Na Norman Solomona, World BEYOND War, Nowemapa 16, 2023
ʻElua mau keneturi i hala aku nei, ua kākau ʻo Percy Shelley "ʻo ka poʻe haku mele ka poʻe kānāwai i ʻike ʻole ʻia o ka honua." Eia naʻe, ua hoʻopaʻa mau ka mana elite i kā lākou hana maikaʻi loa. Eia nō naʻe, he mea nui ka mana o ka poetry i ka hoʻoulu ʻana a me ka hānai ʻana, ʻo ia hoʻi i ka wā e hoʻomau mau ana nā aupuni.
Ma Gaza, ʻoi aku ma mua o 11,000 mau makaʻāinana ua pepehi ʻia mai ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ʻOkakopa. Ke make nei na keiki ma kahi ka awelika o ka 10 make i ka hora. ʻO ka luku mau ʻia e nā pūʻali koa ʻIseraʻela - i kākoʻo ʻia e ke kōkua koa nui mai ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa - e hahai ana i nā hana ʻino a Hamas ma ʻOkakopa 7 i loko o ka ʻIseraʻela, kahi o ka helu hope loa o ka nui o ka make. 1,200 me ka liʻiliʻi he 846 mau makaʻāinana ma kahi o 200 mau mea pio.
Akā ʻaʻole hiki i nā helu ke hele i kahi mamao loa i ka ʻōlelo kanaka. A ʻo nā moʻolelo nūhou i hiki ke hoʻopili me nā manaʻo maoli.
ʻO ia kahi e hiki ai i ka poetry ke hele ma mua o kahi i hāʻule ʻole ai ka nūpepa. Hiki i kekahi mau huaʻōlelo mai ka haku mele ke ʻoki i nā poloka hau e kākoʻo ana i ka mana ʻole. A e loaʻa paha iā mākou ka ikaika mai ka maopopo o kekahi mau laina e lawe mai.
Stanley Kunitz kakau iho la:
I ka manawa pepehi kanaka
haʻihaʻi ka puʻuwai
a ola ma ka uhai ana.
Pono e hele
ma ka pouli a me ka pouli hohonu
aole e huli.
"I ka manawa pōuliuli," Theodore Roethke kakau iho la, "hoʻomaka ka maka e ʻike."
ʻO Bob Dylan kakau iho la nā laina i hiki ke lohe ʻia i kēia manawa e kamaʻilio ana i ke Kuhina Nui Benjamin Netanyahu a me Pelekikena Biden:
Hoʻopaʻa ʻoe i nā mea hoʻoiho a pau
No nā mea ʻē aʻe e puhi
A laila, noho ʻoe a nānā
Ke piʻi aʻe ka helu make
Pee oe i kou hale
ʻOiai ke koko o ka poʻe ʻōpio
Kahe mai ko lakou kino
A kanu ʻia i ka lepo?
Iune Iune kakau iho la:
Ua hānau ʻia au he wahine ʻeleʻele
a kēia manawa
Ua lilo au i Palestinian
e kūʻē i ka ʻakaʻaka mau o ka ʻino
emi iho ka lumi noho
a auhea ko'u poe aloha?
Ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, mamao loa mai ka pepehi kanaka, hiki i ka poʻe nānā a me ka poʻe hoʻolohe a me ka poʻe heluhelu ke makemake maʻalahi ʻaʻole e ʻike maoli ʻo "ko lākou" aupuni e kōkua nei i ka ʻIseraʻela e hoʻomau i ka pepehi ʻana i nā tausani o nā keiki Palestinian a me nā makaʻāinana ʻē aʻe. "Ke kapa nei au he ʻino a ʻo ke kumu paha o nā hana ʻino / ʻike i ka mea e hana ʻia akā ʻaʻole ʻike i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo," a poem na William Stafford i ʻōlelo ai.
Mai ʻae i ka mea e hana nei
He hihia wale nō o ka ʻeha o kekahi
A i ʻole e ʻike ʻoe e hui pū ana ʻoe
ʻO ka huli ʻana
. . . .
He honua wale nō mākou e kaʻana like
ʻAʻole lawa ke kū wale a nānā
He moeuhane wale no paha
ʻAʻole huli hou?
ʻO Franz Kafka kakau iho la: "Hiki iā ʻoe ke kāohi iā ʻoe iho mai nā ʻeha o ke ao nei, ʻo ia kahi mea hiki iā ʻoe ke hana a e like me kou ʻano, akā ʻo kēia kaohi ʻana paha ka mea hiki iā ʻoe ke pale aku."
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ʻO Norman Solomon ka luna aupuni o RootsAction.org a me ka luna hoʻokō o ka Institute for Public Accuracy. ʻO ia ka mea kākau o nā puke he nui me War Made Easy. ʻO kāna puke hou loa, ʻAʻole ʻike ʻia ke kaua: Pehea ʻo ʻAmelika e hūnā ai i ka nui o ke kanaka o kāna mīkini koa, i paʻi ʻia i ke kauwela 2023 e The New Press.
