powerful article by Craig Murray (long time friend and ally of Assange): 'The Israeli ambassador to the U.N. on Monday described the Hamas fighters as “animal like.” This of course is not true. They are people, but people who have been crazed by unbearable levels of injustice and oppression....' - https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/11/craig-murray-condemnation/
the scars reach into 2nd and 3rd generations. it's hideous. yet our instinct for survival and the power of improvisation are strong, like the incredible force of your orchid in the midst of the unfriendly urban environment.
Lucid, depressing seminar in recent Palestinian history by the excellent Professor Finkelstein.
An excellent job by Mr. Greg Pasta.
powerful article by Craig Murray (long time friend and ally of Assange): 'The Israeli ambassador to the U.N. on Monday described the Hamas fighters as “animal like.” This of course is not true. They are people, but people who have been crazed by unbearable levels of injustice and oppression....' - https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/11/craig-murray-condemnation/
"Say, Gaza"
by Linda Backiel
He is turned, slightly
, just a boy, in his own home.
Say, Gaza.
Someone took a photograph
in the ruin of what was
his life. Black and white. Sharp
shadows. Light falls on what is not
exercising its own right of return;
picture a bad dream. His city. A fringe
clinging to the sea. A window open. No,
broken. At first, you don’t see it. You
don’t want to. You say “rubble.” But
there is a bomb in the bed.
The bed is broken by the bomb,
much bigger than the bed.
Don’t worry, no blood. But
there is a boy in the room
with the bomb in the bed.
The bed, a broken V, sunk
across the middle. Sheets rumpled,
not from sleeping.
The boy wonders where
will he sleep? When
will it explode?
His home,
a fringe clinging to the sea.
Say, Gaza.
https://monthlyreview.org/2022/02/01/say-gaza/
very powerful, tq. there's only one way out: de-esacalation and peace talks.
I lived briefly with a couple who were Holocaust survivors, as their foster child.
They had permanent scars, emotional and other, but they managed to have their own child, a girl who was smarter than me.
Even indirectly, the shadow of such suffering emanates as a tangible presence of ill. Still.
the scars reach into 2nd and 3rd generations. it's hideous. yet our instinct for survival and the power of improvisation are strong, like the incredible force of your orchid in the midst of the unfriendly urban environment.