Caitlin, This is so very powerful. Strikes at the very heart of being human. We have heard /viewed/read and grieved about Palestinian parents picking up pieces of their beloved children from the Israel/US/West made graveyard of Gaza. But never felt it more acutely than in your poem.
Yes. I thank her for the analogy to Strange Fruit. It’s so apt. I can’t believe Ive lived to see know about this horror. I just can’t freaking believe it.🥺😩. My heart is broken anew with every thought, every imagining, every day.
I have also been feeling incredibly sad and sometimes angry. I can almost feel that man's pain. Not quite though. I have the privilege of being in a safer place for the time being.
You do deserve the life you have. Everyone deserves to have food, medicine and a place to live. I hope you don't lose your sanity, altho I also sometimes feel that I am slipping. We need people who care.
There but for fortune... And with this particular fortune, you have the chance to work towards ending this pain and destruction. I believe we need each and every one of us who have come to understand what's going on to do whatever we can to stop it.
I think the 'Arab Princes' are afraid that their billions/trillions would be 'confiscated' and lost (to them) - they can see the 'thoughts' of the 'rules based international order' regarding the Russian 300 billion ...
It’s not taxes. The USA is sovereign. The government spend money into existence and taxes out of existence. This is strictly a legislative decision as well as a Biden administration decision. Taxpayers had nothing to do with the Israeli genocide.
Legislation = enacted via our Representatives, Senators, and President. Who elected them? We did. Who pays for everything the government does? We do. Oue taxpayer money.....Our rogue government are composed of those you and I elected to represent us....their salaries are composed of our monies that have been taxed.
A tax revolt even as a threat would stop all this but you are all too cowardly to stick your necks out so it's all just vertue signaling bull shit to distance yourself from any real responsibility to use the one and only power the people have because your votes are no longer useful when they rig the system to prop up their puppets..
No one has the guts for it because you all only worry about your own skin..untill the lovely nuke winter chills your cowardly bone
That "artical" (typical demodrone propaganda hit piece) was more of that dispiacble neoliberal manipulation bull shit to try and diswade people from using the power of a real tax revolt. That is why it's there so you can consume it like some jim Jones fruit punch.
And don't knee jerk an assumption I'm a neocon like you have been trained. I don't put in with any of that middle American brain washed bull shut.
Had we elected a righteous, truly bunch of representatives for our demands, then the Congress would not be the silence it is. But no, we elected this group, 1/2 of which are millionaires with stock port folios. Of course we are responsible. We elected them. And we've re-elected them. Why? Because we are lazy self-centered inactive citizens not walking our talk. Not seeking out reliable news sources. Caving unthinkingly, robot like to the propaganda foisted as news info tainment engineered by big money and corporate which too many of us suck up. Who benefits from forever war? Guess who is buying our representatives like Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, of WA. The Israel lobby. The Boeing lobby.
But you still dutifully sign and date all those tax checks because you fear state violence because they convinced you it's a civic duty.. The big lie..death and taxs
We can agree with the point, WE as a nation are doing this. There is no escaping our guilt. Genocide Joe is doing this in our name and now it's time to make sure he leaves office via the Hague.
if anybody in any US administration ever is going to be frog marched to den Hague, they need to start with any of the ones that are still alive -like both Clintons, both Bushes, All of their top cabinet members, Obombya, And his gang of thugs, Trump and his gang of goons and thugs right up into the gang of thugs and war criminals we have in power now. And that’s just in the US Europe has its own bullshit to deal with.
Too bad folks in other parts of the world don't see it that way, Janette. If you are American, you elected Biden into office and you allow him to make these horrific decisions. If Americans were seen pulling Genocide Joe out of his bed and marching him up the steps to a guillotine, the rest of the world would see that Americans were not a part of the atrocities. But we don't. We let Genocide Joe remain in office, and some people will even vote for him in November. So, yes, Americans are guilty by association with their government that they keep in place.
Unless you've relinquished your citizenship Janette Shultz, formally you are the government....remember "government of - by - and for - the People. You are one of the People. Your civic inaction/action helps determine the quality of those who are the ultimate "deciders" - Congress and the Executive branch.
