Hell

On Earth

I imagine by now you’re all well aware and informed that Israel 🇮🇱 barbecued some of us 🇵🇸 last night.

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They were, as always, mostly women and children.

Always just ever, women and children.

Last night’s horror and our prolonged plight, has and continues to be voguishly described as Hell on Earth.

Put that on a fridge magnet why don’t ya…

Words uttered May 20 2021

Gaza Children Living in ‘Hell on Earth’ Secretary-General Tells General Assembly

November 10 2023

Four months ago

Twelve hours ago

In a statement on X, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said the images from Rafah are yet another testament that Gaza is “hell on earth”.

I guess you only ever wished to exterminate us, so mabrook, you’re definitely on your way to that conclusion…

Forced to watch and listen,

True white yankee fascist fashion,

Obtuse, mindless, evil expression,

Reverberate global fiber-rich,

Networks of amused decay..

Netanayhu’s reckless prosecution of Hamas has killed Israeli hostages, aid workers, and innocent Palestinians. And nothing changes. The same tactics by the same leaders will only produce same or worse results.

“Israel has a right to go after Hamas, and we understand this strike killed two senior Hamas terrorists who are responsible for attacks against Israeli civilians,” a National Security Council spokesperson said. “But as we’ve been clear, Israel must take every precaution possible to protect civilians."

The Biden administration is still assessing whether an Israeli strike that killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians at a tent camp in Rafah on Sunday is a violation of President Biden's "red line," two U.S. officials told Axios.

I sincerely hope you noted the non-sequential order and consequence of our dead babies and children. I surely have 💔

And yet each day we force ahead,

Some so valiant in those steps,

Conjured courage from such depths,

Profound, inspiring, but mortal still,

Sami Shehada, God bless you,

And everyone, just like you,

I see the weakness that I am,

Merely cry and type away,

Hope and pray I dent but one,

Cold, uncaring, untaught heart

We live in one world...

Why can’t you see?

We’re more than just neighbors on a globe?

And if you must insist, that they cannot exist,

Then I no longer wish, to play along in script 💔

Al Jazeera | Studio B Unscripted | Art, Violence and Resistance: Raoul Peck and Viet Thanh Nguyen | May 27 2024

In this episode, Peck and Nguyen discuss their political coming of age, what Gaza tells us about the world today, and how they use their work to challenge and unsettle.

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck highlights the roots of violence and inequality today. He is best known for his Oscar-nominated documentary – I Am Not Your Negro about civil rights icon James Baldwin – and racism in the United States, and for his Peabody-winning Exterminate All the Brutes, a sweeping indictment of colonialism and genocide.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and author whose spy novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was recently made into an HBO series. In his fiction and non-fiction books, he investigates his own refugee journey, the politics of memory and the effects of US wars abroad.

And sometimes in my broken sleep,

My mind whispers so vividly,

Sad syllables of melody,

I see the chorus they create,

And if I tire of being tired,

I wake and write them quietly,

And sometimes then I wonder too,

If this is how my story goes,

My end before my life begins,

This broken heart I can’t unbreak..

@30 Days of Ramadan | @nomadsolitude

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