The Gaza Anthem!

Thank you Rime for sharing this amazing anthem!

We will not go down

Play it loud, chant it everywhere, let the world know that Palestine will not go down !

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"We will not go down (Song for Gaza)" - composed and performed by the extremely talented Michael Heart.

WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza)
(Composed by Michael Heart)
Copyright 2009

A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive

They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who’s wrong or right

But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

Cheney's Gems

Asked whether sending troops into Gaza was a mistake, US vice president Dick Cheney, yet again another poor excuse for a human being, replied that "it's important to remember who the enemy is here," adding, "You haven't had a conflict between two UN charter-member states, you've got a UN member state being attacked by a terrorist organization." Cheney conveniently forgets that his country has done its best to avoid the creation of Palestine as a UN member state, and also its best to support one UN member state in ignoring every UN resolution that calls on it to withdraw from occupied land, etc. Let’s pull the UN out of the bag when it suits us, eh?

The Loss of Faith

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, another poor excuse for a human being, charged that Hamas “"has used Gaza as a launching pad" for firing rockets into the Jewish state and that, as a result, the Palestinians in Gaza have had "a very bad daily life." By the same token, the Jewish state has used Israel as a launching pad for firing rockets into Gaza for a very long time, but the US seems to have forgiven Israel that transgression. In fact, it never registers on the US’ radar that Israel could possibly do any wrong. Shame on them for not caring to look beyond their own interests to see that the Palestinians in Gaza have had a “very bad daily life” as a direct result of Israel strangling their economy, development, livelihood, dreams and even life.

It’s a shame that the US positions itself as a great defender of human rights in the world, making a mockery of that term. Not simply because we are at the receiving end of that hypocrisy, however detrimental that hypocrisy is to our lives, but because the loss of faith in mankind to act morally, justly and ethically is far greater a loss than the loss of life.