My Dear Readers:
Israel's oldest daily now sanctioned by the Israeli government, Haaretz, March 24: 50,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed in Gaza: This Is How It Happened, Day by Day
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXX: "Gaza's are Humans?"
too much to ask YOU
to see Gazans as humans?
50, 000 deaths
silenced, forgotten, buried
under the weight of daily life
Haaretz, March 24: Announcement That Death Toll Surpassed 50,000 Didn't Faze Anyone, Not Even in Gaza
Even Gazans aren't preoccupied by the number of dead these days. They're busy with questions of day-to-day survival: Will Israeli attacks become as widespread as they were before the cease-fire? Will all of Gaza be reoccupied? And who will die today or tomorrow?
XVIII: "Rafah"
attacks on Rafah ...
will the sound of bombings
echo, echoing
in the ears of the World
thousands of miles away
LXXXIX: "smeared sun"
anything new
under Gaza's smeared sun?
smoky rubble
beyond smoky rubble, and yet
again smoky rubble
Haaretz, March 23: Eyal Zamir Is the Israeli Army's First Kahanist Chief of Staff
Zamir even told Israel's ministers that he's capable of bringing about the complete destruction of Hamas' rule in Gaza and its military capabilities – or, in other words, the "total victory" Netanyahu promised.
Haaretz, March 23: Israeli Government Approves Bureau for 'Voluntary Emigration' of Palestinians From Gaza
Defense Minister Katz said the bureau will act to facilitate 'safe and supervised passage' of Gazans to target countries. Ministers also approved the separation of 13 neighborhoods in West Bank settlements, granting them independent settlement status
LXXVI: "Gaza's safe zone"
mule-drawn wagons
wind past one mound of rubble
after another ...
across the bottom of my screen
scrolls the text: from here to nowhere
CXIII: "preparing for settlement in Gaza"
each bombed-out house:
an album with no photos
but with people
living, wounded and dead
pressed between its pages
Haaretz, March 23: A Country That Dehumanizes Millions in Gaza Will Do the Same to Its Own People
Even if it's too late for tens of thousands of Palestinians who were killed, it's still possible to change our ways. This time, not just for the hostages – but to end the slaughter of our neighbors
To conclude today's Special Feature post, I would like to share with you the following poem excerpt :
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times.
-- Bertolt Brecht (tr. John Willett), "Motto", written during his exile in Denmark in the late 1930s.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXI: "crowded shelter"
crowded shelter
layer within layer
of hushed silence
FYI: Haaretz, March 27: In One of the Gaza War's Most Horrifying Nights, the Israeli Army Killed Nearly 300 Women and Children
the IDF and the Shin Bet focused this time on civilian and political targets and less on the military wing of Hamas.
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