In His Mother's Tears

by Mary Ethridge-Majayda
I saw him today
he was reflected in
his mothers tears
He was every mother's son
resister of the occupation
defender of the innocent
struck down from afar
by the sudden flight of
death on winged cylinder
a missile from a mile away
a flash and a whistle
and he was gone
a car turned to molten twisted tortured metal
a body suddenly dismembered
drained of blood and life
he lay there so very still
wrapped in the swaddling clothes
of the grave
his unshaved cheek
and gently closed eyes
and once tied chin
reflected in the sorrow
the loss and the pain
of his heartbroken mother
reflected and multiplied
in the tears on her cheek
in tomorrow he is but
a faded picture
a memory
a source of pain
in time he is
past joy
remembered in sunshine
and mourned in the
still of the darkest night
and still too he is
reflected in his mother tears
that fall unbidden
when memory hears
the call of his voice
the sound of his step
the look of his unshaved cheek
the memory of his laughter
comes as a familiar friend
and steels into a reflection
in the tear that escapes
and slides away from the eye
and rolls down the cheek
and for a moment in forever
he is reflected in
his mothers tears
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00349.htm

http://www.ramallahonline.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=87

http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20010&Itemid=1
Legislator Barghouthi calls international community to send fact finding committee to Gaza
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Thursday, 13 July 2006, 15:22

Palestinian Legislator, Mustafa Barghouthi, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said on Thursday that the Israeli army have 47 air strikes on Gaza Strip that led to the death of 74 Palestinian residents, while more than 200 residents were injured since Israel started its assault in the Gaza Strip.

In a press conference in Al Biereh City, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Barghouthi said that around 190 Palestinian families were forced to abandon their homes due to the Israeli, urging the international community to immediately send a fact-finding committee to investigate the kind of weapons used by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people.

"There are dozens of Palestinian citizens who arrived to hospitals whose bodies bore burns rather than wounds that call on us to investigate the kind of bombs used by the troops", he stated.

Barghouthi accused the army of enforcing a media blackout on the attacks in the Strip, asserting that the issue of the captured soldier was badly exploited by the Israel as a pretext for the invasion, when in fact the military attacks atrocities on the Strip have been culminating two months prior to the abduction of the soldier.

The lawmaker warned of imminent human catastrophe in the Gaza Strip if the attacks weren't halted amidst severe shortage of water, electricity, medicine, and basic needs coupled with total destruction of the Palestinian infrastructure, the Palestine-info reported.

Moreover, Barghouthi elaborated that Israeli warplanes were launching 11-18 mock raids per day, and frequently broke the sound barrier over the Strip, spreading panic and leaving psychological problems on Palestinian children.

He also highlighted the ordeal of the five thousand and more Palestinian citizens who have been stranded at the Egyptian part of Rafah terminal for two weeks where five Palestinian citizens passed away so far, the Palestine-info added.

Barghouthi also said that continuation of the military operations in the Strip will entail total collapse of the Palestinian Authority and the Oslo agreement.

http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

well worth a look

http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/ Entry denied: Deporting witnesses of Israeli occupation and unilateralism

In another Israeli move designed to further isolate Palestinians from the rest of the world community, it is being reported that the Israeli army will be declaring the West Bank closed to foreign nationals. The Gaza Strip has already been made virtually inaccessible to foreign nationals; those who wish to enter must apply to the Israeli authorities, weeks in advance, to receive elusive permits. The effect is that the plight of the Palestinian civilian population living under Israeli occupation becomes all the more invisible to the international community.

Good blogspot on Palestine.................