Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Sentenced To Prison For A Poem

Israel has sentenced a Palestinian poet named Dareen Tatours to five months in prison for "inciting terrorism". You can find the poem she wrote which resulted in this punishment here:

https://arablit.org/2016/04/27/the-poem-for-which-dareen-tatours-under-house-arrest-resist-my-people-resist-them/

I find her poem to be no more inciting than the words of essays written by Thomas Paine and others during the American Revolution.

But that was then, and today the people of the United States are cowards who bomb helpless fish in a barrel and call it bravery, while failing to recognize the injustice of the punishments meted out to people who are fighting for their very existence.

Shame on you, America. You have lost your way.

Or do you think this is what G-d wants you to do?

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