ANYONE COULD KILL 22 000 CHILDREN IN A SINGLE YEAR WITHOUT REALLY MEANING TO DO SO, CLAIMS A BRITISH AUTHOR

According to Briton Howard Jacobson, Israel's regime

doesn't intend to kill children, it just somehow

ends up killing 22 000 children, and as it isn't

intentional, could happen to anyone really,

it doesn't matter - according to author Jacobson,

who also says that if it matters to you, then you

are guilty of 'a blood libel' and that you are

spreading 'an ancient hatred',

and that you really should just let the Israeli

regime keep committing those utterly intentional...

sorry, utterly unintentional, accidental killings

of tens of thousands of children.

16.10.2024

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NO AMOUNT OF ATTACKS OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE CAN MAKE THIS WORK AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY

Democracy in the 'West' has failed

because 'moderate' politicians refuse to follow

the will of the voters, refuse to enact

popular progressive policies,

and instead proudly declare they

are making "tough choices" by cutting

education, healthcare, welfare and the taxes

of billionaires and mega-corporations.

 

15.10.2024

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BAERBOCK AND SCHOLZ

Germany claims that Israel

"has a right to kill civilians"

at schools and hospitals,

as long as it remembers

to claim they were used

as "human shields".

I'm sure that Germany believes

that the 800 000 illegal

Israeli colonists

in occupied East Jerusalem

and rest of the West Bank,

actually used as human shields

by Israel's occupation forces

every single day since 1968,

and of whom 300 000 carry

weapons and take part in daily

attacks against occupied Palestinians,

can then be targeted also?

Of course not! An illegal Israeli

colonialist, reserve member

of occupation forces,

living in an illegal colony

with a military garrison,

must be utterly safe

according to Germany.

Only brown people

can be slaughtered,

only their deaths

can be "justified",

says Germany.

15.10.2024

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NO SAFE SPACES FOR SUPPORTERS OF ATROCITIES

We don't need safe spaces for Zionists, we

need safe space from supporters of Apartheid,

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansings.

No one has a right to support Apartheid,

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

and to feel safe from criticism.

15.10.2024

LOOK AT THE MIRROR

If you want to silence people who oppose a genocide

now, stop going around asking why another genocide

was allowed to begin 85 years ago.

You know why it was allowed to begin - because people

like you acted to silence opposition to the genocide,

to hide that it was taking place. 

15.10.2024

AMONG THE RUINS

A fifty minute walk into the dusk,

from birdsong into silence among

the tree sumps of a felled forest,

through which I once ski'd, so many

years ago, and now ruins of a wood

and the ruins of a day, ashes

dying in the darkness.

12.-15.10.2024

SERVING THE GENOCIDAIRES

After each new massacre by the Israeli regime, Britain's

Labour and Conservative-run British Broadcasting Corporation

tells its audience that everything is all right and there

is no reason to be upset, because:

"The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reports."

14.-15.10.2024

WE MUST END CHRISTIAN ZIONISM

Great majority of people in 'Western' countries don't support

Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity,

mutta politicians and the press support,

and that's only things that matter.

We don't have democracy.

We have Christian Zionism.

14.10.2024

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WHEN KILLERS INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM KILLING PEOPLE

Apartheid Israel burns occupied Palestinian civilians alive.

But don't worry, because according to the United States

and Germany, Israel will investigate itself.

When killers investigate themselves,

we don't have to worry about them

killing people. All is well.

14.10.2024

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EUROPEAN UNION COMMISSION WANTS EVERYONE TO KNOW IT'S RACIST

European Union Commission evacuates Ukrainians

to be treated in European Union hospitals

while 80 % of Ukraine is free from occupation

and most hospitals operate as normal,

but European Union Commission refuses

to evacuate any of the over 10 000 seriously

wounded Palestinians left without treatment

in occupied Palestine's Gaza, where

Israel has attacked all 38 hospitals, leaving

21 of them unable to operate, and just 17

partially functional, able to offer only

the most basic care.

According to the European Union Commission

it "Stands in solidarity with Israel"

and has thrown some coins on the ground

for Palestinians to gather, so all is well.

14.10.2024

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HALF OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE'S POPULATION ARE CHILDREN, YET...

According to the 'Western' press,

the only children in occupied Palestine

are adult Israeli occupation soldiers.

14.10.2024

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"THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES SAID IT WAS LOOKING INTO THE REPORTS"

After each new massacre by Israel, Britain's Labour and Conservative-run

British Broadcasting Corporation tells its audience that everything

is all right and there is no reason to be upset, because:

"The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reports."

Today the magic words that justify and erase atrocities

and make the next massacre possible

were used by BBC to nullify the murder of 15 children and 7 adults,

and wounding of 80 others in a United Nations -run school sheltering

Palestinian families, driven from their homes by Israel, in Gaza.

