Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructurke, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician.

Occupation meansv that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there.

Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16.

Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water.

And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.

Suheir Hammad, acclaimed Palestinian writer and poet.