#amichai

[kissingagrumpygiant]

Well then, because I'm curious and nosy, "how was the divorce?" To any of your ocs with exes 😘

THANK you you get me.

Vlwls's (khizim/shiver/cintera) divorce was lovely. Left half a country side destroyed by evil blood sucking vampires and on fire, homoerotic fights leading to. Things. Questions of morality and attraction. Blood rituals as proposals. They weren't even married to begin with they're just crazy

Elmoak (anton/elmell) divorce was soooooo. They were young dumb and full of u know, and elmell freaked out in orc fashion about duty and honor and decided to run away to fulfil said duty, leave Anton behind, but not before crushing that man's confidence with her meanest of mean girl speeches so he'll hopefully move on from her (he didnt) (they still had a son together she kept from him for 30 years) (Anton is a victim)

Grimnir's divorce from his ex-wife came in the form of accidently(?) killing their kid in the name of hircine then being swooped away into the hunting grounds. Oops. Oopsie. Oh uh! 🏹

Ravis (ravennec/mavis) were a short lived thing (heh) before Rav took a contract assigned about killing mavis bc he believed well if she has a hit on her anyway it might as well come from me, a person she likes. And he stabbed her. Because he's normal and also didn't think she's essentially unkillable now #oopsie

No one knows about them but me but Hedda/Amichai are the only actually married-then-sorta-divorced couple I do have . U know when u gotta start hunting ur dead-demon-wife for sport bc you believe she should be dead in the ground and some demon is wearing her skin but in fact she was just straight up a demon the entire time and u refuse to believe that . And she won't even sign the divorce papers 🙄

[mournfulroses]

Yehuda Amichai, from Selected Poetry of Y. Amichai; “The End of Elul,” (edited)

[avi-on-jumblr]

god i'm so fucking infuriated by people who say "noo see hamas updated their charter in 2017, they totally don't want to kill all jews anymore :) teehee" because what the fuck do they think october 7 was

[adiradirim]

"I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open," Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Bloch

[apoemaday]

A Man in His Life

by Yehuda Amichai

A man doesn’t have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn’t have seasons enough to have a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes Was wrong about that.

A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment, to laugh and cry with the same eyes, with the same hands to throw stones and to gather them, to make love in war and war in love. And to hate and forgive and remember and forget, to arrange and confuse, to eat and to digest what history takes years and years to do.

A man doesn’t have time. When he loses he seeks, when he finds he forgets, when he forgets he loves, when he loves he begins to forget.

And his soul is seasoned, his soul is very professional. Only his body remains forever an amateur. It tries and it misses, gets muddled, doesn’t learn a thing, drunk and blind in its pleasures and its pains.

He will die as figs die in autumn, Shriveled and full of himself and sweet, the leaves growing dry on the ground, the bare branches pointing to the place where there’s time for everything.

[woundgallery]

[havingapoemwithyou]

a pity, we were such a good invention by yehuda amichai tr. assia gutmann

[documenting-apartheid]

JUNE 24 2024- The Guardian reports on Israeli government-funded efforts to influence American public opinion, policy and law via US entities potentially constituting multiple violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Excerpts:

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[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Herta Muller

That is why it is not even considered whether the worldwide outrage over the many dead and the suffering in Gaza might not be part of Hamas’ strategy. It is deaf and blind to the suffering of its people. Why else would it fire on the Kerem Shalom border crossing, where most aid supplies arrive? Or why else would it fire on the construction site of a temporary harbor, where aid supplies are soon to arrive? We have not heard a single word of sympathy for the people of Gaza from Mr. Sinwar and Mr. Haniye. And instead of a desire for peace, only maximum demands that they know Israel cannot fulfill. Hamas is betting on a permanent war with Israel. It would be the best guarantee of its continued existence. Hamas also hopes to isolate Israel internationally, at any cost.

