Poem praising Palestinian resistance/struggle published by Toronto newspaper

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Son of Gaza. Photo: Arab News – screenshot

On September 19, 2018 the Canadian newspaper “Arab News” published on page 5 a poem written by Hani Al-Braghouthi, a Toronto resident who portrays himself as a Palestinian and an Arab nationalist.

A caption on a cartoon accompanied to the poem reads: “Gaza pays the price of the noble values.”

Son of Gaza

I am the son of [the city of] Gaza

Where there are resistance/struggle and noble values

I lived in the rubble

To write on it the history [date] of return

And [to use] the pen like a knife

I am the son of [the city of] Gaza

I refuse [the existence of] Zionists on my land

I do not tolerate humiliation and misery

My city [Gaza] does not accept bargaining [over the land]

In it [Gaza] there are women who embrace the resistance/struggle

[In opposition to them] in the Arab world there is a leadership

That has no plan

But to fight against those who embrace the resistance/struggle

We have men whose shoulders carry the rifle

While they [the Arab leadership] carry Zionism on their back

I am the son of Palestine from Gaza, the capital of resistance/struggle