Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 35)
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American, have stood for the Arab
people, particularly the Palestinian
people and their inherent right to live free
in their own native country and nation. It
has cost me many things to speak up in
America: financial income, assassina-
tion attempts upon my life by the JDL,
black balling of my book Theft of a
Nation, arrest and imprisonment and
other events as well. Why do | dare to
speak out? Because my people and my
culture are long destroyed and nearly
eradicated from history, but there is still
time for the Arab people. | have been in
the refugee camps filled with Palestinian
children playing in the dirt and sham-
bles...dreaming of a homeland and a
nation. The issue is much larger than the
Israelis and Palestinians, it is a struggle
for cultural supremacy, the outcome of
which will determine whether the noble
tenets of Islam and Arab culture will be
permitted to exist. One of our great
chiefs (muktar) spoke the following
words in 1883: Tecumseh, chief of the
Shawnees, said:
Where are the Pequot? Where are
the Narragansett, the Mohican, the
Pokanoket, and many other once pow-
erful tribes of our people? They have
vanished before the avarice and the
oppression of the white man, as snow
before a summer sun.
Will we let ourselves be destroyed
in our turn without struggle? Will we give
up our homes, our country bequeathed
to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of
our dead and everything that is dear
and sacred to us? | know you will cry
with me: Never!
Yet seven years later the Sabra and
Shatila of the American Indian occurred
at a place called Wounded Knee, South
Dakota, on December 29, 1890. A
peaceful Indian village of old men,
women and children were herded
together by the white ashkenazim sol-
diers and disarmed, then told they would
live in peace. On the morning of the 29th,
with the flag of the United States govern-
ment flying over the indian village, the
army opened fire on the sleeping
Indians, killing over 350 defenseless
women, babies and children. Some of
the soldiers carved chaps and saddle
covers from the female organs of the
slain Indian women. Coming upon the
scene of slaughter was a young warrior
named Black Elk. Here are his words
(Dec. 1, 1960):
«Dead and wounded children and
women and little babies were scattered
where they had tried to run away. Sol-
diers followed them as they ran and mur-
dered them. Their bodies were in heaps
because they had huddled together, and
some were scattered alone. | saw a little
baby trying to suck its mother..but the
mother was still, bloody and dead. | did
not know how much had ended that day.
When | look back now from this high hill
of my old age, | can still see the butch-
ered women and children laying in scat-
tered heaps along the crooked gulch as
plainly as | saw them with eyes still
young. And | can see that something
else died there in the bloody mud, and
was buried in the snow blizzard. A
people’s dream died there. It was a
beatiful dream, but now the nation’s
hoop is broken and scattered. There is
no center any longer, and the sacred
tree is dead!»
Our dream is finished and gone out,
but you may still keep your dream alive
by banding together and resisting to the
death the Zionist enemy who would
slaughter your culture and your future
place among the nations of the world. |
close with the words of a great Palesti-
nian poet and freedom fighter, Tawfiq
Zayad, who wrote in his great poem enti-
tled «The Impossible» :
It is much easier for you to pass an
elephant through a needle’s eye, or
catch fish in a galaxy, or plough the sea,
force a crocodile to speak, than to
destroy by persecution the shimmering
glow of a belief, or check our march,
one single step.
As if we were a thousand prodigies
spreading everywhere...in Lydda, in
Ramallah, in the Galilee...Here we will
stay, a wall upon your breast, and in
your throat we shall stay, a piece of
glass, a cactus thorn, and in your eyes,
a blazing fire. ©
Solidarity in Japan
City Key for PLO
On March 12th, the mayor of
Shizuoka municipality in Japan, Mr.
Kawai Dyago, awarded the PLO the gol-
den key of the city. The ceremony took
place in the municipal building of
Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo. In addi-
tion to the PLO representative in Japan,
Mr. Bakr Abdul Mun’em, there were a
number of reporters present. Mr. Dyago
expressed the city’s full solidarity with
the just struggle of the Palestinian
people, and condemned Zionist policy.
On March 13th, the PLO was
awarded the golden medal of the city of
Yaizu which is on the Pacific Ocean. The
mayor, Mr. Hajeema Hajiwara, expres-
sed solidarity with the Palestinian
people. The PLO representative also
placed a wreath on the grave of Mr.
Kobayama, the first Japanese victim of
the US hydrogen experiment. Mrs.
Kobayama was present, and her eyes
filled with tears as she received a gift
from the Palestinian people, a box made
of olive tree wood from Palestine. - هو جزء من
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