The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
Those of us who read History from the perspective of the most vulnerable people and their lived experience in the shadow of the decision made by the most powerful class, the ruling class, see through the propaganda and romanticisation of Kings, Great Leaders, Nationalist Hagiographies and claims of progress and civilisation.
Jonathon Edwards: A Christian Zionist fixated upon Fire, Brimstone and Beauty. Beauty?
We know that Zionist was an English Calvinist ideology, born in 1580, in London, curated by the British Empire which emerged after the English Civil War and the Industrial Revolution funded by slavery, the Opium wars and colonial conquests. So much needless suffering so that yet another series of venal Wealth-as-Power Cults could call themselves progressive cultures.
originated from Puritanism in the 16th and 17th centuries, with figures like Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr Vermigli who forwarded a biblical exegesis which included an important role for the Jews, converted to Christianity, in the end timesJonathan Edwards believing Jewish return to Palestine was essential for Christ's Second Coming and the spread of the gospel.
This theological concept of restorationism was later revived by British parliamentarians in the 19th century, such as Lord Shaftesbury, influencing policy toward a Jewish presence in Palestine for their own religious goals, which was a precursor to modern political Zionism. "
The Calvinists assumed a dark belief that to bring forth the return of The Messiah (Jesus 2.0) all Jews had to be returned to the lands of Judea, initiating a global war for Christianity, waged by God, Jesus and Christians, and that 1/3rd of all Jews would convert and be saved, the rest and all other peoples of any faith or none would perish, and thus a fully Christian Earth would emerge, fulfilling the Biblical order to hold dominion over the Earth.
Curated as a geopolitical weapon, anti-Jewish under its pallid skin, a skin torn from the Jewish Faith and Diaspora, and reshaped as a mask. They wanted to move all Jewish people from Europe to anywhere else, and Palestine was the final destination.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a leading Zionist wrote a letter to all Zionists in 1923, titled 'The Iron Wall' extolling the inherent morality of the Zionist Cause, and thus the correctness of the necessary violent conquest of the lands already long inhabited by Arab Jews, Christians, Muslims, Sufi, Zoarstrians, Bedouins and secularists.... This was well known by the British Empire Ruling Class, they read his letter amongst many other Zionist diatribes, and understood their implications perfectly well.
Stephen Samuel Wise inadvertently laid bare this piece of history at the Zionist Conference held in New York, in 1931, attended by Lloyd George and other luminaries of the Empire and of Zionism.
Anti-Jewish oppression was rampant, as it had been since the Middle Ages, and in European power circles it was a favourite after dinner topic amongst the wealth and powerful as they chugged of cigars and fine brandy, the men of means chatting shit about how great there were.
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Corneilius
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a rewrite of 'Black is The Colour of My True Loves Hair'
For Bisan Owda. Allah yahfazek!
May you, and the Palestinian people live long and prosper on their own land.
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Black is the color of Bisan Owda’s hair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
I love her life, and well she knows,
I love the grass whereon she goes.
Her truths are there, for all to see,
In her clear vision, Palestine shall be free.
Black is the color of Bisan Owda's hair,
Her lips are as red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
I’ll sing from the river to the sea
Unsatisfied, I ne’er shall sleep.
I’ll wage no war, nor political lies
And struggle on, for fifteen million lives....
Black is the color of Bisan Owda's hair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
Palestine will one day be free
The Zionists will have to answer to thee
The strength of your heart, your clarity of mind,
Your humanity and poise, your vision fine.
Black is the color of Bisan Owda's hair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
We stand with you, we will not stand down,
Our hearts are yours, the whole world round,
No matter what, we will not stand by,
until you are Free, in Palestine.
Black is the color of Bisan Owda's hair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
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May you, precious Bisan, and all of the Palestinian people live long and prosper on your own land.
The citizens of the Western Powers must rise up and hold their abject rulers accountable.
Their enabling and participation in this Genocide is beyond all 'red lines', a betrayal of humanity, by the most depraved legislators imaginable. Their legitimacy is nil and void.
They hold power, but they do not deserve to. There is no forgiving, no forgetting. There is only accountability.
SUMUD.
Sumud (Arabic: صمود) means "steadfastness" or "steadfast perseverance", and it is a central Palestinian cultural value and political strategy that emphasizes non-violent resistance, resilience, and a determination to remain on one's land in the face of oppression. More than passive endurance, sumud is an active, collective effort to uphold Palestinian identity, resist displacement and subordination, and maintain dignity through everyday actions and a commitment to a hopeful future.
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Black is the color of Bisan Owda’s hair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
I love her life, and well she knows,
I love the grass whereon she goes.
Her truths are there, for all to see,
In her clear vision, Palestine shall be free.
Black is the color ofBisan Owda's hair,
Her lips are as red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
I’ll sing from the river to the sea
Unsatisfied, I ne’er shall sleep.
I’ll wage no war, nor political lies
And struggle on, for fifteen million lives....
Black is the color of Bisan Owda's hair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
Palestine will one day be free
The Zionists will have to answer to thee
The strength of your heart, your clarity of mind,
Your humanity and poise, your vision fine.
