We can work it out - Podemos solucionarlo

Mira Awad, cantante palestina, y Noa, cantante judía-yemení, unen sus voces para entonar esta canción de John Lennon y Paul McCartney

Try to see it my way,	Intenta verlo a mi manera
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?	¿Acaso tendré que seguir hablando hasta que ya no pueda más?
While you see it your way,	Mientras lo sigas viendo a tu manera,
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone.	Te arriesgas a darte cuenta de que nuestro amor pronto puede acabar
Chorus:	Estribillo:
We can work it out,	Podemos solucionarlo
We can work it out.	Podemos solucionarlo
Think of what you're saying.	Piensa en lo que dices
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right.	Puedes equivocarte y seguir pensando que así está bien
Think of what I'm saying,	Piensa en lo que te digo
We can work it out and get it straight, or say good night.	Podemos solucionarlo y aclararlo o despedirnos
Chorus:	Estribillo:
We can work it out,	Podemos solucionarlo
We can work it out.	Podemos solucionarlo
Bridge:	Puente:
Life is very short, and there's no time	La vida es muy corta y no hay tiempo
I have always thought that it's a crime,	Siempre he creído que es nocivo
For fussing and fighting, my friend.	Discutir y pelear, amig@ mí@
So I will ask you once again.	Así que te lo pido otra vez
Try to see it my way,	Intenta verlo a mi manera
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.	Sólo el tiempo dirá si tengo o no razón
While you see it your way	Mientras sigas viéndolo a tu manera
There's a chance that we might fall apart before too long.	Puede ser que nos desmoronemos muy pronto
Chorus:	Estribillo:
We can work it out,	Podemos solucionarlo
We can work it out.	Podemos solucionarlo
Bridge:	Puente:
Life is very short, and there's no time	La vida es muy corta y no hay tiempo
For fussing and fighting, my friend.	Para discutir y pelear, amig@ mí@
I have always thought that it's a crime,	Siempre he creído que es nocivo
So I will ask you once again.	Así que te lo pido otra vez
Try to see it my way,	Intenta verlo a mi manera
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.	Sólo el tiempo dirá si tengo razón o no
While you see it your way	Mientras sigas viéndolo a tu manera
There's a chance that we might fall apart before too long.	Puede ser que nos desmoronemos muy pronto
Chorus:	Estribillo:
We can work it out,	Podemos solucionarlo
We can work it out.	Podemos solucionarlo

©Centro del Corazón por la traducción

Prayers for the earth

EN iPEACE

CREEMOS

EN LA

NO VIOLENCIA

Y PUNTO

Pablo Neruda

Be quiet Now we’ll count to twelve and we will all stay still. For once on the face of the earth let's not speak in any language Let us stop for one second and not move our arms so much. It would be a dazzling moment without rush, without engines. We would all be together in sudden restlessness. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm the whales and the man gathering salt would stare at his sore hands. Those who prepare green wars, gas wars, fire wars, victories with no survivors would don untainted clothes and roam amongst their brothers in the shade doing nothing. Do not confuse what I wish with ultimate inactivity, life is imbued with action I want nothing with death. Since we failed to act unanimously while constantly shuffling our lives, perhaps staying still for once, perhaps momentous silence may belay this sadness of never understanding each other and menacing each other with death. Perhaps the earth can teach us when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive. Now, I shall count to twelve you be quiet and I shall leave

A callarse Ahora contaremos hasta doce y nos quedamos todos quietos. Por una vez sobre la tierra no hablemos en ningún idioma, por un segundo detengámonos, no movamos tanto los brazos. Sería un minuto fragante, sin prisa, sin locomotoras, todos estaríamos juntos en una inquietud instantánea. Los pescadores del mar frío no harían daño a las ballenas y el trabajador de la sal miraría sus manos rotas. Los que preparan guerras verdes, guerras de gas, guerras de fuego, victorias sin sobrevivientes, se pondrían un traje puro y andarían con sus hermanos por la sombra, sin hacer nada. No se confunda lo que quiero con la inacción definitiva: la vida es sólo lo que se hace, no quiero nada con la muerte. Si no pudimos ser unánimes moviendo tanto nuestras vidas, tal vez no hacer nada una vez, tal vez un gran silencio pueda interrumpir esta tristeza, este no entendernos jamás y amenazarnos con la muerte, tal vez la tierra nos enseñe cuando todo parece muerto y luego todo estaba vivo. Ahora contaré hasta doce y tú te callas y me voy.

©Centro del Corazón por la traducción

Paisaje oral

Paz ya, carajo!

Es un ardid harto conocido
de los belicistas
convencer a sus Némesis
de la futilidad del esfuerzo
y tachar de pírricas
las victorias del amor
Para su gran disgusto
las pintadas de la paz
están tatuadas
en cada corazón astillado
en cada piel estigmatizada
en cada niño alimentado
en cada infancia rescatada
en cada sueño soñado
en cada frente coronada
por los laureles del dolor

PAZ YA, CARAJO!

Gracias a Mariel, poetisa apasionada y comprometida, por publicar en su espacio mis palabras que se suman a esta sinfonía de amor que es el movimiento hacia la paz.

http://mariel-angelsubterraneo.blogspot.com/

Red Cross finds starving children with 12 corpses in Gaza 'house of horrors'

January 8, 2009

From Times Online

The ICRC believes there are more wounded sheltering in the ruins of shelled houses in Gaza and has demanded that the Israeli military provide access for a search
(Reuters)

The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the Israeli military of "unacceptable" conduct and breaching international humanitarian law after discovering four emaciated children living next to the corpses of their mothers and other adults in bomb-shattered houses in Gaza City.

