Words are frail and fragile things. Yet there is an undeniable power in poetry, which explains why tyrants and despots have always sought to mute writers throughout human history.
This truism might seem hollow in these dark and depressing times, when words – becoming mere cliches in the mouths of politicians – have utterly failed the Palestinian people dying under the military might of the Israeli state.
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