Abubaker Abed writes, “Apache helicopters are drifting low in Deir al-Balah. It is just terrifying and unbearable.” The genocide then, the genocide this time. Their ‘civilization’ is sick, the way its history rhymes. The White Empire takes the name of one genocided people for the weapons it uses in its last (inshallah) genocide. But what are they even fighting for this time?

Genocide once won White Empire entire continents to defile. The Americas, Australia, Africa and Asia supine. Now what? A devastated land not much bigger than Philadelphia becomes the graveyard of their lies. I think, randomly, of the ancient church of Philadelphia, of which Revelations said,

To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

I think of the poetry recited by the martyr Yahya Sinwar, “And the red freedom has a door, struck by every bloodied hand.” This was a poem, Nakbat Dimashq, written by Ahmed Shawqi in 1926 after the brutal French assault on Damascus. The White Empire changes flags but has never flagged in its genocidal violence. I think of Ho Chi Minh's last Testament, proclaiming a victory he would not live to see, when at least a million more had to die. Uncle Ho said in 1969,

No matter what difficulties and hardships lie ahead, our people are sure of total victory. The US imperialists will certainly have to quit. Our Fatherland will certainly be reunified. Our fellow-countrymen in the South and in the North will certainly be re-united under the same roof. We, a small nation, will have earned the signal honour of defeating, through heroic struggle, two big imperialisms — the French and the American — and of making a worthy contribution to the world national liberation movement.

Ho saw it, though he never saw it. Uncle Ho also quoted poetry, saying,

Our mountains will always be,
our rivers will always be,
our people will always be;
The American invaders defeated,
we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

I can hear it but I can't see it, I am a coward and I die many times before getting even close. I must admit that I suffer as the Empire exterminates people without, and disappear people within. These things weigh heavy on my soul, because by good works are so thin. All I do is complain, which the Buddha said is not right livelihood. The only thing I have to offer is that it's not much of a living anymore. They censor everybody, the choice is violence or silence, that much is clear. But what does that mean? If they were winning they wouldn't act like such losers. It might seem like they're getting away with it, but where do they go?

The terrorizers have trademarked terrorism, the wolves herd the sheep. These are such dark times but they are the end of these times, surely. It is only by massive force of arms—around throats and over eyes—that this injustice is sustained. And that energy is simply running out. I call it Collapse³, 'Israel' fell on October 7th, is only sustained by constant American support, which is also collapsing. If that doesn't work, the climate they came up is changing, while their empire depreciates to dust. The scientific apocalypse meets the eschatological in Palestine, then as now the hinge of history. History is tilting back to Asia—where most people live—and the people that sucked us dry are sucking the hardest as their power dissipates, inexorably. They are fighting not like the men of Hamas but like cornered animals (no diss to animals, it's a saying). Oppressing people abroad and repressing people at home takes time, money, and energy, all increasingly scarce quantities. The false flags of White Empire are all flagging in the historical wind. The times, as a crusty old Zionist once said, are a-changing.

Again, what are they fighting for, this time around? Palestine is no big land, no big prize to be won. A united Middle East is not even the primary threat they face, according to their own hegemonic hallucinations (shout-out China). Palestine has no particular value for them, you can see by how glibly they destroy it. Jewishness has no meaning to them, Torah Jews despise 'Israel' as an abomination, a synagogue of Satan. And American Christians are far more Roman than Christian, mass martyring people for recreation. There is no great land here, no great cause, no meaning behind the massacres, no continental consolidation. They're just killing on stealing on autopilot, just because.

When the White Empire killed the Apache, when they death marched the Cherokee, Muskogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw, there was a whole continent to be won. They called this establishing civilization (over far more civilized people), but as Aimé Césaire said, “A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.” And so here we are at the end of western civilization. We hardly knew ye, and you never knew yourselves at all. As Césaire said, “the continent proceeds toward savagery.” But now they're incontinent. Killing for nothing. They're just sick and the whole world knows it.

As Aime Césaire said, “What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization—and therefore force—is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing from one consequence to another, one denial to another, calls for its Hitler, I mean its punishment.”

