Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands

Khader Adnan's current hunger strike, presumably to the death, is more than a little reminiscent of the IRA hunger strikes of 1981. As, no doubt, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is more than a little reminiscent of the British occupation of Ireland, most particularly during the Troubles.

Lyric:

Khader Adnan grew up near Jenin City
You could say he was a product of his time
Ever since he was a kid he'd get arrested
Though he was never charged with any crime
Spending half his life in prison
A life lived like so many of his friends
Arbitrary and indefinite detention
Never knowing if your jail time would end
Khader Adnan was arrested last December
Again he wasn't told the reason why
He was shackled, he was beaten, he was tortured
There beneath the Middle Eastern sky
Perhaps there was a moment when he realized
That right then, with his body, he'd say no
But from then on he refused to eat another meal
Like in Belfast not many years ago

Khader Adnan grew up in a war zone
But all the tanks and planes were only on one side
It was a type of war that they call occupation
Settlement, removal, fratricide
And anyone who talked about resistance
Who thought they did not deserve to be a slave
Would be looking down the barrel of a gun
And often find themselves inside an early grave
Khader Adnan loves his wife and daughters
And he likes to eat his daily bread
But in prison he can't see his children
Or live life with the lady that he wed
So on behalf of all the children without fathers
He decided he had to strike a blow
He said I will have dignity or death
Like in Belfast not many years ago


Each time Khader Adnan was arrested
In prison he would learn a little more
And soon he became the teacher
And he'd talk about the times that came before
They talked about civil disobedience
They talked about the ballot and the gun
They talked about the Occupied Six Counties
And the H Blocks in 1981
Khader Adnan talked of perseverance
And how someday their people might be free
How someday they might hear their children laughing
Unafraid, how someday things could be
And then at 3:30 on one morning
The soldiers came, their rifles pointed low
And they took Khader Adnan from his family
Like in Belfast not many years ago

They say Khader Adnan is a terrorist
Just like they said of Bobby Sands
Because he dares speak out against injustice
Because he dares to make a stand
Because he dares believe that he is human
And he does not deserve to live this way
Because he dares to consider an alternative
Because he dares imagine a new day
Khader Adnan lost his liberty before he was born
To fight for life it's death he must embrace
But just like others come before him
There are others waiting to take his place
And even the great powers can lose interest
In supporting such a vicious status quo
Because you can't break a man who won't be broken
Like in Belfast not many years ago

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[scotland638]

I didn't ask you to.Fckin idiot.

[1wolftone]

and i dont hav to try justify bobby sands politics to u.

[scotland638]

Sorry to disappoint you,but i'll be voting "YES" in Sept 2014.And I don't have to justify fck all to you,bad things happen,deal with it.

[1wolftone]

more bullshit from one of britains bitches , no doubt ur voting no in scotlands independence referendum. how do u justify briton dropping bombs all over iraq .

[yoursistersmustache]

Les stroud

[Mahran tawil]

i love this song, go ahead, your great..

[sayitasitis100]

superb again David, the conditions are almost the same TAL and Viva Palestina



[Gerard Steenson]

Sit down son. All that was nonsense. All what I said could be substantiated. He was from a town where UVF activity was high. He was a member of the Orange order. He beat unarmed men in 2 prisons for 30 years. All fact based. Care to disprove these with fact, and not knuckle dragging stupidity?

Any government in Ireland imposing the will of a foreign people is a foreign government. Sin é. Go back to you battered something or other and your tennants ya inbred tramp.

[scotland638]

You missed out he worked undercover for the SAS and killed catholic kids in their beds at night lol that's as believable as the shit you posted.And he worked for a foreign govt ? N.Ireland is part of the UK,or maybe you didn't know this.

[Gerard Steenson]

The word of those men is good enough for me. He worked for a foreign governments Prison Service. He was a member of the Orange Order, a British institution in Ireland. Given where he was from and his age,he was most likely a member of the UVF. He was a filthy cunt. Sin é.

You need to look at the definition of Terror to realise that the British Government use, USE, terror tactics here still. They are the terrorists. Only ones I see armed in Ireland work for the British Government.