War – this Embrace of the Butcher – Comes Again (and again…and again)
“It takes money to kill bad guys.”
US Secretary of Endless War Hegseth
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Seems now Death
has come to squat
squinty-eyed and sadly-obese
straight from the tanning tables
of Teheran or Tabriz
and from the grim Graveyards
of Gaza
come to sit and squat
outside
our bedroom door.
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At night the wolves of madness
howl in its never-ending mind,
its mutilated-mindless mind
not nurtured but fattening on war,
on worry, on the weariness of fools
and gangsters
who boast that the Reich, the Rich
and their riots of rotten indulgence
will last forever.
Not so.
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These “Jewish supremacist vampires”, “European
Jewish supremacist colonizers”, these “rootless, soulless
ghouls” and “demonic parasite[s]”, these “sons of satan”
will never “bomb the future into existence”
i tell you, truly.
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But Death must still come,
summoned to sit and squat
outside your bedroom door
dressed in rags and promises
the ones that say
“I told you so”.
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Then daybreak pushes
Death’s wheelchair
over the bloody horizon
prepares its poison of “Precision-guided Missiles”
prepares its mindless machine, the blind algorithm
its “Kill-List” and “Double-Tap” that knocks on your door,
the one that targets the ambulances
the one that embrace the paramedics
to kiss the dying patients and their doctors
and, always, never forget, the
small children, those
“being shredded. Being
burned alive”.
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“Never Again?”
Not any longer.
Instead now Nunca Mas!
If only…
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Soon the newspapers will take over the kitchen
with talk of head trauma and amputations
with loose talk of loss of limbs (“resulting from blast force”)
of fractures and broken bones (“from blast waves or collapsing structures”)
shrapnel wounds and penetrating injuries (“from fragments of bombs or missiles”)
and so you can never listen
to the sound of the big B-2 Bombers
whistling their one sadistic song
of stupidity and slaughter
or the terrible savagery of Tomahawk & Terror
for the small schoolgirls of Minab or Khan Yunis
and day breaks and we wake
and it is Mother’s Day in Gaza
but only for the orphans
here where the screech of hatred hating
is just one more poisonous prayer we share,
toxic, terrible, tenacious and terminal.
i do not lie.
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i cannot breathe anymore
the pain of skin, and eye and smoke
surround me
like a curse without a cure for
those who have no protection
this pain that wakes all
the Dead
while we the living go
back to sleep.
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This is no longer another
”war to end all wars”
not “Epstein” “Fury” nor “Roar of the Lion” [2026]
not “Ascending Lion” [2025] nor “Summit of Fire” [also 2025]
not “Gideon’s Chariots” to conquer Gaza City [2025]
not “Iron Swords” [2023] nor “Grapes of Wrath” [1996]
not “Operation Accountability” [1993]
nor “Operation ‘Peace’ for Galilee” [1982]
not “Opera” [1981] nor “Litani” [1978] nor
the endless, malignant, murderous
“Operation Wrath of God (1972-79)
“Mowing the fucking Lawn!”
is all they will tell you…
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and here and now, it seems
the only “Operation” left?
“Operation No One left Alive”.
For so says “this Zionist Entity”
called “Mass Murder”
“one of the most sick pathological societies
in the world”
Genocide, you ask?
Genocide…
“Jewish supremacist Zionist criminality”
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“I don’t give a shit about your feelings.
I don’t give a shit about anybody’s feelings.
When people, humans, children are being shredded,
are being burned alive” (Susan Abulhawa)
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Once i believed we held
this Holy Land safe
in our hearts.
Once i believed there
was this space
in my head
with no hatred nor holocaust
nor horror.
Now nothing will ever be
the same again
“this entity should be wiped from the map”
“this Zionist Entity” called “Genocide”,
sister.
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“Do you rulers indeed speak justly? [1]
Do you judge people with equity? [2]
No, in your heart you devise injustice,
and your hands mete out violence on the earth.”
“Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions! [7]
Let them vanish like water that flows away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows
fall short. [8] [Psalm 58]
Let their arrows fall short!
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Will this ever end,
one day you will wonder?
Instead go ask
the shadows that will forever
follow your fearful footsteps
go ask this darkness that has
always haunted our hearts
and minds
just go ask
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we come
we go
that’s all i know
and the whole house still shivers
and the unborn children drop
their toys
and flee
towards
nothingness
for safety
go ask,
then go search for
your answer
go search…
leave your father and your mother,
your husband, your wife and children
just go!
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It seems now
Death must come,
come to lecture us
on the stupidity of fools
the greedy grasping of these
moneygrubbing salesmen,
these dealers in death and lies
and despair
as if we needed
another sick, obese
old man
to come here
collect this rent
that has been paid
all down
the years
with poverty
and pain and
and the poison of
our profound
inhumanity.
séamas carraher
March 19 – April 8
https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/
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گذشته در این است که در جنگهای گذشته رژیم صهیونیستی مهاجم بوده و فلسطینیها مدافع بودند، اما جنگ اخیر با تهاجم بیسابقه حماس به اراضی اشغالی آغاز شد و رژیم صهیونیستی در واکنش به این اقدام، حمله همهجانبه علیه غزه را آغاز کرد.
