Palestinian death toll in Gaza passes 38,000 as Israel approves three new illegal settlements and over 5,000 more illegal homes in the occupied West Bank…

1. Not many comments. Let’s concentrate on our country before lecturing others.

2. Has New Zealand joined these sanctions yet?
   Mounting International Sanctions Against Powerful Israeli Settler Group Could Be Earth-shattering
   The Amana organization has ties with all the banks in Israel and with thousands of settlers who live in its homes. An extension of the sanctions imposed by Canada could spell an earthquake in the settlement movement
   https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-06/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/mounting-international-sanctions-against-israeli-settler-group-could-be-earth-shattering/00000190-853d-dc2c-a9fa-e57d20fa0000
   https://archive.is/fwmDp

3. Reading the comments it’s scary that anybody who is of sound mind, and presumably not a psychopath would justify actions leading to 35000 deaths. It appears that this evil is well embedded.

4. BY REFAAT ALAREER

   If I must die,
   you must live
   to tell my story
   to sell my things
   to buy a piece of cloth
   and some 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 farewell
   not even to his flesh
   not even to himself—
   sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
   and thinks for a moment an angel is there
   bringing back love
   If I must die
   let it bring hope
   let it be a tale

   فال بد أن تعيش أنت
   رفعت العرعير
   إذا كان لا بد أن أموت
   فال بد أن تعيش أنت
   لتروي حكايتي
   لتبيع أشيائي
   وتشتري قطعة قماش
   وخيوطا
   (فلتكن بيضاء وبذيل طويل)
   كي يبصر طفل في مكان ما من ّغّزة
   وهو يح ّّدق في السماء
   منتظرًاً أباه الذي رحل فجأة
   دون أن يودع أحدًاً
   وال حتى لحمه
   أو ذاته
   يبصر الطائرة الورقّية
   طائرتي الورقية التي صنعَتها أنت
   تحّلق في الأعالي
   ويظ ّّن للحظة أن هناك مالكًاً
   يعيد الحب
   إذا كان لا بد أن أموت
   فليأ ِِت موتي باألمل
   فليصبح حكاية
   ترجمة سنان أنطون

   Translation by Sinan Antoon

   ….He [Refaat] was assassinated on December 6 by the Israeli army. The only weapon in his Gaza apartment was an EXPO marker. If the Israeli soldiers were to raid his house, he said, he would throw it at them, while crying, “We are helpless.”
   ….I don’t know how Refaat died, whether he was reading a John Donne poem or editing a poem of his own. I don’t know what became of his body after the bombing of his house, whether his glasses got smashed, whether his soft fingers were clinging to a pen or a flower he asked the world community to send to Gaza.

   A Tribute to Refaat Alareer by Mosab Abu Toha January 2, 2024

   https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/palestine-is-a-story-away-a-tribute-to-refaat-alareer/

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     Even the Zionist trolls like Gaby have been stunned to silence. Because of the power of his words, Rafaat Alareer knew the Israelis had to kill him. Like so many others targetted by the IDF Rafaat Alareer’ brother and nephews were also killed in the same blast that struck his home. Four months later Rafaat’s daughter and new born baby were also killed by the Israelis.
     How would trolls like Gaby defend or explain these murders?
     What would they say? What would be their excuse? That Rafaat’s daughter and grandchild weren’t killed because of their relation to him, but were killed as part of the general ongoing extermination?
     I wonder, will we ever hear from Gaby again?
     Or has Rafaat Alareer silenced Gaby with his words for good?

     From Wikipedia the online encyclopedia

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refaat_Alareer

     He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and co-founded the organization We Are Not Numbers, which matched experienced authors with young writers in Gaza, and promoted the power of storytelling as a means of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation.[4]
     On 6 December 2023, Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, along with his brother, sister, and four of his nephews, during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Euro-Med Monitor released a statement saying that Alareer was apparently deliberately targeted, “surgically bombed out of the entire building”, and came after weeks of “death threats that Refaat received online and by phone from Israeli accounts.”[5] On 26 April 2024, his eldest daughter and his newborn grandchild were killed by an Israeli airstrike on their Gaza City home.[6]

     94 professors had been killed in Gaza, and every single one of Gaza’s 12 universities have been systematically leveled to the ground through aerial bombardment, tank fire and in controlled demolitions.

     You tube videos taken by Israelis of their deliberate demolition of Gaza universities goes viral

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLcEt2L4DYc

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFZCV4WGFsc

     https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/un-experts-deeply-concerned-over-scholasticide-gaza

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