“To me, they [Palestinians] are like animals, they aren’t human.”
Eli Ben-Dahan, Israeli Politician, 2013
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They’re stripping all the truth to shreds. Don and Bibi’s gift shop’s Rent-a-Dissident will knock your conscience dead. If you purchase their postcards, they’ll know they got your head. If you buy four for a dollar, it’s a quarter deal for each; otherwise they’re free for those who plan to swim on Gaza beach. Soon when all the animal kids are dead, their cockroach parents turned to dust, the bellies of the starved burst wide, sit down and eat your lunch. You’ll be in excellent company with media all so fake, who waited till the deed was done to light the candles on their cake. Now they moan and groan about starvation, as if they really care, but as the Palestinians are being exterminated, they aren’t really there.
“This is only the beginning.”
– Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2025
A Palestinian Love Song to Americans
It doesn’t matter that the wars are coming
It doesn’t matter that the wars just came
It doesn’t matter that we had our warning
To you all wars are just the same
I thought you really loved me
I thought you really cared
I thought that when the bombs were falling
You’d shelter me when I was scared
But now I know that you’re a liar
I should have trusted my dear heart
You sided with your dirty killers
You walked beside them from the start
It doesn’t matter that the wars are coming
It doesn’t matter that the wars just came
It doesn’t matter that we had our warning
To you all wars are just the same
I guess we’ll have to go and die now
While you go on your merry way
We’ll travel on our final journey
But some day you will have to pay
So thanks for all the kisses that you threw me
I almost caught them on the fly
They seemed so gentle in the twilight
Until I heard them whisper die
It doesn’t matter that the wars are coming
It doesn’t matter that the wars just came
It doesn’t matter that we had our warning
To you all wars are just the same
“I do not admit that the dog [the Palestinians] in the manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time.”
– Winston Churchill, 1917, as the Balfour Declaration was being discussed
So much for “the drugged cockroaches in a bottle,” as former Israeli army Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Rafael Eitan, described Palestinians in 1983.
I guess we’ll have to go and die now
While you go on your merry way
We’ll travel on our final journey
But some day you will have to pay
Edward Curtin: Sociologist, researcher, poet, essayist, journalist, novelist….writer – beyond a cage of categories. His new book is AT THE LOST AND FOUND: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope (Clarity Press)
* ‘And the killing squads they’re restless, they need somewhere ( else ) to go…’
( * modernity -butchered, excerpt from no Child’s Ballad )
Psalms 94….
1 O Yahweh Elohim, to whom vengeance belongs; O Elohim, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 Yahweh, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O Yahweh, and afflict thine heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, Yahweh shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O Yahweh, and teach him out of thy law;
13 That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dugfor the wicked.
14 For Yahweh will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O Yahweh, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, those which frame mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But Yahweh is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, Yahweh our God shall cut them off.
Proverbs 24: 11&12….
If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12 If you say, “Behold, we knew it not;” doth not he that ponders the heart consider it? And he that keeps your soul, does not He know it? And shall not He render to every man according to his works?
In a Doctor Who episode, the Daleks create a “Reality Bomb” which will pulverize everything into non-existence. We in the West have our own “Reality Bomb.” It too pulverizes everything that can ever happen and reconstructs events, people, places and things into an entertainment. We watch a football game, an episode of “The Walking Dead” and a Genocide in Palestine – all with the same indifferent fervor. “I’m rooting for the Phillies!” someone will say. “I hope the zombies get Carol – she’s mean!” says another. “My money’s on the Israelis!” says a third. Nothing real is really real. We will watch a rerun of the Superbowl or an episode of “The Walking Dead” and wonder why no one thought to make a rerun of Genocide in Palestine.
And we have such nice schools and churches to teach apathy and stupidity. Yet, we say we are educated. We know this and that and yet we do not Feel. We recite bullshit all of our life as if it is real and valid. We quote everyone but our own feelings which are the same as every other human beings feelings. We bleed, we hurt. They lie and defecate from the same orifice. World economics, the systems maintained and policed by and benefitted by the few and hold power over the many do not want to upset their economics by putting a bold stop to the barbarian acts. “The barbarians in suits”…, William Blum stated it correctly.
Satan wears a suit, a uniform or religious garb to conceal his/her blood spattered skin, but the stench of copper seeps through.
Amen. Yahweh…Amen.