Slingshots and memories– A Poem - Media Review Network

Hassen Lorgat

The thief in chief Ben Gurion once said
The old will die
and the young will forget

intifada after intifada
As the slingshots of resistance
memorialised the fallen martyrs
the young fedayeen emerged and remerge

Palestine is truly unkillable

But this has not stopped the Zio-lots
And their allies/ the corporate merchants of death/
Using AI /and algorithms/ for terror and slaughter/
In the mass/ modern/ industrial killing machine

Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi once said
We cannot rely on the silenced
to tell us about their suffering

and
Armed with this message and their moral courage
the people of world took over the streets
To oppose the Gaza hellscape
-the Palestinian holocaust
The wisdom of the ancients live /In the young who refuse to forget/
As the tales of resistance from Palestine reverberates all over the world
/Palestine Lives/
/Palestine educates/

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Hassen Lorgat

Has worked in trade union movement, civic associations, and anti apartheid sports movement led by the South African Council on Sports (SACOS) as well as NGOs for the past while. He has worked with civil society groups opposing harmful and exploitative mining and extractivism. Hassen is active with the SA BDS Coalition.