English: A man carrying the body of a Palestinian child killed during a shelling, October 2023
Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Quote (Header)
“It takes money to kill bad guys.”
quote by Secretary “For Endless” War Hegseth, from a press briefing on Al Jazeera Newshour – March 19, 2026
Alternative Quote
“The great political criminals must be exposed by all means, and especially by ridicule. For they are above all no great political criminals but the perpetrators of great political crimes, which is not at all the same.”
Bertolt Brecht, Notes to “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” (“Brecht Collected Plays: 6 [World Classics]” Also quoted by Hannah Arendt, in “Men in Dark Times”
Most of the inserted Quotes – in italics: are taken from interviews with the Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa as well as online records of her social media posts:
EG: ‘Jewish supremacist vampires’…” “sons of satan” from online records on her social media posts…
“rootless, soulless ghouls” – Referring to Israelis in a December 2025 X post
“demonic parasite[s]” – Referring to Israelis in a November 2025 X post
Other related Quotes from Susan Abulhawa:
“… we are supposed to, as Palestinians, we’re supposed to accept this barbaric violence. We’re supposed to accept people like *Tom Friedman publishing in the New York Times essays that call us actually… by insects, as spiders or wasps. I can’t remember exactly the words he used. We are supposed to accept this endless bloodshed of our children, this endless theft and…take it quietly. And when we speak, we have to speak respectfully.” [15:38 – 15:56]
Zohran Throws Palestinians Under The Bus After Zionist Hitjob (w/ Susan Abulhawa)
Interview on Bad Faith – March 19, 2026
*Tom Friedman:
“Hamas is a death cult. But the broader Palestinian national movement has for years tolerated, excused, or actively supported that death cult. That is a moral and political catastrophe of their own making.”
“The Day After Hamas” (October 17, 2023)
The New York Times – October 17, 2023
References (Text)
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”Jewish supremacist vampires”..” “rootless, soulless ghouls” (“Referring to Israelis in a December 2025 X post”)
“demonic parasite[s]“: (“Referring to Israelis in a November 2025 X post”)
Quotes used are from a list of direct quotes from Susan Abulhawa describing Israel, that some people, after the massacre of 72,000 mostly innocent beings – including 21,000 small children – consider “inflammatory”. How could they not be inflammatory when the Palestinian people’s world continues to drown in flames and fire?
Susan Abulhawa:
“For example, the sniper who shot my friend Jihan’s three-year-old daughter, Nur, shattering both her tiny legs while she was in her mother’s arms in Gaza, is a hateful, racist ghoul. I understand that’s one of the things I’ve been criticized for saying…” [8:20]
Response to Mamdani’s “antisemitism” accusation – March, 14, 2026
“bomb the future into existence”,
“Can you really bomb the future into existence?” Reoccurring clip of Al Jazeera question to US “Hawk” John Bolton, in March 2026
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and, always, never forget, the
small children, those
“being shredded. Being
burned alive”. Susan Abulhawa
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Nunca Más (not “Never Again”)
Report to “investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations of the “Dirty War” performed during the [Argentinian] military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process between 1976 and 1983”.
Nunca Mas (Never again) Report – Argentina, 1984
(not “Never Again”)
“My daughter wants to know why
instead of Never Again
which she took into her tender heart
as a sacred oath nestled
in the pages of her history books
and surveying the smoldering expanses of human apathy
why is it always again and again somewhere,
why must we live in the prison of the past
and gather at its altar for more bloodletting?”
‘Never Again’ from “Water & Salt”,
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Red Hen Press, 2017
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The B-2 Bomber
10 Cool Facts about the B-2
“Many people consider the B-2 an engineering marvel and one of the finest examples of American air superiority.”
