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MER FlashBack from three years ago:
BEING FOR "PEACE NOW" IS
OFTEN MORE SELF-SERVING
THAN HELPFUL
"The only thing left is for me to
invite you to come watch me bleed..."
MER - 2 July 1997: In these
terribly depressing and confusing days while the "Palestinan Authority"
arrests professors, journalists and human rights leaders; while Israeli
troops masquerading as Arabs have become "death squads" and apartheid-style
barricades and regulations of the "autonomous" areas are common-place;
and while Arafat's lieutenants are begging for meetings with Ariel Sharon
and thanking him for his contributions to the "peace process" -- this moving
poem by a Palestinian woman intimately familiar with the tragedies of her
people and the duplicitous words of help often sent their way.
W A T C H M E B L E E D
by L.M.Hashim (Um Ahmad)
Come, my brother, enter herein -
enter my life. You wanted to know.
You wanted to see. Come taste my
strife.
You speak of peace so easily - not
knowing my war - not feeling my pain.
Your "justice of all" is only "justice
for few" while the guilty remain.
You want us to put our weapons down,
while their weapons persist. For
you - easy talk. For you- food,
family and freedom exist.
It might make you feel good to speak
out on aggression and say that
you care. But that does not give
you license to make my decisions while
I am not there.
You set up your conferences to "educate
others" on our situation.
Yet, you pick your own speakers
to represent us while we lose our nation.
You say you are with us and convince
all around you it is peace that
you seek. You say you will listen.
You say you will hear us, but you
won't let us speak.
And you with the peace signs, organizing
your marches, please only
yourselves. You think your good
thoughts can alone change the world
like your signs on the shelves.
You must face reality You think
it is simple - it simply is not.
Reality is watching your land taken
away and your relatives shot.
Two fingers up does not stop a bullet
and make everything right.
Righteous indignation does you
no good if you won't see the light.
You ask lots of questions, but won't
hear our answers about what
we need. The only thing left is
for me to invite you to come
watch me bleed...
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