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Guy Montag, E-451's avatar

"We wrap with this image for our Jewish brothers and sisters:"

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How about a prayer for our Gazan brothers and sisters? How about lighting a candle for the late poet & professor Refaat Alareer? (assassinated by the IDF, along with his sister & four children, on Dec 7th).

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/07/tribute-refaat-alareer-teacher-murdered-israel/

Days before his death, Refaat pinned the following poem he wrote to the top of his Twitter/X timeline:

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

In one of his last public interviews, with Electronic Intifada, Refaat vowed that, if necessary, he would die by the same pen by which he lived: “I’m an academic. Probably the toughest thing I have at home is an Expo marker. But if the Israelis invade, if the paratroopers charge at us, going from door to door, to massacre us, I am going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I do.”

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albert venezio's avatar

I suggest Kennedy also does a special prayer for the Palestinian People being Genocided!

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