14.10.2024

MANUFACTURING "VICTIMS" WHILE SILENT ABOUT VICTIMS

Adult Israeli soldiers killed in an air-strike

on a military base are "teenage victims"

according to healines in 'Western' media,

while 17-year-old Rayyan Sayyed

shot dead by Israel's occupation soldiers

in Jenin, 165th child killed in West Bank

in the last year by Israel, goes

unmentioned in headlines.

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"TEENAGE VICTIMS"

Four Israeli soldiers died in an attack

on a military base, and according to

the British Sky News,

the killed soldiers were

"four teenage victim s".

While the children Israel burned

alive on a hospital yard

a few hours later

go unmentioned.

14.10.2024

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CLOSE YOUR EYES

Birds singing loudly in the mid-October dusk,

and closing your eyes to the brilliant

golden and orange leaves

you can pretend it's not withering

autumn, winding time back to

those lost and wasted months,

vanished in the darkening

time that engulfs landscape,

the birds and you.

Stand still, close your eyes,

listen to the singing and regain

lost time with each note.

12.10.2024

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WE CAN'T SAVE OURSELVES BY SACRIFICING OTHERS

We can't sacrifice others to save ourselves,

bind them on the altar of political expediency

and expect that the blade we wield

won't carve out our own heart.

12.10.2024

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WRONG IS WRONG ON BOTH SIDES OF A POLITICAL BORDER

National borders don't exist when

it comes to human morality.

a line drawn on map don't

allow an act or thing be right

one side and wrong on the other,

nor can a human mind hold that

misbelief and stay uncorrupted.

12.10.2024

THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN 2

The belief that we must allow terrible things

abroad to be able to do good deeds at home

has always led to terrible things happening

on both abroad and at home.

12.10.2024

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THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN 1

If you think you have to support a genocide

abroad to save freedom at home,

you are just going to end losing your freedom

like you lost your conscience.

12.10.2024

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EVEN THE COLOURS OF THE TWILIGHT

Such relief after reading her words,

and throughout my walk across the evening

fading into night, my mind was leaping

with joy and even the colours of the twilight

were bright under her Venus.

12.10.2024

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ALIEN INVADERS

Politicians are like alien invaders among

us, looking deceptively human, but

being utterly inhumane, monsters

tearing human flesh across the globe

in their conquest of our planet

they are set to destroy.

06.-12.10.2024

AT THE BIRDWATCHING TOWER

Last time I came, the birdwatching tower

stood amidst tall firs and pines on the side

of an old field long left fallow, now

it stands amidst a hole in the forest

a kilometer wide on one side, couple

of hundred of meters on the other,

and beside it a single pine tree rising

into the darkening, deep blue

autumn sky.

12.10.2024

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A WRONG CANDIDATE

A candidate who stands for nothing

except pleasing an imaginary

'moderate Republican'

won't win against a Republican

standing for hate and lies,

who luxuriates in them.

The latter has spent eight years

showing hate works, while

political unicorns don't exist

in vast herds voting for the rightwing

Democrat running on a moderate

Republican platform.

12.10.2024

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KAMALA HARRIS

When a Democrat runs their presidential campaign

as a moderate Republican, the non-moderate

Republican wins.

And the entire world loses.

The fate of the world shouldn't depend

on a few tens of thousands of Republicans

who will likely stay at home on the election day.

Yet it does.

And they won't save the world.

12.10.2024

SUNLIGHT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

Autumn winds,

autumn sun,

autumn leaves

crips, bright

and golden,

and autumn clouds,

under which the wind

suddenly bites deep

and the gold bleeds away,

leaving pale, withered yellow.

12.10.2024

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AFTER THE IMAGES

Laying on his bed he imagines

her there, straddling him, joining

their flesh in slow movement,

and his hands grasping her,

resting on her buttocks,

as she rides him.

12.10.2024

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AN AUTUMN HOUR

In one hour all the autumn has to offer:

Bright sunshine followed by clouds

and rain giving way to pale blue sky

and returning rays setting golden

crowns of trees alight.

12.10.2024

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VERY SERIOUS JOURNALISTS FOR A GENOCIDE

In Britain, Very Serious Journalists

write that when they see people marching

against an ongoing genocide,

Holocaust survivors hide in fear

in their apartments, and the Very Serious

Journalists expect their audience

if not believe this, then at least

go along with the lie that opposing a genocide

makes genocide survivors afraid.

12.10.2024

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"NEVER AGAIN" WHAT?

If you don't vote for the person supporting a genocide

abroad, the person supporting a genocide abroad

will win -

no, no, not the same candidate who supports a genocide

abroad, but the other candidate who supports a genocide

abroad, but also bad things at home!

See? You have to vote for a genocide

abroad to stop bad things happening at home!

And what's this talk about "Never Again?"

"Never Again" what?

