Abstract
This paper analyses Mahmud Darwish’s works, one of the greatest poests of the Palestinian resistance. The resistance is against the Israeli violation of the Palestinians’ human rights, as well as the resistance against the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel has attempted, through all means, to erase the Palestinians from historical memory. Israel has expelled many Palestinians from their villages, and has also massacred many others. After the expulsions and massacres Israelis occupied the Palestinian villages, and changed their names by using Hebrew ones. This way the Israeli “official” maps do not show either the names or the Palestinian villages, but the Hebrew names that have substituted the original ones. Israeli Jews have settled in these places with new names. Palestinians have resisted and have attempted to return to their villages, and those who have been successful are present in the absence. This means that they are present in blood and flesh, but Israel do not recognise them nor give them any rights, and considere them to be legally absent. It is in these themes that Mahmud Darwish’s woks, both poetry and prose, are so important for the Palestinian resistance, as well as to re-write the Palestinian history.
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