I grew up in an environment where I was constantly exposed to the brutalities of zionism from a very young age. one of my earliest memories is of a child dying in his father's arms as the Israeli military shot without abandon.
Palestine has always and will forever be a part of my life and to think that in 2021 people believe the western propaganda about the legitimacy of the Palestinian state is insane. Israel has robbed and murdered innocent Palestinians since 1948 and no one has batted an eye
it's time this stops. it's time every person out there who has turned a blind eye to the years of struggle held themselves accountable because I've seen firsthand what it's like. I've had Israel occupy /my/ country and take /my/ land and kill /my/ people and somehow it's all
forgotten. it's all swept under a rug because Israel is the US's favorite playmate. spread the videos and show the world who Israel really is, show them the truth so no one can no longer say that it's their right.
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this disparity in reaction can be very easily summarized from both an architectural and social pov. if we start by looking at it architecturally, you'll find that before this week a lot of people were not even aware of what alaqsa mosque looked like it +
or what its importance is in Islam. and that is a thing that's very prevalent when it comes to Islamic architecture and how it fares in comparison with early Christian architecture. +
As a middle eastern architect, this disparity was even obvious in my studies. i learned so much about churches and their evolutions and the importance of those buildings but when it came to Islamic architecture, everything was much more lowkey. +