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    60 Years of the Palestinian Nakba, 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing

     

     

    May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically cleansed en masse in a premeditated and organized campaign carried out by armed Zionist militia.

    Historical accounts indicate that the forced migration of Palestinians from their homeland had been planned well in advance. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was built on the violations of the rights of the Palestinian people. After widespread massacres and killings, more than 700,000 Palestinian civilians were brutally uprooted from their homes, villages and towns, and forced to become refugees in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and surrounding Arab countries. In addition, thousands of other Palestinians were internally displaced within the land subsequently occupied by Israel.

    Marawwah island

    The best experience in the world is leaving all the worries and responsibilities of the city for a couple of days and enjoying the luxury of a private island and being away from people and everything but nature, thanks  to everyone who was responsible for this trip and for everyone who came and everyone who did anything including sinking the car in the sea shore mud although it was a hard experience of intensive labor and a tow days job  but it’s still amazing and the only thing I missed  was  fishing  on the boat because of the car thing but yeah we used nets. so next time it will be better hopefully.16022008(005)DSC0048716022008(008)16022008(012) 

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    To My Beloved Father

     

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    In the dim light of the candle I gaze, staring at a mirror reflecting your face 

    My fingers run in the warmth of waxed glaze, counting the five long years phase

    Since you left I see life in different ways, I remain uncertain and lost in this maze  

    I recall the last profound words of all the treasures you left me to raise

    As days pass I undergo nothing novel instead live with lessons you used to portray

    Like this candle you were the light the warmth to guide my stray

     Warm tears run down my face as I wonder where there warmth had strayed

    Every day goes by my eyes open wide to realize what you went through and had to pay

    Oh dear father the soul is aching to feel your love just one last time in vain

    No words are enough to repay the debt; no regret is enough to express the pain

    I feel your presence in my thoughts, my dreams and heart every day

    So I become certain your alive through my voice my face

    Till my life takes its sealed path and fades away.

    pics

    I found out today that I have an anonymous fan for my site lol so I promised to post some photos for update and don’t get scared because of the green algae tank  I don’t grow it to use for sushi its only an experiment and it would make a good healthy natural source of food for my fish specially that they are sick and if u noticed the water is dark that’s because its full of medicine to treat ICH/ICK  

    Answers

    Silky white threads dance in the dark writing names as they float to disappear,

    Drifting in the beauty of the cries of a flute filling the void and tickling the soul

    Flying beyond dreams far away from our felt world

    Here in the darkness of the night feeling safe trying to break the chains of imprisonment

     In a life so empty and hollow, lonely, and lacking certainty

    Have you ever seen a lost soul while walking down the street?

    Can you sense the frustrations in others eyes?

    What is heaven?

    Is it joy in every flower in every smile or laughter of a child?

    What is Hell?

     Is it hate, envy betrayal, or pain in every tear of an old man?

    Oh the bless of ignorance how I long to you as you lie in the mind of the simple fool

    Where everything is joyful but nothing more than a sweet lie

    Why do we seek happiness or drown in sadness if they are nothing but a state of mind?

    Why do we seek answers when the simple ones can never be found?

     Can we find the answers only in our greatest fears?

    So many struggles for meaning for purpose but in the end we find comfort only in each others.

    Better Days

    Glancing the Bright streams of light shining for eternity

    Where darkness once swamped and pain thrived anonymously

    A Life no longer filled with sadness and dominated by misery

    Where strength growing out of my weakness inspires me

    Braking chains of deceit and manipulations imprisoning me

    The meaning of living suddenly started making sense to me

    Hope flourishing within erasing the heavy load I used to carry


    Not a will to surrender but strength is all what’s motivating me 

    Regained hopes pushing me to jump out of my solitary

    Taming the ugly depression beast feeding on my soul aggressively

    Suddenly all started to have a better taste a smell and looks so differently

    My laughs no longer a reminder of all the wounds my soul had to berry

    I shall carry on the trip of ups and downs, and life ,the phase of uncertainty.

    Still I'm Sad

    See the stars come falling down the sky
    Gently passing, they kiss your tear drops dry
    See the wind come, softly blow
    Your hair from your face
    And the rain comes falling down
    In its crazy way
    Still I'm sad

    For myself my tears just fall in the dust
    As I search in the night and find they're lost
    See the wind come gently blow
    Time into my heart
    And the rain comes falling down
    While were apart
    Still I'm sad

