Diplomacy: The Art
of doing nothing at all – an anti-Semitic poem
We all want
Peace,
Peace of
mind,
Peace in
our time,
Peace for
the benefit of humankind.
At Peace
with nature,
A beautiful
Peace,
A peaceful
life,
And a
peaceful death.
Our elected
leaders, also want Peace:
The Peace
of the cemetery.
To be left
in Peace to allow unhindered, the wind of murder that passes over Palestine.
To silently
condone the oppression, the abuse, the exploitation, the crushing and repeated
expulsion of the children and grandchildren of Nakba.
Silencing
the coming generation to a noiseless death beneath the ruins of Gaza.
The stones
are crying, their dust-stained tears trickling in small rivulets through the
ruins of Gaza’s cities.
They reveal,
the small, crippled hand of a dead child, encrusted in grey colourless dust,
pointing aimlessly at the sky from beneath the ruble of Gaza City.
Like the
carved stone hand of a renaissance statue waiting for a helping hand that came
too late.
Barth Eide
and Gahr Støre are worried.
Worried
about the excessive civilian casualties,
Worried
about the spread of the conflict throughout the Middle East,
Worried
about terrorism coming to our Peace-loving land,
Diplomacy
is their potent weapon.
“one must
not shy away from criticizing countries, just because they are our allies” Says
Barth Eide. And goes on to praise the USA for not vetoing a resolution that
does not call for a ceasefire.
He feels,
that “it is going too far to call Israels murder of over 22 000 civilians,
Forced
relocation of 2 million Palestinians,
Cutting off
supplies of water, food and energy, in a Medieval siege,
and raising
all the cities of Gaza to the ground,
For a
genocide.
Indeed,
diplomacy is a potent weapon in such hypocritical hands as those of our
esteemed Foreign Minister.
Tell us
again, Barth Eide, how Norway is among the most vocal western countries in
condemning, this “Non-Genocide.”
Tell us how
you broke diplomatic relations with the “Non-Genocidal” Israeli government,
Tell how
you openly condemned Stone-Face Biden for “Non-vetoing” a ceasefire,
Tell us how
you loudly refused to participate in his Red Sea maritime force, to ensure that
ships could continue supplying the cruel ongoing “Non-genocide”,
Tell us how
you manipulatively sabotaged the recognition of a “Non-Palestinian” state,
Tell us how
many children’s lives your “doing the most we can” has saved.
And then listen
as your empty words echo and rebound across the Nordic granite mountains.
They do not
go unheard:
In Adolf
Fredrik's cemetery, the earth moves upon a grave, the wet soil erupts in a
frenzied wave of torment, and a skeletal hand emerges, its muddied finger
pointing to the sky.
And the
trembling voice of the ghost of Olaf Palme rents the midnight air “J’Accuse!”
Biden/Blinken,
Go to Hell!
Palestine
will rise again.
Barth
Eide/Gahr Støre, get off your arses, get off your knees!
Palestine
will be free!
