A Land Without a People? A People Without a Land
…this abomination – [is now] – a test of our collective legal
and moral responsibility… (Francesca Albanese)
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Shit, Éretz Yisra’él, now
“your” Land is surely empty, emptied
of its humanity, empty, like despair itself,
dark and desolate, but
not for disease, nor death, nor dying
cleared and cleansed
this sad ceaseless song of these stubborn stones!
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Here is the Promised Land you purged,
its peoples and its prison-walls papered
with damnation and destruction
and
“What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all.”
(Francesca Albanese)
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i try read this timeless
testament of deceit
to my many lost children
in flight across lands
where none never knew
even their name
nor their beginning, nor now
– in this powerless silence,
their end.
My arms were small and weak
and could not embrace such intense
longing, such bitter disappointment
Francesca Albanese:
“Thousands detained without charge, held
in inhuman conditions, beaten, shackled, sexually abused,
denied medical care, starved, raped…”
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…as if an angel had come to visit.
Its voice both harsh
and melodious.
“Why do you curse your
own inhumanity
so deeply, so bitterly”
she wrestles in lament
to a household
littered with the dead bodies
and the broken dreams
of its illegitimate
children
its deadly dreams
as if freedom was only a curse
and liberation a mass grave to bury
our own humanity in…
Francesca Albanese (Rafah Crossing, Egypt):
“Quote: ‘Our brains can’t process it anymore’
said a Gaza resident.
“Quote, ‘The dead bodies, the explosions, it’s too much.
We’re like the walking dead. Aid is scarce, the constant buzz
of the drone is unbearable. You don’t understand.
It eats at my bones.’ End of quote.”
“You don’t understand…”
Still, it eats at all our bones, Mother.
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Here it will all stop, i tell these killer clowns.
We’ve had enough of your arcane archeology,
your bitter if dialectical theology,
your power and its puny propaganda,
this savage machine of “administrative mass murder”
(your own most murderous inclinations!).
Here now as witness,
all that remains is a requiem,
this deadly death-song for all
colonial empires, including, most
surely, your own…
Francesca Albanese:
“It’s a system, a system in which physical and psychological
suffering, as I said, is not incidental. It’s engineered.
So this is a tortuous environment by design…”
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All who came here, we were told,
were welcome, welcomed with the promise
of a different future, why not?
Like the eyes of a child
one ageless and wide-eyed
with wonder!
You too could have been welcomed
with warmth, with the
fire of friendship…
Arendt, Hannah:
“In Palestine both Jews and Arabs would enjoy equal rights
as members of a larger system that ensures the national interests
of each. And the question of who should rule over whom would
then have become meaningless.”
instead all around us
lies only the ruins and
the bare bones of your
barren ideology
a beaten bewildered humanity.
Even your own children have
closed their eyes sleeplessly
locked their murderous minds
securely – never now to waken.
Instead, it was written:
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
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Please pay attention
there was never
“a land without a people”.
Instead we are all
a people without a land
for
the fox has his shelter and
the birds
the freedom of the skies
but
“the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head”
and
Gustavo Petro Urrego:
“God’s Chosen People are all humanity…”
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Here is the Unwritten Book,
the one we ourselves must now write
with amputated arms, with our-own
war-weary and withered minds
the Book that few will ever read,
beneath the wreckage, beneath the
rubble and those sleeping there,
both alive and dead…
the unborn,
the never-now-to-be-born…
A Book even the blind could read
if only these fools that surround us
would “shut the fuck up”…
Francesca Albanese:
“Hence, I concluded, that genocide
has become the ultimate form of torture,
continuous, generational, collective
…this abomination – a test of our collective
legal and moral responsibility.”
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…if only this endless bloody rain
could wash away these thieves and thugs,
gangsters, hoodlums and real estate dealers
who we know by now
proudly declare themselves
to the stone-deaf, to the dead
and the dying
“We, The Chosen Ones”
AKA (Also Known As),
The Demons of Genocide & Atrocity.
