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