After Gaza

After Gaza i can no longer kiss

my dead children goodnight

because they are still in-hiding

from monsters buried beneath

tons of rubble stored in

too-many-inhuman minds for millennia.

 

After Gaza my neighbours are armed

with flags and inventories of the ones

we must destroy.

 

After Gaza – not just America but

all these countless States of Disrepute

died

– of Darkness – and Fear – and Greed.

 

After Gaza no one has any right

to talk about themselves, their achievements

or the war crimes they call “Holocaust”

and “defending yourself”.

 

After Gaza

– “from the River to the Sea”

?

?

 

There is Nothing

after Gaza

 

…not where we sit

in our delusions of “ceasefire”

and “civilisation”.

 

This is where they will bury us.

 

They are planning to bury us.

 

After Gaza it is easy to see

we are no longer needed.

 

My heart used to cry for the Palestinian people

then they came for the rest of us.

 

Before my sleepy-speechless granddaughter

falls asleep, she asks us:

 

“where were you, when all the Jews and the

Palestinians

(Native Americans, Herero and Nama, Armenians…)

were massacred?”

Where were you, where were you?

 

Where are we now?

 

After Gaza – I have no answer.

 

i smile at her calm militant eyes

knowing

after Gaza – there is

no longer / not yet

an answer.

 

séamas carraher

https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/

winter solstice, 2025

 

Quick Notes – December, 2025

“Israel receives German military support in the largest ever defense export deal: Germany has approved an expansion of a defense agreement for Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defense system, Israel’s defense ministry announced on Wednesday. The expansion brings the value of the deal from $3.6 billion to $6.7 billion, making it the largest Israeli defense export deal ever, according to the ministry.”

Drop Site News (Daily) – 18, December, 2025

…This “follows a similar $3.5bn agreement signed between the two countries two years ago, making the two contracts Israel’s largest arms sale to date, worth over $6.6bn… Germany supplies about 30 percent of Israel’s imported weapons, second only to the United States, which accounts for almost 60 percent of its defence imports.” (Elis Gjevori)

Middle East eye – 18, December, 2025

 

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stored in too-many inhuman minds

for millennia

“82% of Israeli Jews support the ethnic cleansing of the entire population of Gaza and 47% support killing all civilians and cities captured by the Israeli military. 59% support doing the same to Palestinian citizens of Israel. 79% of Israeli Jews say they are not so troubled or not troubled at all by reports of famine and suffering among the population in Gaza. According to a survey conducted in July, the words Erase Gaza appeared more than 18,000 times in Hebrew language Facebook posts in 2024 alone, according to a new report on hate speech and incitement against Palestinians. The newest form of genocidal celebration in Israel, where social media and news channels routinely chortle over the suffering of Palestinians, is the sprouting of golden nooses on the lapels of members of the far right political party Otsma Yehudit, Israel’s version of the Ku Klux Clan, including one worn by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-gvir. Chris Hedges [7:33- 8:38]

 

“They are planning to bury us.”

“You need to study Gaza and history. If you live in the global north, you will get to peer out at the horror. But slowly this horror as the climate breaks down will migrate home turning us into Palestinians. Given our complicity in the genocide, it’s what we deserve. Empires, when they feel threatened, always embrace the instrument of genocide” Chris Hedges [10:46 – 11:07]

Rebranding genocide – Chris Hedges Channel – 20, December, 2025

 

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2023 – العربية: طفل فلسطيني مصاب يعُالج في قسم الطوارئ المكتظ في مستشفى الشفاء في مدينة غزة بعد الغارات الجوية الإسرائيلية يوم 11 أكتوبر

English: A wounded Palestinian infant being treated at the overcrowded emergency ward of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following an Israeli airstrike on October 11, 2023.

Date Taken on 11 October 2023, 18:04:24

Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

 

Happy Christmas, (Hanukkah, Eid al-Fitr, Vesak…Winter

Solstice…)

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