'WESTERN' LIBERALS AND THE HOLOCAUST IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE

For decades they dreamed of their

unyielding, vocal opposition, of heroic

acts they would do if the world faced

a second Holocaust. But when one

came, the victims weren't the right ones,

so they decided instead to support it.

22.04.2024

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TWO BIRTHS IN GAZA

20th April 2024 in Gaza Strip.

Few hours separate two births in Gaza:

A small baby is cut out of her murdered

mother's womb, months premature,

and a girl aged around seven or eight

is dug out from under the rubble of

her family home; her's a rebirth into

a second life which Israeli bomb

can end at any moment.

21.04.2024

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BIDENOCIDE

People who spent decades declaring "Never Again!"

are now saying that opposing an ongoing genocide

is actually bad electoral politics and shouldn't be done,

and that when it comes to people who protest

against the ongoing genocide, the police

should be send to deal with them.

21.04.2024

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WE, THE LUCKY ONES

We dream our lives away,

the lucky ones; the unlucky

ones toil them away, or

are blown to bits by a missile,

starved to death or shot

on the yard of a burned

hospital. We, the lucky

ones, moan that our

hopes came to nothing

because we didn't

seize the day. How

foolish we, twice.

20.04.2024

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THE INK IS DRY, THE BLOOD IS NOT

I will make the day's last pot of coffee, make 

crisp bread sandwiches with cheese and salad,

then sit before the laptop drinking warmth

and munching, with jaws and mind, thinking

whether to face the butchery yet or translate

poems half a dozen people will read until

all the words have run dumb and I can't

avoid facing the broken bodies. I will

retweet images of slaughtered children.

Whether before dry sentences or after.

For what was done must be seen.

Even if only ten people or twenty

witness what humankind has done

yet again to its offspring.

19.04.2024

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21ST CENTURY POETRY

Perhaps genocide is the true poetry

of our age? Perhaps that is why poetry

of old goes unread; our age writes

in blood, unsatisfied with ink, and

thus the greatest killers are given

the greatest accolades, praised as our

Shakespeares, our Poes, these

divine content creators for

45 second news stories.

19.04.2024

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ERASE THE RICH

If you don't erase the rich,

they will kill you and the whole

human race,

and much of the planet's

life with you, with us. So,

erase the rich.

19.04.2024

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SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT ONGOING GENOCIDES

None of the Hard-Right and Far-Right Christians

who support Apartheid Israel's genocide

against occupied Palestinians

ever raise their forked tongues in support

of the occupied Papuans suffering a genocide

at the hands of Indonesia.

The people of West Papua are mostly

Christians, but to the self-declared warriors

of Christendom that and the fact

of the faith of their oppressors

is negated by the colour of their skin,

the Israeli genocidaires having 'Right' one.

19.04.2024

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DON'T BE A COWARD

Write now poems for the genocides that are taking place;

don't be one of those who remember only what

is safely in the past; write for Darfur, write for Palestine,

write for West Papua and Xinjiang, East Turkestan.

Don't just remember those who have memorials, who

have been accepted into the pantheon of victims;

write for those whose killers breath still and are

still killing, write for those whose corpses are warm.

19.04.2024

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EUROPEAN POLITICIANS AND THE GENOCIDE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE

They have no problem with these corpses, with these

mass graves, those who have spent year after year

laying wreaths on memorials as part of their official

duties, shedding crocodile tears and words how these

kind of atrocities will be always remembered and will

never allowed to repeat. They have no problem,

now, with entire families being slaughtered for

two-hundred days, forty-thousand lost or more.

No, they have no problem; but eventually

their successors in office will come with wreaths

and crocodile tears to memorials for this slaughtered

nation, declaring how the atrocity will never be

forgotten and will never be allowed to repeat.

19.04.2024

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THEY THINK ETHNIC-RELIGIOUS LABELS MATTER MORE THAN THE UNITED SUFFERING OF THE VICTIMS

Zionists of all hues think they can mourn

the past genocide in Europe and celebrate

the ongoing genocide in Palestine

at the same time; that no matter how

many they slaughter, they themselves

are entitled to claim victimhood for

what an another group of Far-right

nationalists did to the Jews.

