tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3605808872171255670..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Hijos de un dios menorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79745907074328896992014-07-27T14:41:05.515-07:002014-07-27T14:41:05.515-07:00Thank you for your strong voice, Neeli.
That'...Thank you for your strong voice, Neeli.<br /><br />That's all we have now, our small voices, one and one and one.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69201182596844955362014-07-27T09:23:05.509-07:002014-07-27T09:23:05.509-07:00the slaughter must end. . . the slaughter of
innoc...the slaughter must end. . . the slaughter of<br />innocents has to end -- thak you for the energy<br />in all of this -- the time -- the horrible images<br />you face, but whoch all must see.<br /><br /><br />NeeliUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929485145428789182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24452532424127838452014-07-26T08:45:26.437-07:002014-07-26T08:45:26.437-07:00Yes, I too read those Youtube comments.
Just imag...Yes, I too read those Youtube comments.<br /><br />Just imagine what would happen if every Youtube commenter had the power to back up the illiterate rhetorical belligerence. <br /><br />What a world we'd have then...<br /><br />Almost as bad as this one.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38704105435701605162014-07-26T02:28:00.785-07:002014-07-26T02:28:00.785-07:00Daniel, Yr questions are mine, and everyone else&#...Daniel, Yr questions are mine, and everyone else's as well, brother. Only that I do not know, who I (should) address them to, anymore.<br /><br />A casual scroll to check the comments under this "knock knock" video sent me spiraling into an endless abyss of racial hatred-- it is ridiculous how prejudices against Islam, based on the West's liberal notions of rationality (it is appropriate in several ways, that Tom, you mention Leibniz), is becoming a universal excuse to celebrate Israel's offensive. <br /><br />adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22950067113758441422014-07-25T23:38:37.282-07:002014-07-25T23:38:37.282-07:00Thanks, Terry.
It was disappointing to hear the ...Thanks, Terry. <br /><br />It was disappointing to hear the surprisingly exultant reactions, on July 20, of Netanyahu and Avi Lerner, after the first push on the ground into Gaza.<br /><br />That no one in the increasingly cowed "international community" then pushed back obviously encouraged the offensive, which since then has morphed in stages, its execution unimpaired by the horrendous count in civilian lives and casualties, not to mention the wanton destruction of what there was of infrastructure among the subjugated people. <br /><br />Whose ability to withstand is almost as astonishing as the Israeli lust for blood.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64707742865665804302014-07-25T20:06:25.168-07:002014-07-25T20:06:25.168-07:00Spectacular series on this TC. I appreciate your d...Spectacular series on this TC. I appreciate your dedication to it, with the same fervor that I deplore the response of those with the authority to end it.Terry Simonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6349285150515164762014-07-25T18:28:13.638-07:002014-07-25T18:28:13.638-07:00If Leibniz were among us now, I hope he'd be g...If Leibniz were among us now, I hope he'd be giving his home entertainment centre a wide berth, just on the off chance that some bit of news might have escaped the propaganda filter and be about to score a direct hit on his beautiful theory.<br /><br />I suppose photos showing the true ghastly nature of what is being wrought upon Gaza ought to be prefaced with a warning.<br /><br />That seems the way, currently, the warning before the havoc.<br />We've had to endure the endless insufferable crowing by the Zionist butchers about their own humane cautionary techniques -- well, terror techniques really -- of "knocking on the roof", thus providing "due warning" to those whose lives, memories and history are about to be erased. <br /><br />Right. Humane. <br /><br />Here's what's meant by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdULPgX5mR0" rel="nofollow">"knocking on the roof"</a> by the way. <br /><br />Humane, yeah?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31732859220185401942014-07-25T15:04:52.924-07:002014-07-25T15:04:52.924-07:00It's a curious thing, the uses of a text such ...It's a curious thing, the uses of a text such as John's Apocalypse. It's served both as words of resistance and oppression. Christian Zionists think they have it down pat.<br /><br />Reading these verses (that I know too well) while looking at these pictures is a wholly disarming experience.<br /><br />Leibniz crystal peace smashed, the shards caked in children's blood.<br /><br />Yours is the prophetic voice, Tom. A bastard of a vocation if ever there was one. Thank you for "the only vivid coverage anywhere".Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67953763259977123882014-07-25T14:21:31.090-07:002014-07-25T14:21:31.090-07:00Thank you Maureen and Abdal-Hayy for having the co...Thank you Maureen and Abdal-Hayy for having the courage and compassion to break the silence.<br /><br />Today's charade and pretence over the humanitarian pause that wasn't indicates the gravity of the problem. Americans absolutely refuse any opportunity to learn the unpleasant truth about this racist slaughter which they are not only implicitly condoning (by their craven silence) , but plainly financing, and protecting with effective procedural immunity by preventing, in American mainstream media, the dissemination of any accurate information whatsoever.