In Thomas Mann’s novel “Doktor Faustus”, National Socialism is said to have “made everything German unbearable to the world”. I have the impression that the strategy of Hamas and its supporters is to make everything Israeli, and therefore everything Jewish, unbearable to the world. Hamas wants to maintain anti-Semitism as a permanent global mood. That is why it also wants to reinterpret the Shoah. The Nazi persecution and the rescue flight to Palestine are also to be called into question. And ultimately, the right of Israel to exist. This manipulation goes as far as to claim that German Holocaust remembrance only serves as a cultural weapon to legitimize the Western-white “settlement project” of Israel. Such ahistorical and cynical reversals of the perpetrator-victim relationship are intended to prevent any differentiation between the Shoah and colonialism. With all these stacked constructs, Israel is no longer seen as the only democracy in the Middle East, but as a colonialist model state. And as an eternal aggressor, against whom blind hatred is justified. And even the desire for its destruction.

The Jewish poet Yehuda Amichai says that a love poem in Hebrew is always a poem about war. Often it is a poem about war in the middle of a war. His poem “Jerusalem 1973” is reminiscent of the Yom Kippur War:

“Sad men carry the memory of their loved ones in their backpack, in their side pockets on their ammunition belts, in the bags of their souls, in heavy dream bubbles under their eyes.”

When Paul Celan visited Israel in 1969, Amichai translated Celan’s poems and read them out in Hebrew. This was where two survivors of the Shoah met. Jehuda Amichai was called Ludwig Pfeuffer when his parents fled from Würzburg.

The visit to Israel stirred Celan. He met school friends from Czernowitz in Romania who, unlike his murdered parents, had been able to escape to Palestine. Paul Celan wrote to Jehuda Amichai after his visit and shortly before his death in the Seine: “Dear Jehuda Amichai, let me repeat the word that came spontaneously to my lips during our conversation: I cannot imagine the world without Israel; nor do I want to imagine it without Israel.”

[documentationofcorruption]

today's most ethically sound zionist award goes to Tim Walberg, for suggesting that Gaza needs to be nuked:

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lee Fang and Jack Poulson at The Guardian:

Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive,” argued Chikli. Chikli has since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel. The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law. Seconds after a smoke alarm subsided during the hearing, Chikli assured the lawmakers that there was new money in the budget for a pushback campaign, which was separate from more traditional public relations and paid advertising content produced by the government. It included 80 programs already under way for advocacy efforts “to be done in the ‘Concert’ way”, he said.

The “Concert” remark referred to a sprawling relaunch of a controversial Israeli government program initially known as Kela Shlomo, designed to carry out what Israel called “mass consciousness activities” targeted largely at the US and Europe. Concert, now known as Voices of Israel, previously worked with groups spearheading a campaign to pass so-called “anti-BDS” state laws that penalize Americans for engaging in boycotts or other non-violent protests of Israel. Its latest incarnation is part of a hardline and sometimes covert operation by the Israeli government to strike back at student protests, human rights organizations and other voices of dissent.

Voices’ latest activities were conducted through non-profits and other entities that often do not disclose donor information. From October through May, Chikli has overseen at least 32m shekels, or about $8.6m, spent on government advocacy to reframe the public debate. It didn’t take long for one of the American advocacy groups closely coordinating with Chikli’s ministry, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, to score a powerful victory. In a widely viewed December congressional hearing on alleged antisemitism among student anti-war protesters, several House GOP lawmakers explicitly cited ISGAP research in their interrogations of university presidents. The hearing concluded with Representative Elise Stefanik’s viral confrontation with the then president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, who later retired from her role after a wave of negative news coverage.