Just because you are a coward with zero convictions to go up against your mindless programming and dutiful signing and dating checks ...not surprising coming from such an intellectual coward as is typical of your type.
Americans through their own cowardice won't organize a tax revolt and try and side step any guilt by blaming it all on Biden ..neocons did the same thing all my life with both Iraq wars,, Bush era..they all funnel tax payer funds into the war machine ...but no one here likes hearing about their own cowardly guilt for contributing to it..They want to disconect it and compartmentalize it like intellectual cowards
AIPAC actively contaminates our electoral process. Were AIPAC the China lobby, they'd be put on a severe leash. Not the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. A lot of Big Big Money patrons.
My wife heard a poam recited by a young Palestinian girl at a picnic demonstration about "moma write my name on my leg so you can identify me"
She broke down in heavy sobs.
We talked about the heaviness in our hearts through all this.
But for me part of the deep hurt and pain comes from knowing I live in a world where western leaders news media and the establishment celebrate ethnic cleansing.
How Zionists have infiltrated their souls and destroyed their humanity while they claim Palestinians are not human.
The level of lies corruption and shear bigoted cruelty demonstrated by Zionist and isralies makes me come to the conclusion that Israel is a profoundly sick society. And the USA is as guilty as they are for facilitated it.
The worst thing to ever happen to the human condition was the creation of the state of Israel. It protected NO ONE! but rich weapons makers ...
Their extinction event will be so well deserved ....
Zionism is the most evil organisation that the world has ever known. There have been psychopathic groups of humans galore in history but none of had the sheer power that they wield. Through the zionist neocons they exert total control over the US political and military. I fully support the demolition of this evil cult by any means possible (preferably nonviolent) . But when you write of the extinction of the State of Israel we need to remember that there are innocent Jews a plenty who do not support Zionism . Plus there are innocent children
Extinction of the state does not mean murdering the way the USA and Zionist do... The disasembling of the state is the extinction of its regime and control.
But maybe if Zionist and the USA keep extinguishing Palestinian lives then the blow back is long over due.
1948 movie creation and catastrophe ..... How Israel was formed in violence ...living by the sword will become dying by the sword if they don't learn the leason.
Where is all the concern for the palistinian children pulled from the rubble ?
Well Chazl, I am concerned and hav long financially and verbally supported the Palestinian cause and have along history of being wrongly accused of being Anti Semitic .
Then we are in agreement .. Although I have lost all sympathy for Israel at this point and the USA too and all its EU lackies and allied lap dogs .. But i too do not want to see any innocent children and people harmed or paying for the ills of the "grownups" including young Israel children that may grow up to be as rightous as someone like Gilad Atzmon who I had the pleasure of knowing and conversing with on his book the wondering who, as he was also accused of being self hating. But I can't ignore the fact that Israel deserve what's coming to them none the less.
Its all tragic.. But we reap what we sow.
I have been a Palestinian supporter and activist for a very long time and faced down riot cops before.. I helped block the zim shipping boats from isrsel to the usa carrying bullets we paid them to buy as we gifted them the supplies..anouther of the many schemes that they had to steal USA wealth.
Zionism is a terrorist ethnic cleansing genocidal maniac nationalistic organisation most of you Jews support...square that with yourself and the USA that fully supports that too.
Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us).”
–Surah Al ‘Imran (3:173)
[ In the event of fear and anxiety one should seek the help of Allah and frequently recite this ayah of the glorious Qur’an “Hasbunallahu wa Ni’mal Wakeel” “Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us).” (3:173). ]
In a sense, we are all complicit. We can simply blame our UK and US governments, but we enabled them, we accepted the sham of democracy. We have allowed this to happen. Never mind October 7th 2023, we have accepted this for 75+ years.
Sorry but not the taxpayers but their evil, idiotic leaders. The taxpayer really has no choice any more, voting for the two sides of the same coin. One must be naive to believe that voting today will change anything but the colour of our deep state controllers, sadly so.
