Free Free Palestine
The crowd chanted while I hold the Palestinian flag in my hand tightly on a rainy November morning in a little town in Europe, Ennis.
I also, hold back my tears few times as my daughter beside me tried to wrap her arms around me, thinking about the children dying in Palestine, a lot of mothers won’t ever get to hold their kids and few of them probably were lucky enough to find the full body to burry them. I remember seeing the picture of the little hand in the rubble after falling the victim of bombing before his little hands ever learned to hold on!
Hold on I said to my heart, I am here trying the least for Palestinians, “from thousand to millions, we are all Palestinians” the crowd chanted and I looked at the sky and told Allah that I am here and can feel the pain and suffering of my brother and sisters in Palestine, secretly asking “ please send the Mehdi”.
Mehdi? my brain asked while my eyes searched for any familiar faces or Muslim friends which I know in town but my eyes came back with a little shame as I lowered my head in front of Allah and said to my brain, yes you are right, Ummah is asleep!
I look up and see the Irish around me holding flags, side by side walking beside the river Fergus, shouting “ from the river to sea, Palestine will be Free“ “1 2 3 4, occupation no more, 5 6 7 8, Israel is a terrorist state”
Occupied and in Terror, who would know the meaning of these better than Irish, their city walls, stone houses standing solemnly, the minarets of the church looking over the crowd passing through the town now standing for some other country’s freedom as they did for their own country once.
When the march comes to and end, I see the number 3,760 children died written on the poster lying on the road on a red cloth with flowers around, I feel suffocated as I can imagine all these little graves without flowers, I took a deep breath and looked up and saw the Palestinian flag fluttering against the grey cloudy skies, the sound of it felt like all those little souls leaving the world,
Is the hour near?
I asked my self and the old church bell chimed announcing the hour!!!