If any of you ever feel like what you're doing for Palestine isn't helping anything, I'll tell you right now it's helping me. I know it is fortifying all of us who have been in this fight for years to see so many people willing to speak up. It has never been like this before.
The tide has already turned. The fact that #free palestine will have new posts everyday, that helps me. It helps my mental health knowing that Palestinians are less alone now than ever.
Yesterday I read some verses from the Quran talking about how "the blame" is not with those who wish to help but cannot, but with those who CAN help and do not.
Truly I do not care if all you do for Palestine is post in that #free palestine everyday, that is still more than many people with the means to do even more would do.
We see you. We see you standing in solidarity with us and with Palestinians. We love you. Thank you.
This is an incredibly sad thing to share but I feel like I have to. I’m not a defeatist but I don’t want to downplay the human toll, either.
I’d have to look up some words (it’s not in dialect) or have some help from someone better at this than me to do a better and more direct translation, but the gist of what Motaz is saying is that the pause has ended and it’s about survival now. He’s been transferred(? Moved around?) through all of it and he swears he’s done what he could in service of his country. He lives now in a new period of internal siege; there’s no escape from any direction. He is surrounded by Israeli tanks in central Gaza in a tragedy beyond imagination. He wants us to remember that Palestinians are not content to be consumed, they’re a people being murdered and a cause to protect from erasure…he ends with an expression of loneliness and abandonment and that’s why I can’t not share this. Those of us who are physically safe need to stay steadfast and keep pushing.
i know i have been quiet on here but i’ve been keeping myself informed about Palestine. it’s so hard to watch what’s happening bc as someone from the US, im not used to seeing this kind of violence.
it’s privilege to even say that bc Palestinians have been living through it for so, so long. long enough for it to escalate into a full blown genocide. and the fact that people and countries that have to resources to help are just watching and/or supporting israel is horrible and so upsetting.
i stand with Palestine and i will do what i can to support and i hope others will too.
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