Pearls and Irritations

I wake up and I check
The radio News I dread
I hear the authoritative voice
The Newsreader then Israeli government
Spokesman

Terrorists, the terrorists
Hiding under the Hospitals
Under the Kindergartens
Under the Schools
The colonial narrative
Always
Baying for more dead

No electricity, no water
No food, no shelter
What will happen
Hapless Gazans
I worry

Starvation dehydration trauma
Trauma for life
Trauma for the unborn
Flight desperation
The Will to Live

I look at photos, hospital photos
Wreckage, electric cables hanging
From missing ceilings
Dead people, Dead children
Faces full of unimaginable fear
Faces of children of women and men
On trolleys with missing wheels
With all wheels, blood on

Limbs hands bones sticking
Out of the rubble
Bits of clothing
Bits of wheels
Bits of utensils
Bits of rags
From under the rubble

I want and I wish
For the Genocide
To Stop! Stop! Stop!
Stop!
In name of Compassion
In name of Humanity
In the name of Basic Human Decency

The ordinary children
The ordinary women
The ordinary men
Innocent

Enough of revenge
Enough of killing
Enough of murder

I hear Biden, Netanyahu, Blinken
Fencesitter, Perpetrator, Apologist
All Respectively
All for this War
All war criminals

Eliminate Hamas
We are not Terrorists
We the civilised
We the technologically advanced
We the Enlightened
We the successful conquerors
We the ethnic cleansers

We have a long history
We cleansed North America
We cleansed Africa
We cleansed Australia
We, we, we cleansed the Planet
Wherever and whenever
From the uncivilised savages
From the Terrorists
It was Necessary

Now our task is to cleanse Gaza
It’s Necessary

How dare they protest
Being caged like
Animals in an open air prison

We give the work
Ungrateful savages
Complaining, ungracious
The wretched of the Earth

We have only beaten them
Caged them
Restricted their movement
Humiliated, Condescended
It was Necessary

Only killed around a hundred thousand
Not much
Since the First Nakba
It was Necessary

We only tried to break their Spirit
It was Necessary

How dare they stand up
Revolt against us
The Civilised
The Masters

And we will go on
Until we cleansed
You savages
Especially you now in Gaza

In Africa, Latin America
Asia and Everywhere
Everywhere…

For our Lebensraum
For we are One with God

John-Janusz Ebel , 23 November 2023

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