Peace and relief cannot come soon enough for the people of Gaza, but make no mistake, Israel's responsibility for genocide will not disappear with a peace deal or passage of time. There must be accountability.
I wrote this almost 10 years ago. It was always clear to see where the US was heading if you really wanted to face the truth. Most of the "progressives" did not. At the time, I lived in New York. Today I truly don't know if I will ever (be able to) set foot in the US again.
If you read one thing today, make it this essay on being the only Arab at the New Yorker, from David Remnick refusing to call Gaza a genocide to another editor saying he had trouble w a story because “Israeli characters seemed evil, while all the Palestinians were angels”
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Today we mark 30th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide. I wrote this as a warning.
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Israel killed more than 360 children, women and men in Gaza as they slept to derail the trial against Netanyahu for corruption.
Again: Israel killed more than 360 children, women and men in Gaza as they slept to derail the trial against Netanyahu for corruption.
"Uvijek me zabavlja to što se moj rad najviše hvali zbog mašte, dok je istina da ne postoji niti jedan jedini redak u mom djelu koji nije zasnovan na stvarnosti. Problem je u tome što karipska stvarnost podsjeća na najluđu maštu.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paris Review 1981.
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There will be no New Year.
So infinitely infuriating to read and listen to all the Western politicians and journalists "discovering" Assad crimes, death factories, 100000s of killed and missing, chemical attacks, extortion industry, Captagon mills, as if Syrians have not been telling them this for years.
Hvala, Darko. Ja se tako nadam da hoće, jer su sigurno zaslužili, ali dug je put pred njima i težak, daleko od toga da će biti lako.
So, literally in a matter of days Europe went from trying to normalize Assad to get rid of Syrian refugees to begging Syrians to stay to save the economy and the health sector. 👏
Radim, družim se, živim sa Sirijcima već više od sedam godina. U mojoj sirijskoj porodici ima ih iz Halepa, Damaska, Deir Ezora, Idliba, Hame, Kamišlija, a najviše iz Homsa. Neki od njih me zovu Abu Tarik al-Bosnawi. Oni su moji, a ja sam njihov.
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I am not a fucking liberal.
One of the worst questions you could ask now that Bashar al-Assad is gone is "now what".
We don't get to ask that after years of twiddling our thumbs as he wrecked his own country many times over, driving millions of Syrians to death, starvation and misery both at home and while seeking refuge.
But I do have this to say: fuck every smug bastard who cannot allow Syrians at least a day of untainted relief and joy at ridding themselves of the most vicious tyrant my lifetime has known. Fuck you from me and my Syrian sisters and brothers whose hearts today bleed and sing at the same time.
genuine, authentic thirst for freedom. Their only role is as pawns in the great American/Israeli scheme, without any agency or characteristic, idea, desire, vision. Yassin al-Haj Saleh deconstructed this some time ago and I have nothing to add to his wise words. newlinesmag.com/review/choms...
Reactions of most of the so-called progressives, leftists, anti-imperialists, socialists (faux liberals not to mention) to the fall of Assad betrays their idiotic insistence on seeing EVERYTHING through the anti-American and false anti-imperialist lens. In this view Syrians cannot speak or feel...
My ❤️ is with Syrian families anxiously waiting for the news from liberated prisons like Adra and, hopefully soon, Saydnaya, to hear about their loved ones. And with millions preparing to go home. Finally. End to years of suffering, humiliation, discrimination. Syrians are going home.
Syrians in my ❤️
My bro wrote a response to US & Israeli attacks on ICC & international rules based order. Wish some NZ journalists would have a read, in case Luxon & Seymour decide to go down that road of “gaslighting the law” #nzpol #ICC #genocide
I wrote this to debunk the dangerous, gaslighting narrative which argues that Israel’s crimes in Gaza were justifiable as self-defence or reprisals against Hamas’s brutal October 7 attack. Please share far and wide.
We will see if the #ICC can deliver justice for the crimes committed by the political and military leadership of Israel, but today all the governments in the West, which continued to support Netanyahu's genocidal effort, have symbolically been indicted for aiding and abetting it.
Udruženi zločinački poduhvat made by ex DB Srbija dvojac Stanišić i Simatović. Šta znamo, šta ne želimo znati. Šest meseci istraživanja. Da bismo razumeli sadašnjost, potrebno je ne zaboraviti prošlost. “Živimo novu globalnu eru nekažnjivosti za najstrašnije zločine"Refik Hodžić @ledenik.bsky.social
