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This book sums up the Radicalization of America with factual events which shaped the result of election 2024 infused with extremist ideologies.

It is incomprehensible how majority of brave, intelligent, compassionate Americans have become a minority against the radicalized Republicans. Maybe someday MAGA will wake up from their slumber, to resist gnawing at American values and be patriotic than frenetic in making mockery of law, religion, constitution.

Radicalization of America Trilogy is an endeavor on the idea of personal preference, exploring GPS of harmonious journey in life. This journey is emblematic of gratitude, patience, surrender. Gratitude in being a part of the American greatness by expressing one’s candid, emotional thoughts without the fear of reprisal. The magic of free press? Patience, in meticulously gleaning facts from fiction to continue writing without bias. Surrender, in accepting the unfolding of bigotry, hypocrisy, chicanery without passing any judgment. Then embarking on the real journey of writing with the intention to inspire, awaken and invigorate the intellect of average American to be jolted out of their apathy to notice stagnation of American Spirit wading through the morass of lies, conspiracy theories.

Feels surreal now after the end of MAGA Carnival Election 2024. Dante’s Divine Comedy comes to mind as if the world is transformed into a subliminal era of fictional characters. Yet Dante’s Masterpiece has landed in US in reverse order. No ascension from darkness to light. Great fall from Paradiso in relation to political upheaval, bypassing Purgatorio where wrongs can be atoned with repentance. Hurled straight down into Inferno to begin the ascension again in future.

“Those who have lost benefit of intellect” Dante Alighieri

Inferno: Canto VII:10

“There is a reason for this downward journey. For it is willed that archangel Michael. Took revenge for that arrogant violation.”

Canto VII:121

“Stuck in the slime, they say, we chose to be sad. In the sweet air enlivened by the Sun. And our hearts smoldered with smoke.”

Canto VII:124

“Now we are sad instead in this black filth. That’s the hymn they gurgle in their throats. And cannot ever get the words out properly.”

Canto VIII:46

“In this life he was full of arrogance. And no good act embellishes his memory. Therefore, his shadow here is furious.”

Canto VIII:52

“How many up there, think of themselves great kings. Who here will wallow in the mire like pigs. Leaving behind them nothing but infamous horrors.”

Are we suspended in limbo of fear, shock, bewilderment? Or, caught in the most degenerate Yuga of Kali in the present age? Nakba for sure for the Palestinians after seventy-six years of Israeli Russian Jewish settlers, occupation, oppression, violence. Netanyahu genocide, call it for what it is worth, turning nation of Gaza into cripples for the living dead inside the graveyard under rubble. Siege, starvation, bombings, cries of babies, women, families, burnt alive in camps.

Well, enough of mutilations, atrocities, ongoing slaughter, which has nothing to do with US, yet it has everything to do with US, with election interference by Netanyahu terrorist.

Anyone ready for ceasefire, or two-state-solution for permanent peace in the Middle East?

Ancient history records Israel as a mythical state torn out of the pages of Biblical Exodus. In modern history it is carved out of Palestine by Imperial British, gifted to Israelis when they evacuated Palestine Year 1948, ending their hold of Divide and Rule.

Back to the Radicalization of America with few excerpts:

Arms embargo, ceasefire, end of genocide

Let the world know Americans don’t support terrorists

Brave Americans might help UN, US decide

Where International Law has failed to restrain Jewish extremists

The 2020 Election

Trump continued to falsely accuse Democrats of rigging the 2020 election:

— “I believe we also won two general elections, OK? If you want to know the truth.” Jan. 28, Salem

— “Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” Dec. 3, 2022, Truth Social

— “There was never a second of any day that I didn’t believe that that election was rigged. It was a rigged election. It was a rigged election and it was a stolen, disgusting election, and this country should be ashamed. And they go after the people that want to prove that it was rigged and stolen. They don’t go after the people that rigged it.” Aug. 8, Windham

— “The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election of 2020. We won the first one and we won the second one even bigger, and we got — we got screwed, that’s what happened. We had a rigged election. Our opponents are showing every day that they hate democracy.” Nov. 18, Fort Dodge, Iowa

Undemocratic Comparisons

He argued that the U.S. had come to mimic its longtime global rivals and enemies and had become undemocratic:

— “You go back to Communist China or look at a Third World banana republic. That’s what we’ve become.” March 25, Waco

— “Our elections were like those of a Third World country.” April 4, Palm Beach

— “They’re trying to arrest their political opposition. It’s really very much like the old Soviet Union.” April 14, Indianapolis

— “Many of those people coming from Cuba, Venezuela, other countries, they’ve seen this happening to their countries.” June 13, Bedminster

Praise for Autocrats

He spoke admiringly of authoritarian leaders:

— “President Xi: Smart, top of his game. President Putin: Smart. Very smart people.” March 25, Waco

— “We did a fantastic job with Kim Jong Un. You know, I got along with him very well. The fake news said It’s terrible that he gets along with him. I said Really? It’s not terrible, it’s a very good thing. You know, it’s a positive thing.” June 30, Philadelphia

— “A man who looks like a piece of granite, right? He’s strong like granite. He’s strong. I know him very well, President Xi of China. He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron hand. I got along well with Putin. That’s a good thing.” Nov. 18, Fort Dodge

— “One of the strongest leaders, Viktor Orban from Hungary. He’s a very strong man — very strong, powerful man — and one of the most respected leaders in the world. He’s tough. No games, right?” Nov. 18, Fort Dodge

In Veterans Day remarks, Trump took aim and rhetorically fired: “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”

His critics likened his remarks—particularly to his use of “vermin”—to Nazi Germany’s descriptions of people it defined as “Untermensch,” or subhuman. “Nazi propaganda often portrayed people persecuted by the regime as vermin, parasites, or diseases,” said the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Trump doubled down on his praise for leaders that the Biden administration and other U.S. officials had condemned as dictators. He spoke positively about Chinese President Xi Jinping, describing him as a “brilliant man” who controls 1.4 billion people with an “iron fist.”

