the arabs have a very selective understanding of "ethnic cleansing". they prefer to bury him in ramallah rather than admit that arabs can and do live peacefully in israel, which would cantradict their anti-israeli propaganda efforts. in this case they are hijacking the remains of an arab israeli to be used to bolster their illegitimate claims on jerusalem. the terrorists running fatahland have no respect for the living or the dead.

that he spend his eternity rotting next to the rotten flesh of arafat

Surely within 24 hours waked, the goebbles of the PA, will begin formulating a theory "how perhaps a Zionist inclined doctor in Houston compromised the IV tubes feeding" the rabid anti-Jew compromising his recovery. Soon..it is coming, and there will be btselem video to go with it

He was a great poet ...not a politician ..he wrote for love , peace freedom ..nature ..feelings ...he represented Palestinians feelings aspirations ...with his poems he was a plus for humanity and culture Mahmoud Darwish ,men of literature and poetry world wide will remember you and recognize your participation in humanity culture .. REST IN PEACE

It came from a reliable Palastinian source with no name mentioned!

OCCUPIES THE SPOT OF THE PROMINENT ANCIENT ISRAELITE TOWN OF RAMAH, HOME TO THE PROPHET SAMUEL AND CAPITAL OF ISRAEL DURING HIS TIME AS RULING JUDGE! And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and their border, Israel delivered from the hand of the Philistines, AND THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE AMORITES! And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. And from year to year, he would set forth, and go around to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he would judge Israel in all these places. And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and he built there an altar to the Lord. I Sam. 7:14-17 RAMALLAH: Lit. "Height of God." (Jeremiah 31:14) THIS IS THE INHERTIANCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. And they had in their inheritance, Beer-sheba,* BEERSHEBA - THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH: http://www.israel.org/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Archaeological%20Sites%20in%20Israel%20-%20Beersheba and Sheba, and Moladah. And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem. And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah.* *And the Amorites, dwelling in that mountain, came out towards you and pursued you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, as far as Hormah. Deut. 1:44 And Ziklag, and Beth-hamarcaboth, and Hazar-susah. And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages. Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages; AND ALL THE VILLAGES THAT WERE ROUND ABOUT THESE CITIES TO BAALATH-BEER, RAMAH OF THE SOUTH Joshua 19:1-8

Who cares

At least he used his own saying on itself: "go away, and take the bone s of your death with you" was this "poet" saying in one of his verse. Now his remains will rot in Ramalah, near the arch terrorist Arafat, not soiling israeli soil. good news. By teh way Darwish poesy was bad work. Karadzic made nicer poems

Paradise welcomes an angel back in its midst, a lover of peace and justice, a poet who would've stood for his worst enemy had that enemy been wronged. A great humanitarian worthy of not one but a million dirges. We will sorely miss you, beloved but rest in peace and show us the way to to a better world , noble one..

Why does it not surpise me to find illiterate thugs in these comments? As always Israeli hysterics make talking to them an exericse in shouting in the wind to psychosis.

No wonder you are so hostile and disrespectful. Mahmoud Darwish is the anti-thesis of Zionism and was forever a threat to you and your ideology of hate and darkness. He never spoke out against Jews or Israeli human beings; just against the suffocating military occupation and oppression that your ideology so depends on to survive.

Beautifully phrased. Isn't it strange, that there is a certain caste of talkbacker who will splay their thuggish dacoitish and illiterate rantings at the drop of a hat. I love #8 - who obviously only hates Arabs and Palestinians enough to force himself to the PC to write those memorable words "who cares?" Well, millions of people around the world care, and I wonder if Mr Valincy of the cultured USA has ever seen a football stadium full of people waiting to hear a poetry reading... but then of course, to quote him "who cares?"