Remi Kanazi – This poem will not end apartheid

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1. seafoid says:

   November 18, 2011 at 5:17 pm

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   He is so good. He destroys the hasbara and shows up Zionism for what it is- 3rd rate bigotry, like 1950s apartheid

   Only as equals
   by Remi Kanazi

   Every time I think of 9/11
   I see burning flesh
   dripping off the bones of Iraqi children in Fallujah
   Now Gaza
   I tend to memorialize the forgotten
   The collateral damage
   eclipsing america’s unpunished crimes
   Maybe it’s because I’m a numbers guy
   Because if I had a dollar
   for every time
   an Iraqi died since 2003
   I’d be a millionaire
   And don’t get me wrong
   Sometimes I don’t know
   who to hate more
   The governments in the West
   Or the politicians in the East
   Who sell their souls quicker than the oil they export
   Straw men who use Palestine
   as a tool to line their pockets
   And don’t give a nickel to their people
   Quisling governments
   Who stitch mouths shut for a check
   from Washington and AIPAC
   How can they be Israel’s prototypical anti-Semite
   If you are signing peace accords
   to oppress your own people?
   And then Orientalists and hypocrites
   talk about how democracy can’t be allowed the Middle East
   Because of what happened in Gaza
   A Hamas boogyman
   wrapped in democratic elections
   Rahm Emanuel wants to educate me
   and my people
   about democracy gone wrong
   Why doesn’t try implementing one in Israel first?
   Instead of bowing down to terrorists
   like his father and the IDF
   Lauding a third rate, racist, European society
   that’s imploding faster
   Than its moral standing in the world
   Enlightened like 1950s Afrikaners
   and slave traders
   Just because the house is beautiful
   Doesn’t mean the bones you built it on
   have fully decomposed
   The Israeli left
   is about as alive as Ariel Sharon
   I’m sick and tired of asking for permission to resist
   From antiquated leftists and progressives
   Who care more about keeping it Kosher
   than moving things forward
   I put down my pen and waving fist
   to resist with college kids and Palestinians
   Boycott and divest!
   Because who cares about
   preserving a living
   when governments are killing civilians
   We’ll boycott Lev Leviev,
   Caterpillar and your apartheid companies
   We’re taking back the right of return
   and the keys to our country
   Because we never asked you
   to go back to Europe
   or sit in open air prisons
   I’m not asking for your advice
   I’m explaining the decision
   You can stay here
   with us
   but only as equals
   It’s not that you’re Israeli
   it’s that you’re wrong
   That’s why I fight for my people

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2. seafoid says:

   November 18, 2011 at 6:19 pm

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   Omar Offendum – ‘On this Land’ (Darwish), London, 12.11.11

   from the same event

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3. seafoid says:

   November 18, 2011 at 6:27 pm

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   It was called Remi Kanazi and Special Guests

   Rafeef Ziadah -shades of anger

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   Rafeef Ziadah

   I am your savage

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4. annie says:

   November 18, 2011 at 8:36 pm

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   if you ever get a chance to see him live..he’s dynamite.

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5. dumvitaestspesest says:

   November 19, 2011 at 8:52 am

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   Great poem. It shows his frustration. Frustration with going around endlessly in circles. Talking about rights , peace , justice while opressions towards Palestinians are the daily norm, while stealing the land, depriving water, destroying crops are just another daily fact..
   There is no justice in the world. But we do have to fight for it, because it exists/lives in our hearts. POWER always pleases, cooperates with another POWER.
   Regular people don’t count for them. They only use them as a cannon’s fodder.

   Poland was also left by their allies (France, G Britain), and attacked from both sides almost at the same time( 1.09.39-Nazis, 1.17.39-Russian’s Army) during WWII.
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   Then, in 1944/45 was AGAIN left by trecherous allies ,
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   and gave to Stalin to devour.
   Polish Underground Movement was the BEST ORGANIZED in the whole Europe, very effective in targeting enemy . ALSO, the MOST under-appreciated, the least mentioned after the war. Silenced, ( many of its leaders and memebers were brutally killed by communists after the war), many left abroad fearing repercussions in the country with a forced communism.
   AS a thank you token, for bravely fighting Nazis during WWII, Poland was AWARDED by “allies”by being thrown to Stalin’s lion den.
   Are we talking about justice??????? What ….justice……?
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