Deed, dishonest man,
great rare permission,
genocide! day-to-day!
fabric time,
answer question,
self-defense?
or mass slaughter?!
seesaw, fateful day,
genocidal, recital 💔
“Finally, in Washington on Friday, US. President Joe Biden took questions from reporters and said Israel was still deciding how it would respond to a missile attack launched by Iran on Tuesday.
Do you have any worries that Netanyahu may be trying to influence the election, and that's why he has not agreed to a diplomatic solution?
No administration has helped Israel more than I have.
None.
None. None.
And I think Bibi should remember that. And whether he's trying to influence the election, I don't know, but I'm not counting on that.”
Straddling sanity,
insanity..
come, full circle,
they can see,
what we cannot,
sad chord,
aftermath,
hiding lessons,
still to learn,
we can’t be killed!
only shackled! 💔
and one day soon,
we will live..
#PalestineWillBeFree
🎥 One year of Israel’s war on Gaza: Al Jazeera special coverage
Al Jazeera English | Oct 6, 2024
One year of genocide in Gaza: 365 days of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. This has been a war of many firsts, breaking records in scale and brutality.
Decades later,
injustice extends..
Falastin 🇵🇸
🎥 Israel kills 26 in attack on Gaza mosque, school; orders more evacuations
Al Jazeera English | Oct 6, 2024
At least 26 Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded after Israeli forces attacked a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, the strip’s Health Ministry said. “The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation’s targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque reached 26, with several more wounded,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
The ministry said the overall death toll since the war on Gaza began a year ago had reached 41,870, with 97,166 Palestinians injured. In a statement, the Israeli military claimed, without providing evidence, that the mosque and school were being used by the Palestinian group Hamas as “command and control” centres.
Lebanon 🇱🇧
🎥 ‘Most violent night’: Massive Israeli bombardments shake Lebanon’s capital
Al Jazeera English | Oct 6, 2024
Massive explosions have rocked the Lebanese capital, marking the “most violent night” of attacks since Israel expanded its military offensive against Lebanon on September 23. Israeli warplanes carried out more than 30 overnight air raids on southern suburbs of Beirut, with a huge fireball lighting up the night sky and plumes of smoke rising early on Sunday. UN experts have criticised Israel's 'increasing disregard' for international law in its attacks on Lebanon.
At yesterday’s Dallas protest, I heard from a speaker, Nida Abu Baker, an activist and daughter of HLF5 member Shukri Abu Baker.
Was unaware of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) organization (and their painful story) prior to this.. But there is so much about us still, I diligently attempt to learn (and make up for…)
#FreeTheHLF5
🎥 The Holy Land Five - Al Jazeera World
Al Jazeera English | Oct 5, 2016
Soon after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, the largest Muslim charity in the United States - the Holy Land Foundation - was shut down, its assets frozen and five of its senior staff arrested by the FBI.
The charity was founded in California in 1989 and provided aid to a number of Palestinian causes. It also offered help to refugee communities in Jordan, Lebanon and other needy people across the Middle East and the rest of the world.
As the charity grew and revenue increased, claims emerged against the foundation. The 1990s saw groups like the Anti-Defamation League and politicians such as the former Governor of New York City, Eliot Spitzer, and former Congressman Anthony Wiener lobby against the charity. These groups appealed to the Clinton administration to shut the charity down, but failed.
The US government eventually responded to similar accusations, allegedly made by the state of Israel. The claims made were that the charity was a front for an illegal money-laundering operation, diverting funds to Hamas via zakat committees in the Occupied West Bank. Hamas, in turn, had been designated "a terrorist organisation" by the US government.
"It was a huge record that the government created, an administrative record - and it was basically garbage. It was newspaper articles, interviews that were translated from Arabic to Hebrew to English," says Nancy Hollander, one of the lawyers defending Shukri Abu Baker, a founder of the foundation. "And we discovered when we did our own translations that their translations were completely wrong, that the government was relying on information that was completely false. But it didn't matter."
Just shaking my head, feeling so sad.
What a horrible anniversary we're approaching.
Take good care, Najwan.
The beasts still beastin'. The murderous rampage continues - what a disgrace! Interesting piece on the Holy Land Foundation. Wonderful poetry.....