Sugar Cubes

أحبكِ جداً وأعرف أن الطريق إلى المستحيل طويل
وأعرف انكِ ست النساء وليس لدي بديل
اً وأعرف أن زمان الحنين انتهى ومات الكلام الجميل
في ست النساء ماذا نقول؟؟
أحبك جداً… أحبكِ
وأعرف أني أعيش بمنفى وأنتِ بمنفى
و بيني وبينك ريح وغيم وبرق ورعد وثلج ونار
وأعرف أن الوصول لعينيك وهم
وأعرف أن الوصول إليك انتحار
ويسعدني أن أمزق نفسي لأجلكِ أيتها الغالية
ولو خيروني لكررت حبكِ للمرة الثانية
يا من غزلت قميصك من ورقات الشجر
أيا من حميتك بالصبر من قطرات المطر
أحبكِ جداً … أحبكِ
و أعرف أني أسافر في بحر عينيكِ دون يقينِ
وأترك عقلي ورائي وأركض .. أركض خلف جنوني
أيا امرأة تمسك القلب بين يديها
سألتك بالله لا تتركيني .. لا تتركيني
فما أكون أنا إذا لم تكوني
أحبك جداً وجداً وجداً
وأرفض من نار حبكِ أن استقيلا
وهل يستطيع المتيم بالعشق أن يستقيلا
وما همني أن خرجت من الحب حيا
وما همني أن خرجت قتيلا

الحب المستحيل-نزار قباني

It’s been on my mind for a couple of days now, thought I should post it. It’s strange how in Ramadan I remember all touching and too romantic lyrics.

James Sturcke
Friday October 7, 2005

A senior White House official has denied that the US president, George Bush, said God ordered him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

A spokesman for Mr Bush, Scott McClellan, said the claims, to be broadcast in a TV documentary later this month, were “absurd”.

In the BBC film, a former Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, says that Mr Bush told a Palestinian delegation in 2003 that God spoke to him and said: “George, go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan” and also “George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq”.

He told the film-makers: “President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq… And I did.

“‘And now, again, I feel God’s words coming to me, Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I’m gonna do it.’”

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By Kevin Chamberlain

While the world’s media has been concentrating on the hardships suffered by the Palestinian people as a result of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, considerably less publicity has been given to the systematic destruction of Palestine’s rich cultural heritage resulting from the occupation.
Following the 1967 conflict when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza there was intense archaeological activity. Objects were removed in two ways – officially by the Israeli occupation authorities, or clandestinely by individual Israeli soldiers, civilians and, unfortunately in some cases, even by Palestinians. Israeli military operations, the construction of settlements and their communicating roads, and more recently, the construction of The Wall,
have meant that archaeological sites are constantly being uncovered. (It is estimated that there are around 4,000 such sites.) When a site is uncovered the Israelis institute a ‘salvage excavation,’ i.e. the rapid removal and recording of artefacts before the site is covered up. In most cases this results in the destruction of the site, although occasionally the site is covered up but not destroyed for future investigation, e.g. in the case of an important mosaic floor. Nevertheless the effect of these ‘salvage excavations’ is that the all-important context of the site is destroyed and the knowledge that it yields is lost forever. Such excavations fall under the authority of the archaeological staff officer, who is an officer of the Civil Administration (i.e. the Israeli military). There is anecdotal evidence that in conducting many of these ‘salvage excavations’ only objects of Jewish interest are removed and remains of other cultures either ignored or destroyed.
It is also alleged that Israeli excavations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) are politically motivated, namely, to uncover evidence of ancient Jewish settlement so as to bolster Israel’s current settlement policies. Conversely, it has been alleged that Jewish artefacts discovered by Palestinians are often destroyed or sold so as to remove any excuse the Israelis might have for constructing new settlements in the area where such artefacts may have been discovered.

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Tags: Palestine, Archaeology