Syrian surgeon tossed north on a rogue wind. Author, artist. THE WINGSPAN OF TREASON: shortlisted for the BFS Awards https://xitter.cf/t.co/VZkfMhwr77

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✨THE WINGSPAN OF TREASON✨ is out* today🤯 This book has spanned 8 yrs of work & many trials. Thank you to the stars who've supported it—especially my CP @nordlichtinLA💚 Orders: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DM2S9QM8 *more paperback orders inc AUS from 10th** Dec😊 **allegedly #BookTwitter
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Clearing his name after he’s no longer here to see it. Rest in peace, Professor Jason Arday. You deserved your flowers while you were still, here. #writing #WritingCommmunity
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Since this morning, I’ve been unable to leave my home. All checkpoints in H2 and exits from Hebron are closed. Israeli forces have begun demolishing homes and shops near the site of the attack. Residents are living in fear, cut off from basic necessities. We urgently call on the UN, international governments, and humanitarian organizations to act now: protect civilians, demand an end to unlawful demolitions and collective restrictions, and ensure safe access to essential supplies and emergency services. Hebron must not be forgotten. We need urgent action, not just statements of concern.
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One of the oldest olive trees 🌳. Happy Thursday everyone.
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If you're outraged that churches are burning in France but were silent when Israel bombed the 3rd oldest church in the world, you're a hypocrite.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am sorry. I know you tried hard not to witness it
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Out of roughly 2 million olive trees in Gaza before October 2023, only 150,000 trees remain standing. This is a loss of roughly 85% to 90% of the region's olive groves. Ecocide is the deliberate, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems necessary to sustain human life. Many experts would agree that Israel's systematic destruction of Palestinian farmlands, aquifers, and trees would qualify as ecocide. Under international humanitarian law including the Geneva Conventions, any objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population like agricultural areas are granted special protections during conflict. Olive oil and table olives are crucial to Gaza's local agricultural economy, but in Palestinian culture, olive trees are much more than just a commodity. They are symbols of continuity, resilience, and attachment to the soil. Many groves are hundreds of years old and passed down through generations. Unlike annual crops like tomatoes or cucumbers that can be replanted and harvested in a single season, mature olive trees represent decades of invested capital. Losing them wipes out a reliable source of income for thousands of families, leaving them dependent on foreign aid.
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You are genuinely sick in the head if you still defend this
🚨Israel burned alive a Palestinian mother in front of her daughter in Gaza last night. RIP Reem Awad
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Rough operating day: 9 year old girl from Gaza. Shoulder reconstruction. Both parents killed. Cared for by uncle. 5 year old boy from Gaza. Right lower limb amputation. For revision of stump so he can start fitting a prosthesis. Medical student from Lebanon, early twenties. Blast Injury to face with loss of both eyes. For reconstruction of facial bones and eyelids so he can have glass eyes fitted. To top the day off, message from lawyers: High Court Appeal case by GMC, court date set for end of January 2027.
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Dear UK friends, Make Sally Rooney's novels your Christmas gift this year. Order them online. @sally_rooney The genocide enablement apparatus should not be allowed to win.
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فيه كتاب اسمه لماذا لا تصاب الحمير الوحشية بقرحة المعدة؟ يتكلم عن كيف إن الحمار الوحشي إذا هرب من الأسد انتهى خوفه، بينما الإنسان ممكن يكون جالس بأمان ويعيش حالة خوف من أشياء ما صارت، ويمكن ما تصير أصلًا
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Time to recap the indie books I read in September! I did something different and that was deeming the month Sequel September. I decided to read nothing but sequels and let me just say, I'm so glad I did because indie sequels don't get enough love! youtu.be/Dqmq4XLQfF8
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I am shocked by the political inertia in the face of what Israelis -settlers and soldiers- are doing in Palestine, where terror has become a daily reality. In the West Bank, torching century old trees and poisoning livestock. When will the EU take action against Apartheid Israel?
Replying to @warfareanalysis
1, This is today, A Jewish settler, guarded by Israeli army soldiers, poisons Palestinian owned sheep and goats in the eastern part of al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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Hope is that small star That blinks, intermittently In the night sky #WriteMap ✨
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Israeli settlers planted a forest of Israeli flags around a Palestinian store in the West Bank, blocking the entrance and the windows. The owners called the IDF to report the incident, and the IDF told them not to touch the flags. 📍 Lubban ash-Sharkiyya 🇵🇸
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Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug. You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form. You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages. You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution. You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis. You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from. Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
How did school teach us about the Amazon so much & never once mention the Congo Basin? It's the world's largest tropical carbon sink. The planet is literally breathing through it & nobody thought we should know 😳
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"Yo no me meto en la política" Pero la política sí se mete en tu salario, en tu trabajo, en tu salud, en tu educación y hasta en las calles por donde caminas. Todo es política, hasta la indiferencia.
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Today Israeli terrorist settlers have set fire to hundreds of olive trees in Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus in the West Bank.
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Imagine someone turning up at your door and saying…. “This isn’t your home anymore. It’s mine.” You refuse. You fight to keep what is yours. You plead for someone, anyone to stand with you. And the world turns its back.
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Two awesome book releases today, friends! Kiana by @ZOMGfantasy, Middle Eastern-inspired WW1 era fantasy w/ unreliable 1st POV And Then There is the Bard by @LordTBR_FFA, a children's book with fun DnD shenanigans Check both out now!
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We are currently living in a timeline where women can be thrown in jail for having an abortion, but seven men who gang rape a woman only have to write an essay to “think about what they did”.
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