Tanka poems against the war

             Across the blue sky

        A fighter plane is drawing

            A long vapor trail

        Made of sugar, and I scoop it

      For you dear with a paint brush

Gather voices of

"No War" all over the world

Tie them to balloons

Fly the balloons in the sky

Let them wrap up the White House

反戦の声風船に結びつけ

ホワイトハウスを覆ってしまえ

Hansen no Koe huusenn ni Musubi tsuke

Howaitohausu wo Ootte shimae

From　an interview with a former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy:

There have been reports that some of the weapons transfers have been held up from the U.S. to Israel by the administration. Those have neither been confirmed nor denied. If you want to get a ceasefire, they’re going to have to be confirmed. That is actually going to have to happen.

I imagine that some of this move towards a possible deal, move towards possible U.S. seriousness in challenging Netanyahu, that we are not at the point of success yet. But some of the move towards that is a consequence of what you’ve shown us, what’s going on inside the U.S., the pressure, the campuses. People should not feel disheartened. What they are doing is having an impact: the fear of how this could play out politically. And so, I would say, in these crucial moments, those efforts should be redoubled, because they are meaningful.

For more, please watch:

Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/7/daniel_levy_israel_rafah_ceasefire_hamas

The tanka poems and drawing from "Flowers and Bombs: Stop the Violence of the War Now!" by Kaoru Kobashi

https://hanabaku.blogspot.com/