19.04.2024

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THEY OPPOSED ONLY ONE GENOCIDE, NOT GENOCIDES OVERALL

The Zionists never had a problem with a genocide.

They had a problem with Jews being the victims of a genocide.

Not with a self-declared Jewish state committing a genocide.

Not with occupied Palestinians being the victims.

The Zionists have no problem with that.

18.04.2024

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IF A BOT...

If a bot on a social media platform claims

war crimes are not real, they are not happening,

according to the supporters of Israel,

not even if their heads are pushed inside

buckets full of the blood of the victims.

17.04.2024

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DURING AN ONGOING GENOCIDE

During an ongoing genocide,

Israel's flag is a hate symbol.

That's the poem.

17.04.2024

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HATE CORRUPTS

Modern Zionism kills

not only entire families,

but humanity in the human

being who becomes a Zionist.

17.04.2024

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SHIELD FOR GENOCIDE

The only reason Israel cares

about the Holocaust is

that it helps it to commit

a genocide of its own.

Old cadavers shielding

those who turn living

bodies into new cadavers.

17.04.2024

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CHRISTIAN ZIONISM

Christian Zonism has snapped the moral

neck of the 'West'; there's just a corpse

laying among those Israel slaughtered.

17.04.2024

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THEY SHOT DOWN IRANIAN MISSILES AND DRONES IN THAT ACT OF THEATER, BUT...

No American, British, French, Jordanian

and Saudi planes to shoot down Israeli

missiles that have rained into Palestine's

Gaza and Lebanon yesterday and tonight.

One would first have to commit a genocide

to get that level of protection.

17.04.2024

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RECONNECTING

Seventeen degrees Celsius where sunrays

hit the thermometer, feels you have

been transported into an another time,

another land, your long shadow on

the ground part you left behind,

years ago, and now picked up again.

11.-14.04.2024

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PAPUA MERDEKA

The first social media account I lost to censorship

was because of West Papua. Here in the 'West',

remembrance of the Holocaust is holy, because

it's safely in the past. But show people images

of an ongoing genocide, how human bodies

are broken, sliced open, and the society which

shouts "Never Again!" and thus considers

having done its civilized duty, declares

evidence of an ongoing genocide is "Gore"

and shouldn't be seen, being "Too graphic".

Ongoing genocides are such a bother,

you almost feel like you should be doing

something about them, when you would

rather prefer not to see or know. 

So you censor. Conscience can

continue its deep slumber.

14.04.2024

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EL FASHER

El Fasher, the only major city

in Darfur not in the hands of the RSF

/ Janjaweed, is now being targeted

by it, after military junta's gains in

Khartoum and Omdurman. Villages

around the city being burned, their

populations pouring into the city

already bulging from refugees

from elsewhere in Darfur. Usually

the military junta's forces give

up without much of a fight,

but is there anywhere for them

to run, this time? That gives

some hope the junta soldiers will

fight, otherwise thousands will

be slaughtered like in El Geneina

where mass graves mark atrocities.

13.04.2024

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ISRAEL ÜBER ALLES

The 'West' is more upset and alarmed

about the possibility that Iran will respond

militarily to the Israeli attack against

its consulate in Damascus than about

Israel's Apartheid, genocide and 57 years

of occupation against the Palestinian people.

12.04.2024

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ANOTHER POGROM TODAY IN ISRAELI OCCUPIED PALESTINE

Apartheid Israel's occupation forces

blocked entrances to the occupied

West Bank village of al-Mughayir

and let in illegal colonialists who

have killed one man, Jihad Abu Alia,

wounded up to fifty people, one

shot in head and seriously injured,

and burned at least fourty buildings

and vehicles in a still ongoing pogrom.

This will barely make news in the 'West'.

It's what the 'West' has called 'Peace'

for the last seventy-six years.

12.04.2024

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LINGERING SNOW

Yesterday I still walked, stumbling, on

deep snow that gave away under my

boots in the cool shade of the forest,

a long white track of winter through

spring that surprised me when

I thought to take a shortcut.

12.04.2024

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GERMANS AND GENOCIDE

German politicians scream about "Islamists"

while banning a congress about the ongoing

genocide by Apartheid Israel in Palestine,

have Jewish peace activists arrested and

claim their opposition to the genocide

is "Hatred against Jews".