    حوار اليالي

    تمضي الأيام وأنا وحيدٌ و حائر أنتظر متلهفاً لقطرة ماءٍ من جمرةٍ كاوية
    مللت الصبر و التأني تعبت اليأس و المحاولة
    مرت اليالي بطيئة جاحدة لم تعرف أي منها معنى العطاء أو المؤازرة
    شكوت لها حزني مسامراً عن آلامي و آهاتي فردت علي متهكمة:
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    حاولت أن تطفئ ظمئك راكداً و راء سحابة عابرة لتعرف معنى الإنكار و المخادعة
    عرست شجرة عقيمه و سقيتها دمك فأنبتت لك سماً عجاف فكانت قاتلة
    دفئت ثعباناً ما عرف يوماً معنى الشكر إلا بلدغة من أنيابه الباردة
    أضحيت تبني قصراً من رملٍ كطفلٍ لا يدري أن الأمواج قادمة
    أدرت ظهرك لحبيبٍ ناصح مدافعاً عن عدوٍ خصاله الغدر و المراوغة
    أضاعك في الصحراء تزحف تائهاً وسط الرمال القاحلة
    تسبح وراء السراب مسترشداً بكثبانها فأغديت لعبة مسلية
    تستبدل ليمضي عليها الوقت فتمسي مكسورةً و مهملة
    تساقط دمعي سخياً و لما خانتني عيناي أجبتها متعجباً:
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    كيف لي أن أعلم أن هذا الوجه الجميل و اللسان العذب ما هوإلا قناع يخفي معاني القسوة و الكراهية
    كيف لي أن أدرك أن من حميته من الشمس الحارقة سيتركني وحيداً مكسوراً في رياح الشمال الباردة
    فردت بعد صمتها المؤنب و أجابت مستعطفة:
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    فليكن درساً لك يا أبله القلب في زمن أصبحت فيه العاهرة أميرة مبجلة
    فليس من الصعب أن تضحي من أجل إنسان ولكن الصعب أن تجد أنساناَ يستحق التضحية
    و أحذر الكريم اذا أهنته و اللئيم إذا أكرمته و الأحمق إذا رحمته
    لكن لا تبكي ولا تندم فمحظوظَ من بات مظلوماً عند رب الآخرة
    تدور الأيام و الدوائر لتعود على صاحبها فيدرك في يومٍ ما خسرو أن الدنيا غادرة
    فوقفت ممتناً و شاكراً بعد أن أدركت أن خادعي ما هو إلا معلمي متخفياً
    و أكملت طريقي و حيداً راجياً ربي ان يعفو عنك و لا يذيقك مرار حياتي القاتمة
    أنس صدّيق

    Special thanks.

    Another year passed I woke up to relies I’m almost a quarter of a century old
    I tried to slow down time but it seems so empty stubborn, and can never wait
    I thought of who are always beside me and the ones who sold me out.
     And To the ones who showed all the love and care in the world I say …….
     I Wish I can say anything with my tongue tied unable to reveal appreciation and love hidden inside.
    I wish I can scream it out loud and tell the world how lucky I am to have you guys around
    You are a gift from god sent from heavens above, to ease life's troubles and turn it into a joyful ride.
    I feel so lucky
    I feel so proud
    I feel so blessed
     That I have my family who give unconditional love  mothers give since we learn to see the light.
     A kind of love fathers share expecting nothing in return but seeing their kids successful on their behalf. 
    A simple thank you can never be good enough for the warmth and happiness you brought along.
     I promise to always be an honest friend, a son, a brother and some one who will never forget.
    All the great things you do and say for I shall eternally carry deep within a caring grateful heart.
    Please forgive me if I’m unable to tell you how much you mean and how life would be so hard without you all by my side.I pray that I will never lose you and that we stay together for the rest of life

    Please

    Moments of joy
    Moments of peace
    Moments of serenity
    Oh please come back to me.
    I've been imprisoned here for infinity.
    Did I find the spark that will bring back light to my life of misery?
    Did I come face to face with a dream that lived inside for eternity?
    Moments of joy please don't change to sadness
    Moments of peace don't turn out to be another war
    As I feel you coming closer to me.

    Glimpse of an angel

    An angel looked towards me I couldn’t help but turn my face around.
    I feared gazing with eyes that might steal the beauty only to be damned.
    I felt my undead soul filling with life it always dreamt of but never had.
    Just glimpsing at your face I dived in dreams to wake up in no mans land.
    Your smile brought back the warmth of hope and the feeling that I belong.
    Your voice went shivering down my spine and brought sensations of divine.
    When I saw you my breath was taken creating a moment of endless time.
    Boiling Blood ran down my veins pounding into the ice cold heart of mine.
    Suddenly all my pain and hurt faded away, mending the cracks along the way.
    Your smell made me want to cry, your eyes drove me out of my solitary mind.
    Just seeing you for seconds I was trapped for hours lost inside my own mind.
    It made me wonder if it’s the first time I feel this or is it the same every time
    Could it be love at first sight or was my soul yours in some other life & time.
    Your name always seemed familiar carved deep on the walls of my tortured heart.
    Will I ever love you or will I never; I just wish and hope I will love you forever.

