“Adagio per sortem, annales se iterum replicabant.”
Before ascension, from under the rubbles, Palestinian children with a bitter smile:
“In articulo mortis. Morituri te salutant (At the moment of death. Those who are about to die salute you).”
From the high seat of human rights and standards Europe replies:
“Mors ultima ratio (Death is the final accounting).”
Then EU continues in a chant-like rhythm and soft of cold brittle voice:
“Sanguis liberorum tuorum et populi tui dolor sit sacrificium pro peccatis meis factis”
(‘Let the blood of your children and the suffering of your people be the sacrifice for the sins of my doing’)
Comes Lady Justice the virtuous UN and whispers:
“Sanguis tuus in ara sancta, purus et absque dolo, sit sacrificium et redemption mea”
(‘May your guileless blood on the holy altar be my sacrifice and my redemption’)
And the freedom bearer and liberty server USA:
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
(Joe Biden, speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus who were gathered in Williamsburg, Va., for their annual retreat.)
By Everyday, In Everyday, On Everyday
The title of my poem means “Slowly through fate, the annals repeated themselves.” This conveys the idea of a slow and ironic repetition of historical events influenced by the fate as we make it.

Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks (24.10) to the Security Council on the Middle East.:
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.
The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.
They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.
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