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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

@HHamayel2

3 months

To the students flying the Palestinian flag everywhere: In the 1980s, while attempting to raise the Palestinian flag under direct Israeli military control, Mousa Hanafi, a student at Birzeit University who hails Gaza, suffered a fatal bullet from an Israeli sniper.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

The raising of the Palestinian flag has always been, and will continue to be in the future, a transgressive act; it terrifies those who think of Palestine and Palestinians as a people destined for elimination.; "How dare they enunciate their existence?

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Students were worried that Israel would take away his corpse. To smuggle his corpse without detection, the students placed a cap and glasses on him and positioned him in a sitting position in a car, claiming he was blind. The body ultimately reached his final resting place.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

After he was shot and killed, other students hid his corpse while Israeli soldiers searched for his remains. They smuggled his body from Birzeit in the West Bank to Rafah in Gaza.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

To see the Palestinian flag raised at every university encampment, to see your hands held together, rubbing shoulder to shoulder, to see the attempt to oppress and smear your voices only attests to resonance of a flag that has become a symbol of liberation for all.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

When Mousa was killed, a song was written that speaks to his martyrdom: Stand in rows, rows, and rub your hands together, his mother has come. Oh precious, oh adorned one, oh teardrop, oh delight, our groom (The martyr) is scattered, where to? Our groom has closed his eyes.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Our flag, like Moussa's body smuggled through checkpoints, reminds us that power cannot see everything; it is almost certainly weak. Despite all the tears and the bitter shattering of our bodies, Palestine lifts you and rises with you.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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7 months

Palestinians have historically been accused of being emotional when they speak. Many used to say that Palestinians sounded hysterical and angry. These accusations were meant to suggest that Palestinians lacked rational arguments and therefore resorted to an emotional tone.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

Thread: Israel's insistence on showing naked men in performed scenes of surrender, mostly civilians (I highly doubt many are fighters, if any), is meant to reaffirm its own power and to tell its allies that it is accumulating some semblance of success.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

here is the song:

Moneim Adwan - وقّفوا صفوف صفوفي منعم عدوان

الكلمات للفنّان: ابراهيم المزيّنغناء الرائع: عبد المنعم عدوانتعود هذه الأغنية ليوم استشهاد الطالب في جامعة بيرزيت ( موسى حنفي ) من غزة، في الثمانينات تقريبا،...

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

@HHamayel2

7 months

I am not sure that German and European collective guilt blinds it from seeing what is happening in Palestine. In fact, I think the opposite is true. European subjectivity takes delight in seeing its historical victims becoming oppressors.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

When Ibrahim Al-Ra'ii, a Palestinian prisoner, was killed by his Israeli interrogators, a quote about his experience during interrogations and prisons became a staple in the narrative of Palestinian sumud (steadfastness) in prisons. One story reads: Ibrahim (to the Shabak

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

In any conversation with recently released prisoners from the West Bank, the conversation inevitably drifts to the horrific conditions that Israel has imposed on Palestinian prisoners. The deprivation of food and medicine, the routine beatings, the isolation of individual

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

UNRWA: A widely held Zionist trope thinks that what sustained the demand and desire for Palestinian return after their ethnic cleansing in 1948 was UNRWA. It thinks Palestinians are only wedded to Palestine through a UN mechanism and institute.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Today, ambassadors from various European countries convened in the 'Palestinian Museum,' located near Birzeit University. They wish for Palestine to become merely a museum—a silent archive commemorating the triumph of yet another European colonization project. A place for

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Currently, Israel and its allies are preparing the ground to blame Palestinians for any failures in "ceasefire negotiations." It is important to note that through years of negotiating with Israel, Palestinians have grown accustomed to some of Israel's tactics: 1. Extol any

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

Let's just be clear, with or without UNRWA, Palestinians will demand return and attempt to actualize it even if it takes 2000 years.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

The massacre that accompanied the operation is part and parcel of its design. It was not enough to conduct a special operation, the military machine also had to kill en mass. In the hope of shocking Palestinian society through both a tactical victory and one of the primary and

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

There has always been a colonial left that acknowledges the humanity of the colonized, only to then condemn it, all in the same breath. It exalts the human and degrades the colonized subject. This left says: Yes, you're human, but nonetheless contemptible. How dare you resist?