He went further by describing both Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin as “smart” and “tough.”

“Remember that men will go on doing the same things even if you should burst out in protest.” Marcus Aurelius

“To look for the impossible is folly, and it is impossible that bad men should not do bad deeds.” Marcus Aurelius

“The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess and as it were, a tumor on the universe.” Marcus Aurelius

“Everywhere and at all times it is in your power to accept reverently your present condition, to behave justly to those about you, and to exert your skill to control your thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.” Marcus Aurelius

Peace to America and to the whole world

Putin, Netanyahu Winners

 

Radicalization of America Trilogy Part III

This upcoming book is in bold Print for easy read. For all brave, patriotic, intelligent Americans who care about America, even about a small town like Springfield OH. What Trump’s hate did to State of Ohio was, it made Springfield a dangerous place to live in by his lies against legal Haitian migrants, falsely promoting canards that they ate people’s pets, cats and dogs. Such obnoxious lies resulted in bomb threats, school closures, evacuations from Kroger, Walmart. Parents were afraid to send their kids to schools. “Hate does not make us Great” Springfield intelligent community chanted.

Excerpts:

October 27, 2024

Trump's Madison Square Garden event featured crude and racist insults

With just over a week before Election Day, speakers at the rally Sunday night labeled Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” called Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris “the devil,” and said, “The woman vying to become the first woman and Black woman president had begun her career as a prostitute.”

“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” said Tony Hinchcliffe, a stand-up comic whose set also included lewd and racist comments about Latinos, Jews and Black people, all key constituencies in the election just nine days away.

August 4, 2024

Former president Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin over a prisoner swap that took place this week, saying the Russian strongman had outsmarted U.S. officials as part of the largest such deal since the end of the Cold War.

“I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal,” the GOP nominee told a rally audience in Atlanta on Saturday. He added, “We have 59 hostages; I never paid anything. Boy, we make some horrible, horrible deals. It’s nice to say we got ’em back, but does that set a bad precedent?”

August 6, 2024

Former President Donald Trump responded to Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Tim Walz as her running mate Tuesday with an uncharacteristically short statement that didn't mention the Minnesota governor by name.

The GOP presidential nominee shared a cryptic post on his social media platform, Truth Social, shortly after Harris announced her pick that simply stated: "THANK YOU!"

The typically reactionary Trump waited another roughly five hours to directly address the news: "This is the most Radical Left duo in American history," the former president posted on Truth Social. "There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again."

He went on in his 40-word missive to baselessly suggest that there was a "BIG MOVEMENT" to "BRING BACK CROOKED JOE," an apparent reference to President Joe Biden, who withdrew his re-election bid last month amid pressure from top Democrats and donors.

Trump followed that up with a longer exploration of his apparent fantasy that Biden would try to "take back the Nomination" when he attended the Democratic National Convention next week.

"He feels he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he hates most, and he wants it back, NOW!!!" Trump said in a Truth Social post. 

 

September 10, 2024 Trump’s announcement emerged online less than a week after Swift revealed publicly for the first time her plans to vote for Harris, the Democratic nominee in this year's presidential election. Her endorsement followed the first debate on Sept. 10 between Trump and Harris, which saw the two candidates face off during a televised showdown in Philadelphia that covered issues like abortion, immigration, the economy and foreign policy. "I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election," Swift said in an Instagram post. "I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes, I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos." Swift also voiced her support for Walz, the Minnesota governor tapped to be Harris' Vice-Presidential running mate, noting how he "has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman's right to her own body for decades." The artist signed off as "Childless Cat Lady” to end her post, which accompanied a photo of Swift holding a cat, echoing 2021 comments from Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, that recently surfaced. In a 2021 interview, Vance lamented that the country was being run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives." Vance later said he was being sarcastic. Swift acknowledged the post that Trump had recently shared AI-generated images to his Truth Social account that showed women wearing "Swifties for Trump" t-shirts and falsely suggested she had endorsed him. They included a satirical post that claimed fans of Swift were "turning to Trump" after security concerns led to the cancellation of her concerts in Vienna in August. "I accept!" Trump wrote when he posted the false images.  Former President Donald Trump took aim at Taylor Swift in a Truth Social post Sunday, declaring his distaste for the superstar after she endorsed his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris.  "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" Trump wrote in the post. September 11, 2024 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets, repeating during a televised debate the type of inflammatory and anti-immigrant rhetoric he had promoted throughout his campaigns. There was no evidence that Haitian immigrants in an Ohio community were doing that, officials said. But during the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump specifically mentioned Springfield, Ohio, the town at the center of the claims, saying that immigrants were taking over the city. After this racist, hateful, completely false accusations, Springfield became a dangerous town overnight. Due to bomb threats schools were closed, Kroger, Walmart evacuated. Parents were afraid to send their kids to school. Cameras were installed over schools, hospitals, churches. Proud Boys marched on the streets. Extra police officers were summoned for security reason. Governor Mike DeWine urged parents to send their kids to schools. “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump said. Harris called Trump “extreme” and laughed after his comment. Debate moderators pointed out that city officials had said the claims were not true. Trump’s comments echoed claims made by his campaign, including his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and other Republicans. The claims attracted attention when Vance posted on social media that his office had “received many inquiries” about Haitian migrants abducting pets. Vance acknowledged Tuesday it was possible “all of these rumors would turn out to be false.” Later he admitted on CNN he made those rumors to attract attention. Officials had said there had been no credible or detailed reports about the claims, even as Trump and his allies used them to amplify racist stereotypes about Black and brown immigrants. September 15, 2024 Former President Donald Trump was targeted in what “appeared to be an attempted assassination” on Sunday afternoon, the FBI said. A suspect — Ryan Wesley Routh — was in custody after being identified as a man seen with a rifle at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. The incident began around 1:30 p.m. ET on the Trump International golf course where the former president was playing; it ended miles away after Routh’s vehicle was spotted on Interstate 95. It occurred two months after Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt in Butler, Pa. September 16, 2024 Trump briefly called for unity after the Butler shooting before returning to his more characteristic, heated rhetoric. Following the weekend’s events, Trump instead almost immediately cast Harris and President Biden as culpable, telling Fox News Digital, “their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.” On the other hand, Trump had struck a more combative tone in the wake of the weekend’s events than he did following the first attempt on his life, when a bullet grazed his ear as he spoke at a rally in Butler, Pa., in July. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country—both from the inside and out,” Trump told Fox. “They do it with a combination of rhetoric and lawsuits they wrap me up in. These are the things that dangerous fools, like the shooter, listen to—that is the rhetoric they listen to, and the same with the first one.” September 23, 2024 On Monday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proclaimed himself the “protector” of women in America. “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger. You’re not gonna be in danger any longer,” Trump said while campaigning in Pennsylvania. “You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today. You will be protected, and I will be your protector. Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion.” September 25, 2024 Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Volodymyr Zelensky and claimed the Ukrainian president “refuses to make a deal.” “Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky. There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now. You have a country that has been obliterated, not possible to be rebuilt,” Trump said during a campaign speech in Mint Hill, North Carolina. “This week he had ‘dumb as a rock’ bimbo Stephanie Ruhle, from MSDNC, on the show, along with a Trump hating loser, Bret Stephens, who seemed totally confused and unsure of himself, very much like Maher himself,” Trump wrote. September 27, 2024 Trump met Zelensky Trump posted on his Truth Social account that if he was not elected president, "that war will never end, and will phase into WORLD WAR III". September 29, 2024 “Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired,” Trump said. “Sad. But lying Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that way. There’s something wrong with Kamala. And I just don’t know what it is, but there is definitely something missing. And you know what, everybody knows it.”

