The sound of the blast was bad
Buried beneath all the rubble
The burning skin was worse
Then the pain from hunger
No family left anymore
No more tears to cry
I want it all to end
Death please
Take me
Now
The sound of the blast was bad
Buried beneath all the rubble
The burning skin was worse
Then the pain from hunger
No family left anymore
No more tears to cry
I want it all to end
Death please
Take me
Now
If I died tomorrow
Would I be content in the knowledge that I did everything right?
No
If I died tomorrow
Would I be content in the knowledge that I did not have regret over some of my actions?
No
If I died tomorrow
Would I be content in the knowledge that I did not remain silent while cruelty was inflicted on others?
Yes
Don’t stop talking about the atrocities being committed against the people in the Middle East.
Aid agencies have been warning that multiple conflicts are putting unprecedented pressure on the lives of people in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza.
In some countries in the West, accepting that your country is responsible for supplying arms to a country that is intent on mass destruction may be difficult for some people to accept. Or, they may rationalise it with the ridiculous slogan “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
All round the world there have been unprecedented protests about the genocide in Gaza, but it it is not just about Gaza. It is certainly not just about Israel defending itself.
Where will it all end?
In the West Bank:
GENEVA (8 March 2024) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today deplored Israel’s latest actions regarding the occupied West Bank, saying the drastic acceleration in settlement building is exacerbating long-standing patterns of oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians.
APARTHEID AND GENOCIDE ARE NOT JEWISH VALUES
Lacking humanity is not something that is desirable, or of any benefit to others. The people who are preventing humanitarian aid getting into Gaza, are no different from the people who have been dropping bombs there. They are just as inhumane.
We get through life with the help of others. What good is inhumanity to anyone? The survival of our species is dependent on love and kindness. Compassion and empathy are natural and integral to the continuity of our race.
The only thing that inhumane people are good for, is the continuation of destruction in the world.
How can it be possible to feel at peace with the world, when our fellow humans are being slaughtered?
The world belongs to all of us, but a minority think it is acceptable to commit mass murder as if it was theirs alone, and they can do anything they like.
Imagine waking up in the morning, and everyone you ever cared about was dead. Your mother, father, wife, husband, children and friends all gone. It is beyond my imagination, but it is a reality for the Palestinians in Gaza.
We all matter
But we are
Being treated
Like we don’t
Not just by Zionists
But by the governments
Who are complicit in
The biggest crimes
of our lifetime
The world can never be the same again.
THE IRONY OF BECOMING WHAT YOU ONCE HATED
The Dahiya doctrine, or Dahya doctrine, is a military strategy involving the destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to pressure hostile regimes. It is a type of asymmetric warfare. It endorses the employment of “disproportionate force” (compared to the amount of force used by the enemy to secure that end. The doctrine was outlined by former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff Gadi Eizenkot.
The doctrine is named after the Dahieh (also transliterated as Dahiyeh and Dahiya) neighbourhood of Beirut, where Hezbollah was headquartered during the 2006 Lebanon War, which was heavily damaged by the IDF.
Source: Wikipedia
If I must die
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze–
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself–
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale
By Refaat Alareer (1979 – 2023)
From an interview in October 2023:
“There is no way out of Gaza. What should we do… drown? Commit mass suicide? Is this what Israel wants? And we’re not going to do that… I am an academic, Probably the toughest thing I have at home is an Expo Marker. But if the Israelis invade us, If they barge at us, open door to door to massacre us, I am going to use that Marker, Throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I will be able to do. And this is the feeling of everybody in Palestine. We are helpless and we have nothing to lose”
“Vitiligo Made Me Beautiful” is a book written by fellow WordPress blogger Laleh Chini. Laleh hopes to spread awareness of vitiligo to the younger generation.
Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment or colour. The cause of vitiligo is unknown, but it may be related to immune system changes, genetic factors, stress, or sun exposure.
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When I was a young boy, I saw a film clip on the television about the Nazi persecution of Jews. Viennese Jews were being publicly humiliated by being made to scrub the street with an audience of jeering people, which included children laughing at them. It was the gleeful participation of the children, that I found the most disturbing.
I never thought I would see such shameful behaviour again, but all these years later as settler violence increases in the West Bank, there is a growing TikTok trend of kidnapping, beating & humiliating Palestinians to the tunes of “Manny Mamtara”! The area has been described by human rights groups as a “Wild West”.
The picture below is a TikTok screenshot of Palestinians being publicly humiliated, to the glee of children.
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