tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7163036997095484183..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Broken PromisesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39074044249694905122015-02-27T13:05:29.058-08:002015-02-27T13:05:29.058-08:00"Yes, I'll hold your coat, go and
fight,&..."Yes, I'll hold your coat, go and<br />fight," someones told Hamas and<br />they believed. Hamas fought courageously against a militarily<br />far superior enemy.<br />Now that the milk has been spilt,<br />where are the someones who from<br />afar urged the fight? Now that long term suffering has arrived where are the support teams for<br />the Palestinians. <br />Where for example are the rich<br />Arab states of the Gulf? Best to<br />recall that in history, the persons best at making war are usually not the best at delivering the peace.Elmo St. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01588245143022651357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50771646712657027152015-02-25T04:40:40.105-08:002015-02-25T04:40:40.105-08:00Thanks very much, Abdal-Hayy and billoo, for step...Thanks very much, Abdal-Hayy and billoo, for stepping up to speak about the unspeakable ones, the ones forgotten by history.<br /><br />If surviving forever on a diet of rocks and stones and poison weeds were all the future held in store, how could a people go on?<br /><br />And if the offers of a few scraps from the pantry of the "international donors" were all that was keeping them going, and the international donors were affected by the familiar shadow of second thought between word and deed, then what?<br /><br />Chris Gunness has held up admirably under terrific stress from all sides in a virtually impossible job, and all power to him for that.<br /><br />And when he asks the beleaguered paterfamilias in Beit Hanoun, two of whose grandchildren have just died of exposure, where to lay the blame for all this loss, all this sorrow, it's easy to understand why both Jobril and Chris point the finger at those fairweather donors.<br /><br />But the death of those children and the ruination of that old man's house, family, and ultimately also his memory, was not accomplished by the international donors.<br /><br />The war criminal who was actually responsible for all that destruction, all that death, all that suffering, is not an international donor.<br /><br />It's a guy who's planning to barge into the US Congress next week, to hard-sell a little more of the same old snake oil. <br /><br />Yes, billoo, I think there is some comparison to be made along the lines you've suggested. The nobility of resistance in defeat makes a better historical image than the pathos of acquiescence in defeat.<br /><br />But either way, being overcome by a brutal dominating power is always going to be a bitter thing, and the bitterness is not going away soon.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33684988622328006422015-02-25T00:51:12.832-08:002015-02-25T00:51:12.832-08:00Tom, there's almost something fatalistic about...Tom, there's almost something fatalistic about the destruction of the Palestinians, don't you think? As it was with the Native peoples. In both cases the settlers saw the land as a wilderness, people as "dots and dreams".billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41425554876627713452015-02-24T19:03:02.306-08:002015-02-24T19:03:02.306-08:00Hunger (Faim)
I only find within my bones
A taste...Hunger (Faim)<br /><br />I only find within my bones<br />A taste for eating earth and stones.<br />When I feed, I feed on air,<br />Rocks and coals and iron ore.<br /><br />My hunger, turn. Hunger, feed,<br />A field of bran.<br />Gather as you can the bright<br />Poison weed.<br /><br />Eat the rocks a beggar breaks,<br />The stones of ancient churches' walls;<br />Pebbles, children of the flood,<br />Loaves left lying in the mud.<br />___________________________<br />A. Rimbaud (Alchemy of the Word, Un Saison en Enfer, trans.?)Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692776372807142753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83917005378092160382015-02-24T08:05:39.338-08:002015-02-24T08:05:39.338-08:00How the Israeli army destroyed Beit Hanoun in one ...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWH6tcHT5N0" rel="nofollow">How the Israeli army destroyed Beit Hanoun in one hour</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com