By Alpha Beta and Nathan Human
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One year after the Israeli mass murder of Gazan civilians… and 60 years after the colonial takeover of palestine the tragedy continues unabated, only deterred by the brief cessations of blood thirsty greediness caused by obligatory pressures from the sold out global left whose role is to sound good enough to keep real change at bay, and yet abrasive enough to sell alot of books and bandaids... 

In the com-promised land, december 27th 2008 is a date that is etched very deep in the minds of the Palestinian orphans, widows and disabled men caused by a savage murderous military assault on the most densely populated (and contained) area on earth (1.500.000 people). In the west it is remembered as the day when that shit you just bought 2 days before christmas goes on sale for 50% off. Indeed it is this seperation of experience to which this persistent tragedy is largely owed. This round of violence was but one etch, of the many etchings that weaves the damaged topography of Palestinian mind who according to the psychiatric DSM, do not constitute cases of post-traumatic stress disordered people because they are used to it, which is the only reasoning that can be used to explain the organizations apathy...

A year later, the enduring imperialist greed and Israeli threats to the native people of Palestine persist, and in our attempt to live as if nothing is happening on the other side of the globe, we have become tacitly criminal and no less inhuman than the perpetrators themselves... well most of us. Our responsibility as westerners comes by way of being duped by a blatantly corrupt and biased news media which sophisticatedly disguised the crimes with newspeak and neurolinguistic programming (presenting an Israeli attack as "a clash"), after absorbing and trying to make sense of this disinformation we proceed to the designated protest areas to be indiscriminatley beaten to a pulp continuously by unruly mercenaries paid for by us whose role is to defend the many Israeli embassies and special interest appendages in Israels monetary republics, all .000001% of us that give a shit that is!!! The rest of us simply don’t know what a map is, much less would we capable of navigating one, or even highlight an area of significance other than the north pole…

This tragic events anniversary coincides with Christmas religious/secular delusion currently being embraced all over the world, except (and quite appropriately) in the place which proclaims to be one of the holiest places on earth!!! Palestinian children however typically don't partake in this religious delusion (well not this one) and dont trust Santa Claus (created by Jewish owned Coca Cola co.) because instead of bringing joy and Christmas cheer he tends to pollute their stockings and christmas trees with depleted uranium, organs harvested from their amputated brethren and leftover white phosphorus… (a white Christmas indeed!!!).

Nevertheless, business continues as usual in OUR part of the world where imperialists who are accustomed to "caring about peoples suffering" ONLY when it is militarily strategic to do so, have made us, the sheeple, helplessly bear witness to this great injustice of our modern day, with the only benefits coming by way of being a completely pampered with mindless jobs, fluoridated water and doing absolutely nothing unique in our lives whatsoever, until we die and all that remains is collections of unoriginal photos in walmart photo albums that sit atop a walmart coffee table next to a walmart urn… Sure, we may all go down again in the streets by hundreds, thousands touting our naively optimistichumanistic slogans in the face of those who allege we are Nazis for doing so, but we know perfectly well that the arms trade will never be interrupted and that any insufficient resistance will be used to accelerate and intensify the injustice, should this methodology not be applied in full force. We know this and we persist utilizing this method of protest to get things done, because we are a bunch of softened pussies who are conditioned to fear the machine.

Whether liberal or conservative, when it comes to the Zionazi military industrial complex, we are willing to pretend… alot

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/12/18/obama-approves-30-billion-in-military-aid-to-israel-over-next-decade/

As for the International law…LOL! The occupied (insurgents) of these forced democracies have nothing to fear really: our democrazies have guaranteed them the right to defend themselves from the virtuous “occupiers” with Israeli voting machines to elect hand picked politicians and is topped off with the illusion of free speech. What more could these terrorists want!!! Should they desire to “resist” outside the activist frameworks we have prescribed them, they will have their make-believe rights revoked, and will be thrown in Jails that used to be schools… Obviously any resistance to our virtuous system can only be rationalized as being owed to a hidden sadistic impulse of the oppressed side or some brutish element that must be intrinsic to the psyche of Palestinians and brown people in general.

