Are you like me and Shirley? We shake our heads about what keeps on happening in Gaza but what can we do? Must the world stand by and let it happen? The Marsh family from Faversham in Kent, England decided to at least do something. They recorded this heartfelt parody or adaptation of "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls. If it is technically possible and you are not hard of hearing, please listen...
3 June 2025
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It's heartbreaking and I don't know what to do either.
ReplyDeleteOrdinary people feel helpless. We expect our leaders to act and what is the point of The United Nations?
DeleteThere's far too much politics in this one. Each one has a lot to learn and it's not the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid I do not understand your comment Red.
DeleteMy heart breaks for the ordinary Palestinian people's inhumane suffering. They are the helpless pawns in the war between Hamas and Israel.
ReplyDeleteWho created Hamas? Was it the Palestinian people or the circumstances they found themselves in?
DeleteMy point is that neither Hamas nor Israel give two shits about the suffering of ordinary Palestinians as they wage war. Both see them simply as expendable.
DeleteBoth powerful and mesmerising. I didn't plan to watch it to the end, but it was so well made, I couldn't stop.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean Andrew .
DeleteIt's a good song, but with no resources and so far away, what is it that I can do to help? Not doing anything surely doesn't make me as bad as those who are perpetrating the war and famine and genocide.
ReplyDeleteDiscontent can be like a fuel for the cause - be it demonstrations, songs, poems, letters or newspaper articles. We are ramping it up.
DeleteBob Geldof could of penned this song. He also lives in Faversham. I know the beautiful Kent town and visited it.
ReplyDeleteI thought Bob Geldof was from Dublin.
DeleteDun Laoghaire.
DeleteI never realised he was that posh.
DeleteI've always said two wrongs don't make a right. I am convinced the average Israeli and Jews all around the world don't agree with the genocide in Gaza. It is Netanyahu and his cronies that are determined to wipe out Hamas at any cost. Meanwhile we all stand from afar in despair at what is happening to the ordinary people in Gaza.
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu hides in the protective shadow of Donald Trump but he should be in The Hague facing major charges.
DeleteI love the Marsh family. I subscribe to their channel. I think Netanyahu is the Israeli version of MAGA and tRump.
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu is as right wing as they come. Any normal US president would have reined him in.
DeleteYou cannot, ever, justify murdering children, injuring children, or starving children, the most innocent of us all.
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu shows absolutely no regrets for doing that repeatedly.
DeleteStarving children are all over the world. It's a horror that we live in a world where we could afford to feed everyone but we don't.
ReplyDelete"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
Isn't that the current aim of the US Republican Party?
DeleteWell they are protesting around the Houses of Parliament today - Free Palestine but the protests never seem to get anywhere. Will it be news though?
ReplyDeleteHistory has shown that sustained protests do have a real effect in the end. Think CND and Anti-Apartheid - just as examples.
DeleteI regularly donate to some international help organisations and it is indeed both frustrating and sad to know that just now, even those brave people willing to help are just now unable to, in that part of the world.
ReplyDeleteThey bomb hospitals, schools, refugee camps and people trudging for miles to get aid bundles. Who would be an aid worker there? So brave.
DeleteIt is brutal.
ReplyDeleteSuch a powerful message.
ReplyDeleteWar is brutal and always will be.
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