A Land Without a People?

 

A People Without a Land

…this abomination – [is now] - a test of our collective legal and moral responsibility… (Francesca Albanese)

Global Rights - Human Rights 

1

Shit, Éretz Yisra’él, now

“your” Land is surely empty, emptied

of its humanity, empty, like despair itself,

dark and desolate, but

not for disease, nor death, nor dying

 

cleared and cleansed

this sad ceaseless song of these stubborn stones!

 

2

Here is the Promised Land you purged,

its peoples and its prison-walls papered

with damnation and destruction

and

“What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all.”

(Francesca Albanese)...Contd.

Francesca Albanese:

 “Hence, I concluded, that genocide

has become the ultimate form of torture,

continuous, generational, collective

…this abomination – a test of our collective

legal and moral responsibility.”

Francesca Albanese:

“Thousands detained without charge, held

in inhuman conditions, beaten, shackled, sexually abused,

denied medical care, starved, raped…”

Occupied West Bank & East Jerusalem – Deaths and Injuries

Data for 13 May, 2026 – Since October 7, 2023

Total Killed: 1,076

Total Children Killed: 227

Total Injured: 10,932

Total Children Injured: 1,852

Total Settler Attacks: 3,903

Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Gustavo Petro Urrego: 

 

“God’s Chosen People are all humanity…”

 

Full Poem, Links & Context  (English)

Una terra senza popolo? Un popolo senza terra  (Italian)

(Diritti Globali) 

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 Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity

in an age of Resurgent #Fascism

War...  

- this Embrace of the Butcher – 

...Comes Again 

(and again…and again)

 Global Rights - Human Rights 

 

  La guerra 

– questo abbraccio del macellaio – 

ritorna (e ancora… e ancora)

Diritti Globali [Italian] 

1

Seems now Death

has come to squat

squinty-eyed and sadly-obese

 

straight from the tanning tables

of Teheran or Tabriz

and from the grim Graveyards

of Gaza

 

come to sit and squat

outside

our bedroom door.

 

2

At night the wolves of madness

howl in its never-ending mind,

its mutilated-mindless mind

 

not nurtured but fattening on war,

on worry, on the weariness of fools

and gangsters

 

who boast that the Reich, the Rich

and their riots of rotten indulgence

will last forever.

Not so. [Contd.]

Most of the inserted Quotes – in italics: are taken from interviews with the Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa:

 “… we are supposed to, as Palestinians, we're supposed to accept this barbaric violence. We're supposed to accept people like Tom Friedman publishing in the New York Times essays that call us actually… by insects, as spiders or wasps. I can't remember exactly the words he used. We are supposed to accept this endless bloodshed of our children, this endless theft and…take it quietly. And when we speak, we have to speak respectfully.” [15:38 - 15:56]

Zohran Throws Palestinians Under The Bus After Zionist Hitjob (w/ Susan Abulhawa)

Interview on Bad Faith -March 19, 2026

Susan Abulhawa: “… I always thought that there could be a way that there could be reconciliation, that we could share the land. But I no longer feel that way because I think this is one of the most sick pathological societies in the world. And I know that sounds harsh for people to hear and maybe they will judge me for saying it, but this is a truth that I know…”

“… people have an internal moral compass that…is provoked by visual evidence of horror. That does not appear to be present in Israeli society at large. They have looked at the mangled bodies of our children, at starving children, and they wanted more and they thought it was funny and they put it to music and they danced to it. And then and then you see the statistics. You read the statistics. 90% of Jewish Israelis want to annihilate Gaza. 73% of American Jews are on board. Like I actually was surprised by that to be honest. Yeah. And you thought…it wouldn't be that quite that high. I really didn't.”

“ I will never forgive that. I'm never going to forgive it. I will never forget it.

But despite that, and this is what I said in my response, you know, I still make, I still try to make the distinction. But even if I didn't, even if no Palestinians made the distinction between Jews and Zionists, nobody could fault us, not with these statistics, not with what's happening, frankly. And that's and I stand by that. It's so okay. This is what's so provocative.”

Finally: Hope for the future?

Susan Abulhawa: (“She went into Gaza not once but twice in 2024, in the middle of a fucking genocide, to bring supplies in and run writing workshops to teach a cohort of Palestinians how to tell their stories of survival.” Hate5six)

“I wish you well, Mr. Mandani. If you or Rama are readers of novels, especially historic fiction, I would love to send you a stack of my books

because literature, art, music, these are the most profound landscapes where humans can meet each other across geographic, generational, linguistic, racial, and cultural borders. And let me close this sincere message with the hope of glory to our martyrs and victory to every nation, every individual anywhere today fighting against the tyranny of the Epstein class.” [19:13 - 19:45]

Hate5six - 14 March, 2026

And from her: Oxford Union FULL [i.e. uncensored) Speech on 28 November 2024

“…it is not because you are Jewish as you want everyone to believe, but because you are violent colonizers who think that your Jewishness …your Jewishness entitles you to the home my grandfather and his brothers built with their own hands on land that had been in our family for centuries. It is because Zionism is a blight onto Judaism. It is a break in humanity.

“You will not erase us no matter how many of us you kill and kill and kill all day every day. We are not the rocks that…wise men thought you could clear from the land. We are its very soil. We are her rivers and her trees and her stories. Because all of that was nurtured by our bodies and our lives over millennia of continuous uninterrupted habitation of that patch of earth between the Jordan and Mediterranean waters… from our Canaanite, our Hebrew, our Philistine, our Phoenician ancestors to every conqueror or pilgrim who came and went, who married or raped or loved or settled or enslaved or converted between religions or prayed in that land, leaving pieces of themselves in our bodies and our heritage. The fabled, tumultuous stories of the land are quite literally in our DNA.

