Also read: Palestinian Poet and Patriot Laid to Rest
Where are our artists, Americans?
Where are OUR ARTISTS calling for an END to OUR OUTRAGES?
Palestinians paid their respects to poet Mahmoud Darwish during his funeral yesterday in the West Bank city of Ramallah. A three-day period of mourning was declared. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/ Associated Press)
Gee, the picture itself sort of puts the lie to the Zionist-controlled, anti-Muslim, Muslim-bashing, agenda-pushing, AmeriKan MSM that is constantly ramming home the "woman's rights" issue when it comes to designated enemies. But when it's friends like Israel, well.... (MSM press turning head).
"Palestinian poet buried with ceremonial pomp; Darwish praised for giving voice to 'national feeling'" by Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times | August 14, 2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank - During the six years he spent in an Israeli prison, Haidar Jaradat read one poem over and over: "My Mother," by Mahmoud Darwish.
"I long for my mother's bread," it begins. "My mother's coffee/Her touch."
"It brought me comfort and I thought about it a lot, said Jaradat, who was 16 when he was imprisoned by the Israelis for what he terms "a security issue." Now 24, he remembered the solace that Darwish's words offered him as he waited yesterday outside Ramallah's Palace of Culture for the coffin bearing the body of the Palestinian icon.
Amid pomp and circumstance just short of Yasser Arafat's 2004 state funeral, more than 5,000 mourners braved the midday August heat here to pay their respects to Darwish, the revered 67-year-old poet who died Saturday in Houston after complications from open heart surgery.
Darwish's body was flown from Jordan to Ramallah, where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received the flag-draped coffin.
"He was the master of the word and wisdom, the symbol who expressed our national feeling, our human constitution, our declaration of independence," Abbas said in a speech.
After a series of eulogies at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters, a thousands-strong procession moved across town to the Palace of Culture, where thousands more waited near Darwish's burial plot.
"We loved him. He was a poet and true Palestinian patriot," said Abdel Rahman Zabin, a 50-year-old laborer.
Zabin said he and many other Palestinians identified so strongly with Darwish because the poet's life experiences, which he wrote about directly, mirrored much of the hardships of his people.
His work resonated across political and generational lines for his ability to express the Palestinian sense of loss, anger and defiance.
Darwish's family fled their home village when Israel was founded in 1948, then later returned and settled as part of the Arab minority in the new Jewish state. His poem "Identity Card" recounted the frustrations of that minority status.
Yeah, right, they "fled" their village says the Zionist press.
A Communist activist in his youth, Darwish was repeatedly imprisoned by the Israelis before leaving the country in 1971. His exile included time in Beirut, where he lived through the 1982 Israeli siege of the Lebanese city - an experience that inspired him to write "Ode to Beirut."
"He lived the whole Palestinian life from 1948 until now," Zabin said.
The crowd that flocked to Darwish's burial reflected the broad range of his appeal: The Palestinian political elite mingled with communists who claim Darwish as one of their own and young hipsters wearing T-shirts bearing Darwish's face.
And yet, we are told incessantly of Palestinian infighting in the Zionist AmeriKan MSM.
Makes you wonder WHO is sponsoring such things, huh?
Of course, we all know USrael is backing Fatah agents to sabotage and false-flag Palestinian unity. So the Zionist press has failed.
Shirina Rantisi, a 19-year-old college sophomore, compared the poet's iconic status to that of a Palestinian Che Guevara: "He meant something to almost everyone."
He means something to me, even though I had never heard of him before (another cost of living in a Zionist-controlled culture).
I put up the posts, didn't I?
And just look at the Zionist media continue to grind the axe.
He was a WRITER, not a MILITANT REVOLUTIONARY, jewpress!!!!!
But I guess those things are one in the same to you crap-heads!
