Dust On Their Tongue…

What kind of human beings would deny babies their milk, their baby food, their baby formula – and their mother’s love? What kind of society have they created, and chosen to live in? How do they treat and love their own little infants? What do they want their babies to become, once they grow old – exact replicas of their parents? And Grandpa – Barbarian Bibi?

When babies are deliberately denied the baby formula, they must die. When babies don’t get their mothers to look after them in ‘peace time’, that too in a ravaged terrain with tens of thousands dead, and dying, then, too, in all probability, they will die.

No food, no milk, no mother’s milk for thousands of orphaned children with entire families wiped out, no nourishment, no maternal care – the babies must die.

With health care eliminated with systematic precision, and hospitals bombed out one by one, nurses, paramedics and doctors deliberately targeted and murdered, a slow and painful death must arrive, and babies cannot even express!

The little ones, some just out of their mother’s wombs, some with their eyes still shut – how do they feel this slow, relentless, emaciated condition – this persistent pain of uncanny hunger?

When mothers don’t get the nourishment to survive, their babies too must die. When mothers are killed en masse, their babies must die. When the air is full of death and dying, and there is not a morsel to eat, not a drop of milk to drink, and baby formula is denied — all children must die.

It’s a new kind of ‘scientific’ arrangement that the rulers in Tel Aviv have arrived to in this post-modern war-capitalism backed by the extremist Jewish lobby in the West, and the American establishment, like their counterparts in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. After you have willfully murdered 20,000 plus kids, and many more young mothers – snipers marking their targets and shooting pregnant women and children on their foreheads, hospitals bombed out with babies in incubators, just-born babies in incubators denied basic health care, hence, destined to die.

Kids arriving in make-shift emergency wards with bloodied bodies full of wounds, babies, alive, half-dead, and dead, in this endless graveyard called Gaza. All international doctors, who volunteered to work out there risking their lives, still traumatized themselves, have testified that among the injured, the majority of them were inevitably children. Some already dead, some gasping for life, some with their bodies brutalised, some who had to have their little limbs amputated, some who could never see or hear anymore, some who had their entire bodies hit with bullet wounds and splinters.

Almost all the doctors said that they have never read, heard of, or seen anything like this in their entire academic and professional career.

If you kill pregnant women, young, unmarried women, mothers, babies and children, no new civilization will grow out of this ravaged landscape – I presume this is the ‘holy’ doctrine and theocratic theory which drives this ‘sacred’ machine. Because this God-damned mythical land, they believe, belongs to them – and no one else. The original inhabitants, thus, according to this divine doctrine, must be slaughtered — all of them. Babies and mothers first.

Indeed, this land did not belong to them. It never did. Indeed, most of them now living in ‘Occupied Palestine’, including in the forcibly captured settlements of the West Bank – are immigrants from Europe and Russia, exiled after the two world wars. This was never ever their homeland – imagined or real. It belonged to the Arabs, mostly, a scattering of Jews, Coptic Christians etc., miscellaneous tribes and communities, and others.

Of the many videos which I watch as a journalist, a recent video sent by an editor shows how a father went out in search of food, and returned, carrying the body of his son, shot dead by the Israeli forces near the so-called ‘aid’ distribution centre – yes, organized by the Israelis and the Americans. These so-called aid centres, in narrow strips with check points, where starving crowds are compelled to rush, are the latest points of quick murders – for no rhyme or reason, indeed, apart from the fact that civilians need to be murdered.  Earlier they would shoot people desperately crowding around the few trucks which would arrive with food – now they compel them to gather in these aid points – and they shoot them at random.

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So wonder why the father is carrying his dead son on his shoulder – why did they spare him for God’s sake? Indeed, he could be Hamas – as is their standard ploy when they shoot to kill miscellaneous people, mostly women and kids.

The video shows the lucky ones running along with flour in sacks. They don’t seem to care anymore, for the suffering of this father, or others. The father with his dead kid on his shoulder is walking along, perhaps tears dripping from his eyes. A collective, shared community now cares no more for a hungry father carrying a dead child. All they want now is a bit of flour to feed their dying families.

Suffering, when it crosses all limits – what does it become?

Detachment?

Survival of the fittest?

Self-preservation at all costs?

Total dehumanisation?

This is the kind of dehumanization which is a perfect long-term strategy of diabolical regimes who use organized barbarism as political ideology. Colonial, American and western regimes have mastered this sinister craft all over the world, all through history. In Vietnam – in a reverse syndrome, after 14 years of massacres of innocent, disarmed peasants, thousands of American marines became either dehumanized, or trapped in an infinitely vicious circle of life-long psychological trauma and eternal guilt. Apocalyse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, with Marlon Brando, have you seen this film?

This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany and Europe under the fascists. Neighbours would vanish overnight, night raids would happen, followed by desperate screams and gunshots, the classroom buddies of their children would forever disappear, homes would suddenly turn empty – no one cared a damn!

This is their dream society. A totally dehumanized social formation with not an iota of human conscience or compassion left. Each protecting their petty, guilt-soaked, bad faith morality. Each protecting their self-centric turf, others turning informers to save themselves, and thereby becoming accomplices in the mass murders which went on non-stop, beyond  the concentration camps in Krakow and Auschwitz in Poland.

Predictably, Europe and the US, witnessed it all, in silence. The Holocaust. Until Poland was attacked.

As they have done, and are doing now in Gaza.

It went on. On and on. Those trains packed with human beings like cattle being taken for slaughter, thousands of them packed in suffocating compartments; long, hard journeys through Europe – starving, thirsty, shivering in the cold, shitting right there in the middle of the train – what else could they do?

This was the supremacist higher civilization conceived by Adolf Hitler. Now, being applied with a new scientific and military arrangement by Benjamin Netanyahu, backed by western rulers: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, and the current German regime.

The German establishment has been particularly brutal with protesters. There are videos showing the armed bullies, dragging brutally, pushing them to the ground or a wall – yes, peaceful women protesters  – as if they are criminals. Social media commentators point out how the same cops choose to behave so gently with the aggressive Neo-Nazis on the streets. Is this driven by the schizophrenia of a haunted past?

A recent soliloquy from Gaza, tells a story. The story. Epical literature from the land of Palestine.

And then I saw them.
Not rebels. Not criminals.
Children.
They ran, ran like hunted things,
Towards that truck. They climbed it with hands that have never held toys.
They fell to their knees as if before an altar.
And they began to scrape.
One had a broken lid.
Another, a piece of cardboard.
But the rest, the rest used their hands.
Their tongues.
They licked it.
Did you hear me?
They licked flour dust from rusted steel. From dirt. From the back of a truck that had already driven away.
One boy was laughing.
Not because he was happy, but because the body goes mad when it is starving.
Another was crying, quietly, like someone who no more believes anyone is listening.
And I stood there,
With all my shame.
With my hands in pockets, like a man waiting for a bus.
Like I wasn’t watching the end of the world.
I wanted to scream.
But what scream can reach Heaven,
When Heaven itself is deaf?
….And God?
If You are watching, then cry with us.