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Birth in Gaza: a cultural marker, and not a good one.

I was born by Ceasarian long time ago, in a foreign land, and I needed an immediate blood transfusion and other assistance, straight into an incubator. I was very lucky indeed to survive. Much luckier than so many..... I think of the mothers to be of Gaza, and my heart breaks for them.

A news article on the conditions of women in pregnancy and childbirth in Gaza these past 5 months sets the tone of my interest here, as a parent and an adult.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/31/gaza-pregnancy-childbirth-health-care/

"She lived in a state of fear that impacted not only her mental health, but also the well-being of the baby growing inside of her. In late November, during a temporary truce in fighting between Israel and Hamas, she noticed a difference. “When the psychological tension eased, and the sounds of bombing ceased, I observed a notable increase in the baby’s activity,” she said.

The condition of environment of the mother, and her condition within that these all have an impact, adverse or nurturant, upon the developing child from within the womb onwards. In the case of a genocidal war all around you, the adverse impacts are incalculable, unpredictable other than they will be egregiously adverse. Intolerable and it must be said, entirely avoidable.

Just stop this insane barbaric industrial scale militarised assault upon a civilian population.

I type out the word 'Stop'. I feel pathetic.

I feel so weak, even as my outrage and grief and anger are not.

I'm impotent to stop anything, unless I form up and participate within a wider movement of people allied in solidarity to thwart the war makers on our streets, in our hearts and minds and in our legislatures. This we must do, no matter what. This is no longer optional.

There are no justifications for any of what is being done to the Palestinian people that would stand in The Hague as an acquittal.

The murder continues - thus there are no conditions to be met by anyone before the Israeli Military is ordered to stop - indeed those that have not yet shed blood should legally mutiny from that Institution (the IDF or IOF) to avoid committing war crimes. Israel needs a mutiny, a mutiny for ceasefire and then peace.

Imagine being a parent of small infants and toddlers in all of that horror?

I think of the women in Gaza and West Bank today and yesterday and tomorrow (everywhere war plagues innocent civilian populations) going through last trimester of a beloved pregnancy in the conditions imposed by Israeli Military Assault, supported by USUSK and EU across Gaza and the West Bank.

My god. It's a terrible, terrible scene.

This is not what these babies are evolved to expect to meet.

How can their mothers and fathers known peace that their children might know now it too? When it is well understood and widely known that peace in the home is absolutely essential to healthy development of all our children.

The culture that deems that condition we see in war zones an acceptable part of war, which is in and of it self already intolerable and unjust ,is not at all evolved.

It is not a culture that adapts to a changing world which is what evolution means - it is instead a cult that demands the dynamic variations and the constant changes of living healthy biology are wrought by it into wealth and power, and for no other.

The Bully Cult is rooted deeply in mistreatment of children and vulnerable persons as collateral damage in its pursuit of dominance.

It is in inhumane cult. Many are seeing it as it is for the first time, and that is always a difficult moment.

And yet, it is the truth that the vast majority of us are innocent of any of its crimes, even if we pay taxes and they are abused by deployment to violence and destruction, even if we voted stupidly, voted without checking, turned our heads away from the News, we were busy, we are still innocents in these wars. People like us pay the price. They need us as their allies.

That said, in the Western Democracies, we have legitimate tools to gain a majority in our legislatures and we should use our collective and individual innocence as our major leverage - the innocent pay the heaviest price in every war.

No more!

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Letter to all elected members of Irish Dail and Seanad regarding South Africa's application the the ICJ

Who the hell votes against a ceasefire in a Genocide?

Mike Pence, former US Vice President, signing artillery shells in Southern Israel last week.

Dear representative,

The South African Government has made an application to the International Court of Justice, which rules on serious criminal offences between States, to initiate an indictment of the State of Israel for its current violent assault upon the people of Gaza, and the West Bank. They are asking that the courts rule on the situation, to charge it as an act of Genocide, to demand that all states party to the Genocide Convention take action to prevent this genocide from continuing, as International Law requires.

