Mohammed El-Kurd
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard 24 May
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But is it their home? I'm not talking about like some random home, but there are many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many Israelis who drink their coffee every morning. from living rooms that are not theirs.
Yeah. Where the owners, the rightful owners of these homes are still lingering in refugee camps, are still dreaming of return.
I mean, there is... If it wasn't stolen, if it was built, but is the land stolen? But all of this, again, I try not to fall into this because it feels so abstract and far away, and this is not how liberation is going to look like whatsoever. And I'm not fixated on ethnic cleansing. I'm not obsessed with ethnic cleansing.
I'm obsessed with ending the ethnic cleansing campaign that has been visited upon me and my family and my community for seven plus decades. That's what I'm obsessed with. All of this other stuff about what happens to the settlers and like, you know, we want to kill all Jews and all of this. I think it's bullshit and I think it's ridiculous.
And I think, you know, fixating on it is like distracting from the focal point. There needs to be an end to all of the injustices, to all of the atrocities. You know, a little boy from Jerusalem should be able to go jog around the city without fearing getting shot. That's like the simplest thing we're asking for here. And we want our land back.
And those things do not mean actually at all the ethnic cleansing of another people.
That's like maybe number 99 on my priorities list. I'm concerned with the refugees. I'm concerned with the teenagers in the prisons. I am concerned with my house. I'm concerned with my family's house in Haifa. I'm concerned, there's a lot for me to do before I can even tend to the needs of my occupier. That is the least of my concerns.
Sure, just not in my front yard.
There are literally Jewish settlers, one of which from Long Island, in my literal front yard. And this is the case in hundreds, if not thousands of Palestinian homes. You know, no one is saying Jewish people shouldn't exist or they shouldn't have a state of their own. I mean, I think all religious-based states are a bad idea. All nation states are a bad idea.
But whatever, if that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do. But that doesn't mean that they are allowed or have a right to create and implement a system of Jewish supremacy at my expense. That's not a crazy thing to say. That is not a controversial thing to say. You can have your state. Just don't kill anyone. Thank you. Have a good day. That's not a crazy thought to have.
I mean, that's when it comes to force expulsions in our home, but there's a myriad of other ways.
The military, I mean, the police. If you look at how many times, I should have brought the data with me, but if you look at how little times the Israeli military or police has investigated its own people or indicted its own people. I mean, just recently, the killer who has been hailed a hero by some of Israeli society, who killed a Palestinian man who is autistic, who lives...
inside the occupied old city where, again, Israeli military has no business being there or jurisdiction whatsoever. He was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier who was trigger happy because, again, they have this siege mentality where any moving object is going to kill them. And he was shot and killed.
And despite it being in broad daylight, despite it being well documented, despite the victim being disabled, despite all of this, he was acquitted by the Israeli court.
The military, the courts, the government, they all work together, which is why it's so ironic to me that there are hundreds of thousands of people marching on the streets of Tel Aviv trying to save the progressive beacon that is the Israeli Supreme Court.
when you find its fingerprints all over the injustices perpetuated against Palestinians, be it legalizing and upholding the withholding of slain Palestinian bodies who were killed by the Israeli military to be used as bargaining chips with Israeli militaries.
be it making decisions to dispossess entire villages like Ibn al-Hiran, be it never once granting release to any Palestinian who was held in administrative detention without charge or trial, be it upholding the legality of the family reunification law, that does not allow Palestinian couples who hold different legal statuses of reuniting and living together as families.
Those are just some of the few things I can think of about the Israeli Supreme Court. The real tension that exists is
the lack of diversity on the Israeli political spectrum that makes the vision for a future so limited because those on what seems to be the far left are defending an extremely conservative institution that is the Supreme Court that they regard as progressive when in fact it is the opposite. So what do we do? How can we talk?
How can we have peace with people who are chanting to save the very body that is displacing us? It's ridiculous.
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