Black is the color of Bisan Owda'shair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
We stand with you, we will not stand down,
Our hearts are yours, the whole world round,
No matter what, we will not stand by,
until you are Free, in Palestine.
Black is the color of Bisan Owda'shair,
Her lips are like red Hanoun fair.
The sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the olive groves wherein she stands.
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Kindest regards
Corneilius
Thank you for reading this blog.
"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."
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"Non-political, strictly neutral, doesn't matter if you're good or brutal."
Right. In this line, the indeed acknowledge that some of the States being represented in the contest are indeed brutal. And that that does not matter.
The writers outed the competition, thinking they were protecting the conception.
We all know who they are referring to as brutal, States represented in the completion, and certain States banned from the competition. The whiff of hypocrisy is pungent. Every state engaged in warfare ought to be excluded from such a peace bringing song contest.
War does not bring peace.
War does not bring peace, we know this : not in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Congo, Sudan, Kashmir or Palestine. The end of World War II did not bring peace to Congo, Vietnam, Korea, it did not bring peace to South Africa, Cuba, South America. War never brings peace. Peace is so much more than mere ceasefires. Peace is the dismantling of militarism, the redirection of our efforts towards healthy relationships at all levels of society, the adoption of the duty of care to avoid all known avoidable harms as the core of a healthy society.
Supporting one side in a war, arming one side or both in a war does not bring peace. Paying for those arms trades through Swiss bank accounts does not bring peace.
I do not know who wrote the lyrics or the music. Their video does not list any credits.
If I was either, the lyricist or the music writer/arranger I would not want anyone to know I had any part in it. And I would not want a single cent of the royalties. Blood money. I am a song writer and producer. Largely unknown and unremarkable. I do know my craft, and its purpose as a folk roots musician.
Here is the song, 'Made in Switzerland', written with a Latin American beat.. (cultural appropriation?)
The majority of comments on the video are familiar to those who know the bot farm linguistic turn of phrase.
Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer sung this song, and presented the competition.
Youtube video of the song 'Made in Switzerland'
the Lyrics:
Made in Switzerland
on television every year
in Switzerland
And now you finally understand
that like the Swiss, Eurovision
is unpolitical -
strictly neutral!
Doesn't matter if you're
good or brutal!
Welcome but with decency!
and so sparks of fire
and crazy lightning make
the staging far more frightening!
The song goes on to claim Switzerland invented Democracy and other wildly self aggrandising claims.
How frightening is the crazy bombing of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank?
It doesn't matter, because good or brutal, Eurovision welcomes you! Here's a tiktok I made on this, juxtaposing the song and a recent Palestine Solidarity March in Cork, Ireland.
Most people alive today are decent people, not prone to violence, warfare or exploitation.
Those that are, like very much to associate those characteristics as essential innate traits of our species. This is a lie, and no matter how oft repeated it remains a lie.
Militarism is a Pox upon Humanity. No question.
IF we were indeed all like that, then the current bullies would have been extinguished in an orgy of violence long ago, and an even more vicious bully cult would have emerged, and we'd all be quite delighted with it.
Nobody yet has shown any evolutionary adaptation to organised violence - PTSD is the evidence of this, and we see, repeatedly the majority of combat survivors suffer from PTSD.
One of the elements of psychological dominance is to ensure we remain exhausted and divided, insecure and incapable of building the kinds of solidarity that would enable the vast majority to hold the few bullies to account, impede them, restrain them and dismantle their systems and infrastructures of leverage violence.
In this hope is useless, determination is what really matters.
In the day to day life of the Palestinians, the Aboriginals, and so many other colonised peoples whose existence is their first resistance, we see what real determination is.
We have so much to learn and not much time to get on it.
Lead commercial sponsorship for the Eurovision is an Israeli luxury hair and beauty product manufacturer, by the name of Moroccan Oil.
Moroccan Oil is made from the nut of the Argan Tree, which previously was only grown in Morocco, where for centuries it has been tended, harvested and processed by women's collectives.
There is a mythical story which tells us that the nut was traditionally fed to goats, and the post goat nut was then processed, using a complex process, to create the Argan Oil. It is a myth, a fabrication.
One manifestation of the world’s increased interest in argan oil is the development of a kind of mythology surrounding goats climbing into argan trees to harvest the fruit.
You’ve probably seen photos of this elsewhere, and there is some truth to the matter.
Goats are fans of argan fruit—and the leaves and any other food they can find. Left to their own devices, they’ll eat whatever is on the ground. When that’s gone, they’ll happily climb into the trees to find more, bounding out onto branches that bend under their weight.
The popular myth has it that oil producers rely on the goats to “process” the fruit through their digestive tracts and that nuts collected from goat manure are easier to open.
While it’s true that gathered nuts are indeed used in production, most argan oil is produced from fruit that matures and falls from the tree on its own.
In fact, goat herders and orchard guards work hard at keeping the goats away from trees with unripened fruit to ensure they don’t consume future harvests before they’re ready.