The Israeli logic

We are entitled to do whatever we want to do to the Palestinians because, by definition, everytime we make them suffer it is a self defense. They however, are not allowed to lift a finger against us because, by definition, everything they do it is terrorism!!! That’s all there is to it!!! If you dont understand it you are one of them!!!

It's not only about lands anymore, but their organs that we steal and we are not even ashamed to admit it.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114324&sectionid=351020202


History is full of sad chapters in which we see the criminals becoming the arbiters of laws, and in the case of the state of Israel it has become a morbid habit, facilitated by remote violence of global apathy.

Despite of the fact that the UN report, carried under the responsibility of Judge Richard Goldstone, on Gaza's war crimes, Israel continues to gain a quasi International legitimacy for its barbaric military operation against Palestinian civilians.

The American Congress has even condemned a report, that they did NOT READ and totally ignored. This, added to many other crimes committed by Israel in the past, makes us clearly see the years of influence the Jewish Lobby has managed to have on our policies in the Middle East. This influential lobby succeeded in imposing a tricked law about Hate crime, using a manipulative syllogism:

"It is considered as anti- Semitic to criticize Israel. Anti- Semitism is an incitement to hatred, therefore criticizing Israel is a crime". This subterfuge has stopped working for many except for the brainwashed.

"It is a trick, we always use it..calling people anti- Semites"
Did the British ambassador of the UN, John Sawers violate the "hate law" when he said that Goldstone report on the military attack against Gaza has "very serious details that need investigation"?!

According to the arbiters of laws (i.e the Israelis), the British man has probably "no God fearing"!!

"London, said Israeli government, "could be on the bench of the accused if the British government supports this document" {the Goldstone report}!!!

The Goldstoners all over the World call this attitude one of hypocrisy and double standard, but in the "free world" we choose the mute tone. Nobody could read the content of this overwhelming document in the New York Times or the Washington Post, let alone Fox or CNN, paradoxically, many of us got it from the Israeli newspapers such as Haaretz?!!! It goes without saying that the US Media are the mouthpiece of the Jewish lobby. No criticism is expected! The US department of Justice will probably accuse in the near future some Israeli newspapers of anti-Semitism or call them "self hating Jews" for providing the information, even though by doing so, these Israeli Media have succeeded in controlling the dissent from within and placed themselves as its only defender!! (another trick to think about).

The double standard under which the Israeli government is acting is not duping anyone, except for the people with absolutely no idea what is happening outside their own selfish bubble, and those who have simply accepted this as a way of life (i.e. being a apathetic consumer dependent on resource wars for their prosperity)… which is unfortunately the profound majority of people.

Meanwhile, countries like Europe will continue to look like Santa Claus, rebuilding what the savage military has destroyed (with money borrowed from banks to stimulate the economy after stimulating it with weapons building!!!), instead of getting to the root (s) of the problem, be it lobbying, capitalism, monopoly, oligarchy etc. The stomachs of those in the west may turn with disgust upon seeing the footage of eviscerated Palestinian body parts that never get shown on TV, yet it is this same West who imposes and limits the rules of reactions on the victim for whom we persist to leave NO choice.

Happy New Year (from those who can do no right, to those who can do no wrong). When you leave people with no choice, you have left them only one choice...

http://palsolidarity.org/2009/05/6856
 


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Fern Capella

01/03/2010 18:37:01

Where time stood still (by Samah Sabawi)

Don’t tell us a year has passed…
We don’t measure our lives by this calendar
Time has stood still for us so long ago
Punctuated only by loss and grief
And the in between moments of quiet reprieve
We don’t count on Christmas, nor Eid for cheer
We don’t fool ourselves with “happy new year”
No occasion is ever taken for granted,
When it comes to tomorrow, there are no certainties
Our yesterday is our today
Time is frozen here
And one calendar year
Will never contain our lives,
Our collective misery,
Our yearning for humanity
Don’t tell us a year has passed
Our clock stopped ticking when justice collapsed
Eclipsed by decades of repression
Hush… don’t speak of time
We have endured the absence of time
We don’t measure our lives by days like you
We measure our lives by the number of embraces
Our worth by a lover’s heartbeat
Our existence by our persistence
So, don’t tell us a year has passed….

(Samah Sabawi is a writer playwright and poet. She was born in Gaza and is currently residing in Melbourne Australia.)

 



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