Deprived 28,000 Lives and Still Counting

Aside from this being grossly oversimplified and dishonest framing, it’s useful to point out these glib, chauvinist mercenaries cannot possibly compute non transactional model of human solidarity.

DC and Dearborn 8.56pm / Jerusalem - Gaza Strip - Tel Aviv 3.56am / Berlin 2.56am / London 1.56am [410 hours of war, still continue] BREAKING NEWS live update trilingual [hebrew - arabic - english] click here. As of October 24th, nearly 6,000 [5,926] Palestine in Gaza alone killed [2420 children, 1323 women] by Israel. 105 Palestinian killed in the West Bank. Maybe [in Gaza] 7,500 - 8,000 because still a lot of victims under the rubbles. As of December 23rd, already 28,000 killed by Israel

Palestine grateful for the wonderful group of organizers and activists across the globe who have been coming together, amid ‘cancel culture’ [fired, sidelined, replaced] for everyone who speak up with moral clarity. Also amid gigantic-massive lied by western media about Palestine. Across the globally, people advocating for Palestinian rights are facing a wave of ‘McCarthyite’ backlash targeting their livelihoods and careers. In the last 2 weeks, in US SOIL ONLY, Palestine Legal has responded to over 260 such incidents. Not counting other country.

Aside from this being a grossly oversimplified and dishonest framing, it’s useful to point out these glib, chauvinist mercenaries cannot possibly compute a non transactional model of human solidarity. Liberalism’s ability to dehumanize its targets and justify all sorts of barbaric acts while claiming moral superiority is unrivaled.

Arab America and Muslim America will remember that the President took 5 days to call the family of Wadea al-Fayoume, that Congress held a bipartisan vigil for Israeli civilian deaths, not Palestinians...Are Palestinian lives equal to Israelis in the eyes of US government [also western countries —- except Scotland]?" I truly believe the punishment people are facing for speaking against genocide should radicalize everyone who cares to double down or speak up for the first time. The evil McCarthyism we’re seeing can single people out but is impotent against people standing collectively against genocide.

62% of those killed in Gaza are children and women. 62%, Almost two thirds. Israel has now killed more than four times as many Palestinians as Israelis killed by Hamas, and nearly two times as many *children* as all Israelis of any age killed in the Oct. 7 attacks. Palestine officially reached the highest lethal rate of Palestinians killed per day since NAKBA 1948. One PALESTINIAN child murdered by Israel every 5 minutes.

Some rest in hallways, others under the rubble. Some have names on their wrists to identify them, others had no such luxury. Some succumb to their wounds, all to Western avarice. The health centers have gone dark, but still our people toil in the rubble, saving and healing and praying and carrying. An index finger points skywards. We do not know all of their names, we cannot. But we will try, we will scream them out at the top of our lungs until this American war ends.

In November 1984, around 2 years and 3 months after Reagan STOP BARBARIC by Israel, Reagan won a landslide reelection victory with 59 percent of the popular vote and 525 electoral votes from 49 states. Election 1980, he won or receiving 489 electoral votes. 1984 Means Reagan won another 36 EV [525 - 489]. Imagine if Biden lose 2024.

It’s crucial to share sources of light and voices of hope who point to a path out of this horrible, intolerable conflict. Jewish-Palestinian partnership is more essential than ever. Jewish-Palestinian partnership is essential and possible in order to achieve a future of peace and to end the occupation.

US$100 billion American dollars, American aircraft carriers, American bunker bombers and American white phosphorus—they transfer their military surplus from one coffer to the next, our people’s murder just another column in the global balance of payments. They survey the wreckage and tell the world that they are loved. Joe Biden takes to the airwaves to talk of beacons and democracy, the mouthpiece of capital speaking straight to its mercenaries. For the rest, this is the indispensable conjuncture, a confrontation with the hellfire vision of all that is to come. They will train their algorithms, polish their warheads, clear their throats, unless we show them what world-historical refusal looks like.

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Plestia Alaqad beg to you to speak up to Palestine.

