Samson screeches in Gaza
"As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel..."
‘As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel’ is an article by Omer Bartov. It is essential reading - emotional, perceptive, intellectual, fascinating.
But I first share Anadad Eldan’s poem from within, requesting you read it slow, read it twice, and feel the bloody sand scratch the throat of your mind...
"When I went to Gaza,
I met Samson coming out, ripping his clothes
On his scratched face, rivers flowed,
and the houses bent to let him pass
His pains uprooted trees,
and got caught up in the tangled roots
- in the roots were strands of his hairHis head shone like a skull made of rock,
and his faltering steps tore up my tears
Samson walked, dragging a weary sun
Shattered windowpanes, and chains in Gaza’s sea were drowned
I heard how the earth groaned under his steps,
how he slit her gut
Samson’s shoes screeched when he walked."
Take second step in preparation for the article:
Hear the song posted below. Pay attention to Delilah's words as she proves that there's another windows into tragedy, that love and death are the same, that religion does not have to seize the final say...
“Samson went back to bed,
not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of Wonder Bread
and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah, we couldn't destroy a single one
And the history books forgot about us,
and the Bible didn't mention us, not even once.”
Finally, most of all, read the article…
Thanks for that. Well worth the read. I have been moving away from blaming Zionism solely to the conclusion that Jews and Judaism must take more responsibility for the horror that is Israel because the State was invented in their name and most of them have funded, supported and enabled its creation and its barbaric function for nearly 80 years. Yes there are exceptions but the reality is most Jews have not known or not cared that Israel has treated the Palestinian with savage, bestial and sadistic barbarism. In some ways it is worse if they did not know because the truth was never hard to find.