We will Not Go dOwn

WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza) 
(Composed by Michael Heart) 
Copyright 2009 

A blinding flash of white light 
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight 
People running for cover 
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive 

They came with their tanks and their planes 
With ravaging fiery flames 
And nothing remains 
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze 

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight!
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight 

Women and children alike 
Murdered and massacred night after night 
While the so-called leaders of countries afar 
Debated on who’s wrong or right 

But their powerless words were in vain 
And the bombs fell down like acid rain 
But through the tears and the blood and the pain 
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze 

We will not go down In the night, without a fight 
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools 
But our spirit will never die 
We will not go down In Gaza tonight 

Terjemahan:

Cahaya putih yang membutakan mata 
Menyala terang di langit Gaza malam ini 
Orang-orang berlarian untuk berlindung 
Tanpa tahu apakah mereka masih hidup atau sudah mati 

Mereka datang dengan tank dan pesawat 
Dengan berkobaran api yang merusak 
Dan tak ada yang tersisa 
Hanya suara yang terdengar di tengah asap tebal 
Kami tidak akan menyerah 
Di malam hari, tanpa perlawanan 
Kalian bisa membakar masjid kami, rumah kami dan sekolah kami 
Tapi semangat kami tidak akan pernah mati 
Kami tidak akan menyerah 
Di Gaza malam ini 

Wanita dan anak-anak 
Dibunuh dan dibantai tiap malam 
Sementara para pemimpin nun jauh di sana 
Berdebat tentang siapa yg salah & benar 

Tapi kata-kata mereka sedang dalam kesakitan 
Dan bom-bom pun berjatuhan seperti hujam asam 
Tapi melalui tetes air mata dan darah serta rasa sakit 
Anda masih bisa mendengar suara itu di tengah asap tebal 

Kami tidak akan menyerah 
Di malam hari, tanpa perlawanan 
Kalian bisa membakar masjid kami, rumah kami dan sekolah kami 
Tapi semangat kami tidak akan pernah mati 
Kami tidak akan menyerah 
Di Gaza malam ini 

 

(*diambil dari email yang dikirim oleh Kak Wahyudi Arifandi di Milist DCR)

 

for d list of the boycott things : memorise_those_brands (at gallery)

News frOm Palestine

i got it from a message in my facebook account,,

please read it with heart :

MAJED said :

 

 

 

Unfortunately the situation is very bad in Gaza city – the Israeli occupation is striking more and more organisations, more houses and the mosque, and my university was hit last night.

 

They focus on the civilians. It is easy for them.

 

Nothing is working in Gaza and we don’t do anything. We stay inside the house, my family and I. Every family in Gaza is doing the same.

 

We are used to hearing these airstrikes, everybody here is used to it and we don’t have any way to protect ourselves. We just stay inside the home, hearing the news, hearing where the Israeli [army] strikes, hearing the F16s and Apaches and waiting to see what will happen.

 

We were not prepared for the war. They attack civilians and children and don’t care if we are armed or not.

 

“The world looks at unarmed Palestinian people as though they are a nation with an army, as though we are equal to the Israelis … but this is not true”

 

Majed, Gaza City

 

Yesterday, my sister’s house was damaged in a strike on a target nearby. Every room was damaged except for the kitchen, where she and the children were. Allah kept them alive.

 

The world looks at unarmed Palestinian people as though they are a nation with an army, as though we are equal to the Israelis. They think we have real rockets that cause a lot of damage or have a big effect, but this is not true.

 

The reality is that we don’t have anything and they have struck everything in Gaza.

 

I have exams coming soon in my university and I want to study but I can’t in this situation. So they affect my future, the future of all students here.

 

Why does the Israeli army strike my university and mosques and houses? I don’t know the answer. You have to ask them.

 

The coming days will be very bad. There will be more and more deaths.”

 

 

and this is from d group named EGYPT!-Keep Gaza borders open also in Facebook,,

I just want to spread this informations so we can act together,,

 

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- Items Urgently Needed for Gaza – Medical Equipment – PLEASE Donate -

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Please donate and make a difference..a ground raid is now a threat and the people of Gaza need more prayers and help than ever before..Please do your bit.

