Identity Card

Write down!
I am an Arab
And my identity card number is fifty thousand
I have eight children
And the ninth will come after a summer
Will you be angry?

Write down!
I am an Arab
Employed with fellow workers at a quarry
I have eight children
I get them bread
Garments and books
from the rocks..
I do not supplicate charity at your doors
Nor do I belittle myself at the footsteps of your chamber
So will you be angry?

Write down!
I am an Arab
I have a name without a title
Patient in a country
Where people are enraged
My roots
Were entrenched before the birth of time
And before the opening of the eras
Before the pines, and the olive trees
And before the grass grew

My father.. descends from the family of the plow
Not from a privileged class
And my grandfather..was a farmer
Neither well-bred, nor well-born!
Teaches me the pride of the sun
Before teaching me how to read
And my house is like a watchman’s hut
Made of branches and cane
Are you satisfied with my status?
I have a name without a title!

Write down!
I am an Arab
You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors
And the land which I cultivated
Along with my children
And you left nothing for us
Except for these rocks..
So will the State take them
As it has been said?!

Therefore!
Write down on the top of the first page:
I do not hate poeple
Nor do I encroach
But if I become hungry
The usurper’s flesh will be my food
Beware..
Beware..
Of my hunger
And my anger!

Israel Breaches UN Truce

Beirut – Israel violated a UN-imposed truce with Lebanon Saturday, August 19, after a warplane and commandos raided a Hizbullah stronghold in eastern Lebanon and struck a power plant in the village of Bodai.

Lebanese security source said warplanes and helicopters attacked unidentified targets during an air drop of commandos at dawn around Bodai, west of the ancient city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, Reuters reported.

Israeli security sources confirmed that the army had carried out a raid in Lebanon on Saturday, Israel radio said..

Israeli warplane blasts Palestinian home in northern Gaza

 An Israeli F-16 warplane at dawn Sunday shelled a Palestinian home owned by one of the Qassam Brigades’ activists in northern Gaza Strip reducing it to rubble, local sources reported.

Eyewitnesses told PIC that IOF phoned Ashraf Al-Seelawi, member of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, and told him that he had to evacuate his home within half an hour.

Muzaini: Hamas rejects int’l force in Gaza and buys not fish in the sea

Hamas Movement has categorically rejected calls of certain parties to send international forces to the Gaza Strip, adding that Palestinians want liberation not more troops on their lands.

The Movement also invited all Palestinian factions to implement the agreed-upon national harmony document, expressing readiness to end the issue of the captured IOF corporal immediately once Israel heeds legal demands of the captors.

Dr. Osama Al-Muzaini, the Movement’s prominent political leader, said the international force proposed by French President Jacque Chirac will be a tool in the hands of the Israeli occupation government, citing the case of the EU observers at the Rafah terminal who are totally controlled by Israel.

Arab doctors general union promises support for Palestinian doctors

At the backdrop of a meeting held in Muscat, Oman last week, Arab doctors general union vowed to support the Palestinian doctors overcome the financial crisis engulfing them as a result of the American led western siege imposed on the democratically-elected PA government.

Dr. Yehya Shawar, head of the Palestinian doctors union, said the conditions in Palestine are very harsh and complicated mainly after the legislative elections; “We have been punished for choosing democracy with starvation and annihilation that resulted in high poverty and unemployment rate while health services weakened”.

He asserted that after the union members heared details about the situation in Palestine there were promises for more effective participation in supporting the Palestinian doctors while Omani, Kuwaiti and Bahraini medical associations promptly promised to provide support the soonest.

Qaradawi calls for jihad against Israel

 
Leading Islamist preacher peace that Arab leaders are calling for in Mideast is in fact capitulation.
CAIRO – Prominent Islamist preacher Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi has called for a holy war against Israel, an Egyptian newspaper reported Wednesday. “Muslims must carry out jihad to liberate all the land of Islam. Palestine does not belong only to the Palestinians but to all Muslims,” Qaradawi was quoted as saying by the Al-Masri Al-Yom independent daily.

The Egyptian-born cleric, best known for his regular appearances on the Qatari satellite channel, Al-Jazeera, said that the Islamic world “needs men like those of Hezbollah: in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and everywhere”.

Israel Breaches UN Truce

Beirut – Israel violated a UN-imposed truce with Lebanon Saturday, August 19, after a warplane and commandos raided a Hizbullah stronghold in eastern Lebanon and struck a power plant in the village of Bodai.

Lebanese security source said warplanes and helicopters attacked unidentified targets during an air drop of commandos at dawn around Bodai, west of the ancient city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, Reuters reported.

Israeli security sources confirmed that the army had carried out a raid in Lebanon on Saturday, Israel radio said..

Hizbullah Fighters Proud of Resistance

Bint Jbeil, Lebanon — They were leading a normal and peaceful life with their families but as soon as they heard of the Israeli onslaught on their homeland, they were quick to join the Lebanese resistance to fight the Israeli occupation forces.

“I left my wife and son behind to take up arms to defend my homeland and dignity,” a Hizbullah fighter, who identified himself as Haidar, told IslamOnline.net in the Lebanese bastion of resistance Bint Jbeil Friday, August 18.

“Hizbullah has given a lesson to the whole world that our honor is not for sale and we are ready to sacrifice everything to defend it,” added the father of a computer science student…

Two killed in Gaza airstrike

Two people have been killed and at least ten wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza early on Wednesday.

The strike blew up a house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

The attack completely destroyed the two-storey house, killing two men who were inside and wounding at least ten, some in the house and some from neighbouring homes damaged by the explosion, medics said.

Residents identified the dead as a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and his father, who they said was not a member of the group.

The Israeli army said that the house was used to

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