Rafahs Children 📂 Archived Message Posted by Subhi on August 29, 2025, 8:47 am, in reply to "Silence for Gaza - Mahmoud Darwish" Hey Jackie Samih al Qasim was a Palestinian Druze this poem makes me think of Yahya Sinwar, who was a child of the camps his family expelled from Majd Al Askalan before his birth and whose novel The Thorn and Carnation is worth reading here is 1. “RAFAH’S CHILDREN” (1971) To the one who digs his path through the wounds of millions To he whose tanks crush all the roses in the garden Who breaks windows in the night Who sets fire to a garden and museum and sings of freedom. Who stomps on songbirds in the public square. Whose planes drop bombs on childhood’s dream. Who smashes rainbows in the sky. Tonight, the children of the impossible roots have an announcement for you, Tonight, the children of Rafah say: “We have never woven hair braids into coverlets. We have never spat on corpses, nor yanked their gold teeth. So why do you take our jewelry and give us bombs? Why do you prepare orphanhood for Arab children? Thank you, a thousand times over! Our sadness has now grown up and become a man. And now, we must fight.” Message Thread: Silence for Gaza - Mahmoud Darwish - Jackie August 29, 2025, 1:15 am Rafahs Children - Subhi August 29, 2025, 8:47 am Garvey and Gaza - Subhi August 29, 2025, 1:02 pm Thanks for these posts. Very powerful nm - RaskolnikovX August 29, 2025, 2:29 pm « Index   Searching