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butchscientist
“They call us now, before they drop the bombs. The phone rings and someone who knows my first name calls and says in perfect Arabic “This is David.” And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass-shattering symphonies still smashing around in my head I think, Do I know any Davids in Gaza? They call us now to say Run. You have 58 seconds from the end of this message. Your house is next. They think of it as some kind of war-time courtesy. It doesn’t matter that there is nowhere to run to. It means nothing that the borders are closed and your papers are worthless and mark you only for a life sentence in this prison by the sea and the alleyways are narrow and there are more human lives packed one against the other more than any other place on earth Just run. We aren’t trying to kill you. It doesn’t matter that you can’t call us back to tell us the people we claim to want aren’t in your house that there’s no one here except you and your children who were cheering for Argentina sharing the last loaf of bread for this week counting candles left in case the power goes out. It doesn’t matter that you have children. You live in the wrong place and now is your chance to run to nowhere. It doesn’t matter that 58 seconds isn’t long enough to find your wedding album or your son’s favorite blanket or your daughter’s almost completed college application or your shoes or to gather everyone in the house. It doesn’t matter what you had planned. It doesn’t matter who you are. Prove you’re human. Prove you stand on two legs. Run.”

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Running Orders                                            

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143255/running-orders

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notallmensheviks

btw international humanitarian law not only mandates the use of such warnings (israelis love to say “we don’t have to do this look at how moral we are!) but mandates that they be “effective” which has a definite temporal component. unfortunately, IHL is always incredibly vague with loopholes you could drive a truck through so there’s no actual criteria you could use to say roof knocking violates IHL but it’s hard to claim that the timelines used in these bombings constitute an effective warning.

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pissvortex

i promise you everyone in the world will remember that “America’s most progressive president” explicitly aided and abetted genocide for as long as they live including anyone who you morons are going to try to harass into voting blue no matter who next year

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serethespider

absolutely furious at the response of the internet at large to what's happening in palestine. everyone on this fucking website is all for violent revolution until it's palestinians doing it.

i don't have many words right now but i'm taking this opportunity to spread awareness of the general situation and hopefully push back against the tide a little. here are some resources provided by the wonderful people over at @bfpnola.

Free Palestine Study Guide for Beginners

Decolonize Palestine

Palestine 101 Carrd

Israeli Apartheid for Beginners

Evangelicals are the Primary Supporters of Israel in the US