Ireland has ratified the Genocide Convention, as has South Africa and Israel, and most States around the world that form up the United Nations General Assembly.

It follows then, that the Irish Government, as a member of the UN, and in recognition of the long oppression of Irish people carried out by the English State and our in depth understanding of the history and adverse impacts of colonial conquest and genocidal actions designed to destroy the culture of the Irish, our language, our customs, culture, land tenure and polity by the English State, and later the British Empire, should support this application to the International Courts of Justice.

Can you please confirm that you will be taking the appropriate action to require the Irish State to uphold the Convention on Genocide, and other International Laws of War and the Humanitarian Law and join the South African application, to support it in full, without reservation?

Kindest regards

Corneilius Crowley (Irish Citizen)

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I think that Offensive Militarism is psychopathy institutionalised. It MUST be dismantled.

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Here follows a brief interview with International Human Rights Lawyer Francis Boyle, who has taken and won a number of adjudications at the International Court Of Justice, regarding Herzogovinia/Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

Genocide and Complicity.

When it comes to Genocide, it is being witnessed by all of us ordinary people across Earth. We know that in Gaza, in Palestine, whether we are looking at it or not, a Genocide it is being made to happen.

Even as I write it is being committed. I feel impotent. I cannot help in any immediate way.

Genocide is being broadcast as it happens. This genocide is being televised by citizen journalism.

Mobile phones and cameras and drones are recording and broadcasting the gory detail that shows what war really is - perhaps for the first time ever - to a mass global civilian population who every day are now seeing the immediate impacts of industrialised hi-tech total warfare waged against civilians. It is a horror of horrors.

Every war waged upon a civilian population has done the same, and we've never really seen it, we've only tales of survival, hagiography of the victors, governments call for more budget for 'defence'. So now we know. No going back from that. This cannot be un-seen.

Deliberate, being made to happen.

It is being made to happen, men and women are making decisions to ensure the slaughter and destruction and collective punishment does not stop, and it should not ever be happening. It MUST stop.

Men and women are deciding to commit war crimes. Ordinary people are being needlessly harmed beyond all tolerance.

The opinions of anyone of us are beside the point. The justifications being made by those who justify such atrocity are beside the point.

The legal, moral and humane intelligent empathy side of this matter is united.

It Must Stop.

Supporting those engaged in the dominant violent position is complicity, by degree. It just is. This is not a judgemental statement, it is a statement of fact. By degree means the further away from a position of power to influence matters, the less one's complicity is.

Now, there's little complicity of the average liberal democracy or theocracy or authoritarian tax payer compared to others in their respective states who hold high officer and wield political and civil power to support the violators of War and Humanitarian Law in this matter. And in all matters of a similar nature.

Us ordinary folk - you and I and our neighbours, the people's of urban dwellings all about us, are the ones who always pay the full cost of war.

We are, as individuals, impotent in the face of military violence and corrupt national and international diplomacy. The ruling class want us to internalise enough of the nation state to protect them from us, with them hiding behind the state.

They are happy when we accuse each other of complicity, even more so when we argue their opinions, and vote according to the public defined opinions, rather than the evidence.

Our individual complicity is minor. Throwing it at each other as an accusation is a futile cause, it does not serve us ordinary people.

Establishing a humane political and civil power base

Where we do have a reliable resource of political power is in each other, as a community of ordinary folk, understanding we are all accidents of birth, understanding our need and desire, born of healthy common sense, that we would be best served if we were to look out for one another, in mutual aid, and turn that to political association.

We have yet to establish this power, and when we do, we will do what we can to undo the warring states syndrome culture.

Turn away from the ruling class, turn to each other, and then take the kinds of action that a healthy population can take, and see where we lead into.

They did not lose their lives.

Nuttyahoo has a war, AI AI Booom!

It is not a matter of looking around to see where those lives were misplaced, forgotten, left behind, dropped behind the sofa, dropped by accident as we got out of the car, left behind in the supermarket.

