{"id":42504,"date":"2025-12-30T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=42504"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:55:55","slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-when-arabs-fall-silent-and-the-devil-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=42504","title":{"rendered":"Ladies and Gentlemen! When Arabs Fall Silent and the Devil Speaks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The devil is of us\u2026 born from a bloodline that knows blood more than it ever knew water,<\/strong><\/span>
\nA head where night nests with no dawn,<\/strong><\/span>
\nA wolf\u2019s face that performs its ablution in oil before praying over the corpses of the poor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He rose\u2026 he reigned\u2026 he lingered\u2014<\/strong><\/span>
\nA poisoned bullet in the hand of the Zionist\u2013American hegemony,<\/strong><\/span>
\nKilling serenity in the East now lost,<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd in Africa, still searching for her first name<\/strong><\/span>
\nBefore she is swallowed by merchants of ruin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What does the silence of the regional and global order mean?<\/strong><\/span>
\nCould it be that night has conspired with night?<\/strong><\/span>
\nThat justice is shackled in corridors<\/strong><\/span>
\nOnly torturers and their shadows know?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With his wealth he hired mercenary ink to write the unwriteable,<\/strong><\/span>
\nIdeas sold like worn shoes on sidewalks,<\/strong><\/span>
\nPoliticians echoing only what is dictated,<\/strong><\/span>
\nAthletes running after hollow glory<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhile peoples run after a morsel<\/strong><\/span>
\nThat once was a right\u2026 and is now a dream.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He burns peace,<\/strong><\/span>
\nSteals wealth from the dragons of hunger,<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd sows nightmares in fields once fertile,<\/strong><\/span>
\nUntil the Middle East became a map of dread<\/strong><\/span>
\nDrawn to fit the nightmares of Zion\u2014<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cFrom the Nile to the Euphrates.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday:<\/strong><\/span>
\nHe\u2026 She\u2026 They\u2026<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd They \u2014 the women who bore chests weighed with loss and hunger,<\/strong><\/span>
\nMothers whose only embrace was the wall of night,<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd the homeland bleeding \u2014 its hope coagulated.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today:<\/strong><\/span>
\nYou\u2026 You (fem.)\u2026 You all\u2026 You (women):<\/strong><\/span>
\nYou who carried mountains of patience on fragile shoulders,<\/strong><\/span>
\nSalt of tears and banners of waiting,<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe final rope of salvation when men drown in speeches,<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhen rulers are seduced by a gold that never fills,<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd sages are silenced by sword and microphone.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow:<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2026 and We \u2014<\/strong><\/span>
\nRemnants of a homeland stabbed beyond counting,<\/strong><\/span>
\nYet the first shadows of victory<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhen night finally bows to dawn.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And all pronouns \u2014 absent, addressed, and speaking \u2014<\/strong><\/span>
\nLift their pain to the heavens,<\/strong><\/span>
\nTo the Avenger, the Almighty,<\/strong><\/span>
\nWho delays\u2026 but never neglects,<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhispering:<\/strong><\/span>
\nO God\u2026 we testify against them to You. \ud83e\udd32<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe The devil is of us\u2026 born from a bloodline that knows blood more than it ever knew water, A head where night nests with no dawn, A wolf\u2019s face that performs its ablution in oil before praying over the corpses of the poor. He rose\u2026 he reigned\u2026 he lingered\u2014 A poisoned bullet …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,388],"tags":[22586,10637,11987,22585,22584,12132,5566,2726],"class_list":["post-42504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editor","category-slide","tag-and-the-devil","tag-arabs","tag-fall","tag-gentlemen","tag-ladies","tag-silent","tag-speaks","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42507,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions\/42507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}