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NAKBLINKA: The Cleansing of CoExistence |
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Michelangelo's PIETA
AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) Israel's PIETA
If a single picture is worth a thousand words, the picture above is worth incalculably more!
In this scene, a Palestinian woman -- ongoing victim of Israel’s oppressive occupation -- comes to the humane aid of a Jew, Emily Henochowicz, who lost an eye after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister fired by a fellow Jew.
Emily was standing peacefully during a demonstration in West Bank at the Qalandiya checkpoint on that black Monday, May 31, 2010 -- to protest the Gaza Flotilla massacre -- when Israeli Border Police fired a large number of tear gas canisters directly at the heads of Emily and another International Solidarity Movement activist.
In addition to losing her left eye,
the bones surrounding her eye socket, cheekbone and jawbone are all fractured.
— Dom Martin Source: (http://palsolidarity.org/2010/05/12604/)
A THOUSAND EYES FOR AN EYE An eye For an eye No one knew It’s a thousand eyes For an eye Compounded By a million lies!
It’s Truth Impounded with brute!
It’s democracy Founded on the theocracy Of hypocrisy!
When the Palestinian was slain No disdain From the Global community Just a handshake Another veto And sacrosanct immunity!
In humanity’s landscape Life is life Fair is fair: Where’s Blair?
A thousand eyes For an eye: It’s a tie Between evil And the devil!
Around yesterday Change was promised Today, it’s Emily Another selfless member Of the human family: Dismembered!
The present is tarnished The future orphaned: Shame on fame!
A thousand eyes A million lies A Flotilla of Hope Ambushed by the dope Of elected zealots Bigots and despots !
Hell or Heil Whither Israel?
— Dom Martin
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Dom Martin is a surrealist artist, poet and writer. He is the author of GENOCIDE: The New Order of Imperialism (2008) and COEXISTENCE: Humanity’s Wailing Wall (2006). |