Been screaming so long asking for a leader to be in charge of all the groups in the world and come up with real actions instead of just marches. Been suggesting a hunger strike on soc media but we need tens thousands to do so same time wherever we are. This is unbearable to watch. Realise i am nothing, they could not care less. We need to find something that strikes them hardest. Economy but how? My brain is dead. Anything and i would do it. Why are not more people even protesting? Need to do old fashioned way and create independent paper. Have suggested to my group but again nothing. Need to force people who refuse to watch what is happening on soc media to open their eyes
Dear Aya, I totally embrace and relate to your passionate, angry, and heartbroken words. It is impossible to refute the validity of your conclusions. It is a ghastly and tragic state of affairs that we find ourselves in. Truly WW III. There is nothing that I can say because you have said it all - comprehensively and beautifully. Eloquently.
I have published a couple of posts earlier that attempted to express the overwhelming sense of disbelief, outrage, anger, sadness and sense of helplessness and frustration that I am feeling (and that you are feeling) regarding the incomprehensible, bloodthirsty, insane and savage brutality that is being perpetrated by the Israelis and Americans against the Palestinian people and the 'Middle East' in general: [**I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT I AM NOT SEEING!!! Have We Completely Lost Our Sense Of Humanity? -Regarding The Holocaust In Gaza That Has Come Into Our Living Rooms… Substack/Leon Brown, Jr., Jul 09, 2024, and **BIRDS OF A FEATHER.... (And A Poem: "OH, AMERIKKKA!") Substack/Leon Brown, Jr., Sep 21, 2024]. I expressed my sentiments as best as I could at the time, but I could not have done so any better than the truly profound and articulate message that you are sharing here. I don't think I've ever read such an on-point, pertinent and truthful communication on the realities and consequences of this horrific imperial assault on decency and sanity unfolding in these dystopian times. Highly appropriate. Thank you for sharing, Aya!
So much screaming in my head and here they are in your words. Since the weekend the world around me has been a vague whatever; most of the time all I can see are the families lined up in Jabalia.
Every day all there is is Jabalia.
And the memories of a year. And the memories of all this stretching further back. So many "civilian" deaths so often in so many places. Always the broken bodies of little children. Even in the suburbs, the perpetrators of domestic violence - the willing uncles and cousins of the war creepers. The rape cultures so intrinsic and vile that statistics can't cope (Texas and co) The deaths and the gloating and the celebrating and the endless psychotic propoganda. The siege and phosphorous and sniping of children in Fallujah, and the smirking of the leader of the coalition forces there, making sure on national television that everyone knew that he was in charge, a monster confessing. The training of death squads by the usa to commit mass murder across South America. In Lebanon in the late 90s after israel blew up an ambulance (again) that had come to another neighbourhood bombing, I still carry a little girl's comment, "After my Dad came back in from picking up pieces of children, I said I want to go home now." In Gaza, little Muhammed, thinking he was off to hospital (those creatures wouldn't allow it) saying to his Dad, "I'm scared. Will you be coming with me?" Yes, he said, I'll be following soon. Then both of us watching him die. This after this same father brought the biscuit he'd got for his daughter only to find her gone - this love for your daughter getting her one sweet wish amongst the horror - then giving the biscuit to her in her shroud to take with her. Hind's sister calling in to emergency, describing the tank getting closer, screaming as the machine gun fired, and fired. (And everyone still says Hind was the only one alive, as if her sisters life meant nothing. Her voice is burned in my heart and fuck you soundbite storytellers her life meant everything. And Hind, your bravery not forgotten, nor the emergency despatch repeating the Quran, holding her hand with her voice.)
This made me weep. So much pain in your words - the content and the expression. Nearly my whole life from childhood is just the broken body of Arab and African children. Screaming into the void with no-one listening. The difference now is when I scream people listen, but they don't understand what they hear.
We are all on our own personal journeys of awareness. We cannot hurry others along. All we can do is to follow our own hearts with as much courage as we can muster and hope that we can inspire others to do the same.
It is truly heartbreaking but we must not give up hope that things will improve. The absolute least we can do for the oppressed is to never give in to despair - for then we have nothing.
We have not lost no matter how many Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis, or Iranians they slaughter. They have lost and Palestine will be free albeit with a heavy price. The mask is off and the US and Israel are destroyed. They are just an angry caged dying beast in it's last breathes.
