andrumedus:

“She weeps, you fool, because she’s lived, because she still is living. But what makes her grieve the most, what really brings her to her knees, is that tomorrow she must be alive still, and the next day, and the next—like us.”

— Charles Baudelaire, tr. Aaron Poochigian, The Flowers of Evil, from “Spleen and the Ideal”; “The Mask”

I love that olive oil kinda sounds like I love oil

diaspora:

Whether we protest peacefully or violently,

Israel will still: 

  • Respond to us with violence
  • Kill Palestinians
  • Maintain its illegal Military Occupation
  • Deny us from our basic human rights
  • Deny us from access to unlimited water
  • Deny Palestinian farmers from getting to their land
  • Place Gaza under siege
  • Deny us from developing our own renewable resources
  • Cut down olive trees
  • Steal Palestinian land
  • Build more illegal settlements 
  • Shoot at Palestinian fishermen
  • Deny work permits
  • Deny building permits
  • Impose travel restrictions
  • Impose curfews
  • Bulldoze Palestinian farms
  • Bulldoze Palestinian homes
  • Imprison Palestinians without charge
  • Stop Palestinians at checkpoints
  • Strangle our economy
  • And so on
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