We were all ignorant of the horrors, I had read about the Nakba, but this could not happen now. Right? But the ongoing carnage with videos and the glee with which israeli soldiers post their SoMe posts the way they dehumanize their victims, its sickening.
Have not slept well since then, crying, cussing and watching this carnage through the nights, and the inaction of the world. Even though people around the globe are upset, but the powers that be have so far failed to stop the genocide. Or to even really try!
So I started writing. Started writing the historical posts as the only thing I could do, taking cultural breaks and some current events inbetween as well ... and it developed into this series, hope that makes the drop in the ocean that will turn back the tide of silence from our leaders around the world! And make the people stand up. The world deserves better leadership!
"I don’t think I will ever go back to being whatever I was before October 7." That's exactly how I feel. Before Oct 7, I didn't even know what Israel was, and I would never have seen myself joining protests against my family's wishes. Now, I can never see myself going back to that ignorance, even as pro-Palestinian advocates are targeted.
I may be powerless to free Palestine, but Palestine has freed me. If that makes any sense.
Before October 7th, I was incensed at the apartheid and self-defeating stupidity of the pzichotics. I was enraged that The Lobby in the US had so much influence over US policy, and that all of that influence was wasted in defeating the best interests of the US and Israel, both.
After October 7th, my disgust and cynicism transformed into a retching horror I had never known I could feel. I am still reeling at the monstrous nightmare surreality of knowing these things are actually happening.
I no longer sympathize in principle with the idea of a Jewish homeland somewhere: Israel cannot survive, should not survive this. The Jews have doomed themselves to wander in diaspora forever. Palestine will be free.
Thank you, Alan. There’s no reason for anyone to tie their entire identity to being Jewish. I don’t identify my personhood by my religion or my ethnic background. I’m a sentient being, a child of Nature or God if you like. People who now identify as Jews can be the same. No diaspora, no antisemitism, no exceptionalism, no persecution. They can join the human race and we can all work for peace.
As long as colonialists gather in faith they will not change for the better. Instead they'll find security in consensus and build walls from that consensus against outsiders who don't share their faiths. Faith is a siren song that leads people to the rocks. For such people the words "Now let's turn to our bibles (or Torahs or Korans)" reinforces words of affirmation pogroms and genocides. As long as we consider these texts as godly and sacred guidebooks instead of tales and mythologies invented by the powerful to build and bind a "flock", the slaughters will continue. Worship if you must but worship alone and in peace.
I was always conscious of these problems - but I always thought the situation was due to benign neglect.
It wasn’t until I started doing research the past year that I realised how this entire situation was actively constructed by Zionist in the US govt structures working undercover, and how much the Europeans colonial group was silently allied with them.
This is why they all keep insisting on acting as if history began on oct 7, 2023. Because if you look closely their actions are all over this. They are they agents who built this house of horrors.
i have changed too. Disgusted by our Governments and realised we have to work harder to make a difference. Also, to Boycott everything especially all products from the United States of IsraHell.
I am from Vancouver,Canada and i want to say the western Media and Gov'ts proved that they got No Shame or Conscience when 2 Israeli Embassy Persons who were killed in Washington DC and one of them, Yaron Leschinsky left Germany and joined the Israeli Army and was proud of it. He also announced that he supports Genocide in Gaza. These are the kind of Savages that western Media and Gov'ts support. These 2 Israeli Embassy People who were killed got what they deserved.
The western Media and Gov'ts spent days talking about the 2 Israeli Savages who were killed and ignored all People killed by Israeli Genocide in Gaza.
The Majority of People in the world supports the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza and Yemen who is helping Palestine more than any other country. That support will continue until Palestine is Freed from Israeli Occupation.
Thank you for giving words to what I too have come to know. That I will never go back to who I was. I didn't know that I was capable of holding so much suffering in my heart. Sometimes I've felt like this has not only been a "war," a genocide, waged on trapped men, women and children - especially on the children - but a relentless war on innocence itself, on the whole world's innocence. But then I read your last paragraph and..."I didn’t know about people who only ever thanked God no matter how much they suffered. I didn’t know such beauty existed." And I know what I feared is not true.
Such beauty, and those tender little olive branches of innocence that keep sprouting in every one of those selfless moments of caring for another while in the midst of unimaginable suffering that you describe, is perhaps the very nature and purpose of life on our sacred Earth. I will never forget that last image of Yahya Sinwar, or the doctor walking towards the tanks, or Mohammed Mohisan's little brother excited to bring him 'breakfast' of beautifully wrapped pieces of paper on a plate with the names of his favorite foods written on them, or the people half starved trying to give their blood for another, and so many others. The forces of death that possess the Zionist Colonialists will never win.
"I didn’t know people who, despite the whole world failing them, kept documenting their own genocide in the belief that their work held meaning and will make a difference." I think their work, their example and their unshakable faith has far more meaning and will make a difference we cannot even begin to fathom. The people of Gaza are our teachers. And I feel such gratitude for all the reporters and witnesses like yourself who have had the courage and heartbreaking fortitude to bring us their messages and images all these weeks and months that in truth feel more like an entire lifetime.
We were all ignorant of the horrors, I had read about the Nakba, but this could not happen now. Right? But the ongoing carnage with videos and the glee with which israeli soldiers post their SoMe posts the way they dehumanize their victims, its sickening.
Have not slept well since then, crying, cussing and watching this carnage through the nights, and the inaction of the world. Even though people around the globe are upset, but the powers that be have so far failed to stop the genocide. Or to even really try!