12.10.2024

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THE 'WEST' ISN'T NORMAL

First 77 years of Israeli Apartheid was normalized,

then 57 years of Israeli occupation was normalized,

followed by 17 years of Israeli siege being normalized,

and then they normalized a year of genocide by Israel,

in Palestine, all in Palestine,

and now they've normalized the Israeli war on Lebanon,

making it just one more very 'normal' thing to the 'West',

a 'normal' thing no one in the 'West' has to do anything

about while shouting "Slava Ukraini!"

12.10.2024

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THE JONATHAN FREEDLANDS AND SUDAN

 The Jonathan Freedlands who celebrated Trump's

Abraham Accords whitewashing Sudan's coup junta

and the military rulers' genocidal militia

are now using the victims of the second genocide

in Darfur and other atrocities in Sudan to play down

the genocide by Israel in occupied Palestine.

The Jonathan Freedlands claim that Sudan is

"forgotten", that it's the world's greatest crisis -

and who forgot it, who allowed the usurpers

to whitewash themselves with Saudi money and

US and Israeli flags, while shooting pro-democracy

demonstrators on the streets of Khartoum

and Omdurman? Who planned to use

the genocidaL RSF / Janjaweed to control

migration via Sudan to Europe?

Who now demands that the military junta

and the RSF / Janjaweed shouldn't shoot each

other no more, but shoot again democrats

on the streets of Khartoum and Omdurman,

oppressing the Sudanese together? Why,

it's the Jonathan Freedlands!

12.10.2024

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MISSING

Where are those virtues the 'West' has bragged

about for so long, where are its values it claimed

to cherish so?

With the other victims in the mass graves.

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BUT NO

The 'West' that normalizes genocide and Apartheid,

ethnic cleansing, endless military occupation

and wars of aggression, should be as capable

of normalizing condemning and ending genocide,

Apartheid, ethnic cleansing, military occupation

and wars of aggression.

12.10.2024

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THE MOON IN OCTOBER

Between the shredded clouds,

cold and pale the Moon,

entangled on the branches

of an old birch tree, shedding

dark leaves breaking free.

11.10.2024

MASSACRE AT EL-KOMA IN NORTH DARFUR

65 people killed in a single air-strike

at the market of el-Koma, ordinary

people killed - and perhaps targeted;

the military doesn't bother to say

we targeted this and that figure,

disturbed supply route or some such...

No, just an air-strike, and after it

new ones in other towns, 23 dead,

38 dead... 500 this month, according

to human right organizations,

overall. Or was, when the article

was written. It will be more now,

bombs falling among misery

turning desperation into death

and screams - and this is

the 'evil' fighting 'greater evil'

doing the killing, ripping apart

street vendors in a country

torn apart by the coup plotters

uniting evil, the world's cruel

indifference until the ten million

refugees march north.

11.10.2024

IF YOU DON'T ALLOW PEOPLE TO RECOGNIZE AN ONGOING GENOCIDE, IS IT STILL A GENOCIDE?

If no one is allowed to say aloud

that a genocide is happening,

then genocide isn't happening -

according to the supporters of Israel.

And how on earth do they think

they differ from the Nazis and the rest? 

They think they're going to get away with it,

like the Ottomans with Armenian genocide.

08.10.2024

SO MANY BASTARDS HAVE REVEALED THEMSELVES AMONG US IN THE LAST YEAR

Strange how many people in the 'West' believe

that the Nazis' great crime wasn't to kill millions,

but that six millions Jews were among those,

and that when a self-declared Jewish state

commits a genocide, opposition to the genocide

is 'antisemitism' and must be banned.

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THE 'WEST' IN ITS OLD AGE

Israel is ethnically cleansing northern Gaza

amidst a genocide against occupied Palestinians

and an attack on Lebanon, and the 'West'

keeps talking of "hostages", because only

the lives of the übermensch matter, not

of the üntermensch they have tormented

for 77 years, the human beings the 'West'

refuses to recognize as people whose lives

matter. The 'West' doesn't even pretend

that it would care or try to stop the slaughter,

it just admires the carnage, a senile bastard

chuckling, drool running from its mouth.

08.10.2024

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THE 'WEST' IS WRONG

The 'West' has thrown away everything

so that Apartheid Israel can commit atrocities

as long as it wants, without consequences,

and yet the 'West' acts like all that it discarded

are ready for it to use when it feels like it,

from international law to basic human morality,

like all would have been just put in storage,

and not thrown at a garbage dump.

08.10.2024

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THERE ARE FOUR OR FIVE ONGOING GENOCIDES ON THIS PLANET OF SUPPOSED HUMAN BEINGS

If you refuse to oppose an ongoing genocide,

and instead celebrate it, no matter that you

wear human flesh, that's just stolen skin

a beast ripped from a human being that was.

