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A Dictionary of (Palestinian) Silence

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We are forced to witness our “fellow humans”, as they are bombed, buried-both-alive-&-dead-under-rubble, assassinated, murdered, killed, executed, slaughtered, massacred, starved, “cleansed” ethnically and exterminated…all in the name of “security” “the right to self defense”

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HUNGER (& the HATRED)

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“There is no food to feed my children nor is there any bread… we came to the point where we are eating tree leaves we are eating the food of this donkey”

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Hind Rajab, Almost Six Years Old, Gaza, Palestine: Dead. (A Poem of Barbarism)

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“I’m so scared, please come. Come take me. Please, will you come? Hind Rajab. A Poem of Barbarism, by Séamas Carraher

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“The Bird was Crying…” An Unwritten (GAZA) Poem on an (ISRAELI) Bomb

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“…we found a bird in our home / chirping, chirping / chirping, meaning it was crying…” / Ahmad speaks, from the ruins of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza

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In this Place of Tragedy

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and here now, Mr Netanyahu / is the Promised Land of your Laughing Soldiers / your savage soldiers, these cowardly-killers, / whose bones are now pure poison / whose mothers will no longer recognise them

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War on Children (Gaza, Palestine)

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An old man sits at my deserted table / “how could they do this”,  he asks. / He asked the walls. / He asked the flowers that had already died / in October. A poem by séamas carraher

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One More Question for Gaza – after the decision of the International Court of Justice

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“You can’t really order Israel to do everything within its power to stop the genocide while not ordering a ceasefire… a ceasefire is what we want, we want now… and it’s the most important thing to stop the genocide”

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“Do you wish to return home”? Letter to Israel of the Zionist Settlers

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“These leaflets were dropped on Gaza’s starving population today. It’s one more clear and cruel way Israel is telling the Palestinians in Gaza that they are being deliberately targeted, starved, and uprooted.”

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Go Tell Your Poem (to the children of Gaza)

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this world / is too old for poetry / or too young to heed its warning, / or too heartbroken now / to grieve its exiled ghosts

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