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Author: Leyman
Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Tragedy - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-05-04 - Updated: 11-05-04 - id:1754084

Authors Note:

(“Intifada” is an Arabic: انتفاضة  term meaning "shaking off" or to shake off.

Inti-fada is the popular name for two recent campaigns by Palestinians against Israel.

Globalised-fada is a reaction from the IC International Community mainly Europe towards this conflict. Unbalanced though this reaction seems to play out when compared to the Sudanese Darfur crisis which also involves cultural tensions). 

GLOBALISED FAD-A

Telling satellites have eyes only for Canaan
Sending this signal that "it is enough!"
Both Aprils, assassinated need not be replaced
Their Intifad-a emboldens new in strange ways
So what now?
The might of the Europe disaffected call
No, hawks!
Actions spoken louder.

Censored otherwise utterances mask as sympathies.
While symbolised fancies of past horrors,
Crooked end like crosses which brought concern.
Protests privatised, and willed at stones throw.

Telling satellites always have eyes for the lands,
Canaan sands, walls and borders
What is to be said then of the prophetic question
The passing through
To the land for God?
If that ONE has counted the seeds
Of Abraham's flesh as any other,
We GENTILES most certainly have not!
And to this same seed we watch hawkly
Then we let what else drops, drop!
For humanity sake? Maybe.
The Darfurian souls then…

Are alien?
Their land so calls too
It existed with them but now not.
"Dead men tell no tales."
As the English used to say.

But it still all comes back to Canaan!
Somehow it all comes back to Canaan!

Leykan

(With the much ignored Sudanese or Darfur crises the question is raised of what makes a human rights violation?

Arent these both internal national conflicts?

Why should one be ignored and the other get concern to the point of hatred?

It really poses the question of what really is behind these claims of concern and the selective manner of humanitarian reports.

The “April Assinated” allude to two Inti-fada related leaders that were killed around April 2004).



© Copyright 2004 Leyman (FictionPress ID:433456).


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