It's honestly exhausting. And it's lonely, really lonely. Nobody, not even people close to me, can understand the pain we're going through as Palestinians. The lived reality of being Palestinian is so far removed from most people's lived experience, and it's about to get worse.
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It feels worse because as an Arab Spring activist I have over the years stood in solidarity with everyone. I put myself at risk for everyone. So now it does sting that when it's my own cause, when it's about me and my family and our destiny, I hear mostly silence.
Most people, including many from the MENA, think that what's currently happening is just a few normalization agreements and miss the deeper implication. This is the end of Palestinian statehood, and the start of naked apartheid and permanent statelessness.
And I'd be first to say that at a fundamental level this was always the reality. The 2SS was smokes & mirrors pulled upon us while they annex more of our land, and apartheid has been a fact for decades. But what's different now is that the world is saying: We're fine with this.
And even whatever parts of the world aren't really fine with it, they have zero leverage to do anything about it. The Palestinian project is back to square one, only with 70+ years more maturity and a much more resourced population. It's both painful and daunting.
So here's the summary if you don't get it and you're confused by the news. My people aren't just upset because some of their former friends now support their occupiers. My people are upset because they're staring into a future of permanent stateless and subjugation.
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