The poem that will be featured toward the latter part of this video, following some introductory comments, was written some twenty years ago. When the thoughts and emotions bubbled to the surface and came together to form the soon-to-be-played poem, the focus of the composition’s phenomenology was directed toward the insanity, barbarity, propaganda, lies, duplicity, depraved indifference, unholy machinations, and murderous activities of the United States Government and its allied oppressors with respect to their invasion of Iraq – a country that was blamed – falsely -- for helping to organize the events of 9/11 and for allegedly hiding stockpiles of mass destruction which didn’t actually exist but whose actual sin in the eyes of its attackers was that Iraq had begun to disengage from the petro-dollar and was selling its oil through other means. In truth, however, aspects of the American government – with a little help from its friends in British and Israeli intelligence, along with rogue elements from the CIA – were responsible for helping to organize the events of that horrendous day in September and, this led to a reprehensible set of policies being invoked into so-called law (starting with the Patriot Act and continuing on with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) that were designed to use the falsehoods surrounding the carnage and tragedy of 9/11 as leverage for shamelessly seeking to justify the government’s own intent to unleash very real stockpiles of mass destruction upon the people of Iraq and elsewhere. (And, for those who have been induced to accept the “official story” concerning 9/11, please read and critically reflect on actual research concerning 9/11 conducted by: David Ray Griffin, Judy Wood, Jim Marrs, Barbara Honneger, Richard Gage, Ole Dammegard, Rebecca Roth, Barrie Zwicker, Peter Dale Scott, Webster Tarpley, Graeme MacQueen, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, David, Icke, Max Igan, Christopher Bollyn, Thierry Meyssan, Kevin Barrett, James Corbett, Kevin Ryan, and Anab Whitehouse.)
If,
when one listens to the forthcoming poem, one substitutes the words:
Palestinian and/or Gazians for Iraqis, and: Zionists for American government,
nothing else that is being said in the poem – and this is said with
considerable sadness -- has changed. The names have changed, but the cruelty,
terrorism, and destructiveness that is being inflicted on innocents has not
changed at all.
We
are still witnessing the insanity, barbarity, propaganda, lies, duplicity,
depraved indifference, unholy machinations, and murderous activities of a
government as it commits atrocities against unarmed people. On this occasion, however,
the Israeli government is the one which is leading the charge against the unsuspecting
people of Gaza, rather than against the unsuspecting people of Iraq, while
being assisted by self-serving oppressors from the American government as well
as several other governments populated with witless, morally challenged sycophants.
Nonetheless,
what continues to be a common theme between now and twenty years ago is the manner
in which the Israeli government is pretending (just as the American government
did following 9/11) that it had nothing to do with enabling someone – in the
present case, Hamas – a group that the Israeli government helped protect, support,
and fund since 2007 – to breach, in fifteen different places, the security
fence system that separates Israel from Gaza. One might note in passing how
there has been an array of independent testimonies given by a number of former
IDF members (individuals who were intimately familiar with the capabilities of
that security system) who recently indicated that what happened on October 7,
2023 was completely impossible based on what they knew, via direct experience,
about that security system’s capabilities and the numerous back-up protocols
that were entailed by that system.
The
implications of the testimonies of Israeli citizens and former members of the
IDF which are being alluded to in the foregoing comments is that October 7,
2023 was not the result of a breakdown in Israeli intelligence or incompetence on
the part of the IDF. Rather, the events of October 7, 2023 were the calculated,
deliberate, with malice aforethought, evil spawn of Israeli intelligence,
government officials, and IDF leaders.
Furthermore,
evidence from inside Israel has been leaking out in which Israeli citizens who –
much to their dismay -- had been caught up in the tricks being played out on
October 7, 2023, are testifying that it was the IDF – operating in accordance
with the Hannibal Protocol that first came into use during the 2014 Gaza War –
that was deliberately seeking to kill both members of Hamas and Israeli
citizens during Israel’s terrorist operations. In addition, not only were more
than half of the Israelis who died on that day members of the IDF, but none of
the allegations about the beheading of Israeli babies, or the raping of Israeli
women, and other alleged charges of atrocities that were being directed against
the members of Hamas have been demonstrated – on the basis of evidence rather
than propaganda -- to be true.