I understand 💔. It is predicted only 1 out of 100 will remain alive in this battle between good and evil. I try to focus on the resistance so I do not have a complete mental breakdown.
Yemen's al-Mashat addresses Guterres, condemns UN silence on 'Israel'
Thank you for giving voice to my rage and despair. I truly feel like I am losing my mind watching this unfold from the comfort of my home. We cannot stop trying to end this. Palestine hasn't surrendered. As you write, neither can we. God keep you.
Yes. Unimaginable. And what I cannot get my head round is the support of the Western Governments. They know what is going on. Keir Starmer knows, but he took the coin and now has to do the bidding. The rest of the Western world live in the matrix. When they made that movie all those decades ago the writers saw how the neoliberal machine kept their subjects sedated, with Strictly Come Dancing and Love Island, two jobs and massive mortgages to worry about. Strictly controlled media to repeat the propaganda subtly and consistently. Muslims are all, radicals, Islamists, out to destroy us and our way of life. Those 200 odd drilling licences in the North Sea, hurriedly granted before the last election will lower bills … and not at all destroy our planet. So a few could become even more filthy rich! And the lemmings lap it up. I am angry at the state of the world we live in. The Racket will stop at nothing, not Palestinian children nor ours. They’ll find an excuse.
Fantastic Aya! Everything, everything I feel, you have articulated. I think we lost a long while back but it is just dawning on us. When will we be next? This thing is feeding into my interactions and I am more silent than I usually am around people. My daughter came and sat beside me and asked what was the matter and I told her not to worry that I was fine.
Amen god is w/ them & certainly not in the craven empty perverse western "UNcivilization". I ache for the innocent life robbed by our warpig monsters but " we are not this body & we are not this mind" 🙏❤️🍉☮️bless you
Powerful , passionate writing and sharing of your feelings. Many of which I share, as I do your perceptions that we are already in a World War. The Palestinian’s not through choice are the front line of the resistance, fighting and surviving against the evil empire for us all.
The violence they are contending with is being tested for use against us. For when we resist and do not confirm to their despotic desires.
I heard Pepe Escabar in a talk saying that Gaza was probably a reaction against the meeting of the BRICS this week. It’s the nutters last chance to execute this final solution before the power in the world changes….may it be so and quickly
A couple of weeks ago - when China was meeting Pakistan in Pakistan re: the belt and road initiative aka the new silk road (amongst others) which India and Israel are not a part of, there was a terrorist bomb attack in Karachi which killed a Chinese citizen. Of course, they'll blame it on the Baloch Liberation Army - a group which Pakistan has proven time and time again is financed by India. https://www.dawn.com/news/1590333
It seems the Western imperialists and the madman Modi are really getting the jitters over the shedding of colonialism by the oppressed.
We share, with rage and sadness, this cry of despair in the face of this disastrous episode that marks the unreason, and the shipwreck of morality, of universal conscience, of Western ‘civilization’. Everything is there, spread out in its profound ugliness that is only matched by the immense nausea that takes hold of us. How futile are these protests that, throughout the world, are trying to shake up an established order that is hurling us towards the abyss? How sad it is to note that, after all, we have contributed, in one way or another, to the accession to power of these psychopaths who govern us? The filthy beast, let us be sure, will not surrender so easily, and it will take movements of a completely different magnitude to overcome it! It is, however, in the interest of the people to bring down this citadel of iniquity, unreason and the moral bankruptcy of the so-called 'civilized' world... The choice is, however, simple: We must conquer or die, rather standing than on our knees!
'They are on 4 because they do not understand a horizontal movement does not move...'
One main factor is that many of these societies aren't aware of organizing mass movements and grassroot struggles which helps unite people and targets those responsible, namely the system and their leaders.
Been screaming so long asking for a leader to be in charge of all the groups in the world and come up with real actions instead of just marches. Been suggesting a hunger strike on soc media but we need tens thousands to do so same time wherever we are. This is unbearable to watch. Realise i am nothing, they could not care less. We need to find something that strikes them hardest. Economy but how? My brain is dead. Anything and i would do it. Why are not more people even protesting? Need to do old fashioned way and create independent paper. Have suggested to my group but again nothing. Need to force people who refuse to watch what is happening on soc media to open their eyes
We are on exactly the same wavelength and yes, it is maddening and heartbreaking.