“You cannot kill or propagandize that away. No matter what death technology you use or what Hollywood or corporate media arsenals you deploy, someday your impunity and your arrogance will end. Palestine will be free. She will be restored to her multi-religious, multiethnic, pluralistic glory…

“We will put an end to this Zionist American war machine of domination, expansion, extraction, pollution, and looting. And you will either leave or you will finally learn to live with others as equals. Thank you.”

Susan A - April 6, 2025

Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity

in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.

 For the Schoolgirls of Minab

Global Rights - Human Rights

1

Listen.

 

Someone is hiding-out

in this hole in my head.

 

They dug it real-deep

with difficult books about

the future of humankind

 

not the profound catastrophe

of warheads

and ballistic missiles

 

nor the grim profits

of

greedy businessmen

 

and now never to be forgotten

these countless small

schoolgirls

 

the schoolgirls of Minab

(aged only

6 – 12 years old)… [Contd.]

The Shajareh Tayyebeh School - 28, February, 2026 

 “The American and Zionist aggression against Minab Elementary School will never be erased from the historical memory of our nation.” 

Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian

‘The schoolgirls of Shirzaa, Southern Iran’ (2007) by, Paul Keller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Per le studentesse di Minab

Diritti Globali (Italian)

1
Ascolta.

Qualcuno si nasconde
in questo buco nella mia testa.

Hanno scavato a fondo
con libri difficili sul
futuro dell’umanità

non sulla profonda catastrofe
delle testate nucleari
e dei missili balistici

né sui cupi profitti
di
uomini d’affari avidi

e ora, per non essere mai dimenticate,
queste innumerevoli piccole
scolarette

le scolarette di Minab
(di soli
6-12 anni) [Continued] 

“Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran” 

 US President, Donald Trump

"His comments came as the investigative group Bellingcat said a newly released video appears to contradict Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for the attack. The three-second clip of a video circulated Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency shows a munition falling on a building. Trevor Ball of Bellingcat identified the munition as a Tomahawk cruise missile—which only the U.S. is known to possess in the war. Previous reports by the New York Times and Reuters also point to U.S. culpability for the deadly school strike.”

Drop Site News Daily – March 9, 2026

Trump's "Board of 'Peace'" (from Led By Donkeys)

Hope for the future?

 Make #Poetry a subversive activity in an age of Resurgent Fascism 

Arundhati Roy   

“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated lying…cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.” 

 (‘Iran is Not Gaza’: Acclaimed Writer Arundhati Roy - The Wire – March 9, 2026 )                  

 Aleida Guevara

Her message to the Resistance in Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine (Al Mayadeen)

The Conversation 

“International law matters precisely because departures from it can be identified, judged and condemned.

“The rubble of a girls’ school is not evidence that the law is meaningless; it is a stark reminder of why the law exists, and why insisting on compliance remains essential.”

The Conversation – March 2, 2026

UPDATE MARCH 29th, 2026 

‘Remember These Criminals’: Iran Names US Officers Who Ordered Tomahawk Attack At Minab School

“'Remember these two criminals. Leigh R. Tate, the commander, and Jeffrey E. York, the executive officer of the USS Spruance, who ordered the launch of *Tomahawk missiles three times, killing 168 innocent children at a school in #Minab,' reads Iran In India’s post".

 News 18 - 29 March, 2026

 *Each Tomahawk Missile, by the way, Costs $2 Million.

“Executive Orders”

Global Rights - Human Rights

1

Their war will soon come

like rain falls for all of us

weary and hungry to be

free from fear

 

a war as subtle and endless

as a deluge in

a murderous monsoon

 

from small greedy steps

giant armies plague and poison

our soft-sweet planet.

 

2

The names and numbers of our dead,

we see, are now likewise superfluous,

swiftly cut-down and soon erased

 

uncountable, too, as if we had brought

to birth

only an excess of bone and brains

 

and always the rotting guts spread

like fertiliser, faceless and serene

on the Empire's brutal battlefields.

 

3

i still cannot shut my eyes at night

at the terror of it,

the ruthless noise of its wretched

awakenings, its crudity, its lies

 

and the smell of hypocrisy

that should sicken even the sadistic

stomachs of these naked emperors and

their mass murder-machines.

 

Enough said...

 

4

…for now we live in a time where

even the pen has been beaten into a sword,

and this paper is now digitally transformed

into more proclamations of mass destruction

 

and see, one last deadly plague descend,

as this fool, he wields his dumb ‘sharpie”

and a whole world will soon collapse under

an army of Orders

 

cities under siege by bureaucrats

and bombs, by bullies and buffoons

with their armada of armed threats

and false promises

 

and always, and everywhere

the silenced cry of their exterminated victims...

 

5

Such power...in

the hands of hoodlums!

 

as if these masked and demented delinquents,

these well-armed, well-dressed and dangerous thugs,

these crooks, criminals and con-men

had not accomplished or stolen enough

 

on their monotonous and marauding march

across the inhuman yet still faceless face

of our own bloody History.  

[7, february – 4, march, 2026]

 Poem, Links & References

IRAN OR MINNEAPOLIS?

ANOTHER ICE MURDER

Finally: Hope for the future?

Alternative “Executive Order”

Zohran Mamdani announces anti-ICE executive order

“If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources. Let us create a new expectation of city hall where power is wielded to love, to embrace, and to protect. We will stand with the stranger today, tomorrow, and all the days that are still to come.”

#MakeAntiFascismGreatAgain