08.10.2024

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IT MUST MEAN ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

Those "Never Again" people now defending "Again"

never believed in "Never Again", they just thought

"Never Again" meant some people somewhere,

not all people everywhere.

06.10.2024

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THE 'WEST' CELEBRATES AND ADMIRES ISRAELI VIOLENCE

The 'West' celebrates and admires Israeli violence,

no matter who are its targets, and calls all forms

of Palestinian resistance, non-violent and violent

alike, 'terrorism' and 'antisemitism', and tells

how good and kind the Israelis are, because

according to the 'West', they could always kill

even more occupied Palestinians.

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YOU CAN'T SAVE THOSE ALREADY DEAD, BUT YOU CAN TRY TO SAVE THOSE THREATENED WITH KILLING NOW

If you can't act to stop ongoing

genocides from Darfur to Palestine,

don't make a big deal about lamenting

genocides that took place before

you were born to ignore those

taking place during your lifetime.

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KILL WITH OUR BLESSING

Tomorrow will be a lovefest from the 'West'

to Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime,

and Palestinians and Lebanese will die

as a result of the declarations of support

to the Israeli regime from the 'West' -

which knows very well that each

declaration of support sounds to Israeli

ears: "Kill with our blessing."

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AGAIN

People who claimed "Never Again"

have turned out to be very good

in not recognizing it when

it happens "Again".

06.10.2024

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THE END OF AN AUTUMN DAY

Soon it will be night, but now still

the trees stand black silhouettes

against deep blue-gray, overcast sky,

last dim light of the day that was,

and just words will be left of these

hours slipping into the dark.

06.10.2024

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REAL BEHEADED CHILDREN DON'T MATTER TO SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL'S REGIME

Israel beheaded children today in Gaza

and it beheaded a young boy yesterday

in Gaza, and the 'Westerners' who bought

and spread the lie of 'beheaded' Israeli

babies just wave their Israeli flags, not

caring one bit about real beheaded kids.

06.10.2024

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WHEN YOUR CONSCIENCE IS DEAD

Israel has declared it will completely ethnically cleanse

northern Gaza Strip and kill everyone who stays,

and the 'West' has nothing to say except

"We stand in solidarity with Israel."

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A MOMENT AND ETERNITY

Final hour of light, and all quiet calm,

cool and clear light and air, and in an hour

all this black night that will beget the next

shortening October day under the cold stars

shining centuries, thousands of years ago.

05.10.2024

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THE ALLURE OF WHAT CAN'T BE GAINED

You reach for what is beyond you,

and perhaps that's part of the allure,

yearning for these possibilities gazed

upon, dreamed of, endlessly, amplified

by them being  beyond reach; they

have the purity of dreams, unstained

by the mundane sublunar life, there

among the crystal spheres, seen

but touched only like starlight is.

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THEIR LIVES

Headstones remind you

what you have lost,

what they lost,

what was

and could still be,

and instead

these memorials

of them, these

fragments of you.

04.-05.10.2024

ALL IT TAKES IS ONE CLOUD

One moment all autumn gold

in sunlight, and after a cloud

drifts in the blue and hides

the sun, dim withered fall

whispers of the end of all

warmth and of the bleak

winter wind biting bones.

04.10.2024

THE HIERARCHY OF GENOCIDES

The genocides that matter most

are those that take place in Europe,

and genocides carried out by Europeans

outside Europe don't matter at all,

as is again being proved

in Israeli occupied Palestine.

04.10.2024

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JONATHAN FREEDLAND

The feelings of Israeli Jews who

support genocidal violence matter

at least as much as Palestinian lives,

Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian

tells us. That if the killer claims to

be afraid, we must sympathize

with them and let them kill,

leaving pieces of little children

scattered far and wide.

04.10.2024

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NETANYAHU AND BIDEN

Some people just want to see

the world burn and others just

want to help them to burn

the world while claiming

they want peace.

03.-04.10.2024

A BRITISH JOURNALIST TRIES THE OLD TRICK

 The Israeli Jews are scared, tries

a British columnist the old excuse,

that they live in fear of a second

Holocaust, and then he demands

that we must not condemn, but

understand these people who

have killed hundreds each day

for an entire year and escalate

the slaughter before our eyes;

if only we would buy his claims,

we can read between the lines,

then Israel could kill and kill,

crying about being afraid

while laughing on TikTok

for the horror it commits.

The British columnist writes

nothing how it feels to live

a year under Israeli bombs,

a lifetime under Israeli occupation,

these are beyond his comprehension,

he can only identify with those who

massacre entire families each day,

who are committing the genocide.

Only they matter, these supposedly

scared people shouting "May your

village burn" and posting videos

how they burn and blast apart

entire towns. The charade is over,

the obscene living in fear lie

doesn't work for the genocidaires.

Jonathan Freedland, you have lost.

04.10.2024