whenfreedommatters:

“Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the “religious” claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation … where Spain used to be, as the European zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine? …

In short the Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history”.  - Malcolm X

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perjalanansunyi:

Enough for Me
Enough for me to die on her earth 
be buried in her 
to melt and vanish into her soil 
then sprout forth as a flower 
played with by a child from my country. 
Enough for me to remain 
in my country’s embrace 
to be in her close as a handful of dust 
a sprig of grass a flower.

— Fadwa Touqan

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whenfreedommatters:

“Our shouting is louder than our actions, 
Our swords are taller than us, 
This is our tragedy. 
In short 
We wear the cape of civilisation 
But our souls live in the stone age.”  

— Nizar Qabbani

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