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# A Bullet, A Lie
- URL: https://www.merip.org/1989/03/a-bullet-a-lie/
- Published: 1989-03-10T01:11:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-29T12:36:06.000Z
- Description: ahmad had those wildly intense eyes that would stare through you as he spoke and would light up every now and then as he listened and would drive me crazy what does he want from me? i remember ahmad when he returned from prison to ya‘bad and his grandmother ululated in jubilation danced in happi
- Author: Joost Hiltermann
- Tags: MER Article, Occupation, Palestine, #wp, #wp-post, Issue 157, #Articles

ahmad had those  
 wildly intense  
 eyes that  
 would stare through you  
 as he spoke and  
 would light up  
 every now and then  
 as he listened and  
 would drive me crazy  
 what  
 does he want from me?

i remember ahmad  
 when  
 he returned from prison  
 to ya‘bad  
 and his grandmother  
 ululated in jubilation  
 danced in happiness  
 served coffee to share  
 her happiness

and it was ahmad  
 who took me around the village  
 when i came on  
 mundane visit  
 to see all houses  
 demolished or sealed  
 in town  
 recording a history  
 of occupation

human rights work  
 is nice  
 when you have time to spare

and now  
 ahmad’s eyes speak no more  
 nor listen  
 their words were far too strong  
 the message uncompromising:  
 freedom for Palestine  
 now

on october 8 of 1988  
 the army came to ya‘bad  
 and took  
 a single shot

at ahmad