The following was a comment I received from a regular reader of this Blog, Skulz Fontaine. It is the most moving comment ever posted on these pages. I offer it here as a separate thread…
Gaza, I weep for thee. You see, I stand over here shackled and chained and all I can do is weep. For when I scream, my screaming falls on deaf ears. When I rant and I rave I am viewed with suspicion.
My kin and my neighbors all wonder and aloud, “why do you protest the killing of vermin?”" Vermin?” I asked and the chorus responded, ” the Palestinians are vermin and terrorists!” But why should that be? Israelis are free but, not Palestinians. The Palestinians live in camps. Concentration camps that are really the holding pens of sheep being prepared for slaughter. When the last Palestinian is slaughtered, will anyone REMEMBER? Anyone? Will anyone care? ANYONE! Oh Gaza, I weep for thee.
Weeping is all that I can do for you see, over here I am shackled and chained to my opinion that the killing of innocent men, women, and children is genocide. Oh mommy, I said the ‘g’ word and used that ‘g’ word in association with Israel. I might just have well taken a shotgun and shot a lawyer.
Genocide on Palestine by Israelis. I am a pariah and a criminal and I am a “supporter of terrorism!” Because I questioned the slaughter of Palestinians. Well, whoops and sorry. That must have been my bad! Oh Gaza, I weep for thee! You are lost and dying and NO ONE CARES AND NO ONE LISTENS! My kin and my neighbors are blind to the horror and will NOT hear the crying of innocents being led to slaughter. My land is lost and my nation is lost and my kin are lost and my neighbors are lost.
A very great man once said, “it is better to die on one’s feet in the battle for justice than to die on one’s knees begging for mercy!” So let it be written, so let it be done. Oh Gaza, I weep for thee. Stand up and die at the hands of Israel! Someday maybe in one hundred years or five hundred years, someone somewhere, will read of your slaughter and ask the hard questions that our world today ignores. “Why were the Palestinians left to be slaughtered at the hands of an unjust Israel and the complicity of our world?”
Oh Gaza, I weep for thee. You see, I am shackled in chains of censorship and mistrust. The weeping is all that I CAN do.
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fat said,
February 19, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I too weep for Gaza…nothing that can be said or done seems to have affected the situation as of yet aside from making it worse.
I wish I cold think of a way to make people see the big picture but they have been blinded by a biased media, years of intense programming and a reluctance to open their eyes….
lara said,
February 19, 2008 at 7:33 pm
A VOICE FROM THE SLAUTHERHOUSE
a poem
in 1960-ties The Future Shock was predicted
to corrida’s bulls with deadly thorns,
we were warned: there will be victims
to the system that welcomes no norms…
but we were silent, and,thus, were turned
into the obidient ,brain-dead herd.
NOW… WHAT’S THE DEATH OF A LONELY BEAUTY,
A PALESTINIAN ANCIENT GIRL
FOR THE EN MASS OBEDIENT HERD?
well, her death does not shake the ground
where we silently walk and chew,
we are fed and trained to feel proud
for the Bible’s Creator was A Jew…
whom you cry to,the ancient Beauty,
a Palestinian sunny girl,
when you go on lonely shooting
against the deadliest arms in the world?!
I am an absurd… Just one of those,
who feels no more, who hears no cry
yet, you die and we all smell roses
from the Ancient Gardens of Palestine!
cause is roses…I straighten my spine:
is something happening, something’s breaking
in the SlaughterHouse of mine?
who is swinging the whip? who am I?
So long…I love you…googbye.
February 19,2008
Lara Crete
International Action Center; New York
Chair Ramsey Clark
j.c. said,
February 20, 2008 at 5:28 am
BOYCOTT the PRISON CAMP WARDEN
http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org
http://www.inminds.com
Tom Dennen said,
February 20, 2008 at 11:49 am
It starts with doubt.
Doubt leads to questions.
Any answers lead to other questions.
Eventually, the truth sets you free.
But you have to begin by doubting what is ’sold’ as the truth.
Evil exists.
I see today’s events as the Apocalypse, a Greek word meaning, “The Lifting of the Veil Between You and God.”
Only doubt and questions will lift the veil.
And the veil is lifting.
‘T’
Skulz Fontaine said,
February 21, 2008 at 7:10 am
All that one can say is thank you. Thank you fat. Thank you lara, your words are beauty. Thank you j.c.. Thank you Tom D.. It is a collective song of resonant sorrow. Anger, sorrow, and apropos. FREE PALESTINE GODDAMN IT!
Maggie said,
February 21, 2008 at 12:26 pm
?Someone said? The quote you have used was used by Norm Finkelstein and came from a woman in Spain who was fighting fascism.
Thanks though for your well meaning words.
Salaam wa alaikum and I invite all Jews to Islam.