In 1976, when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed an agreement to recognize Israel at Cape David, the official residence of the United States President.
It was then hailed as a major breakthrough towards peace and a sacrifice for the permanent protection of the Palestinians.
Then, in a hospital in Egypt, there was a shout of "Amal Dankal", a weak poet who was exhausted while fighting cancer.
The poem "La Tasaleh" (Don't make peace) written on the death bed of "Amal Abu Al-Qasim Danqal" had shaken the Arabs. In the Arab world, "La Tasaleh" became the lament of Palestine and came to the tongues of children. One poem was widely read in all newspapers and on radio propaganda. The uprising against Sadat in Egypt was difficult to control. Anwar Asadat was hated and deserved to be cursed even after his assassination. Friendship with Israel became such an undesirable act that no ruler dared to do so for the next half century.
Freedom candles are still being lit on the door and wall of Palestine with the words "La Tasaleh" as a metaphor for resistance.
When I read the English translation of this Arabic poem, its Egyptians wept for weeks. Even today, when I remember, my eyes got wet.
(I have tried to translate one stanza of the poem from English to Urdu)
Do not make peace with the killers, not even by killing them.
Don't make peace
Not even if they offer you a head for a head.
Have all heads ever been equal?
Can a stranger's heart be like your brother's?
Can his eyes be like your brother's eyes?
Can the hand that held your sword be like the hand that made you mourn?
They will tell you, we have come to stop the bloodshed,
We have come to mediate.
Yes, they will say, "We are your cousins."
So tell them they don't know who they killed.
Put your sword on the forehead of the desert (declare war)
(Fight) until Fana informs them of what you were killed.
A soldier, a brother, a father, a king.
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