Israel's House of Mirrors

 

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The problem is NOT that they don't have mirrors in Israel - but that they live in a house of mirrors, surrounded by their own distorted images and can't feel the harm and devastation that they visit on others outside that barrier.

— Wael Nawara (@WaelNawara) August 6, 2026

 

Was what Israel did in Gaza a War?

Israel keeps referring to its military actions in Gaza as "War."

But was it, is it, really a war?

Gaza is an occupied territory since 1967, according to United Nations and International Court of Justice rulings. Israel disengagement does not change this status, because Israel continued to exercise control over Gaza's borders, water, electricity, fuel, food and medical supplies, air and sea access.

Now, under international law, with its status as an occupied territory, Israel bears responsibility of guarding and protecting the well-being of the population in Gaza. Even in conflicts with armed groups, such as Hamas, Israeli's military must follow strict rules in combating such armed groups. 

Israel has the right to use "policing" methods with targeted arrests, riot control, and so on.

Now, let's imagine a situation, where a terrorist organization has taken hostages in New York, went inside a bank with many customers inside.

Will NYPD bomb the bank in order to neutralize the terrorist group?

The answer is obvious.

The use of heavy military force in crowded, occupied areas, including apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, universities, bakeries, malls, marketplaces, and so on, is unthinkable, so why did Israel think it?

Then why have Western leaders and media kept telling us, Hamas uses children as human shields and therefore, Israel has the right to bomb schools even if it meant killing over 20,000 children?

In fact, the President of the UN General Assembly, while still a minister in the German government, effectively implied that Israel has the right to kill civilians:

Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/QsJPSgbcyeQ?si=53j6iJEhEspDbSu9

But in the same video, Craig Mokhiber , a human rights lawyer and former UN official, explains that:

• Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself in territories it occupies.
• The "Hamas uses civilians as human shields" argument does not mean Israel has a carte blanche to murder these civilians.

Here is how legal experts and the laws of war view these ideas:

Israel's Right to Use Force

Policing vs. War: International bodies, such as the Human Rights Watch, explain that when a state controls an occupied territory, its security forces are generally expected to use policing methods—such as targeted arrests or riot control—to maintain order without harming civilians and the population. 

The Rules of Combat

Even when a state is legally allowed to fight an armed group, it cannot simply use any weapon. The laws of war demand two main things:

• Proportionality: An army cannot use extreme force if the military advantage is small and the damage to civilians is huge.
• Distinction: Forces must separate civilians from fighters. Dropping large bombs or missiles in heavily populated areas makes it almost impossible to protect normal people. 

The Rules of Occupation

The Occupier's Duty: The International Court of Justice outlines that because Israel has long controlled Gaza's borders, airspace, and resources, it is legally an "occupying power".

Protection: This means Israel is legally required to protect the basic needs, safety, and health of the people living there, rather than treating them as enemy combatants in a standard war. 

Did Israel protect the health of Gazans?

In light of:

• Bombing apartment buildings
• Bombing hospitals, bakeries, schools, ...
• Cutting water, food, fuel, electricity
• Killing healthcare workers and first responders
• Blowing up water treatment and desalination plants

It seems that Israel was intent on destruction of the health of the population.

In fact, many Israeli ministers, media pundits and opinion leaders said that Israel would make Gaza unlivable as to "encourage" Gazans to opt for "voluntary migration."

Perhaps, this explains the large number of casualty specially among women and children.

What Does Israel Want?

Over decades, as Israel swallowed more and more Palestinian land and erected hundreds of

illegal settlements

on occupied Palestinian territories, it made a Palestinian state unviable, nullifying the two-state solution.

Israel wants many things which cannot happen simultaneously. Israeli actions and behavior seem irrational, contradictory, and self-defeating.

Netanyahu comes out and says

he doesn’t accept a two-state solution. But if a two-state solution is unacceptable, the only solution left is a one-state solution, from the river to the sea, which is the de facto situation on the ground. But this means the end of Israel as a Jewish State, simply because there is an equal number of Palestinians and Israelis between the river and the sea, and we haven’t even

counted the millions

of Palestinian refugees in diaspora, who according to International Law, enjoy the

right of return, as per UN resolution 194.

Read more:

https://x.com/WaelNawara/status/1784815162681090536 

Global Debt Crisis: 

Can a Collective Currency Devaluation Do the Trick?

