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تشبهين الليلة التي يموت فيها الطغاة وتنتصر الثورة “You look like the night when tyrants die and the revolution triumphs”

[shisasan]

𝙵𝚢𝚘𝚍𝚘𝚛 𝙳𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚢𝚎𝚟𝚜𝚔𝚢, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙺𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚣𝚘𝚟 (𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟶)

[tamarrud]

I don't know if you realise the level of displacement that the people of Gaza are facing at the hands of Israel right now.

Take Rafah for example, which is in the most southern part of Gaza, it used to be one of the most densely populated areas with over 300,000 Palestinians living there before the start of the aggression. Now, following three months of forcible evacuation and terror by Israel (remember this map?), the number of people living in Rafah went from 300,000 to 1,300,000, some reporting that half of all of Gaza's population is now condensed in Rafah.

A reporter was describing how not even a single sidewalk is vacant. People are everywhere, yet there is practically no place to live. This of course comes with severe health risks with diseases spreading rapidly, as well as humanitarian risks with no adequate shelter, access to water (Gazans were saying water comes on once every ten days in Rafah), electricity, food or fuel.

But then again, those who are currently displaced have no way to know when or if they are ever going to go back to their homes as Israel destroyed about 70% of homes in Gaza. Additionally, and according to UN reports, due to the insane amount of destruction caused by Israeli bombardment in Gza, it is likely going to take between 7 and 10 years just to rebuild destroyed homes, let alone infrastructure.

Bisan showed yesterday how people have set up their tents in Rafah and it is honestly terrifying to see. All I could think of while watching her video is that the way older Palestinian women would describe their tents following the Nakba is the exact same way these displaced Palestinians are describing theirs 75 years later.

This displacement has obviously always been deliberate as Israeli officials openly declare, and it is also intended to be long term. Displacement doesn't only mean being forcibly removed from your house, but it also means being removed from your community and land and all the significance they hold. This fragmentation of identity is something Israel has been keen on since its inception as a colonial state built on ethnic cleansing.

[tamarrud]

100 days of 29,000+ Israeli bombs dropped and 30,000+ Palestinians killed - don't get used to this.

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

A Palestinian man trying to save doves after the IDF demolished his home in Khirbet Makhoul in the Jordan Valley, Palestine

[tamarrud]

Absolutely fucking disturbing that here we are, 100 days later, still witnessing the same genocide unfold on our screens, each day comes with unimaginable violence that surpasses the day before. 100 days of ruthless violence and massacres inflicted by Israel against a besieged and starved population. 100 days of traumatic loss and destruction on every level; history, culture, traditions, families - to the point of no return.

Yet, 100 days later we are still having to put up with the exact same evil rhetoric as we did on day 1. Absolutely sickening.

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

[dunyatraveler]

“Allahumma innaka ‘afuwwun tuhibbul ‘afwa fa'fu ‘anni ”

— O Allah, You are Most Forgiving, and You love forgiveness; so forgive me

[nowinexile]

Palestinian women on a rooftop of a house in Jerusalem. 1932 Palestine.

[sweet-suggestions]

Sometimes "getting better" means it hurts less to get up in the morning. Means it is a bit easier to step into the shower. Means small things make you smile again. This is okay. "Getting better" doesn't have to be giant steps. I'm so proud of you, no matter what.

[kuutamosonaatti]

Throne of Blood (1957) | dir. Akira Kurosawa

[fawnaura]

“And meanwhile everything is so small. Compared to my heart’s desire the sea is a drop.”

— Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park; “Denouement” tr. by Ellen Watson

[weltenwellen]

Henry Miller in a letter to Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[c0ssette]

Auguste Ottin (Detail) Polyphemus Surprising Acis and Galatea,1866,the Fontaine Médicis.

[radomirus]

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 (via quotes-shape-us)

[stlowens]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

[Text ID: “I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous ⏤ I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted and back again.”]

[wordscanbeenough]

“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[mioritic]

Four stamps from a series on native flora, Romania, 1959