    Moments of a lonely Night

    A hooded sky preventing any stream of light trying to swift through.
    A falling tear marking its way on the face burning like a drop of acid.
    A hunted mind still wondering what’s going on and why luck has ran out.
    A stranded soul drowning in seas of loneliness and dark visions of tomorrow.
    A confusing flood of ideas trying to find a way to explain what happened .
    A broken thought that keeps covering the happiness that once flourished within.
    A bitter fracture of betrayal pierces and cuts deep into the skin.
    A hiding Evil collecting hate & manipulating memories.
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    A Sudden awakening of the tortured heavenly soul wavering Darkness leaking within.
    A white pleading to forgive them sneaking out from the sparse heart.
    A hopeful call for prayer breaks the silence & Alas of early dawn .
    A broken smile finds its way out of the fields of pain hoping for all the cold to fade away.
    A warming stream of peace murders the grudge overwhelming body and mind.
    A tender Nostalgia replacing the painful hate leading to destruct.
    A happy dream coloring the sky with rays from the winter sun.

    Good bye may seem for ever*

    We met, it seems, such a short time ago
    You looked at me, needing me so
    Yet from your sadness
    Our happiness grew
    And I found out I needed you too
    I remember how we used to play
    I recall those rainy days
    The fire's glow
    That kept us warm
    And now I find we're both alone
    Goodbye may seem forever
    Farewell is like the end
    But in my heart's a memory
    And there you'll always be


    unrequited love

    Swallowed pain tears from the inside;
    A blurry mirror steals a picture and never reflects back ,
    A word of madness burns the soul trapped deep inside,
     The grievous desire growing till it can’t fit inside immolating its incubative throwing it to the edge of explosion,
     Jealousy pitching a solitary soul in unpredicted surges,
     The pleadings has been there for so long that they can’t be recognized anymore,
    A mauling dream of passion rejected
     Inflicting a martyr unable to control his cambium
    A yarning for withdrawal piercing a demon of hidden agony and fear
    Begging please to ease the burial he’s imprisoned within.    

    Taking time to heal

    Catching the patterns of light that swims across my hand like silver fish swimming under the clear water shining in the sunlight
    I try and touch them slippery they move too quickly like time; slipping away like my petal design of fate as the flower of faith falls apart withered drops to the ground without a sound, shattered clock and missing time… I’m late again…
    Try to be on time but it takes me hours to write this line it seems time slows down and increases in speed without my knowledge… I’m so lost and confused hoping to find the current or the flow of which way everyone seems to go… how does everyone but me know?
    Procrastinating in my empty shell of lost thoughts and empty faithless time watching the meaningless seconds ticking by… how time learnt to fly… I haven’t understood the complexity of my wings… my broken dreams… mocking me as they lie… inanimate objects on the floor… my cobble stoned path… destructed and thwarted by meaningless lies of hopeless hopes and dreamless dreams
    Water the seeds of doubt that are strewn and scattered across the ground… watch them grow faster than the speed of light and sound… and the path is blocked… darkness… and suddenly artificial light… is that the sick joke of humanity… Turning on the switch of insanity…

    Governed by meaningless tasks… I forget what I believe and what I follow… lost my direction lost my heart lying dying bloodless on the floor when I watched the painless unsoiled souls walk out my door
    Seeing spirits and clinically insane they scratch and poke inside my dead brain… I don’t feel the pain… wandering a void vessel… squandering useless life… wasted, too tainted to be pure…
    Running out of time I search for the cure try to stop you from walking out the door… you are my last hope… my only hope… to try and change… you have given me the key to unlock the chains… step by step teaching me to fly… you’ve tried and fell but you wont stop coz we both seek the cure and together we’ll find it…
    Our timeless promise… as I watch the seconds ticking by… I try to combat the wasted time… contemplating, my next move… taking time to heal… with you by my side, we learn how to deal, have hope and faith, slowly we learn how to heal…

    Can you ?

    Can I stay beside you all my life?
    Would you promise me that we will always be together?
    Can you promise me that you won’t forget me?
    You are my addiction of life and my piece and harmony
    You are the war that burns inside of me
    You are my pain and pleasure
    and the song of dismay living inside of me
    Can you promise me that life won’t rip us apart?
    Can you promise?
    Can you explain what has happened to me?
    Is that forbidden, or is your heart meant to be for someone else?
    Yes I would sacrifice and hide if the prize is your happiness
    And the price is my pain.
    If that is called madness then I’m Insane.