First Published on HuffPost, Sep 2, 2011, 10:34 AM EDT

Some brave economists have made it clear that we need a new International Monetary System, a "New Bretton Woods" sort of agreement in order to solve things in the long term. But still, what do we do with the existing debt crisis?

By 

Wael Nawara, Contributor

Writer

Updated Nov 2, 2011

Every country in the world, except for perhaps a handful, severely suffers from a growing debt crisis. Collectively, this is crippling the world economy and threatening the world with global instability following an imminent collapse of the international financial and economic systems. But if virtually all countries are in debt, who is lending? In fact, since almost all countries, or states, are in debt, that might be the solution to the problem.

Some brave economists and even politicians such as Brown and Sarkozy have made it clear that we need a new International Monetary System, a "New Bretton Woods" sort of agreement. That would probably solve things in the long-term. But still, what do we do with the existing debt crisis?

Let us assume that a country like the United States, with GDP of about $14 Trillion and a Public Debt roughly the same amount, "creates" or "prints" 12.5 percent of that amount annually for the next eight years, as to totally pay off its public debt problem. This generates some "fake" $1.75 Trillion a year, slightly more than the current US annual budget deficit. Usually, printing money this way would lead to significant inflation, U.S. consumer suffering and a severe devaluation of the American currency in addition to dissipation of the investors' trust into U.S. currency and economy, things which could probably spark off a global financial meltdown. But what if every other country agreed to more or less do the same process, and that newly created money does not find its way into the money markets in terms of additional liquidity or government spending, but instead is solely used to pay off the staggering debts?

The result may be that all major currencies would be devalued, but because they are all devalued, their relative value or exchange rate will be more or less the same, give or take a few points. If you think about it from a collective perspective, this idea may not be as crazy as it sounds at first.

So, if the G20 States, which together make up a sizeable portion of the global economy, and also where most of debtors and creditors come from; lending and borrowing institutions exist, signed up to such an arrangement within a larger effort to reinvent the international monetary and financial systems, followed by the rest of the world's states approving and repeating the same arrangement, could that solve the problem? Would that work as a global debt relief for everybody? A giant Paris Club to relieve the entire world from a deadly debt problem?

Of course the global economic and financial systems need to be totally redesigned. Yes, governments should stop spending beyond their means creating these monumental deficits. Yes, we need to shrink the speculative portion and reduce reliance on instruments creating virtual money, things which are poisoning existing systems.

We eventually have to even create a new accounting currency, be it ICU (International Currency Unit, or simply ECO), Bancor or SDR, which will work as an international bench mark currency to reduce the risks of relying on any one currency for reserves. But for now, the debt crisis seems urgently threatening yet highly ridiculous. After all, when everyone stands on their tiptoes, no one will ever seem taller.

Link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/collective-currency-devaluation_b_926476

لن تستطيع أن تخدع الأرض

  لقد خدعتَ مَنْ خدعت

ولكن صدقني
مهما فعلتَ
فلن تستطيع أن تخدعَ الأرض

من ديوان "البحث عن الصبي - صور من ألبوم الأسرة" - 2009

It's not just Israeli Policies in OPT that are Illegal - its very Presence in OPT is Illegal and MUST Immediately END

Many Western Media outlets came out with the headlines:

ICJ rules that Israeli Policies in OPT are Illegal!

But that is an odd reading of the ruling - which summary the Chief Justice read for over an hour.

It is not just the policies that are illegal!

Any action Israel takes or fails to take in Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal because its very presence in these territories is illegal. It is a "wrongful act".

Its occupation is illegal.

Annexation is illegal.

Apartheid and segregation are illegal.

Its Wall is illegal.

Detaining Palestinians (let alone torture, abuse and rape) is illegal.

Home demolitions are illegal. 

Land confiscation is illegal.

Settlements are illegal.

"Outposts" are illegal.

Stealing water and other resources is illegal.

Putting Palestinians under siege is illegal.

Preventing Palestinians from exercising self-determination is illegal.

Preventing Palestinians from freely moving is illegal.

etc. etc. etc.

The ICJ has just reiterated the position of UNSC, UNGA and virtually every country on earth - that its entire presence in Occupied Palestinian Territory is and always has been (for 57 years) illegal and must rapidly end.

The only legal actions Israel can take are to:

• End its occupation.
• Evacuate its illegal settlements.
• Make reparations.
• Apologize to the tens of millions affected.

Now, we come to downplaying the ruling as an "advisory" and non-binding!

The ruling is advisory because the UNGA asked the ICJ for advice!

It was not a case raised by one State against another.

