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The Humble Pen takes on the Mighty Sword

Here’s an anniversary no one wants to celebrate: The Columbine school shooting — April 20, 1999 — just passed its 25th anniversary. Fifteen dead (including the two shooters), twenty-one injured. A new era begins . . .

Why, why, why bring up such a horrific event? Perhaps because it hasn’t stopped.

Even though I sit here in the comfort of my study, feeling perfectly safe, I can’t emotionally disentangle myself from the news, which is always, in one way or another, about the human need to kill itself — or rather, the human assumption that it’s divided from itself, and “the other,” whoever that other is, either needs to be killed or is, at best, expendable. For instance:

“The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and contentious debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars.”

Walid Abu Daqqah: A Palestinian whom you should know!

The Israeli police attacked a tent for mourning the death of Palestinian Walid Abu Daqqah who perished in an Israeli prison due to medical negligence. Waleed who? Waleed Abu Daqqah: A Palestinian whom you should know. On Monday April 8, 2024, the Israeli police did the unthinkable when they stormed the funeral tent of martyred prisoner Walid Abu Daqqah in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in 1948 occupied Palestine. This happened after Walid Abu Daqqah, a 62-year-old Palestinian intellectual and prisoner, died of terminal cancer in an Israeli prison.  Walid Abu Daqqah spent 38 years in prison after being convicted of commanding a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)-affiliated group that kidnapped and killed an IOF soldier. Although he was not directly convicted of the murder, he was found guilty of leading the group, a charge he consistently denied. Abu Daqqah, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was born in Baqa al-Gharbiyye in 1961. His arrest occurred in 1986, two years after a group of Palestinians- 48 abducted and killed an Israeli occupation soldier named Moshe Tamam.

Now is the Time for All Good Men and Women to Come to the Aid of Our Country

Dwight David Eisenhower, the Prophet-President of the United States, sixty-four years ago warned of the ascension of the military-industrial state, presently morphed into the military-industrial-intelligence complex, which, fully in control of our government, induces and manipulates our fears, creating serial enemies, justifying endless war for profit, openly canceling long-cherished constitutional rights, within  the hoary rubric of “National Security,” read: Plunder of the American taxpayer.  

Congress, as an Article One creation is in the thrall of  murderous interest groups which  are actively driving mass killings, assassinations, famine and ethnic cleansing, the progeny of genocide, in plain sight, recycling  U.S. taxpayers’ hard-earned money to tighten its grip on American politics, all the while using its media influence to deny any of this is happening, denying even the existence of a people, or how they died,  as  bodies pile up by the tens of thousands in Gaza.

The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun

Given the lying and fact twisting that have routinely been part and parcel of accounts of what is occurring in the Middle East, the past several weeks have nevertheless been shocking in terms of how an abysmally low standard of truth can be reduced even farther. Looking at developments objectively, one comes up with a series of facts. First of all, Israel was not at war with either Syria or Iran during the first weeks in April. Iran had never attacked Israel prior to that point and Syria last fought Israel in 1973, over fifty years ago. Israel, however, has regularly been assassinating Iranian officials and scientists and it has been frequently been bombing Syria since 2017, increasing the pace to weekly and sometimes even daily attacks over the past six months paralleling the Gaza fighting.

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