(And Still…)

The Hell of Gaza

"The critique of culture is confronted with the last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism: to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, and that corrodes also the knowledge which expresses why it has become impossible to write poetry today." 

 (Theodor W Adorno - 1949)

GLOBAL RIGHTS - TALKING PEACE - Palestine 

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Each day you will wake

Mr. Itmar Ben Gvir

Mr. Bezalel Smotrich

you will wake

from your dreamless sleep to this nightmare.

 

And all and everywhere around us

all you will see are wingless and wounded angels

silenced and sinking in their grim solitude

like ships long sunk and seething soulless

with this, the last of your incoherence

 

this

“last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism”:

over and over and over

 

Nach Gaza ein Gedicht zu schreiben,

ist barbarisch

 

– your own endless-bottomless-immeasurable-fearful-inhumanity…

"Whoever stays behind - needs to be burned"

(Nissim Vatari, Israeli Likud)

 FULL POEM (& Links)

The Fascist History of Ben Gvir

The Rise of Bezalel Smotrich

 “Kulturkritik findet sich der letzten Stufe der Dialektik von Kultur und Barbarei gegenüber: nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch, und das frißt auch die Erkenntnis an, die ausspricht, warum es unmöglich ward, heute Gedichte zu schreiben.”

#poetry for #Gaza 🇵🇸-🇮🇪 Saoirse don Phalaistín - #FreePalestine

Now End All Thoughts of Peace?

For (small) Amayah – and her World…waiting to be born

 

“…every baby in Gaza is an enemy…”

Israeli right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin

 

It was the Autumn of the Fences       

and blood flowed freely.

 

So freely it froze the fragile faces of

the small ones and the innocent ones

and the military clocks on all the main streets

hammered out that same-old cold-blooded song

for this new century

 

and all the seasons rebelled against the curse

of humanity

 

and while we slept in our loveless beds

War woke and a roomful of dark hearts

went out before dawn and stole a sinking-world away... (Contd.)

 

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...Here is a world wretched and cold-blooded

like a winter endlessly at war.

 

Here is a winter like the Irish knew in ‘45 or ‘47.

 

A winter never to be remembered nor forgotten.

For the hunger here is no longer famine nor futility.

Now it is called starvation and government policy

and the politics of revenge, much like the sound

of glass breaking on a new-old century

 

and behold, there

are those now who call the night day

and those that call this darkness light

 

and they have risen from their graveyards

to come haunt a disappearing world... (Contd.)

 

FULL POEM (& Links)

 

UNRWA Update: Between 7 October 2023 and 28 May 2025, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, as stated by OCHA, at least 54,084 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in Gaza and 123,308 have been injured.

•  At least 310 UNRWA team members have been confirmed killed since 7 October 2023.
• According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people – or about 90 per cent of the population – across the Gaza Strip have been displaced during the war. Many have been displaced repeatedly, some 10 times or more. Since the recent displacement orders were issued, more people have been forced to flee in search of safety.
• According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 19 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip remain operational, with at least 94 per cent of all hospitals damaged or destroyed. Moreover, across the Gaza Strip, “only 2,000 hospital beds remain available, for a population of over 2 million people, grossly insufficient to meet the current needs.”

UNRWA Situation Report #173 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem 

 

"Israeli right-wing figure Moshe Feiglin is under fire after declaring “every baby in Gaza is an enemy,” calling for full colonization of the region and the removal of all children to win the war. His remarks came as former IDF General Yair Golan accused Israel of committing atrocities and warned of becoming a global pariah. Golan's comments were denounced by PM Netanyahu as “blood libel.” The escalating rhetoric reflects a growing ideological divide in Israel as tensions over the Gaza war intensify."

(Oneindia News - May 21, 2025

 Towards the Writing of a

History of the Persecuted

“This is a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world.”  Naomi Klein/Astra Taylor

GLOBAL RIGHTS - Human Rights

DAY ONE

 

Day One: you wake in the womb only

to realise your destination

was destroyed – pogroms ago - by the dumb

acquiescence of the fearful and the ferocious greed

of the greedy

 

