I am about to bring up a really sensitive issue and I urge all
respondents, if there be any, to show consideration in their
replies.
''Jerusalem'
On a roof in the Old City
Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
The white sheet of a woman who is my enemy,
The towel of a man who is my enemy,
To wipe off the sweat of his brow.
In the sky of the Old City
A kite.
At the other end of the string,
A child
I can't see
Because of the wall.
We have put up many flags,
They have put up many flags.
To make us think that they're happy.
To make them think that we're happy.
-Yehuda Amichai
Today is 'Jerusalem Day'. A day which the Muslim world
commenmorates the Palestinian struggle. Throughout this day,
Muslims from Tehran to Cairo take to the streets in protests of the
Israeli juggernaut that has repressed their fellow Muslims from
their rightful inheritence. While watching the news a while ago, I
came across a scene where a contingent of men from the militant
group 'Hizbullah' marched down the streets of Beirut to the
ruptious applause of the surrounding crowd. It was a scene not just
of conflict, but a scene that reflects the establishment of power
by groups that breed upon conflict to sustain this power.
Similarly, we look at the democratic state of Israel, poltics has
been degraded to the level of where people's top concern is when
the next rocket is going to fly in from the refugee camps or when
is the next suicide bomber going to strike at the price of human
lives? So what is the Palestinian Cause? What is Israel's
self-defined mannifest destiny?
The road map? No, it is the power derived from conflict.
