Irony has reached levels of horror
Never imagined. On the BBC
They announce gloatingly that Julian Assange
Will be extradited to a gulag in fascist America —
The greatest journalist-exposer of war-crimes ever —
And the next moment they announce the Nobel Peace Prize
Has been given to two journalists for the first time
Since the Nazi period — they congratulate themselves
That freedom of speech and the press has been honoured,
On the very day it is being trampled underfoot.
That the CIA pawn Muratov and his Western rag
Novaya Gazeta, a propaganda sheet
For the CIA-MI6 plot against Russia,
Are rewarded for inciting war, while the greatest exposer
Of war crimes and crimes against humanity
Since Nuremburg is condemned to slow death
In a US concentration camp — is there no voice
To howl this iniquity to the heavens, to scream
Till windows break, till hearts stop beating, till evil
Freezes in its devil’s tracks? — No, nothing happens.
No scream is heard. The world goes on with its chatter.
While outside, the snow piles up, and portends
An endless winter for humanity.
Michael Antony
I have been thinking all night of Little Hind,
Murdered in Gaza at the age of six.
Her family fled in their car after their home
Was destroyed by Israeli bombs, which razed to the ground
A whole residential block. They did not know
Which way to go, where to escape the hell
Unleashed upon their people by the Western world.
As they drove along, their car was targeted by a tank.
The whole family were killed except for Hind
And her teenage sister. The sister called an ambulance
On her smartphone. As she talked to the ambulance
The tank approached and shelled the car again.
Her sister was killed. Little Hind took the phone
And talked to the ambulance driver still on the line:
“I’m all alone, all my family has been killed,
The tank is coming. Can you come and get me?
I’m afraid. The tank is near. Please come and get me.”
The ambulance driver promised and headed her way.
The Israeli tank commander opened fire
At point blank range and blew Little Hind to pieces.
When the ambulance arrived, he shelled that too,
And killed the two heroic ambulance men.
Who did this? Some Israeli psychopath soldier?
Netanyahu did it. Biden, Blinken, Sullivan.
They all killed little Hind, six years old,
With the sweetest smile on earth. God will punish them.
But why don’t we punish them? Where is our justice
Here on earth? Where is our humanity?
They have killed Little Hind, but we let them do it.
May God forgive us!
So they have killed Gonzalo Lira at last,
The Nazi regime the West supports and arms,
Left him to die of pneumonia in his dungeon
For speaking the truth about the country he lives in.
He chose to stay with his children, risking life
And liberty in a totalitarian state.
His government did not lift a finger to help him,
But egged on the fascists of Kiev to crucify him.
Think of the hypocrisy of the Magnitsky Act
The crooked accountant of an American fraudster
Held in prison as his boss fled abroad to the UK
And dying of gallstones due to medical neglect.
This dead criminal is celebrated as a martyr
Whose death supposedly proves Russia’s tyranny.
Magnitsky Acts are passed by a dozen parliaments
To impose sanctions on Russia for arresting fraudsters.
Perhaps we need a Gonzalo Lira Act
To sanction Ukraine for suppressing free speech
By torture and assassination. But that will be
Only in the new world after Russia wins
And wipes out the old one.
It is Christmas in Gaza and the Israelis have bombed
Another refugee camp, Al Maghazi,
And killed over seventy people. Yesterday
It was Jabalia camp for the fourth time,
And they sent in bulldozers to crush the tents
Where people were sleeping since the buildings were flattened,
And the bulldozers ran over the sleeping bodies
And buried living and dead together in the dirt,
Passing backwards and forwards over the bodies
So nobody would recognize their loved ones
Even if they dug them up. Israel’s crimes
Make all the cruelties of the past seem like benevolence.
Is it normal for a people who have suffered a genocide
To inflict genocide on others with such glee?
How they have learned from their persecutors — but what lessons?
Two days ago they went into apartment buildings
Rounded up all the people, separated the men
And shot them all in front of their families,
Then threw grenades among the women and children.