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

In the second intifada, I was a young teenager riding my small bike during curfew hours with fellow children and teenagers in the neighborhood. The streets, normally bustling with life, lay eerily silent under the oppressive weight of enforced stillness. The curfews during this

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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4 months

Today is the end of the fast, and the beginning of Eid. A time that has been traditionally started by visiting the dead early in the morning. As Palestinian Muslims in Gaza, and the rest of Palestine mark the Eid, we are reminded that our struggle is first and foremost a struggle

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Palestinian agreed to a ceasefire that would lead to the release of Israeli captives and end the war. Israel responded by launching what looks like an operation in Rafah. But we are told that Israel is fighting to get its captives out of Gaza (sure!).

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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7 months

What propels Israel to kill journalists? Many will claim that Israel does not want to the truth to come out, the truth of its ongoing slaughter in Gaza. Journalists are mediator, that show, exhibit and provide the information, the data of the slaughter. they are

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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27 days

Israel released the Director of Al-Shifa Hospital, sparking outrage among the so-called center and left in the country. They condemn the extremist right-wing government for releasing a doctor, and are really angry and outraged on how they dare to release someone who should not

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

"Tel Aviv, Ya Habibi, Tel Aviv" — a chant Zionists raise proudly amidst their protests on American campuses. But the appropriation of Arabic does not obscure the deeper wounds: Tel Aviv rose upon the ruins of dozens of Palestinian villages, at the cost of the ancient,

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

@HHamayel2

7 months

The difference between the 1970s, '80s, and '90s was that Palestinians became emotional because they held the truth, yet no one was willing to listen. Today, Israelis are 'losing it' because the truth has arrived, and it fails to arouse shame.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

In many ways what is truly naked is Israel itself and its own fragility and vulnerability, the void that can't be easily filled. Although it meant as a display of power, it actually shows the persistence of the lack of power.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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5 months

Nothing can encapsulate better the current moment than the heroic and tragic act of Aaron Bushnell:

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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4 months

Palestine has lost tens of thousands of its people in this war. Many remain unburied, and the killing machine goes on without rest. May it be the last Eid we live in a world that is not ours.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Trivializing the young has perennially been a tactic through which power mobilizes reactionary forces against emergent movements, particularly those driven by students. The narrative recurrently paints the young as immature, naive, inexperienced, and deficient. I recall,

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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7 months

Recently, Israeli spokespersons, and supporters have been speaking either through anger, emotionally or by expressing their genocidal desires. Yesterday, Mustafa Barghouti remained calm when faced with what can be clearly described as a vehemently pro-Israel journalist.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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1 month

A dominant narrative perpetuated by mainstream analysts and media is the portrayal of Palestinian leaders as indifferent to the suffering of their people. This trope asserts that figures like Sinwar disregard the tens of thousands of Palestinian lives lost, painting them as

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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7 months

It's not surprising, therefore, to see outright racism, genocidal expressions, and orientalist tropes. I don’t know Julia, the journalist who screamed at Mr. Barghouti, but she should meet some Palestinian women; they would surely teach her a lesson.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

The echo of past wars is central here. Arab troops kneeling in the presence of Israeli power is reenacted for the Israeli gaze. It tell us more about the crack in Israel’s psychology, which was fractured throughout this war, leading it to the domain of lousy propaganda.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

Rendering men naked and on display is the ultimate form of 'shaming': they are defenseless, disarmed, and kept alive only by the grace of Israel's military machine. It is a primordial showcasing of power, as the exhibition of manhood thrillingly fills the void in Israel's power

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

@HHamayel2

8 months

A side note: Israeli propaganda says this is measure meant to uncover any "explosive belts". Such measure does not need the maintenance of nudity, nor does it demand being videotaped.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

Also its meant to symbolically erase the Palestinian issue from the registry of the UN. Zionist logic: "No UNRWA, No Refugees, No Return". This coming from a political movement that claims a mythic return after 2000 years of exile.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

