Misreading Palestine — Ebb

In this article, Max Ajl deconstructs two widely repeated but false tropes
related to Palestine: the first being the misguided notion that Netanyahu
conspired with Hamas to maintain the Palestinian national division and
empowered the movement in Gaza, and the second is the oft-repeated
falsehood that Israel and its parasitic lobby drives America into
irrational warmongering against its own interests.
— Read on www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/misreading-palestine

Israel’s War on American Student Activists | The Nation

Netanyahu secretly turned his attention to American students, faculty, and campus groups in the US fighting for Palestinian rights. Fearing the growing support for the Palestinian cause on college campuses, he established a covert front to spy on, harass, intimidate, and disrupt these groups.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/

this is not a drill

poet: cut me down to size. 
with words as arrows or knives
with sleeves inked with sweat
tears tear me down.

poet: i can take it.
do you? do you know how to
thread the needle and
leave me bare?

poet this is not
a drill is not an auction
it is a precaution
and this is not a drill

i need to know.
tell me what you see.
believe me when i say
with reddened lips

i’m ready.
i’m ready, poet.
are you? to do
what you need to do?