Invisible Eyes

 Invisibilise

Invisibilise

decades of trauma

plo massacres of school children

Israeli athletes castrated

by Black September

invisibilise

the psychic wounds

the open sores, a synecdochal sample: 1979

4 year old Einat Haran, skull smashed in by samir kuntar, who murders her father Danny Haran,

baby sister Yael Haran suffocates to death while terrified mother tries to keep her from crying and

revealing their hiding place.

upshot? upon release from Israeli prison in prisoner exchange kuntar awarded Syria's highest medal

and honoured by Iranian President mahmoud ahmadinejad

invisibilise the successful

torpedoing of the Oslo accords by

wave after wave

of hamas suicide bombings

blowing up teenagers at a

dischoteque

leaving dancers armless and legless

or pensioners at a pesach seder

hands trembling a little

as they navigate

spoon to mouth and then trembling no more

bits of flesh in the chandeliers

invisibilise

twisted buses, twisted bus stops

charred bodies, only dna

may establish who they were

as they headed to market

to buy tomatoes and cucumbers

invisibilise the stabbings

teenagers taken to caves

their hands bound, bodies punctured

with knife wounds

invisibilise

bombs backed with rusty nails

and bolts to tear flesh apart

invisibilise 19 year old

Ori Ansbacher

raped and murdered while walking home

"the Zionist bitch deserved it, she had the temerity

to live in the land of her ancestors"

later the grove planted in her memory destroyed by Palestinian vandals.

invisibilise the psychological torture, the television threats
to the descendants and remnants of a genocide

"we'll destroy you just as you were destroyed 75

years ago"

invisibilise the relentless cyber attacks

the gross charicatures, the demonisation, the dehumanisation

invisibilise the

pile on

by trade unions, professional associations, teachers, academics, artists, journalists, all suddenly and

myopically focussed on their shadow aspects of self projected onto Israel. Safe. easy. Convenient.

How many Israel lovers you gonna rub shoulders with at work or in your book club?

invisibilise the war in Sudan

8.5 million on brink of starvation

and Yemen, Xianjing, Tibet, Myanmar

no poems for them

no self righteous indignation

no resolutions in council

no marches in the street

invisibilise the ecocide

the daily missiles made in Iran

setting zionist planted forests ablaze and driving

terrified jackals and hedgehogs and lizards who manage to escape the flames towards the illusion of

safety

the fruit

rotting on the trees

farmers unable to attend to their crops

invisibile the kidnapped,

the raped and then murdered

a red haired baby and toddler bother, whole family

snatched out of their home

whereabouts unknown

corpses of murdered Israelis left to rot

in subterranean tunnels

invisibilise

Judih Weinstein Haggai, seventy years old

an English teacher, poet, peace activist who worked with children with special needs. Used

meditation and mindfulness techniques to treat children suffering from anxiety caused by years of

rocket fire that have plagued residents of the Gaza border area. murdered with her 72 year old

husband Gadi Haggai on October 7,

along with Thai workers, Beduin,

Russian, French, US, UK, Ukranian nationals

invisibilise

the high on Captagon crazed Islamists

shoving machine gun barrels up the bloody vaginas

of the women they've just gang raped

or towing dissidents roped behind motorbikes

around the streets of gaza

throwing homosexuals and political rivals off

rooftops, enforcing a terrible homogenity and

preaching maediaval blood libels

and then

weave some kind of fairy tale that this

regressive barbarism

equals

"the resistance"

close one eye

so you only see gaza

not the other side of the border

so you don't see the North of Israel

depopulated by more missiles than the blitz

150 000 more

pointing at you

close one eye

so you only see the snippet

not the before or after

close both eyes

so you don't see yourself

staring back at you in the mirror

preaching and sanctimoniously stealing

your cheap and easy rectitude

one thing I know for sure

if you sat where Israelis sat

fucker

you'd be doing a whole lot

worse than them