I don't see an image at the top of the poem, but your imagery certainly created a profound one in my mind. Sad and touching because this is reality for so many in Gaza. Sad and infuriating because our countries allow it to happen because of... big fat checks from AIPAC and Raytheon?
Thank you Caitlin. A world of pain in your words. Fight we must, every day we can not stop making sure voices are heard, A vote for Genocide Joe is not a vote for less Genocide, it's a vote FOR GENOCIDE!
This is the "food" of the Death Cult. They thrive on wrenched hearts and children's blood, even their own. It's not in the human realm. It's sad but not forgivable.
unfortunately, tragically, sadly, it is what people DO do in the human realm. The real question is what do we do?when do we do it? How do we do it? and who will do it?
Caitlin, This is so very powerful. Strikes at the very heart of being human. We have heard /viewed/read and grieved about Palestinian parents picking up pieces of their beloved children from the Israel/US/West made graveyard of Gaza. But never felt it more acutely than in your poem.
Yes. I thank her for the analogy to Strange Fruit. It’s so apt. I can’t believe Ive lived to see know about this horror. I just can’t freaking believe it.🥺😩. My heart is broken anew with every thought, every imagining, every day.
I have also been feeling incredibly sad and sometimes angry. I can almost feel that man's pain. Not quite though. I have the privilege of being in a safer place for the time being.
Susan, I don’t feel as though I even deserve to be in a safer place. 😢
What have I done to do so?
Every day that this slaughter continues I feel like I lose more of my sanity.
You do deserve the life you have. Everyone deserves to have food, medicine and a place to live. I hope you don't lose your sanity, altho I also sometimes feel that I am slipping. We need people who care.
There but for fortune... And with this particular fortune, you have the chance to work towards ending this pain and destruction. I believe we need each and every one of us who have come to understand what's going on to do whatever we can to stop it.
Solidarity!
I think the 'Arab Princes' are afraid that their billions/trillions would be 'confiscated' and lost (to them) - they can see the 'thoughts' of the 'rules based international order' regarding the Russian 300 billion ...
They love their wealth more than they love their children.
What the USA Taxpayer has done to Palestinians citizens enabling the Israeli government and IDF perpetuate visiting horrors on innocents. Stop!
It’s not taxes. The USA is sovereign. The government spend money into existence and taxes out of existence. This is strictly a legislative decision as well as a Biden administration decision. Taxpayers had nothing to do with the Israeli genocide.
Bull shit. Tax's facilitate it...The MIC facilitate it..
Every check we sign is a theft of our labor to funneling into the war machine.
You are absolutely incorrect. The military industrial complex receives funding through legislation.
It is not on me you the people this is our rogue government.
https://splinternews.com/the-dangerous-myth-of-taxpayer-money-1819658902
Legislation = enacted via our Representatives, Senators, and President. Who elected them? We did. Who pays for everything the government does? We do. Oue taxpayer money.....Our rogue government are composed of those you and I elected to represent us....their salaries are composed of our monies that have been taxed.
A tax revolt even as a threat would stop all this but you are all too cowardly to stick your necks out so it's all just vertue signaling bull shit to distance yourself from any real responsibility to use the one and only power the people have because your votes are no longer useful when they rig the system to prop up their puppets..
No one has the guts for it because you all only worry about your own skin..untill the lovely nuke winter chills your cowardly bone
That "artical" (typical demodrone propaganda hit piece) was more of that dispiacble neoliberal manipulation bull shit to try and diswade people from using the power of a real tax revolt. That is why it's there so you can consume it like some jim Jones fruit punch.
And don't knee jerk an assumption I'm a neocon like you have been trained. I don't put in with any of that middle American brain washed bull shut.
Yes, theft, and extortion, so please don’t blame the taxpayers
Had we elected a righteous, truly bunch of representatives for our demands, then the Congress would not be the silence it is. But no, we elected this group, 1/2 of which are millionaires with stock port folios. Of course we are responsible. We elected them. And we've re-elected them. Why? Because we are lazy self-centered inactive citizens not walking our talk. Not seeking out reliable news sources. Caving unthinkingly, robot like to the propaganda foisted as news info tainment engineered by big money and corporate which too many of us suck up. Who benefits from forever war? Guess who is buying our representatives like Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, of WA. The Israel lobby. The Boeing lobby.
