Eternal

Disgrace

A massacre here, a massacre there,

eternal disgrace, United States

1948 objective: ethnic cleansing

2024 objective: ethnic cleansing

Moving target, rolling annexation,

racist case, Greater Israel,

devil peddles, anything-pretext

Unethical, illegal, immoral,

meddle-settle, colonial construct,

war of victors, election loser

President-elect Donald Trump wants to secure a ceasefire and captives deal in Gaza before he takes office, according to US Senator Lindsey Graham.

Graham, who was in Israel this week, told US-based media outlet Axios that Trump was “more determined than ever to release the hostages and supports a ceasefire that includes a hostage deal”.

“He wants to see it happening now,” Graham said. “I want people in Israel and in the region to know that Trump is focused on the hostages issue. He wants the killing to stop and the fighting to end.”

Not first or last time,

you call us terrorist 💔

City-turned-graveyard,

four-hundred twenty-one days

🎥 Rashid Khalidi: This genocide 'worse than any phase of Palestinian history' | UpFront

Al Jazeera English | Nov 30, 2024

From the 1948 Nakba to the genocide unfolding in Gaza today, Israel has a long history of violence against the Palestinian people. As images of death and destruction continue to pour out of Gaza, the question arises: Has the world finally opened its eyes to the plight of the Palestinian people? And what is the historical significance of this moment for Palestine and for the broader Middle East?

We want peace, we want life,

The chief of the World Health Organization says 90 percent of people in the coastal enclave are now living in tents, leaving them “vulnerable to respiratory and other diseases, food insecurity and malnutrition as winter approaches”.

“The ultimate solution to this suffering is not aid but peace,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Filled with rubbish and raw sewage,

we want you out our damn region

You lying stealing resettling piece of..

Nine Palestinians, including one child, have been killed by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank over the last week, seven of them during a 48-hour period in Jenin, the UN reports.

Another 37 Palestinians were injured, including 12 children, after Israeli forces carried out a series of raid operations, according to the latest report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the situation in the West Bank.

OCHA said severe human rights violations against Palestinians are increasing in frequency. While settler attacks on Palestinians – that resulted in casualties or property damage – “at least tripled during the 2024 olive harvest season compared to each of the preceding three years”.

Money hose, pumping machine,

sweet spot, sanding gears,

grinding down, delicious count

🎥 War on women: Sexual violence in Sudan | The Stream

Al Jazeera English | Nov 26, 2024

Sexual violence, especially rape, is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Many women are facing displacement along with the horrors of gender-based violence. We hear from survivors, humanitarian workers and activists shedding light on the resilience and survival of Sudanese women during this humanitarian crisis.

Brain drain, capital rain,

dictators come and go,

these words will live forever

In April 2019, the Paris-based filmmaker Hind Meddeb travelled to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, at a jubilant moment in the country’s history. The long-time dictator Omar Al-Bashir had recently been overthrown after a 30-year regime marked by genocidal violence in Darfur. Meddeb began filming with young activists rallying for a citizen’s government by staging sit-ins, making music, reciting poetry, and painting murals. Their hopes are expressed in signs that read “Sudan free from tribalism” and “religious pluralism.”

For Meddeb, who has family roots in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria, the movement brings to mind the aspirations of her late father: “the dream of an Arab country with its customs shaken up by a feminist revolution.” She captures demonstrations going late into the night with a celebratory atmosphere. The activists are defiant against backlash. “Bullets don’t kill,” says one young man. “What kills is people’s silence.”

Never again, never forget,

and honest to Allah,

I don’t know how to forgive

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