séamas carraher
31 March – May 21
https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/
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IMAGE
Jewish National Fund calendar, 1933-34
Jewish National Fund, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Francesca Albanese Warns UN Human Rights Council: “What Is Lost in Palestine Will Be Lost to Us All”
UN Palestine Committee – April, 11, 2026
Reference 1 – Francesca Albanese Quotes are taken from:
Francesca Albanese Warns UN Human Rights Council: “What Is Lost in Palestine Will Be Lost to Us All”
“On 23 March 2026, addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Francesca Albanese said she stood before the Council with a deep sense of both injustice and resolve: “I have served this council with rigor and in good faith,” yet had faced “relentless personal threats, insults, and reprisals.” She said she remained committed “to bear witness, to speak the truth, and to reject complicity in this time of unremitting criminality,” as she presented her eighth report, which she described as documenting “the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.” Her statement focused on what she called Israel’s “widespread and systematic use of torture,” and on a broader “torturous environment” imposed on Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territory. Albanese argued that the testimonies and evidence documented in her report were “not just tragic stories of suffering” but “evidence of atrocity crimes,” concluding that “genocide has become the ultimate form of torture: continuous, generational, collective.” She urged states to act under international law, stressing that “Torture is absolutely prohibited in all circumstances, and so is genocide,” and warned that “disregard for international law will not stop in Palestine.” She ended with a stark appeal to the international community, saying: “What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all.”
Francesca Albanese Warns UN Human Rights Council: “What Is Lost in Palestine Will Be Lost to Us All”
UN Palestine Committee – April, 11, 2025
Francesca Albanese
“Today I present the findings of my eighth report, the fifth documenting the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. Its findings highlight a hallmark of this genocide, Israel’s widespread and systematic use of torture alongside the creation of a torturous environment against Palestinians.
“Between October 2023 and January 2026, Israeli forces arrested more than 18,500 Palestinians, including children, especially if they were doctors, journalists, or humanitarians.
Nearly 100 of them died in custody.
4,000 remain forcibly disappeared.
Thousands detained without charge,
held in inhuman conditions,
beaten, shackled, sexually abused, denied medical care, starved, raped.
Israel has effectively been given a license to torture Palestinians because most of your government, your ministers have allowed it.”
See Also:
“Genocide has become the ultimate form of torture for the Palestinians” Francesca Albanese
Apr 8, 2026 UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
“At a press conference (24 March 2026), during the launch of her latest report, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, frames her report around what she calls the connection between torture and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory. She argues that torture is not an isolated abuse but a deliberate system, saying it is “strategic, it is deliberate, and it is integral” to the destruction of Palestinian life and dignity. Drawing on testimonies and documented cases, she describes detention, forced disappearance, sexual violence, starvation, denial of medical care, and the lasting trauma carried by individuals, families, and communities. She says the evidence shows that what is happening is not simply mass detention, but “the normalization of the abuse within it.”
She then broadens the focus beyond prisons, arguing that the entire occupied territory has been turned into what she calls “a torturous environment” where “nowhere is safe.” In her words, suffering is not incidental, “it’s engineered,” with violence, displacement, surveillance, raids, and dehumanization forming part of a larger system. Albanese closes with one of the sharpest lines of the remarks: “Genocide has become the ultimate form of torture for the Palestinians,” and says the report is ultimately a test of whether the international system still has meaning when faced with atrocities that “can wait no longer.”
UN Palestine Committee – April 8, 2026
Reference – 2
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): an early Zionist, but by 1944 was predicting the savagery and homicidal nature of this particular “dysfunctional” State chosen by the ‘Revisionist’ Zionist faction:
“The Atlantic City Resolution goes even a step further than the Biltmore Program (1942), in which the Jewish minority had granted minority rights to the Arab majority. This time the Arabs were simply not mentioned in the resolution, which obviously leaves them the choice between voluntary emigration or second-class citizenship.”
(‘Zionism Reconsidered’ – 1944) – perhaps now beginning to be seen as the catalyst, or perhaps also, the first significant form, of a particular 21st century militant fascism – with all the horror, existing and proposed, on schedule and with a global opposition hardly coalescing..?
She continues:
“It is a deadly blow to those Jewish parties in Palestine itself that have tirelessly preached the necessity of an understanding between the Arab and the Jewish peoples.”
Shiraz Dossa:
“In 1943 Arendt had flatly described the Revisionists as “Jewish fascists,” and now in 1944 she condemned the Atlantic City Resolution because it would require a “fascist organization” to accomplish its purpose. In the following years, “Jewish terrorism” was indeed initiated in Palestine, and was “silently tolerated and secretly applauded” by the Zionist leaders. Terrorism in the Middle East was pioneered and launched by the Jews, not the Palestinians…”
He continues: “For a decade, Arendt was an impassioned, unruly Zionist involved in combating fascist anti-Semitism in Berlin in the early thirties, and in transporting Jewish children to Palestine, from Paris, in the late thirties. Following her arrival in New York in 1941, Arendt was intensely engaged in Zionist politics for nearly ten years. Throughout this period she was constantly critical of Zionist tactics and aims, yet she never disclaimed Zionism. Even in 1944, after she despaired at the escalating prestige of Revisionism within the Zionist movement, Arendt did not repudiate political Zionism. Until her death in 1975, Arendt remained a Zionist- albeit a tormented Zionist.”