The following items are urgently needed.

1 mobile X-ray machine
Maintenance of the existing 5 sterilization machines.
5 new central sterilization machines.
500 oxygen cylinders
ICU beds, Fully equipped
5 Anastasia machines
100 Syringe pump 
100 Infusion pump
5 Operations tables with their lights for opening new operation rooms
10 Blood Gas machine with its converter
30 normal beds
5 Intensive Care ambulances
Normal ambulances (where 40 % of existing are depreciated)
More generators for the hospitals (KVA 200, KVA100, KVA 50, KVA 600)
5 Washing machines for clothes and other drying machines for Gaza Strip ICUs

www.justgiving.com/gaza – make your contribution right now!

This links also includes pictures and news directly from the Islamic Relief Gaza office. So you can see that whatever money you send via this link is getting to Gaza and being used their effectively and well.

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Egypt IS REFUSING TO OPEN THE BORDER, only opening it at random times in the day for very small periods of time and for only specific people..after watching the innocent starve and die, live on grass, people with termnal illneses or whatever illneses die as there is no medication, new born babies die, and now these new HORRIFIC attacks on GAZA that are “only the begining” pleaseeeee pray for them and raise money pleasee i can’t belive this..

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http://maannews.net/en/index.php
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http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/
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http://palestineblogs.org/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/palestine/
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http://stopthesiegeongaza.blogspot.com/ link says what it is about

 

 

RECENT NEWS: 

The mass murdering continues and many lives, like Fadel Shanaa, are being lost, homes destroyed, blockade continues where there is no food or medication..Gaza is in a bigger crisis than ever before.

So what you can do?

****+++++***DEMONSTRATE***+++++****

NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: SATURDAY 3 JANUARY 
HANDS OFF GAZA: STOP THE BOMBING: FREE PALESTINE 
ASSEMBLE 2.0 PM PARLIAMENT SQUARE, W1. 
Nearest tube Westminster. Called by Palestine Solidarity 
Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative 
and many other organisations.

PLEASE PUBLICISE AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION AS WIDELY AS 
POSSIBLE.

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OTHER DEMONSTRATIONS IN LONDON:

FRIDAY 2 JANUARY 2 – 4 pm. Outside the Egyptian Embassy, . 
26 South Street, London, W1K 1DW. Call for Egypt to open 
the border immediately.

DEMONSTRATIONS ROUND THE COUNTRY

GLASGOW
Saturday 3 January 12 noon. Outside Lloyds TSB St Vincent 
Street then assemble for demo at Blytheswood Square 2pm

EDINBURGH
Saturday 3 January 12 noon. Foot of the Mound, Princes 
Street

BRISTOL
Centre, opposite the Hippodrome, Tuesday – Friday 5.00 - 
6.00 and Saturday 3.00 – 4.00.

CARDIFF
Tuesday 30 December 12 to 1pm. outside Cardiff Market/ St 
John’s Church, the Hayes
Wednesday 31 December New Year Vigil. Nye Bevan Statue, 
Queen Street

NOTTINGHAM
Tuesday 30 December 12 noon, Market Square

SOUTHAMPTON
Tuesday 30 December 12 to 2pm, West Quay Entrance, High 
Street

PORTSMOUTH
Saturday 3 January 11am, Guildhall Square
Organised by Portsmouth Network for a Just Settlement of the 
Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Portsmouth Stop the War Coalition

HULL
Saturday 3 January, 11am. Queen Victoria Square.

http://www.justgiving.com/raising-money-for-gaza

And the money will go directly to Islamic Relief [who are now on the grounds n Gaza and need to raise 3 million pounds to pay for medication etc.]

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3) Sign the following petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/gaza2812/petition.html

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4) Email/Telephone/Send Letters/Meet your local MP – The MPs have been elected to serve us and we should make sure that we contact them and pressurise them to do something against this Israeli brutality. Attached to this email is a template letter that you can use to send your letter to your local MP.

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5) Call the Foreign & Commonwealth Office – Express your concern with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, please call 020 7008 1500

Do your bit..its the least.

