“𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠”

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Children of darkness.

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You turned the lights out,

Israel.

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You churned bodies, bodies

On bodies

Buried

Under rubble.

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Babies.

Mothers.

Daughters.

Fathers.

Sons.

People...

Killing people.

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You burned a cold frown.

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Stood your ground?

Since when?

Yesterday—October of 2023?

You mean 1948?

Do I need to tell you exact dates?

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You know,

Israel.

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This is your war;

Your genocide.

Did not just begin despite misinformation and lies spread over the internet.

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The internet...

Both full of deceit,

Conceit,

And thirdly, defeat.

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Propaganda machine.

War-supporting.

Fear-mongering.

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Feed it;

And if you disagree with “them,”

Come for you,

It will.

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They cannot touch us from behind these cold screens.

Cold frowns...

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Emblaze the images of the small, broken, large, open, now, soulless...people.

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Frozen wherever the airstrikes,

Bombs,

Cold-blooded murderers

Left them to be unfound.

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Some separated forever;

Some, for a moment, thought to be;

And some separated, literally.

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Think of them instead.

Cannot run away from it—

Or you can?

That's a question.

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You in your warm home—

You know, maybe it's cold—

Their bones—

Frozen—

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But you're here, aren't you?

Fighting your own war, surely.

Well, the world needs you to wake up.

There is much work to do.

The world only works if we work together.

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And fuck what our government officials may say—

Maybe, maybe—

If they're saying to not say anything at all.

To not criticize the crooked way of war.

To not come closer...

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No, closer...

And see through the smoke.

I know, the blood and tears make it hard...

But see, that's what they do.

That is what they do.

Pit us against each other.

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“Look this way, not that!”

Strike!

“Come our way, not theirs!”

Bomb!

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“We made deals with some people in low, low places that sit in high, high towers;

And we don't care about the small towns,

Nor the twins,

Nor the Jews,

Nor the—who, Nazis?

Love those guys— I mean, we don't care

But to fare...fair?

In our deals.

And it's best that you get on kill—heel...

Come on, share the wealth!

You won't lose any deals!

Hell, you may earn some new ones!

Trust us.

We've been doing this for centuries!”

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75 years.

This did not happen just yesterday.

Do you want to be so unaware?

Do you choose to be?

Ah, what deals have you made—

With whom?

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Look under your seat—

Are you sitting at all?

Are you privy to their rat-calls

And missiles

And the shitholes...

They are turning beautiful cities into?

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I won't apologize for my language.

They won't apologize for killing innocent civilians in their game of...

War?

It's worse.

It's...

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Tell me who's the bad guy here?

Me?

For telling the goddamn truth.

And damn, do they use god to sell theirs.

Who's the bad guy here?

Them—

For existing?

“They” are not Hamas.

They are not even, simply, “Gaza.”

They are Palestinians.

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And yes, there were Israelis—

Jewish people—

Yes—

Too, who got hurt as the result of...

Guess what?

Their own crimes.

75 . . .

. . .

This is not the holocaust,

Darlings.

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This is a 21st century

Invasion—

Occupation.

Say it clearly:

A ge•no•cide.

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Committed by, sadly,

Ancestors of...

Well, you tell me.

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And it's just not that simple,

But it's not complicated.

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Know the history

And know all history

And know that all. history. does. is. lie

When not told by honest historians

Who have nothing to gain

But the truth to put to shame

On those responsible and complicit in these, eh, “war games.”

Unh.

It's obvious, then.

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You admit that Russia has invaded Ukraine, yes?

That the holocaust did happen—

Less—okay—

And that Thanksgiving commemorates another mass genocide.

Oh, the western world doesn't like that historical fact either.

No, no.

Natives.

Look at that!

Brown people, so to speak.

Ah, now we're back to “complications.”

. . .

See, I'm Jewish, Indigenous, and this and that...

But look, Muslim and Arab people—

Historically painted as terrorists and traitors—

Oh, that's just too easy, hater.

This is called xenophobia.

Right?

Racism.

Right?

White supremacy.

White?

Yeah.

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I've fallen far down their war road...

I have the privilege to get back up.

To wake up.

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To live my life...

Mostly...

In peace.

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Taken for granted.

We are...

In this world.

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Is the term, “children of darkness” not abhorrent and somehow, accidentally racist?

No, that's by design.

Not a mistake,

But deleted.

The internet.

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Israel said this...

Through such a megaphone,

And that is all you need to know about this war and this world.

And those cold frowns plastered in and under and all over what they didn't just make yesterday their war zone,

But on May 14th, 1948.

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That blood is on all our hands,

Whether we can help it or not.

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The U.S. is in bed with Israel.

Biden...

“Sleepy, sleepy...”

Do you want to untangle those sheets?

You've confused some, you see.

But I see.

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The children of darkness sleep now.

Today,

Tomorrow...

October 7th, 2023.

When will it end?

We can “help it or not.”

We can try.

Come closer...

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Take a moment.

Breathe

Because you can.

Ya know...

You can.

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And then get back to work.

Whatever that looks like

For you.

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But never forget

All the children lying in darkness now...

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As you turn your lights out.

Song: 'Run (Beautiful Things)' by AWOLNATION.

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🛑 CALLS TO ACTION 🛑

Demand a ceasefire NOW:

Fax your representatives for free:

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Take a moment...

10,000+ (and counting) Palestinian martyrs' names on Iranian newspaper, Vatan Emrooz, November 7, 2023:

More pages from newspapers—demands for ceasefire, lives lost, blood on their hands...

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If you made it this far, thank you. Share if you can—but most importantly, do what you can. There is so much we can do. Do not go on with life as though this does not affect you. It does. And it matters to our allies, brothers and sisters, the children in the Middle East and beyond, above all. It matters which side of history you are on; the future will not be kind to those who choose silence or violence, all the same.

More on this piece I wrote (October 20, 2023), in which I felt urged to do so after the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, sent this tweet out, deleted a day or so later. His cold and callous words stuck with me:

Disclaimer: This is spoken word (which I have considered making audio for); and for harsh crimes call for harsh words. Note that the quoted sections are not my own beliefs but rather what it says when our own government officials say they cannot do anything, let alone call for a ceasefire.

Before you go, some studying for you, if you can bare it:

“We won’t rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty.” - Andy McDonald, British Member of Parliament

In shorter terms, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”