My joining them is much less significant than the fact that they are still there for me to join. Almost eight months into the Blitzkrieg on Gaza, people still find the will to kick back against despair and demoralisation and to make their way onto the streets to express solidarity with their fellow human beings in Zion's Hell.
The first of last week's vigils was on Tuesday at the Lourdes hospital where a local nurse, Rosie Condra, had called on staff to stand in solidarity with health workers who face murder and mutilation at the hands of Israeli death squads on a daily basis. The event was SIPTU endorsed and, while not a member, I was happy to hold the union's banner once the previous bearer had to leave. The crass sectarianism of the Left, where each sect is absorbed with maintaining its own purist irrelevance and which would recoil from holding another's banner, has no purchase on me. Lives are more important than Leftoid posturing.
Hospital management instructed any of its employees who wished to attend not to do so in uniform. The same uniform, often worn by immigrants to this country as they diligently use their professionalism to save lives, manage pain, and bring relief to countless people, somehow embarrasses hospital management when it is worn to show solidarity with besieged fellow health professionals engaged in similar type of work.
The second event was our weekly Saturday gathering in front of the local cathedral in the town's main street, where event organiser Stephanie Kirwan, baby in arms, welcomed the decision by the Irish government to join Spain and Norway in recognising the state of Palestine. Ms Kirwan called on people to fly the Palestine flag tomorrow to mark the moment of official recognition. Which is exactly what we are going to do in this house, despite my reticence towards flag waving.
The anger with which Israel has received the Irish initiative made itself felt in the decision to recall genocide apologist Dana Erlich, who has served as the Kapo ambassador to Ireland since August last. Why she was not pushed before she jumped has rankled more than a few, but already the country smells sweeter once the stench of mass murder has vacated itself.
The Kapo state's total contempt for an international rules based order is perhaps awakening many across the globe as to what the future holds if the beast is not forced back into its lair. Despite an order only last Friday from the International Court of Justice prohibiting Israel from attacking Rafah, coupled with an earlier application by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, the Kapos have persisted with their barbarism and savagery, incinerating displaced men, women and children as they slept in tented accommodation last night. At least in the crematoriums of Auschwitz the Nazis usually burned people after they were dead.
The first of last week's vigils was on Tuesday at the Lourdes hospital where a local nurse, Rosie Condra, had called on staff to stand in solidarity with health workers who face murder and mutilation at the hands of Israeli death squads on a daily basis. The event was SIPTU endorsed and, while not a member, I was happy to hold the union's banner once the previous bearer had to leave. The crass sectarianism of the Left, where each sect is absorbed with maintaining its own purist irrelevance and which would recoil from holding another's banner, has no purchase on me. Lives are more important than Leftoid posturing.
Hospital management instructed any of its employees who wished to attend not to do so in uniform. The same uniform, often worn by immigrants to this country as they diligently use their professionalism to save lives, manage pain, and bring relief to countless people, somehow embarrasses hospital management when it is worn to show solidarity with besieged fellow health professionals engaged in similar type of work.
The second event was our weekly Saturday gathering in front of the local cathedral in the town's main street, where event organiser Stephanie Kirwan, baby in arms, welcomed the decision by the Irish government to join Spain and Norway in recognising the state of Palestine. Ms Kirwan called on people to fly the Palestine flag tomorrow to mark the moment of official recognition. Which is exactly what we are going to do in this house, despite my reticence towards flag waving.
The anger with which Israel has received the Irish initiative made itself felt in the decision to recall genocide apologist Dana Erlich, who has served as the Kapo ambassador to Ireland since August last. Why she was not pushed before she jumped has rankled more than a few, but already the country smells sweeter once the stench of mass murder has vacated itself.
What small events in small towns like Drogheda achieve is to underscore the paucity of the Kapo state belief that war fatigue would eventually kick in, leaving the ordinary men of Israeli Reserve Police Battalion 101 to get on with the business of infanticide and genocide. Despite the best efforts of many Western governments to suppress protest as part of their endeavour to give Israel free rein to murder and maim at will, opposition is on the rise. Perhaps the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller are wafting out from the history books of World War 2:
From a perspective of pure self interest alone, the ominous thought must be drifting into consciousness: who next will the Kapos come for in flagrant breach of international law? And what might they use when they do come, emboldened as they are by their long standing impunity? A fool alone would doubt that already some variant of Zyklon B is being experimented with in Zionist laboratories.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
From a perspective of pure self interest alone, the ominous thought must be drifting into consciousness: who next will the Kapos come for in flagrant breach of international law? And what might they use when they do come, emboldened as they are by their long standing impunity? A fool alone would doubt that already some variant of Zyklon B is being experimented with in Zionist laboratories.
The Kapo state's total contempt for an international rules based order is perhaps awakening many across the globe as to what the future holds if the beast is not forced back into its lair. Despite an order only last Friday from the International Court of Justice prohibiting Israel from attacking Rafah, coupled with an earlier application by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, the Kapos have persisted with their barbarism and savagery, incinerating displaced men, women and children as they slept in tented accommodation last night. At least in the crematoriums of Auschwitz the Nazis usually burned people after they were dead.
In all of this the words of Bertolt Brecht are instructive. Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
From the womb of the bitch emerged a younger brother for Arturo Ui. A monster, just like him, Bibi Buchenwald.
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