They took away their bodies to deny them burial.
Last week they raided a hospital, shot all the doctors
And the patients, took away the director
And tortured him till he confessed to being
A Hamas commander. Now they have the evidence
That all hospitals are Hamas command posts
And should be razed to the ground, with all the people
Sheltering inside buried under the rubble!
For months they have played sadistic games with fear.
They ordered people to move from north Gaza to the centre.
Then they bombed the buildings in the centre. Then they told them
To move south. Then they razed most buildings in the south.
And all the while the Americans and the British
Egg them on: Go on, defend yourselves,
You have the right to defend yourselves against
Terrorist children and terrorist women! Finish the job!
We won’t allow a ceasefire till you have!
Remember the forty beheaded babies! (Even though
Only two babies died that day, shot in crossfire
By Israeli bullets, as the Israeli army
Turned a brilliant military attack on their bases
Into a terrorist attack by shooting their own people,
And firing Hellfire missiles at cars and Kibbutzim.)
The Israeli army is too scared to fight Hamas
In their tunnels, so they bomb families in houses,
Hospitals, schools, churches (all cowards are sadists!)
Twenty thousand civilians killed, plus five thousand
Buried under the rubble, ten thousand children,
Massacred like the innocents killed soon after
The baby was born in Bethlehem on this day.
How shameful that people who profess to revere
That baby as divine have gone over to his enemies,
Applaud the massacre, arm Herod’s soldiers, and praise
Their right to defend themselves against wicked babies.
They do not understand the evil sect
That has taken over America. Biden, Blinken,
Nuland, Sullivan, Kirby, Austin, the crucifiers
Of ten thousand babies, are leading America
Into hell, from which there is no escape.
Michael Antony
It is hard to know if the most shocking aspect of the genocide in Gaza is the systematic slaughter of children by the Israelis (currently at six thousand) or their systematic destruction of hospitals. But while the first can be understood as the racist rage of a Nazi regime, taken by surprise by the well-organized revolt of its slaves, the second is part of a more insidious long-term strategy of total annihilation.
For the significance of hospitals in Gaza is symbolic. In a land without government palaces, grand museums or opera houses, they symbolize the civilization of the Palestinian people of Gaza. The hospitals, often built with the help of other nations, staffed by dedicated doctors and nurses, show the world the humanity, decency and heroism of the people of Gaza. These doctors and medical staff who work round the clock to help the wounded with whatever means they have, sleeping on the floor of the operating theatres, going without food and water like the rest of the besieged population, are the beating heart of Gaza, the shining light of its humanity, a beacon to the whole world. It is because the images of these hospitals, struggling to survive amid the cruelest bombing campaign in living memory, are revealing to the world the moral truth of what is happening, the struggle of Palestinian humanity against Israeli inhumanity, that the colonial oppressors and occupiers are determined to destroy the hospitals, which are an indictment of their diabolical evil.
But this is not merely a destruction of the Palestinians’ most effective way of appealing to the world’s deadened conscience. The hospitals are being destroyed to erase the Palestinians’ faith in who they are and what they represent. When the Israelis have succeeded in their ethnic cleansing and have driven a starving, thirst-maddened population into the Sinai desert, leaving behind a wasteland like Dresden or Stalingrad, the Palestinians will ask themselves: what is there left to return to? If there was even one great hospital like Al-Shifa or Al-Quds to go back to, as a symbol of their past identity as a people, they would have hope of return, they would have hope of survival as a nation. The Israelis, in destroying their hospitals, are destroying their identity, their hopes as a people, their conviction they are a nation. They are exterminating Palestine even as an idea. After that, how much easier will it be for this broken people to accept a place in a refugee quota to this or that foreign country, which has been shamed at last for their silence in watching genocide happen before their eyes.
This is the true horror of the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza: not merely the killing of thousands of women and children, doctors and journalists, but the killing of the identity and soul of a nation.
