there’s a widespread sentiment going around along the lines of:

“when did this become normal to see bloodied bodies and corpses everyday on our screens, how did we enable this colonial entity to unleash this level of brutality?”

and the answer is: 13 years ago when the Arab regimes and Iran unleashed their monstrosity on us. 13 years ago when we, the people, were slaughtered every single day – death tolls reaching a minimum of 300 deaths every single day for years.

that’s when.

when you were either silent or living your life unbothered as the rest of your countrymen were being massacred, taunted, chased down and incarcerated.

when the people you call resistance and expect to save you now were butchering, raping, displacing as you plugged your headphones in and decided it was a civil war or private issue and wished it would go away. wished so badly that we would go away, as you made yourself feel better perhaps with by posting a few fundraisers for refugees or deciding to remain ‘apolitical’.

israel saw that, saw how worthless our lives are to our own ‘leaders’ and people – saw that human lives are worthless to you, not just Palestinian lives which they’ve already been massacring for decades – and ran with that.

when you begin acknowledging the role of all Arab and Iranian regimes in dehumanising us and normalising our deaths EN MASSE, you begin finding answers.

when you begin linking the expounded brutality of the occupation today with the brutality the rest of the region has witnessed for over a decade since the Arab Spring.

this became norm when you made it a norm with your apathy and lack of care for your own people. who you still erase with your narratives as you commemorate one year of genocide, centring only the lives lost when it began affecting you, or because of who the murderer is. because if there’s one thing we’ve learned this year, it’s that your deaths are only worth mentioning when your killer is a certain actor.

reject wholesale any narrative that doesn’t centre this.

there’s no liberation from the violent Zionist occupation without the fall of every Arab regime first, and especially the Assad regime.