Palestine

Palestine will always be in our hearts.

History will never delete this period of time when we are experiencing one of the most horrible colonial periods in history, and one of the worst examples of it.

They fired millions of people from their land and are oppressing millions more under their apartheid regime. Even in Israel itself, there is an apartheid system that separates Jews from the original Arabs, who were not fired or killed when this cancerous country came into existence.

Palestine has been in a state of disaster ever since Israel came to prove by gun and blood that they are stronger than any law in the world.

When I first heard this girl, I was shaking so much. NEVER have I felt such a strong reaction to anything before. Every time I hear her, I feel like my entire existence has stopped for her. I can't explain it!

I don't know what language it has been translated into!

I will translate the poetry into English so you can understand what she is saying. So, here is each tent in Arabic and English:

فلسطين
"Palestine "

ِفلسطينِ، انا اسمي فلسطين
"Palestine", my name is "Palestine"
نقشت إسمي على كل الميادينِ
I sculptured my names on all fields

بخط بارزاً يسمو على كل العناوينِ
By a prominent line transcends all addresses
حروف إسمي تلاحقني تعايشني تغذيني
My name's letters; follow me, live me, feed me

تبث النار في روحي وتنبض في شراييني
Scatter the fire in my soul and pulses in my veins

جبال النهر تعرفني مغاورها وتدريني
River's mountains caves knows me and flow me

بذلت الطاقة الكبرى وقلت لامتي كوني
I gave the great energy, and I said to my nation to be

صلاح الدين في اعماق اعماقي يناديني
"Salahuddin" in my deepest depths calling me *

وكل عروبتي للثار للتحرير تدعوني
And all my Arabism for revenge for the liberation is calling me

ورايات التي طويت على ربوات حطينِ
And flags, which were wrapped upon the knolls of "Hattin" *

وصوت مؤذن الاقصى يهيب بنا اغيثوني
And the voice of "Aqsa" muezzincalls upon us: Help us **

وألاف من الاسرى وألاف المساجينِ
And thousands of internees and thousands of prisoners
تنادي الامة الكبرى وتهتف بالملايينِ
ARE calling the nation's major and shout to millions

تقول لهم الى القدس يا قبلة الدينِ
Saying them to "Jerusalem", O religion's kiblah ***

إلى حرب تدك الظلم تزهق روح صهيونِ
For a war destroys the injustice and kills the spirit of "Zion"****
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إلى حرب تدك الظلم تزهق روح صهيونِ
For a War destroys the injustice and kills the spirit of "Zion"

وترفع في سماء الكون اعلام فلسطينِ
And rising in the universe's sky the "Palestinian" flags

:وتهدر كلمتي تمضي
And my word growls:

فلسطينِ فلسطينِ فلسطينِ
Palestine, Palestine, Palestine

* Hattin is the name of the area in Palestine where Salahuddin defeated the Crusaders many centuries ago.

** + *** The Aqsa Mosque is located in Jerusalem and is of great importance to Muslims. Before we started praying towards the Kiblah in Mecca, we prayed towards the Aqsa Mosque.

Kiblah is the place where we pray.

A muezzin is the person who calls for prayer in mosques.

**** Zion refers to Zionism, to the movement behind the existence of Israel in Palestine and all the disasters that have befallen millions of Palestinian people. :(