Resounding clarity,
you value prosperity,
polarity, integrity,
barbarity, posterity,
and at one year..
we continue solidarity,
our steadfast identity,
with all due sincerity,
#PalestineWillBeFree
I. News-ish
🔖 ‘Please don’t cry for me’: Gaza family discovers will of child killed in Israeli bombing
The family of 10-year-old Rasha Al-Ar’eer have found her last will written in a note after she and her 11-year-old brother Ahmad were killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza.
“My will if I am martyred … please do not cry for me, because it just hurts to see you in tears. I want my clothes to be given to those in need, and my accessories, bead boxes, allowance, books, notebooks, and toys to be shared with my cousins. Please do not shout at my brother Ahmad. I do hope you honor my will,” she wrote.
The Palestinian foreign ministry said the two siblings had survived an Israeli air strike on their home just three months earlier.
🎥 Inside Western media’s reporting on Gaza | The Listening Post
Al Jazeera English | Oct 5, 2024
When political leaders speak of genocide, they repeat a timeworn mantra: "Never again."
Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, "again" has become reality - mass casualties broadcast almost in real time by its victims.
This film is about an alternative version of that reality - the one told by major Western news organisations - and how it has provided cover for Israel's war on Gaza.
Based on interviews with more than a dozen insiders, it lifts the curtain on the inner workings of agenda-setting outlets like CNN, the BBC and The New York Times.
II. HEAL Palestine
Little Adam, Dallas chapter,
non-profit, pioneer,
HEAL Palestine, founded this year,
Ammo Afif, and Mr. Steve,
21 Gazan, children,
tents pitched, between graves,
“You know what it really means to pray”,
three-fold, aerial assault,
surveillance, quadcopter and F16s,
drone’s white noise, lullaby,
live in darkness,
die, candle lit..
III. Palestinian Youth Movement
Drop of doubt,
drop their tears, humanity,
begin in innocence,
grow experience,
cry reflection,
every cry, of every man,
woman, child,
baby, fetus,
chartered streets,
and planted angels,
may their seeds,
forever grow,
forever flourish 🙏
Side note..
Jill Stein,
joined the show today,
shukran PYM Dallas,
your human leadership
I am tired,
and I am sad,
a genocide mad,
no scouring pad,
ever wipes clean
🎶 Digital Premiere—Quartet for the End of Time | MetLiveArts
The Met | Apr 20, 2021
New York Philharmonic’s principal players Carter Brey and Anthony McGill are joined by pianist Inon Barnatan and former New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert for a nuanced and heart-wrenching performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Inspired by texts from the Book of Revelation, the work was composed during Messiaen’s internment in a German prisoner-of-war camp and was first performed by and for fellow prisoners in 1941. The Met’s Temple of Dendur provides the solemn setting for a work the New Yorker calls “the most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century.”
This Digital Premiere is presented as part of Carnegie Hall’s online festival Voices of Hope. Highlighting musical works created in times of war, repression, and tyranny, the festival is an apt setting for Messiaen’s transcendent composition, created in unimaginable circumstances at one of history’s darkest moments. At our present moment, following a year of pandemic and loss, the composition is testament to the resilience of art and artists.
Two more days and it'll be a year since this chapter began, although Israel's brutality has been going on for decades.
Thanks, Najwan, and take care. I so badly want to see the killing and destruction stopped.
I am also tired and sad, Najwan. But what really tears me up is 10-year-old Rasha Al-Ar’eer's last will found written in a note after she and her 11-year-old brother Ahmad were killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza. “My will if I am martyred … please do not cry for me, because it just hurts to see you in tears. I want my clothes to be given to those in need, and my accessories, bead boxes, allowance, books, notebooks, and toys to be shared with my cousins. Please do not shout at my brother Ahmad. I do hope you honor my will,” she wrote. How can this be, dear Najwan? A will written by a 10-year-old child? An expectation of death at such a young age? Makes me want to scream! Makes me want to cry. This is the work of purveyors of pure evil - pure insane bloodthirsty hatred. The "empire" is the "vampire" - greedy, cold-hearted, grotesque. I'm sorry....I'm babbling, but it's hard to process such ugliness. The nazisraelis must be defeated.