Monday, October 02, 2006


What is often forgotten about immigrants is that they are also emigrants, leaving behind a home, a family, a culture, a memory, a consciousness. Constantly struggling between the double consciousness, ever searching for a constant state of being, ever journeying from a distant awareness. Fragmented by the furious stream of lost thought, I am, in each world, viewed as an intruder.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Say NO to war and racism

Join the Fast in Solidarity with Muslim communities

Organized by:

NOWAR: The Arab American “No to War and Racism” Committee

http://www.solidarityfast.blogspot.com

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

"All the world's a stage...

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages."

With this world being only a set, what happens when we strike it?
What's behind this flat facade? Are we bound to play out our roles, helplessly?
If we do not write our own parts and act willingly and improvise then we become more puppet than human. The stage is set, no doubt. But the set can change and the players can change and the lines can change. Behind us are only the materials that we oursleves have structured together to hide the unpleasent.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Make me stronger

I don’t hate pain but the source causing pain. Pain is a life’s necessity. Pain makes you aware and alive. Without pain we would be lifeless blobs without feeling without flex or reflex. You experience pain so you fight the source of that pain, without that there is no fight, your body and mind are numb and let the source overrun you until death. I don’t need painkillers. I need to feel everything around me, inside me, affecting me. I need pain. I need it to survive, to eliminate the cause and regain health.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

The Unbelievable weight of breathing

At times these years in repetitive succession, I find myself in absent sense of memory of breath. I stop breathing not remembering the basic instinctive function. My mind occupied, I fail to breath, my land occupied, I fail to breath. Every second waking in mourning spent from occupying events. And as I pass from this reality out into a state of being not my own, I breath once again from habit and need but not from conscience activity. And again remain occupied.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Thursday, August 17, 2006


Munitions mangle and i sit silent by the soft gentle light of my screen silently sipping my muddled tea swirling the smoke puffs of my charred lungs inhaling and exhaling ash contaminants silently silently tearing twice once from the smoke once from the screaming scenes and i am silent still silent silent silent how long can i in silence suppress my solicitude solemnly surging let my agonizingly anemic words age against aggress while the winds coil me hopeless helpless in silence while munitions mangle and ordnances orphan

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

tusstled but not worn



By my childhood home crumpled grey, I watched him rise from ashen fields with a somnolent smile seemingly speaking. “For all evil’s bidding lined up against my weary limbs I am still free, that evil’s rain not now nor ever shall reign on me."

What's Next?

Monday, August 14, 2006

Resolving to break the rules



The 1967 war began when Israel attacked Egypt. Doesn't that make most of Israel's long standing claims of defense invalid?

UN resolution 194 calls for the right for refugees to return and be compensated for their property loss. There are hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who had their homes destroyed by Israel and are not allowed to even visit.

UN resolution 242 "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." and calls for "withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" and right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force". These territories occupied included the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Palestinian villages have been absorbed by Israel. Israel annexed large chunks of Arab land and has refused to return anything other than the Sinai. Including a chunk of Lebanon a country that has never attacked Israel.

UN resolution 446 declares that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are illegal. There are hundreds of illegal Israeli settlements with more than 250,000 settlers on Arab land.

The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an occupying power from confiscating occupied land and transferring its own population to that territory. Israel has gained more land every year by pushing back Palestinians in the name of self-defense.

UN resolution 425 called for the immediate and unconditional withdraw of all Israeli forces from all Lebanese territory. Israel has remained in Lebanon occupying it for 28 years. 1978-2006. Although Hezbollah chased Israel out in 2000, they remained in Chebaa Farms and now have returned full force.

There have been hundreds of UN resolutions against Israel. All have been rejected or ignored by Israel. Other would-be resolutions have been vetoed by the U.S.
There have been about 450 resolutions condemning Israel since 1967.

Israel violated the blue line repeatedly since their so-called withdraw from Lebanon in 2000, kidnapping civilians, striking targets in the South and terrorising the public with low flight sonic booms. This is according to the UN.

Israel has never left Lebanon, including occupying the Chebaa Farms.

Israel left 300,000 land mines in Lebanon refusing to hand over a map of mines to the UN.

Israel has now littered Lebanese villages with thousands of unexploded granades. There have been at least two deaths since the cease-fire.

1948 as the world was rewarding Zionists with a state, Israel occupied and annexed Seven Villages in South Lebanese.

1967 Israel occupies part of Lebanon, Lebanon was not a participant in the war.

1968 Israel raids Beirut destroying civilian planes.

1978 Israel invades and occupies Lebanon.

1981 Israel carries out multiple attacks against Lebanon.

1982 Israel begins a large scale invasion and occupation in Lebanon killing 20,000 people. Israel has occupied Lebanon continuously ever since.

1993 between Operation Peace for Galilee and Operation Grapes of Wrath Israel carries out Operation Accountability, another invasion.

1996 Grapes of Wrath more murdering of civilians as Israel shells a UN relief post to massacre more than 100 civilian refugees in Qana seeking shelter from Israel bombing.

2000-2006 Israel continues to attack Lebanon, kidnap farmers, steal water and so on and so on...

2006 Israel launches full scale war against Lebanon for two soldiers and this was the begining of the conflict? how gullible is the world?

Israel continues to strike in Gaza non-stop killing 20 civilains a day.

Israel has kidnaped more than 20 Palestinian parlimentarians and even the Speaker of Parliment and blames Palestine for not controlling their territory.

Every international law has been broken by Israel, no UN resolution has been respected by Israel unless it targets Arabs. Even then the violate the parts addressing them.

Before a Jewish State was created in any form, there were Zionist gangs and a Zionist Army that committed countless massacres on Palestinians and demolished village after village and stealing their land. How is it possible to have a "defense force" without having a country. How is it possible to operate like an independent state within an existing state ignoring the laws of the government, carrying arms and attacking civilians and get rewarded with a country on top of an existing country? Israel is the originator of terrorism. It has been in terror practice since before it even had a flag starting in England with executions of parliament members and massacres on Arabs on Arab land and continuing today for more than 80 years.

As extensive as this list is it doesn't even document the countless humanitarian rights violations committed by Israel, the killing of civilians, the targeting of UN peace-keepers, the countless assasinations, the testing of new secret weapons on civilian targets in Lebanon and Palestine, the use of torture, the use of chemical weapons and cluster bombs, and of course the targeting of fleeing civilians seeking refuge.

Of course this is only the tip of a very evil iceberg.

Cease-fire? How can we trust such an evil entity?