(FYI: The Guardian, May 21:
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the BBC that what Israel "is doing now in Gaza is very close to a WAR CRIME."
And Haaretz, May 23: A Lost Battle for Human Rights: Throughout the War Israel's High Court Has Denied All Requests to Protect Gazans
Since the start of the war, the High Court has given its seal of approval to all of Israel's actions – withholding of medical treatment, the disappearing of people, denial of media access to Gaza, and above all, starving the population of Gaza)
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXXVIII: "A Gazan baby"
written in response to Haaretz, May 20: Opposition MK Says Israel Risks Pariah Status, 'Sane State Doesn't Kill Babies as Hobby'
a Gazan baby
the glitter
in a sniper's eye
FYI: Earlier on Tuesday, in an interview with Kan public radio, Yair Golan said Israel was "on the path to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa once was, if it does not return to acting like a sane country." He added that a "sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set goals for itself like the expulsion of a population."
The Democrats chair also criticized the government's conduct, saying it is "full of vengeful, unintelligent, and immoral individuals who lack the ability to run a country in a time of emergency – people who have nothing whatsoever to do with Judaism." Golan called for the government to be replaced "as soon as possible, so that the war can come to an end."
For more, see Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on Israeli Opposition Leader's Remark on Israel's Genocidal War on Gaza: a "sane state does not Kill Babies as a Hobby"
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXXIX: "Heaven and Gaza's ruins"
an armless boy's stare
midnight lightning links Heaven
and Gaza's ruins ...
