Gaza
Gaza
O Gaza you have been raped
plundered and ravaged
whilst a dormant world looks on in impotence.
Your mothers hugged their children
as they fell beneath piles of rubble
to decompose then disappear.
Babies in their final bid for life
lie in incubators amid the strife
only to die when the power is out.
Menfolk dig with their bare hands
amidst concrete and broken shards
to search for those they love and now mourn.
Homes gone in a sudden blast
homes once built to remain steadfast
are now the ruins of the past.
Churches and mosques hold their dead
interred as their souls bled
now in heaven their new home instead.
O Gaza they have scarred your identity
but never will they possess your dignity
for you are a noble and steadfast people
with resilience in perpetuity
John Marks
Fri 5th Jan 2024 22:56
You'd think that Israelis, of all people, would realise that the hate, murder and cruelty dished out to Palestinians since 1945 by the IDF and by the settler-fascists would only breed more and more hatred.
"The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians." https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08