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Hatemongering Israeli Defense Minister Denigrates Palestine’s Poet Laureate

Neocon lunatics run Israel, a crowd similar to America’s ruling authority under either right wing of its duopoly government.

Ultranationalist, hatemongering Israeli defense minister/former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is an embarrassment to legitimate governance. In Israel, he holds high office, an Arab-hating gangster with his finger on his nation’s nuclear trigger.

On Israeli Army Radio, he compared revered Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941 – 2008) with “glorification of the literary marvels of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kamph” – a shocking perversion of truth, typical of how Lieberman and likeminded Israeli extremists operate.

Regarded as Palestine’s national poet, Darwish won numerous literary awards, his spirit and work reflecting Palestinian anguish and hope.

He’s described as representing “the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry.”

At age six, Israeli soldiers destroyed his Galilee al-Barawi village, turning it into rock-strewn soil. He and his family fled to Lebanon, returning later to Galilee’s Deir al-Asad village.

For a decade, he became a “present-absentee,” persecuted for his activism, incarcerated and placed under house arrest several times.

“My homeland is a suitcase,” he once said. “In fact, for years my homeland has been my language alone…I am from here, and here I am, and I am I, and here am I, and I am I…forever here, here forever.”

Gideon Levy called his “superb poems (some of) the most powerful love songs ever written to this bleeding land. His words of yearning cannot fail to move anyone who reads them.”

Home for him was “sit(ting) with oneself – with books, with music, and with white paper. The house is like a room to listen to one’s inner voice and try to use the time in the best way possible.”

He called exile the opposite of home…When deprived of it, it turns into a need and a lust…the ultimate aim of the whole journey.”

On August 8, 2008, he died following open-heart surgery, lapsing into a coma, then death. Buried on a plot next to Ramallah’s Cultural Palace, he received a state funeral attended by thousands of Palestinians and other admirers.

His “Silence in Gaza” in part said:

“Gaza is far from its relatives and close to its enemies, because whenever Gaza explodes, it becomes an island and it never stops exploding.”

“It scratched the enemy’s face, broke his dreams and stopped his satisfaction with time. Because in Gaza time is something different.”

“Because in Gaza, time is not a neutral element.”

“It does not compel people to cool contemplation, but rather to explosion and a collision with reality.”

“Time there does not take children from childhood to old age, but rather makes them men in their first confrontation with the enemy.”

“Time in Gaza is not relaxation, but storming the burning noon. Because in Gaza values are different, different, different.”

“The only value for the occupied is the extent of his resistance to occupation. That is the only competition there.”…..read on at http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/07/hatemongering-israeli-defense-minister.html