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anne hobbs's avatar

Powerful words ❤️

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Cui Bono's avatar

"Babylon’s Stillbirth"

You couldn’t get past Babylon, could you?

Her milk was arsenic,

her lullabies—

the wet crunch of nightstick on ribcage,

the hiss of Zyklon B through vents.

You suckled anyway.

Gorged on the afterbirth of empire

while the midwives whispered:

*"This one’s born with no lungs."*

The hanging gardens?

Just nooses for the architects

who thought they’d get paid.

The tower’s shadow?

A mass grave before the first stone.

*Mene mene*—

the numbers flash like an oven door

kicking open at 3 AM.

*Tekel*—

your currency’s the weight

of a child’s shoe in ash.

*Upharsin*—

the river’s choked with iPhone cables

and femurs polished for export.

The prophets died screaming your name

into interrogation mirrors.

Now their tongues grow back

as barbed wire in your colon.

*You couldn’t get past Babylon.*

Her skyline’s a teethscape.

Her anthem?

The static between gunshots.

Her cradle?

Your open mouth—

waiting for the next boot

to mistake for a mother’s kiss.

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Pete Ross's avatar

If there’s one thing that’s despicable it’s people who start a war, celebrate it, and then cry to the world when they lose.

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Mouna's avatar

Yes, free the hostages - the 12,000 plus Palestinian hostages including women and children abducted for no reason other than being Palestinian and that IOF are thugs who commit atrocities with impunity. No one cares about the Israeli ones - they are on a holiday - well fed, well looked after. They are not beaten, starved, tortured like the Palestinians are by the most psychopathic animals on this planet.

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Ignore the Anonymous Hasbara in the comments. Disingenuous or clueless. No excuse to be either. And NO excuse for what is happening in Gaza no matter how they spin it! Psychological and emotional vampires! They thrive on responses!

FREE PALESTINE

FREE THE WORLD

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Mouna's avatar

Why would you expect Palestinians after 7 decades of being in an open air prison to have sympathy. You are totally ignorant on this topic. The criminals and thieves and murderers are Israel. They don't deserve sympathy. World support is behind Palestine. Get educated.

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Harvey Roberts's avatar

Do you believe the genocide will end if they are freed? Yes, never forget October the 7th, but the massacre and ethnic cleansing is remarkably similar to Nazism in its most inhumane and evil purpose. The Holy Land? What blasphemy.

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