"I wish children didn't die. I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends. Then they would return home safe, and when their parents would ask them “Where were you?” They would say “We were “playing in the clouds”
In Palestine, Iran and elsewhere, why do they bomb schools? Why do they kill children? What is their problem with those small beings? None of them can hold a weapon and none of them killed, so why are they killed?
Many of them don't even know what or where Israel, US or Europe are. All they care about is a toy, a hot meal, a small piece of sweet.
Ghassan Kanafani, who wrote those quoted expressive words, was a Palestinian author and militant. He was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The founder of this Marxist movement was George Habash, who was a Christian Palestinian. I'm mentioning the religion to emphasize that the conflict in Palestine is not between Muslims and Jews. It is a conflict of colonized people looking for their independence from a colonizer, an apartheid state and a brutal ideology like Zionism.
Palestine is for Muslims, Christians and Jews, and for those who don't believe in God but believe in humanity, peace and liberation. It was so and it will be, no matter how long we have to wait to witness a Free Palestine.
What is happening in Palestine is about all of us. I'd like to add a part of Yara Hawari's speech, a writer and analyst, at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group that explains why Palestine is about all of us.
"President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said that what we are witnessing in Gaza is a rehearsal for the future. That future is already here.
We saw it in the brazen violation of Venezuela's sovereignty- the illegal capture and kidnapping of a sitting president. We see it in the renewed sanctions designed to starve the people of Cuba into submission. We see it with the US and Israel’s war on Iran. We see it in the AI companies implicated in the genocide in Gaza, now deployed by ICE paramilitaries on the streets of American cities...
Because that is what we must understand. The architecture being tested on Palestinians does not stay in Palestine. It travels. It is exported. It becomes precedent."...
Now more than ever it is clear that freeing Palestine means freeing the world. There is no more waiting. Because we cannot live in a world where regimes are permitted to evaporate human beings. Not ever again.
If you don't understand why she said "evaporate", specifically. Here's some information that you might not have read before..
Last month, I read a headline that didn’t sound real. It said that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza had been evaporated. Not displaced. Not injured. Not killed. Evaporated.
It turns out that the Israeli regime used US supplied thermobaric weapons that don’t just explode. They inhale. They suck the oxygen out of a space and then they ignite it. This produces a fireball which reaches up to 3000 degrees celsius. In that kind of heat, concrete cracks, steel bends. And human bodies inevitably, horrifyingly, evaporate. This is not science fiction. This is real and it is now and it is Gaza... Gaza has endured roughly six times the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, concentrated on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima.
Amnesty International published a report on the bombing of civilian infrastructure in Iran. Apparently, the US had outdated intelligence. They were reportedly unaware that certain government buildings had been converted for civilian uses. According to the report, the US broke protocol by not verifying the information. However, if they were aware of the changes, then they committed war crimes. I think it was intentional. They already did it in Vietnam. Israel and Russia are doing the same. Hitler did it in Britain. The goal is to wear the people out.
This spoke to me. I am guilty of ignoring these things at home in England, and I did not expect to encounter this information logging onto Journaly today. Thank you for doing your part, and interrupting my naivety.
Thanks for reading and commenting, @Simone-!
I'm glad that my post spoke to you, @bakerboy001!