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Door on the Road

In the Refugee Camp,
after the explosion, a door flies into a far street,
rests near a heap of rubble.
Clouds of dust settle on the coughing,
neighboring houses----
their noses swollen by the heat
of the scorched air.
A girl passes by, sees the bleeding door, opens it. A corpse
lies beneath it.
The earth weeps. Though some fingers got cut,
the dead young man still clutches in his hand
a very old key----the only thing he's inherited
from his father. The key to the house
in Yaffa. He was sure it's been destroyed, but a key
can be his passport to Yaffa when they return.
Now, neither he nor their knocked-down house in the Refugee
Camp can stand.
The girl closes the door. Windows of tears
open in her heart.

Mosab abu Toha, Palestinian poet, short story writer and essayist from Gaza.

I writer must speak on behalf of the unheard, those who cannot articulate well what they feel or see, and most impotantly to me, those who lost their lives under the rubble of vicious wars.

• Mosab abu Toha, Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza.

• "Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Villages of 1948"/
  Noga Kadman (anbefalt lenke).

"When everything is lost, what remains?
For Mosab Abu Toha, it's poetry. He shares how his verses capture the grief and resilience of Gaza in the midst of destruction."
- Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha: breaking free with words / The Take, lenke.

"Nåden holder svært høy litterær kvalitet, med sitt sterke billedspråk og presise skildringer av natur og ensomhet. Rivenes løfter frem et liv preget av slit og utsatthet og gjør det stort og meningsfullt."
- Dan Andersen, sjefredaktør i Bonnier Norsk Forlag.
Jeg ser også nå at Anne Rivenes debuterte med denne diktsamlingen, jeg bestilte boken i dag.

"I see hope in the fact that Palestinians love life. I can tell about my father who planted some plants in our bombed garden, and he's eating some eggplant, some pepper, some cabbage. I mean, we are planting this hope next to the rubble of our bombed house. The Palestinians continue to plant. And this is what hope is for me."

• Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet, short story writer and essayist from Gaza.

Jeg leste et lite utdrag fra en bokanmeldelse etter din anbefaling, det er slående vakkert.
Takk, for at du anbefalte boken.

Jeg ble så sint når jeg leste dette innlegget, dette er så galt. Ava kom med saklig kritikk og så kommer dette.
Definisjonen av hersketeknikk,
"Hersketeknikker er manipulative metoder som blir brukt for å kontrollere eller dominere andre".
Hvis det er noen som har brukt hersketeknikker i denne sammenhengen så er det deg, det jeg skriver her er ikke en påstand, det er et forsvar.

WHAT IS HOME?

What is home:

it is the shade of trees on my way to school before they
were uprooted.

It is my grandparents' black-and-white wedding photo
before the walls
crumbled.

It is my uncle's prayer rug, where dozens of ants slept
on wintry nights, before it was looted and
put in a museum.

It is the oven my mother used to bake bread and roast chicken before a bomb reduced our house to ashes.

It is the cafe where I watched fotball matches and
played --

My child stops me: Can a four-letter word hold all of
these?

• Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet, short story writer and essayist from Gaza.

EXPOSED: Israel's Sadistic "Hunger Games" in Gaza / Mosab Abu Toha, Palestine Deep Dive, (anbefalt lenke).

"In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and denied many of them fundamental human rights."

• Desmond Tutu (1931-2021).
  (Jeg kunne ikke finne sitatene av Desmond Tutu oversatt til norsk.)