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The Bridge of The Returning Home – A Fairouz Song
Music and Lyrics By the Rahbani Brothers
جسر العودة جسر العودة
يا جسر الأحزان أنا سميتك جسر العودة
المآساة أرتفعت المآساة أتسعت وسعت صدعت بلغت حد الصلب
من صلبوا كل نبي صلبوا الليلة شعبي
العاثر ينهض النازح يرجع و المنتظرون يعودون و شريد الخيمة يرجع
و بليلة عتم أبيض كالأولى للميلاد ملآى بغموض الآتي و بفرح الأعياد
يأتي من صمت الأشجار طفلٌ في سن العشرين يحتفل اليوم بميلاده
عيده العيد برشاش فمضى يتصيد و يقيم في أرض أبيه و أجداده
يدخل الآف الأطفال من كبروا الليلة في الخارج عادوا كالبحر من الخارج
أرجع في العتمة معهم نصمد و نقاتل لا نرحل و نقيم كشجر لا يرحل
تقفون كشجر الزيتون كجذوع الزمن تقيمون كالزهرة كالصخرة في أرض الدار تقيمون
و سلامي لكم يا أهل الأرض المحتلة يا منزرعين بمنازلكم قلبي معكم و سلامي لكم
و المجد لأطفال آتين الليلة قد بلغوا العشرين لهم الشمس لهم القدس و النصر و ساحات فلسطين
Oh Bridge of Returning, Our way back Home
Bridge of Sorrow, I have named you the bridge of returning Home
The disaster has risen, it has become wider it has reached Crucifixion
Those who Crucified every prophet Have crucified my people Today
The one who fell, is rising, THE ONE WHO LEFT IS COMING BACK
Thos who are waiting are RETURNING, and those who have no place to live in are returning
And in a white night like the first of CHRISTMAS,
Fill by the mystery of the future and the Joy of the Feasts
Comes from the silence of the woods a 20 years old Child, celebrating his birthday
His gift was a gun; he went hunting in land of his Father and his Ancestors
Here enters thousands of Children who have grown outside their home
They have returned like the Sea
I return in the darkness with them, we Remain we fight we don’t leave, we remain like the trees that don’t leave their lands
You Stand like Olive trees; you dwell like the roots of time
Like a flower, like a Rock, in your Homeland you stay
Peace to you People of the occupied land, planted in your homes
My Heart is with you, Peace be with you
Glory to the Children who are coming, today they are twenty years old
They own the Sun Jerusalem is theirs
For them are Victory and the Places of Palestine
50 years after this song was written, nothing has happened, and those who left their homes are too lazy to go back, and their arab brothers are too occupied in watching shallow media stations, and too concerned about the destiny of hallucinative media like “Super star” which is made only to deviate the thoughts of the arab youth from their rights and drown them into dumbness and hallucinations.
For those who remained guarding the Holy Land for those who dare to choose to go back, and who work on this object, those ones deserve this song.
In the time where traitor arab media is putting all its strength to make the arab youth believe and live for one thing, becoming a “Super Star” and idolizing the one holding a microphone, and forgetting that he should be looking to collect his rights and to stand up to his brothers in Iraq and Palestine, to correct the sins his leaders commited by opening the arab lands for invaders, we come to remember a sad incident yet that led to victory.
Even thought the lyrics of this song were dedicated to Palestine, yet the meaning fits more the Southern Holy Town of QANA, the place where the Holocaust took place on 18 April 1996.
QANA is much worthier in this Song Now, since it was from QANA that Liberation started, and that Victory Came after 4 years, because the people is Honest and believes in the right.
To those who died in QANA, and for the Heroes who gave freedom to south LEBANON and to those who will give freedom to LEBANON this song should have been written.
And if in your mind the image is fading, that of the devastated father holding his dying children running away from the car in the Mansoury , if this image is fading don’t let it go away, because we all are responsible, and if we choose not to be, than we would have chosen the path of the devil.
And remember that the excuse the criminals of the Israeli government gave for committing the criminal murders in QANA is that they didn’t know that there civilians in that piece of land, as if the souls of humans are bound to the idiocy and the ignorance of the blood shedding criminals. As if ignorance is an enough excuse for a criminal to commit murder.
Remember that on that day and according to the United Nation statistics:
And all what our brothers gave to us was talk and talk and talk, like what they gave to Iraq one year Ago.
But we shall not Forget That where he Gave us the First Miracle their in Qana, started the Miracle of the Liberation.
Useful Links:
http://www.qana.net/nuke/index.php
http://web.cyberia.net.lb/Rami/
http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/350/355/april-war/qana/
http://www.al-bushra.org/temp/qana.htm
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/resistance/massacres/qana/gallery.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~salaheddine/qana.html
If what happened here had taken place in a western nation, would it have been called ethnic cleansing? Is there any political difference in shelling a UNIFIL compound in South Lebanon and shelling the United Nations Head Quarters in New York ? We are all serving under the same flag.
Sylvana Foa, Spokesman the Secretary General said there were ``no excuses for the shelling'' of the U.N. position, which Israel called a mistake. ``I don't think that you can say, 'gee, I'm sorry that this happened.' Something really horrible happened, and to say it was an accident, that it was an equipment failure, that it was a tragic mistake it's just not enough of an excuse for what happened.
http://home.no.net/norplt/qana.html
And A Link to Robert Fisk’s article:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3023.htm
And here is a not so sensitive links that look at this crime as a casual accident: