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I can't do this

This didn't happen out of the blue. This didn't start 2 years ago even.

This had been started a long time ago. When the zionists built walls around a city of 2 million human beings, and the world watched in silence. When they set up mass surveillance systems and the world watched in silence. When they forced military checkpoints all over Ghazzah and the West Bank, controlled the labour and movement and lives of human beings like they were cattle and the world watched in silence. When they bombed year in and year out and the world watched in silence. When the mounting pressure in the kettle burst and we retaliated against decades of living in a slow death camp, and the only words the world managed to muster were ones of disgust and lies. When they sped up the death camp, and the world continued to defend them and protect them and arm them.

I don't want to hear anyone ask "How did we get here?"

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Quinta Brunson just became the second Black actress in Emmys history to win Lead in the Comedy category, 42 years after Isabel Sanford won for The Jefferson.

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Israel has bombed—and completely demolished—the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is the second oldest mosque in Palestine. There was no purpose to bombing it. There was no advantage to targeting it. Israel simply destroyed it to make a statement: that Palestinian religion and culture not only mean nothing to them, but are something they’re actively working on wiping out. This was one of Palestine’s most sacred cultural sites. Now it’ll forever serve as proof of the horrifying death and destruction the world has allowed to befall Palestine.

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There were also manuscripts there that date back centuries. I don't know the status of those manuscripts... but I'm not hopeful they survived.

Manuscripts are one of the main ways we explore our intellectual history throughout the years, and are incredibly important to Palestinians as we struggle to piece together our culture that has been lost over years and years of displacement. They are killing the memory of Palestinians because it isn't enough to just kill our flesh.

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By Daniel Clavero for Tank Magazine September 2023

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i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!

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bisan's live video on her 2nd acc is piercing my heart

she started off expressing (in arabic) how sick she is of the constant sharing, photographing, capturing, having to speak english and how she wants to speak in her native tongue instead.

she explained that the leaflets that were dropped again are ordering evacuation to rafah so they are forced into the sinai, and how impossible it is for over 2 million people to go to an area that's only 151 square km, so many have no choice but to stay in khan younis. they are trapped and have no international passports. rafah is the southernmost point of palestine after khan younis and she said - this part in english - "after rafah there is no more palestine. if we are forced into rafah there is no more palestine."

someone asked her if she has eaten and whether they have any food, her response was no, not at all; one loaf of bread has to be divided between everyone in her tent.

the video kept freezing because of how bad the internet service is in gaza right now so i lost bits and pieces, but at some point an older woman joined the live, a journalist outside of the country. it's unclear whether they knew each other previously, but a lot of warmth was exchanged. the woman got tears out of bisan when she told her "dont listen to people who tell you to be strong, i don't want you to be strong, i want you to be you. if you are sad i want to know, if you are happy i want to know." she explained that she tried entering rafah but the occupation refuses to let any foreign journalists in anymore.

after the woman left, bisan talked about her life before october. she said her life was beautiful and fruitful and any source of strife was solely on israeli hands; namely her inability to travel or pursue placements for her education outside of palestine. other than that she had nothing to complain about. if im able to watch the video after it ends, i will add any pieces i missed