italian monk subsisting on nothing but communion wafers and holy water dies at 300 years old, body instantly disintegrates into salt. earthly remains fell into the shape of words that confirm his entering heaven at the moment of death. "not worth it" reads the salt, "wish i had sex instead"
ceaselessly bombing hospitals, mosques, churches, men, women, children, residential buildings, evacuation routes, and despite all that the global north propaganda machine of useless media and governments of countries still licking their lips off colonial conquest blood try to convince the rest of us that israel is the victim, that israel is the one to empathise with, that the palestinians are genociding themselves and bombing themselves. utter nonsense and a pretty bold faced request to have of reasonable people who can just look at the facts of the matter and clearly see within seconds how impossibly evil - to its core, since its inception - the former is and how dire it is for the latter.
israel has just bombed al-ahli hospital in gaza, instantly murdering more than 500 people. these were wounded, children, doctors, and people seeking safety and shelter. instant and deliberate murder.
every single zionist is complicit in this genocide. every single israeli politician and soldier has blood on their hands. every single journalist and every single person who spread news about "50 beheaded babies" and "they're raping the women" and "hamas uses human shields" and "global day of jihad" is complicit in this murder, including everyone who stayed silent.
i never, ever, want to hear a peep about palestinian retaliatory action ever again.
i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here
🇵🇸Gaza residents send their messages to the World before Israel would cut off their internet. "We will remain in Gaza. Either we die or we are liberated. We will die standing, we won't kneel in front of our oppressor!"
Whenever I see people try to differentiate what is “Israel” and what is the “Palestinian state” I always have a very awkward feeling - which is why I think a lot of people need to reevaluate how they speak about Palestine and Israel, specifically what they define as occupied Palestine.
My father’s family is from a village in Jaffa (the district), which is now part of what most people define as “mainland Israel” or an “undisputed” part of Israel - like that land was acquired legally or ethically and an unequivocal part of what is Israel vs what is considered (at least to some) Palestine (the West Bank & Gaza).
My father’s family had the choice to flee or die and to this day cannot return home to Jaffa. It leaves me with a strange feeling when people discuss a hypothetical “two state solution” as if that land is inarguably Israel and the West Bank and Gaza is inarguably Palestine - my family is not from the West Bank or Gaza, they’re from Jaffa. Proudly Palestinians from Jaffa - they’re not Israeli and never be Israeli, they predate the modern colonial state of Israel.
When people talk about occupied Palestine, they’re usually referring to the 1967 borders and the increasing settlements in the West Bank, when Palestinians talk about occupied Palestine, we’re talking about all of it - every corner of what people define as “mainland Israel” there is a story of Palestinian dispossession - It includes my family and thousands of others.
Leaving this map here for people to get an idea of how much destruction of Palestinian life and communities happened in what people see as an “undisputed part of Israel” - there is a reason the Palestinian population here plummeted in 1948.