Rector wears an Arab keffiyeh instead of the traditional stole during Sunday morning Holy Eucharist service at St Peter ad Vincula, Pennal. Photo Arvid Parry Jones.

The Zionists have finally moved on from decades of a brutal military occupation and oppression to their apartheid project and rigorous ethnic cleansing to finally carrying out the final solution to its ‘Palestinian Problem … Genocide.

… via our governments INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & TRADE DEPT … from a Michael Cummings. His comments include:

‘The amount of suffering on both sides has been incomprehensible’ …

‘The Welsh Government does not hold a view on whether genocide or apartheid is being committed’ …  

1 incomprehensible means ‘not able to be understood; not intelligible’. What is there to understand!

 2 Our Welsh government has NO OPINION on Zionist Israel’s on-going economic/military war on military occupied Palestine.

3 The Palestinian nakba dates back to 31 December 1947. Michael refers to individuals in Wales holding different views on whether Hamas and/or Israel have committed atrocities since October 2023 – thereby not only dismissing almost 80 years of Palestinian history of Zionist oppression but also parroting Israeli propaganda that the war started on 7 October 2023!

Dyna ni! At least I now know where our Welsh government stands on Palestine and the Palestinians.

Since it’s almost impossible, nowadays, to contact – by Email or traditional posts – and thus receive feedback from politicians outside your own constituency, I am asking the respective party leaders to kindly forward my letter to their colleagues via my blog post https://thefugitivestag.com/2025/06/16/dear-first-minister-welsh-government-senedd-members/ or their own internal mailing system:

Eluned, a fyddi di mor garedig a gyrru y llythur hwn i: David Rees, Jack Sargeant, Alun Davies, Sarah Murphy, Hefin David, Jenny Rathbone, Julie Morgan, Vaughan Gething, Mark Drakeford, Ken Skates, Vikki Howells, Hannah Blythyn, Rebecca Evans, Rhianon Passmore, Lee Waters. Dawn Bowden, Joyce Watson, Jeremy Miles, John Griffiths, Jayne Bryant, Carolyn Thomas, Huw Irranca-Davies, Mike Antoniw, Buffy Williams, Mike Hedges, Julie James, Lynne Neagle, Jane Hutt and Lesley Griffiths.

Rhun, a fyddi di more garedig a gyrru y llythyr hwn i: Cefin Campbell, Heledd Fychan, Sian Gwenllian, Elion Jones, Adam Price, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Luke Fletcher, Llyr Gruffydd, Delyth Jewell, Peredur Owen Griffiths a Sioned Williams.

Darren, will you kindly forward this letter to Natasha Asghar, Gareth Davies, Paul Davies, James Evans, Janet Finch-Saunders, Peter Fox, Altaf Hussain, Joel James, Laura Anne Jones, Samuel Kurtz and Sam Rowlands.

And a letter to Jane Dodds.

‘Father’s Day’ 15 June 2025

Dear First Minister, Welsh Government & Senedd members.

For over half a century I have borne witness to the Palestinian Nakba of 1948.

I’m not a politician, but I am willing to address our Senedd on the theological and biblical background to the on-going tragedy that is Palestine today, both in Gaza and the West Bank.

Israel is a sovereign state, one of the UK’s ‘natural allies, a beacon of liberal values, a freedom- loving nation, and a “light to lighten the Gentiles” on the frontline of the wider struggle for civilization.’

The 2030 Roadmap for UK-Israel Bilateral Relations is a policy paper of 21 March 2023, a landmark document that goes beyond a previous ‘memorandum of understanding’ signed between our two countries in 2021. It appears to be more than a mere document, because it is described as a ‘Living Document’.

While I am aware that our Senedd has no role to play in the UK-Israel ‘strong and evolving defence relationship and military ties’ and likewise cannot comment on the secret military agreement signed in December 2020, I would like to know in what way you believe that the UK and Israel – and hence Wales and Israel – ‘complement each other’s strengths’?

I include a few possible areas of ‘mutual benefits’ from the ‘Roadmap’ for your comments:

• With the roadmap describing both countries as ‘a global force for good’, the plan is to build on the UK-IS ‘health-tech gateway’, launched in May 2020, in order to work together to tackle major global health-care challenges. Does the Senedd/Welsh Government envisage a role for itself in this global health challenge in 2025 and beyond?

• Does the Senedd/Welsh Government agree that it is ‘out of order’ for Welsh people to use the term apartheid vis a vis Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians?

• In what way does the Welsh Government and Senedd, see itself and organisations like chapels and churches/ the URDD/ Young Farmers/ Merched y Wawr & WI etc, deepening, strengthening and fostering the already friendly relations between the UK and Israel eg promoting more co-operation in the fields of culture, arts, higher education, sports, youth and exchange visits between institutions and organisations, as well as easing the mobility of talent between Wales and Israel?

I look forward to your comments and observations.

A few years before I was born, many believe that our Christian/Western culture died in Auschwitz.

I never imagined that I would bear witness to its burial amidst the rubble of Gaza, the tons and tons and tons of concrete dust its shroud.