“No pride of nationality is mine

 Nor cast or creed can tie me with its chain

 No narrow fatherland can bind my heart

 For me the pride of birth or rank is vain” Hazrat Khan

“My heart became a harp

 And my memory’s fingers on its chords can play

 My kismet is to wait

 Through long ages till Judgment Day

 And now my spirit knows

 Love is immortal, and hath given to me

 As to all lovers true

 A share of his own mortality” Hazrat Khan

“I hold that life is but a passing dream

 Out of shifting mists of maya made

 Our foolish hopes are children’s fantasies

 Our sorrow but the shadows of a shade” Hazrat Khan

“And we earth’s children, strive with eager hate

 And jealousy to snatch the passing joys

 Of fame and rank, and wealth and power and ease

 As children quarrel over idle toys” Hazrat Khan

“No home have I, no friend, no name is mine

 Nor man, nor God is kin to my soul

 Over the self, that formless, changeless dwells

 No earthly limitations have control

 Nor birth, nor death can touch my spirit more

 Nor love, nor hate can bring me peace nor strife

 The self within I have desired and found

 And thus, awakened from the Dream of Life” Hazrat Khan

“The secret of life is to produce beauty in ourselves, when beauty is produced, and all that is in heart vanishes, the universe becomes single vision of Sublimity of God” Hazrat Khan

Wishing peace in America and peace to whole world.

Part I Part II of Radicalization of America Demure Diary published, available on Amazon

 

Part One Radicalization of America

Dedicated to President Joe Biden who sacrificed his career to save America from extremism. Trump denigrated his country to hold on to his Big Lie, still trying to be a dictator, wanna-be-king for life.

Dr. Jill Biden the First Lady most loving

Complimenting President Biden’s love for All Americans

Emblem of Motherhood, tender and caring

Helping ward off threat of MAGA extremist Republicans

This book is the first volume in the trilogy of Radicalization of America. It is a thought-provoking gift to brave, intelligent, compassionate Americans who can defeat dictators, demagogues, domestic terrorists. Election 2024 is most crucial year in American history of decision making and for generations to come to never let extremism flourish and propagate by MAGA cult of liars, idiots, felons, criminals. Kings-to-be to steal not only election but intellect of the young and vulnerable.

One excerpt from the book:

It took four years for Trump to destroy America what it had taken generations to build. Trump had ravaged America with lies, chaos, insults and conspiracy theories. American hopes were turned to despair, their joy to sorrow and their life of peace to chaos. For what fire, thunder and tempests were to the earth was what evil, malice, hatred, were to the human heart. Trump was doubling down his insults on Fauci, calling him an idiot. Christ healed the blind, palsied and leprous, but the fools he could not cure.

 

Chapter Fifteen

Stage Ellipse—Capitol Hill Riots

Mark Meadows boasted “we are now at well over hundred house members and a dozen senators, ready to stand up for election integrity and object to certification. It’s time to fight back.” One hundred and dirty dozen craven, unpatriotic hypocrites were to stand for the integrity of their own falsehood and conspiracy theories. They had been fighting to overturn fair elections for two months, rejecting the verdict of courts and the voice of Americans, their time for fighting was to end on Jan 6^th. Trump was bullying Pence not to validate electoral votes. Trump traitor’s gun wielding terrorists were gathering in D.C. while he was granting Medal of Freedom to Devin Nunes his night errand boy to dupe Americans into believing falsehood, calling again his impeachment, a Russia Hoax. No wonder, Trump didn’t even talk about the recent Russia hack or suicide bombing in Nashville. The same Medal of Freedom he was bestowing on Jim Jordan the sex abuse criminal, condoning the abuse of athletes by a doctor at Ohio State. On the day of Biden’s formal confirmation of college electoral votes as him being the 46^th President of the United States, Trump held a rally on the stage Ellipse in Washington D.C.

Swan song of Trump lies on D.C. stage Ellipse

Appeals to his gun wielding terrorists

KKK, QAnon, Proud Boys, condoning ellipses

Of Donald dereliction of duty, applauding bloodletting fascists

Trump terrorists breached the Capitol Hill, grew violent, one woman who was shot died in the hospital. Entire Capitol went on lockdown, disrupting Biden’s confirmation. Trump kept insisting, Election stolen. On video message, he told his white supremacist hoodlums, “I love you.”