The UNGA asked the ICJ certain questions and the ICJ answered these questions.

Is the ruling - or answers - binding?

The ICJ ruling reads itself (Pages 73-75)- and says that:

• Continued Israeli presence in the OPT is a wrongful act.
• Israel is under obligation to:
• end these unlawful acts, 
• cease all settlement activity
• repeal all discriminatory legislations and attempts to modify the demographic composition of any parts of the territory.
• provide reparations and compensation for damage caused by these wrongful acts
• return the land and all physical and cultural property 
• Other states: All States are under obligation (not some optional discretion) to:
• not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s
• illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
• must cooperate with the UNGA and UNSC to take the appropriate measures to end the occupation.
• must not enter into investments, treaties or economic deals with Israel that relate to the OPT
• must not recognize Israeli presence in OPT as legal
• must ensure compliance by Israel with IHL

So, from an International Law point of view, States are must adopt positions which are congruent with their obligations under the multiple international treaties and UNSC resolutions related to this matter.

Source:

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186/186-20240719-adv-01-00-en.pdf 

Ruling:

Also watch Dr. Ralph Wilde:

Missing a Highway Exit

Sometimes, the desired change is just not possible or available as an option.

It's like missing a highway exit.

Or like being on the wrong train.

Your desired destination is just not on the menu.

What's the next stop?

The Value of being Capable of Doing the Unthinkable

Is Peterson Admiring the Ability to Commit Genocide?

Jordan Peterson tells Israeli Jews that the fate of the world depends on the decisions they make, then he starts crying, as usual. pic.twitter.com/RoIPwF5qn1

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) July 10, 2024

 "You attract the world because of what you are capable of doing."

Interesting things to say. 

"Capable of doing."

Does Peterson see a special value in a state that is still, in this day and age, capable of committing genocide? 

He often criticizes liberals for what he perceives as weakness caused by “postmodern neo-Marxism” and argues that it undermines traditional values and hierarchies that he believes are essential for a stable society to effectively respond to evolutionary challenges successfully. 

So, is he actually promoting genocide to "get rid of the weak and eradicate victimhood"?

Isn't this an extension of the eugenics?

But even to his point, Palestinians, by their very mere survival despite the collusion and persistent efforts to ethnically cleanse them, deny their existence, change the names of their country, towns and villages, etc., despite all of these efforts by the world's most powerful, ruthless and resource-rich empires throughout the past 100 years, Palestinians prove that they are anything but weak.

In this war alone, Israel has carpet-bombed the Palestinians with intensity that had never before been seen - even in World War II ...

Using more ammunition than what was used in some of the biggest battles of history, those where the warfront stretched over continents ...

Israel used more bombs to destroy a 365 sq. km area, receiving endless supplies and hundreds of billions in funding from governments and private donations, while facing an enemy that has been under siege for 20 years, or 76 years - depending how you look at things. 

Yet, Israel has failed to achieve any of its stated goals.

But Peterson thinks, hopes or at least preaches - that a Shining City on a Hill will ultimately manage to "finish the job" and that "the fate of the world depends on the people of Israel" ... "this tiny people in no man's land" . He actually said "no man's land"!

For a while I thought he was just using reason. But then he said "You show the world what the "holy city" should look like" and teared up. He choked on his tears. This is not coming from philosophy, logical reasoning or Darwinian social evolution. This is coming from something much more emotionally poweful. It is faith. And when faith and genocide intersect we must suspect messianic beliefs.

Now I am starting to realize how these messianic beliefs actually mess up your reasoning and kill your humanity. One becomes just an extension to the virus or meme which is trying to propagate Armageddon.

طلاق قبل الزواج

ذكريات مشوشة - العم وسلمي  

 لا تنتظري عودتي

 في حديقة الأسماك

تقابلنا لآخر مرة

...

كيف هانت الأحلام على من أقسم

على الحب.. على الإخلاص؟

(لم مالت الأيام مع أجرم 

في حق الشعب وعمر الناس؟)

...

أعمار ضاعت

لترثيها

أشرار باعت

أمانيها

...

وردة مجففة

دمعة مكفكفة

وحلق رخيص

تلخصت الذكريات الجميلة فى صندوق أحذية صغير

وتاهت الملامح العزيزة رغم مشوار العمر القصير

...

ترى أين أنت الآن يا سلمي؟

وهل يتضرج وجهك خجلاً إذا تقابلنا صدفة؟

Translated from Arabic:

Confused memories - Uncle and Salma

A Divorce Party Predating a Wedding

...