Sorry , we are to blame. Now we must make Genocide Joe a new home at the Hague.
But you still dutifully sign and date all those tax checks because you fear state violence because they convinced you it's a civic duty.. The big lie..death and taxs
We can agree with the point, WE as a nation are doing this. There is no escaping our guilt. Genocide Joe is doing this in our name and now it's time to make sure he leaves office via the Hague.
if anybody in any US administration ever is going to be frog marched to den Hague, they need to start with any of the ones that are still alive -like both Clintons, both Bushes, All of their top cabinet members, Obombya, And his gang of thugs, Trump and his gang of goons and thugs right up into the gang of thugs and war criminals we have in power now. And that’s just in the US Europe has its own bullshit to deal with.
I’m an American. I love my country but I am not a part of this genocide and any other atrocities committed by the government.
Too bad folks in other parts of the world don't see it that way, Janette. If you are American, you elected Biden into office and you allow him to make these horrific decisions. If Americans were seen pulling Genocide Joe out of his bed and marching him up the steps to a guillotine, the rest of the world would see that Americans were not a part of the atrocities. But we don't. We let Genocide Joe remain in office, and some people will even vote for him in November. So, yes, Americans are guilty by association with their government that they keep in place.
Unless you've relinquished your citizenship Janette Shultz, formally you are the government....remember "government of - by - and for - the People. You are one of the People. Your civic inaction/action helps determine the quality of those who are the ultimate "deciders" - Congress and the Executive branch.
You would not know substance of it bit you in your duplicitous ass
Just because you are a coward with zero convictions to go up against your mindless programming and dutiful signing and dating checks ...not surprising coming from such an intellectual coward as is typical of your type.
And we’re “antisemitic” if we object.
It’s not Joes cabinet. They own the govt and he is the front man serving them. Just as it was under Obama. And Clinton.
Americans through their own cowardice won't organize a tax revolt and try and side step any guilt by blaming it all on Biden ..neocons did the same thing all my life with both Iraq wars,, Bush era..they all funnel tax payer funds into the war machine ...but no one here likes hearing about their own cowardly guilt for contributing to it..They want to disconect it and compartmentalize it like intellectual cowards
AIPAC actively contaminates our electoral process. Were AIPAC the China lobby, they'd be put on a severe leash. Not the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. A lot of Big Big Money patrons.
It’s unfortunate, but honestly the entire congress are Zionist nationalists. It doesn’t matter their beliefs.
Zionist
My wife heard a poam recited by a young Palestinian girl at a picnic demonstration about "moma write my name on my leg so you can identify me"
She broke down in heavy sobs.
We talked about the heaviness in our hearts through all this.
But for me part of the deep hurt and pain comes from knowing I live in a world where western leaders news media and the establishment celebrate ethnic cleansing.
How Zionists have infiltrated their souls and destroyed their humanity while they claim Palestinians are not human.
The level of lies corruption and shear bigoted cruelty demonstrated by Zionist and isralies makes me come to the conclusion that Israel is a profoundly sick society. And the USA is as guilty as they are for facilitated it.
The worst thing to ever happen to the human condition was the creation of the state of Israel. It protected NO ONE! but rich weapons makers ...
Their extinction event will be so well deserved ....
It’s not just a poem, Chaz…Palestinians are actually doing that in order that they can be identified in the event of their deaths.
What kind of fucking insanity is this when the only physical support for them is being provided by one of the planet’s poorest countries?
Viva the Hout’hi! And Iran, where are YOU? I don’t care if it starts WWIII, I want IsraHell OFF THE MAP.
I know it's a real thing and that's why she cryed ...
The sickness in all this is profound ...
And I agree with you.
The U S has only interests, not friends!!