We don't talk about souls, in this world consumed by the illusions of this world, but what does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his own soul? Do these craven and corrupt people seem happy, will they be respected by their descendants, will they be written well in history, will they be judged well by any God? They have all the resources and none of the respect, all the money and none of the morals, all the power and none of the purpose. It's just naked killing and stealing, without centuries left to get away with it and build statues. The ashes they make of Gaza are the ashes of their own souls, if only they knew.

The end times unwind in agonizingly slow Biblical time, but they are unwinding. Hamas— as an Islamic movement—called it. In 1999, Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said “The Quran tells us that the generations change every 40 years. During the first 40 years, we had the Nakba, in the second 40 years, the Intifada started, with confrontations, the fighting, and the bombs, and the third [group of] 40 years, will see [Israel’s] end, inshallah... To be precise, I say that by 2027, there will be no Israel.” You look back at the defilement of the Crusades and this isn't even the first time this has happened, the Carbon Crusaders will be kicked out by the Resistance fire this time.

This is cold comfort while the bodies are still warm, but justice has been foretold by God, and foreclosed upon by Communism. Pick your antidote, but the poison is not holding. I don't know if I believe in Allah, but I fear and revere them, and They said, “You will surely be tried and tested in your possessions and your persons, and you shall surely hear many hurtful things from those who were given the Book before you and from those who set up partners with God, but if you endure with fortitude and restrain yourselves, that indeed is a matter of strong determination.” As Uncle Ho said,

On the moral plane, the enemy has already failed completely and we have won total victory... Our long war of resistance will have to go through many more difficult periods. We must endure sacrifices and hardships and make great efforts. But we are ready to face sacrifices and sufferings and to exert ourselves for five, ten years in order to break the chains which have held us in slavery over the past eighty years, and regain unity and independence forever.

The old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born. But it is being born. Now is the time of morons on the imperial side, while the Resistance are philosopher martyrs. These are the times that try men's souls, but as the genocide nears its fever pitch, as the lies scratch and itch, who am I to lose hope? Dwelling in comfort and in cowardice As someone named Leila said, “no patience for those catastrophizing ... have you forgotten what the french did in algeria? what the italians did in libya? what the usa did in iraq? we are dealing with decades, even centuries of genocidal aggression aimed at destroying our peoples & lands.”

If you read history, this is what it is; written in blood, not refraining from refraining. Same genocide, different times, same ecocide, different climes, same history, different rhymes. The plot line of colonialism has always been murder-suicide, though unfortunately in that order. They keep delaying it with more colonizing, but cancer kills both host and self once it runs out of organs. From Crusaders to Carbon Crusaders, they loot, pollute, and leave. I started reading this history because I wanted to understand why the Resistance didn't do more, and I understand it better now, after Reading Resistance.

Why do they only strike when struck, and only in proportion? Why don't they go all out? But as I read the Resistance I realize that this is a Quranic injunction and I am a moronic tourist. Allah Themself said, “If you want to retaliate, retaliate to the same degree as the injury done to you. But if you are patient, it is better to be so. Endure with patience; truly, your patience is possible only with the help of God. Do not grieve for them, or feel distressed because of their plottings.” They also said, “They are planning a scheme, and so am I: so bear with those who deny the truth, and let them be for a little while.”

What it is a little while, especially to a little child, but that's the terror they want you to feel, those that trademarked terrorism and exported it globally. As much as I fear and feel bodily pain, I fear for my soul most often, and the Palestinian soul is intact, most certainly. The martyrs cry out to us all from so far above they might as well be angels, God knows the devils are all here already. Martyrdom is something Christians used to know about, before they became Romans, but then as now, Palestinians must carry the cross, while being whipped and spit upon by both Jew and gentile alike. So as the Apache helicopters drift low over Deir al-Balah, as the Empire reaches new lows in its own metropole, we see the ruined world that the hypocrites have won. But as the souls of the true Palestinian and Apaches alike soar above, we can surely feel a better world to come. Inshallah. I dare not hurry God, but please God, I've died a thousand times already. Please make it soon.