Do not Wait for my Return

In the aquarium 

We met for the last time

...

How did dreams become so trivial to those who swore on eternal love?

(Why did destiny lean with the villains 

who deceived the people

and stole countless young lives?)

…

Lives lost 

Only to receive fake eulogies

From the very villains who buried them with their dreams

…

A dried rose. A stifled tear. And a cheap earring.

A thousand beautiful memories reduced to solitary confinement in a tiny shoebox.

And those sweet and dear features, how they cruelly dissipate, escaping a traumatized memory,

despite a short, hardly lived journey?

...

…

I wonder where you are now, Salma, 

And after all these years,

Will you blush if we were to meet again by chance?

Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide

 

Source:

https://law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-database-with-500-instances-of-israeli-incitement-to-genocide-continuously-updated/

The database is organized thematically:

Go to the website if you need to download the PDF file.

One-State, Two-State vs. NO-STATE

While most people argue between the merits of a Two-State vs. One-State solutions, one man, and his followers believe in a continuous State-of-War and that War is Peace.

**Partially used a 2012 photo of Netanyahu at the UN, © Getty Images

Poll: A Two-State, One-State, or Some Other State Solution: Which Will Most Likely Bring Peace?

If possible, please 

• Vote
• Kindly share. 
• Explain your views in the comments. 
• Provide links if you are proposing new ideas.

Which solution is more likely to bring peace:
A Two-State solution (a Palestinian State side by Side with an Israeli State)
One-State Solution (Both Israelis and Palestinians have equal rights and live together in a one democratic and secular state)

— Wael Nawara (@WaelNawara) May 25, 2024

Israel Faces Tough Choices (Updated)

Updated 25 May 2024

Israel Faces Tough Choices

In a previous article, I suggested that Israel has lost the war. Truth of the matter is, Israel has lost much more than that. Israel has lost its ability to fineness its way and hide its crimes. This time things just went out of control. No hasbara, no matter how good, could do the trick. It is now very difficult to see a viable path forward. And it is even tougher to write about one.

More Bad News

The last few days carried very bad news for Israel. 
Somehow, Hamas has managed to regroup its forces in the North (in areas which Israel had bulldozed) and the Middle of Gaza and has been attacking Israeli forces with devastating blows.
Israeli losses are huge. And things seem to be getting worse, not better. The situation, militarily and strategically, is untenable. This must have contributed to why Gallant has made this speech.
The only achievement which Israel has been able to do, was to destroy Gaza, kill and injure over 110,000 people, majority are women and children, which has turned the world public opinion against it and sent it to the International Court of Justice and ICC.

But that's not all. The UN General Assembly voted with a landslide majority to recommend that the Security Council reconsiders Palestine's application for  membership and has granted Palestine more rights and privileges. The world body approved the resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions.

But just when you think things could get any worse for the apartheid state, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, prime minister and minister of defense of Israel. Many European countries, traditionally faithful allies of Israel, had to adhere to their obligations and announced that that they will comply with the ICC arrest warrants, if such are indeed are issued by the judges. 

As if all this was not enough, Ireland, Spain and Norway just announced that they are recognizing Palestine as a state.

Only 4 days later, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to immediately halt its Rafah military offensive, withdraw its troops, and open the crossings for humanitarian aid and assistance.

This may be the worst May which Israel has witnessed in its short history. The Month of May is when Israel commemorates its 'independence', and the founding of the state.

A Strategic Defeat

Strategically, Israel has been utterly defeated. A total defeat which will shake its very foundations for years, if any. I came to that conclusion because:

• Israel has failed to implement the "final solution" (ethnic cleansing of Gaza through pushing Gazans into the Sinai desert), after Egypt fortified the borders and announced that this will be a red line. Breaching that red line may lead to revoking the Peace Treaty.
• Israel has failed to destroy Hamas. As Israel pushes to the South, Hamas regrouped in the North and the Middle of Gaza.
• Israel has failed to free the hostages. Israel has killed more of its hostages than it has managed to release.
• Strategically, Israel has lost the world's public opinion. The global protests and condemnations, student encampment, and a social media sentiment of about 9:1 against Israel, all point to colossal strategic defeat and very hard times ahead. In fact, Israel's legitimacy, its very existence, is now being questioned.

With these difficult circumstances, Israel was facing very tough choices. But since the last article, more bad news for Israel has emerged.