THE INTERLUDE

 

sad angels still whisper in your ear

 

you will wake in the womb only to realise

your destination was destroyed

 

by American, German, British, Italian & Indian weapons

by Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth killer fighter planes

by other stealth aircraft and British “reconnaissance” flights

by their costly missile defense programs

their Iron Dome, Arrow, and David's Sling systems

by Iron Dome air-defense missiles, small-diameter bombs

JDAM kits (“which convert unguided bombs into GPS-guided weapons”)

by “advanced weaponry such as CH-53 heavy-lift helicopters”

by KC-46 aerial refueling tankers

by laser-guided missiles for the Apache gunship fleet

by 155mm shells, night-vision devices, bunker-buster munitions

by shiny-new army vehicles

by the costly “components of air defense systems and communication equipment”

by thousands and thousands of portable anti-tank weapons

by almost a million (or more) rounds of ammunition for automatic or semi-automatic firearms

by even more helicopters and naval artillery

by the much-needed components for the F-35 child-killing-combat aircraft

by countless bombs, killer-torpedoes, ruthless-rockets, other explosive devices and charges

by related equipment and accessories (useful to maim, murder, burn,

bury-alive, imprison, disappear, rape and torture)

and don’t forget the Hyderabad-made Hermes “Killer” 900 drones

nor the tonnes of rocket engines, the extra tonnes of rockets

with explosive charges

thousands of kilos of cold-blooded explosive substances

thousands of pounds of charges and propellants for cannons

and more…and more… much more.

 

All soulless-malevolent-malicious-mean

pitiless and remorseless..." (Contd.)

 

Full Poem (& Links)

• In an overview covering the period between 7 October 2023 and 7 May 2025, WHO reported 686 health attacks in the Gaza Strip, affecting 122 health facilities – including 33 hospitals damaged – and 180 ambulances. According to WHO, 910 people have been killed in these attacks, and 1,380 injured.
• According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people – or about 90 per cent of the population – across the Gaza Strip have been displaced during the war. Many have been displaced repeatedly, some 10 times or more. Since the recent displacement orders were issued, more people have been forced to flee in search of safety.
• Between 7 October 2023 and 14 May 2025, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, as stated by OCHA, at least 52,928 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in Gaza and 119,846 have been injured.
• Nearly 300 UNRWA team members have been killed since 7 October 2023.

UNRWA - Situation Report 171 - 15 May, 2025

 The Sick Man Bites the Doctor

 on the execution of 15 unarmed Palestinian emergency responders

by the Israeli Defense Forces 

(March 24, 2025)

 

GLOBAL RIGHTS - Talking Peace 

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Welcome now,

to your lawless-new-world

(this one here already bought and sold)

where the well-fed financiers live forever

and the sick man bites the doctors as

they pass his bed on their endless way

to the ward of the weary-war-wounded.

 

“This is the law of the jungle.” [2:01] , i hear

 

for even the forcibly-displaced dogs

in this sad new-world

have buried their heads in shame,

 

these bone-bare-starving ones

feeding on the dead body

of Gaza and

the bloodcurdling symphony

of the bombs

 

that light up their wish

never ever to be born human

in such an inhuman world... (Contd.)

 

Palestinians are betrayed in world ruled by outlaws | Joe Gill

“In this opinion video, Joe Gill, journalist and editor at Middle East Eye, says it is increasingly difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity, he argues, have become the norm. World powers remain silent or issue weak statements, while the United States has fully aligned itself with Israel’s campaign of starvation and forced displacement against two million Palestinians.”

  Full Poem (& Links)

"According to the UN, the killed Palestinian medics were buried by Israeli troops in unmarked graves. The autopsy results of the 15 bodies analyzed indicate that they were shot in the upper part of the body, indicating intent to kill."  

Rafah Paramedic Massacre (Wikipedia) 

“Death” – A Rehearsal?

On an old message from Gaza

Now Spring 2025

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Motaz Azaiza writes

 

“you are all [fucking] useless

without shame watching us getting

killed one by one

 

will wait my turn to be killed by Israel

and believe me you are gonna do

nothing”

 

it is worth

repeating

over and over

 

over & over & over...

 

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Full Poem (& Links)

August 2024, Motaz Azaiza talks of  Genocide in Gaza  

since 1948, at Free Derry Corner & the Mural of Solidarity. 

 "I'm here as a messenger from my people to tell you that we need your support because you got your freedom.. I know even still you..struggle from occupation till now... but we need your help because what is happening to us it's now...its not compared to anything what's happening... it's a genocide."  {Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza - Video by Brendan Gilligan from Derry News)

 “Holocaust”?

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"This not-Jew Zionist in my clothes-closet

asks: what business is this of mine

to concern myself

 

with nakhba and ethnic-cleansing,

with the cruel crimes of empire

no longer “holocaust” nor “shoah”

(nor the desperate delusions of the dispossessed?)

 

what business is this of mine?..

with savagery and sadism and the laughing soldiers

(their sharp-tongued-metal filled with hatred and fierce fire)

with women’s underwear on their heads

and the child’s stuffed toy under the thief’s arm

and always always the fucking phone-camera

 

the one who laughs

with friends and family

at home or on holiday

beyond the blooded barbed wire..."

Full Poem (& Links) 

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”  (Isaiah 5:20)