Did
Hamas take hostages? Yes, they did. Were members of the IDF killed by members
of Hamas on October 7, 2023? Yes, this did happen.
However,
evidence indicating that Hamas tortured, raped, and killed unarmed Israeli
citizens or perpetrated an array of unspeakable atrocities on October 7, 2023
has not been independently substantiated. To be sure, if credible evidence
concerning such allegations should ever surface, then, the perpetrators deserve
whatever fate has sought them out because such acts are entirely antithetical
to Islam and Christianity. Nevertheless, as far as actual evidence is
concerned, there are testimonies given by a number of Israeli citizens who were
taken captive on October 7, 2023 which indicated that the latter individuals had
been treated with humanity by their Hamas captors.
None
of the foregoing is meant to excuse the culpability of members of Hamas from,
knowingly or unknowingly, allowing themselves to be used to provide the Israeli
government with a purported, but woefully inadequate – indeed, psychopathic and
criminal -- justification for conducting a genocide against innocent
Palestinians. If the raid of Hamas into Israel was done unknowingly with
respect to the Israeli Psy-Op that was being conducted, then, how could the
members of Hamas have been so callous in their mode of unthinking,
self-aggrandizing lack of insight and discernment to suppose that their actions
would not subsequently boomerang, with deadly and devastating results, on the millions
of innocent people in Gaza – people who knew nothing about, nor had they given
their approval to, the actions of Hamas on October 7, 2023. Surely, Hamas had
considerable understanding concerning the sophistication and complexity of the
security system that was inherent in the fence structures that separated Gaza
from Israel, and, yet, apparently, none of the members of Hamas or its
leadership were suspicious of the information that led them to believe that an
impenetrable security system could be breached in fifteen different locations
on the morning of October 7, 2023. How foolish and careless can one get with
the lives of the millions of people in Gaza that were supposed to be protected
by Hamas and for whom Hamas had a fiduciary responsibility? … a responsibility
which they have failed to observe.
Supposedly,
the members of Hamas are ready to resist the IDF when the latter forces enter
Gaza, as the IDF already has begun to do. Hamas fighters did actively resist
the IDF during some of the earlier IDF intrusions into Gaza and did so
successfully on a number of occasions.
Trying
to protect Palestinians within Gaza is one thing. Palestinians have a right to
defend themselves against a brutal, oppressive, and tyrannical occupier.
Walking into a trap, however, seems like a
bridge too far. Sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor.
Hamas
has had years of experience involving the sadistic ways in which the Israeli
government tortures, abuses, manipulates, lies, steals, beats, maims, and kills
for the sheer joy of doing so. Indeed, the Israeli government and its occupying
forces are very devoted – pathologically so -- to the details of the foregoing
kinds of exploits.
Consequently,
it would seem to run overwhelmingly contrary to years of the foregoing sorts of
experiences for Hamas to suppose that, somehow, all of the Israeli government’s
years of meticulous attention to detail would completely evaporate on the day
that Hamas leaders had been induced to attack Israel. Indeed, one wonders what the
ultimate source of the alleged “Intel” was that had led Hamas to conduct their “al-Aqsa
Flood” operation because the idea that the Israeli stand-down and the Hamas
decision to attack during that stand-down was just a coincidence seems to be
rather overly coincidental.
Just
as was true in relation to the American government, following September 11th,
2001, the Israeli government wouldn’t mind being charged with having suffered a
massive intelligence failure as a way of gaslighting the idea that they were
quite prepared to kill their own people and, in the case of the Israelis, perhaps,
induce Hamas to assist them in that task in order to prepare the path to a
genocide that the Israeli government had been planning to do all along. If – and I emphasize the word “if” -- some of the leaders and members of Hamas
colluded with, if not conspired with, the Israeli government to bring about the
colossal tragedy of October 7, 2023, then, the level of the evil that has been
let loose into the world has been increased by a multiplicity of levels in
magnitude.