The ICRC said that it had spent four days seeking Israeli guarantees of safe passage so that it could gain access to the houses in the badly damaged Zaytun neighbourhood of the city. It was finally allowed to send in a rescue team and four Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulances yesterday afternoon and said today that what they found was shocking.

In one house they discovered four small children, alive but too weak to stand, next to the bodies of their dead mothers. In all their were 12 dead bodies lying on mattresses.

In another house they found 15 survivors of the Israeli bombardment, several of them wounded, and in a third, three corpses. At that point they were ordered to leave by Israeli soldiers manning a post some 80 metres away, but they refused to do so.

The children and the wounded had to be taken to the ambulances by donkey cart because earth walls erected by the Israeli army made it impossible to bring the vehicles close enough to the houses. In all, the rescue team removed 18 wounded and 12 others who were extremely exhausted. It took away two corpses and plans to return to fetch 13 more tomorrow.

The ICRC said that it believed there were more wounded sheltering in the ruins of other houses in the same neighbourhood, and in an unusually robust public statement issued by the organisation's Geneva headquarters it demanded that the Israeli military grant it immediate access to search for them.

"This is a shocking incident," Pierre Wettach, the ICRC's head of delegation for Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said. "The Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestine Red Crescent to assist the wounded."

The ICRC accused the Israeli military of failing to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and remove the wounded, and called the delay in allowing rescue services access unacceptable.

The ICRC's charges were another setback for the Israeli military. On Tuesday it killed more than 40 people in a bomb attack on a UN school in the Gaza Strip that it claimed was being used by a Hamas mortar team, and international aid organisations say that its 13-day offensive is creating a humanitarian catastrophe among Gaza's 1.5 million residents.

The Israel Defence Forces did not respond directly to the charges, but issued a statement that it was battling a terrorist organisation — Hamas — that was deliberately using Palestinian civilians as human shields.

It said the IDF was working closely with international aid organisations during the fighting so that civilians could receive assistance, and continued: "The IDF in no way intentionally targets civilians and has demonstrated its willingness to abort operations to save civilian lives and to risk injury in order to assist innocent civilians.

Any serious allegations made against the IDF's conduct will need to be investigated properly, once such a complaint is received formally, within the constraints of the current military operation."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5474016.ece

Peace for Canaan

Photo from the film: Bridge over the Wadi

Grief drops are pouring over Canaan,
watering the crops of despair and agony.
War visits upon the children of Abraham,
upon the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims ,
the chosen people, the chosen ones,
belligerent siblings of the same history

It’s fraternal, essential and indispensable
Peace be upon you, we urge!

Pax vobiscum,
Assalamu alaikum,
Walaikum assalam,
Shalom Aleichem,
Aleichem shalom,
Pax et lux,
Urging the light on

Your offspring are raised in broad nightmare,
their childhoods forsaken before they’re born,
the Mamas condemned to utter hopelessness,
civilians the pawns in this never ending war ,
this battle thus waged to secure a Promised Land,
a self-defeating strategy wreaking destructiveness

It’s kindly, fundamental and necessary
Peace be upon you, we pray

Pax vobiscum
Assalamu alaikum
Walaikum assalam
Shalom aleichem
Aleichem shalom
Pax et lux
Praying for the light

Even as the leaders are designing strategies,
trading hegemony for enduring peace,
mothers utter their devastation in the air
fraught with unremitting despondency.
"Hi-loo-loo! Hi-loo-loo!", the keening cries
fail to drain the wells of bereaving demise

It’s humane, pressing and de rigueur
Peace be upon you, we implore

Pax vobiscum
Assalamu alaikum
Walaikum assalam
Shalom aleichem
Aleichem shalom
Pax et lux
Imploring for the light

Death screeches to and fro through the heavens
Razing all felicity to burning embers
No more Rosh Hashanah, no more Ramadan
No sense in the ceremonies of the elders
Merely senseless carnage to justify power
Optical delusions of self annihilation

It’s compulsory, critical and compassionate
Peace be upon you, we entreat

Pax vobiscum
Assalamu alaikum
Walaikum assalam
Shalom aleichem
Aleichem shalom
Pax et lux
Entreating you to peace

Angels and archangels, seraphims and cherubims,
Cupids of a superior order, embodiments of love
Ninety-nine holy names of Allah, peace As-Salam
Ten Sephirot, Tetragrammaton, seven with Zebaot
Exaltations of divinity, the names of a higher god
Pray, revisit your worship and honor those names

It’s imperative, mandatory and wise
Peace be upon you, peace oblige

Pax vobiscum
Assalamu alaikum
Walaikum assalam
Shalom aleichem
Aleichem shalom
Pax et lux

Beseeching you,
Entreating you,
Imploring you,
Praying to you,
Urging you,
Pax et lux

Now, peace now!
In the land of Canaan
The land of honey and milk

The Torah teaches: 'Justice, justice, you shall pursue' (Deuteronomy 16:20). To secure a lasting settlement to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis so they can live in peace and security, thrive side by side, and co-operate together, Jews today are obligated to pursue justice on behalf of both peoples.”
RABBI ELIZABETH TIKVAH SARAH

"Jews for Justice for Palestinians is concerned for justice for them—and us! Without justice for Palestinians, there is no hope for Israel."
RABBI JEFFREY NEWMAN
http://www.jfjfp.org.uk/signatories.htm

“For most Muslims, the callous and indiscriminate taking of human life violates Allah's wishes. It defies the Koran's central message and undermines the peace that Islam promises to deliver to all people. ‘Human life in Islam is extremely sacred’.

Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Koran says: "[I]f anyone slew a person—unless it be for murder or spreading mischief in the land—it would be as if he slew the whole people. And if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0925_TVkoran_2.html