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   ceasefire, the U.S. administration continues to provide arms and   
   political support to Israel. According to a recent report by Brown   
   University’s ‘Costs of War’ project, the U.S. has provided 17.9   
   billion dollars worth of military assistance to Israel since October   
   7, more than in any year since the U.S. began to grant military   
   assistance to Israel. It has also been the year in which Israel has   
   killed more Palestinians than in any other year since Israel’s   
   foundation.   
      
   Palestine at the heart of a new world   
      
   With every school bombed, with every hospital destroyed, with every   
   family expelled from its home, the leaders of the Western world,   
   especially the U.S., have been telling us straight in the face that we   
   are human animals. That our lives aren’t worth anything. That our   
   existence is undesired. However, this has also been a year of   
   Palestinian steadfastness, and of global solidarity with our people.   
   After a year of genocide, 18 years of blockade on Gaza, 56 years of   
   occupation, and 76 years of Nakba and ethnic cleansing, Gaza is not   
   dead. Its social cohesion still stands. The resolve of its people to   
   start life from scratch has proven time and time again, after every   
   Israeli withdrawal from any destroyed neighborhood, to be unbroken. In   
   the West Bank, in Jerusalem, and everywhere else on our land,   
   Palestinians continue to live and recreate life every single day,   
   without having submitted. It has been a year of resilience and   
   perseverance. Something that only humans, on the highest levels of   
   humanity, can do.   
      
   “The country is ours,” my father and his friends replied to that   
   defeated officer in 1967. “We won’t leave.”   
      
   57 years later, as I watched the Nakba renewed on my phone screen and   
   the voice of that officer whispered in my ear, my father’s young voice   
   sounded in my other ear: “We won’t leave.”   
      
   That voice, also coming from the rubble of Gaza and its tent camps has   
   grown over the past year. It has been amplified by the millions of   
   citizens in the streets of all major cities around the world against   
   the deafening silence of their governments. They are all replying to   
   all those who continue to deny our humanity.   
      
   We won’t leave our land, and we won’t leave history because neither   
   history nor geography would make any sense without us.   
      
   We, the “human animals,” gave the world Christianity and with it, the   
   values of compassion, justice, and human fraternity upon which all   
   modern humanist philosophies were built. We are part of the Arab and   
   Muslim civilizations that gave humanity mathematics, chemistry, and   
   modern medicine. We, the “human animals” gave the Western imagination   
   the names of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and continue to give   
   these names, through our resilience, the life that makes them more   
   than mere names in the Western imagination.   
      
   We gave the world most of the traditions that mark most of your   
   holidays, and continue to preserve the origins of these traditions in   
   our everyday culture. We, the “human animals” gave the Arab world its   
   first feminist movement, its first female radio anchor, its first   
   female photographer, and its first women-led rally, and gave Arab and   
   world literature Mai Zyadeh, Mahmoud Darwish, Samira Azzam, Hussein   
   Barghouthi, Ghassan Kanafani, and Edward Said.   
      
   And as the powerful of this world continue to try to erase our   
   existence, they continue to destroy the foundations of the corrupted,   
   inhumane world system that they built, excluding us. And before the   
   new world, more humane and just, is fully born, with Palestine at its   
   heart, they will see their world crumble before their eyes until   
   nothing will be left of it to be sorry for. After all, what is any   
   world worth without Palestine?   
      
   https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/after-a-year-of-extermination-pal   
   stine-is-still-alive/   
      
      
   These good Palestinian men, wome, and children have  earned the right   
   to label themselves as 'Holocaust Survivors' and demand reparations   
   from the Zio-nazis.   
      
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