Their lives were stolen and not by stealth.

Their lives were taken, openly, in full view, not in a secret act or by mistake - their bodies were ruined, destroyed, violently, cruelly, intentionally. Block by block. AI AI oh.

Limbs were ripped from bodies. Hands that will never caress a grandchild's forehead, legs that will never dance again, fingers that will never again play music or prepare food and share it lovingly.

Throats that will never laugh again, or sing lullabies, or pray, eyes that will not tear up in bliss or sadness.

Their internal organs were crushed by pressure waves from hi-tech explosive munitions designed to do exactly that, delivered from the most advanced jets that industry can build, by shells sent by tanks and howitzers, carefully aimed to cause the most destruction possible.

AI AI Oh!

Their hearts will not flutter in new love, their lungs will not fill nor will their throats and hearts sing at weddings, their eyes will not see the years of growth and maturation of their children, or their parents, they will not take selfies at sunset to share to their friends and family.

Their guts were spilled, splattered and spread across the walls that no longer stand to protect these families that they might sleep soundly and in love. Body bags of parts of bodies, the remains, what is left is unrecognisable as a person, as a human being.

They were blinded, they were broken in pieces, they were battered and brutalised and their surviving relatives had to bury them under an AI rain of hellfire, rockets and white phosphorus.

AI AI oh.

The survivors sleepless with trauma can see the stars, they can see the moon and they can see the flares through the spaces where ceilings once kept them safe from the rain and the sun.

They have no toilets, no fresh running water, they have no food. They have no medicines, they have no counselling. They comfort each other by being still in it together, sharing what is left, which is closer to nothing with each and every bombing raid. They have no cookers, they have no fridges and they live under plastic sheeting, they live crowded into the remaining homes, a family in each room, shivering in fear, in despair, in unbearable condition waiting for the bomb earmarked for that dwelling. They know the meaning of Genocide. The lived experience, short as it is, unbearable as it is is still far too long.

AI AI oh.

The Israeli State War diet is to the death of all the innocents, their sordid claim that peace is the aim of this growing pile of bones of Palestinian families is vulgar psychopathy institutionalised.

The USUK ruling class cheer them on. The USUK media dumb down their reporting. The USUK ruling class urge restraint in public, citing self defence, while they allow the Israeli State to continue. ‘Tone it down a bit’ they say, in public.

They send more weapons to Ukraine, they send more weapons to Israel, they send more weapons everywhere war is active, as their shares in warfare industries increase in value.

These are our Ruling Class. We vote for them and we pay them. And this is what we get. We are the lucky ones. They will not bomb us, will they?

We see this on our screens. We see this on our phones.

I have long known that every war does this. This is what war is. No war has ever been fought without harming the innocents, men, women, children and elders and their villages and towns, their cities. Horror movies are scary, war is disgusting, revolting, degrading.

There are no heroes, the myth of honour is a veil.

It takes real human courage, it takes immense effort, it tales great heart and kindness to make Peace the task. It will take all of us to make peace a reality.

Today the USUK population correctly protest, pointing to the innocence of these Palestinian families. We hate marching, the weathers is not great, and we fervently wish we had nothing to protest, that we could instead demonstrate love and make empathy our polity’s core - our marches are not hatred, even though the ruling class hate them. Striking nurses do not hate, they care.

We did not hold our War criminals to account in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and six and seven and eight and beyond, even as we had the evidence.

They all walk free, enriched, pensioned, protected and they have more than they need, whilst poverty is intentionally maintained in order to ensure the wealth extraction faction remains dominant.

We - you and I and our neighbours, we who live on every street - we cannot undo the harm done, and we must ask ourselves now - 'What can we do to prevent more harm?'

How do we live on with integrity, without relying on hope, faith or comfort to get us through and where will we find the shared determination to end the warfare that we are all paying for, so that peace has a chance?

The cost of murder crisis has many layers.

They did not lose their lives, they will not get them back, we know where they went, we still have ours.