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"Is it only terrorism if it's a non-state actor?
If someone's sitting inside a room of suits and can press a button and terrorize thousands of people and murder innocent people with no consequences, how is that not terrorism?"
- Omar Suleiman.
(Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam / Lex Fridmann Podcast #411)

"Seeing this real genocide happening in front of your eyes and nothing - just silence?"
- Dr. Ahmed Al Moghrabi, Gaza 18 februar 2024.
(Doctor recalls surviving Israeli raid of Nasser Hospital.)

"I used to come here to say protect my people from war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Now I come to call from protection from genocide."
- Riyad Mansour, 15 desember 2023.

Ja, det har nesten ikke vært til å holde ut.
Det mest grusomme har vært letingen etter bombeangrepet og flere dager med å grave ut de som ble funnet og bekreftet drept i ruinene.
Når dette skjedde så vi også nyhetssendinger der israelske styrker raserte gravplasser, mange av de som nylig ble begravet der ble funnet igjen halveis nedgravd i sand.
Vi har skjermet og skjermer fremdeles datteren vår (min yngste) fra de mest grusomme nyhetssendingene.
Hun har en far (som bodde i Gaza til han fylte 19 år) som i hennes øyne kunne klare å bære all sorg i verden...hun ser nå for første gang en sorg som til og med hennes far nesten ikke kan klare å bære.
Vi er svært takknemlige for de som ble funnet og at de nå er begravet.
Takk for svar.

"We often said at that time if the world knew - if it had witnessed our pain, if it had seen an entire people being killed and uprooted it would have never allowed it to happen, we were so wrong."
- Riyad Mansour, 2023.

"Most zionists don't believe that God exists, but they do believe that he has promised them Palestine."
- Ilan Pappe.

"At a certain point in every Palestinian's life, we realize that the Nakba is far from over. It continues every time Israel revokes Jerusalem residencies, it blares in street signs stripped of Arabic. It punctures us in constant campaigns of dehumanization. If you're not evicted from your home, it's demolished; if you're not imprisoned, you're shot in the street; if you're not shot in the street, there's a drone in your sky in the Gaza Strip; if it's not a bomb, it's exile."
- Mohammed El-Kurd, 2021.

Jeg ønsker å lese en bok av den palestinske forfatteren Mohammed El-Kurd, har søkt på forfatter, boktittel og isbn...men uten treff.
Boken (RIFQA) er ganske ny, den ble utgitt I 2021 og jeg kan se at boken finnes/kan bestilles fra Adlibris, Nordli, Ark og andre kjente bokhandlere.
Er det noen som vet hvorfor noen forfattere/bøker ikke kommer opp her på bokelskere.no?

"Being outside of Palestine, being away from it all, hurts even more because you see your people being killed and starved and brutalized and slaughtered, and you can't do anything about it. And the people around you are justifying that slaughter."
- Omar Suleiman.
(Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam/ Lex Fridman Podcast #411)

"Our Palestinian casualties, are always your footnotes. The daily humiliation of occupation ignored. The aggression by settlers and soldiers alike on holy sites and souls. The annihilation of entire families that follows. The devastation of whatever scraps remain in the open air prison of Gaza. Unsustainable and inhumane. So if you're waking up to a sudden interest in the region and want to know what's been happening, dig a bit deeper than two weeks and try to read beyond the headlines of a media that has been dehumanizing us for decades."
- Omar Suleiman, 9 October 2023.

(Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam/Lex Fridman Podcast#411)
Klarte ikke å laste ned lenken, men her er den hvis du ønsker å se den. Denne samtalen med Omar Suleiman er veldig fin og belyser mye av det ufattelige, grusomme som har skjedd og skjer i Gaza/Vestbredden.

"People in Gaza marched to the wall in what was one of the most inspiring protests or demonstrations that I had ever seen.
Marched to the wall, non-violent protest, and snipers took out their legs."
(30 March 2018)
- Omar Suleiman.
(Omar Suleiman: Palestine,Gaza, Oct 7,Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam/Lex Fridmann Podcast#411)

"You can't bomb Palestine out of our hearts."
- Omar Suleiman.
(Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam / Lex Fridmann Podcast #411)
For de som ønsker å se hele, klarte ikke å laste ned lenke.

"If you have failed to see our humanity, we have not failed to see your hypocrisy."
- Dr. Omar Suleiman, 14 januar 2024.

Vår datter er tospråklig (norsk/arabisk), vi prøver å skjerme henne så godt vi kan for det mest grusomme, de grusomme nyhetssendingene, vi demper lyden og har skjermen på før hun våkner eller etter leggetid.
Vi har valgt å være åpne å fortelle sannheten om de som ble funnet i ruinene, at hennes besteforeldre, 3 tanter og 9 kusiner (barn) ble drept i et bombeangrep.
Hun forstår alt uansett, når pappa snakker med med "amu Saed", som er i Gaza...som kan fortelle hva som har skjedd.
Takk, for svar.

"If I must die
let it bring hope"

If I must die

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my tings
to buy a piece of cloth
and som strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze-
and bid no one farwell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself-
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up
above
and thinks for a moment a angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale

• Refaat Alareer
  November 1, 2023.
  (Refaat Alareer nektet å forlate det nordlige Gaza, han ble drept i et israelsk luftangrep 7/12 - 2023. Det israelske angrepet drepte også hans bror, hans sønn, hans søster og tre av deres barn.)

"We work throughout all this hurt, all of this pain.
What comforts us and make it possible for us is you all, in your protests, in your sit-ins, with your voices."
- Wael Dahdouh, Al-Jazeera Gaza correspondent.
(Dahdouh's wife, two sons, daugther and grandson have all been killed in Israeli airstrikes.)
(Siden 7 oktober har over 100 journalister blitt drept i Gaza.)

"Apartheid is a crime against humanity.
Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the ruels of international law.
It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children."
- Nelson Mandela

"This book is essential for understanding the place of the Palestine Nakba at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the vital role of memory in narratives of truth and reconciliation."

"I used to come here to say protect my people from war crimes and crime against humanity.
Now I come to call for protection from genocide."
- Riyad Mansour.