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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Very powerful! I especially like this description:

it is the insatiable hunger

for blood, for land, for power,

for supremacy that turns

human beings into living carcasses.

That's how I envision these greedy genocidaires--as the walking dead. They're death itself really.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Thanks, Cindy!

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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

Brava! It is monstrous that ANYONE cannot see that deliberate starvation of a civilian population is genocide.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

It’s criminal, unconscionable and unforgiveable that anyone with the power to stop this goes along with it!

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Hamish Easton Mackay Dawson's avatar

Your poem powerfully captures the cruelty and callousness Inflicted by a disgrace of an entity, which has lost its right to exist although such a right was always a dubious one.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Thanks, Hamish!

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Thanks, Diane.

This starvation and genocide is just unacceptable. I appreciate you bringing attention to it.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

For what it's worth!

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Frank Lambert's avatar

Dear Diane and others, I'm listening to Ralph Nader's guest on 'The Nader Hour' on kpfa.org. It'll be on the kpfa listing either tonight or early tomorrow morning. His guest speaks rapidly, is fact-filled about the suffering and Holocaust in Gaza by the despicable and fanatical Jews of Israel.

Go to kpfa.org and in the upper right hand corner click on Programs A-Z and scroll down to The Nader Hour and scroll to shows and click on today's broadcast, 8/18/2025.

The show substantiates EVERYTHING the great humanitarian, Diane Englehardt has written and speaks about concerning the extermination in various ways of the Palestinian people by the "chosen ones" that they are perpetual victims of Gentile "prejudice " throughout the ages.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Thanks for the tip, Frank!

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Frank Lambert's avatar

You're welcome, Diane! Oops! I meant "upper left hand corner" on the KPFA home page.

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Frank Lambert's avatar

I wrote a comment this morning but it wasn't posted as I have difficulty on Substack sometimes, so I'll just say I agree with the 9 comments posted so far, as I write, and Diane hit the visceral center of my abdominal section with her heartbreaking poem, which unfortunately, is so true.

Where is the "humanitarian bombing" of Tel Aviv and Israeli military bases to stop the Holocaust in Palestine from continuing for almost two years?

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EGE's avatar

Zionist Israel is a Satanic cult and Zionist Christians are Satanic cult members. And those who support them to this day are an absolute disgrace to humanity!

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tre peperoncini's avatar

so many forms of hungry, but is it more evil to inflict hungry or to watch the hunger starve?

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