By Dr Gideon Polya
After 2 years of the Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust the important and ancient city Gaza was reduced to rubble and Gazan deaths from violence and deprivation totalled 875,000. However non-seeing, eyeless and Zionist-perverted Western Mainstream media report 71,000 deaths. My poem Eyeless in Gaza addresses Zionist criminality, praises the extraordinary resurrection resilience of the Gazans, and the fundamental commitment of decent Humanity to beauty and truth in a chaotic universe.
I claim no poetic licence in this poem. Thus from data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet, 175,000 Gazans had been killed violently after 2 years of the Gaza Genocide. It was “conservatively” estimated by epidemiologists that deaths from deprivation were 4 times the deaths from violence i.e. 4 x 175,000 = 700,000 for a total of 875,000 Gazan “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase). Based on the relative proportions in deaths reported by Gaza health officials (and in the absence of other data), the total of 875,000 Gaza deaths was estimated to include about 325,000 children, 207,000 women and 342,000 men. However these estimates are conservative because they do not consider the extreme vulnerability to deprivation of under-5 year old infants. Thus in impoverished countries 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation are under-5 year old infants (Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”). Further, Gaza is not just any city, it is a huge, ancient and culturally important city. According to William Dalrymple,“The Golden Road. How Ancient India Transformed the World”, Crusader-occupied Gaza played a key role in transmission of Arab and Indian learning to Europe.
Gaza will resurrect itself once the American and Zionist Israeli occupiers leave. My huge painting “Qana” was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s famed anti-war painting “Guernica” about the fascist bombing of the Basque town of Guernica and includes 3 resurrection themes, those of Adonis, Jesus Christ and the Lebanese town of Qana of Jesus’ “water into wine” fame” that suffered repeated bombing destruction by the Zionist Israelis (see “Qana”: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4293063550/ ). My science-informed prose having failed to dent the denial of the Gaza Genocide by mendacious Western Mainstream journalist, politician and academic presstitutes I have here resorted to the more powerful medium of poetry.
Eyeless in Gaza
The universe contains one trillion galaxies,
Each galaxy contains one trillion suns,
And every sun has a dozen planets,
With sentient life confined to one
And blossomed into one thousand tribes,
A thousand trillion trillion tribes
But only one supposedly Chosen
By a supposedly omnipotent Creator saying:
“Obey my Laws and I will smite
Your enemies, those whose land you covet,
But break my Laws then I will smite
You, favouring your direst enemies.”
The Lord said “Attack Amalek,
And utterly destroy all that they have,
And do not spare them. But kill both man
And woman, infant and nursing child,
Ox and sheep, camel and donkey”.
But Saul was punished by the Lord for sparing,
Succeeded by Michal-betraying liar
And merciless killer of all, David,
The first genocidally racist Zionist.
Millennia later and cruelly unmoved
By love thy neighbour as thyself,
Netanyahu cried “Remember Amalek”
And ancient Gaza that shipped to Rome
The hard-won cleansing perfumes of Arabia
And the spices of distant and wondrous India,
That taught Europe the mathematical secrets
Of the brilliant Muslim and Hindu worlds,
Was no more – all buildings gone,
Reduced to grey mountains of rubble,
Half a million women and children
Killed by violence and imposed deprivation,
In a Zionist concentration camp that bravely
Defied chaos with roads, sewerage,
Schools, clinics, hospitals, and universities
But now the world’s biggest cemetery.
Yet – like destroyed but resurrected Qana,
Adonis, Jesus, Mongol-destroyed cities,
Nazi-destroyed Warsaw and Stalingrad,
America-destroyed Tokyo, Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, Korea, Mosul and Fallujah,
Gaza lives on with university classes
Resuming without desks in the rubble.
In the Zionist- planned Rafah Concentration Camp
Obscenely shadowed by the Riviera-style skyscrapers
Of psychopath Trump and his billionaire friends,
Gaza will endure as testament to resilience
Just as universe-comprehending sentients
Seek beauty and truth in the entropic chaos
Of a blind and acceleratingly expanding universe.
Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades.
25 January 2026
Source: countercurrents.org