Trump Taliban terrorists with bomb threats

Besiege Capitol Hill, projecting America the nation most violent

Don’t tread on me, flags of Trump beloved extremists

Peddling anarchy, on insurgence bent

 

Liar lawless Trump repeating his insanity

Election Stolen, Making America Grieve Again

We love you, Trump applauds more like his insufferable profanity

We won, Trump child’s terrible refrain

 

Trump tantrum tirade against fair elections

Is scourge of GOP enabling him to trash Democracy

Defying Courts, defending Donald’s lies and pretensions

Afflicted with the virus of servility and hypocrisy

 

America is still the land of love and opportunity

A beacon of Biden Harris harmony

Promise of hope and serendipity

New beginning, an era of epiphany

A time to heal and espouse healing

New Year of renewal, burial of COVID

Rise of intellect, birth of rejoicing

God bless America and whole world

Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley objected to electoral votes in essence might as well would have said that Black votes don’t matter. Rattling their rattlers of lies they openly and blatantly supported KKK, QAnon, and Proud Boys. During swearing-in-ceremony, Pennsylvania GOP State Senators refused to seat Democratic Senator Jim Brewster whose narrow win in November was being challenged by his GOP opponent, thus displaying their bullying in affinity with Trump. Trump on twitter talked to his terrorists, “I will be speaking at the Save America Rally tomorrow on the Ellipse in D.C. come early, big crowds!”

 Tweeting again. “Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore. We hear you and love you from the Oval Office. Make America Great Again.” While Trump tangent of stupidity continued, democratic senators Ossoff and Warnock had won the election in Georgia.

Liar Lucifer Trump defiles Capitol Hill

By inciting his terrorists to violence

Craven Cruz, hellish Hawley and Gaetz-antifa-lies-poison-pill

Of hatred, in affinity with Trump, to truth silence

During his rally on Jan 6^th on Ellipse stage, Trump urged his terrorists to walk down to the Capital Hill where the confirmation of Biden Electoral College Votes was being conducted by Congress to formally elect him as the 46^th president of the United States. Angry Trump terrorists didn’t waste any time in obeying their traitor king, breaking windows, desecrating the shrine of Capitol Hill, stealing Pelosi podium and prowling the halls like ignorant tourists without a guide. Four Trump mobsters were killed, several injured, including National Guards who tried to evacuate the insurgents with great patience. Later Trump released a video message telling his terrorists that he loved them, repeating the same claim that election was stolen.

January 6^th, constrained by Congress, Trump released a statement agreeing to a peaceful transfer of power, yet belligerently repeating the same claim about election fraud. Twitter suspended his account, as well as Facebook, banning him from their forum and Instagram for spreading lies and misinformation.

“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20^th. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of our greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again.”

 Impeached and defeated Trump with the worst presidential pandemonium in American history, ended with deaths on Capitol Hill and desecration of democracy couldn’t be trusted but with to Make America Grieve Again

MAGA died on Capitol Hill January 6^th with five dead

Trump terrorists didn’t deserve death for GOP conspiracy theories

Republican thugs, Cruz and Hawley still falsehood spread

Americans are longing for the end of Trumpian furies

Trump managed two more tweets laden with falsehood before twitter finally shut down his twitter account permanently. “Seventy-five million great American patriots who voted for me America First and Make America Great Again will have a Giant voice long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form. To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the inauguration on January, 20^th.” Trump traitor Neo Nazi murderers who brutally murdered young police officer Brian Sicknick on Capitol Hill were still being assured of Trump’s love and respect, though he was neither respected, nor capable of respecting anyone but his own selfish need for survival.

Biden’s seven million votes lead over Trump’s is a landslide victory

Patriotic, intelligent Americans choosing peace over terrorism

Of Trump, making bloody and violent history

No respect for law, life, democracy, nurturing Neo Nazi fascism

Trump was facing three urgent options, to resign, or to be forced to resign by invoking 25^th Amendment, or to be impeached and convicted. It was unlikely that he would resign or forced to resign, but impeachment option was imminent. While democrats were charting articles of impeachment, his staunch Republican loyalists Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley peddled conspiracy theories about election fraud, which had been proven false again and again, by courts, attorneys, even by the Republican lawmakers overseeing the final count of ballots.

Gutter Gaetz with reek of baseless claims

Reflects Hawley hooligan and Ted traitor’s avarice

Sending fundraising emails while Trump terrorists enact their violence video games

On Capitol Hill, defiling American shrine of peace and willing democracy surcease

Democrats’ appeal to Mike Pence to invoke 25^th Amendment to remove Trump from office was shot down by the Republicans. Trump was not going to resign, so Democrats were left only with the choice of impeaching him. By inciting insurrection on the Capitol Hill, he posed a great threat to American peace and democracy within the nine remainder days of his presidency.

Renegade Republicans who enabled Trump to trash American values

Still enabling him to burn US to the ground before he leaves

Neo Nazi brutes flashing Confederate Flag proves

Trumplican America nurtures terrorists and thieves

The tragic mayhem on the Capitol Hill had jolted patriotic Americans to awakening and they were doing everything possible in their power to save America from the talons of Trump terrorists. Big tech companies like twitter, Facebook, Instagram had permanently suspended the accounts of Trump and his terrorists. Parler conservative media was under fire by Amazon for promoting violent, hateful posts.

Lin Wood calling for execution of Mike Pence

On Parler and RNC loyalty to Trump traitor

Degrade democracy, loyal to their lies and pretense

Of blaming Trumplican rioters but not Trump instigator

New videos of Trump family masochism and corruption were emerging in cyberspace. While Trump’s Neo Nazi gun wielding, domestic terrorists were torturing police officers on the Capitol Hill, Trump family watching big screen TV were seen dancing and laughing, enjoying the brutality of their brutes, punching, screaming to kill Pence and to kidnap Pelosi, breaking windows, wreaking destruction, desecrating the chambers of the Capitol Hill.

