# Ark

**Published by:** [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/)
**Published on:** 2024-11-09
**Categories:** poetry, history, palestinian, refugee, israel
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@compossible/ark

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“I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.” (Genesis 6:13)Find something you love:A girl or a boy,A wife or grandma, Your favourite doll.Something beautiful, useful, Venerable, vulnerable:That can burst Into flames In a heartbeatIn the raining fire Take them to the boatBring everything You can fit Into your little bagBe ready to sailAt the drop of a hatIn a New York minute Escape that scorched earthStill ringing withThe tumult of killing And stench of race-hateA never ending Un-winnable warWhere victor and vanquished Are equally shamed In their various ways(Though the death-tollTells a different score) And start again,In God's grace. All God wants Is for youTo start again,To be cleansed. Go somewhere safe(Hopefully warm, A gentle reminder of home)Far from the Maddening bombs Remember Your loved onesWhat you have lostThough you may mend The scars will remain Listen, can you hear The god of all things Sing:Flee the fiery flood,Begin again, again, again.Read Part VI of Sefirah – Canto for David:Twenty to One"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."(Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, circa 431 B.C.E)...https://paragraph.xyzRead Part IV of Sefirah – Canto for David:The Witching HourWho will watch the Unwatchedhttps://paragraph.xyzComment: With great regret, the only future I can see for ordinary Palestinians seems to be a coordinated humanitarian mass migration – as was the case for Jews (and others) in Nazi Germany. The accumulated attitude of dehumanisation has reached a point of no return there. Anyone who cares for the civilians should be trying to get them out of Gaza (and soon the West Bank). The civilians are trapped by and between liberal wishful thinking (referencing toothless international laws which make what is happening a ghastly collection of crimes against humanity) and the long standing occupation, apartheid and now this Genocide, that will only continue whilst the Western powers support it. The fact that many extremist Israelis and Americans would like to see such a migration, rather than cease their policy of apartheid and ethnic cleansing, is not the point when thinking of this from the perspective of civilians. Obviously any Palestinians that do not wish to leave their homeland should be supported by us and international law and organisations, however the prospects for all Palestinians continue to look bleak when you have two nuclear superpowers (the USA and Israel) intent on alternating between slow motion 'mowing the lawn' and quick speed Genocide of a whole people that have no powerful State actors supporting them (as has been the case for many decades). Many of the leaders in Israel, Palestinian occupied territories and the USA are extremists that see the Palestinian's suffering as merely tools for their political ends (that is to say they are terrorists). We might not be able to stop them but we should not avoid calling them out for what the are whilst trying to save men, women and children being murdered like animals in their droves. It is really quite simple, if you think killing over 40,000 women and children is justified then you are the terrorist.Further reading:The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu's support for HamasFrom sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.https://www.972mag.comIsrael and the U.S. are engaging in a bogus debate over the two-state solutionThe Attention the U.S. Is Paying to the Prospect of a Palestinian State Alongside Israel Is Part of a Ploy Orchestrated by Netanyahu, Who Is Back to His Old Tricks. A Two-state Solution Cannot Come Now, and the Biden Administration Knows Ithttps://www.haaretz.comOn the road to annexation, Israel is intentionally causing a Palestinian economic collapseTo Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, This Campaign of Wrecking the Palestinian Economy Is a Necessary Phase in His Declared Plan of Annexation and Expulsion, but Will He Set Off a New Intifada in the West Bank?https://www.haaretz.comThe Trees - Poetry ArchiveThe trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too,...https://poetryarchive.orgTrump doubles down on call for Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from GazaShortly After Speaking With Egypt's Al-Sissi, the U.S. President Said He Wants Gazans 'In an Area Where They Can Live Without Disruption. Gaza Has Been Hell for So Many Years'https://www.haaretz.com

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