Israel has dropped more bombs on Palestinians in Gaza this week than the United States dropped on Afghanistan in a full year of the war. https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/13/jewish-plea/

An old olive oil press rusts
at the bottom of a sandy garden
in this occupied territory;
children lying prostrate,
bleeding into the soil;
a man murmuring.
about a weight, a burden, something…..
lifted.
We could not hear clearly,
what with the  explosions
and such, all around Gethsemane.
This man, this man, he screamed out:
‘NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS YOU WILL, FATHER!’.
but there was no other man there,
no father, nothing.
Was this man drunk?
I do not think so though
he may have drunk some wine
sometime….now,  silence,
a pause in the slaughter,
I hear the cock crow three times:
faraway, strange, at sunset, not sunrise
but all the roosters had been eaten, long ago,
what with the siege and the starvation and all….