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17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
\nBut the victim we are told is the villain
\nMany a death certificate written before birth certificate
\nYet, rotten governments western and arab procrastinate
\nNo point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
\nFor no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
\nNo counting of “unknowns” burried in mass graves
\nFor there are still living injured after each of the shockwaves
\nThe 27,000 living dead are injured many cannot be treated
\nFor hospitals were bombed, medicine denied, and they can’t even be shielded
\nHungry and thirsty they envy the dead
\nChildren merely want to die having last meal fed
\nOr go to heaven where they can play
\nThey hate the counting and feebly pray
\nTo live to tell a story, realize dreams, maybe safety arrive
\nsilence the bombs and keep hope alive<\/p>\n

Tears stop<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Facilities of medical service
\nRendered out of practice
\nAl-Shifa (The cure) hospital was framed
\nWith lies so it can be maimed
\nA pyrrhic “victory” for the offensive occupiers
\nHapless patients, displaced people, doctors, nurses: all murders
\nDenied electricity, water, food, medicines, no place to go
\nWestern hypocrites to a simple ceasefire, they say no
\nMany newborns off incubators die with feeble cries
\nDialysis patients in agonies perish while humanity’s conscience dies<\/p>\n

Breathing stops<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nCancer patients with no treatment and even no morphine to ease their pain
\nthousands of pounds of amputated legs
\nBut the injured will not be saved
\nAll watch others die and then their turns come
\nSickening is the smell of death and rotting corpses
\nStreets filled with dust and pieces of flesh<\/p>\n

Heartbeats stop<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n45,000 tons of bombs (2 nuclear bomb equivalents) are dropped
\nAn Israeli picture of a pathetic seen photoshopped
\n10 kg per person in Gaza… every few minutes a US supplied JDAM
\nPoliticians in shiny suits paid by lobbies talk a sham
\nUS bombs kill one every four minutes, a child every ten minutes
\nAre there red lines. No we are told there are no limits
\nHomes, schools, water tanks, restaurants, streets destroyed
\nHospitals, universities, office buildings, bakeries leveled
\nNo contending armies – this is genocide
\nEven animals and plants not spared – this is ecoside
\nAnd there is the endless “depleted” uranium shells
\nNew incendiary on baby flesh for revenge and war bells<\/p>\n

Is God silent?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nA girl begs God for martyrdom to join her family – I am alone she scream
\nAnother child is asked what he would do when he grows up.. he says we don’t dare dream
\nA burnt child trembles in shock voice quivering- her one eye to a doctor pleads
\nBut the old Zionists watching stock prices care none but their greeds
\nAbducted men tortured naked and deprived of food, sleep, and water
\nMatter not to leaders interested in protecting the illegal squatter
\nWill the screams of mothers who lost their babies
\nMake men in 5-star hotels and conventions hesitate when they dip their pastries?
\nMake more than a statement of “concern”
\nFor an ongoing holocaust to discern?
\nLet alone the drums of war on civilians stop?<\/p>\n

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\nWestern media parrot endless lies
\nPathetic talking points disproven yet fuel the slaughter as time flies
\nMassacres need a cover… Hamas will suffice
\nThe truth we are told can be a sacrifice
\nFor there are gas fields of Gaza to take
\nA new Middle East to make
\nWhere there is no space for truth, justice, or even basic humanity
\nWhere hubris replaces humility
\nOnly space for greed, hegemony, and endless suffering
\nAnd the perpetuation of unipolar world worth ushering
\nElbit systems worth more than will the death of 13000
\nMcDonnell Douglas worth the tiny death bags of 6000
\nWhen the voice of jets scream
\nWhen the clank of money stream<\/p>\n

Did mercy stop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nChildren of a lesser God must endure racism
\nA sacrifice at the feet of the Golden calf of Zionism
\nOne more holocaust added to dozens before it for chauvinism
\nCrush the aspirations of 15 million Palestinians for the sake of imperialism
\nRemind me: Did the Nazis deny water and food to occupied cities?
\nDid the Americans besiege any Iraqi hospitals to make them cemeteries?
\nIs the new agent orange and napalm ‘white phosphorous’?
\nDoes history repeat itself once as tragedy once as farce?<\/p>\n

Will oppression stop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nWill genocide satisfy the injured pride of the “chosen”
\nWill it satisfy the guilty feelings of those in colonial times frozen
\nComfortable on top of the world with an 5th strongest military
\nOr is it a terror organized army with a fake state, WMD and artilleries
\nDeir Yassin, Tantura, Jabalia and hundreds of other massacres since 1948
\nState terror from a state built on terror of Irgun, Hagana and Stern since 1921
\nTo facilitate ethnic cleansing with eight million refugees considered not enough
\nHaving established a “Jewish state” by trying to destroy Palestine is tough
\nHow dare us call for return to a pluralistic society
\nHow dare us show extreme anxiety<\/p>\n

Will we dare stop Jewish supremacy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe West Bank already started to be destroyed
\nJenin streets and homes and another hospital besieged
\nOur fate will be like Gaza, the terrorist army warned
\nBeirut too soon and other cities will also be damned
\nfor our “new Middle East” with Starbucks
\nGrow General Electric and all war stocks
\nThe USA has got Israel’s back and gives the weapons to kill
\nAmerican Taxpayers foot the bill<\/p>\n

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Will anyone signal stop?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\nOf the carnage, there will be survivors alive
\nThey are also those who also watched it live
\nThey will not be forgiving
\nThey will not be forgetting
\nKeeping the hope alive for peace
\nThey promise to work harder for the nightmare to cease<\/div>\n
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Who can make them stop?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\nThank you Gaza for teaching us to care
\nThank you Gaza for teaching us to dare
\nThank you for awakening hearts and minds
\nThank you for removing the blinds
\nDropping the masks
\nClarifying the tasks
\nLetting the sun shine through<\/div>\n
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\nMillions go out on streets, blocking roads and the US den of (Congress) thieves
\nFor how can one stop anyone who believes
\nSome lose jobs and many get arrested
\nA small price to pay to get connected
\nHaunted by the pain of living
\nFeeling guilty when we are eating or drinking
\nAs 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza denied such
\nAnd all they ask from us is not much
\nStop your governments from supporting criminals
\nWho dare to call us human animals
\n(Actually animals are much kinder than many humans)<\/div>\n
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Genocide must stop<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\nUntil justice prevails
\nAnd the boat in Gaza sails
\nUntil refugees return
\nAnd humanity gets a turn
\nUntil apartheid is dismantled
\nAnd our olive trees get replanted
\nUntil the Palestine Phoenix rises
\nTriumphant from the ashes
\nKeep the hope alive every day
\nWe shall overcome someday<\/div>\n
From the River to the Sea
\nPalestine will be free<\/b><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the<\/em> TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine, a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 popular-resistance.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS campaign<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

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17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem
\n11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
\nBut the victim we are told is the villain…
\n… No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
\nFor no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":76726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[928,532,1854,101,100,2898,87,865,1029,88,2414,2415,2416,3120,715,767,771,475,427,85,2897,880,99,124,70,92,965,1025,886],"class_list":["post-248658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ecocide","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-army","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-jewish-settlers","tag-massacre","tag-middle-east","tag-nakba","tag-netanyahu","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-sociocide","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-violent-conflict","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248667,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248658\/revisions\/248667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}