I don’t even care anymore. You’re either going to take a genocide happening right in front of you seriously or you’re going to let an entire country of innocent people be killed and in 20 years wonder what happened while you were silent
#that's what fascists always infallibly do in the end. lose. always always lose
not only do i not condemn palestinian resistance in some stupid centrist vague Morality and No One Should Ever Die fit of righteous idiot politics fury i furthermore unconditionally support palestinian resistance. there is nothing i support more in fact right now on earth not a single group of people i want success for more than for the palestinian resistance to israeli occupation & oppression. palestine will be free and the fascist colonial empire will fall like they all always have and always will do ameen
"are you implying you want israel to not exist" im not implying im demanding. pleading with God and everybody. explicitly stating. i dont want any fascist state to exist i dont want any ever settler colonial scar on the face of our beautiful earth to exist i dont want that genocidal left hand extension of a hideous sinister empire to greet another dawn israel is not subtle at all about its child killing and innocents killing palestinian killing it hasnt been subtle about its fascism in seventy and more years and im not subtle about wanting it to end and wanting it to never have a chance to spring back up again
in just sixty days israel has demonstrated every facet of settler colonialism, ethnic supremacy and occupation that makes it incompatible with democracy and human rights. this kind of unmitigated slaughter, this world-sponsored genocide doesn't come from nowhere—the racism, political impunity, billions of dollars in arms, social acceptance and total domination over a blockaded population that is needed to make this possible simply has no place in our world. with every passing moment the archaic, colonial nature of israel grows sharper and more visible to the rest of the world.
we're watching the most incomprehensible form of violence practised against a native population resisting a brutal 75 year occupation by a nuclear superpower. we're seeing the violence of this occupation etched into the face of every palestinian man, woman and child. where do they think that can hide from this? do they really think they can exterminate every palestinian and every person who bore witness to their suffering? this dumb fucking country founded on violence, led by violence, and ruled by violence doesn't realize violence is its own end
i wake up thirsty and i think of palestine. i go to the doctor’s office and i think of palestine. a sign in the corner of the waiting room says ‘this is a place of healing, disruptive behavior will not be tolerated’ and i think of palestine. they probably weren’t thinking of bombs and snipers and mass graves in parking lots. i call my parents and i think of palestine. i drive to the grocery store and i think of palestine. i look at the clear blue sky and i think of palestine. i put the dishes away and i think of palestine. i feed my cat and i think of palestine. i listen to music and i think of palestine. i read poetry and i think of palestine. i text my friends and i think of palestine. i think of palestine and i think of palestine and i think of palestine
Excerpt from Ghassan Kanafani's 1956 short story "Letter from Gaza" (translation by Hilary Kilpatrick, published in Men in the Sun & Other Palestinian Stories)