Unfortunately, this myth has led to the practice of forcing goats into trees along major roads for the benefit of passing tourists, with the worst offenders even chaining goats to branches for days. (If you visit, steer clear.) source : Curious Story
Morocco, long proud of this unique Beauty Oil, had a ban on exporting the tree, to protect their indigenous production. An understandable precaution.
Some years ago, in 2003 we are told, some clever Israeli's took cuttings, tress and nuts from Morocco, breaking Moroccan Law, and they created hybrids which are now grown on stolen Palestinian land, processed there and sold as Moroccan Oil. Colonial beauty.
I made a short TikTok about this.
@egalitarianlovesongs https://innerbeautymag.com/en/2018/11/23/carmen-tal-happiness-is-a-choice/ Moroccanoil has been the Official Sponsor of Eurovision for the past 3 years, cementing both the brand's reputation as an authority in hair trends, as well as bringing a real link between fashion, music and hairdressing Mortocan Oil is an Israeli haircare brand owned by Israeli, Carmen Tal. Moroccan Oil obscures its manufacturing and origins. It poses as a moroccan brand, however its products are all manufactured in Isreal. #relatable#humanity#share♬ original sound - Trader Barry fx
I have to admit I have long disliked the Eurovision Song Contest, on artistic grounds, as a folk musician also rooted in electronic dance music and underground arts over a 35 year 'career'. I am wholly opposed to music being used and weaponised as a political propaganda tool and a wealth extraction practice.
Music, folk music in particular, must serve the needs of the people, must tell our stories, our trails and tribulations, our struggles, our loves, our kindnesses and our shared humanity.
Music can and is used for many purposes: weddings, funerals, community celebrations, for joy and for grief, and importantly, folk music has a rile to play in building humane solidarity so as to inspire and fire up the natural urge to make peace through challenging oppression, confronting the violent, dismantling their status.
It cannot do so when harnessed to political warfaring states and their objectives.
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'Get off your Land' (see below) is a song of mine, about the Palestinian struggle, citing the long history of Zionism as a weapon of the British Empire that replicates the Plantation of Northern Ireland by the British in the 1600s, with the same patterns emerging of a population which holds an internalised religious identity that also includes a sense of entitlement to colonised lands, an identity passed from one generation to the next, exploited by the colonial overlords, weaponising people, parents and children, with rabid justifications for extremes of violence, for centuries. In the song I note the deployment of British Government irregular combat units, known as The Black and Tans, tasked with the oppression of civilians in reprisal for resistance to the colonial domination, from Ireland to Palestine, in 1922.
Geopolitical long term strategy.
Being Irish, and well read, I have a different understanding of this aspect of history than most British people I have met, in my 45v years of living in London, the majority of whom appear to be timidly yet proudly unwilling to admit the horrors of their own ruling class, let alone be energised to hold the English Ruling Class accountable.
Tony Blair walks free, a very wealthy man, one who ought to be in a cell at The Hague, for his War Crimes. We have the evidence.
I wrote this song 'Get Off Your Land' in 2020, produced this version in 2021, and am appalled to see its predictions so horrendously fulfilled. I am disgusted at the British and American and German State Governments enabling of a genocide, standing as staunch duplicitous allies in the international domain, arming Israel for commercial gain. I am similarly nauseated by their deliberate fuelling of war in Ukraine. Russia's invasion is odious, illegal and amoral, that is clear. And yet the slaughter on the fields of South Eastern Ukraine is not entirely the responsibility of the Russians. World War One demonstrated the odious practice of throwing fresh troops to a well defended frontline, to murder and ben murdered in their hundreds of thousands. I fail to see the benefits to Ukrainian civil society in such wholesale slaughter.
Here is Mitch McConnell extolling the many virtues of exacerbating the Ukraine-Russian war, in less than two minutes.
Mitch McConnell's honesty regards the benefits of the Ukraine War is instructive.
The Civil War that plagued the Donbas for 8 years prior was egged on by outsiders, as a means of 'weakening Russia'. Some spoke of making this 'Russia's second Afghnaistan'. Rather than de-escalate, the USUK have exacerbated that shituation, leading to today, where estimates suggest a million have murdered each other, most gruesomely, egged on by US, UK and Germany, whose arms industry dividends are bloated with tax payers cash.
So here's my song about Palestine. 'Get Off Your Lands'
All in all, the competing warring states dynamic and its patriarchy, who curate racism, misogyny, xenophobia and many other forms of bigotry in order to weaponise ordinary people against each other, is a pox upon humanity. It does matter of you are good or brutal. It matters very much.
Our children's futures are on the line. It does matter of you're good or brutal. Genuine neutrality is a stance of non-violent resistance to violence, a direct confrontation with the bullies, with the intent to hold the bullies accountable, as part of the process of making a genuine long term peace that leads to entire populations being nurtured rather than exploited.
We must build solidarity strong enough to hold the war makers accountable, all of them, no matter which state they represent.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Thank you for reading this blog.
"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."
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