During years of student activism at Birzeit University, and despite repeated strikes by students that led to the university being closed for months—including what could be seen as excessive actions on the part of the students—the police were never called to evict the students.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

I read a heavy dose of articles that attempt to rationalize Israel's war in Gaza or discuss the necessity of war, urging us to move beyond outrage and accept the basic paradigm that "War is Hell." The most recent article is by Zionist scholar Elliot Cohen. The fundamental problem

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

In a nutshell, Israel is looking for a negotiation process that legitimizes the persistence of its genocidal war. The differences between its various camps in Israel are not large; one would sign a temporary ceasefire that can be retracted at any point. The other camp rejects

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

The centrality of the village in the Israeli imagination of Palestinian life is a familiar Orientalist trope. But it is more than that. In the film Tantura, members of the Alexandroni Brigade, who committed a massacre in this small, scenic village on the shores of the

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

Biden's speech tonight rhetorically blames Hamas, but its underlying intent is twofold: to place pressure on Israel's right-wing government and to assuage the growing movements opposing the war and advocating for a liberated Palestine. In private discussions, Biden is acutely

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

Ceasefire negotiations: Historically Israel employed a strategy in negotiations that hinges on four interlinked elements. First, mediators while distinct actors remained dishonest brokers pushing Israel's agenda on the Palestinians.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

"This reveals the depth of Israel's damage and the dire need for solutions beyond airpower or AI systems—strategies that can't heal. There's a pressing call for direct combat, to unclothe and disarm Palestinian men, something today's military tech can't offer its operators.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

Israel's need for the war to continue is tied to its understanding that any end of the war will only bring about a reckoning it's not ready to deal with. The more it can throw the can down the road, the more it can postpone internal political and social fallout.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

Sharing some articles that I appreciated: Joesph Massad here writes eloquently about how savagery is a sign of the looming end of colonialism:

Why Israel's savagery is a sign of its impending defeat

The realisation that the loss of settler-colonial power is at hand drives colonial forces to use the most barbaric methods to defeat the revolt of the indigenous people

www.middleeasteye.net

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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4 months

to end the anxiety of living in a world where you can lose a loved one anytime to imprisonment, or death based on the whim of a settler or soldier or perhaps a calibrated AI machine. A struggle to live a life where others do not control the flow of time, and plays god with space.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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5 months

It is at once a capitulation to the intractable horror of our times and a defiant stand against the paralyzing effect of despair. To that Aaron at this symbolic level embodies us all.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

This throb or reflex is generally the result of external instigator. To shake-off therefore is almost an unconscious immunological response.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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4 days

When we accuse someone of being a blind supporter of an authoritarian figure or political party, in Palestine we call him "سحيج" (saheej). This term, laden with multiple connotations, describes an individual who cannot think for themselves and applauds anything the powerful

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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3 months

To Zadie Smith: I am a man, neither young enough to be a child nor old enough to be an elder. It transpires that, like my Palestinian brethren, we are the one's upon whom tears are least likely to fall. Though I am not from Gaza, I have cherished it as you do New York City, yet

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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8 months

This is also indeed why it's hard to determine when does an intifada starts or ends. But in its origin, it's a defensive concept that has an affinity with a concept field like stasis, sumoud, preserving, despite it proactive quality of also "fighting back".

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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2 months

Years ago, as I walked through a modest gathering in the heart of Ramallah, the crowd swayed with the rhythm of Palestinian flags fluttering in the air. A young man approached me and asked, "Why are people gathered?" I glanced at the scene before us, knowing well that it was the

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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7 months

That is how conditions for psychological redemption are created. It's not in turning away, or in historical and collective guilt acting as a barrier for seeing and bearing witness. It is this guilt that propels an attitude that secretly wishes to tell Israel:

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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5 months

Since the war broke, I have been unconsciously bidding farewell to the streets I know, to familiar grounds of my childhood, when I first learned that a soldier could kill my father, or could rob me of good friends.

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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6 months

UNRWA does provide services and jobs, however, it has been largely hostile to Palestinian radical revolutionary tradition. Israel for instance hates the fact that UNRWA registers Palestinian refugees and their descendants and claims that this sustain the category of refugee.

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