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it’s both comforting and heartbreaking that over time you will slowly forget the little details of someone you once loved so deeply until their memory is just a hazy blur like a dream you once had and can’t quite remember anymore
Snapshot at Biarritz, Joaquín Sorolla
"... a stark reminder that genocide is about more than just the premeditated mass extinguishing o human life; it's also about the calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people's culture, language, history, and shared sites of community." [source: Gabrielle Bates on X, formerly known as Twitter. 11/27/23.]
Original post they are responding to on Literary Hub: "Gaza's main public library has been destroyed."
what you don’t get is science exists because people can love. medicine exists because people love each other enough to want each other to live long healthy lives. astronomy exists because someone loved the stars and the planets enough to track them through their ever changing position in the darkest night. science exists because humans are curious little creatures and we want to know the world around us and understand it like it does us. we know stars and planets worlds away, we’ve sent cameras worlds away, all because we love the universe, and we also put love in those satellites!! we sent the sound of a 100 languages, lovely messages, the sound of rain and a laugh, all out there just in case there’s someone in the universe looking for us like we do them, and so that they know that they were never alone, and we sent them the most simple loving things we could find.
science exists because people can love
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Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010)
I think this is a good opportunity to educate people on the history of Palestine, the Nakba, and how it happened to show why what's happening today has been happening for the last century. Here's a documentary series that uses archival footage, official documentation, Israeli and Arab historian accounts, and personal accounts from Palestinian refugees to tell the story of the colonization of Palestine. Remember to click the Read More in the link to look at the episodes.
Even if you don't plan on watching it, I would still appreciate if you could share this so access to this knowledge is more widespread.
This was one of the tags on the post by someone who reblogged it.
Thank you for sharing more ressources, and the website is very good but it genuinely cannot replace this documentary series I recommended. A point by point website cannot replace newly-discovered archival footage, primary source documents, and the accounts of the refugees themselves as they lived the colonization of Palestine, along with an explanation of the plans of the British, the settlers, and all the tactics and dynamics that occured in chronological order.
Understanding the chain of events and the cause-and-effect relations between them is essential. Keep that in mind when choosing the sources you use to learn more about Palestinian history. It is best to use multiple sources instead of trying to replace one with another. Thank you.
Old, but reblogging this again. Many people are still only discovering our history and colonization now.
