“In Jerusalem” from The Butterfly’s Burden.
by Mahmoud Darwish

In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,
I walk from one epoch to another without a memory
to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing
the history of the holy … ascending to heaven
and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love
and peace are holy and are coming to town.
I was walking down a slope and thinking to myself: How
do the narrators disagree over what light said about a stone?
Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?
I walk in my sleep. I stare in my sleep. I see
no one behind me. I see no one ahead of me.
All this light is for me. I walk. I become lighter. I fly
then I become another. Transfigured. Words
sprout like grass from Isaiah’s messenger
mouth: “If you don’t believe you won’t be safe.”
I walk as if I were another. And my wound a white
biblical rose. And my hands like two doves
on the cross hovering and carrying the earth.
I don’t walk, I fly, I become another,
transfigured. No place and no time. So who am I?
I am no I in ascension’s presence. But I
think to myself: Alone, the prophet Muhammad
spoke classical Arabic. “And then what?”
Then what? A woman soldier shouted:
Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you?
I said: You killed me … and I forgot, like you, to die.

English translation by Fady Joudah

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-sacked-sunak-protest-police-b2444592.html
“Suella Braverman has been sensationally sacked after claims that she incited violent protests by far Right thugs at the Cenotaph.
She was dismissed by Rishi Sunak, forcing him to order an emergency Cabinet reshufffle.

Her sacking will be welcomed by some Tory MPs who say the Prime Minister should have fired Ms Braverman when she controversially accused police of failing to do enough to tackle ‘hateful’ pro Palestinian protestors last week.’

But it could provoke a full scale revolt by her Conservative supporters who say she is determined to succeed Mr Sunak as party leader.

It comes after Ms Braverman sparked outrage by claiming that Metropolitan Police favouritism had stopped far-right protests but permitted “pro-Palestine mobs” to rally, ahead of the Gaza march set to take place on Armistice Day.
She doubled down on the comments on Sunday night, claiming Britain’s streets were being “polluted by hate, violence, and antisemitism”.

Good riddance, it serves her right!

Dark is the Night (TềMHas Ho4b, lit. Dark Night)

This is a famous Soviet song associated with the Great Patriotic War. It was originally performed by Mark Bernes in the 1943 war film Two Soldiers. The song was composed by Nikita Bogoslovsky (1913-2004), lyrics by Vladimir Agatov, especially for the film Two Soldiers. In the film, Bernes is a soldier who recalls his wife and baby at night while singing the song. The official experts were keen to accuse Bogoslovsky of propagating “Philistine” sentimental tunes. Though ostracized by the authorities, the song became a symbol of the war years for millions of Soviet people.
Dark Is the Night has been described as “a gentle lyrical song imbued with a feeling of
homesickness and expressing devotion to one’s beloved” which helped reveal the personal side of the war.

Scientists Discover Gene That Predisposes Ashkenazi Jews to Schizophrenia:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7973467/
The hypothesis posed is that the increased prevalence among the Ashkenazim of the rare lysosomal enzyme disorders, Tay Sachs disease (TDS), caused by low levels of hexosaminidase A, and Gaucher’s disease (GD), caused by low levels of glucocerebrosidase, might contribute to the demonstrated increased vulnerability to schizophrenia in this ethnic group.

Israeli and American scientists have discovered a gene among Ashkenazi Jews that increases their chances of developing the mental disorder schizophrenia, as well schizoaffective disorder and manic depression.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/208224/Raeisi-presents-10-urgent-solutions-to-Bin-Salman
The Iranian president, who traveled to Saudi Arabia to participate in the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, met with the Saudi Crown Prince on the sidelines of the summit.
This is the first visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Saudi Arabia after 11 years.

In this meeting, Raeesi presented 10 solutions and urgent suggestions for making decisive decisions in favor of the Palestinian nation.

1: The act of stopping the killing of Gaza and ending the attacks is blind.
2: Complete lifting of the siege and the reopening of the Rafah crossing with the help of the Egyptian brothers and all Islamic and Arab leaders.
3: The immediate withdrawal of the Zionist military from Gaza.
4: Cutting off any political connections and experiences with the Zionist regime by Islamic countries and supporting the boycotters of Zionist goods.
5: Islamic states must declare the Zionist army a terrorist organization.
6: Forming a fair court to investigate the Zionist regime’s actions and prosecute the Israeli and American officials for participating in this crime.
7: Formation of a fund for the reconstruction of Gaza.
8: Sending humanitarian convoys to the Palestinian people.
9: Naming the bombing of Gaza hospitals as the day of genocide and crime against humanity.
10: Arming the Palestinian people to confront the war-mongering occupier in case the occupation continues.

“Israel has bombed #Gaza with 13,000 bombs carrying 32,000 tons of explosives.
#Nagasaki #Japan carried 21,000 tons of TNT
#Hiroshima carried 16,000 tons of TNT
Israel is the most criminal apartheid genocidal criminal zionist regime in the world.
[note in his rage he used criminal twice, and all five contiguous words mean the same. He could have said “nazi” to sum it up]”

Why blame German Nazis for the crimes of Isreali-Ashkenazi?

Netanyahu declared to his people: “We shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah.” You may recall from your Sunday school that Isaiah prophesied a time when all nations “will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles” (Isaiah 2:4). But go back to your Bible, and read the full prophecy to understand what Netanyahu means. Isaiah is about a time when “the Law will issue from Zion” and Israel “will judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples” (2:3-4). Here is more from Isaiah: “the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish, and the nations will be utterly destroyed” (60:12); “You will suck the milk of nations, you will suck the wealth of kings” (60:16); “You will feed on the wealth of nations, you will supplant them in their glory” (61:5-6). “Yahweh’s sword is gorged with blood, it is greasy with fat,” says Isaiah on the occasion of “a great slaughter in the land of Edom [Amalek’s grandfather]” (34:6).
https://www.unz.com/article/the-gospel-of-gaza/

What a bloody G-d & religion 🤔

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy:
Israeli society has surrounded itself with shields, walls, not only physical, but also mental. I will simply give three principles that allow us Israelis to live easily in this harsh reality.

First. Most, if not all, Israelis deeply believe that we are the chosen people. And if we are the chosen people, we have the right to do whatever we want.

Second. There have been more brutal occupations in history. There have been longer occupations in history. But never in history has there been an occupation in which the occupier presented himself as a victim. The other day Professor Falk spoke about this double strategy of Israel: to be a victim on the one hand and to manipulate on the other.

And finally, I come to the third set of values ​​that allow us Israelis to live in peace with occupation. This is perhaps the most important and worst of them. And this is the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians.

Because if they are not like us, then there can be no talk of human rights. And if you scratch every Israeli, you will find it there. Almost no one will treat the Palestinians as equal people, as themselves. After all, how many Israelis have ever tried to put themselves even for a moment in the shoes of the Palestinians, for a moment, for a day?