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Hundreds of Palestinians were murdered by Israel during the three days of Eid.

Would you remain silent if Jews were killed on Hanukkah or Christians on Christmas?

That's right. Your racism is loud. Your selective humanity glazing in the sun.

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mosaic on a former carpet factory (1978) by s. lewkowicz kowary, poland

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the earth didn’t have to give us meadows of poppies, but she did!!

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— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

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Source: haya.orouq on TikTok

Haya's Story

Since the genocide began, 18 year old Haya Orouq (pictured on the right) has been working ceaselessly to get her family evacuated to safety.

Her mother, Amal (left), has lupus and is a kidney failure patient. The hospital she got her treatments at was just bombed and she no longer has access to the life saving medicine she needs.

Her younger sister, Lama (pictured with her mother Amal above), just turned 11 during the genocide. She is so young and has lost everything -- her safety, her school, her friends, and her home. Now she could lose her mother as well. 💔

Her father, Saleh (pictured with Haya above) and older brother Ehab, who is only 21, lost everything as well. They have been forced to move from place to place since their home was destroyed, and have had many close calls and terrifying sleepless nights with the sound of bombing all around them.

Follow Haya here on Tumblr @haya-orouq19 to learn more about her family's story. It is up to us to lift Palestinian voices and stories so that these atrocities and these lovely, brave, kind people are never forgotten or abandoned in the horrors committed against them. Free Palestine from the river to the sea, now and always! ♥️🖤💚🤍

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— Surah Rahman [55:60]

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#and also #“are you free?”

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“My Lord, put my heart at ease for me,

And ease my task for me.”

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Every mainstream media outlet imaginable wants you to know that Israel has just re-opened the Erez border, thereby allowing aid through it for the first time since October 7. The White House released a statement saying that it’s delighted to hear this news. It’s a great improvement from previous arrangements, reports state.

What they fail to mention is that now 30% of all Palestinian children under 2 in Gaza are malnourished, that the death toll has surpassed 33k, and that the US—the same superpower that’s telling Israel to protect the civilians—has signed off billions in weapons to Israel not even a month ago.

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The music over the ruins of Aleppo, Syria, 2017 - by Joseph Eid (1976), Lebanese

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Selective outrage!

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Please, please constantly challenge and reject the narrative that any region is naturally more prone to war than any other, like that's a characteristic inherent to its make-up, like that's geographically assigned risk the same way an area can be earthquake-prone or hurricane-prone.

There has never been a utopia on Earth and nowhere is entirely free of conflict, but this disastrous scale of violence inflicted upon the SWANA region is a deliberate and calculated effort of destabilization by Western powers who want to bleed the region dry. It's not an immutable part of the contour of the land that its people must adapt to and live with. It can be stopped and should be stopped. These people were once free and can be freed again.

Every time you see someone hand-waving a crisis at this scale as "conflict in the Middle East" it is an abominable tool to dehumanize Arabs to the point where nobody bats an eye at the death of their children.

Examine what that phrase means. What is a "conflict in the Middle East"? What happens in Yemen isn't what happens in Morocco isn't what happens in Palestine isn't what happens in Iraq, but this catch-all term is meant to translate in your mind into "problems are happening where problems are always happening", because of course they are! Conflict in the Middle East? What else is new, clouds in the sky? Fish in the sea? It lulls you into apathy; Arabs are dying - but that's what they do, don't they?

And so three goals of the perpetrators of this violence are achieved. First, they wash their hands from it; they didn't set the place on fire, it was already like this when they got there! Second, does it even matter whose fault it is? Who cares about a dead brown child anyway? Who's counting the death toll? Third, since this is an unchangeable quality of their region, and has nothing to do with the West, why protest it? Why fight for them? Why demand anything out of Western leaders?

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From Ghassan Abu Sitta, April 1, 2024. The massacres of Al Shifa Hospital and the IOF's 14 days siege of it.