Labi Siffre - Into The Light

When "Precise" Means a Dead Child In Your Arms

On Tuesday, in the middle of Gaza, relatives clutching limp and bloodstained bodies of small boys and girls rushed from al-Maghazi refugee camp to al-Aqsa Martyrs' hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah.
Medics at the hospital said that at least 12 people were killed and some 30 injured by shelling in al-Maghazi.
"They were playing in the street. Why were they struck? They weren't in any position close to Israeli forces," one man told the BBC. Another added: "They were just playing. They were in the market with people coming and going normally."
Israel's military has not commented on what happened there, but this week in Gaza the central refugee camps have been its main focus. It said it was "eliminating terrorists and destroying terrorist infrastructure" such as attack tunnels and military compounds used by armed Hamas fighters in "precise" action. Shooting fish in a barrel. These fish are children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68854896

Horrific Tragedy Crime Farce

The laughing stock of the animal kingdom continues not to surprise.
Stupid yes and tiresome; predictable like seconds following minutes following centuries.
Lemmings don't do what humans malign them for doing but humans do what they accuse lemmings of.
A pile of dead bodies, Buchenwald, Dachau, in photos by the artist war photojournalist Lee Millar. She saw and shows us the horror in beauty, the beauty in horror.
Now piles of dead Palestinian children don't count, deserve to be ignored. The only good Red Indian a dead Red Indian, the only good Aborigine a dead Aborigine.
No photos of these kids piled high, dead with our breakfast journals, though this is a serial and it's on our phones. Nothing barbaric in their being killed, these kids. "The deserving dead deserving their deaths" their designated epitaph.
Unworthy, our media tell us, of being mourned. Unworthy even of being acknowledged. We boast, "We're better than this". How can we be better than what we do?
There you go again, hinting at Collective Responsibility; anathema you fool! It's nothing to do with you and nothing to do with us.
And when they're gone their lands will make money for the righteous and the natural gas off their coast will make even more and who will make the dough out of clearing the rubble and building anew? The bids already in, "Nothing personal" it's just a game we play as days follow nights, nights follow days following months and years and centuries of heroes in histories we write to our glory. But wait!
The Pope has something to say!
Platitudinus Vaticanus.
So that's ok then. We're as we thought we are, compassionate, righteous, holy; born sinners but so, so, so, so, so good with it.

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Your Turn

And 10,000 dead Palestinian children later, the mealy mouthed still lack the courage to see the evil we are complicit in and will never have the guts to admit to that crime.
"Why don't you condemn Hamas"?
I condemn The State of Israel killers of 10,000+ Palestinian children first and then I condemn the Hamas killers of 36 children on the 7th October 2023.
Your turn.

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Eradication Is The Goal

As with Black people, in the West's mainstream media and much of social media, Palestinians are denied a history.
For the West's mainstream media and much of social media Palestinian history began and ended on the 7th of October 2023.
That for years Israel under Netanyahu organised the funding of Hamas so as to subvert the PLO and the Palestinian Authority (thus elevating Hamas to be as it was on the 7th of October 2023) is not mentioned.
The 75 years of the Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians is not mentioned.
The 57 years of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is not mentioned and now, what little physical and cultural infrastructure the Palestinians had has been and continues to be systematically and purposefully reduced to rubble. The erasure of Palestinian identity is the goal. The murder of 10,000+ Palestinian children, rarely mentioned, is part of that goal.

Playing The Victim Card : Israel Palestine Hamas Gaza Netanyahu

So those with Tanks are the victims of those who have no tanks.
Those with Helicopter Gunships are the victims of those who have only Para-gliders.
Those with F16 fighter bombers dropping 2000 pound, ground liquifying bombs and White Phosphorous are the victims of those who have, again, only Para-gliders.
Those with missiles are the victims of those with rockets.
Those with WMDs, including Nuclear weapons, are the victims of those who are in comparison a mouse being played with by a cat with all the time in the world to kill.
"WE Control The Height of the Flames” boasts Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel).
Benjamin Netanyahu and The State of Israel financed (so armed & helped tunnel) Hamas via Qatar (just Google it).
Like shooting babies in a barrel: 36 Israeli children killed by Hamas on October 7th 2023. 10,000 Gaza children killed (so far) in response by the righteous, the good guys, the State of Israel.
We're expected to believe Hamas committed the greater evil of those two evil acts.
Anti-zionism is not Antisemitism.
The State of Israel is not "The Jews".
The State of Israel is currently a terrorist state.

So now, a greater evil is condoned, facilitated and applauded over a lesser evil. In this, The Age of Stupid, we now choose, profess and uphold that philosophy (smeared with excrement, deserving only to be spat on) as righteous. After decades of abuse, she punches you in the mouth, drawing blood. In response you assemble your brothers and cousins, and that night kill her entire family (including children, toddlers and babies in their cribs/cots). The authorities repeatedly declare the slaughter as "justified". The Age of Stupid has become The Age of Insanity.

[Israel/Palestine/Gaza/USA/UK/Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide]

A Protocol To Remind You Of Something Very Bad

That this was ever a published protocol describes a government to be ashamed of.

