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For decades, the Israeli liberals have put up a principled resistance to the violence.
Then Hamas pulls some ol’ shit like Oct 7. Likud says “see?! see!? Hamas cannot be trusted!”
The Israeli liberals have just stopped liberal-ing. And while those hostages remain underground, Israel will go on exterminating human life out of Gaza.
A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.
@paninid @PanArab @Lazarou
For decades, the Israeli liberals have put up a principled resistance to the violence.
Then Hamas pulls some ol’ shit like Oct 7. Likud says “see?! see!? Hamas cannot be trusted!”
The Israeli liberals have just stopped liberal-ing. And while those hostages remain underground, Israel will go on exterminating human life out of Gaza.
@paninid @PanArab @Lazarou
Auden:
A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.
https://poets.org/poem/shield-achilles