    Well thats me

    Sun in Pisces:
    The flowering of compassion, through your ability to merge on a feeling level and to empathize with all, is a key theme for you in this lifetime.  This propensity to share others' emotional experience has both its blessings and its deficits.  At your finest, Anas, you have a deeply-felt understanding of human nature which goes beyond words or intellect, and which enables you to forgive others' misdeeds and make allowances for their weaknesses.  You are acutely aware of others' pain, including the emotional wounds and brokenness they carry within, and your ability to listen with an understanding heart and to unconditionally accept people as they are can be a healing influence in their lives.  You are inclined to exclude nobody. At a deep level you feel and know your oneness with all creatures, and thus every snail in the garden or stray cat is part of your "heart's family".
     
    However, this same all-embracing emotional/psychic openness and receptivity can be the source of some of your greatest challenges in life.  It is easy for you to become overwhelmed by the world and its sorrows, and to seek some form of escape from it and from your own extreme sensitivity; for instance, over using drugs or alcohol or even food to alter your mood, or retreating from life into the unreal world of television or other diversions.  You may simply withdrawing into your own private fantasies to avoid confronting the challenges in the physical world.  At its worst this tendency can devolve into evasiveness and playing ostrich "about important issues in your life".  While your imagination and your sensitivity are the well spring of some of your richest experiences and gifts, if over indulged you may become passive, ineffectual, lost or confused.  Especially when young, Anas, you may lack a strong sense of self, of definition and identity, because on a feeling level you identify with others so easily.  It can be difficult for you to separate yourself, to know what your boundaries are, when to say no or how to stand up for your own personal interests.  Since you are not narrowly focused on self, others may take advantage of your natural generosity and sympathy.  Learning and incorporating the concepts of discrimination and clear judgment will enable you to give of yourself in ways that are healthy for you and the ones you are giving to

    Murdered Hope

    • My soul is locked  in  a city called misery
    • Strangers surround me every where starting from me
    • I try to hide somewhere but can’t hide from myself
    • So hurt that every breath feels like another dosage of poison
    • My souls is ill trapped inside
    • I breathe deep and cry out but no one seems to understand
    • Tears have failed me and pain is the only thing left that’s real
    • I wonder why no one can feel me even the closest soul
    •  I bleed  knowing you dont  & will never care
    • All I need is a reason to live some love inside me to give
    • I look in the mirror everything is getting so clear
    • I just want to be myself but does this world really need him
    • My depression keeps building like a cup overfilling
    • It hurts so bad that my I cant dry my eyes
    • Cuz they keep on refilling with tears that I cry
    • My wounded soul cries for the grave
    • Cuz it’s the only place that hope is still alive

    ^InFiNiTy*

    It’s not easy to be caught in an empty circle, it takes some good effort and a strong will to break out ,but once you do, you look down to where you were , you see all the things you did that lead you into it,and kept you going around and around helpess ,lost and not knowing how to breakout, but once you do,

     You’ll feel and see things so different from when you were inside because inside to see the openyou’re blinded  doors to freedom that comes from saying NO, and creation that comes from letting go. even if you love these stuff so much and it hurts to let go but taking the pain in one dosage in a short period of time is better than taking it slowly and keep doing it for years.

     Yah it is hard to let go  but believe me it’s the best thing someone can do in some cases when things get too heavy and so hard to handle when pain is much more than pleasure, the two extremes on the same scale that control our actions the most.

     

    Stay above hate and grudges envy and jealousy when you reach this level you taste infinity and comfort, think of people in a good way

    See the world in a grain of sand see heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

    Here we are so small, so far we are lost in space without faith so deep in our mind we turn to the light.

     Life has its own way of paying people back either what they did was good or bad every action you take will have a repercussion in the future, and you have to live with the consequences of your own actions.

    Thank the ones who did you wrong and the ones who tried to hurt you because an enemy is a teacher in disguise; what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

    What you don’t appreciate and reject will cause you regret, appreciate what you have and feel satisfied and happy.

    Find the balance between ambitions and satisfaction

    Let go of all the things that make you feel bad .

    Where will you go

    You’re too important for anyone
    You play the role of all you long to be
    But I, I know who you really are
    You’re the one who cries when you’re alone

    But where will you go
    With no one left to save you from yourself
    You can’t escape
    You can’t escape

    You think that I can’t see right through your eyes
    Scared to death to face reality
    No one seems to hear your hidden cries
    You’re left to face yourself alone

    I realize you’re afraid
    But you can’t abandon everyone
    You can’t escape
    You don’t want to escape

    I’m so sick of speaking words that no one understands
    Is it clear enough that you can’t live your whole life all alone
    I can hear you when you whisper
    But you can’t even hear me screaming

    I realize you’re afraid
    But you can’t reject the whole world
    You can’t escape
    You won’t escape
    You can’t escape
    You don’t want to escape

     

    Evanescence