He describes how:
“As ideologies go, political Zionism is surprisingly blunt and accessible: its essential thesis is that Jews can attain their highest human and spiritual possibilities only as members of a political community composed of Jews and accountable to no one but Jews; that only a national community of this kind will enable Jews to live as Jews, unburdened by fear, prejudice, and persecution
“Herzl’s Zionism had a vested interest in anti-Semitism insofar as anti-Semitism was a political asset. Fighting anti-Semitism was the last thing on his mind. On the contrary, Herzl wished to ride the tiger of anti-Semitism, to harness its force, to the political advantage of the Jews. Unwittingly, this Machiavellian strategy led Herzl to celebrate power and force as the grammar of political life. The value of Herzl’s insight was not lost on the Zionists, and it was to have fateful consequences for the Arabs of Palestine.
“Zionism as Herzl conceived it was singularly un-Jewish: there was nothing Jewish about his Jewish state, except the fact that its members would be nominally Jewish. Herzl had come to despise the Jewish masses because they were too Jewish. In his state there was no real place for traditional Jews, the kind of decent, humane, spiritual Jews victimized and persecuted by anti-Semites. The new state needed un-Jewish Jews with the mentality and the passions of tribal warriors, who would be more than a match for the Jew-hating tribes of Europe.
“That this was the true end of his Jewish state is the implicit and recurring theme in Arendt’s puissant criticism: Herzl’s vision was the bitter reaction of a humiliated European Jew to European anti-Semitism.
“…It was Herzl who fashioned the Zionist attitude towards the Muslim Orient and the Arabs. In one commanding sentence, Herzl distilled the Zionist aim in Palestine: ‘We should form there a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” Herzl’s was not a new sentiment even for a Zionist Jew. In 1862, Moses Hess had admonished his fellow Jews not only to “be the bearers of civilization to the primitive people of Asia,” but also to reclaim their “ancient fatherland” from the “wild Arabian hordes.”
In Summary:
“What the Zionists did was to solve their European problem on Oriental territory, at the expense of the Palestinian Arabs.
“To the Zionists, Palestine was a cultural darkness, an empty land, and the Palestinian Arabs were no more than “phantoms,” faceless silhouettes, the annoying relics of an archaic past. This attitude towards natives, immortalized in Joseph Conrad’s novel The Heart of Darkness, was standard fare in the European culture of that time…”
“ Ironically, the same European culture that disparaged Jews as Asiatic parasites, encouraged the Zionists to contemptuously dismiss the Palestinians as primitive barbarians”
(‘Lethal Fantasy: Hannah Arendt on Political Zionism’
Author: Shiraz Dossa, Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 1986), pp. 219-230
‘Der Zionismus aus heutiger Sicht’: ‘Zionism Reconsidered – 1944 – Online Text)
Discussion?
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss (Activist and Spokesman for Neturei Karta)
“Judaism is subsentric to God. that’s what it’s all about, it’s a religion of 3,000 years while Zionism is a mere 150 years’… it’s a transformation to nationalism to have a piece of land, it’s a…political movement, it’s a materialistic movement, it was started by Jews who were non-religious and they’re simply incorporating using the name Israel using the Star of David…and claiming that it’s God, it’s given to them by God…” [0:32 – 0:57]
Zionism is not the same as Judaism
REFERENCES (TEXT)
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Eretz Isreal – Éretz Yisra’él,
Biblical Land of the Settler-Colonial State of Israel
Evangelical Zionists variously claim that Israel has title to the land by divine right, or by a theological, historical and moral grounding of attachment to the land unique to Jews (Parkes, James)
Boundaries (Biblical) From the Book of Ezek. 47:13-20
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Francesca Albanese (Rafah Crossing, Egypt):
“Based on the available information, Francesca Albanese has not entered the Gaza Strip since 2023.
“According to her own statements on the ground in Egypt in April 2024, she was prevented from doing so by Israeli authorities. Instead of entering Gaza itself, her visit was limited to the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing.
