The Keys to Nablus:

Sources in the West Bank and Gaza established that the number detained by the weekend of March 27 had exceeded 13,000. Bassam Shaka’a, deposed Mayor of Nablus, placed the total held solely in a hastily constructed barbed-wire encampment at Dhariyah at 10,000. (1988)

Few if any gringos remember the encampments in Southern Lebanon...hundreds of men camped throughout the freezing winter there....Palestinians forced out of Israel.

In the Balata camp outside Nablus, and in the Casbah – the old quarter – l,000 people were arrested in a period of 48 hours. The discovery of people in ditches in the fields – shot in the back or with their heads caved in – has been reported from villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza.

Fleets of helicopters fly over Nablus at night dropping a dense, green toxic gas over the city. The smell pervades every house. Armed units fire canisters of the substance into houses at random. Doctors at Ittihad Hospital reported several deaths and severe lung injuries from this as-yet unidentified asphyxiating chemical, totally distinct from tear gas. ?Saddam Hussein, where are you!

Armed with 30-inch wooden clubs and urged by their prime minister to “put the fear back into the Arabs”, Israeli soldiers have methodically beaten up Palestinians since early January, deliberately breaking bones and beating prisoners into unconsciousness. Casualties included not only young men ... but also women. Most of the injured shunned hospitals for fear of arrest.

Oh, the list is soooooooo long and the memory of some is not only short, but completely missing.

The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked: “Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?” I replied, “No.” ... From the depths of the tragedy I want to save ... young people [for Palestine]. The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world ... Only the branch of the young shall survive. They have to accept it. [87] Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel and arbitrator of the Balfour Declaration. This is what I meant when I said, all the good ones are dead. You see, the Zionists leaders traded LAND for JEWS...to the Nazis. It is a point they deny and obscure TO THIS DAY. Shameful. See them as they have lit a "fire all around" themselves? I continue to invite Jews to Islam on a weekly basis, here and elsewhere....where Jihad increases views by 20-40 per day.

Israeli Invasion of LebanonOn Sunday, June 6, 1982, at 5:30 a.m., intensive aerial bombardment began with the onset of the invasion. The Israelis took Ain El Helweh as a grid, using a saturation-bombing pattern in a series of quadrants. First one quadrant was subjected to carpet-bombing and then the next-methodically and relentlessly, the bombing of each quadrant renewed as the last was levelled. The bombing continued in this manner for ten days and nights. Cluster bombs, concussion bombs, high flaring incendiary bombs and white phosphorus were used.

???Is it any wonder that Sayyed Nasrallah refuses to be disarmed or give in to the vile objectives of occupying Lebanon up to the Litani River? Is it that some disbelieve that this is still a long term Zionist goal? Think again, the Zionists are not only patient but due to the horrible silence of the world, they have inevitably been successful. Their days are now numbered regardless of their victories. This type of thing always fails as it should. It is evil.

Untitled/Undated

Someone announces there are jackals in Tel Aviv,
just for saying Jerusalem.

The key to the cities: Beirut and Nablus,
were purchased long ago while you slept
in Long Island.

A journalist fumbles in his pants
for his keys and a lead,
watches Arab children razed,
toilet trained too young on empty cans
carried room to room with the burghul;
it fell in older times from mud kitchen walls,
silos of sand in sand,
dispensing traces of brothers
fallen into wells full with grain.

You in a photograph of a boy
pointing into the deep of the old village house,
the place where you sunk forever.

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/