Another sad but touching poem, Diane. And, today, the Israelis stopped the humanitarian aid flotilla trying to supply the Palestinians with things to help them survive the extermination by the "chosen ones."
It's the least we can do to honor those lost under the rubble... We should remember their names and that they lived. (And that we in the West were responsible for this tragedy.)
Beautiful, Diane. We need to honour the humanity of people in Palestine in any way we can. The dehumanization and horrors they're going through is just sickening.
The poet's voice in service to humanity. "Touching" is but a fragment of the sentiment it elicits.
What is your position on borrowing it, with attribution, in other media? I can think of some where I'd like to give it as a rejoinder to hasbara smoke- and stink bombs gratuitously tossed by soulless Zionists.
It's about all I'm able to do, that and sticking it to the hasbara-ists with pithy facts, nice to see them go apoplectic. That and writing a terse, stinging letter to my state senator "don't so much as dare" vote to approve a supplemental state budget containing a $5 million line item for a Boston Holocaust Museum costing ~$100 million, effusive groundbreaking for which was last week, and the powers behind which mentioned NOTHING about Gaza on that day and have NO plans either in its exhibits or educational programs to mention anything about the 80+ genocides that have occurred worldwide since 1945, and yet they have the audacity to ask for public money to support their Zionist supremacist vanity project (one helluva sentence, huh?).
One commenter to the article in the Boston Globe - which did not contain A SINGLE mention of Gaza - wins the William Shakespeare prize for brevity being the soul of wit: "So Holocaust museums in the USA are what, a chain? Like Starbucks?"
Not to make fun of anyone who was gassed or shot, but these museums and even the former camps like the 13-15 square mile Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland are like adult Disneylands with guided tours.
A couple of weeks ago or so I was watching a video with Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté [if my memory is correct, you may wish to check Chris’ Substack page for recent entries] when a remark made by Dr. Maté prompted me to do an online search. One resulting hit was this https://press.uchicago.edu/sites/daysafter/911doniger.html, which I saved. You may wish to do a word search for “holocaust.” Apparently gallows humor is getting the scholastic treatment.
Another sad but touching poem, Diane. And, today, the Israelis stopped the humanitarian aid flotilla trying to supply the Palestinians with things to help them survive the extermination by the "chosen ones."
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Thanks, Diane! I just read it and posted a few comments.
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It's the least we can do to honor those lost under the rubble... We should remember their names and that they lived. (And that we in the West were responsible for this tragedy.)
Heart-wrenching and beautiful at the same time thank you so much for taking the time to write this - Bravo.
Thank you, Edwin!
Crushing. Thank you. #FreePalestine
Beautiful, Diane. We need to honour the humanity of people in Palestine in any way we can. The dehumanization and horrors they're going through is just sickening.
Thanks, Diana!
The poet's voice in service to humanity. "Touching" is but a fragment of the sentiment it elicits.
What is your position on borrowing it, with attribution, in other media? I can think of some where I'd like to give it as a rejoinder to hasbara smoke- and stink bombs gratuitously tossed by soulless Zionists.
Sure, go ahead and use my poem as long as you credit it to me and provide a link. And let me know what the response is.
But of course. Thanks. I respect it enough not to use it willy-nilly, but will let you know what the reactions are when I use it at choice occasions.
Great! And thanks fro the exposure!
It's about all I'm able to do, that and sticking it to the hasbara-ists with pithy facts, nice to see them go apoplectic. That and writing a terse, stinging letter to my state senator "don't so much as dare" vote to approve a supplemental state budget containing a $5 million line item for a Boston Holocaust Museum costing ~$100 million, effusive groundbreaking for which was last week, and the powers behind which mentioned NOTHING about Gaza on that day and have NO plans either in its exhibits or educational programs to mention anything about the 80+ genocides that have occurred worldwide since 1945, and yet they have the audacity to ask for public money to support their Zionist supremacist vanity project (one helluva sentence, huh?).
One commenter to the article in the Boston Globe - which did not contain A SINGLE mention of Gaza - wins the William Shakespeare prize for brevity being the soul of wit: "So Holocaust museums in the USA are what, a chain? Like Starbucks?"
Amen.
Not to make fun of anyone who was gassed or shot, but these museums and even the former camps like the 13-15 square mile Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland are like adult Disneylands with guided tours.
A couple of weeks ago or so I was watching a video with Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté [if my memory is correct, you may wish to check Chris’ Substack page for recent entries] when a remark made by Dr. Maté prompted me to do an online search. One resulting hit was this https://press.uchicago.edu/sites/daysafter/911doniger.html, which I saved. You may wish to do a word search for “holocaust.” Apparently gallows humor is getting the scholastic treatment.
That's about the size of it!
An absolutely beautiful sentiment!
Very gratifying, Lenny!
sad but true that many die without many having known or acknowledged that they had lived.