If I must die …
“I am an academic. Probably the toughest thing I have at home is an Expo marker. But if the Israelis invade, if they charge at us, open door to door to massacre us, I’m going to use that marker, throw it at the Israeli soldiers … we have nothing to lose,”
Palestinian poet, writer, professor and activist Refaat al-Areer said during a livestream on The Electronic Intifada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcY2KlllgPo&t=897s) on the third day of Al-Aqsa Flood.
dear Refaat al-Areer may our skies, our protests, all our days be filled with flocks & flocks of kites, bringing back love, flying high on wings of hope until Palestine is one.
Bernhard at MoA has a tribute up for Rafaat …
lengthy… moving
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/rip-refaat-in-gaza.html
Another human sacrifice that we in the West have offered up to our gods of greed and power. Another human sacrifice to add to the millions we have murdered around the world. Refaart Alareek, it was not your EXPO marker you threw at the enemy, but yourself, rest easy brother,… Read more »
I don’t cry a lot. The poem and archeon have me wet-faced and shaking.