It takes over thirty hours !
to speak out all the names
of all the children in Gaza
that have been murdered
by rockets, bullets, bombs,
denial of medical care and
by the ultimate, starvation.
It takes another five days *
to speak out all the names
of all the civilians in Gaza
that have been murdered
by an 'army' that is called
the Israeli Defense Force
pretending to be humane.
What defense is there to
shoot at guiltless people
who come and collect a
bag of flour, what reason
is there to bomb a school
a hospital a church a tent.
And yet we have not even
mentioned what goes on in
the West Bank. The theft of
land, the theft of lives or of
the second-class citizenship
in a nation that named itself
Israel and copied apartheid
and learned not from its past.
Or perhaps Israel learned too
much from their past, ancient
and recent. Not to not repeat,
addicted to violence, lost in a
wrong(ed) self-image a nation
arisen out of a genocide that's
building a concentration camp
to execute their final genocide
thus losing their soul and God.
The olive branches are burning
set on fire by heartless settlers
reliving such era that should no
longer be tolerated on an earth
set on fire by a climate change
that too is man-made. Rescue,
of all innocent, is essential yet
all signs are that it'll not come
from fellow men but from God.
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Note *
In the city of Utrecht there are
distraught Dutch citizens who
out of pain and solidarity are
reading aloud all the names
of the fallen Palestinians in
Gaza to date. I share their
sadness as well as anger
as I share their shame of
governments not acting.
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