Israeli U-turn over West Bank romance declarations

 

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Focus

The narrower my view
The easier I can say
"This has nothing to do with ..." (whatever I choose)
Cos whatever I choose cannot be seen
From where I stand
If I narrow my view
So I narrow my view

I narrow my view cos
Parochialism pays dividends
(For me)
I declare things are simple, straightforward
With my narrow view, awkward complexity is banished,
Vanished, irrelevant, not true
So I narrow my view
But

Often wonderfully, too often tragically,
Anything human is complexity
Upon complexity, upon paradox on toast
Shadows have shadows
Ghosts have ghosts
So I narrow my view
Being careful not to tilt
So leave complexity to the few willing
To handle, at least a little, collective guilt

Another man of the people
I feel safer in and with the crowd
Fifty millennia proud and strong; I narrow my view,
Empirically it compounds the problems
But it makes me feel it’s easier to get on

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God Is The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel

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ONLY GOD DESERVES HELL

Barack Obama / David Cameron / EU / Palestine / Israel / Illegal settlements / Gaza / Politics

What are the oppressed to do

When “The Good Guys”

Side with the oppressors?

What would I do?

What would you do?

What would we do?

What will they do?

What are they doing?

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From One Who Only Watches

Cleverly with illegal
Settlement building
Israel ethnically
Cleanses Palestine

We here watch
With less
Excuse
Than World War Two
Dachau Town residents

With our cynical joke
Calling for restraint
On both sides

We stink of death
Calling ourselves
The International Community
Of good guys

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Ariel Sharon : More Ethnic Cleansing by Stealth

Back to the Road Map ?

The Roadmap for Peace (the basis for a two state solution to the Isreali / Palestinian conflict) states that:

Palestinian "incitement must cease immediately and the Palestinian Authority will engage in genuine prevention of terror and violence".

                          but

the Israeli Cabinet Statement on the Road Map - (may  25th '03) states that:

"As in the other mutual frameworks, the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians".

In other words, you must stop hitting me, but I can keep on hitting you. Clearly the reaction of an Israeli administration enthusiastic for an even-handed & peaceful resolution to the conflict.

Please note: "... the other mutual frameworks ..." and ask yourself, how long has that arrangement been going on?

^{(Previously posted 05/13/2004)}

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For The Record

^{(28 Jan 2006)}

In the middle east for years there’s been
From israel and the USA no “Peace
Process”
Instead there’s been a "Palestinians
Must capitulate
Process"
Sharon and Bush being never allied
To peace but tied to nullification
Through the emasculation
Of the stateless
Palestinian
Nation
By means of “the occupation” - by increasing West Bank
Illegal settlement building operations - by an internationally
Condemned illegal "Berlin Wall" - by installing
Palestinian Bantustans - by ignoring UN resolution
242 - by keeping Palestinians short of water and
Cash
The intention is to render Palestinian parents
Sons and daughters impotent of action
Barren of hope, irrelevant
Helpless - bound with
Israeli rope
Consider
Against fighter planes and missiles fired at market stalls
And civilians old and young- against tanks and bull
Dozers demolishing palestinian homes - against
An occupation by a nation that rejects “the
Roadmap” and insists they have the right to
Violence - and to incite violence - but
Insists Palestinians do not have
Those rights *
Against all this perhaps
The Palestinians have
At least the right
To fight

* "As in the other mutual frameworks, the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians". . . para 1 of the Israeli Cabinet Statement on the Road Map - (may 25th '03) . . . from  "Back To The Roadmap"  (posted May 13th 2004)

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A Self Full Killing Joke

Brothers in Islam, Khomeini et Saddam
Led you laughing to the promised land
(Two revered conductors
Of “The-Blinded-Amputee-Baby Band”)

A top forty hit your war with Iraq
A glorious victory on both sides
All who died were glorified martyrs
(Religious interpretation being conveniently wide)

And is it true when they say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Has a diamond eye and a sapphire ring
And passes perfumed wind?

Get real, the holocaust happened   
Your denial paints you cowards and fools;
Six million, babies women men all Jews
Murdered by race hate that shackles
Your people their people my people all people
To the same stupid tit for tat rules

Move Israel to Austria or Germany?
(Or Poland?) let them do the time ‘cause
They did the crime? a rewrite of Nero and Rome
Ahmadinejad does standup - while on The West Bank
They have rubble for their home

Do you really want your kids and theirs
And theirs to be forever taking turns
In the history café as kebabs
From Clifford’s Tower in 1190's York
To 1943 at Sobibor - nine hundred years
No wonder Israel vowed, “no more!”

But that’s no excuse for Israeli crimes in Palestine
The theft of land, the theft of lives; the theft of truth
Though is hard to criticize when Ahmadinejad blatantly
Lies
‘Stead of calling again and again for Arab oil to be used
As the weapon
Again and again for resolution 242 reminding the world
That a thief is required to return all not just part
Of his or her ill gotten haul; and the children cry
“Save us all” - “Save us all” - “Save us all”

sources:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Clifford’s Tower
Resolution 242
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