Michael Antony
The Israeli attack on Gaza, out of all proportion to the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, has exposed the total evil of the US government and ruling class, and that of its poodle allies.
The deliberate, systematic massacre of over 7000 civilians, including 3500 children, by bombing the residential areas of Gaza, knowing that this will not kill a single one of the Hamas terrorists responsible for the attack, but is the genocide of a helpless population for reasons of racist revenge, is the most evil act of the past seventy years. For Western governments to incite this genocide and justify it as “Israel’s right to defend itself” is the greatest distortion of morality and misuse of the doctrine of self-defence on record. Every Western politician and every Western journalist who has defended this bombing campaign is complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The actions of Hamas may be seen as a slave revolt, like that of Nat Turner in US history, or like others in Caribbean history. Their crimes (though there were no decapitated Israeli babies) were atrocious, but their provocation was equally atrocious. A life-time of cruel, inhuman slavery, like a lifetime of cruel, inhuman imprisonment in an open-air prison, removes at least half the guilt of the rebel’s crimes. Nothing lessens the guilt of the Israelis, the slave-overseers, the prison overseers, who have engaged for decades in the most sadistic persecution of another people in our lifetime and now pretend to be outraged by the rebellion of the maddened victims. They have no right to kill a single Palestinian in revenge. They are killing an occupied people, a people they have a duty to care for as occupiers. The claim that they have ceased to occupy Gaza is a hollow, farcical lie when they retain total control of its borders, stop every article permitting a decent life from being brought into it, controlling even the number of calories its people are allowed to eat, while destroying its water supply, its electricity supply (its power plants bombed in a previous punitive bombing campaign), its sewage system (unworkable without electricity for the pumps), blocking the entry even of construction materials to repair the houses destroyed — this is a lie so grotesque it suggests mental derangement. Yet it is swallowed by Israel’s Western supporters and fellow-criminals. For these fascist monsters to be now claiming that the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, sheltering 60,000 people, is a “human shield” for terrorist tunnels beneath it and must be evacuated (Where to? Over what roads? Using what vehicles and what fuel? Causing how many deaths?) is a preparation for an even more horrendous war-crime than the bombing of the Baptist hospital.
In fact this whole bombing campaign is being justified by the Israeli fascist regime’s claim that all Palestinian civilians are human shields being used by Hamas. The fact that these poor people are alive, in Gaza, and have nowhere to go is defined as being a human shield. Every living Palestinian is a human shield who has brought on his own death. This is an extermination campaign which equals in horror anything done to the Jews by the Nazis. The Israelis have become those who exterminated them. They have become the evil their people suffered. It remains to be seen if they can ever recover their humanity. And the same applies to their Western backers and accomplices — the most despicable actors in this whole tragedy.
It is becoming clearer by the day that the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was a planned operation by Israel to put in motion a final solution to the Palestinian problem — by ethnically cleansing Gaza.
It is uncertain what part Israeli agents inside Hamas played in the terrorist attack of 7 October 2023 on Israeli civilians and military bases close to Gaza. This may have been planned and executed without Israeli input. But the failure of Israel’s army to detect the attack, the failure of the most sophisticated defensive system in the world to react quickly to a smashing down of the security fence by bulldozers and the entry into Israel of at least 1500 Hamas fighters, is inexplicable by human error.
It looks like a replay not of 9/11 (a false flag attack carried out by the CIA and Mossad) but of Pearl Harbor: a Japanese sneak attack which Roosevelt prevented the US navy from being warned about in order to create the catastrophic event needed to bring US public opinion round to joining the war against Hitler. The shocking Hamas terrorist attack has similarly converted the majority in Israel (and in the US and UK) to the idea that the wiping out of Hamas-ruled Gaza as a place to live and the expulsion of the Palestinians is the only way for Israel to survive.