I see it in my mind through black-and-white, old

news reels of Nazi Germany, and unlike German

politicians and officials, I've learned that genocide

is always wrong, instead their belief that it just

a question of having the right, acceptable victims.

12.04.2024

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CRUELTY AND INHUMANITY

Journalist Motasem Dalloul, whose wife and son

were killed by Apartheid Israel's occupation forces,

published a photograph showing his mother with

his brothers and few of their children last year at

this time, and then mentioned how many children

and grandchildren each has lost in the last six months.

Another post of his says 45 of his close relatives

have been killed by Israeli occupation

in the ongoing genocide.

And in the replies supporters of Apartheid Israel's

genocidal regime are mocking and taunting,

their idea of how to drum up solidarity

and support for the Apartheid State

being cruelty and inhumanity.

11.04.2024

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FOOL'S GOLD

Reading in a poem by a Scottish poet Jarvie

about fool's gold, I suddenly have a faint

memory of us panning gold in Lapland,

for fun during a summer visit, finding

fool's gold among the sand. Early

to mid Eighties, a cloudy day, dark

trees, clear and cold flowing water,

you without seeing your faces, but

alive, talking lost words beyond

recall. Fool's gold it was not.

08.04.2024

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SINCE 1987

Since 1987 we have had the wrong people

in charge of this country, the worst stripping

it down, stealing and pillaging, the best

too cautious to do more than little repairs,

never trying to turn back the tide of shit

that has flooded everything after the worst

opened the sluice gates to make themselves

richer and everyone else worse off.

08.04.2024

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AFTER FETCHING THE MAIL

I sit on the delapitated porch,

reading Donald Duck, listening to

the near constant birdsong, watching

the warm light of the late evening wane.

Some kind of peace, this.

08.04.2024

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FETCHING THE MAIL

As I turn the corner, past the

unpainted barn, refuge for

many critters, I hear them

before they come in sight,

flying over the road, a pair

of swans, sounding the spring.

08.04.2024

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RUDE AWAKENING

I awoke to the cat screaming,

jumping atop me, another jump

taking him further to the bed.

"Now he's had it," I thought,

"the old fellow is done, 

something broke in him."

I roused myself, took him

up, looked this way and that,

deep into his yellow eyes,

tried whether any part of him

hurt when touched.

There was nothing apparently

wrong with him, as the hours

have confirmed; he sits there

smug and comfy atop a bag

on the bed as I write, and

the best I can fathom, from

where he spends his nights,

the direction of where he

must have made his jump,

is that the old bugger leaned

against the heater in his sleep

and woke thinking he

was burning.

08.04.2024

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20:02

An eclipse on the other side

of the world, and here, crowns

of trees swaying in the wind,

blazing orange-red as

the Sun is setting, hidden

behind darkening forest line.

08.04.2024

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19:52

The shifting dance of light and

shadow ended in half-cloudy

stillness, the Sun hidden, half

of the sky pale soft blue and

then... a rip in ther clouds, and

deep golden-orange light

on everything not in shade.

08.04.2024

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AFTER VOTING THE FASCISTS TO POWER

The lambs voted for slaughter

and are now telling each other

that it might not be so bad.

08.04.2024

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EARLY SPRING

The ruins of autumn

and no blade of grass.

08.04.2024

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NO FASCISTS ALLOWED

Post "Based" and it's an

immediate block, you fascist

piece of shit.

08.04.2024

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18:30

As suddenly as it came, it's

gone from the landscape,

the light, sunbeams gilding

the wreck of autumn revealed

by winter's waning. Now gray,

cold, the evening glooms.

08.04.2024

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THEY ARE A STRANGER

One day you are old, and

you don't feel like it, you

feel you are still yourself,

your young yourself,

that you never changed

into this person who

has lived to be old,

lived without noticing

how much those years

going past amounted into.

They are a stranger, that

person people see when they

look at you now, that old

stranger they addreess, hard

to reconcile with who you are,

still, to yourself.

08.04.2024

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´18:20

So late in the day, sunshine,

the whole gloomy April landscape

of wrecked Autumn past

now a shining Spring.

08.04.2024

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MODERN SOCIETY

Society takes care of those

who are in a good enough shape

to take care of themselves,

have enough in them to run

through its mazes, showing

they are fit enough to be helped.