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Israeli strikes continue on Gaza, 271 now dead and more than 900 injured
Date: 28 / 12 / 2008 Time: 09:38 
Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli airstrikes continued on Gaza throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and the death toll of the attacks rose to 271, with 900 injured 120 seriously so.http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php 

Massive Israeli air raids on Gaza 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7800985.stm 

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/12/28/photos-of-the-day/

Detailed List of Demos inc America:
http://www.palestinianmothers.com/forum/topics/breaking-news-israel-launches

225+ killed over 700 wounded, Israel prepares for further attacks
Saturday December 27, 2008 20:55
As instructed by its political leadership, the Israeli army continued its military offensive against the Gaza Strip and shelled further targets raising the number of deaths among the residents to 225, and at least 700 residents were wounded, dozens seriously. 
http://www.imemc.org/article/58173 

PLEASE JOIN IN SENDING LETTERS TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT – By Elisa Davinca/thnx

Threats are increasing against the besieged people of Gaza.
Continue Reading & Hopefully start loading up your email address book with some Israeli, EU & UN official email addresses & start firing off some complaints. http://tinyurl.com/a78v8x 

Israel launches deadly Gaza attacks
• Death toll nears 200 after air raids aimed at Hamas bases
• Campaign will ‘expand as necessary’, says Israeli defence minister
· guardian.co.uk, Saturday 27 December 2008 15.54 GMT 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/27/israelandthepalestinians 

 

 

Zionist is the real terrorist!!

peLajaRan di Hari IduL Adha,,

selalu,,
dalam beberapa tahun ini,,
Idul Adha tampak kalah populer di media maupun di pusat-pusat perbelanjaan,,
beberapa tahun yang lalu kalah dengan Tahun Baru Masehi,,
kini kalah dengan Hari Natal,,
yaaah,,
mungkin kapasitasnya memang berbeda dengan Idul Fitri yang dirayakan sangat besar-besaran di Indonesia ini,,

hmhmhm,,

ada hal mengganjal yang sudah lama ta rasakan, tapi kembali bergejolak setelah melaksanakan shalat id tadi pagi,,

aneh,,,
padahal ta selalu ingat katakata imam sebelum mulai shalat,,

“Rapatkan Shaf dan Luruskaaaann,,”

tapi,,
tetap saja masih pada masih berdiri di sajadah masing-masing,,,

apakah ini cermin masyarakat kita yang sedang bergerak ke masyarakat Individualis??

Subhanallah,,

SUBHANALLAH,,

tadi pagi setelah mengantarkan seseorang, sewaktu menunggu lampu hijau menyala di perempatan Ring Road Utara – Gejayan, Yogyakarta, cuaca sangat cerah dan belum banyak polusi yang menghalangi pandangan mata.

ta melihat pemandangan yang luar biasa indah, gunung Merapi berlatar belakang gunung Merbabu,, wOW!!

maaf gambarnya gak bisa ditampilkan, coz tadi nggak bawa kamera,, huhuhuh T_T

 

ada hal yang sedikit mengganggu,,

banyaknya baliho gede yang dipasang di perempatan itu sedikit menghalangi mata untuk leluasa mengagumi ciptaan ALLAH yang indah tersebut, mana yang paling menghalangi itu baliho rokok pula, dududududuuuuhh,,

 

kenapa yah jalanan kita yang udah semrawut itu ditambah kesemrawutannya dengan berbagaimacam gambar besar yang meribetkan itu?? pfiuh!!

dEfend Our Faith!!

i got this from an email in one of my mailing list,,

 

Dear,

One of my colleagues sent me the below matter which I feel should be known by us. As I feel, there is no scope to undermine any religion by anybody in the world. I hope all of you will be with me to hate such activity.

 Please stop PURCHASING anything from NIKE S Company AND ADVICE YOUR PEERS ALSO

 

This is what the ‘NIKE’ company did ….  

‘NIKE’ company wrote the name of ‘ALLAH’ on the shoes & from the back so no one will notice this …….

