Letter from Bethlehem: Mazin Qumsiyeh

 Jessie and I were honored with an award last night (World Beyond War). Recording here https://youtu.be/uFATtCze3F4 For other amazing honored awardees last night see https://worldbeyondwar.org/war-abolisher-awards/

But for us as we noted in our talk, it is the extended family who make things happen. In our institute it is the volunteers and staff. The same night (yesterday) Zena and Sara did a brilliant presentation about our collective work. See video at
https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH/posts/pfbid02JxMtgCV3xPqniXw1t3LBDJCusk6LRUrDgLVxvR4bHPbduEJmzA2uXYeC9Xca9La6l

The story of Palestine reaches Taiwan TV thanks to Jessie
Chinese TV AI voiceover https://youtu.be/WRx_8lbKr6c
Original go to minute 44 https://youtu.be/lblTWJ9cHbo

The pogroms continued here in the occupied areas. Just in the past 24 hours, several houses were burnt and four brothers shot in cold blood by rampaging colonial soldiers in Til, Nablus. And when one of fascist racist colonial settlers was killed by a resident defending himself and his land, the settlers aredoubled their pogroms. The genocide also goes on in the Gaza strip. Exanple: 16 Palestinians Killed in one day amid ‘Routine’ Killing of Gaza Children
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/16-palestinians-killed-amid-routine-killing-of-gaza-children/
and see this report on children https://youtu.be/sRvj7e4-zqE
 
These were my thoughts the day after 7 October 2023. Stil valid
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/10/al-aqsa-flood.html
But things did not start in 2023. see
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1565542225171283

I mentioned in previous emails how there is a global awaking to the horrors of the ongoing and in many ways accelerating genocide, ecocide, and ethnic cleansing here in Western Asia over the past few decades. I also cautioned that this global awakening is not happening fast enough or at the rate that is needed to stop the Palsestinian nakba (catastrophe) from becoming a global nakba. 8.5 million of us Palestinians are refugees or displacedand over 500,000 killed. And numbers were compounded by the other wars for Israel (Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq etc) totalling over 7 million needless deaths in the past four decades.  

Palestinian resilience in the midst of a genocide: https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/2078191995273531888

29 July talk on regeneration
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billbaue_r30-bioregional-open-dialogue-13-spotlighting-share-7483562081988976640-bCDa/

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and Why the Israel Lobby Is Trying to Destroy Him https://youtu.be/JaKuo6w9TnA

Do stay Humane by ACTING, and keep hope and Palestine alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home