The demand that the entire population of Gaza city evacuate to the south (including those taking refuge in hospitals and UN schools) is the first half of this plan. This concentrates the 2.3 million inhabitants in only half the narrow prison camp they were living in, and now without food, water, fuel, electricity, shelter or medicine because of the new war criminal blockade. The bombing of the Baptist Hospital, after giving it two warnings to evacuate including one smaller bombing, was designed to compound the terror of the Palestinian people and induce a belief that their very survival depended on leaving Gaza. Only Israel has weapons of this explosive power: if Hamas had them, we would see buildings in Ashkelon flattened after 200 rocket strikes upon it. But the Hamas rockets have done only minor damage. The West’s repetition of Israel’s lying denial makes them complicit in this war crime, and in the targeting of other hospitals, ambulances, UN schools, and UN aid warehouses, which continues with Western governments’ approval.
The bombing of the Rafah crossing is designed to stop humanitarian aid coming in, so as to increase the desperation. The goal is that when Rafah is finally opened for the aid trucks, the starving, terrorized Palestinians crowded in the south will rush the crossing to get out, and Egypt will not be able to stop them unless their troops use force. Thus Israel will achieve its goal — the expulsion of the Palestinians into the Sinai, where a tent city is already being set up.
Pressure from the US and EU will then be brought upon Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states to take in the refugees and thus collaborate in the total ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Meanwhile Israel will attack Hamas underground bases in Gaza with even more lethal weapons (such as depleted uranium shells) which will render this territory unfit for human habitation. The final solution will have been achieved. Similar measures will then be taken to ethnically cleanse the West Bank, perhaps by unleashing the fascist settler militias on the Palestinians in a totally one-sided war. Finally, Al Aqsa mosque will be destroyed and the 3rd Temple will be built at last. The fanatics who compose Netanyahu’s government will enjoy their historic triumph.
This is Israel’s plan. Could a Hezbollah missile attack on Tel Aviv stop it? Or would it only accelerate it and increase the West’s shameful support for it?
So the bastards have taken Gonzalo Lira,
Thrown him into some dank Nazi dungeon,
Silenced that happy spirit, that sharp wit,
That entertainer of crowds even as he analyzed
The times he lived in with as profound insights
As any boring professor. Above all
They have silenced the man of courage, who stayed on
In Kharkov despite bombs, missiles and raids
By the Gestapo, so as to bear witness
To what was happening, to counteract the torrents
Of lies, propaganda, and despicable falsehoods
From the mainstream media. He is one of the witnessses
Of our time, one of the truth-tellers, in an age
Enslaved to the Empire of Lies. May the thoughts
Of all those who appreciated your work
Support you now in the hard times facing you.
Courage, old friend of so many total strangers,
May we hear from you again sooner than we fear,
And rejoice with you at your liberation.
Michael Antony
Today the queen died. An era came to an end
And the decline of the world into chaos accelerated.
A week or so ago it was Gorbachev who died,
The man who tried to make peace with the West
And was duped by their lying promises. Betrayed
Into a kind of treason which has led
To the present war in Ukraine as the West persisted
In its cold war goal to encircle and destroy Russia,
Till she could retreat no further and had to resist
Her own annihilation. Will the departure
Of two symbols of a more stable period,
A brief interlude of sanity, lead to the plunge
Of the West into the hell that it is destined for?
Will we see a winter of collapse, cold, misery,
Gas cuts, power cuts, homelessness, riots in the street
To teach the unteachable leaders of the West
The insanity of making endless war
Against its main supplier of energy?
Will this be a purgatory that teaches, or a hell
That punishes once and for all the evildoers
That rule Europe and America?
The War In Ukraine, October 2022
Day after day I watch the commentators,
Mercouris, Christoforou, Berletics, Dima,
Bringing their latest news from the frontline
Of the war in Ukraine. How I fear for Russia,
The last best hope of Europe and the world
Against the global tyranny of America
And its European vassals, who are seeking
The utter destruction of the Russian people
In their megalomaniac warmongering ambition
To rid the world of all rivals to America.