PLS FORWARD THIS AS PPL NEED TO KNOW HOW MUSLIMS ARE UNDERMINED IN THE WORLD AND HOW PEOPLE DISRESPECT OUR FAITH AND ALLAH!!!

finding the meaning of 20

so much things happened lately

the best or even the worst one,,

many people had made my day

shared the laughters and even the pain,,

moments come and go

whether i let it go or it makes itself gone

i really don’t know,,

all of the misery

all of the happiness

just made mE tough and so,,

let me thank you

each and everyone of U

for all the lessons i’ve learned through U

and the memories we’ve made true,,

let this simple thanks brighten urday

like u’ve brightened my day

with u realize it or not

I Love All of U so!!

 

ThaNks for helping me finding the meAning of being 20

and making the new me,,

it’s Newtha!!

 

HappY Eid Mubarak everyone!!

hari ini 24 September

beberapa tahun yang lalu,,

6 hari sebelum ulang tahun ta yang ke 15 tahun,,

genggaman tangannya padaku terlepas, meski aku masih dapat mengenang kenangan selama bersamanya, tapi tak lagi ada lembut tangat yang membelai wajahku, elus hangat yang menidurkanku, doa dan airmata yang menjagaku, dan dekap hangat yang melepas kepergianku,,

semuanya tiba-tiba hilang,,

kutitipkan ia Pada-Mu hai Dzat yang maha Menjaga, setelah Engkau menitipkanku padanya,,

karena hanya Engkau lah tempat kami kembali..

Allahumaghfirli waaaliwaaalidayya warhamhuma kamaaa rabbayaaani saghirha,,

Ramadhan = Proses

Ramadhan yang diturunkan ALLAH selama tiga puluh hari ini ternyata merupakan sebuah proses,,

tidak mungkin ada orang yang benarbenar bisa berubah dari kehidupannya yang hancur selama 11bulan langsung jadi benarbenar taat dan takut dimulai dari hari p1 ramadhan,, tapi memang berproses di dalam bulan ramadhan itu sendiriy,,

beruntung bagi orang-orang yang sudah mempersiapkan ramadhan selanjutnya sejak bulan Muharram sehingga ia benar-benar siap untuk menyambut ramadhan dan akan masih merasakan manfaat ramadhan hingga bulan Dzulhijjah,,

sekarang baru ta paham apa yang dilakukan oleh Rasulullah SAW (Allahummashali’ala Muhammad wa’ala ali Muhammad),, Allah memang Maha Besar, semuanya telah diatur dengan benar-benar sempurna,,

Subhanallah…

mencoba memaknai Ramadhan,,

baru satu hari saja yang dilewati dari bulan suci penuh hikmah ini,, namun ta seperti mendapat segudang rahmat yang dijanjikan itu,, mungkin ini terkesan egois untuk di ceritakan atau bahkan untuk dituliskan, karena makna sesuatu, apalagi sebuah Rahmat yang besar seperti bertemu dengan bulan ramadhan ini pasti sangat subyektif sekali,, satu stimulus yang jelas-jelas sama saja bisa menjadi sangat berbeda di interpretasikan oleh dua orang yang bersahabat atau bahkan kembar sekalipun, jelaaass,, karena interpretasi berdasarkan ilmu yang ta pelajari sangat dipengaruhi oleh pengalaman dan kepribadian seseorang, dan setiap orang insya allah tak akan mungkin sama persis menghabiskan waktu kehidupannya (wallahu’alam),,

Ramadhan tahun ini bagi ta datang diwaktu yang sangat tepat, mungkin ini benar-benar yang dinamakan Rahmat dari ALLAH,, bcos, for me, this year, mY entire future life is saved bY this coming Ramadhan,,

kondisi emosi yang sangat labil dan keteguhan hati yang sedang goyah belakang ini seperti kembali pulih setelah merasakan kembali chemistry yang sangat lekat dengan hadirnya ramadhan ini,, meskipun merasakan rasa rindu pada kehangatan ramadhan ini ternyata juga cukup berat bagi pikiran ta yang sedang berkabut ini, tapi alhamdulillah cahaya itu sangat bermurah hati membagikan sedikit cercahnya pada ta di bulan suci ini, mungkin ALLAH yang Maha Bercahaya sedang mengingatkan ta bahwa meskipun ta sedikit menjauh dalam waktu belakangan ini, namun pintu kembali itu akan selalu terbuka lebar kalau ta benar bersungguh ingin menyulam kembali benang cinta pada-Nya,,

