tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2267029730216845760..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Invalidating Darwish's Identity Card (we did nazi this coming)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50572915964270784532016-07-25T04:24:59.099-07:002016-07-25T04:24:59.099-07:00Duncan,
That reading makes the ancient glazed or ...Duncan,<br /><br />That reading makes the ancient glazed or glittering eyes mist over and a choking sensation to come into the throat, every time, no matter how many times I look at it, over the several years now.<br /><br />Wondrous that such strength should derive from something as allegedly simple as a few words!<br /><br />Can only mean that they are the right ones.<br /><br />Apologies for the moldovan bar bouncer's face appearing here at all, just that the contrast with the intelligent face of the poet seemed so striking. <br /><br />(Must confess btw that the ancient glittering or glazed eyes, which miss out a lot of detail these days, did just that to the last name of half of the intrepid poetry adventuring team that brought us the photos from Ramallah. Nicole’s last name is Peyrafitte not Peyrefitte. Apologies!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88240505228854348802016-07-25T00:06:40.108-07:002016-07-25T00:06:40.108-07:00I catch an echo of the angel's injunction to M...I catch an echo of the angel's injunction to Mohammed in the opening declaration. Her reading is incredible.<br /><br />I have no words for Lieberman.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38923721148245807132016-07-24T15:59:12.939-07:002016-07-24T15:59:12.939-07:00Michael,
I take the venue in question here, Israe...Michael,<br /><br />I take the venue in question here, Israeli Army radio, to be more or less equivalent to NPR, as Wm Booth suggests, that is, main line cultural propaganda platform, with a liberal veneer.<br /><br />In maintaining an attitude of respect for the internationally acknowledged genius of Darwish, then, the putative state-representation function of such an agency would be to afford the Palestinian national poet (what? Palestinian nation??) at least the decorous appearance of respect, now that his physical body is well out of the way and only his long shadow remains to be reckoned with. Why awaken shadows without good cause? How much does a small show of polite tolerance cost?<br /><br />The cause would be the larger struggle in which Army radio is a tool of something else, that is, the struggle of the Israeli rightwing to dominate the state and its policies for time to come.<br /><br />The battle lines being drawn all round the planet at this moment place the Moldovan bar bouncer and his fellow zionazi charmers shoulder to shoulder in the same globe-encircling fascist bunker.<br /><br />The Lillian Rosengarten memoir Survival and Conscience From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza makes prophetic sense on all this, following-out the awful historical logic by which zionist ideology spawns fascism.<br /><br />"Lillian is unafraid to state that for her, the Palestinians are the final victims of the Nazi Holocaust; holding Israel accountable is both an act of desperation and love." (Alice Rothchild)<br /><br />The bar bouncer's predecessor at the permanent apartheid war department, Ya'alon, booked when it became clear where this government was/is heading.<br /><br />And why should "we" care, apart from the fact that "this government" also now instantly becomes "ours" as well, every time a candidate for POTUS opens its too big mouth.<br /><br />By the way, for anybody who might be wondering what if anything poetry has to do with real life here in our wonderfully wired wireless new world -- that is, poetry, not the poetry industry -- spending a few minutes in that room with Souhad Zendah (second link given) might be... what? educational? emotional even?<br /><br />Oh no!!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43465828869498817132016-07-24T08:18:24.058-07:002016-07-24T08:18:24.058-07:00another great poem and important post, thanks Tomanother great poem and important post, thanks TomLallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67125871969688701952016-07-24T01:26:20.554-07:002016-07-24T01:26:20.554-07:00Mahmoud Darwish reads: Record! I'm an Arab...
...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzfKQ4PFfPE" rel="nofollow">Mahmoud Darwish reads: Record! I'm an Arab...</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avv6oty0kO0" rel="nofollow">Souhad Zendah reads Mahmoud Darwish: "Identity Card" ("Record! I'm an Arab...") in Arabic and English, at Harvard University, 18 September 2008</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssdc_9XpJ4" rel="nofollow">George Qurmuz / Mahmoud Darwish: Record! I'm an Arab...</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VXbXeHzVMM" rel="nofollow">Ehab Ebeid: An Identity Card: Mahmoud Darwish/music by Ahmed Fatthy</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com