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Mahmoud Darwish: In Jerusalem

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Resistance will continue .. #palestine #Jerusalem @SanduKanKanack: image via ibrahem_km @ibrahem_km, 7 November 2014


In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,
I walk from one epoch to another without a memory
to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing
the history of the holy . . . ascending to heaven
and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love
and peace are holy and are coming to town.
I was walking down a slope and thinking to myself: How
do the narrators disagree over what light said about a stone?
Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?
I walk in my sleep. I stare in my sleep. I see
no one behind me. I see no one ahead of me.
All this light is for me. I walk. I become lighter. I fly
then I become another. Transfigured. Words
sprout like grass from Isaiah’s messenger
mouth: “If you don’t believe you won’t believe.”
I walk as if I were another. And my wound a white
biblical rose. And my hands like two doves
on the cross hovering and carrying the earth.
I don’t walk, I fly, I become another,
transfigured. No place and no time. So who am I?
I am no I in ascension’s presence. But I
think to myself: Alone, the prophet Mohammad
spoke classical Arabic. “And then what?”
Then what? A woman soldier shouted:
Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you?
I said: You killed me . . . and I forgot, like you, to die.


Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008): In Jerusalem, 2004, translated by Fady Joudah



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[Israeli police detain a Palestinian youth following clashes after Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz]Undercover IDF kidnap and detain Palestinian children in #Jerusalem. #Palestine. Scum of the earth: photo by Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters via F. @Palestinianism, 9 November 2014

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Still they have courage faith and standing against evil forces. #AqsaUnderAttack #HandsOffAlAqsa: image via Aamir Hayat @wajdnali100, 6 November 2014

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Men under 35yo in the alleyways of the Old City not allowed into Al Aqsa for prayer: image via Alexander Marquardt @MarquardtA, 7 November 2014

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Israel 'pushing for religious warfare', Palestinian minister says #Jerusalem: image via Malika Bilal @mmbilal, 7 November 2014


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New restrictions on access to Al-Aqsa Mosque #Aqsa #AqsaUnderAttack: image via DAILY SABAH Breaking @DSBreaking, 7 November 2014

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A Palestinian makes a hole in the separation wall in #Jerusalem 1 day the whole wall will come down #AlAqsaUnderAttack: image via handsoffAlaqsa #BDS @azadzman, 8 November 2014

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Masjid al-Aqsa completely closed down by Israel and no Palestinians are allowed in! #AqsaUnderAttack #FreePalestine: image via Ibrahim Ellily @hima_madrid92, 31 October 2014

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Jerusalem. Access at Muslim religious site denied as part of the continuing escalation of the occupation forces against Palestinians: image via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 3 November 2014
 
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Jerusalem. Occupation gangs prevent Muslims entering Al-Agsa Mosque today while keeping the site open to settlers: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 2 November 2014

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Desecration of holy site by Zionist settlers guarded by occupation gangs today: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 3 November 2014

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Israeli forces re-open Al-Aqsa grounds to Zionist settlers: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 4 November 2014

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For the first time the occupation army enters the Aqsa Mosque, the most serious violation so far: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 4 November 2014

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Israeli forces attack determined worshipers in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 4 November 2014

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Jerusalemites burning settlers' car: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 4 November 2014

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''All Muslims are a part of one body''. When it comes to these things, we must make our voice heard!: image via Mustafa Yaleze @uAmsterdam66, 5 November 2014

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Don't say "There is nothing to do." Pray for KUDUS! Pray for all of us!! #AqsaUnderAttack #AKSAcigneniyorSUSMA: image via Gülsümm @gulsumkr, 5 November 2014, 5 November 2014

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Aqsa occupied Ummah under the Qur'an Qur'anic feet deep sleep wake up anymore @AqsaUnderAttack #AksalcinHareketeGec: image via #Güllü @Memleketim_36, 5 November 2014

 

@QudsN From #Shuafat camp in #Jerusalem...#AlAqsaUnderAttack #JerusalemUnderAttack: images via Kholoud Lafi @kholoudPal, 5 November 2014


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Activestills' Abu-Rmeleh followed night clashes in #Shuafat and #JerusalemOldCity: image via Activestills @activestills, 8 November 2014

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Occupation gangs storm charity hospital before kidnapping wounded young man: image via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 8 November 2014

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Confrontations between youths and the Zionist occupation soldiers near the Ofer prison: images via Palinfo @PalinfoAr, 6 November 2014

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