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Saturday 14 July 2018

1:30 AM in Gaza | ethics and esthetics | Joseph Ceravolo: Come Clean

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Photos of Othman Helles, 15, who was shot dead by Israeli snipers today. Rest in peace.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


Photos of Othman Helles, 15, who was shot dead by Israeli snipers today. Rest in peace.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018



#Breaking: Child Othman Helles, 15 years old, has been shot dead by Israeli forces moments ago during the Great Return March east of Gaza Strip. Othman is the 19th child to be killed at Gaza protests.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018

 
From my window - No electricity.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza @MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018

  1:30 AM in Gaza and Israeli warplanes are bombing. Pray for us.: tweet via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018

Israel killed a child at Gaza borders yesterday, and tonight, it's terrorizing other children by bombing every area of Gaza. I can hear explosions while writing this tweet. #IsraeliCrimes #GazaUnderAttack: tweet via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


I am still alive. Good morning from Gaza.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


I am still alive. Good morning from Gaza.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


I am still alive. Good morning from Gaza.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


I am still alive. Good morning from Gaza.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


Citizens of northern West Bank village of Urif woke up on Friday morning to find that extremist Israeli settlers from nearby settlements had torched two vehicles after raiding the village!: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


Activist: Why I can't support Israel.: image via Muhammad Smiry Gaza@MuhammadSmiry, 13 July 2018


WEST BANK - An Israeli soldier fires a rubber bullet towards Palestinian protestors during clashes following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in Kfar Qaddum Photo Jaafar Ashtiyeh #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 13 July 2018


 
A Palestinian boy sits on a chair as Israeli authorities demolish a school site in the village of Yatta #Hebron Photo @hazemjbader1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 11 July 2018



 يا قدس إنا قادمون يا قدس قد حان المنون يا قدس إنا للعدا لن نستكين ولن نهون هذي فلسطين الحبيبة علمتنا من نكون
O holy, we are coming, holy, has come to us, O holy, to the enemy, we will not forget, and we will not underestimate this beloved Palestine, who taught us who we are: image via Osama A. Alisawi @uesawi, 2 July 2018

Joseph Ceravolo: Come Clean
                                                              August 1, 1986
Everything upsets me,
sick people suffering,
friends leaving, friends parting.
Even having to tell you this,
having to admit that
I am burning out like the edges
of lava. But I think it is related
to you as I try to understand,
because I am not brilliant
like a nuclear formula.
But I think it is related to you
and only music seems to breathe,
only insects seem to speak.
I do not want to be a fool
who struggles within my own breast forever.

Now the sun is coming out
and the sting within my breast crawling away,
troubled, spiked with insanity

Everything is sighing, even
the trees without the wind that you possess.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Come Clean, 1 August 1986, from Collected Poems, 2013

Funeral of 22-year-old Mohammed Alawneh on July 22 in the West Bank village of Birqin. #AFP Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 22 July 2015

Palestinian protesters from the village of Beit Ummar near Hebron, West Bank, clash with Israeli soldiers in the village on 23 July 2015. Following the funeral of Falah Abu Maria, 53, who was shot dead by  Israeli soldiers during a raid on his home early 23 July 2015 to arrest his son, in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar. The man's two sons, both in their 20s, were injured in the raid

Palestinian protesters from the village of Beit Ummar near Hebron, West Bank, clash with Israeli soldiers in the village on Thursday: photo by Abed Al Hashlamoni/EPA, 23 July 2015

Palestinian protesters from the village of Beit Ummar near Hebron, West Bank, clash with Israeli soldiers in the village on 23 July 2015. Following the funeral of Falah Abu Maria, 53, who was shot dead by  Israeli soldiers during a raid on his home early 23 July 2015 to arrest his son, in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar. The man's two sons, both in their 20s, were injured in the raid

Palestinian protesters from the village of Beit Ummar near Hebron, West Bank, clash with Israeli soldiers in the village on Thursday: photo by Abed Al Hashlamoni/EPA, 23 July 2015

A man uses a cane as he walks past a store in the Poto Poto popular district, of the Congolese capital Brazzaville
  
A man uses a cane as he walks past a store in the Poto Poto popular district of the Congolese capital Brazzaville: photo by Frederico Scoppa/AFP, 23 July 2015

A man uses a cane as he walks past a store in the Poto Poto popular district, of the Congolese capital Brazzaville

A man uses a cane as he walks past a store in the Poto Poto popular district of the Congolese capital Brazzaville: photo by Frederico Scoppa/AFP, 23 July 2015

Young men clean second-hand shoes to sell them on a market in Bujumbura on July 24, 2015. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is set to win a controversial third term in office, but analysts say his victory will be hollow, with the country divided, isolated and facing aid cuts

Young men clean second-hand shoes to sell them in a market in Bujumbura on Friday. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is set to win a controversial third term in office: photo by Phil Moore/AFP, 24 July 2014

 Young men clean second-hand shoes to sell them on a market in Bujumbura on July 24, 2015. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is set to win a controversial third term in office, but analysts say his victory will be hollow, with the country divided, isolated and facing aid cuts

Young men clean second-hand shoes to sell them in a market in Bujumbura on Friday. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is set to win a controversial third term in office: photo by Phil Moore/AFP, 24 July 2014





A boy floats on a thermocol sheet on a a waterlogged street today in Mumbai, India. Heavy monsoon rains hit Mumbai flooding several areas and disrupting normal life. Photo Rafiq Maqbool: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 10 July 2018
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A woman walking through a water logged street, reacts as a truck driving past creates a wave of ripples prior to drenching her during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India. India’s monsoon season runs from June to September.: photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP, 8 July 2018

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1 comment:

TC said...

Following the timeline of Muhammad Smiry in Gaza huddled with his family in the dark in somebody else's house through a night of air raids and broken windows and insistent bombing now close now moving off - was a very spooky spin through déja vu ville.

This is what is known as Mowing the Lawn. Four years ago just now, the last concerted trim took place. We all recall Shujaya, unless we don't.

The mention of American made weapons in the "Activist" text Smiry cites put us in mind of a little anniversary coming up on Monday.

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