<br /><br />The reporting here now follows a familiar pattern. For every Israel war crime there is a cynical Israeli propaganda cover story, slavishly reported by what was once called "the press", but now, in effect, reduced to a misinformation staff working in the service of a war machine.<br /><br />And somebody else's war machine at that -- not that anybody's war machine is more admirable than anybody else's.<br /><br />The incessant and unbelievably cynical blaming of the carnage on the victims is surely salt in their wounds.<br /><br />Anyone who wishes to exhaust and depress themselves can find unmistakable graphic evidence of atrocities continuing and in fact actually increasing in sheer volume of harm by the day.<br /><br />So much easier to give it the casual "whatever" or "so what else is new" or "so what?" or "Gaza -- what's that?"<br /><br />And then there's the "serves them right" response. In which the true present character of this people, once famed for democracy and fairness and (for heaven's sake) a certain sympathy for the underdog, is painfully exposed. <br /><br />Hardened international reporters and photojournalists who have worked in war zones round the world are reacting curiously in Gaza, now. Anger and revulsion as well as fear and exhaustion now affect many who have witnessed scenes beyond anything in their experience. A number of photos seen here were taken by photojournalists who have begun posting on private Twitter accounts images which they did not or more likely could not post in their mainstream media outlets. Their making this horrible reality real for us, at considerable risk to their own safety and convenience, is a helpful reminder that the human heart has not yet been uprooted by the global war machinery.<br /><br /><br /><br />__<br /><br /><br />As to the news, here are a few bits from recent hours. The source of the first two is Chris Gunness, UN relief director. The second concerns the death today of another humanitarian aid worker.<br /><br />Chris Gunness @ChrisGunness Follow<br /><br />160,487 displaced people in 83 UNRWA shelters in #Gaza. After Beit Hanoun none can be assumed safe; a source of universal disgrace RT<br />8:56 AM - 25 Jul 2014<br /><br />__<br /><br />A UN team had to cut short a visit to the scene of Thursday's attack on a school in Beit Hanoun when it encountered gunfire, UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness says in a statement. The Israeli army had been notified of the mission in advance, he says:<br /><br /> At 1400 today an UNRWA team which included an international weapons expert went to the school at Beit Hanoun which came under attack yesterday causing multiple deaths and injury. The aim of the visit to the site was to survey the scene in the aftermath of the incident. The Israeli army had been notified in advance about the composition of the team, the time and purpose of the visit. The mission had to be cut short and the team was forced to leave the area after gunfire around the school. UNRWA regrets not being able complete even this initial assessment. We will attempt to visit the site when the situation allows. We again underline our call for an immediate and comprehensive investigation.<br /><br />__<br /><br />Hashem Abu Maria, 46, killed today in Beit Ummar near Hebron by Israeli soldiers, is reported to have worked with Defence for Children, an NGO for Palestinian kids.<br /><br />Brad Parker @baparkr Follow<br /><br />Shocked to learn that @DCIPalestine colleague #HashemAbuMaria was killed by Israeli forces in #BeitOmmar. Devastating.<br /><br />6:20 AM - 25 Jul 2014TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31634717862407639002014-07-25T10:50:14.690-07:002014-07-25T10:50:14.690-07:00Other than fulminating our fury here and walking a...Other than fulminating our fury here and walking around the day with leaden hearts, having "not looked away" at these photos, dear Tom, Angelica and everyone, what are we to do? <br /><br />The root is the "root cause" of this holocaust, and our US funding and support, wrenched tightly at the private parts by the Israeli lobbies (some even say Lincoln "sold" America to banking "families" to back the Civil War, etc.), and until it's curtailed, Israel, as it has for its history, can thumb its nose at the rest of the world and continue taking out its misplaced vengeance on the native populations of the land they covet. (It's not a covenant, ladies and gentlemen, it's a coveting. Most of the Israelis are even atheists, which I deem abrogates their "holy" right to be there...) <br /><br />So continuing to follow the only vivid coverage I've seen anywhere, here at this site, dear Clarks, that it truly boggles the mind, my question, even as a writer of poems, is the famous unresolved one for people of consciousness and conscience, what do we do?Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692776372807142753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26287930116048768982014-07-25T07:11:48.656-07:002014-07-25T07:11:48.656-07:00"Hijos de un dios menor": indeed!
I am ..."Hijos de un dios menor": indeed!<br /><br />I am beyond outrage at our country's cautious (if that is the correct word) approach to this continuing slaughter. Israel must be condemned for so disproportional a response to Hamas rockets.<br /><br />"My God, My God, why hast thou abandoned me?"<br />Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.com