Macklemore's Defiaint Song Against Genocide and Joe Biden

Palestinian girl Hind Rajab poses for photograph in this
undated handout picture obtained by Reuters on February 10,
2024 [Palestine Red Crescent Society/Reuters]

Genocide Machine and Joe Biden Under Fire

Singer-songwriter Macklemore just released a powerful opus against Israeli-American genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
Macklemore's song, Hinds Hall, is named after Hind Rajab joined in song title with Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall.
The six-year-old Gazan girl's family was slaughtered by Israeli Defense Forces, trapping the girl in a car begging for help in her cell phone to the Red Crescent Society.
Israel proceeded to slaughter the rescue party sent by Red Recreant, then murdered  Hind Rajab in a horrid act much of which is caught on audio.
Macklemore's Hinds Hall is below.

Israel Is Sadistic State-Movement Committing Genocide — Time to Detach America from Annilation Machine

Pietà (Mother with dead Son), 1937-1939
In 1937, on the anniversary of her son
Peter’s death in WW I, the anti-fascist
artist Käthe Kollwitz wrote in her diary:
"The mother is seated, her dead son lying
on her lap between her knees.
-- Käthe Kollwitz, Diaries, 22 October 1937
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Kollwitz was
adored by the German people; even the
Nazis minimized their harassment.
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Notes Käthe Kollwitz Museum:
"In 1993, a version of the Pietà
sculpture, executed by Harald Haake
four times its original size, was installed
on the initiative of Helmut Kohl,
the German Chancellor at that
time, at the Neue Wache in Berlin, which
is the central memorial site of the
Federal Republic of Germany for the victims
of war and dictatorship."
--
In the brilliant 2017 anti-war movie, War
Machine (David Michôd), United States Army
General Stanley McChrystal, is played by Brad
Pitt, and memorably featured in a powerful
scene saluting the Pietà sculpture in Berlin.
Artist Käthe Kollwitz never recovered from
the death on her son in WW I.
See Brad Pitt below.

Joe Biden, Democrats Lead U.S. into Moral Oblivion

Commentary

 

Like any sentient, post-World War II American, at an early age, I developed an ethic to oppose totalitarianism, fascism, anti-Semitism, creeping authoritarianism where it slithered its way onto our liberties.

Zionism and supporting Israel seemed natural.

No more. Israel is a sick, fiest pack slaughtering 10,000s, with sights on 100,000 more.

Here is the United States, a moral person must abandon the Democrats, all the Democrats.

How many more mothers must endure the gruesome deaths of their children?

From susan abulhawa in The Electronic Intifada:

It’s 8 pm in Gaza, Palestine right now, the end of my fourth day in Rafah and the first moment I’ve had to sit in a quiet place to reflect.

I’ve tried to take notes, photos, mental images, but this moment is too big for a notepad or my struggling memory. Nothing prepared me for what I would witness.

Before I made it across the Rafah-Egypt border, I read every bit of news coming out of Gaza or about Gaza. I did not look away from any video or image posted from the ground, no matter how gruesome, shocking or traumatizing.

I kept in touch with friends who reported on their situations in the north, middle and south of Gaza – each area suffering in different ways. I stayed current on the latest statistics, the latest political, military and economic maneuverings of Israel, the US and the rest of the world.

I thought I understood the situation on the ground. But I didn’t.

Nothing can truly prepare you for this dystopia. What reaches the rest of the world is a fraction of what I’ve seen so far, which is only a fraction of this horror’s totality.

Gaza is hell. It is an inferno teeming with innocents gasping for air.

But even the air here is scorched. Every breath scratches and sticks to the throat and lungs.

What was once vibrant, colorful, full of beauty, potential and hope against all odds, is draped in gray-colored misery and grime.
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From Golda Meir to Denmark

Girls are greeted by Danish hosts at airport

The Golda Meir school team treks from Milwaukee to Dyssegaardsskolen, Denmark. It's on again.

Too cool.

Rock on, Tori [that's my niece in black and white stripes] and classmates and Danish friends!

Mark Horowitz, a teacher at Golda Meir School in Milwaukee, and a large group of hosting families and staff, students, and seemingly the whole school of Dyssegaardsskolen, Denmark, have again collaborated on the exchange of fifth graders from Milwaukee to Denmark (for the 16th time).

Ratify the UN Disability Treaty

There's an idea.

Report Michael Stein and Janet Lord in Ratify the UN Disability Treaty, Foreign Policy In Focus.

Some 139 states have signed and 58 states have ratified the Convention, but not the United States. Nor did the United States actively participate in or otherwise facilitate the CRPD's negotiations and drafting, despite a wealth of technical expertise garnered from years of experience with the seminal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Obama administration can use the opportunity of signing and submitting to the Senate for ratification the Convention as a means of reaffirming the commitment of the United States rejoining the global community generally, and to continuing American leadership in the area of disability law and policy.

... Regrettably, the United States has the poorest record of ratification of human rights treaties among all industrialized nations, having ratified only 3 of 26 international human rights treaties. The CRPD offers our nation an opportunity to join the global community as part of a historic Convention, and to signal acceptance of the Vienna Declaration's principles that human rights are holistic in nature. As well, the CRPD is a vehicle to reevaluate domestic laws and policies in a manner that would respond to current shortcomings and thereby maintain America's precedence in the disability field.

On December 11, 2007, then-candidate Barack Obama called for the United States to 'lead the world in empowering people with disabilities to take full advantage of their talents and become independent, integrated members of society.' He further called for a reclamation of America's global leadership by becoming a signatory to — and having the Senate ratify — the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Too Cool for School

Mark Horowitz, a teacher at Golda Meir School in Milwaukee, and a large group of hosting families and staff, students, and seemingly the whole community of Dyssegaardsskolen, Denmark, have again collaborated on the exchange of fourth graders from Milwaukee to Denmark (for the 15th time).

Pool the resources of these wonderful schools and this enriching experience is the result.

By the way, in the top and bottom pictures, that's my niece Isabel in red with a polka-dotted headband, smiling as she and fellow students arrived at the airport in Copenhagen yesterday.

I do wish the challenges of international geo-politics could be met with the kindness, peace, and goodwill displayed by all these parties in this wonderful human phenomenon, especially that displayed by the Danish people who seem, to be candid, somewhat more civilized than we Americans.

Through experiential sharing with fellow Scandinavian human beings, these fourth-grade children are having the time of their lives, and their sense of excitement is inspiring.

As the student Kayla wrote on the last leg of their flight heading for Copenhagen, "... the plane we’re on right now from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. I think it’s about an hour. I am so, so, so excited! I know for sure the whole class is too."