Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "gaza"

When Israel strikes, it’s “national security” – when Palestine strikes back, it’s “terrorism”. Just like over two hundred years ago when native americans resisted their homeland being stolen, it was called “Indian Attack”. Or like over a hundred years ago when Indian soldiers in the British Army revolted against the empire, in defense of their homeland, it was called “Sepoy Mutiny”.

The narrative never changes – when the colonizer terrorizes the world, it’s given glorious sounding names like “exploration” and “conquest”, but if the oppressed so much as utters a word in resistance, it is branded as attack, mutiny and terrorism – so that, the real terrorists can keep on colonizing as the self-appointed ruler of land, life and morality, without ever being held accountable for violating the rights of what they deem second rate lifeforms, such as the arabs, indians, latinos and so on.

After all this, some apes will still only be interested in one stupid question. Do I support Hamas? To which I say this. Until you’ve spent a lifetime under an oppressive regime, you are not qualified to ask that question. An ape can ask anything its puny brain fancies, but it’s up to the human to decide whether the ape is worthy of a response. What do you think, by the way – colonizers can just keep coming as they please, to wipe their filthy feet on us like doormat, and we should do nothing – just stay quiet! For creatures who call themselves civilized, you guys have a weird sense of morality.

Yet all these might not get through your thick binary skull, so let me put it to you bluntly.

I don’t stand with Hamas, I am Hamas, just like, I don’t stand with Ukraine, I am Ukraine. Russia stops fighting, war ends – Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Israel ends invasion, war ends – Palestine ends resistance, Palestine ends.

However, I do have one problem here. Why do civilians have to die, if that is indeed the case – which I have no way of confirming, because news reports are not like reputed scientific data, that a scientist can naively trust. During humankind’s gravest conflicts news outlets have always peddled a narrative benefiting the occupier and demonizing the resistance, either consciously or subconsciously. So never go by news reports, particularly on exception circumstances like this.

No matter the cause, no civilian must die, that is my one unimpeachable law. But the hard and horrific fact of the matter is, only the occupier can put an end to the death and destruction peacefully – the resistance does not have that luxury.

Today I salute you,
For today you are king,
Ruler of the entire earth,
One without a living being.

My congratulations, your majesty,
On your glorious accomplishment!
Fate worse than a defeated king
is a king without subjects.

I got buried in the wreck,
So did my friends and family.
But still I salute you my king,
On your unparalleled victory.

I salute you from my grave,
For today you are king,
Ruler of a million lands,
Yet still, ruler of nothing!

Al-Shams to Alpha Centauri,
All occupied lands will be free.
Till there is smile on every face,
All happiness is blasphemy.

Happiness is not an imperial merch,
Freedom is no colonizer’s heirloom.
Joy is no bigot’s ancestral bequest,
Earth is not a zionist hand-me-down.

Divide and rule is the law of animals,
Unite and integrate is law of humanity.
One human life is worth more,
than all the gas reserves underneath.

Gaza is not a place, Gaza is a wake up call,
to the peace-crying humanity.
Awake, Arise, O Citizens of Earth –
Till all of us are free, none of us are free!

If you cared about the thousands of children suffering today in Gaza, as much you care about the birth of one middle eastern child two thousand years ago, perhaps then, you could’ve understood the true meaning of Christmas.

As of now, Christmas is just a festival of hypocrisy – and that too, in the name of a man who gave his life to lift up the fallen. My question is, if you cannot be Christlike in your deeds, what’s the point of all these festivities, which are supposed to be rooted in goodwill towards all, not mindless self-obsession!

Whole world is my promised land,
Which part will you invade!
When the entire planet is Palestine,
It is Israel that will fade.

Gone are the days of unchallenged tyranny,
Gone are the days of exploiting native trust.
In the past you got away with many Rushmores;
Try it today, you’ll end up another Liz Truss.

You can have your puny guns and bombs,
I have an arsenal far mightier than thee.
Colonial apes may fund your homicidalism,
I have the entire humankind backing me.

When governments are on one side,
and humankind on the other,
that’s the first sign of democracy,
and curtain call for the occupier.

We the people promise our planet to Palestine.
What’ll you do now – call us all anti-semite!

Gaza is not for sale,
Greenland is not for sale,
Ukraine is not for sale,
Canada is not for sale.

Planet Earth is not real estate,
to pander to your predatory psychopathy.
If you are so hard up for cash, we can all
chip in to buy you some good ol shock therapy.

When someone plays fast and loose with rights
and freedom, their place is either in the jungle
or in a mental institution, not in office.
Fascism, fundamentalism and nationalism,
these are the ultimate mental illness.

One fine morning, out of the blue,
I invade your home with a military crew;
I declare myself king of land and life,
now on, you’re my hostage, I’m your truth.

Years go by and I show no remorse,
if anything, each day I tighten my course;
in helpless pursuit to make me see sense,
you abduct the ones, to me near and close.

If what I did is not invasion,
then what you did is not abduction!
Alas, it takes a human to solve this math,
monkey math falls short for civilization!

When ethnic cleansing becomes your religion,
mutiny becomes our dream, duty and right –
you erect your animal empire on persecution,
in revolution we stand human civilized.