A Ceasefire Fell – like an Angel Shot from the Sky
“…It is a historic day today where for the first time after almost 6 months the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire…:”
Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations March 25, 2024
“It is the hope of the E10 that the resolution adopted today will be implemented in good faith by all parties and will help ease the suffering of the population in Gaza… humanitarian aid must flow immediately …
Mozambique & Others on Security Council’s Adoption of Gaza Ceasefire Resolution | United Nations – March 25, 2024
Mere minutes after the UN Security Council voted 14 to 1
(a solitary America raising the Flag of Abstention like
a marker over a mass-grave),
voted unanimously for the much needed – if temporary –
ceasefire to the savage slaughter of the Palestinian people
in the grim ghetto of Gaza
the sun broke through a catastrophe of clouds and
showered all the fearful faces with nameless blessings.
Even the dead tried stir from their restless sleep
to spread the news.
The children unpacked their tormented toys buried now
for over five months in rubble and broken body parts, in
desperation and debris
and even Hunger itself seemed
to denounce this meaningless and murderous fast
…when Algeria and Guyana, when Mozambique and Sierra Leone,
finally decided to say
No! Basta! Enough! Nunca Mas! No more! Never Again!
to this savage slaughter of helpless beings…
“…Israel has to abide by its obligation and the Charter and it has to immediately stop the fighting… this is what the Resolution called… immediate ceasefire… any member can interpret as they wish but the law is the law… the language of the Resolution is crystal clear… an immediate ceasefire… therefore an immediate ceasefire has to be put in place …”
(Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour,
Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations,
among the members of the Arab Group
speaking to the waiting world).
Even melancholy music could be heard from the troubled hearts
of those in search of refuge and shelter, in search of safety and
sanctuary, those in tent, and basement, in prison cell and
in the mortuaries and killing fields and the corridors of Al Shifa hospital.
Poetry itself decided to learn how to dance and
all the professors threw their philosophy books
in a fire lit to cook this soup of grass and hope and hunger
(made up with words like truth and lies, with words like guided munitions, bunker busters, collateral damage, kill-zone, words with the weight of megatons and the 25,000 tons of bombs of explosives dropped so no stone would ever stand on stone again, words like destruction, atrocity, detention, torture, disappearance, words deadly and armed with all the acts of genocide, with the rhetoric of death, and this politician’s recipe for humanity, annihilate annihilate… annihilate them all…)
An hour or two after Ecuador, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea,
Slovenia, and Switzerland said Stop the Slaughter! Ceasefire Now!
…an hour or so later the abandoned birds began to sing.
The bone-bare and starving dogs took up the hunt for scraps of food.
The marchers and the protesters in every land, in every city, in every country
and continent, even in Israeli and German and Russian prisons
all stopped to catch breath
in the short hours after
“…it’s a binding language which is based on Article 25 of the Charter as such it is a mandatory resolution that has to be carried out…”
So all the clocks could plant a smile on their busy faces.
The few buildings left standing heaved a sigh of relief.
Only the smug Israeli soldiers cursed their missed opportunities
to dance with death in the far distance of their foolproof sights,
their F16s and Apache helicopters.
The weapons dealers buried their greedy head in hands
and the generals and the ministers locked their doors and their windows to pound the unforgiving walls…
“…If you’re talking about Chapter 7… when we use Chapter 7… it is for enforceable measures if a country violates international law in a manner that threatens international peace and security… you can use force or impose…sanctions…this is what Chapter 7 is…”
Only the president turned a deaf ear
and the mindless Ministers for Defense and Offense
turned a deaf ear.
The well-fed and bloody-bearded Knesset members
turned a deaf ear
turned their angry faces to the wall
turned the sound down on the television
blindfolded their wives, their dogs and their children
threw the radios out the door into the well swept streets
turned their dictionaries upsidedown and ordered
additional words for ethnic cleansing, occupation, theft,
murder and genocide
in whatever language it is easiest to lie…
But then,
about one hour after,
two hours later,
or even less…
after the UN Security Council rose in applause,
after 148 other useless and ridiculed Resolutions
after five and a half months of slaughter, of murder, of massacre
against 100, 000 thousand, a million, two million innocent Palestinians
after the world finally said “enough is enough”,
Basta! Nunca Mas! Ceasefire Now! No more! Not in Our Name!
