War...
- this Embrace of the Butcher –
...Comes Again
(and again…and again)
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.]
“… 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]
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.”
Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity
in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.
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