tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2930975518251334563..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Joseph Ceravolo: Hospital (No Face Club) | The Meaning of Gaza | Absent AttendanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90048799115992744872018-06-04T12:49:05.286-07:002018-06-04T12:49:05.286-07:00I suppose we're all just truth filters mounted...I suppose we're all just truth filters mounted inside the smokestacks now. Poetry offers the gift of a prophetic saying. A world historical sensitivity built into the medium? Ceravolo always goes to (can never escape from) the heart of any matter. A small embarrassed stumble here and there, but always picking up again and keeping on. For me, Atzmon's interview with Monir Deeb also goes directly to the heart of the matter. The simplicity and clarity, the directness of the address. A world that must continue to evade these truths probably deserves what it is getting, all these wonderful short-term profits that allow the ongoing of what is thought to be a way of life.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25941824411476514732018-06-01T23:46:20.358-07:002018-06-01T23:46:20.358-07:00The living are filtering the smoke
as if we were a...The living are filtering the smoke<br />as if we were all looking awayMose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4378545726906556372018-06-01T15:06:20.964-07:002018-06-01T15:06:20.964-07:00"Israel could have been a great opportunity f..."Israel could have been a great opportunity for the Jews to solve the so called “Jewish Question” that persisted in Europe, but the Zionists would have had to shake hands and find peace with the Palestinians. Israel has had many such opportunities that it stepped over with one excuse or another. Israel must acknowledge the Nakba (the 1948 Palestinian catastrophe) that Israel brought upon the Palestinians with their Zionist plans, allow at least some of the refugees to return, and negotiate Jerusalem and the rest of the issues. Had they done so, it would have legitimized Israel as a sovereign country, and not as an occupier settler people as they are widely regarded in the world. Such a peace would also have proven, once and for all, that the Jew is not a problem in Europe or anywhere else".<br /><br />This is at the heart of the whole thing. There were so many other narratives, so many other possibilities. A two state solution doesn't come close to making peace possible. As long as race remains the grounding principle of a state there's little hope of a sustained existence.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com