[...] Other American groups tied to Voices have pursued a range of initiatives to bolster support for the state of Israel. One such group listed publicly as a partner, the National Black Empowerment Council (NBEC), published an open letter from Black Democratic politicians pledging solidarity with Israel. Another group, CyberWell, a pro-Israel anti-disinformation group led by former Israeli military intelligence and Voices officials, has established itself as an official “trusted partner” to TikTok and Meta, helping both social platforms screen and edit content. A recent CyberWell report called for Meta to suppress the popular slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

[...] Haaretz and the New York Times recently revealed that Chikli’s ministry had tapped a public relations firm to secretly pressure American lawmakers. The firm used hundreds of fake accounts posting pro-Israel or anti-Muslim content on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. (The diaspora affairs ministry denied involvement in the campaign, which reportedly provided about $2m to an Israeli firm for the social media posts.) But that effort is only one of many such campaigns coordinated by the ministry, which has received limited news coverage. The ministry of diaspora affairs and its partners compile weekly reports based on tips from pro-Israel US student groups, some of which receive funding from Israeli government sources. For example, Hillel International, a co-founder of the Israel on Campus Coalition network and one of the largest Jewish campus groups in the world, has reported financial and strategic support from Mosaic United, a public benefit corporation backed by Chikli’s ministry. The longstanding partnership is now being utilized to shape the political debate over Israel’s war. In February, Hillel’s chief executive, Adam Lehman, appeared before the Knesset to discuss the strategic partnership with Mosaic and the ministry of diaspora affairs, which he said had already produced results. “We are changing administrations. Just last week, MIT, the same president who was lambasted in front of Congress, took the step of fully suspending her Students for Justice in Palestine chapter for crossing lines, and for creating an unwelcoming environment for Jewish students,” said Lehmann, referencing the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sally Kornbluth. Hillel International, CyberWell, the NBEC, the Israeli ministry of diaspora affairs and Voices of Israel/Concert did not respond to a request for comment.

This investigative report reviewed recent government hearings, Israeli corporate filings, procurement documents and other public records. While private individuals and foundations primarily fund many of the organizations devoted to pro-Israel advocacy, most likely without foreign direction, the records point to substantial Israeli government involvement in American politics about the Gaza war, free speech on college campuses and Israel-Palestine policy.

The Guardian reports that Israel Apartheid State has documents detailing efforts to shape US opinion on the Gaza genocide in favor of the pro-Israel position.

Read the full story at The Guardian.

[mournfulroses]

Yehuda Amichai, from Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “Solomon Waits,”

[hairtusk]

Yehuda Amichai, from 'Six Songs for Tamar' (trans. Harold Schimmel)

[avi-on-jumblr]

post 1: did you know that z1onists control the media and the banks and the US government!!!1!!

post 2: just heard the most horrible news from a super reputable [link to tiktok] source.... isnotraelis have been stealing palestinian babies for thousands of years to drink their bl00d....

post 3: did you know the hostages aren't real and don't exist and are zionist propaganda? but also they were treated so well in 5 star hotels by hamas gentlemen <3

post 4: smh why do so many people say we have to condemn hamas theyre literally freedom fighters. look at this nice man from the hamas fighter wing saying he just loves the beach. isn't he sweet?

post 5: omg happy hannukah 🕎 ��☃️🕎 i love my jewish friends <33 everyone remember that anti-semitism [sic] is bad. good thing nobody is anti-semitic [sic] anymore <3. anyways punch a nazi!!

post 6: i hope all the zio-nazis (who are more evil than regular nazis) die in a fire

[majestativa]

You are beautiful, like prophecies, and sad, like those that come true, calm, like the calmness afterward. Black like the white loneliness of jasmine. With sharpened fangs: she wolf and queen.

— Yehuda Amichai, Love poems: A Bilingual Edition, (1981)

[deckerstarareotp]

“Look, just as time isn't inside clocks love isn't inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.”

Malex- for @befitandchase

Roswell New mexico 4x11/Archilochos translated by Anne Carson, in “Eros the Bittersweet”/Yehuda Amichai/Roswell New Mexico/Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun/Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena/Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Nguyen”, Not Here/Roswell,New Mexico 3x08

Credits to gifs and quotes found: @weltenwellen @kendallroycos @metamorphesque @flowerytale @bisexualalienss