EXCERPT:
I found out that indeed, I had been blocked from posting comments on the site after an hour or so. The El Al fan page administrator deleted all my haiku. I should not have been surprised.
This is the modus operandi of the Zionist machine. Dissent is not tolerated and must be completely obliterated, as in the case of Congressmen and women who dare try and stand up to it: Paul Findley (re-districted out), Cynthia McKinney (trumped up charge assaulting a guard who was harassing her; victim of a smear campaign and voted out), Dennis Kucinich (marginalized and belittled), Jim Traficant (jailed). Prominent figures in the media are silenced, most recently the legendary Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez, formerly of CNN. Numerous Israeli youth sit in jails for refusing to military duty in the West Bank. The most sinister, however is the way activists Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, Furkan Dogan and 8 other flotilla participants were silenced, along with the untold thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered since 1948 for the “crime” of resisting occupation or while merely trying to live out their daily lives in their homeland.
Yet the legacies of these brave individuals continue, and to honor them, I put forth the haiku again in a place where the hasbara machine cannot penetrate.
Ignorant tourists
Celebrate sixty-plus years
Of ethnic cleansing.Bustling Tel Aviv
Welcoming occupiers
Atop Lydda’s graves.Stealing Holy Land
As amid scorched olive trees
More settlements rise.Arrogant squatters
Frolic on stolen beaches
Kids in Gaza die.El Al transporting
Still more and more invaders
to dear Palestine.Flight attendants’ thobes
Food service is falafel
Theft of a culture.Big jet engines scream
Not unlike those that have rained
Hell upon Gaza.And then there was my daughter’s contribution:
El Al carrying
“Israeli” stowaways to
Steal from PalestineEl Al’s jet engines
Cannot drown out the screams of
White phosphorus wounds.Airline of the blind
You see touristy mudbaths
Not Gaza’s bloodbath.
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