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Make choices that lead you to live a life you want to live. Whats the point in chasing a goal when you don’t get to enjoy what you are investing in.

When will I not be sleepy, ever

Why do we have this tradition of not tolerating people different than us? Then how can we demand respect for ourselves from people who are different from us?

What is the necessity for this melodious speaking when giving religious advice?

‼️ When pro-Israelis say “Palestinians rejected peace offers 8 times”, tell them this: Israel has voted NO on 364 peace settlements w/ Palestine in the UN general assembly since 1947. US has VETOED over 46 peace resolutions w/ Palestine in the UN Security Council since 1948.

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners: - In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited. - Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying. - This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc. - We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes). - The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up. - We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation. - The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us. - Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face. - Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok. - Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies. - They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺. - The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone. - He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year. - In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern: - Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression. - It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year. - Majority of kids get abused and interrogated. - Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate. - Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.” - And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

Saturday is so promising at 8am. At 8:01 you blink and its 11pm with only 2 pages of productivity behind you.

Race against time

Today I talked to Hala (my cousin’s daughter) who’s the only survivor of her family. Hala is 8 years old, she doesn’t talk about what happened and she doesn’t speak with anyone since. I haven’t been able to speak with her since they were killed over a month ago. Hala lost both her parents, her 3 sisters, her grandparents, her two aunts, three uncles and all of her cousins that were in that house. I have thought many times about what I would tell her when I call her for the first time. I haven’t spoken to my remaining family who are still alive for over two weeks until today. Because of the “fake truce” I managed to video call them today as they had internet connection for the first time. Hala was next to my uncle and saw my picture on the phone. I kept asking for her multiple times. She then took the phone and went into a dark room to talk with me alone. I froze. I just kept saying Habibti Hala I miss you so much I love you so much. I couldn’t mention her family, and I genuinely didn’t know what to say to an 8 year old who just lost her whole family. I just talked to her about how I want to visit her soon and how much I miss her and all the toys I bought for her and I asked her if she wants anything in particular and she told me “I just want to see you and come live with you far away.” It broke me so much. I held my tears inside my chest and wondered what on earth did this little girl do to deserve all of this pain. I kept trying to think of things that will excite her but she was very quiet, not the Hala I once knew. Not the happy Hala who gets excited at the most simple things. Not the Hala that laughs with her whole heart, but a new Hala who’s barely able to smile. I told her I’ll take you to the best amusement park and she was shocked and said “oh you have that there?” Her little brain cannot comprehend that life is normal outside her home. All she can picture is destruction, bombs and dead parents and sisters. I wish I can hide this little girl in my heart from this cruel world forever. Hala is one story only, there’s more than 1 million children in Gaza who’ll grow up with so much trauma and unimaginable losses. Our hearts cannot bear all of this pain.

When you tell me to trust the testimonies of Zionist forces, as a Mizrahi Jew, I say pass. Zionism had Israeli Jews dress up as our Iraqi neighbors and friends to massacre us, fellow Jews. Why? So that Mizrahi Jews would flee Iraq and help settle Palestinian homes cleared of Palestinians. middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews…

This is Palestine before the settler colonial occupation of Israel took over via Britain and the US’s aid. What’s worse is that this only occurred not because they wanted to help Jewish people but because they wanted to occupy Palestine via the creation of Israel in order to use it as a military front in the Middle East. Who wants to expand into Syria, Lebanon, Iran and beyond? That’s Israel of course, at the behest of the US. And they’re committing genocide to achieve that. This was never about religion and it certainly isn’t about “Hamas” or “terrorism.” This is clear-cut neocolonial imperialism.

Queen Rania of Jordan was interviewed by @amanpour today, and I have posted the entire interview along with some summary notes. As a student of Jordanian history, I have watched hundreds of interviews with Queen Rania over the last two decades; I have never seen her so frustrated. In this interview, she is deeply critical of Western nations that have remained silent on what is happening in Gaza. She calls Israel an apartheid regime and says there is a hyper fixation on Hamas in the context of what Palestinians have gone through for 70 years. Summary Notes: The world's reaction [to what Israel is doing in Gaza] shocked people in the Middle East and Jordan. There is a glaring double standard. After October 7, the world immediately and unequivocally stood by Israel and condemned the attacks. But we are seeing silence in the world when it comes to Gaza. Countries have stopped expressing concern but always declare support for Israel. Are we being told that killing an entire family at gunpoint (referring to Hamas in Israel) is wrong, but it's okay to shell them to death (referring to Israel bombing Gaza)? There has been so much suffering, and the world is silent. In our world (Arab/Middle East), it's made the Western world complicit. When asked by Christiane how she reacted to the October 7 attacks on Israelis, Queen Rania said, of course, I was shocked; we condemn the killing of any civilian. Why isn't there equal condemnation now [of what's happening in Gaza]? This conflict did not begin on October 7. For many Palestinians, war has never left. This is a 75-year-old story of overwhelming death and displacement under an apartheid regime that occupies the land. It's not about being pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian. Palestinian people have been living too long under oppression. They do not have freedom of movement. There's a hyper-fixation on Hamas. This is a problem that long proceeds Hamas. Asked if she believes that Hamas has brought this war down on Gazans, is Hamas responsible for it? Queen Rania says every country has a right to defend itself, but not through collective punishment or war crimes. Why is when Israel does this, it's self-defense, but when Palestinians do it, it's called terrorism? One is the occupier; one is the occupied. One has a military, the other one doesn't. Why is the Israeli narrative always prioritized? On October 7, the actions were called "savagery barbaric." We are not seeing the atrocities in Palestine described in the same way. She says President Biden mentioned that he saw 40 beheaded babies and retracted that. She criticizes CNN for its coverage, but Christiane pushes back. Queen Rania then expresses frustration that every Arab is asked on television to present their moral credentials, with questions like "Do you condemn Hamas?" I've never seen a Western official say, "Palestinians have a right to defend themselves."

They way people flee in death trains and mass evacuation of half of the Gaza strip. The way trains and cargo out of Germany occupation was raided to find Jews, they bombed the evacuees from north Gaza

The irony that the worst genocide in history is being repeated by the victims of the first. The way Auschwitz prisoners wrote their names in bunkers so their families know they died there, Palestinians are writing their names on their palms so that people cn identify their body

Was Palestine in the early 20th century a thriving trading nation or ‘a land without a people’? Historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story. Watch the film: aje.me/palestine

Rishi Sunak, the current Prime Minister of the country that gave away Palestinian lands without so much as consulting the Palestinian people reassures his support for the oppressors. Hmm shocking

It is not an exaggeration to say the U.S. in enabling genocide right now. The United States cast the one and only vote against the UN Security Council resolution to call for just A PAUSE in fighting to allow for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. That vote vetoed the resolution.

Youtube suddenly deleted 15 years worth of on-the-ground video documentation of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. This is how they systematically erase people's history and replace it with the oppressors viewpoint.

After over 15 years of having a Youtube account, now, while Israel is genociding Palestinians, Youtube has suddenly closed my account completely. This is not coincidental. I had many videos which I took in Gaza, under Israel's bombs in 2009 & 2012...

JUST IN: Palestinian Health Ministry says the Israeli military has 'so far warned 24 hospitals to evacuate in Gaza, including Al-Shifa Hospital'.