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SURVIVAL NEWS: ISRAEL & HAMAS INFLICT DAILY HELL ON GAZA’S PEOPLE
This is the latest family portrait of the Ismaels of Deir al Balah, Gaza: newest-born Mary, mother Ghada, twins Dina & Lina, Muhammad, and son Jihad/JoJo. You might not guess that all their lives...
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NINA OLFF, NEW POEMS FROM NEW WORK “PRECESSION”—A COSMIC POET SPEAKS TO A...
As said of Nina Olff’s previous poetry collection “GHOST DANCES” (here at WordPress), she continues to meet that poet’s role as her multidimensional voices call on our beleaguered Earth, our ancestors...
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FROM SHAPHIR NAKBA TO GAZA EXILE, 1950s: SURVIVING THE SELFISH “GREAT...
The Ismael family have lived in this Gaza house (in eastern Deir al Balah) since the 1960s—their first real residence since their forcible exile by Israel in 1948 FROM SHAPHIR NAKBA TO GAZA EXILE,...
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TWO BURIED UNBURIED POETS OUTLIVING THE WAR STATE: SALEEM AL NAFFAR & THOMAS...
As Plato put it: When any one of these pantomimic gentlemen, who are so clever that they can imitate anything, comes to us, and makes a proposal to exhibit himself and his poetry, we will fall down...
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CREATING COMMUNITY: THE MERRYMOUNT MANIFESTO 2026
To “all comers”—Happy May Day and, in Massachusetts USA, Happy Thomas Morton Day! Here’s a hope that you and your neighbors near and far will gather together, kick up your heels to welcome Spring’s...
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GAZA’S CIRCLES OF HELL: HUNGER, CRIME & BOMBING GO ON AS ISRAEL’S WARS RAGE...
GAZA’S CIRCLES OF HELL: HUNGER, CRIME & BOMBING GO ON AS ISRAEL’S WARS RAGE ON EVERY SIDE – YouTube Twins Dina and Lina, son JoJo, baby Mary (now 1 year old) and Muhammad sport their best clothes...
View Article“FROM THE HEART OF PAIN”—SURVIVAL IN GAZA AS ISRAEL & IRAN FIGHT FOR HEGEMONY
FLASH: Iran cares as little for Palestinians as apartheid Israel itself: “FROM THE HEART OF PAIN”—SURVIVAL IN GAZA AS ISRAEL & IRAN FIGHT FOR HEGEMONY
View ArticleTUNE IN! “EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ANCIENT MINOANS BUT...
QUESTION: What brought us to this hideous life-hating state called Permanent War? HONORING & IMITATING THE WRONG ANCESTORS! And it’s time to get it right while we still can!
View ArticleBOMB IN THE YARD, HUNGER & SUFFERING IN THE STREETS: BRIEF GAZA REPORT FEB 4...
NEWS FEB. 21st—It took about 3 weeks but a professional organization UNMASS has finally removed the live Israeli artillery shell from the yard around Muhammad’s house. His 4 young children were filled...
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WAITING FOR BOMB DISPOSAL: GAZA’S “CEASEFIRE” SIEGE GOES ON
In this program—made brief by constant interference with our Internet/Zoom connection—Muhammad just had time to relate that an unexploded Israeli artillery shell has been lying next to the family home...
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“WE ALL DESERVE TO BE FREE”: SELECTIONS FOR YOU FROM POET HARRIET ELLENBERGER
Language is always dying and being reborn (so, I surmise, are we). For better or worse, its evolution and ours go hand in hand. The arts and sciences emerge from that unstable flux: in artifice (i.e.,...
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DAVID WAGNER, “LET ME SHOW YOU”: RADICAL LEGACIES OF A MASTER HISTORICAL ARTIST
Writer/historian Jack Dempsey (left) and painter/archaeologist David Wagner (right) in 2003, on the hunt for new facts about New England’s first war, against the Pequots of Connecticut. Big-Hearted...
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COFFEE WITH GAZA’S (LATE) POET SALEEM AL NAFFAR
Saleem al Naffar—who wrote defiantly, “I am hiding my resurrection among flowers.” True enough, for Saleem will live forever in his poems. My dear Palestinian brother, Gaza historian Muhammad Ismael,...
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‘SAILING GRACE’ TAKES YOU TO DIA ISLE, CRETE
Dia Isle, just north of Crete’s north-central coast Through 40 years of research-visits and writing-stays in Crete, I never had set foot upon this beautiful little isle facing the sandy stretch of...
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‘AS LONG AS WE HAVE BREATH’—POET HARRIET ELLENBERGER SPEAKS FIRE & LOVE
I RESOLVE TO SPEAK (published here by permission) There’s a fascist in the White House– a malevolent clown and front man for a cabal of the hard right. Their takeover of the US government proceeds...
View ArticleSEPTEMBER SUFFERINGS: HAMAS &‘VENGEANCE GANGS’ ADD HORRORS TO GAZA’S AGONY
In this program, Muhammad speaks (from life-long citizenship in Gaza) about how Hamas first took Parliamentary power in 2006: once President Abbas’ P.A. left Gaza for Ramallah, Hamas turned violently...
View Article‘DRIVEN TO MADNESS’: HUNGER, HOPELESSNESS & DREAD IN GAZA AS ISRAEL’S FINAL...
In this program, Muhammad shares observations made during each desperate search for food and water—what he sees of the few neighbors left, of the Palestinian refugees flooding into his Balah from Gaza...
View Article‘OPEN HEARTS’—POET NINA OLFF’S NEW WORK OPENS DOORS BETWEEN NATURE & HUMAN BEING
In this program, American poet Nina Lydia Olff talks with writer/historian Dr. Jack Dempsey about her lifelong dedication to poetry, and her poems’ “dances” for the still-powerful potentials of Nature...
View ArticleHAMAS CRIMES & CRUELTIES WORSEN PEOPLE’S SUFFERINGS IN GAZA: Parts 1 & 2 of 2
The Price of Survival, by Muhammad Jihad Ismael Since this war began, I am living a life like Robinson Crusoe’s. He faced an existential ordeal on his island, but fought brilliantly for his...
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