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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>I Am Human</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">I too am human, like you, or anyone else, I too am human,<br />
I too have a heart, which does feel pain,<br />
I too shed tears, when emotions rain,<br />
I too have family, whom I love dearly,<br />
I too ache, when loved ones are lost,<br />
I too am frightened, when violence is near,<br />
I too want to live in peace, and tranquility, without fear,<br />
I am no different to you, but yet my suffering is not worthy,<br />
<strong>I too am human, but this you can’t see</strong>,</p>
<p align="center">If only you would look deep in my tearful eyes,<br />
And ask yourself; <strong>“where is the humanity?”</strong><br />
Were we put on this earth to cause death and destruction?<br />
What if I were you, and you were me,<br />
This could easily have been,<br />
<strong>Would you accept the life, which you impose upon me?</strong></p>
<p align="center">Every day I live hell on earth,<br />
But no matter how far you push me, I would never wish this upon anybody,<br />
No mother, no child, no father,<br />
Not even you,<br />
Instead, I stay patient, keep my trust in God and wait the other side,<br />
To finally live in peace,<br />
Safe, with the protection of my God,<br />
But will you?<br />
You call yourselves Christians, Muslims and Jews,<br />
The people of the book,<br />
Well why don’t you take a closer look,<br />
The Bible, Quran, Torah, all forbid the murder of an innocent soul!<br />
Even if you aren’t of any religion,<br />
Answer yourself in the name of humanity,<br />
Is it right to force away a woman’s purity?!<br />
<strong>Soldiers raping women like it’s a normality,</strong><br />
Is it right, your warfare spreading the insanity?!<br />
<strong>Widening world hunger and poverty,</strong><br />
When you should be defeating world hunger and poverty!</p>
<p align="center">Look, look, look at the injustices,<br />
They are so widespread,<br />
From the shoes on your feet, to the oil in your car,<br />
From the tax that you pay, to the products that you buy,<br />
Everything runs in a cycle, the rich man starts it, the rich man profits, the poor mans suffering is that what drives it,<br />
<strong>Silence, this maintains it..</strong></p>
<p align="center">This world is one, we are all brothers,<br />
Race, religion, doesn’t differentiate from us being human,<br />
Division is their tool to implement this evil,<br />
From borders to ethnicity to religion,<br />
<strong>Division is a form of dehumanisation,</strong><br />
Enough to make you sympathise with my oppressor,<br />
But let’s sit back and think about this just for a second,<br />
<strong>How can you sympathise with the oppressor?</strong><br />
This the people who make my children suffer,<br />
This the system, a giant blood sucker,<br />
This the system that exploits from the majority to profit the minority,<br />
Leaving us with nothing,<br />
Clean water, that’s a blessing,<br />
Before you sympathise, I suggest you take a look at the facts,<br />
History will guide you to side with the oppressed,<br />
And only the oppressed!</p>
<p align="center">This beautiful earth we have all been blessed with,<br />
Air, mountains, sea, soil,<br />
A work of art by the creator,<br />
For all his creations,<br />
<strong>If God sees us as equal, what makes you so superior?</strong><br />
My children are starving, crying, can’t sleep at night all the while your wallets inflate,<br />
This isn’t some game it is human life,<br />
Human life, just as precious as X or Y,<br />
Picture looking out the window,<br />
To see tanks razing over trees, land, and houses,<br />
Hovering drones controlled by a coward in a chair pressing buttons from a unit miles away,<br />
Sipping tea while the bombs drop and my mother is taken,<br />
Picture looking out the window,<br />
To see the bullets that travel through my baby sister,<br />
Her whole future gone in an instance, her fate decided by a system where she is just a number,<br />
Or my baby brother, shaking waiting for some water,<br />
The smallest thing to you, the difference between life and death for us,<br />
10-year-old <strong>Abeer Eskafi</strong>, blocked from hugging her father by those Zionist guards,<br />
Psychological &amp; nervous breakdown, lapsed into a coma, and passed,<br />
May her beautiful soul, rest in peace,<br />
<strong>A hug from her dear father, the line between her life and death,</strong><br />
Just one example, from a sea of millions,</p>
<p align="center">Only when we see the person to the right, the left, the front and back as human, equal,<br />
Can we begin to make a difference with clear and pure intentions,</p>
<p align="center">I am <strong>Palestinian</strong><br />
I am <strong>Egyptian</strong><br />
I am <strong>Tunisian</strong><br />
I am <strong>Syrian</strong><br />
I am <strong>Libyan</strong><br />
I am <strong>Yemeni</strong><br />
I am<strong> Bahraini</strong><br />
I am <strong>Jordanian</strong><br />
I am<strong> Lebanese</strong><br />
I am <strong>Iraqi</strong><br />
I am <strong>Afghan</strong><br />
I am <strong>Pakistani</strong><br />
I am <strong>Iranian</strong><br />
I am <strong>Somali</strong><br />
I am <strong>Bangladeshi</strong><br />
I am <strong>Chinese</strong><br />
I am <strong>Bosnian</strong><br />
I am<strong> Chagossian</strong></p>
<p align="center">I am the <strong>indigenous</strong><br />
I am the <strong>oppressed</strong><br />
I am the<strong> occupied</strong><br />
I am the <strong>exploited</strong><br />
I am the <strong>expelled</strong><br />
<strong>I am that child that you put in a sweatshop</strong></p>
<p align="center">I am <strong>British</strong>, but more importantly, I am <strong>human</strong> so I feel their pain,<br />
<strong>So I refer to them as I,</strong><br />
This message is for every oppressor,<br />
And every person who supports the oppression,<br />
When you imprison one, you imprison us all,<br />
Until everyone is free, none of us are free,<br />
Our fight will surely be victorious,<br />
<strong>Unity, non-violence, and truth,</strong><br />
Are our weapons to overcome your <strong>divide, violence, and lies,</strong><br />
Power to the people, and down with the supremacy,</p>
<p align="center"><strong>We are all human.</strong><br />
<strong> As Vittorio said: <em>“Stay Human”</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">[END]</p>
<p style="text-align:left;" align="center">As East-Africa faces one of it’s worst droughts in 60 years, endangering 11 million people, I have decided to part-take in a 10K run on August 28<sup>th</sup>, during Ramadan, in order to raise much needed funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee; East Africa Crisis Appeal.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><a href="http://palestineatheart.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sponser_me_posteredit-0013.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-350" title="sponser_me_poster(edit)-001" src="https://palestineatheart.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sponser_me_posteredit-0013.jpg?w=495&#038;h=700" alt=""   /></a><strong>To sponsor me, and to donate to the DEC:</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><strong>Or</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;" align="center">Send a free text to <strong>70070</strong>, with the code: “<strong>HAMZ92</strong>” followed by the amount, e.g. “£1”</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;" align="center">Via PayPal, to: <strong>hamzah_1992@live.co.uk</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;" align="center">While we must help and provide our assistance, it is also essential to acknowledge that this current humanitarian disaster is man-made as much as it is natural; right now, aid is absolutely vital, but long-term policies are the only lasting solution, and it is the absence of this long-term implementation by the world along with the continued exploitation which has led to the instability in East-Africa today.</p>
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