An Opening Salvo

Five hundred days into a war to achieve death and destruction which at a glance looked like organised slaughter where most casualties were women and children, a carnage is justified by claims that even newborn babies must be terrorists, hence a beyond belief horror movie beamed nightly on television screens.

Murder Unlimited

A cast of extras has included home grown journalists, aid workers, nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, all targets for death by invaders loving their chance to kill, destroy, dress in women’s underwear and have the selfies sent home as military snap reminders of soldierly escapades marinated with bombast.

Genocide Conundrum

Then there’s the distraction question whether the destruction of home, hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, universities sewage and water plants coupled to the Lancet estimate of 100,000 deaths, was really a genocide, so a parade of silks tut-tut their judgment – this was plausible, a conclusion drowned by a lobby who knew this Indigenous people did not exist and if they did were unworthy and therefore entitled to eliminated.

Brave Western Governments

Concern has come from the mouths of western governments making claims about a world order of rights yet cowering before the mighty with a veto, drugged by the thought that nothing too critical should be said about a messianic force especially when the respectable west can send arms, approve the many thousand ton bombs and are helped by brave diplomats who abstained in UN resolutions aimed only at a pause in the slaughter.

Watching, Never Intervening

A world refusing to intervene makes noises about more aid coming to the starving, injured, dying, their wringing of hands, plus articles damning the US/Israel production ‘Slaughter Actually’ continues and even millions marching in the world’s cities have not dented the attitudes of enthusiasts for apartheid as the way to govern, and as protesters have protested in vain they may have to be added to the charges against those who allowed this carnage to continue.

Demystifying Hamas

October 7 2023 remains that day when allegedly unprovoked, imprisoned young men escaped to commit murderous revenge, actions condemned by media hooked on aspirin like prescriptions: Hamas terrorism explains everything except decades of death by leaders of terrorist gangs some of whom became Israeli Prime Ministers though in the interests of political cleanliness these stories should be forgotten, otherwise the official views that October 2023 is where history starts and ends will have to be debunked along with the historically false claim, Hamas is entirely blameworthy, even for questioning the view that a country can defend itself on stolen lands.

Antisemitism Varnish

To distract a gullible public from brutalities, politicians with their heads in “make us great euphoria” feed a media chorus ignorant, blind or indifferent though they have discovered the antisemitism varnish to conceal concern with genocide, so with the dexterity of gymnasts performing triple flips, Zionists prompt newsreaders to identify a prejudice as the primary site of every country’s cancer, therefore it is irresponsible to ask questions about externalities far away.

Trump Netanyahu Obscenity

The obscenity to outweigh a rising death toll, appears centre stage when a New York real estate operator accompanied by his war criminal accomplice grin their way through a news conference to announce an exciting development can be achieved by clearing a potential riviera strip of all the unworthies who thought this was their home, the two grinners imitating earlier crusaders who had also polished their savagery in the interests of civilisation.

Hostage Dilemma

Incredulity did not escape the families of hostages who hoped that committed conversations and skilled negotiation would lead to release from captivity, instead the theory that overwhelming force teaches everyone a lesson became the military wisdom to conceive bombing as liberation yet forgetting that escapees who ran out waving white flags were shot by rescuing comrades which gives a new meaning to friendly fire and even that seems incredible.

Amazing Resilience

Through debris tramp tens of thousands of Gazans to houses that no longer exist but to homes that can never be taken away, despite that real estate mogul’s proposal that ethnic cleansing is a developer’s dream, a promotion fuelled by the other man’s anger that the Naqba of 1948 was incomplete, though a phenomenon called international law is being outshone by a people pummelled, hungry and grieving yet marching for love of land, for belonging through resilience, their life enhancing, incredible poetry of resistance.

Truly Incredible and Unbelievable

High notes for the wonderful sometimes described as unbelievable are usually expressed in response to the finales of concerts, success in sports, to medical surgical milestones, at the sight of magnificent trees, at ducks floating effortlessly on a gentle stream, or are witnessed in the language of flowers at birthdays, weddings, graduations yet for months the Gazan body counts were diluted by the lies of military spokespersons who would never kill a civilian except when the targets could be labelled ‘militant’ though like a drug which has passed its use by date their denials became no longer credible, a ceasefire was holding, peace with justice stood a small chance of even being discussed which would really be incredible.