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Named Israeli Military Operations
Operation Name Year(s) Location / Context
Operation Roar of the Lion 2026 Pre-emptive strikes against Iran (named by PM Netanyahu)
Operation Ascending Lion 2025 A 12-day campaign of strikes against Iran
Operation Summit of Fire 2025 A strike in Doha, Qatar, targeting Hamas leadership
Operation Gideon’s Chariots II 2025 A major operation to conquer Gaza City
Operation Iron Swords 2023 The official name for the war following the October 7 Hamas attack
Operation Grapes of Wrath 1996 A 16-day campaign in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah
Operation Accountability 1993 A week-long operation in Lebanon to attack Hezbollah positions
Operation Peace for Galilee 1982 The name for the First Lebanon War, a large-scale invasion of Lebanon
Operation Opera 1981 A surprise airstrike that destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak
Operation Litani 1978 The first large-scale Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Operation Entebbe 1976 A famous hostage-rescue mission at Entebbe Airport in Uganda
Operation Wrath of God 1972-1979 A covert operation to assassinate individuals involved in the Munich massacre
Operation Kadesh 1956 The Israeli armored thrust into the Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Crisis
Full list (?) see: Wikipedia – Israeli Assaults on Palestinians
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“one of the most sick pathological societies in the world”
Susan Abulhawa: “… I always thought that there could be a way that there could be reconciliation, that we could share the land. But I no longer feel that way because I think this is one of the most sick pathological societies in the world. And I know that sounds harsh for people to hear and maybe they will judge me for saying it, but this is a truth that I know…”
“… people have an internal moral compass that…is provoked by visual evidence of horror. That does not appear to be present in Israeli society at large. They have looked at the mangled bodies of our children, at starving children, and they wanted more and they thought it was funny and they put it to music and they danced to it. And then and then you see the statistics. You read the statistics. 90% of Jewish Israelis want to annihilate Gaza. 73% of American Jews are on board. Like I actually was surprised by that to be honest. Yeah. And you thought…it wouldn’t be that quite that high. I really didn’t.”
“ I will never forgive that. I’m never going to forgive it. I will never forget it.
But despite that, and this is what I said in my response, you know, I still make, I still try to make the distinction. But even if I didn’t, even if no Palestinians made the distinction between Jews and Zionists, nobody could fault us, not with these statistics, not with what’s happening, frankly. And that’s and I stand by that. It’s so okay. This is what’s so provocative.”
“Jewish supremacist Zionist criminality” [10:38]
Response to Zohran Mamdani – March 14, 2026
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(I absolutely reject the policing of my speech when you know when we’re being exterminated) “I don’t give a shit about your feelings.” Susan Abulhawa:
Rage is a Responsibility – Resistance is a Right
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“this entity should be wiped from the map” Susan Abulhawa:
“Israel is demonic. It is the sadism that they are exhibiting. Yeah. Should have no place among humanity. This entity should be wiped from the map. Now, people sort of decide and they interpret that: as I’m calling for the genocide of Jews. I mean, that’s bullshit. That’s…you know, that’s a very convenient interpretation as they always …they kind of project their own intentions onto us. But no, that’s not it. Israel should be wiped from the earth in the same way that Nazism was wiped away, in the same way that apartheid was wiped away. And you know, people who want to stay there and live as equals, live like other humans lived there, they’re welcome to do so.” [10:09-10:39]
Rage-Responsibility – Out Loud with Ahmed – September, 2025
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide – ADOPTED 09 December 1948 – BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
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“Do you rulers indeed speak justly? [1]
Do you judge people with equity? [2]
Psalm 58:1-11 NIV]
Thanks to Rudy Ratzsch for this quote
Holy Bible – Psalm 58 – New International Version
Finally: Hope for the future?
Rage Is a Responsibility, Resistance Is a Right –
in the face of Empire, Colonialism, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Abulhawa
Also
Susan Abulhawa
(“She went into Gaza not once but twice in 2024, in the middle of a fucking genocide, to bring supplies in and run writing workshops to teach a cohort of Palestinians how to tell their stories of survival.” Hate5six)
“I wish you well, Mr. Mandani. If you or Rama are readers of novels, especially historic fiction, I would love to send you a stack of my books
because literature, art, music, these are the most profound landscapes where humans can meet each other across geographic, generational, linguistic, racial, and cultural borders. And let me close this sincere message with the hope of glory to our martyrs and victory to every nation, every individual anywhere today fighting against the tyranny of the Epstein class.” [19:13 – 19:45]
And from her: Oxford Union FULL [i.e. uncensored) Speech on 28 November 2024
“…it is not because you are Jewish as you want everyone to believe, but because you are violent colonizers who think that your Jewishness …your Jewishness entitles you to the home my grandfather and his brothers built with their own hands on land that had been in our family for centuries. It is because Zionism is a blight onto Judaism. It is a break in humanity.
“You will not erase us no matter how many of us you kill and kill and kill all day every day. We are not the rocks that…wise men thought you could clear from the land. We are its very soil. We are her rivers and her trees and her stories. Because all of that was nurtured by our bodies and our lives over millennia of continuous uninterrupted habitation of that patch of earth between the Jordan and Mediterranean waters… from our Canaanite, our Hebrew, our Philistine, our Phoenician ancestors to every conqueror or pilgrim who came and went, who married or raped or loved or settled or enslaved or converted between religions or prayed in that land, leaving pieces of themselves in our bodies and our heritage. The fabled, tumultuous stories of the land are quite literally in our DNA.
“You cannot kill or propagandize that away. No matter what death technology you use or what Hollywood or corporate media arsenals you deploy, someday your impunity and your arrogance will end. Palestine will be free. She will be restored to her multi-religious, multiethnic, pluralistic glory…
“We will put an end to this Zionist American war machine of domination, expansion, extraction, pollution, and looting. And you will either leave or you will finally learn to live with others as equals. Thank you.”
Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity
in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.
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