If
the aforementioned scenario turns out to be true, then, not only did people in
the Israeli government betray its own Israeli citizens, but, as well, the
leaders of Hamas – or, perhaps, some of them -- might also have betrayed the
people of Gaza. There is some degree of uncertainty surrounding the issue of whether
the actions of the leaders of Hamas exhibited a knowing or unknowing lack of
discernment concerning the situation on October 7, 2023, but notwithstanding
such uncertainty, nevertheless, all of the available evidence indicates that
the Israeli government was deliberately willing to put its own people in harm’s
way in order to provide a pretext for moving forward with its genocidal plan to
destroy the people of Gaza – and government leaders in America, England,
Germany, and elsewhere appear to be quite prepared to join in to support, fund,
arm, and, if necessary, participate in such genocide.
The
right to self-defense – a right which belongs to both Palestinians and Israelis
– is one thing. Nonetheless, the collective punishment and terrorism which is
being egregiously imposed on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government –
and, knowingly or unknowingly, with the assistance of individuals from Hamas --
has nothing to do with a right to self-defense and everything to do with the
war crimes, as well as the
crimes against humanity, which are being conducted
against the unarmed people of Gaza.
None
of what is said in the foregoing is said against the thousands of Israelis and
people of Jewish faith who have been demonstrating in Tel Aviv, New York City, Washington,
D.C., and elsewhere to protest against the heinous actions of the Israeli
government. My heart and soul goes out to those thousands of Jewish individuals,
and I pray that they will be protected against the lunatics in their governments,
as well as those people in the general public, who are sufficiently
ill-educated and ill-informed that they can’t tell the difference between, on
the one hand, someone who is Jewish or Israeli -- and, who, like individuals
from Palestine, wish to be able to live free from hatred, bigotry, or
oppression -- and, someone, on the other hand, who is a deranged zealot who
wishes to inflict harm on innocent individuals and against whom we all – whether
Jew or non-Jew -- need to be protected.
Please
keep the foregoing considerations in mind, when one listens to the following
poem, entitled: “Freedom Came Today.”
Freedom came today for
Iraqis
In a measured display of
shock and awe
That bestowed gratuitous
wounds
On thankful souls who’ll
line the streets
And greet us as
compassionate heroes.
Freedom came today for
600 thousand innocents
Which, of course, we deny
as being far too high a figure
Based on data that do
not keep track of dead Iraqis.
Freedom came today for
poor Sami
Who was looking for
safety but found some kindness
Which blew him away, so
let us play taps to mark
When he became part of
America’s dream.
Freedom came today for journalist Ali
Thrown in jail for,
possibly, thirty years
Because he didn’t have
the sense to write lies
Rather than truth about
ruthlessly earned liberty.
Freedom came today for ‘Aisha
who was raped by
Those who set her free.
This sort of special gallantry
Is, of course, an
anomaly since they normally
Stick with search and
destroy.
Freedom came today for
unlucky Hassan
Who was trying to see
his family, but ended up
Naked in Abu Ghraib, with
dogs growling,
Devoid of shame, at his
dignity.
Freedom came today for
Ra’bia who was caressed
By white phosphorous
which made her feel
All warm and fuzzy inside,
right down to her small
Little bones. Surely,
her cup runneth over.
Freedom came today for
the masses who can,
Whenever they like, turn
on faucets empty
Of water, or switch on
lights with no electricity
To illumine tyranny’s
just end.
Freedom came today in
such neatly
Wrapped packages of
hypocrisy
And lies … democracy at
its best, sold as a
Capital idea to people
hungry for sovereignty.
Freedom came today to
greedy ones, who,
Out of duty, lobbied
their way to no bid, cost-plus
Contracts, made in the
secrecy of self-serving facts
That enriched only
non-Iraqis.
Freedom came today in
uncivil ways,
One brother, against
another,
Locked in malignant
enmity,
Set loose by U.S.
magnanimity.
O’ beautiful with
rapacious eyes.
Freedom came today to plans, where bands
Of hired guns are
inspired to kill sand-dwellers
So wars will not wash up
on homeland shores,
And mangled lives can be
sanitized through illusions.
Freedom came today when
night-vision goggles
Found opportunity in their
sights, and those who
Never saw it coming were
liberated.
Strange how we see their
bodies but not their hearts.
Freedom might come today
if the good old USA --
Despite a touch of
delusion about it’s assumed
Place in God’s space –
would attend to the
Ten commandments and
leave Iraq alone.
Freedom might come today
if knowledge
Took hold in citizens’
souls about democracy’s
Decay through abuse of
power, which shackles
Conscience, and mindless
fears of created demons.
