"We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope”
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
The writer of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence was the poet Mahmoud Darwish. We release Three Hours Beneath The Rubble (Home Mix) as an act of Hope on Friday 20th June 2025 which is United Nations World Refugee Day. It is our quiet whisper against the storms of violence and oppression the Palestinian population are enduring.
Our Geology Club wrote Three Hours Beneath The Rubble across 2024 as the horrors in Gaza and latterly across the Occupied Territories of Palestine emerged. The genocidal calls from right wing Israeli politicians have made us decide to issue it NOW as an immediate response to the use of starvation as a military weapon, which 2025 has seen come, alongside brutal military force by the Israeli Defence Force. It is unfinished, like the struggle for survival of millions of Palestinian people. We decided we could hold it no longer.
The dehumanization of any population must be resisted. For us resistance is expressed artistically. Song is one way we know to speak our love, compassion and solidarity.
“A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by an occupation and oppression into a nightmare.” Mahmoud Darwish