We somehow need to keep on keeping on in solidarity 💔✊🏽🇵🇸 ❤️🕊️,Dx
Dear Aya, I totally embrace and relate to your passionate, angry, and heartbroken words. It is impossible to refute the validity of your conclusions. It is a ghastly and tragic state of affairs that we find ourselves in. Truly WW III. There is nothing that I can say because you have said it all - comprehensively and beautifully. Eloquently.
I have published a couple of posts earlier that attempted to express the overwhelming sense of disbelief, outrage, anger, sadness and sense of helplessness and frustration that I am feeling (and that you are feeling) regarding the incomprehensible, bloodthirsty, insane and savage brutality that is being perpetrated by the Israelis and Americans against the Palestinian people and the 'Middle East' in general: [**I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT I AM NOT SEEING!!! Have We Completely Lost Our Sense Of Humanity? -Regarding The Holocaust In Gaza That Has Come Into Our Living Rooms… Substack/Leon Brown, Jr., Jul 09, 2024, and **BIRDS OF A FEATHER.... (And A Poem: "OH, AMERIKKKA!") Substack/Leon Brown, Jr., Sep 21, 2024]. I expressed my sentiments as best as I could at the time, but I could not have done so any better than the truly profound and articulate message that you are sharing here. I don't think I've ever read such an on-point, pertinent and truthful communication on the realities and consequences of this horrific imperial assault on decency and sanity unfolding in these dystopian times. Highly appropriate. Thank you for sharing, Aya!
So much screaming in my head and here they are in your words. Since the weekend the world around me has been a vague whatever; most of the time all I can see are the families lined up in Jabalia.
Every day all there is is Jabalia.
And the memories of a year. And the memories of all this stretching further back. So many "civilian" deaths so often in so many places. Always the broken bodies of little children. Even in the suburbs, the perpetrators of domestic violence - the willing uncles and cousins of the war creepers. The rape cultures so intrinsic and vile that statistics can't cope (Texas and co) The deaths and the gloating and the celebrating and the endless psychotic propoganda. The siege and phosphorous and sniping of children in Fallujah, and the smirking of the leader of the coalition forces there, making sure on national television that everyone knew that he was in charge, a monster confessing. The training of death squads by the usa to commit mass murder across South America. In Lebanon in the late 90s after israel blew up an ambulance (again) that had come to another neighbourhood bombing, I still carry a little girl's comment, "After my Dad came back in from picking up pieces of children, I said I want to go home now." In Gaza, little Muhammed, thinking he was off to hospital (those creatures wouldn't allow it) saying to his Dad, "I'm scared. Will you be coming with me?" Yes, he said, I'll be following soon. Then both of us watching him die. This after this same father brought the biscuit he'd got for his daughter only to find her gone - this love for your daughter getting her one sweet wish amongst the horror - then giving the biscuit to her in her shroud to take with her. Hind's sister calling in to emergency, describing the tank getting closer, screaming as the machine gun fired, and fired. (And everyone still says Hind was the only one alive, as if her sisters life meant nothing. Her voice is burned in my heart and fuck you soundbite storytellers her life meant everything. And Hind, your bravery not forgotten, nor the emergency despatch repeating the Quran, holding her hand with her voice.)
And every minute of every day Jabalia.
Every minute.
This made me weep. So much pain in your words - the content and the expression. Nearly my whole life from childhood is just the broken body of Arab and African children. Screaming into the void with no-one listening. The difference now is when I scream people listen, but they don't understand what they hear.
Every minute of every day Jabalia. This. My whole heart. This, Peter.
We are all on our own personal journeys of awareness. We cannot hurry others along. All we can do is to follow our own hearts with as much courage as we can muster and hope that we can inspire others to do the same.
It is truly heartbreaking but we must not give up hope that things will improve. The absolute least we can do for the oppressed is to never give in to despair - for then we have nothing.
We have not lost no matter how many Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis, or Iranians they slaughter. They have lost and Palestine will be free albeit with a heavy price. The mask is off and the US and Israel are destroyed. They are just an angry caged dying beast in it's last breathes.
Militarily, the war has not been lost, but in terms of stopping a genocide - that is, the mass slaughter of innocents - we have lost.
I understand 💔. It is predicted only 1 out of 100 will remain alive in this battle between good and evil. I try to focus on the resistance so I do not have a complete mental breakdown.