While Trump terrorists were torturing cops on Capitol Hill

Trump family in White House were dancing in glee, celebrating

In front of big TV screen, their cups to refill

With hate and vengeance, Neo Nazi brutality applauding

Impenitent Trump denied that he incited violence, saying that his speech was “appropriate.” During his first impeachment Trump said his phone call with Zelinski was perfect. Holding on to his lies, Trump thought he had done nothing wrong and that he was not accountable for his crimes. Meanwhile he bestowed upon Jim Jordan the Medal of Freedom and Jim received it dishonorably, remaining loyal to defend Donald’s lies.

Jim Jordan Medal of Freedom for defending Trump lies

Is another crime added to his Second Impeachment

Trump is torrid time bomb in White House with bootless cries

Ticking fast to explode, adding more deaths to COVID bereavement

Pompeo puppet of Trump was to designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels as foreign terrorist organization. Also, to re-designate Cuba as state sponsor of terrorism. Ignoring, rather condoning Trump terrorist cults of KKK, QAnon, Proud Boys, Neo Nazi, gun wielding white supremacists, Pompeo was a part of the hooligans and murderers who ransacked Capitol Hill, killing one police officer. Impenitent Trump stayed defiant, saying his speech on January 6^th on Capitol Hill was appropriate. His 2^nd impeachment process was on its way while his terrorists were planning more attacks in all fifty States, raising great alerts in all parts of the United States.

Trump’s appropriate speech and transition of power, seamless

Resonates of Trump terrorists on Capitol Hill

Deaths, destruction and Donald lawless

Reminiscent scenes of his usual lie-drill

Easy to understand why white supremacists would support Trump, or Indians who loved big tax cuts, but incomprehensible why any black would support tyrannical Trump. Two noteworthy amongst them were congressmen Burgess Owens and Byron Donalds who had joined a group of more than hundred Republicans to reject electoral votes in certain states won by Joe Biden. Byron bigot tried to sound wise while displaying his stupidity, “I don’t vote based on my skin. I do so in allegiance to our constitution and to always follow Rule of Law. Blue checkmarks live to delegitimize my right as a free black man to act, think and vote based on my convictions, rather than skin color.” This idiot had forgotten that the murder of Floyd by a white policeman proved that a black man didn’t even have the right to breathe. Supporting lawless Trump was one thing, but defiling constitution in affinity with Trump was height of stupidity just short of treason.

Craven, immature Republicans angry at metal detectors

On Capitol Hill, demanding to carry guns on Floor

Refusing to wear masks during Capitol siege of Trump Neo Nazi defectors

Super-spreaders of COVID, loving death-noose galore

Republican imbeciles like Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and countless more who objected to electoral certification needed to resign, since they kept peddling lies and conspiracy theories, claiming voter fraud without any evidence to offer. More GOP were implicated for inciting violence on the Capitol Hill and senate itself was corrupted with QAnon queens.

GOP Madison Cawthorn urging Trump terrorists

To lightly threaten lawmakers during Biden certification

Before Capitol Hill was ransacked by Trump fascists

QAnon queen Lauren betraying Pelosi by tweeting her location

Washington DC was virtually on total lockdown against the threats of violence by Trump terrorists, ahead of Biden Harris inauguration. Though a handful of renegade Republicans stayed angry and belligerent against the metal detectors on Capitol Hill, bullying police and trying to find other ways to enter the Capitol Hill and insisting on carrying guns.

America on high alert by threats of armed terrorists

Yet craven Republicans want to carry guns on Capitol Hill

Angry, wild, immature, unpatriotic anarchists

Still shooting pallets of lies, their potent poison-pill

Lawless Lindsey Graham promoted falsehood, calling the first impeachment of Trump, corrupt, forgetting that Mueller’s report concluded Russia did interfere in 2016 election. Barr bigot who had tortured truth of Russia interference into a brief summary of falsehood, favored Trump. Would Trump have been removed from office after his first impeachment, America would have been saved from the terrible tragedy of death and violence on the Capitol Hill by Trump terrorists, all equipped with noose and gallows to hang Mike Pence, probably Nancy Pelosi too and many more?

Trump terrorists chanted, hang Mike Pence

Still QAnon sympathizers flout security measures on Capitol Hill

Shoving police officers, religiously loyal to Trump defense

Polishing their lies over hot-conspiracy grill

Nikki Haley the nerd queen from India said. “It’s time to face the harsh reality that Bernie sanders will chair the senate budget committee, now that Democrats control the chamber. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate change, infrastructure spending, cutting defense spending. A socialist.” She was right he was going to improve the healthcare in America, address the climate change and expose Trumpian fascists still corrupting the Senate. Trump in his last bid of staying in office invited Mike Lindell the CEO of MyPillow into White House. The Press conjectured that he came armed with more conspiracy theories about the stolen election, suggesting to install martial law, for Trump to stay in Oval Office.

QAnon Shaman and Trump guy MyPillow

Still trying to overturn election results

Martial Law is the answer, sitting under weeping willow

Lies are teardrops of regrets, truth hurts

Lindsey Graham tried again and again to discredit Mueller’s report. Left with no excuse for Trump inciting insurrection on Capitol Hill, he was dwelling on the false claims of Trump’s exoneration after the first impeachment. He was expert in contradicting himself by the hour, no wonder twitter was trailing him as a snowflake.

Leningrad Lindsey still peddling puppetry to Putin infringement

Russia did interfere during 2016 election, Mueller’s report concluded

Was Trump removed after his First Impeachment

Capitol Hill tragedy by QAnon would never have occurred

Such a shame that Capitol Hill had become a Military Camp for Biden Harris inauguration since Trump and Republicans refused to tell their terrorists that election was not stolen. Threat of mass protests against “stolen election” was to be staged in all fifty states, putting America on high alert before, during, and after the inauguration. Trumplicans were defying the use of metal detectors while Capitol Hill Police was struggling to keep violence at bay. Just two days before the inauguration and a little fire in close quarters sent a fresh wave of shock and alarm.