…and even though 100,000 of the dead, the disappeared, the wounded
could no longer hear the news…
All the women and the children,
all the assassinated doctors and the nurses
thousands upon thousand of naked and beaten prisoners
all raised their voice in one-enormous-speechless
holding their breath
for…
…the silenced sirens sounded again
the American and Israeli warplanes flew overhead again
the drones and their vicious cargo whistled overhead…
then the children buried their heads and their toys
their already lost-pets and parents and loved-ones in the dark places
where the bombs now fall on Rafah, on a house, a refuge, a sanctuary in Rafah,
fell on the first seventeen dead in Rafah…
And Israel’s foreign minister says the military will not stop fighting.
“THE ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER IN JUST THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES SAYING THE STATE OF ISRAEL WILL NOT STOP THE FIGHT. WE WILL DESTROY HAMAS AND CONTINUE TO FIGHT UNTIL THE LAST OF THE HOSTAGES RETURN HOME”.
So the people will go on dying, starving, hurting, being wounded, buried in rubble, dismembered, shot, broken, butchered, tormented and terrorised
…lied to and lied about…
and now
…“the violations continue with constant ongoing artillery shelling as well as attacks in the northern part that has been largely struggling with famine within the past weeks and on a daily basis ongoing attacks on hospitals and other public facilities…”
And Benny Gantz, who should be America’s next president, says the UN Security Council resolution
“will have no operational impact on how Israel conducts this war…”
And one single witness says
“Oh Allah, help and protect the people of Palestine.”
But know now:
that history itself
holds its breath
in an enormous immeasurable
waiting
at this deadly door to a future
for those
condemned to the decline and fall of empires,
to the ruthless murderous conspiracy of a handful of madmen
in their bullet-proof war cabinets, their locked-and-bolted bunkers
with their body-guards and American and European spokespersons
and war criminals
without a heart or a mind
or even a moment of kindness
or a kind word left
in amid their litany of lies.
So write now
their epitaph:
Your dark and destructive epitaph, Zionist,
the epitaph of a pariah and its powerful friends:
know that this Homicidal State
with its brain all twisted in
knots of fear and rage
will forever be a warning to
the children that survive
the children of tomorrow
all the children of future generations.
Let. All. These. Beings. Now. Beware.
And let Allah and the God of the Christian and the Jews
“Help and protect the People of Palestine”.
séamas carraher
25 march – 2 april, 2024
Image
From Israeli military bombs house in Rafah, killing at least 17
Al Jazeera – 26 March, 2024 (“Fair-Use”)
NOTES
The Elected 10 Group in the UN: Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland…
“The United Nations’ (UN) charter endows its Security Council (UNSC) with primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. Yet, there are contradictions in its institutional setup. The two-tiered system of membership, with five permanent (P5), veto-wielding member states and 10 non-permanent members (the elected ten or E10) that have no right to the veto, renders the UN institutionally unequal.”
Africa & UNSC Elected 10 – July 2023
Speech: Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, among the members of the Arab Group speaking to the waiting world.
United Nations – March 25, 2024
in the mortuaries and killing fields and the corridors of Al Shifa hospital
Israeli “Kill Zones”
Chapter 7
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-7
The weapons dealers buried their greedy head in hands
How big is Israel’s military?
Who’s arming Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
And Israel’s foreign minister says the military will not stop fighting.
Benny Gantz… says the UN Security Council resolution
“will have no operational impact on how Israel conducts this war…”
@asimbirajdar1190 posted on twitter/X, on 26 March 2024
“Oh Allah, help and protect the people of Palestine”.
Other Links
No let-up in Gaza war despite UN ceasefire resolution • FRANCE 24 English
France 24 English – 26 March, 2024
Big UNSC Blow To Israel: USA Ignores Netanyahu’s Threat To Let Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Be Passed
Hindustani Times – March 25, 2024
War on Gaza: UN special rapporteur accuses Israel of acts of ‘genocide’
“History teaches us that genocide is a process not a single act. It starts with the dehumanisation of a group and the denial of that group’s humanity and ends with the destruction of the group, in all or in part…”
Francesca Albanese says “Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention Including: Killing members of a specific group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole and in part.”
She also found that genocidal acts were approved and given effect after statements of genocidal intent by senior Israeli military and government officials.
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