08.04.2024

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WHAT THE SOCIETY HAS BECOME

There are no consequences, no

consequences whatsoever, when

people are allowed to slip, fall

through. No consequences, no

consequences whatsoever. No

inquries, no guilty consciences,

few one even notices what

happened after they opened

their fingers on which people

had to come to rest, briefly,

slipping, falling through

the gaps emerging between,

plunging in to the depths,

written off like it would

be no one's fault.

08.04.2024

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THIS STATE OF BEING

What is this, this state after existence

for all purposes has ceased beyond

the act of breathing, the basic bodily

functions; this, this is mere being,

nothing more, for existence is

having goals, doing, creating,

going out in the rain and getting

wet in the spring shower, not looking

feeling nothing but the landscape,

it's gloomy colours, seeping into

you. There must be a million monks

and nuns who yearn for this and

never achieve, tied to the act of

shaping the world, raking the fallen

wet leaves away, existing.

08.04.2024

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THE LONG END CREDITS

It ended long ago, and what there is,

are the credits rolling in an empty

movie theater, the sparse audience

having left at THE END, not staying

for their names to be shown as actors

in this, whatever it was - comedy,

farce, satire, tragedy...

08.04.2024

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AN APRIL EVENING

Suddenly it's already evening, 17:40

(a month and you will be hesitant to

call 17:40 evening, there will be so

much light), and the temperature

is going down, but you can't see

a change in the gray light outside,

in the landscape between melting

winter and spring raining.

08.04.2024

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BURIDAN'S ASS

You stand at the centre of a circle,

equal distance to its edges

no matter where you decide to go

- there is nowhere to go.

08.04.2024

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AFTER THE SNOWS OF WINTER MELTED AWAY

From under the melted snow

emerged the brown leaves

that fell last autumn

under iron-gray clouds,

and which now lie under

iron-gray clouds.

08.04.2024

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THE PLANS FOR TODAY

The coffee will be black

today too, I will not

go to the store, I will

sit beside the window,

read a book, watch

the long gray day

fall in raindrops,

and when the

evening comes,

see from a screen

how the Moon

hides the Sun.

08.04.2024

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WHY DOES IT MATTER SO THAT YOU SHOULD BE SOMETHING NOW?

 Why lament that you

are nothing, now,

when for aeons

you were nothing

before your first

cry, and for aeons

to come you will

be nothing, after

your last cry?

08.04.2024

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JUST THE FACTS

96 people drowned, 5 were saved

and up to 29 are missing

after an over-crowded fishing

boat turned into a ferry

sank on Mozambique's northern

coast, as the people aboard

were trying to escape

the spread of cholera

that has infected 13 700

and killed 30 people.

08.04.2024

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SHELTERING FROM THE RAIN

Early in the morning

the birds sang so loudly

in the gloom that I

could hear them

just before

slipping into sleep,

forgotten dreams,

and now that

I'm awake,

they are silent,

the birds, sheltering

from the rain.

08.04.2024

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YOU CAN'T SEE THE SPRING FROM MY DESK

It's afternoon, looking just

at the window from where I

am sitting, at the gray

cold-looking clouds, branches

of a still young pine swaying

in the wind

(we planted it almost

fourty years ago, but

it grew so slowly at first,

in the shadow of the house),

you wouldn't believe

that the snow has melted

from around it, the snow

whose cover is broken now 

even on the farmland

rolling towards the village

on the ridge, that

it's eleven degrees plus

outside, and that it's raining

there, spring raining

on winter's remains.

08.04.2024

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WALID DAQQA AND ELOR AZARIA

Walid Daqqa died yesterday after 38 years

of imprisonment by Apartheid Israel's regime

for the alleged killing of one Israeli occupation

forces' soldier, and when Elor Azaria shot

a wounded civilian in the head, that same

Israeli judicial system so loved and praised

by the 'West' had him sentenced to 8 months,

much of it free on furlough. And his

was the rare case of conviction, the very

act of his conviction claimed in Israel

to tear the whole society apart, leading him

to be declared to be "Everybody's Son",

made assistant to a member of Knesset,

leading tours to show where he had

carried out his murder of Abdelfattah

al-Sharif in occcupied Hebron.

08.04.2024

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