“i wish children would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends
then they would return home safe
and when their parents would ask them,
where were you? they would say,
we were playing in the clouds” - ghassan kanafani, a palestinian poet
In the late '90s, Palestinian Aljazeera presenter Jamal Rayan confronted 'israel's' foreign minister live on air:
'Shimon Peres, your house is on my land, and I have the documents. When will the refugees return?'
Peres replied: 'You Arabs have many countries, we will find somewhere for you to go'.
Rayan came into work the next day with the legal documents expecting a scolding but he was warmly welcomed by his colleagues and kept his job until his final day.
Rayan later explained that his father was a farmer in Haifa. He said that land was the most precious thing to him. Rayan carried those deeds his whole life.
Today, he returned to his Lord before he could return to his land.
May God have mercy on his soul.
Indeed, to God we belong, and to Him, we shall return
We shouldn’t move on from the nearly 200 girls killed in bombings in Iran, just like we shouldn’t forget the Lebanon pagers attack that killed thousands, just like we shouldn’t forget the days when 800 people were being killed in Gaza every day.
Same perpetrators every time.
Isn't it interesting how quickly the citizens of Israel reach for their European/US passports and flee the country "God gave them," while Palestinians continue to live and rebuild their land, water their olive trees, no matter the scale of destruction.
Any time I see whites talk about freeing Iran it’s just a tweet sexualising Persian women. This is the western metric for the freedom of women: sexual exploitation
We will free women n children in Afg - Kills 3.2 million
We will free women n children in Iraq - Kills 1.9 million
We will free women n children in Libya - Kills 2.6 million
We will free women n children in Iran - Kills 100 girls in 30 minutes
Saviours of women
Imagine telling the world that you're liberating the women of Iran and one of the first things you do is blow up a school full of girls. Extraordinary.
Sheikh Yasser Al-Dosari bursts into tears as soon as the imam made invocations for the parents last night...
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