Dirty dozen Republicans not complying with metal detectors

Just like not wearing masks, QAnon Marjorie mask flaunts, “censored”

Immature Republicans, COVID super-spreaders

Of traitor Trump still remaining afraid

Executions in America had been overshadowed by Trump’s tyranny of hate, inciting insurrections, yet besides other brutalities, Trump would stand out in history books as the emperor of executions. By his orders a rush of executions overwhelmed, while violence from his domestic terrorists threatened the advent of Biden inauguration on the Capitol Hill.

America says adieu to Executioner-in-Chief

Before he can erase legacy of slavery

Yet record number executions in time so brief

Last hours of presidency, pardon-packed chicanery

January 20, 2021 the day of Biden Harris Inauguration started a new era of unity, hope, healing for All Americans. Democracy had persevered, dignity of America had survived and Constitution had remained intact despite hate, violence, extremism during the past four years of Trump Administration. Loving, generous, hardworking Americans were feeling optimistic with the promise of health, harmony, economic recovery.

Welcome change in Biden, Harris Inauguration

When intellect claims throne of wisdom

It’s time for a grand celebration

To heal America, making it a peaceful kingdom 

Time to contemplate COVID since it was very much present in America and all over the world, reaching over four hundred thousand American deaths. Contemplating COVID, one begins to wonder what divine succor or judgement lurks behind an all-out assault of the pandemic all over the world. Is it to free the old and the ailing from the bondage of their prison-homes called nursing homes where they are held hostage by a team of medical professionals who are paid to keep them alive, despite the fact that they are suffering the agonies of debilitating diseases, dementia, delusions, loss of dignity in life to take care of their basic needs of feeding, bathing, relieving themselves?

Another aspect of this pandemic, could this be divine mercy, lifting the burden of stress from mankind so deplorably wired into the fast pace of life, especially wasting time and energy buying Christmas gifts during the Holiday Season, forced to be with their family members they particularly don’t care about or would rather be alone? Is COVID the reason to allow people to cherish and enjoy their solitude? Does it give one respite from crowded malls, from the necessity of spending money on useless items which would be returned the day after Christmas?

Nature is calling the suffered and suffering humanity to its bosom of peace, serenity, serendipity, inviting us to notice wildlife and wilderness, to breathe fresh air, to enjoy vivacity, stillness, abundance of all seasons, a profusion of flowers in summers, vibrant splash of colors in fall, white purity of winters. Yet one can’t stop wondering what this breath is, where does it come from, where does it go? Knives can’t cut it, extreme temperatures can’t destroy it, no one has the power to stop it, but by the decree of divine mercy to let it rest in the heavens away from the multitude of worries, sorrows, ailments.

Unlike love, breath is not constrained by fears, heartaches, ailments, disappointments, it maintains its rhythm of profound presence, working in and out silently and involuntarily, unless one is trained to feel its subtle vibrations in secret, sacred realms of spirituality. Mediation practices teach us how to feel this subtle, sacred breath, but it eludes us at the slightest distraction in thoughts. Thoughts have a freedom of their own, bouncing off the cliffs, riding high over the clouds, getting lost in the labyrinthine mysteries of worlds beyond world, defying reality, embracing delusions.

That’s where meditation weaves a web of reality to see the real, but very few of us are fortunate enough to keep the web of reality intact while staying connected to the heavens and grounded to the earth. This state lasts as long as we are inward bound. Returning to the world of chaos, violence, disharmony we try to balance our thoughts in the scale of reasoning and make-believe, always longing to return to that peaceful place, pouring sweet nectar of silence, serenity and surrender into the inner dimensions of our being.

Has world always been chaotic, brutal, violent, selfish, on the brink of burning in the fire of perdition, one can’t help but ask? Since the inception of time, the rebellion of Adam and Eve. Rivalries amongst siblings, Cain murdering his brother Abel. Bible itself housing tales of sins and redemption, incest, sodomy, seven plagues visiting Egypt, great Flood, Noah’s ark. God of the Hebrews angry, whimsical, vindictive. God of Jesus, loving, forgiving, all-pervading. God of Muslims, the most merciful, the most compassionate, all-loving.

Yet all the pious fools in all religions fighting amongst themselves and with others, claiming their own religion to be the best and consigning others to hell who are not of their own faith. Brutes, zealots, hypocrites all over the world killing, robbing, depriving mankind of the dignity to live peacefully, honestly, lovingly. Yet, religion is not entirely to blame, even if there were no religion, people would still fight, argue and oppress each other for the sake of feeling superior or to stay in control. Control is what controls the whole herd of humanity, the lust for power grab so that they can subjugate nations, peoples, even wild animals, to amass riches, honors, adulations, no matter how fake and hollow those conquests.

Final day of Trump’s chaotic, violent presidency ended with a bang as it had started. Ban on Muslims, chaos at the airports. Separating of families, caging kids. Firing intelligent staff, hiring incompetent hoodlums who could praise and defend him. Demeaning FBI, CIA, Press, starting trade wars with China, alienating all his allies, deeming Americans his enemy and Putin his friend. Promises made but not kept, his fantastic wall a laughing spectacle of repairs and flimsy structure of hideous attempt to stop migrants from coming to the United States, which he quickly turned into divided States of America.

Four long years of fake news, witch hunts, alternative facts, tweet storms and conspiracy theories. If hoax of climate change was not enough, pandemic made it worse. Trump’s America First became America Last in healthcare, prestige, credibility.

