We shall not rest until the genocide stops: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”-
Gerorge Orwell
Everyday we hear horror stories from the Gaza strip (concentration camp).
70% of residential buildings are now destroyed, friends of ours that have
been forced to move 7, 8 or 9 times to places that are then bombed again.
Children burned or mutilated. Tens of thousands of women and children
murdered with Western Support. The situation here in the occupied West Bank
has been horrible before 7 October but the level of horror amplified ten
fold since. This increase in rate of home demolitions, land confiscation,
killing of Palestinians, military and settler pogroms against our people,
closing off of 12 ghettos/concentration camps created to store the unwanted
indigenous people. All Palestinians are targets whether they miraculously
remained in Palestine or are in exile diaspora. The Zionist movement is
taking desperate measures to liquidate even the hope of liberation. Even
the delusional hope of a two state “solution” is obliterated with laws and
with increased colonial settlements: There are two times more colonial
settlers per square kilometer here in the West Bank than inside the Green
Line.
MUST LISTEN and MUST DISSEMINATE widely this isthe most powerful and
revealing speech about Germany and why iit (and the US) help genocide from
our highly artculate friend Ali Abunimah https://youtu.be/2wXleLl3WgE
The World Court has just cleared the fog hiding western support for
Israel’s crimes
The Elders call for bold action by world leaders to end Israel’s unlawful
occupation
NBC reports on the medicide (destruction of medical services) in Gaza
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www.nbcnews.com/news/world/
“Most of my family came from Poland and many of my relatives were killed in
the death camps during the Holocaust. When I walk in what was left from the
Warsaw Ghetto I can’t stop thinking about the people of Gaza who are not
only locked in an open air prison but are also being bombarded by fighter
jets, attack helicopters and drones, flown by people whom I used to serve
with. I am also thinking about the delegations of young Israelis that are
coming to see the history of our people but also are subjected to
militaristic and nationalistic brainwashing on a daily basis “. Yonatan
Shapira (this was ten years ago and now it is far worse)
“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national
obligations of obedience, therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to
violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from
occurring.” Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950
We are not numbers: some stories from Gaza strip written by Gaza people
(for many their writings here was their last before they got killed)
We talked before about the US complicity in genocide by funding, arming,
and shielding the apartheid Israeli regime committing tis genocide. People
do not talk much though about the European Union support of the genocide.
Here are some links
Another world heritage site recognized for Palestine: Monastery of St.
Hilarion/Tell Umm Aner
Gaza, the Democrats, and How to Fix Our Wretched Politics
and Hammer and Hope magazine: https://hammerandhope.org/
“Action is the antidote to despair.” Joan Baez
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.” Edmund Burke
“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand” Chinese
Proverb
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stay Human and keep Palestine alive
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine
facebook pages
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