I will read it and I know all of this and I was also shot at in Israel
years ago and I am horrified by Israel. I do think ISIS is the result of
something else but it is the logic of the war machine, the Israeli war
machine ours, the streets of Ferguson - which could be anywhere in the
U.S. What I'm arguing is that this something else cannot be explained,
that poetics are necessary - and why are artists so silent on this?
This is NOT US against THEM - this is US against ourselves.
I also feel, having been a somewhat minor member of the left all thru the
60s in the US etc. etc. that we too easily blame ourselves for EVERYTHING
- we are part of the problem, but so is ISIS. The "also" is important
below - they are more than these children. I've known a lot of children of
concentration camp parents and their reactions are wildly varied
(including in several cases moving to Germany); none of this is simple
cause and affect.
I was also btw in Israel when Nassir was calling for the Jews to be
drowned in the sea, when my friends were being shot at, when I had a knife
pulled on me in my own dorm room, when an Arab who was my friend was
beaten to an inch of his life and dropped in a gully (beaten by other
Arabs). Violence breeds violence. I'm not trying to analyze the politics
of ISIS - I read about them but I'm not capable of political science - but
I am trying to deal with the poetics/poesis of what's inside each of us.
Alan
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Ana Vald?s wrote:
Alan, read it, please, ISIS is also the children of the terrible war
againt Irak, a war based on false information and cheap oil. ISIS is the
children of the drones hitting villagers weddings in Pakistan. No, we
don't see the drones but the victims see us, all, Westerner, as the ones
sending the drones.
www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/25/how-brutalized-become-brutal
I was in Gaza some years ago, the same week Rachel Corrie was killed,
crushed by a bulldozzer send to crush the houses at the border.
Many small kids ran to the morgue to see her dead body, I wonder how many of
them are in the ranks of Hamas today.
I was myselt tortured for many years ago, I was tortured by fellow landsmen
who believed they needed punish me for not sharing their ideas about many
things
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/03/28/torture-works/
I marched with the women survivors of Srebrenica in the ex-Yugoslavia some
years ago as well, they want still justice for their dead relatives
We live in a time where Ferguson, Gaza, Montevideo, Srebrenica, carry
painful memories to share.
Ana
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote:
ISIS NEWFLAG
http://www.alansondheim.org/isisflag.png
http://www.alansondheim.org/isisflag.mp4
A new flag for ISIS. A cross turned, kindly bent to let
the bodies down, perhaps an arm remains, propping the
rest of the weight. the wounded. Perhaps an X, sign of
belonging, gratitude to the beautiful clean world. There
are no animals here. Perhaps an X which itself moves in
violence, the focus of someone else's dream: it was the
land and its god which did the dreaming. Perhaps an
occlusion of solar light, a moment's cooling. But a new
flag, new allure, new days and new bodies.
The allure of the X as well, a new flat for the taking,
copyright patent NEWFLAG, new bodies, worlds to conquer.
New: forms of torture, ransom, violence, pillage.
New: nations, cleansings, war machines, prisons.
New: religions new-day dawning, new controls.
New: cleansed women, children. New: thanks be to God.
Thanks be to God. HE almighty. Thanks be to God.
Perhaps an X, carved, above or through the eyes.
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