"Make sounds of joy, O rifle… Let only the sound of the rifle be heard" announces Fatah at rally for terrorist murderer
Video and text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page
Posted text: “A procession passes through the streets of the Jalazone [refugee] camp in a call by the Fatah Movement and the Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] (PFLP) to support and strengthenprisoner commander Nasser Abu Hmeid (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 7 people).”
Visual:
The video shows the procession in Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah, in which shots are heard being fired in the air in the background while an announcer speaks.
Announcer: “Make sounds of joy, O rifle,
make sounds of joy, make the whole world hear… Let the whole world be silent and let those [Arabs] who are shirking [their duty] be silent. Let only the sound of the rifle be heard… (The following is an excerpt from a poem by Mahmoud Darwish -Ed.) ‘O you whose hands are bloody, the night will pass, the prison cell will not remain forever, nor the links of the chains… The seeds of dead oats will fill the entire valley with crops.’ Arise, O Nasser Abu Hmeid, arise masked lion of Ramallah, and let all the free people and the whole world know that we will definitely triumph, we will definitely triumph! Victory to the prisoners! Freedom to the prisoners! Healing to the wounded! Mercy to the Martyrs!”
Mahmoud Darwish is considered the Palestinian national poet. He published over 30 volumes of poetry and 8 books of prose and has won numerous awards. He joined the Israeli Communist Party in 1961 and the terrorist organization PLO in 1973, becoming a member of the PLO Executive Committee in 1987. He left the PLO in 1993 because it signed the Oslo Accords with Israel. Many in Israel see his poetry as inciting hate and violence. One poem he wrote in 1988 at the height of the Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel in which approximately 200 Israelis were murdered (the first Intifada, 1987-1993) calls to Israelis: “Take your portion of our blood - and be gone… Live wherever you like, but do not live among us… Die wherever you like, but do not die among us… Leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds, everything, and leave the memories of memory.” In 1964, he wrote a poem entitled "ID Card" in which he said: "I do not hate people, And I do not steal from anyone, But if I starve I will eat my oppressors' flesh; Beware, beware of my starving, And my rage." He also wrote “Silence for the Sake of Gaza” in 1973, which many see as glorifying terror: “She wraps explosives around her waist and blows herself up. It is not a death, and not a suicide. It is Gaza's way of declaring she is worthy of life.” His defenders have claimed that Israel misinterprets his poetry and that he sought reconciliation with Israel. One wrote in 2017: “Darwish arranged meetings between Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals, and published essays on their discussions. He was optimistic that, through mutual understanding, the two sides could eventually reconcile.” [https://www.bcalnoor.org/]