The Final Solution

To keep his government afloat (and stay out of jail), Netanyahu had to subscribe to the right wing's dream (or nightmare) of the final solution. Ben Gvir and those on his bandwagon, believe that Palestinians must leave. At least to them this campaign is not really about Hamas, Oct 7 or even the hostages. It's about completing the job of ethnic cleansing which started in 1948. Their hope is that with enough pressure, Egypt will open the borders and let them in. They said it publicly so many times. They even suggested that the move will be temporary. But Palestinians of course know, once they are out, they will never see their homes again. Most residents of Gaza are themselves refugees and the descendants of those ethnically cleansed before from other parts of Palestine.

Why Rafah?

Why does Israel insist on invading Rafah, despite many reasons against the invasion:

• It is a very small area, crowding in it are almost one and a half million people. Most of them already evacuated from the North of Gaza or other places. The human cost will be catastrophic, further isolating Israel and entrenching its position as a pariah state.  
• Hamas has already regrouped in the North. So, why would Israel go after them in the South?
• The whole world is warning Israel not to do it. Even Biden stopped one arms shipment as a result of Netanyahu's stubbornness on the Rafah issue.

In my opinion, the reason why Israel is determined to invade Rafah, can be understood from its 1948 ethnic cleansing tactics. A village would be attacked from 3 directions, leaving a safe exit which the evicted residents could take, usually pointing to the nearest border.  
It is the same with Rafah. Rafah is the closest point in Gaza to the Egyptian border. By intensifying the attacks on Rafah, a humanitarian catastrophe will unfold, and Egypt will find itself forced to open the borders for humanitarian reasons. At least, this is what the 
settler extremists were hoping for.

Egypt Refused to 'Play Ball'

But Egypt 'refused' to play ball, and instead, announced that this is a red line not to be crossed. Crossing that line will mean suspending or revoking the Peace Treaty and worse. Egypt has since intervened in the ICJ genocide case, joining South Africa. Egyptian officials also made sure to clearly communicate the message to the Americans and Europeans. Pushing Gazans into Sinai is not to happen. 

What Comes Next?

With an arrest warrant, Netanyahu's position has become untenable. And since Gallant may also be expecting an arrest warrant, both have become toxic assets.

Can Gantz fill that void? Doubtful. Gantz seemed to have aligned himself with Biden and the polls show that if elections are held in Israel he would win, but who will call for elections?

Ben Gvir and Smotrich seem to cling to the "final solution" scenario, but with the entire world now looking at the ICJ genocide case and Netanyahu/Gallant potential arrest warrants, it is virtually impossible to actually implement their ethnic cleansing plans.

Israel will be facing turbulent times. It could even descend into a civil war. Ben Gvir has been arming and emboldening the settlers. This is why they attack Palestinians in the West bank and assault the aid trucks. It will be a tough job for the next government to stop them now.

In a way, the Israeli government is already divided.  While one part of the government attempts to find ways for food and aid to get into Gaza to keep their promises to the Americans (in order to maintain the flow of arms shipments, much-needed by the army which is facing unprecedented losses), another part (Ben Gvir et al), are supporting settlers who are vandalizing and burning the aid trucks.

The coming days may be carrying big changes. But we just have to wait and see what actually comes next.

ذكريات الماضي الجليل وأحلام العـيش الجميل

 دون ما وجهة معينة

من ذاكرة الأب

 

في القبور

تحركت العظام

ونادت الأرض

تطلب الانتقام

 

الطنين

 

خرجت أروح عن نفسي

أحاول أن أنسى الحنين

ولكن النداء ظل يدوي

في أذني مثل الطنين

 

نظرت في وجوه الناس

فوجدتها

مصبوغة بلون داكن

مزيج بائس من العرق والتراب

خليط قذر من اليأس والاكتئاب

 

وتفحصت تراب الأرض

هو طاهر

نظيف

إلى أن تدنسه خطايانا

عجزنا .. جبننا وأطماعنا

لقاءات مع شيخ القبيلة 1

 

سمعت عن القبيلة وعن شيخها

تجاعيد عميقة في وسطها

مدفونة عيناه مغلقتان

 

إلى حيث تأخذنا

 

تأخذنا أقدامنا

تخبرنا قلوبنا

عن المكان

 

ونذهب

يحدونا الأمل

نقرأ ونكتب

ونتحدث طوال النهار

ومعظم الليل

عما يجب أن يكون

 

