Day. Though it may sound like an environmental celebration, Land Day marks a bloody day in Israel when security forces gunned down six Palestinians, as they protested Israeli expropriation of Arab-owned land in the country’s north to build Jewish-only settlements.
The Land Day victims were not Palestinians from the occupied territories, but citizens of the state, a group that now numbers over 1.6 million people, or 20.5 percent of the population. They are inferior citizens in a state that defines itself as Jewish and democratic, but in reality is neither.
On that dreadful day, in response to Israel’s announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of acres of Palestinian land for “security and settlement purposes,” a general strike and marches were organized in Palestinian towns within Israel, from the Galilee to the Negev. The night before, in a last-ditch attempt to block the planned protests, the government imposed a curfew on the Palestinian villages of Sakhnin, Arraba, Deir Hanna, Tur'an, Tamra and Kabul, in the Western Galilee. The curfew failed; citizens took to the streets. Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as those in the refugee communities across the Middle East, joined in solidarity demonstrations.
In the ensuing confrontations with the Israeli army and police, six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed, about 100 wounded, and hundreds arrested. The day lives on, fresh in the Palestinian memory, as in 1976, the conflict is not limited to Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but is ever-present in the country’s treatment of its own Palestinian Arab citizens.
The month following the killings, an internal government paper, written by senior Interior Ministry official Yisrael Koenig, was leaked to the press. The document, which became known as the Koenig Memorandum, offered recommendations intended to “ensure the [country’s] long-term Jewish national interests.” These included “the possibility of diluting existing Arab population concentrations.”
Israel has been attempting to “dilute” its Palestinian population - both Muslims and Christians - ever since.
the situation is as dire as ever. Racism and discrimination, in their rawest forms, are rampant in Israel, and are often more insidious than physical violence. Legislation aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Israel is part of public discourse. Israeli ministers do not shy away from promoting “population transfers” of Palestinian citizens - code for forced displacement.