“A report from April 2024 states: “She met with Palestinian refugees and observed their challenges, noting that Israeli authorities prevented her from visiting Palestinian territories” (Deepseek Search – 10 Web Pages)
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this machine of “administrative mass murder”
Quote (taken from) Hannah Arendt – ‘Organized Guilt and Universal Responsibility by Hannah Arendt”
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Arendt, Hannah
“In Palestine both Jews and Arabs would enjoy equal rights
as members of a larger system that ensures the national interests
of each. And the question of who should rule over whom would
then have become meaningless.”
(‘Between Silence and Speechlessness” from: “The Jewish Writings”)
She continues:
“Thus the social revolutionary Jewish national movement, which started half a century ago with ideals so lofty that it overlooked the particular realities of the Near East and the general wickedness of the world, has ended — as do most such movements—with the unequivocal support not only of national but of chauvinist claims—not against the foes of the Jewish people but against its possible friends and present neighbors.”
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
“Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.”
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“the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head”
Gustavo Petro Urrego: “God’s Chosen People are all humanity…”
The President of the Republic of Colombia, address to the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
Jehan Alfarra – September, 2025
Gaza – “Ceasefire” – Update – April, 2026
“The Trump administration’s Gaza ceasefire plan – as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 – is failing, according to a progress scorecard released today by five humanitarian organizations…
…six months on from the signing of the ceasefire plan, implementation of these core provisions is regrettably failing. In particular, Palestinians are continuing to suffer extreme deprivation, hunger, injury, and death due to the Israeli government’s continued attacks, movement restrictions, and aid obstructions.”
Humanitarian Scorecard: Six Months In, Gaza Ceasefire is Failing
Refugees International – April, 9, 2026
“During the month of April, at least 111 Palestinians, including at least 18 children and 7 women, were reportedly killed in Israeli military attacks in Gaza, amid continuing airstrikes, artillery and naval shelling, UAV attacks, and gunfire.”
OCHRA – Report 1, April – 30 April, 2026
“Between 7 October 2023 and 6 May 2026, according to the Ministry of Health, as reported by OCHA, 72,619 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and another 172,484 injured.”
UNRWA Situation Report 221 – May, 13, 2026
West Bank & East Jerusalem – Deaths and Injuries
Data for 13 May, 2026 – Since October 7, 2023
Total Killed 1,076
Total Children Killed 227
Total Injured 10,932
Total Children Injured 1,852
Total Settler Attacks 3,903
Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
HOPE – for the Future?
Francesca Albanese: “In the last years I’ve asked myself almost every day how can we emerge from this moral abyss that Palestine, after a century of colonial violence and dispossession, physical, sepulchralogical, epistemic, so painfully epitomizes today?
“How do we rebuild a world in which law restrains power for real rather than serving it?
“How do we stop the normalization of injustice?
“…Palestine today is a mirror, a test of whether international law is universal or selective, whether human rights are principles or destined to remain privileges for some. It forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about colonial legacies that persist about systems of domination that endure often under the language of security and order.
“Where there once were kings, queens, and priests crushing people’s self-determination, today there is a web of multinationals, military and extractive industries that exploit people and resources.
“This moment resonates deeply and it subjects a willingness not only to remember but to reckon and to take a stand. “
We need to build a NEW WORLD, not tomorrow, NOW!
Statement in Antwerp – April, 2026
Jason Hickel: “At one of the most frightening times in our history, with inequality at record extremes, demagogues rising and our planet’s climate beginning to wreak revenge on industrial civilisation, we are more in need of hope than ever. It is only by understanding why the world is the way it is – by examining root causes – that we will be able to arrive at real, effective solutions and imagine our way into the future. What is certain is that if we are going to solve the great problems of global poverty and inequality, of famine and environmental collapse, the world of tomorrow will have to look very different from the world of today.”
Jason Hickel – “The Divide” (2017)
“In my language
the word for loss is a wide-open cry,
a gaping endless possibility.”
‘DHAYAA’ a poem in ‘Water & Salt” (2017)
“Dhayaa’—The Arabic word for loss.”
NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE?
“…when you need to help children who are screaming for their parents… who have been killed.”
(A doctor – from Tyre, South Lebanon, on Al Jazeera News 13/05/26)
“He talks like a book,” one of the Negro comrades had said. And that was enough to condemn me forever as bourgeois.”
(Richard Wright from: Richard Crossman. “The God That Failed”)
Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity
in an age of Resurgent #Fascism
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