Mosab Abu Toha
You were so small in my hands
no shrapnel could hit you,
but the dust and
smoke of the bomb
rushed into your lungs.
No need for any gauze.
They just closed your eyes.
No need for any shroud.
You were already
in your swaddle blanket
Showing why Israell is so wrong. I found it moving so thought I would share.
A poem
posted on 13/3/25
Criticism against Israel is not anti Semitic. It’s a criticism of the evil that country does. Anti semitic is anti Jew, most people who criticise Israel are not criticising Jewish faith. Different things imo.
posted on 13/3/25
Doesn't rhyme
posted on 13/3/25
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 32 minutes ago
Criticism against Israel is not anti Semitic. It’s a criticism of the evil that country does. Anti semitic is anti Jew, most people who criticise Israel are not criticising Jewish faith. Different things imo.
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posted on 13/3/25
Baz
I thought it was clear I was joking. Labeling stuff antisemitic when people criticise Israel and Zionism drives me mad!
posted on 13/3/25
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 34 minutes ago
Baz
I thought it was clear I was joking. Labeling stuff antisemitic when people criticise Israel and Zionism drives me mad!
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Wasn’t directed at you, I knew you were joking, I’m just fed up of hearing people say that criticising Israel is anti semitic, it’s not. Wasn’t having a go at you
posted on 13/3/25
No worries! Glad we're on the same side.
posted on 13/3/25
Touching. Makes me angry like a lot of things in this f*cked up world.
posted on 13/3/25
The topic aside I’ve never ‘got’ poetry. Just words written in lines. Yeah I know there’s supposed to be balance, timbre, quatrains of iambic tetrameter and whatnot but loada scheidt. Call me a Palestine.
I’m descended from a famous poet and my bil is a fairly famous poet. Thankfully he rarely brings it up
posted on 13/3/25
"Anti semitic is anti Jew ..."
False (but a common mistake) regardless of any attempt to re-define 'semite' or it's derivatives
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semite
posted on 13/3/25
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 3 hours, 22 minutes ago
Touching. Makes me angry like a lot of things in this f*cked up world.
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Yup, a world getting madder thanks to oversized Oompa Loompa and an Ivy League potato facker running the world’s most powerful nation. It’s a sorry state