There are seedlings. On Friday morning, a student at a San Francisco high school awoke in her bed. She wrote a note, she called her friends, she asked them to join her in a school walkout to support Palestine. There, she taught them about the Palestinian cause, the struggle which had animated her grandparents and great-grandparents before they were dispossessed to America; and she watched the embers catch, enflaming the spirit of the group. They stormed the hallways, took to the streets, justice never left their lips. They were joined by high schools in Philadelphia, in Queens, and, soon, by thousands of students across dozens of colleges set to take part in the national student walkout tomorrow, October 25. Their demands are unequivocal: a ceasefire, an end to the Zionist siege of Gaza, and an end to their institutions’ complicity. 

In response, the apparatchiks and planners have scrambled. Nothing terrifies them more than the possibility that the commodified pieces of their ideological chess game might stand firm; that they can blast students with millions in defamation league dollars, blanket their classrooms with bankrupt curricula, and drown their teachers in anti-boycott mandates, and still it will not be enough.

Not enough. If anything captures the work of the second week, it is this. More than a quarter of the homes in Gaza have been leveled by the genocidal Zionist regime and its imperial backers. Schools and mosques, hospitals and bakeries—all have been targeted by Zionism’s cowardly acts of collective punishment from the sky. Gaza’s entire health system has collapsed. Their intention is to break a spirit of resistance that cannot be broken; six wars have not been object lesson enough for them. At the time of writing, the Zionists have murdered 2,055 Palestinian children, more children in the last two weeks than in the last twenty-three years combined. 

The immensity of our grief, our fury, is enough to rip the entire world open. This week, the Palestinian and Arab people have risen up in beautiful insurgency: hundreds of thousands in Yemen, in Lebanon, in Iraq, galvanized by images of Tahrir Square aflood once more; of embassies struck by Molotovs. In the occupied lands, Palestinians have confronted the Zionist armies in Tubas and Beit Furik and Qalqilya and Huwara and Kafr Qaddum and Silwan. This all has exacerbated the contradictions in the Zionist entity: desperate and straining, it has doubled its population of Palestinian prisoners, abducting hundreds from their homes and holding day laborers from Gaza hostage in secret prison camps.

6,000 Gazans killed by Israel. Only 13 as HAMAS member

The handmaidens of Western imperialism have followed suit, casting their own global dragnet across institutions of social and political life, attempting to ensnare all who defend and give force to the Palestinian idea. 

The people of Gaza have shown us courage; we must be courageous now too. To the workers of the world and the unions that they lead: refuse to build or transport weapons destined for the Zionist entity. Take actions against complicit companies, end all material and social ties between your institutions and theirs. Organize sit-ins and direct actions, participate in mass protests and neighborhood canvasses, lead strikes and walkouts. When you strike, say why you are striking. Demand a ceasefire, demand an end to the siege and genocidal violence against Palestinians, and an end to Zionism—no more money, no more cover. Join us on November 4, as we come together from every city and town and march on Washington D.C., in a mass show of popular support for the Palestinian people. Most of all, protect the youth, who will lead the way.

What we have witnessed in these two weeks is an illumination of terrain; contingent solidarities have been left in the dust, unable to meet the moment. Instead, principled action has ruled the day, the energy of the young bubbling over and blooming. Hundreds of businesses have gone on strike in Germany, Elbit arms factories have been accosted, unions in South Africa have re-committed to boycott, cultural institutions have divested, tens of thousands have taken Chicago, hundreds of thousands in London. There is no time to be afraid. The cops, the bosses, the administrators, the “men of letters”—all those who have made careers off us, who profit from our dehumanization and perfect victimhood—have unsurprisingly struck a plaintive tone, half-heartedly crying for a return to their own normalcy. They will curse us, fire us, defame us, arrest us, attack our livelihood—but we are much stronger than they are, and we will take care of us. We have the force of a movement, our cause is just and true, and we must fight, not in spite of our resistance, but because of it.

These efforts have shown Palestinians that they are not alone, but it is not enough. And so we end where we must. We will never forget al-Ahli Hospital and all who sought protection there. We will not forget the injured and disabled, the journalists, our men and fighters, and those who have been given new tents to rest their bodies. We will never forget Wadea al-Fayoume, six years old. We will not forget and we will not forgive those who did this, those who have cheered on the dehumanization and murder of Arabs and Muslims. Our vigils cannot contain the pain of this world. But they can transmit a fundamental truth: that their bombs and their lies cannot break those who tend to the flowers. 

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