@JacobWeinbergR Being a Zionist means assuming that the land which the Jews had to leave thousands of years ago remained unpopulated in the meantime. And Palestinians surely don't take it for granted because they are deprived of their homeland.
@ajansmuhbir1923 Türkiye'de de böyle yaşayanlar var ama Avrupalı olmadıklarından genelde kendilerine burun kıvırıyor beyaz yaka plaza çalışanları. Bir coğrafyada eziklik olarak gördüğü davranışlara başka bir coğrafyada hayranlık beslemek de bir olmamışlık göstergesi bence.
Yesterday, I watched a woman smile as she explained how mothers in Gaza respond when their children are killed:
They have more children.
The more Israel kills, she said, the more determined people become to marry and have children.
As though grief were an equation.
You kill one child. We have another.
She is one of those figures the war turned into a social-media celebrity. She left Gaza early in the war, but found a large audience abroad willing to listen to her explain what Gaza supposedly feels.
And there she was, speaking lightly about something I have watched destroy people I love.
This rhetoric is not new. Versions of it have even come from Hamas leaders: the cold idea that those who are killed can be replaced by those yet to be born, as though a Palestinian woman’s womb were a reserve for replenishing the losses of war.
Perhaps a grieving mother has said something similar in the first hours after losing her child. I would never judge her for that. Sometimes shock forces the mind to invent meaning simply to survive the unbearable.
But wait until the funeral is over. Wait until everyone goes home.
Then ask her whether another child could ever replace the one she buried.
My cousin was killed early in the war.
His mother still cries for him, not only on anniversaries, not only on the days when grief is expected. She cries for him in the middle of ordinary life.
She sees young men his age and imagines the years he should have lived. She watches his friends grow older. She cooks something he loved and remembers his face, his voice, the way he ate, his place at the table.
To the world, he may have been one more Palestinian among thousands killed.
To her, he was her son.
That particular human being.
She could have ten more children, and not one of them would be him.
Children are not replaceable. A Palestinian woman is not a womb designed to replenish those war kills. A mother in Gaza does not possess some different kind of heart that makes burying her child hurt less than burying yours.
And that is why I have no patience for someone romanticizing death, presenting this cruelty with a smile, and selling it to the world as Palestinian “strength.”
There is nothing beautiful, heroic, or resilient about teaching people that Palestinian mothers can replace their dead children.
It is a polished form of dehumanization.
Because once you convince yourself that Palestinians experience death differently, their dead become easier to look at.
They are different from us.
They can bear it.
They will have more.
But my cousin’s mother does not want “more”.
She wants her son.
She wants him to open the door again, sit in his place, eat the food she made, and grow older alongside his friends.
That is all most parents in Gaza ever wanted.
Not heroic deaths. Not children turned into numbers in someone else’s cause.
They wanted their children to live.
Perhaps one of the cruelest things about this war is that killing Gaza’s children was somehow not enough.
Afterward, someone still had to create a mythology in which their mothers could simply give birth to replacements.
But ask my cousin’s mother.
Gaza could give birth to a million more children.
He will never be born again.
#SurvivalTestimony
@t24comtr Bu yazıyı yayınladıktan birkaç saat sonra Serhat Kılıç'ın kız arkadaşının savcılık ifadesini ve olay yeri raporunu paylaşmaya eliniz nasıl gitti acaba? Fotoğraf paylaşmadığınız için özel hayatın ayrıntılarına girmemiş mi oldunuz yani?
@MHRS_182 Hızlıca geri dönüş yapıldı ve sorun çözülmüş görünüyor. Teşekkür ederim ama kanser hastalarını gece 1'de uyandırmamak için sistemde bir saat ayarlaması yaparsanız iyi olabilir.
@egede_sonsoz Yerli yersiz her şeye "dehşet" diye başlık atılmasa keşke. Birazcık empati yeteneği olan herkes haberi okuyunca kadının çaresizliğini idrak edebilir.
@t24comtr Mine Hanım'ın savunmasının doğru olduğunu varsayarsak, kılıç artığı lafının ne anlama geldiğini bile bilmeyen bir insanın fikirlerini gazetede yayınlamasının nasıl bir mantığı olabilir ki? Bu kadar cahilse, yazan değil okuyan tarafa geçmeli kendisi.
@nuriaslan_tr Finansmanı altı ayda ikinci kez yaptığınız toplu taşıma zammından mı karşılayacaksınız? İstanbul'da özel araç sayısının artması halinde trafikle nasıl başa çıkılacak? Park sorunu ne olacak? Toplu taşıma kar kapısı değil, teşvik edilmesi gereken bir hizmettir.
@haberaktifcom Dar gelirli insanlar geçmedikleri köprünün fiyatını değil, binmek zorunda oldukları otobüsün fiyatını düşünüyorlar. İBB sözcüsü dar gelirli olmadığı için haliyle empati yapamıyor sanırım.
@RusenPress Epstein Chomsky'ye "New York'a mı Karayipler'e mi gelirsiniz?" diyor. Chomsky'nin eşi New York'u seviyormuş ama kendisi Karayipler'i hayal ediyormuş. Maillerin öncesine ve sonrasına bakınca anlaşılıyor. Chomsky'nin bedavacı olması dışında bir sorun yok sanki çünkü eşiyle gidiyor.
@nowhaber@selcukktepeli Bu da meclis içtüzüğünden gelsin: "Başkan veya başkanvekilleri, görevlerinin yerine getirilmesinin gerektirdiği haller dışında tartışmalara katılamazlar; kişisel savunma hakları saklıdır."
@LNallalingham UK owes its wealth to colonisation and plundering of the countries of migrants in the past. In a way, you are paying back a tiny fraction of that plunder.
@maturkce1 Kimliğin sahte olduğu kimlik numarasından belli zaten. 590101 yerine doğum tarihi olan 801224 yapmaları gerekiyordu. Hem sahtekar hem salakmış.