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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never
get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life
around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its
lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and
understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” Arundhati Roy,
The Cost of Living

I am crying and cannot sleep. In its latest massacre in Gaza (one of 3500
massacres that killed minimum 45,000 civilians/20,000 children), "Israel"
murdered Khaled Nabhan, the grandfather whose video of holding his murdered
favorite granddaughter Reem reached millions around the world.Watch:
https://www.facebook.com/kirsty.ummamina/videos/3978353902446876
https://www.facebook.com/kirsty.ummamina/videos/932686848405116/
https://youtu.be/YE6xG8ZIpmQ
[we are not numbers in this ongoing genocide, when will it be stopped?]

People power grows around the world while the <1% empire profiteers are
getting desperate as they watch the dark world they created give way to the
light of knowledge and activism.  Desperation leads the profiteers to try
to create more wars, more suffering, more genocide. But in their inner
core, they know that this is not "winning". They know that there is but two
possible outcomes: a world of justice and equality (including environmental
justice) or an end to civilization via global war and/or climate change.
Israel calls that the Samson option (that means total destruction and
suicide). I explain in my talks that the 21st century colonialists like
Ntanyahu, Biden, Trump, Bolenaro, and Starmer are less successful than the
older crop of colonialists but do have accesss to moe destructive weapons.
There is a general decline in knowledge and sophisticated of colonialists
while there is an increase in number of civilians they are able to hurt.
More civilians in Western Asia (aka the MIddle East) were killed in the
past four decades than in the previous 2000 years. But this is not going to
mean a success for imperialism, colonialism, zionism, racism. It just means
a lot of suffering. I really think that even the profiteers themselves know
this is not a strategy for "winning". History teaches us that millions
killed have tens of millions of relatives and friends who continue the
struggle and do succeed to liberate themselves. Likewise, the 15 million
Palestinians in the world (8.5 million refugees/displaced) look forward
to ending this nightmare and create a pluralistic society instead
of ethnocentric chauvenistic state. Like other oppressed people we also
never forget friends. Joint struggle is proliferating. I saw this in the
streets and in talks I gave of dozens of cities in 7 countries I visited
this year (over 300 talks, university encampments, rallies etc). THANK YOU
to those of you who acted, who helped etc.

AL-HAQ publishes detailed review paper:  'Arguments raised in Amici Curiae
Submissions in the State of Palestine Before the International Criminal
Court: Arrest Warrant Applications August
https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2024/12/08/arguments-raised-in-amici-curiae-submissions-one-page-view-1733669669.pdf

Kairos Chrismas statement (English and Arabic)
https://www.kairospalestine.ps/index.php/resources/statements/a-call-to-our-palestinian-people-for-collective-actions-steadfastness-resilience-and-hope-in-the-face-of-adversity

Photography Palestine: Shepherds’ Field: Beit Sahur and the Palestine
Museum of Natural History
https://ramsey-hanhan.medium.com/shepherds-field-beit-sahur-and-the-palestine-museum-of-natural-history-43e99a7b82ba

 A conference on sustainability held in Italy where I was an online speaker
(starting at minute 43:42)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cd7rDFLk8jce09AdGAxipJxEXIhHniN6/view

Stay Humane and keep hope alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh (on my way home)
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine
http://qumsiyeh.org
http://palestinenature.org
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