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Roald Dahl, 1983, about Beirut under Israeli bombs: "One finds it almost impossible to believe that a civilised people could perform such acts of fiendish barbarism upon women and children and patients in hospitals... The Israelis pinpointed and hit no less than thirteen out of the seventeen hospitals in Beirut, one of them a mental hospital and many of the others full of children."

“we’ve plunged into war / and wars don’t stop like rain stops” — Hettie Jones . . . This poem appeared in Doing 70 by Hettie Jones, published by Hanging Loose Press, 2007. Shared here with deep gratitude.

I’m so tired of journalists in Palestine and Lebanon having to say farewell to each other, promising to continue the work of their fallen colleagues only for them to be martyred too. This is excruciating and not normal.

Sky News foreign correspondent Alex Crawford reported that Lebanese health workers in Nabatieh are being forced to deliberately delay their arrival at emergency scenes to avoid Israeli “double-tap” strikes, which, she said, have become a “pattern”.

At first, I thought each square represented one child killed in Gaza. But each square actually represents TEN children.

The sun has been born—but it does not move. Tonatiuh stands fixed at the center of the sky. His heat gathers in one place, and the earth itself, Tlaltecuhtli, begins to burn beneath Him. This moment comes from my book The Birth of the Fifth Sun, which tells the Mexica story of the birth of the sun and the creation of the world we inhabit. etsy.com/listing/445741…

Meet Enas Al-Ghoul, a Palestinian agricultural engineer turning crisis into innovation: Her simple yet brilliant solar still purifies salty seawater for daily use, while the captured heat lets her prepare meals right on the setup. Absolute respect for this kind of survival creativity.🇵🇸

with ILCP artists march 15, stall 36 @artintheparkph

Sunday!

There used to be a big billboard on a main highway in Tel Aviv with an ad offering foreign care-takers for elderly Israelis. The ad simply showed Filipino man and woman with the text "Filipino Men and Women" and the company's phone number. Haaretz wrote about it in 2001. Today's Israeli society is much more racist.

'GONE TOO SOON' Children were killed in Duterte's war on illegal drugs. They were 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17 years old. They had homework to finish, exams the next day, Mass to attend, and most especially dreams to achieve. Some were asleep, some were getting ready for school. But they were killed and became part of the thousands of Filipinos killed in the bloody war that the previous administration waged. As the ICC case against Duterte moves forward, families demand justice. For them, the search for accountability is inseparable from grief — and from the lives they say were taken too soon. | @AdrianINQ READ MORE: inqnews.net/liveslosttooso…

One of the moments that truly radicalized me during Gaza genocide was when Zionists offered boat tours just to watch Gaza being bombed & to show off the land where they planned to build new settlements

ISRAELI NEWSPAPER IN 1984 "IRAN IS IN THE FINAL STAGES OF MAKING A NUCLEAR BOMB" 41 YEARS ON, STILL NO SIGN OF A BOMB..

haiku by L. Midori Morota watering my dead vines they never stopped wishing, wondering, withering haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-l-mid…

Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.

haiku by Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo a bud, a bloom, and a withering rose; the Fates in a pot haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-denni…

C.D. Wright ~ We keep our poetry locked in a glass cabinet Some nights We stay up passing it back and forth between us drinking deep

A Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence.

The aim of totalitarianism is not only to keep you uneducated but to instill in you a contempt for the educated, and thus a hatred of education, so that you never, through the empowerment of education, develop the language even to articulate your discontent to yourself.