Netanayahu’s Amalek. A “love” poem for Israel

If we could but reach / out enormous arms like / wings that reach horizon’s / end and far farther beyond / all hurt and everywhere / embrace each single one / before the bare-naked bombs. A poem by Séamas Carraher

If we could but reach

out enormous arms like

wings that reach horizon’s

end and far farther beyond

all hurt and everywhere

 

embrace each single one

before the bare-naked bombs

before the stone-mad-missiles

before even the soul-less surgical sniper

 

if i could but hold back

all your wicked wrath with

bloody belief to break

its ice-sharp venom

 

if we all could be but another one

with or without tattoo or number

who with both arms wide could

endure each day’s desperate news

 

report then that here

where Autumn’s end

still will sing

no matter the hour

so sing now

 

like a soundless

choir composed

of all these dead

and silenced children

 

you

so coldly

murdered.

 

séamas carraher

30, october – 5 november, 2024

 

Image

Posted by Mosab Abu Toha, October 13, 2024

A new massacre this time against five children in Al-Shatie Camp while they were playing near a cafè.

MosabAbuToha-Twitter/X

 

Reference

Genocide as Colonial Erasure (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges – Oct. 29, 2024

 

Netanyahu … evoking biblical Amalek amid heavy civilian casualties in Gaza

Middle East Eye – October 29, 2024

 

South Africa reminds ICJ of Netanyahu’s Amalek rhetoric to invoke genocide against Palestinians

Andalou – January 2024

 

Amalek

“…is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy nation of the Israelites.” Wikipedia

 

SEVEN FINGERS

 

“Whenever she meets new people, she sinks

her small hands into the pockets of her jeans,

moves them

as if she’s counting

some coins. (She’s just lost seven

fingers in the war.) Then she

moves away,

back hunched,

tiny as a dwarf.”

 

Mosab Abu Toha – from “Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear”

 

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