"Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
September 15, 2025: We Are 'Super Sparta': Netanyahu Says Israel Faces Isolation, Must Shift to Self-reliance
The prime minister said Israel faces growing diplomatic isolation due to Muslim immigration to Europe and foreign influence on social media, and called for self-sufficiency, major defense spending, and drastic deregulation, warning: 'Life is more important than the law'
Analysis, September 16, 2025: It Didn't End Well for Sparta, and It Won't for Israel Either
Facing growing boycotts and embargos, Netanyahu says Israel should become a militarized autarky. His vision is fated to fail
Polls show that negative views on Israel are widespread. Among 24 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center last spring, the median share of the population expressing anti-Israel feelings was 62 percent. In Japan, which has practically no Muslims, negative views on Israel were shared by 79 percent of the respondents. Across Europe (and the United States, too), negative views not only far, far exceed the Muslim share of the population, they have grown as the war in Gaza has grown more gruesome.
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXVII: "Netanyahu's 'Super Sparta' speech"
over the clicking
and clicking of cameras
the P/Crime Minister shouts
[Israeli] Life more important
than the [Human Rights] Law
And September 16, 2025: Experts Commissioned by UN Conclude Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
'The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,' said chair of the panel commissioned by the UN. 'It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention'
word after word
squeezed out of the PM's mouth
in broad daylight
this daily "banality"
of dying, of death in Gaza
(FYI: L4 alludes to Jewish philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt's ground-breaking book, , Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil)
It’s peaceful now
M-16 rifles are blooming, 2000-pound bombs singing, and Merkava tanks sweeping the streets.
Gaza is cleaner than ever, clean of blood-covered children. Yet, somewhere among the rubble the only moving thing is a boy’s eyes that look up to Heaven.
a mural
on the separation wall
of the West Bank:
in midair a girl grasps
a bunch of rainbow balloons
Contemporary Haibun Anthology 20
ruins after ruins ...
these layers of silence
upon silence
2025 Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology
To conclude today's "Special Feature" post, I would like to share with you the following remarks on this UNBEARABLE WESTERN MEDIA SILENCE on PALESTINIAN SUFFERING:
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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