My hope is that we, as a nation, will one day find out what we have become these last few years, and, amidst the rubble of Gaza, maybe, one day, soon, re-discover our humanity.

Yn enw ‘Rhyfel yr Oen’

Geraint ap

Geraint ap Iorwerth BA MPhil

For members not aware of the key role played by the Balfour Declaration of 1917 in the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, a few years ago I dramatized the official Government (H.M.G.)  documents, memoranda and letters of those in power both in Whitehall and Palestine 1917-1922.

Members who would like a copy of the script can contact me by Email for a copy of my ‘BALFOUR’S BETRAYAL’.

Iesu a’r Plant by Iranian artist Mohammad Ali Sanobari

Today, I share not my words this 13 June 2025, but one Dr. Ezzideen:

There is no internet.

No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage.

I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.”

Not because anyone is listening,

but because to die unheard is the final death.

Gaza is silent now.

Not with peace, but with obliteration.

Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering.

They severed the last cable.

No messages leave. No images enter.

Even grief has been forbidden.

I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not.

All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices.

This is not a siege of bombs alone.

It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.”

The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia.

They shell the streets where children beg for food.

They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour.

They shell hunger itself.

No food. No water. No exit.

And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down.

People die here, and no one knows.

Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded.

The internet was our final breath.

It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity.

Now it is gone.

And in the dark, they massacre without consequence.

I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame.

I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this.

A single message.

A last resistance.

If you are reading this, remember:

we walked through fire to say it.

We were not silent.

We were silenced.

And when the cables are restored,

the truth will bleed through the wires,

and the world will know what it chose not to see.

Where are my striped Pajamas by ‘ID‘

My crime is that of living
on my ancestral home
bestowed to men that hate me
by some king upon a throne

I sit here on the rubble
deep beneath my family lies
even though I know they’re gone
I still hear my daughter’s cries

To them we are not human.
to them we do not bleed
so they feel entitled
their hatred serves their greed

They came to steal our land
the country of our birth
they burned our fields and left us
this little patch of earth.

Even this they can’t abide
so finally… it’s genocide
you watched this one on tv
still it seems you do not see

Eighty years and counting
how long must we endure
with your apathy and money
our ending is assured

Where is my museum?
selective holocaust
there have been so many Mai Lais
since humanity was lost

Posted 29 October 2024 

I don’t know who ‘ID’ is but bless her or him. ‘Bless You’ friend … maybe your words could serve as a carol this coming Christmas? (Poem seen on Moon of Alabama)

An incredible piece of surrealist art. Maybe it should be re-named ‘ Western enlightenment post Gaza 2024‘ ? It reminded me of many ‘images’ from the work of Ezra Pound (d 1972).

For all his failings, Ezra Pound was, in many respects, as well as a great poet, literary ‘agent’, a prophet out-of-his-time: He once wrote that ‘The ang-sax race as a whole or hole, very insensitive to mental rot and decomposition. Eng. much worse than U.S. – England insensitive to mental decay. U.S. silly, incomparable shallowness and triviality’. Ezra Pound. Letter to Homer Pound, May 1925. Letters to His Parents.

And the profound words from his ‘ Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920) also known as his ‘Farewell to London’, as he struggled to make sense of the Great War, a war that in many respects is still being fought today …

These fought in any case, and some believing, walked eye-deep in hell

believing in old men’s lies, then unbelieving came home, home to a lie,

home to many deceits, home to old lies and new infamy; usury age-old and age-thick

and liars in public places.

There died a myriad, And of the best, among them,

For an old bitch gone in the teeth,

For a botched civilization,

Charm, smiling at the good mouth,

Quick eyes gone under earth’s lid,

For two gross of broken statues,

For a few thousand battered books.

So, when Zionist Israel says it is fighting for Western civilization against barbarians, what kind of civilization is it really fighting for!

How do you tell a story that was never supposed to be told? The Calvert Journal talked to the artists capturing the scale and emotion of the Soviet Union’s notorious repressions for the new journalistic project, Generation Gulag, from Coda Story.

‘This is not ancient history’: meet the artists bringing the devastating stories of Stalin’s repressions to life  https://www.new-east-archive.org/features/show/11542/generation-gulag-coda-story-art-stalin-repressions-oral-history via @calvertjournal

Fast forward from Bolshevik USSR to Zionist Israel …

Netanyahu’s Palestinian genocide is a story that is already being told and documented in so many different ways: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68249962 – Gaza Genocide Case Against Israel Gathers Global Momentum: S. Africa Envoy – Politics news – Tasnim News Agency https://tn.ai/3172790 – Montage gathers Israeli soldiers’ videos of war crimes in Gaza https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240408-montage-gathers-israeli-soldiers-videos-of-war-crimes-in-gaza/ via @middleeastmnt … etc etc etc etc etc

Hundreds of thousands of sources will be collated, one day, as a record of “man’s inhumanity to man” (Primo Levi) in the twenty first century … nay, the Western elite’s inhumanity towards the Palestinian people.