Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, V: "genocide"
written both for the Jewish people and for the people who care about the future of humanity
and in response to the following two remarks:
Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world. -- Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a)
The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity,...A graveyard for children. -- UN Secretary-General António Guterres
genocide hearing ...
every day kills something
inside
FYI: For more poems about the ICJ's genocide case against Israel, see Special Feature: Poems Selected for South Africa’s Genocide Case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, ICJ
Haaretz, Jan. 10: 50 Holocaust Researchers Ask Yad Vashem ( Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem) to Condemn Israeli Public Discourse Calling for Genocide in Gaza
The 'incitement to extermination' heard in the words of Israeli officials and personalities 'can reach the stage of genocide,' the researches say. They're calling on Yad Vashem to learn from the lessons of the Holocaust.
Haaretz, Opinion, Jan. 22: Yad Vashem Is Shirking Its Duty in the Face of Israeli Genocidal Rhetoric
The New Yorker, Jan. 12: How Israel’s Inspection Process Is Obstructing Aid Delivery
One of the things we witnessed personally was a large warehouse filled with humanitarian goods that had been rejected at Israeli inspection points. Goods like medical kits used to deliver babies, water-testing kits, water filters, solar-powered desalinization units, tents that people said might’ve been returned because they had metal poles.
So a whole collection of rejected items that seemed purely arbitrary. And I will also say that when one item on a truck is rejected, the entire truck is turned back, and in talking to a truck driver and others we learned that some of these trucks take twenty days to go from the starting point to delivering assistance.
Democracy Now!, Jan 10: IDF Is Using Hunger as a Weapon of War, Says Israeli Rights Group B'Tselem
Human rights groups say Israel is using starvation as a weapon in the Gaza Strip as Israel severely restricts the delivery of humanitarian aid, medicine and food supplies to millions inside the besieged and bombed territory. In a new report," Israeli human rights group B'Tselem lays out how Israel's decision to cut off electricity, water and international humanitarian aid to Gaza after a 17-year blockade against the territory has led to a very quick collapse of infrastructure. "The things that impede this provision of food for people who are starving is a declared policy by Israel," says Sarit Michaeli, B'Tselem international advocacy lead. "The Israeli government is at fault, is responsible for this, and this should lead to immediate international action."
And CNN, Jan. 11: Some Israeli intel officers "shocked by what they were asked to do’ in Gaza, says Israeli journalist
Bianna Golodryga speaks to Yuval Abraham, a journalist at +972 Magazine, on his investigations into how the Israeli army is operating in Gaza.
