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
Atlantic Council, Dec. 2025: All West Bank annexation proposals are illegal—and put core international principles at risk
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXVI: "military watch"
burning olive groves ...
the weight of thick gray and black
blanketing
over the West Bank families
under military watch
"Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
Jan. 25 2026: A West Bank Bus Trip Through 'the Best Documented Ethnic Cleansing in History'
"'What has been going on here in the West Bank is, to me, just like the Germans' actions in Poland between 1939 and 1943. The IDF can expel the residents – poor, weak shepherds – in one week, but the state has been doing it by proxy through an army of minors and criminals, some of them sheep thieves. There are no police,' says Amir Pansky of the group Looking the Occupation in the Eye. 'This is the best documented ethnic cleansing in history. We're recording everything in real time...
According to Ofran and Mizrachi, in the last three years we've been seeing "an annexation on steroids," which includes the expulsion of the local people, the building of hundreds of kilometers of roads and mammoth funding for settlements.
And Jan. 26 2026: Excess Soil From Tel Aviv Construction Sites Used to Expand West Bank Farms and Outposts
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCLXXIII: "Saharan desert warbler"
A Saharan desert warbler spotted in Haifa, only the second ever to be seen in Israel.
West Bank town fenced in ...
a rifle silhouette
against the boundless sky
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCLXXIV: "the Nakba"
The Nakba pictures in black and white; now this week in the color of smoky red.
fire's mouth takes in
the roof of the last farmhouse ...
settlers' roaring
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