Homeland Hymn

Salman Masalha ||  Homeland Hymn On the mountain that kisses a star, the winds flail and wail. This is not a wind that blew in from the west, it is a wind that sighs: Who lifts up his eyes on high to the bereft land, which God has left to its own devices, filthy with hate, imprisoned in plaints and the flame of the sword...
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Arab, speak Arabic

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Salman Masalha ||  Arab, speak Arabic Israel's Arab MKs can look to Jabotinsky for inspiration about how to achieve real equality between Arabic and Hebre...
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MIDDLE EAST

  • War Games

    Israel also needs Iran. Just as Iran calls Israel the Little Satan (compared to the great American one), Israel also portrays Iran as the devil incarnate...
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  • Arab Nationalism?

    The past several years have provided decisive proof that all the pompous Arab slogans from the ideological school of the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath parties...
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE

  • For Jews only

    The Jewish messianic understanding of the "Land of Israel" is what dictated the move. Now Netanyahu will surely find a way around the High Court with general Jewish support.

  • Make way for Barghouti

    As long as Abbas bears the title “president of Palestine,” he will keep sitting there praising Palestine. But he will be bearing this name in vain...
  • Balkrishna Sama || Man Is God
    One poem from Nepal Balkrishna Sama ||   Man Is God He who loves flowers, has a tender heart. he who cannot pluck their blooms, has a ...
  • GM Sheikh: "Kahat Kabir"
    "Kahat Kabir" - Says Kabir Visual interpretations after Kabir's verses by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh 1- (1997) "Ya gh...
  • Solomon’s Mosque is in our hands
    Islam Has Never Denied the Jewish Connection to Jerusalem. On the contrary, anywhere you look in early Islamic literature, if it discusses...
 

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