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To Palestine
By Amany Hajyassin
Our hearts filled with emptiness, our eyes have dried out, our hopes and faith seem to have been blown away. Tears rush down our eyes and our happiness fades away. We have been denied once again by the world. Their eyes have been shut and their ears have been closed. So they wont be able to see our sufferings and our pain. So they wont be able to hear our cries and our prayers. Palestine once stood beautiful and we were always by its side. Our precious Palestine has been stolen from us. Have we lost our hope? It seems we have given up on our land. We need to raise our Palestine flag. We need to raise it as high as it was once before.
The Palestine flag is a symbol of the Intifada. The Intifada, one of our greatest times in our history. The colors of our flag each represent what we have gone through. Where it was once a dream to never lose our precious land. The beautiful land of Palestine. Have we lost our love for Palestine?
We would sacrifice every drop of our blood for our land. We would sacrifice our life, our soul for Al-Aqsa. We would shed our tears as soon as we felt the pain and suffering. We would mourn over a martyr. We would protest and demonstrate to the world and show them that we will never give up. We would wave the Palestine flag, and show the people that the land of Palestine does exist, and we are the people of Palestine.
We have always loved Palestine, we are the children of Palestine. We are the children of stones, we are weeping children watching our land being torn apart by the Israeli soldiers. Walking towards a land that once was a precious home.
It has happened to us once before, and its now happening again in front of us. Our nightmares are returning. Our years from the Intifada has returned. Our homes we watch being demolished. Every moment of the day, a new name is added to our list of Martyrs. Bombs and gases polluting the air. The ground has turned from grey cement, to a red river. Our enemies driving down our streets with tanks and shooting at our homes.
Palestine has always touched our hearts. Has our hearts now lost the love for Palestine? Why did we give up so fast? Why did we all of a sudden stop and just sit and watch what goes on? We need to stop being victims in our own land. Our sin to our enemies is being Palestinian and how much we are willing to sacrifice for our land.
Palestine will return to us and when it does, I promise you all, we will never lose it again! Once Palestine returns to us, we will wrap it around our hearts and it will never die out. Palestine will stay in our hearts and it will stay there forever. Together forever, as Muslims, as Arabs, as Palestinians, we will hold her tight, and nobody will ever be able to break through. Our flag will be raised high into the sky, so the whole world will see that we are people too, and we are people of a beautiful land.
If I ever go down, I will go shaheed. I don't just claim to be Palestinian, I will sacrifice every drop of blood in my body for Palestine. My soul will rest in peace for Al-Aqsa. My life will be in the hands of Allah.