Mazin Qumsiyeh - Non-violence or Non-existence

A recent poll at Al-Jazeera showed that over 65% of respondent said: "Armed resistance is the only way to acquire a Palestinian State". European Jew settlers occupied Palestine by terrorism and it can only be recaptured by armed resistance.

Did you commit suicide? - The poet asks Ayat and answers himself....

"No. We’ve committed suicide…

We’ve turned impotent….

We complained to the tyrants

of a white house whose hearts

overflow with darkness

We kissed the shoe of Sharon…

When paragons, the cream of

my people, are castrated

A beautiful woman stands

upto the criminal

“She kisses death with a

smile….

Tell those who pen fatwas;

hang on

Many a fatwas fills Heavens

with anger

When Jihad calls, ink has to

fall silent….

When Jihad beckons, no fatwa

is sought

Fatwa on the day of Jihad is

blood."

The poet is no other than former Saudi ambassador to Britain, Dr. Ghazi Algosaibi, and his above poem was published in Al-Hayat on April 13, 2002. Ghazi was blamed for supporting terrorism by British Jewish Lobby. He told his detractors:

“Menachem Begin was responsible for the cold blooded murder of about 200 innocent Palestinian in Deir Yasin. Yitzhak Shamir was a notorious murderer of innocents and would have been hanged if the British Mandate government caught him. Ariel Sharon is guilty of genocide. If and when the Board of Deputies of British Jews has the moral courage to refer to these notorious terrorists as terrorists, and the actions in Jenin of the Israeli government as war crimes - I would be very glad to modify my views of Palestinian freedom-fighters.”