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.)

 

GLOBAL RIGHTS - TALKING PEACE - Palestine

 

...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)

 

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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)

For the

[now countless] 

Dead of Gaza

 

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"i thought my tears had all run dry.

i thought my weapons were now without fire.

i thought after so many dead and maimed

the killing might stop.

 

i went and dug a hole in the solitude

of an ailing spirit.

 

i went there and buried my head

in shame and grief and

the violence of my own colonised

heritage.

 

i went there to flee this age-old

murderous rage.

 

But the ghosts are never silent in this lost place..."

 

Full Poem (& Links) 

 

NOTE: 

Hiba Kamal Abu Nada (24 June 1991 – 20 October 2023) "...was a Palestinian poet, novelist, nutritionist, women's rights activist and Wikimedian." 

She was assassinated in her home in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli airstrike in the ongoing Gaza Genocide.   

Her last poem - posted on October 8:

 “Gaza’s night is dark

apart from the glow of rockets,

silent apart from the sound of the bombs,

terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer,

black apart from the light of the martyrs.

Good night, Gaza.”

 

Images from the Poet by 'Arabic Literature Everywhere'

 

 UNRWA UPDATE (Friday, March 28, 2025)

• Since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza on the night between 17 and 18 March, intense military activities and hostilities have continued, killing and injuring hundreds of people and further damaging and destroying what remains of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
• Over 180 children were reported killed on 18 March, marking “one of the largest single-day child death toll in the last year” according to UNICEF.
• On 19 March, two UN guesthouses were hit by an explosion in Deir al-Balah (Gaza middle areas), killing one UNOPS team member and injuring six more UN staff, some of whom sustained life-altering injuries.
• On 24 March, the UN Secretary-General “has taken the difficult decision to reduce the Organisation’s footprint in Gaza”. However, the UN is not leaving the Gaza Strip and "remains committed to continuing to provide aid that civilians depend on for their survival and protection.”
• Humanitarian aid and supplies have not entered the Gaza Strip since March 2, when the Israeli authorities imposed a siege. This siege has now lasted over three weeks, surpassing the duration of the total siege first imposed in October 2023 when the war started. As a result, critical humanitarian supplies, including food and medical aid, are rapidly depleting.
• In the West Bank, the Israeli Forces’ large-scale operation that started in Jenin camp and other areas in the north on 21 January 2025 is ongoing, making it by far the single longest Israeli Forces’ operation in the West Bank since the second intifada in the early 2000s and causing the largest population displacement since the 1967 war...