Simphiwe Dana: I was reminded of this the other day when someone made parallels between South Africa and Palestine. He said, not in so many words, that Palestine should learn from South Africa how to forgive and find common ground with the oppressor. That was the only peaceful solution. The Palestinians who have already lost 88% of their land, whose very sacred places suffocate them with the stench of their helplessness as their children lay dying at the feet of a remorseless and ruthless black hole. Israel wants to swallow Palestine whole. To have encroached so much on Palestinian land and to then go on a genocidal rampage against them while they are squashed between a hostile land and sea – now given 10 minutes to pack up your life and evacuate, before a bomb drops on your head. And another bomb awaits wherever you run to, if the cute young soldier does not decide to while away the time with some target practice. The bullets danced with her a gory dance of death as they landed on her 13-year-old body, before the earth jealousy pulled her into a motherly embrace – a kiss of dust on her lips. Never to let her go. No more terrors and horrific dreams. No more hiding in the cupboard after every boom that made the windows shake. That time when her mother never made it home was the first. The rattles always correctly predicted death and destruction. Whole families ripped out of the pages of existence. A rattling soundtrack to the horrors in her dreams. She did not have to wake up screaming any more.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:06:27 +0000
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