Health, Fitness, and Wisdom
-Rham Akra-
Se noyant au milieu de l’ocean,
Tandi qu’il ne pense qu’a leur franc.
Le monde abomine tremblant.
Mais lui, il reste certain
Dans ce sombre hiver larmoyant
Les bague deviennent de plus en plus déferlantes.
Et engloutissent toute son âme en profondeur
Quel douleur de soutenir tel malheur!
La cause, elle existe bien
Or, L’humanité regarde sans fin,
Ignorant, sans compassion, ni chagrin
La mer se tache de rouge
Les ombres dansent sur le rivage,
Tandis que lui, il reste certain.
The great Ghassan Kanafani said this. The 36 year old author, and politician, was assassinated along with his 17 year old niece in a car bomb planted by the Israeli Mossad. Yet his ideas, values and virtues, that empowered his will to resist, reverberate decades later. To this day he stands as an insurmountable symbol of strength, sumud (steadfastness), and uncompromising integrity.
On Friday, September 27, 2024, Israel assassinated another powerful figure of the Lebanese Arab resistance and secretary general of Hezb’Allah, Sayed Hasan Nasrallah. Israel’s weapon of choice for murdering Nasrallah was infinitely more barbaric and monstrous than that of any other Arab resistance leader that I can recall; carpet bombing six residential buildings in the Dahiyeh, a small suburb in Beirut Lebanon.