Us government is a subsidery of Jewish supremacy
Zionism is the most evil organisation that the world has ever known. There have been psychopathic groups of humans galore in history but none of had the sheer power that they wield. Through the zionist neocons they exert total control over the US political and military. I fully support the demolition of this evil cult by any means possible (preferably nonviolent) . But when you write of the extinction of the State of Israel we need to remember that there are innocent Jews a plenty who do not support Zionism . Plus there are innocent children
Extinction of the state does not mean murdering the way the USA and Zionist do... The disasembling of the state is the extinction of its regime and control.
But maybe if Zionist and the USA keep extinguishing Palestinian lives then the blow back is long over due.
1948 movie creation and catastrophe ..... How Israel was formed in violence ...living by the sword will become dying by the sword if they don't learn the leason.
Where is all the concern for the palistinian children pulled from the rubble ?
Oh right,,they are lesser.
Well Chazl, I am concerned and hav long financially and verbally supported the Palestinian cause and have along history of being wrongly accused of being Anti Semitic .
Then we are in agreement .. Although I have lost all sympathy for Israel at this point and the USA too and all its EU lackies and allied lap dogs .. But i too do not want to see any innocent children and people harmed or paying for the ills of the "grownups" including young Israel children that may grow up to be as rightous as someone like Gilad Atzmon who I had the pleasure of knowing and conversing with on his book the wondering who, as he was also accused of being self hating. But I can't ignore the fact that Israel deserve what's coming to them none the less.
Its all tragic.. But we reap what we sow.
I have been a Palestinian supporter and activist for a very long time and faced down riot cops before.. I helped block the zim shipping boats from isrsel to the usa carrying bullets we paid them to buy as we gifted them the supplies..anouther of the many schemes that they had to steal USA wealth.
Right Jon, all those “future terrorists “.
The real terrorists are the USRAEL
Guess I should have indicated sarcasm, my bad.
Which is precisely the justification the Nazis gave for the murder of Jewish children.
Oh I see how you play. You’re purposely spreading Jew hatred and ignorance.
No it is Zionist and I don’t care how you play. Learn to identify rather than destroy or incite hatred on Jewish communities. Or better yet stfu
Zionism is a terrorist ethnic cleansing genocidal maniac nationalistic organisation most of you Jews support...square that with yourself and the USA that fully supports that too.
Beautiful and so sad.
سْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ
Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us).”
–Surah Al ‘Imran (3:173)
[ In the event of fear and anxiety one should seek the help of Allah and frequently recite this ayah of the glorious Qur’an “Hasbunallahu wa Ni’mal Wakeel” “Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us).” (3:173). ]
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Thank You Kindly to everyone!
In a sense, we are all complicit. We can simply blame our UK and US governments, but we enabled them, we accepted the sham of democracy. We have allowed this to happen. Never mind October 7th 2023, we have accepted this for 75+ years.
I walk with you.
Yes I said nothing and yet I knew it was wrong.
Blood Meridian vibes. Suitable given the Zionist depravities we are witnessing in Gaza daily.
Shit, Caitlin. Just: damn. Agree with Indu.
Sorry but not the taxpayers but their evil, idiotic leaders. The taxpayer really has no choice any more, voting for the two sides of the same coin. One must be naive to believe that voting today will change anything but the colour of our deep state controllers, sadly so.
Jill Stein or better yet Stein/West 24 . There are few candidates of Peace and these two have worked their entire lives for peace.
Agree that they need to team up, Landru.
Indeed: Groceries for some.....
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I don't see an image at the top of the poem, but your imagery certainly created a profound one in my mind. Sad and touching because this is reality for so many in Gaza. Sad and infuriating because our countries allow it to happen because of... big fat checks from AIPAC and Raytheon?
Thank you Caitlin. A world of pain in your words. Fight we must, every day we can not stop making sure voices are heard, A vote for Genocide Joe is not a vote for less Genocide, it's a vote FOR GENOCIDE!
This is the "food" of the Death Cult. They thrive on wrenched hearts and children's blood, even their own. It's not in the human realm. It's sad but not forgivable.
unfortunately, tragically, sadly, it is what people DO do in the human realm. The real question is what do we do?when do we do it? How do we do it? and who will do it?
😢