وقبل أن أدخل الفراش

جاء الصبي يسأل

من ننتظر يا أبتاه؟

ليصنع كل الذي فيه تتناجون

فأطرقت في خجل وسكون

ماتت قلوبنا

أسرعنا في الخطى

دون ما وجهة معينة

فأخذتنا أقدامنا

إلى حيث النسيان

والمجون

 

لقاء 2

 

سألت الشيخ عن أبنائه

أين ذهب شباب القبيلة

أطفالها ونساؤها؟

ودون  أن يفتح عينيه

مد أطراف يديه

مرتعشة يحدوها الأمل

وتحسس وجهي

وأطلق زفيراً

 

الشاشات ذات الوميض 2

 

تبهرنا الأضواء

ونستمتع بمشاهدة

الشاشات ذات الوميض

تخدرنا لقاءات ساحرة

بفتيات ونساء بيض

وأبطال يقفزون في سيارات فارهة

تشي بثراء عريض

وأحياناً

لا نكتفي بمجرد المشاهدة

تزورنا خيالات رائعة

ونستعيد المشاهد والروائح

والملمس الطري لأجساد مائعة

ونعيش بطولات زائفة .. ولكن ممتعة

 

صحوة

 

وفي أحد الأيام

صحا الصبي مبكراً

ونظر حوله متذكراً

فلم يعجبه ما رأى

وهز رأسه مستنكراً

استفزه العجز .. الفشل .. الظلم والطغيان

 

قام الفتى قومة هائلة

حطم الأصنام

والمقاعد والشاشات

والأكواب والزجاجات

وحرك عقارب الزمان

وأمسك بمفاتيح المكان

ووضعها بين يديّ

في إعزاز وانتظر

 

ثم رنا إليّ متعجباً

 

… … …

يوم الحصاد

 

ابتلت الأرض

وانتظرنا أن يخرج الزرع

انتظرنا ليوم الحصاد

وحينما جف الضرع

وجمنا متسائلين ؟

 

جاء الصبي وجرابه فوق ظهره ... ملآن

 

ونظر إلينا

وضحك

ساخراً؟ .. لا .. آسفاً . . لا لا .. متألماً ..

ومال كفه في بطء

لتتناثر البذور من راحته

وجال ببصره في المكان

 

كأنه يختزن ما يرى

 

وأدار ظهره وذهب

 

 

… … …

… … …

… … …

 

وانتظرنا أن يعود

لقاء 3

 

همست في أذن الشيخ

أسأله عن الصبي

لابد أنه

قد أصبح الآن رجلاً

يافعاً و ... عاقلاً

 

وعلى تراب الأديم

جلست تحت قدميه

واستحلفته بالله العظيم

أن يدلني عليه

 

لقد اشتقت إليه

واشتقت أكثر إلى نفسي

عندما ترنو إلى عينيه

 

 

ولكن الشيخ

أشاح عني بوجهه

وتسللت دمعة تبحث عن طريقها

بين الأخاديد تائهة

 

واجتاحتني الغيرة

من تظن نفسك أيها الشيخ الغريب؟

لم َتبكي من ليس لك بقريب؟

إنه ولدي أنا

ولأول مرة

فتح الشيخ عينيه

وفجأة أدركت أنني

لم أعد أستطيع

حتى البكاء

 

صعقتني نظرات الشيخ الجامدة

باتهامات قاسية ظالمة

 

دون ما وجهة معينة

 

وتتابعت صور الماضي

تدك رأسي بأثقال

تنوء بها الجبال

ولم أقو على الاحتمال

 

فعدوت

عدوت بكل قوتي

دون ما وجهة معينة

 

جلباب رائع يليق بمأتم الصبي

 

جلست أستريح

جاءت أمي وأمه

نظرت إلي متسائلة

فتظاهرت بالغباء

وأعطيتها لفافة مفضضة

بها جلبابٌ رائعٌ

من الحرير الأسود

علامات الرضا العميق

 

أقمنا السرادق العظيم

وصدحت أصوات القارئين

بآيات من الذكر الحكيم

وجاء العمدة يتقدم المعزين

 

شد على يدي وقال

لقد فعلنا ما بوسعنا

بذلنا كل ما نستطيع

وسمعنا رأي الجميع

ولكن السلامة في التعقل

من منكم يقدر عليهم؟

 

بشاشاتهم ذات الوميض

ورجالهم ذوي الصدر العريض

وعطر نسائهم البيض

 

فأطرقنا جميعاً ساكنين

وأطلقنا زفرات الضيق

وكان السكون في برنا

من علامات الرضا العميق

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