Then came the final blow of tragedy, Trump’s culmination of lies, contesting fair elections, riling up his domestic breed of terrorists whom he encouraged with his hate rhetoric all those turbulent years of his presidency to be tough and violent. Election is stolen, he claimed and with the lunacy of a tyrant encouraged the rise of KKK, QAnon, Proud Boys, and gun wielding white supremacists. To stay in power he incited his domestic terrorists to storm the Capitol Hill, and they did what he wanted, insurrection of the most absurd and ludicrous order of insanity, horned Shaman, hoodlum wearing Auschwitz shirt, fake national guard with strip ties to threaten. Trump’s thugs and lunatics desecrated the Capitol Hill by smashing windows, scaling the walls, destroying furniture. Their intent was to hang Mike Pence, kidnap Nancy Pelosi and any lawmakers who voted in favor of electoral votes for Joe Biden which he won fair and square. Five dead in this melee of violence, to garnish it with more violence they erected gallows with a noose, fortunately they were unable to use.

Lawless Trump, always pretending to be the champion of Law and Order ended his tyrannous idiocy of a presidency with a second impeachment, leaving Capitol Hill bruised and bandaged, looking more like a war zone, clustered with national guards to guard American pride and democracy against Trump’s terrorists whom he nurtured and encouraged to grant him four more years of perfect destruction of US Democracy and Constitution.

For me, to purge 2020 out of my system is to jolt myself to awakening from the nightmare of Trumplicans and witness 2021 of hope, harmony, healing. Peace-loving Biden Harris Team will restore America’s power, prestige and credibility. With gratitude and soul-searching humility, I realize afresh how blessed I am to be a part of the American dream, where democracy survives despite assaults from within and without. The most precious privilege of American Dream is the freedom of speech. May Trumplicans—this word coined by Chris Cuomo of CNN, enjoy freedom of speech peacefully. Afterthought, GOPQ—Grand Old Party of QAnon in minority still ruling. Democracy dying, voter rights suppressed, women rights to choose defiled. Corrupt, conservative courts exonerating white supremacist murderers. Mad Manchin and Silly Sinema licking boots of GOPQ, singing bipartisan mantra, letting minority rule with their zero support for any bills that Democrats propose. Filibuster a big thorn in heart of US Democracy.

Ending with a note of hope. Inflation Reduction Act passed, Manchin and Sinema cooperating, madness and silliness vanished. President Joe Biden on the road to recover Soul of America from talons of MAGA Extremists

Part II Radicalization of America

Demure Diary

A little QAnon in self-contemplation

Dedicated to Ramdas, and his beautiful daughter Piyusha. My dearest of friends and my Tech Gurus

Demure Diary is a compilation of contemplations on life, politics, spirituality. Some sort of mental jogging on a journey to explore the topography of thoughts on a level beyond understanding. Worldly rifts and conflicts run parallel to profundity over the bridge of chaos on surface calm, gleaning facts from lies. Plainly defining new normal in nascent uprising of violence and vilification. In essence this book is a calendar of events caught alive much like thoughts in the ebb and flow of relevance. Marching along with people who became irrelevant yet accepted not their failures. History alone can give credence to their demise or relevance. Most of the QAnon contemplations span Year 2021, some cover the last two months of Year 2022 into January of the Year 2023. Part Three in the trilogy of Radicalization of America will be published in November 2024 after the election. End of extremism

Excerpt from Demure Diary

For some time, a little of QAnon with a potpourri of KKK, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and right-wing conspiracy theorists absorbed my attention. Rush Limbaugh passed away and GOPQ contenders were honoring him with lowering the flag half-staff. Honoring the dishonorable was the Florida governor DeSantis, his way of encouraging gun wielding, domestic terrorists. Texas was hit by a winter storm with a devastating effect of blackout, leaving millions without water and electricity, GOPQ Perry bleating, Texans better suffer the blackout than let federal government interfere with their sacred, broken grid.

If petty Perry was to suffer the likes of afflictions of millions of Texans who were suffering with no water to drink or bathe, no electricity to cook, or the reek of toilets clogged with no way of flushing, he wouldn’t even have had the energy to flaunt his stupidity and urge Texans to suffer with his putrid nonsense. Fox frenzy and their team of demolition derby were doing their own share, clubbing themselves with the cable wires of their own conspiracy theories. Dubbing this disaster as solar and wind power crisis, condoning the reality that blackouts were caused by failures in coal, nuclear and natural gas energy systems, not prepared to withstand extreme cold temperatures. Could they still peddle climate change hoax, if someone was to ask?

Newsmax was another channel of heightened stupidity and absurdity. Their host Greg Kelly spilling his own reek of idiocy. “Biden’s dog Champ looks dirty, disheveled, like it’s from junkyard.” Then he invited guest Craig Shirley to validate his stinking claim, and she obliged him with her own idiotic pride. “Yet, a dirty dog, unlike any presidential dog.” If Greg Kelly could have stopped barking, he could have been able to smell the garbage of his own odiferous comments. It was obvious that Newsmax beastly hosts and guests had nothing better to talk about but to mock a German Shepard worthy of praise with impeccable character, no comparison to their own potty demeanor.

A day of reflection than contemplation. Some sort of video playing in the background of unconscious mind where past hurts come alive throbbing like purple wounds. Nothing traumatic or dramatic but petty incidences ballooned into gigantic episodes of regrets and imponderables. Harmless bullying by family members, drudgery of going somewhere where one doesn’t wish to go or forced to act pleased when one is feeling miserable. It all boils down to control, I have been thinking lately, especially for girls, first they are controlled by parents when growing up, then by husbands when they get married.

Why do we stay prisoner to control system all around us, caged inside the prison of norms or double standards when it comes to being a woman? Whatever man does is important, no matter what woman does is insignificant. When a man listens to music or consumed by a project, it should be worthy of praise, something worth doing, it seems like a written law. But a woman, even if engaged in serious writing, or arranging something she sets her mind on, is waste of time and that too seems like a law, though unwritten.