kebingungan yang belakangan ini selalu mengombang-ambingkan ta menjauh ke pusaran keputus asaan ternyata kalah juga dengan gelombang tauhid yang dibawa oleh arus kerinduan pada Sang Maha Pencipta Rindu,,

banyak hal yang membuat ta belajar, meski Ramadhan baru ta lewati satu hari saja,, banyak hal yang melatih ta dan membuat ta sadar, bahwa jejak kehidupan yang ta ukir tak akan pernah berubah, kecuali ta bersungguh taubat memohon ampun pada-Nya, menginsyafi semua yang telah dalam keadaan sadar ta lakukan demi kepentingan duniawi saja,,

berpuasa, meski baru satu hari saja di Ramadhan ini, membawa ta menyelami dunia kesabaran yang begitu luas, sehingga seperempat nya saja mungkin belum sanggup ta mengerti,, begitu banyak misteri dalam menjalankan sabar dan menahan diri dari sesuatu yang disebut hawa nafsu, namun ternyata disana lah letak kenikmatan ramadhan, dimana ta bisa mengurai satu demi satu misteri itu, bukan untuk menemukan akhirnya, namun hanya untuk sekedar mencoba hidup bersamanya,,

dalam satu hari ini, ta paham kenapa banyak orang lebih mengutamakan sebuah proses dari pada hasilnya,, ini dapat ta analogikan sepeti sebuah perjalanan,, ketika ta hanya melihat ke ujung perjalanan atau hanya terus memikirkan tambatan perjalanan tersebut, ternyata pada akhirnya hanya lelah yang akan menemani ta sepanjang perjalanan, namun jika ta menikmati pemandangan sekeliling selama perjalanan, ataupun ikut tertawa pada sebuah candaan seorang kawan, bahkan ikut menangis pun dalam kesedihan sang sahabat, maka perjalanan akan menjadi penuh canda, dan banyak pelajaran yang dapat ta tuai, bukan hanya sekedar kecepatan sampai ke tujuan namun kering dalam penjiwaan,,

…..hanya mencoba untuk memaknai Ramadhan yang penuh makna

Marhaban Yaa Ramadhan

ALhamdulillah.. I can meet once again with this holy month,,

i’ve just finished my first SahuR (having meal before fasting in the time before the sunrises), I experience so much thing today,,

i miss this ramadhan so much, i always have such a chemistry every time i think about ramadhan, and bcome more and more when i’ve finally arrived in this holy month,,

there so much things i miss about ramadhan,,

i remember when i was a kid, in my elementary school, in a small town name Sungai Apit,, with my family i go to masjid almost every night, but my only purpose going to masjid is to write the speech as my task during ramadhan,, and then i move to Pekanbaru, i also goin to masjid almost every night with my mom and sister, bcos my father always had a duty during ramadhan night that made him always go to the different masjid every night. In pekanbaru, i was a naughty kid, with my friends, we bring our food like chocolate or others to the masjid and when the others are doing shalat Tarawih, we begin our little gathering in the corner of the masjid and eat all things that we’ve brought (not for imitated by other please!! )

growing old, we realize that going to masjid in every night of Ramadhan Month is not only about the “speech writing as task from school”, but the real aim of the task is to make us go to the masjid and do shalat Tarawih,, so we (me and my friends) left our “masjid adventure” and try to khusu’ in our shalat..

so much fun remembering that time, i miss it so much now,,

as i live in Yogyakarta, far from my lovely pa and miss my mom a lot, i feel sumtin different about Ramadhan These days,,

i miss everything that ever happen bfor,,

yeah,,

not only the “fun” things about ramadhan, but also the warm of the family and a hug from my pa and mOm,,

 

i Miss U a Lot Mom!!

 

Happy Ramadhan EveryOne,,