The silence of good men

Going home

I stand between my shame and relief
I breathe…
The missiles missed this time
Truth is, they didn’t’ miss entirely
Someone’s house is destroyed but not the house
I know so well
Someone’s family is grieving but not the one whose name I carry
I linger… between my shame and relief
I breathe…
I… breathe…
I tell myself
‘this flesh, torn and scattered, is not flesh I have ever embraced’.
Go to Article

Return to Gaza

Brisbane Premiere screening of Return to Gaza

Thursday March 31, 2011
7pm at The Schonell Cinema, University of Queensland

Featuring discussion with director Michael Weatherhead and Samah Sabawi – Australian-Palestinian writer, co-author of Journey to Peace in Palestine and a former executive director of the National Council on Canada Arab Relations.Go to Article

Apartheid IS real: Teach-In | Brisbane

Saturday April 2, lpm – 5pm
QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus
Building Z2, Musk Avenue (near the corner of Kelvin Grove Rd)

Featuring:
Samah Sabawi: Palestinian writer and former executive
director of National Council of Canada Arab Relations

Phil Monsour: founder of Australian Artists Against Apartheid and organiser of Brisbane Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel building the campaign against apartheid Israel

Organised by Justice for Palestine, Brisbane,
Supported by QUT Student Guild anti-war collective
Phone: 0400720757, Email: contact@justiceforpalestinebrisbane,org
http://www.brisbane.apartheidweek.orgGo to Article

Dr. Erakat: Statement on the Al Jazeera “Palestine Papers”

Thus, the one core component of the Palestinian state-building project since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, insisted upon by Israelis and Americans alike, has been for the Palestinians to establish full control over radical elements who might not abjure violence in pursuit of Palestinian aims, and to demonstrate the willingness and ability to identify, track down, and arrest or kill anyone involved in terrorism even as very broadly defined to include those who, in other times and places, would be seen as engaged in legitimate armed resistance to oppression.Go to Article