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Diana van Eyk's avatar

This moral injury will never go away, Diane. And we who are witnessing it now will never forget. Or forgive.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

There will be no forgiveness without penance, atonement, restitution and reparation.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Reparation -- oh ya! How about each country that supported Israel send the same amount they sent to it in funds and military equipment to the Palestinians as they rebuild. And Israel should pay $1million for each year they occupied Palestine I know -- pie in the sky, but it feels good to type these words.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

The US and Israel should split the bill!

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

I think other western nations should throw in some money too, since they've supported Israel.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

And it should come not out of taxpayers' pockets, but directly out of the pockets of those politicians who support and are funded by the Israeli lobby!

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Absolutely, Diane, and hopefully it would bankrupt them.

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Susan T's avatar

Penance, atonement and reparation will help make things better, but personally, I will never forgive what the IDF has done and continues to do. No matter what they do to try to atone for what they have done.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Fat chance of that!

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Ron Stockton's avatar

I cannot believe they are capable of atonement. On the basis, they should be forced to pay restitution, the countries that supported Zionism should pay restitution, all those committing and collaborating with crimes against humanity should require de-indoctrination and be banned from holding political or public sector office, and they should never be forgiven - they knew what they were doing.

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Clara Gibson's avatar

Israel can never be forgiven for what it has done in the last 2 years, or the last 80. Thé so called state has to be dismantled, dis armed, and never allowed to hold power or weapons again. They blew their right to exist up 80 years ago. Zionism has to be proscribed globally as the terrorist entity that it is and always has been.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Exactly, Clara! As a failed state, a rogue nation, a terrorist organization and a criminal enterprise, Israel does not deserve to exist!

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Brava!

So many of us shouldn't look at ourselves in the mirror... We won't like what we see: Hypocrites who allow a genocidal regime to starve innocent children and say nothing about it. It's time to look at those images and get ANGRY and take ACTION.

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Frank Lambert's avatar

Diane and all, the second link worked!

Anyway, another sad but noble expression in your poem, Diane.

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Frank Lambert's avatar

To Diane and Diana (and others), if I copied it correctly, it's a song about karmic retribution with Iranian missiles responding to the surprise bombing of Iran by the Devil's Chosen Ones and their paid off political prostitutes in Washington, D.C.

https://youtube/qZKAzeNvHbw?si=TgT4r2qzvh713NZg

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Frank Lambert's avatar

The song URL didn't work. ??? Maybe try

https://youtu.be/qZkAzeNvHbw?si=TgT4r2qzvh713NZg

If this doesn't work, then Youtube took it down.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Good one Frank!

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