I hang on each word of hope and optimism,
Pray that the attacks by the Nazis of Kiev will fail,
That Russians will not lose heart till they have won,
And brought Ukraine back to its senses as a neighbour
And not a proxy for a nuclear attack,
Massacring the Russian-speakers of their own country
Whom they have been taught to see as subhuman traitors.
The goal of imperialist America is to have missiles
On the borders of all its enemies, so it can strike
Without warning, with no time for missile defences
To come into play. It is their solution to their lag
In developing hypersonic missiles or missile shields,
They will use their domination of smaller nations
Through financial control of the planet to put their puppets
In power everywhere, even on their enemies’ doorstep,
To give them total dominance. The nation that gave us
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Hamburg and Tokyo,
The Christmas bombing of Hanoi, the false flag
Of the Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, the torture chambers
Of Abu Graib and Guantanamo, this monstrous
Evil nation seeks to destroy humanity
In a nuclear holocaust, as if to say
If it cannot rule the planet, let it perish.
This evil nation must be overthrown at last
Before it ends the world, and this is the chance
With Russia (and China) standing up to it,
To bring about that goal. The survival of humanity
Is in Russia’s hands: she alone can destroy
The Satanic force that threatens human survival:
American imperialism.
Kherson, October 22, 2022
The hideous ping-pong of battle rages
And hearts all over two countries
Tighten with fear for loved ones in danger,
Praying to a silent God for mercy.
Who unleashed this horror on two nations?
The overlords of an empire beyond the seas
Seeking to destroy a rival, rebellious power.
And the hate-filled gnomes of an ultra-nationalist government
Determined their country would never have room
For two languages and two cultures,
Kindred though they were for a thousand years.
When lies begin and end the daily news,
And warmongers are asked to give their views
On how we can destroy the Russians more
For daring to put an end to the brutal war
Ukraine has waged on the Donbass for eight years,
Slaughtering thousands of civilians, while their tears
Were mocked by the Guardian, Daily Mail, or Times
As Russian lies to cover their own crimes,
How can we live in a world where truth is inverted,
Where praise is showered on the evil and perverted,
Where morality itself is stood on its head
And butchers triumph over the innocent dead?
What drives the hacks who fill the news each night
With vile perversions of the truth — is it to incite
Hatred that will push the world to nuclear war
In the hope this means Russia will be no more?
The hatred that lies at the heart of Western civilization
Is something for which science has no explanation.
It is a lust for absolute power over the earth,
As if Western countries have a right from birth
To make endless wars on others, but no other nation
Has a right to defend itself against the worst provocation
(Whether the mass shelling of its citizens every day,
Or its capital threatened by missiles from minutes away)
Without having all relations with it terminated,
Being cast out, robbed and finally exterminated.
This will end badly for the West, I think.
The Russians are beyond rage and will not blink
At the ultimate conflict if the West should choose.
The West cannot win this war; Russia will not lose.
On this day I believe quite seriously That we are on the brink of World War Three.
And if this were to be the end of time,
This muddled present moment, plucked by chance
From the vast calendar of ages past,
Packed with events since earth was in its prime,
What if this clumsiest moment in the dance
Were chosen to be earth’s and mankind’s last,
Which we, suspecting nothing, let slip by
Not knowing this would be the day we die?
Would it not be a fitting end to lives
So foolishly squandered or so vilely spent
In the pursuit of madness and delusion,
If, when the fatal day of wrath arrives,
We are left no saving minute to repent
But are cut off in terror and confusion.
This would be the great judgment on our age:
To take no bow before we leave the stage.
A sign we are not fit to recognize
The folly our age lived in as it dies.
A civilization devoted to war and hate
Consumed by fire as its predestined fate.
Oh Lord, if one part of Europe could survive
The punishment of time, let it be Russia.
The victim of the West’s insane hostility
For a thousand years, surely deserves to thrive
When the West is gone, so let the West’s fall usher
In a new time of peace, calm and tranquility,
Where Russia, China, Asia and Africa will flower
While the West perishes from its lust for power.
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