Yemen's al-Mashat addresses Guterres, condemns UN silence on 'Israel'
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-s-al-mashat-addresses-guterres--condemns-un-silence-on
Thank you for giving voice to my rage and despair. I truly feel like I am losing my mind watching this unfold from the comfort of my home. We cannot stop trying to end this. Palestine hasn't surrendered. As you write, neither can we. God keep you.
Thank you for the words…. I have none left. I weep everyday for these souls and our for own. We are truly lost
Yes. Unimaginable. And what I cannot get my head round is the support of the Western Governments. They know what is going on. Keir Starmer knows, but he took the coin and now has to do the bidding. The rest of the Western world live in the matrix. When they made that movie all those decades ago the writers saw how the neoliberal machine kept their subjects sedated, with Strictly Come Dancing and Love Island, two jobs and massive mortgages to worry about. Strictly controlled media to repeat the propaganda subtly and consistently. Muslims are all, radicals, Islamists, out to destroy us and our way of life. Those 200 odd drilling licences in the North Sea, hurriedly granted before the last election will lower bills … and not at all destroy our planet. So a few could become even more filthy rich! And the lemmings lap it up. I am angry at the state of the world we live in. The Racket will stop at nothing, not Palestinian children nor ours. They’ll find an excuse.
Fantastic Aya! Everything, everything I feel, you have articulated. I think we lost a long while back but it is just dawning on us. When will we be next? This thing is feeding into my interactions and I am more silent than I usually am around people. My daughter came and sat beside me and asked what was the matter and I told her not to worry that I was fine.
Amen god is w/ them & certainly not in the craven empty perverse western "UNcivilization". I ache for the innocent life robbed by our warpig monsters but " we are not this body & we are not this mind" 🙏❤️🍉☮️bless you
Yes. 💯. This was my case for that leader, perhaps not in this election cycle but maybe the next: https://open.substack.com/pub/gracesong/p/letter-to-my-fellow-muslim-voters?r=1lu7ai&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for your article, Grace, it's so powerful
Thank you so much Peter! 😊
Powerful , passionate writing and sharing of your feelings. Many of which I share, as I do your perceptions that we are already in a World War. The Palestinian’s not through choice are the front line of the resistance, fighting and surviving against the evil empire for us all.
The violence they are contending with is being tested for use against us. For when we resist and do not confirm to their despotic desires.
I heard Pepe Escabar in a talk saying that Gaza was probably a reaction against the meeting of the BRICS this week. It’s the nutters last chance to execute this final solution before the power in the world changes….may it be so and quickly
There has been a terror attack in at a Turkish aerospace company just now. Totally coincidentally a few days after meeting with Iran to discuss Gaza. They'll blame it on the Kurds of course, who are supported and financed by the US https://en.mfa.ir/portal/newsview/755236/In-a-meeting-with-Iranian-FM-Turkish-president-underlines-the-need-to-expand-ties-with-Iran
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/8-reasons-why-america-supports-the-syrian-kurds-22290
A couple of weeks ago - when China was meeting Pakistan in Pakistan re: the belt and road initiative aka the new silk road (amongst others) which India and Israel are not a part of, there was a terrorist bomb attack in Karachi which killed a Chinese citizen. Of course, they'll blame it on the Baloch Liberation Army - a group which Pakistan has proven time and time again is financed by India. https://www.dawn.com/news/1590333
It seems the Western imperialists and the madman Modi are really getting the jitters over the shedding of colonialism by the oppressed.
We share, with rage and sadness, this cry of despair in the face of this disastrous episode that marks the unreason, and the shipwreck of morality, of universal conscience, of Western ‘civilization’. Everything is there, spread out in its profound ugliness that is only matched by the immense nausea that takes hold of us. How futile are these protests that, throughout the world, are trying to shake up an established order that is hurling us towards the abyss? How sad it is to note that, after all, we have contributed, in one way or another, to the accession to power of these psychopaths who govern us? The filthy beast, let us be sure, will not surrender so easily, and it will take movements of a completely different magnitude to overcome it! It is, however, in the interest of the people to bring down this citadel of iniquity, unreason and the moral bankruptcy of the so-called 'civilized' world... The choice is, however, simple: We must conquer or die, rather standing than on our knees!
'They are on 4 because they do not understand a horizontal movement does not move...'
One main factor is that many of these societies aren't aware of organizing mass movements and grassroot struggles which helps unite people and targets those responsible, namely the system and their leaders.
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