So I started writing. Started writing the historical posts as the only thing I could do, taking cultural breaks and some current events inbetween as well ... and it developed into this series, hope that makes the drop in the ocean that will turn back the tide of silence from our leaders around the world! And make the people stand up. The world deserves better leadership!
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You write what I feel! Thank you for your words!
"I don’t think I will ever go back to being whatever I was before October 7." That's exactly how I feel. Before Oct 7, I didn't even know what Israel was, and I would never have seen myself joining protests against my family's wishes. Now, I can never see myself going back to that ignorance, even as pro-Palestinian advocates are targeted.
I may be powerless to free Palestine, but Palestine has freed me. If that makes any sense.
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Perfect sense
Thank you.
Before October 7th, I was incensed at the apartheid and self-defeating stupidity of the pzichotics. I was enraged that The Lobby in the US had so much influence over US policy, and that all of that influence was wasted in defeating the best interests of the US and Israel, both.
After October 7th, my disgust and cynicism transformed into a retching horror I had never known I could feel. I am still reeling at the monstrous nightmare surreality of knowing these things are actually happening.
I no longer sympathize in principle with the idea of a Jewish homeland somewhere: Israel cannot survive, should not survive this. The Jews have doomed themselves to wander in diaspora forever. Palestine will be free.
Thank you, Alan. There’s no reason for anyone to tie their entire identity to being Jewish. I don’t identify my personhood by my religion or my ethnic background. I’m a sentient being, a child of Nature or God if you like. People who now identify as Jews can be the same. No diaspora, no antisemitism, no exceptionalism, no persecution. They can join the human race and we can all work for peace.
As long as colonialists gather in faith they will not change for the better. Instead they'll find security in consensus and build walls from that consensus against outsiders who don't share their faiths. Faith is a siren song that leads people to the rocks. For such people the words "Now let's turn to our bibles (or Torahs or Korans)" reinforces words of affirmation pogroms and genocides. As long as we consider these texts as godly and sacred guidebooks instead of tales and mythologies invented by the powerful to build and bind a "flock", the slaughters will continue. Worship if you must but worship alone and in peace.
Thank you for this, I needed to read this. It definitely spoke to me. “I didn’t know such beauty existed”
I was always conscious of these problems - but I always thought the situation was due to benign neglect.
It wasn’t until I started doing research the past year that I realised how this entire situation was actively constructed by Zionist in the US govt structures working undercover, and how much the Europeans colonial group was silently allied with them.
This is why they all keep insisting on acting as if history began on oct 7, 2023. Because if you look closely their actions are all over this. They are they agents who built this house of horrors.
"I didnt know such beauty existed"
Thank you.
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i have changed too. Disgusted by our Governments and realised we have to work harder to make a difference. Also, to Boycott everything especially all products from the United States of IsraHell.
This was written incredibly well, it summed up everything we wanted to say but couldn't. None of us will ever be the same
So many things are new mile posts in the war against tyranny.
Oct 7th,2023 ,
will certainly be remembered as the day the oppressed fought back.
Now that new wars in the Middleeast are beginning, let's hope that the world,
will finally see who the real villans are.
Exposupsosed to the light of day, the Zionists, will always look like shameless murderers.
Witch of course,
that's what they are.
before oct7, I blamed jews
after oct7, I blame jews
I was an Agnostic Christian, previously a Fundamentalist Biblical Christian Zionist in a very small Protestant Sect
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I am from Vancouver,Canada and i want to say the western Media and Gov'ts proved that they got No Shame or Conscience when 2 Israeli Embassy Persons who were killed in Washington DC and one of them, Yaron Leschinsky left Germany and joined the Israeli Army and was proud of it. He also announced that he supports Genocide in Gaza. These are the kind of Savages that western Media and Gov'ts support. These 2 Israeli Embassy People who were killed got what they deserved.
The western Media and Gov'ts spent days talking about the 2 Israeli Savages who were killed and ignored all People killed by Israeli Genocide in Gaza.
The Majority of People in the world supports the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza and Yemen who is helping Palestine more than any other country. That support will continue until Palestine is Freed from Israeli Occupation.
Thank you for giving words to what I too have come to know. That I will never go back to who I was. I didn't know that I was capable of holding so much suffering in my heart. Sometimes I've felt like this has not only been a "war," a genocide, waged on trapped men, women and children - especially on the children - but a relentless war on innocence itself, on the whole world's innocence. But then I read your last paragraph and..."I didn’t know about people who only ever thanked God no matter how much they suffered. I didn’t know such beauty existed." And I know what I feared is not true.
Such beauty, and those tender little olive branches of innocence that keep sprouting in every one of those selfless moments of caring for another while in the midst of unimaginable suffering that you describe, is perhaps the very nature and purpose of life on our sacred Earth. I will never forget that last image of Yahya Sinwar, or the doctor walking towards the tanks, or Mohammed Mohisan's little brother excited to bring him 'breakfast' of beautifully wrapped pieces of paper on a plate with the names of his favorite foods written on them, or the people half starved trying to give their blood for another, and so many others. The forces of death that possess the Zionist Colonialists will never win.
"I didn’t know people who, despite the whole world failing them, kept documenting their own genocide in the belief that their work held meaning and will make a difference." I think their work, their example and their unshakable faith has far more meaning and will make a difference we cannot even begin to fathom. The people of Gaza are our teachers. And I feel such gratitude for all the reporters and witnesses like yourself who have had the courage and heartbreaking fortitude to bring us their messages and images all these weeks and months that in truth feel more like an entire lifetime.