Time is inconsequential if one begins to think seriously, it’s a manmade contraption to keep us engaged in our petty little hobbies or long-term endeavors. Everyone has to do something according to one’s own skill, taste or preference, and all has its place of importance in global scheme of one whole. We are all a part of one giant puzzle in the living, throbbing heart of nature, from small insect to a human being endowed with reason and intellect, depending upon our evolution from man or woman to being human in true essence of the word when we are capable of taming our animal nature and be worthy of the name human as noble, intelligent species who have risen above the base characteristics of stupidity, ignorance and beastly appetites for passions wild and harmful.

This reminds me of a profound comment from one of my teachers when we were discussing the significance and insignificance of certain objects which might evoke our disgust or admiration. Even a rotten apple is delicious feast to the worms, she said, while for us it’s fit only to be tossed away into the garbage. So, in the large scheme of things, what we consider ugly, rotten or unworthy of our attention could be beautiful, wholesome or worthy of admiring or possessing.

Wonder of wonders though if garbage-talk could find a certain niche to claim some semblance of worthiness. A bunch of smelly talks were polluting America’s air, most notably amongst them by Trump Jr. insulting Teacher Unions while posting a video of himself against a wall of guns, looking more like Osama Bin Laden than the son of a GOPQ

Talking of GOPQ, America was having more share of their garbage-talk more than usual, former members claiming that climactic disaster in Texas with failure of their energy grid was direct result of Biden being in the White House? If such idiots could be silenced then idiocy of GOPQ itself would take a back seat, or was there some valuable lesson in there for us to explore, finding it worthy of our time and exploration?

 

 

Netanyahu Genocide in Gaza, Rafah

 

Netanyahu in stark defiance to US continues his spree of genocide, brutalities, destruction in wake of humanitarian crisis that he created with landfill of famine, disease, intolerable of sufferings. Israel has broken the Humanitarian Law a thousand times over and Israeli atrocities continue as the impotent world gazes on without even a grain of compassion that the blood of innocent Palestinians and agonized cries of mothers with crippled babies might earn a two-state-solution, separate Israel and Palestine states for peace in Middle East. Palestine, in fact is the homeland of Palestinians, usurped by Israelis and Jewish settlers from Russia.

Israel alone has the right to attack, to defend itself, is that it, what’s wrong with that picture?

Israel’s unprovoked strike on Consulate in Damascus, Syria, killing seven, including Tehran’s senior general, provoked Iran to retaliate.

Is Netanyahu intent on carving a streak of retaliations? One must be blind to reject that Israel keeps committing genocide, reek of rejections can’t conceal the stench of 33, 000 + civilians dead, more than half of those kids and women. Recently West Bank biggest rampage completely ignored by Israel allies. Also, Israel killing Palestinians while they tried to return to Gaza, turning back under the fire of missiles.

To quote snippets from The New York Times UN report of abuse in Israeli detention, savagery behind the scenes, which are worthy of awakening empathy, if not opening a window of global conscience.  “Palestinian detainees were made to sit on their knees for hours with their hands tied, while blindfolded, deprived of food and water. Being urinated on, badly beaten with metal bars, forced into cages and attacked by dogs. Detainees were also made to lie on thin mattresses on top of rubble for hours without food, water or access to toilet, with their legs and hands bound with plastic ties. One woman was threatened by Israeli officers that her whole family would be killed in an airstrike if she didn’t provide more information. One man was forced to sit on an electrical probe that burned his anus. Some Gazans were beaten on their genitals, aggressively searched and sexually groped. One woman was forced to strip in front of male officers. Some of UNRWA staff members were beaten, stripped, humiliated and abused while being detained by Israeli authorities. During interrogations, they were pressured to say that UNRWA had affiliations with Hamas and that its staff members took part in the Oct. 7 attack.”

Can US ‘Iron-clad commitment’ to Israel stop in wake of Netanyahu’s defiance and his continual spree of genocide in Gaza, Rafah? Call it by name, what it is. It is moral duty of US not to enable Netanyahu with military aid to kill more Palestinians. Instead, morally grand it is, to send aid to the victims of Palestine to avert famine, to heal the wounded, to restore water, electricity to areas destroyed by Israeli bombings, to build homes. To provide shelter, medicine, basic human needs for sheer survival. Anything less than that is unethical, cowardliness, heartlessness on part of whole world, neglecting to protect the dignity of life.

Terrorism can’t be stopped by terrorists. Retaliations generate engines of retaliations. Netanyahu has succeeded in making Palestinians a generation of cripples and it is up to the world to redeem itself by honoring two-state-solution, independent Israel and Palestine, to truncate insanity of Netanyahu.

Still time for intelligent, compassionate Israelis to save the lives of their loved ones held hostage by Hamas. To elect a sane leader who cares for Israelis, listens to God of Israel, commanding peace, not slaughter.

‘Whoever destroys a life, it is considered as if he destroyed entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9; Yerushalmi Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 37 a

Palestinians plead mercy from the world. World should be able to end Israeli genocide of Palestinians in reminiscence of end of genocide of Jews by German Hitler.

‘There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.’ Albert Einstein

‘He is a runaway, who flies from the concerns of society. He is blind, who shuts the eyes of his understanding. He is poor, who has need of another, and finds not in himself all things helpful for life. He is a sore on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature and is displeased with the things that happen, for the same nature that produces them has produced you too. He is a social outcast, who cuts his own soul off from one common soul of all reasonable beings.’ Marcus Aurelius

‘Pass then through this moment of time in harmony with nature, and end, your journey in content, as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.’ Marcus Aurelius

Please take a moment to pray for peace in the world and for humanity to evolve into being Human.

Amen and Thank You

Reuters photographer wins World Press Photo of the Year with poignant shot from Gaza

THOMAS ADAMSON

Updated Thu, April 18, 2024 at 7:00 AM EDT·

 

PARIS (AP) — Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this year’s prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award Thursday with a depiction of loss and sorrow in Gaza, a heartrending photo of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece. The photograph, taken in Khan Younis just days after Salem’s own child was born, shows 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar holding five-year-old Saly, who was killed along with her mother and sister when an Israeli missile struck their home.