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RIP Refaat in Gaza
Sad news:
Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2 – 19:52 UTC · Dec 7, 2023
Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza's voice to the outside world.
He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister's home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids…
Refaat's pinned tweet:
Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 @itranslate123 – 13:01 UTC · Nov 1, 2023
If I must die, let it be a tale.
#FreePalestine
#Gaza
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Refaat's last tweet:
Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 @itranslate123 – 5:00 UTC · Dec 4, 2023
The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.
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Vice President Kamala Harris …
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His writing:
My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’ – NY Times – May 13, 2021
By Refaat Alareer
Mr. Alareer lives in Gaza and is the editor of “Gaza Writes Back,” a collection of short stories.
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On Tuesday, Linah asked her question again after my wife and I didn’t answer it the first time: Can they destroy our building if the power is out? I wanted to say: “Yes, little Linah, Israel can still destroy the beautiful al-Jawharah building, or any of our buildings, even in the darkness. Each of our homes is full of tales and stories that must be told. Our homes annoy the Israeli war machine, mock it, haunt it, even in the darkness. It can’t abide their existence. And, with American tax dollars and international immunity, Israel presumably will go on destroying our buildings until there is nothing left.”
But I can’t tell Linah any of this. So I lie: “No, sweetie. They can’t see us in the dark.”
Lectures:
English Poetry Lecture 1/28: An Introduction to Poetry (video) – Refaat Alareer / eLearning Centre – IUG
On air:
Palestine voices on Israel's war against Gaza – Usefull Idiots – Oct 13, 2023
This week’s interview with Refaat Alareer, Yumna Patel, and Muhammad Shehada
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How Refaat was murdered:
شهداء غزّة Gaza martyrs @Gaza_Shaheed – 12:54 UTC · Dec 8, 2023
Important information on Refaat’s assassination:
The day before yesterday, Refaat received a phone call from the Israeli intelligence about locating him in the school where he took refuge. They informed him that they were going to kill him. He left the school not wanting to endanger the others, and at 6 p.m. his sister's apartment was bombed, where he was killed, his sister and her four children
Obits:
In memory of Dr. Refaat Alareer – The Electronic Intifada – 7 December 2023
‘If I must die, let it be a tale’: a tribute to Refaat Alareer – Max Blumenthal – December 7, 2023
Related:
The “Hunt for Hamas” Narrative Is Obscuring Israel’s Real Plans for Gaza – Adam Johnson / The Nation – Dec 7 2023
The US press and politicians are trying to fit the attacks on Gaza into a Zero Dark Thirty mold, but it’s something much simpler—and sinister.
> America’s media and political class is analyzing, debating, and shaping a narrative in Gaza that’s entirely different from the one being discussed in Israeli media and among Israeli political leaders. This gap, born from casual racism, deliberate credulity, and reflexive alignment with the US government’s party line, is creating a media failure the likes of which we haven’t seen since the run-up to the Iraq War. … <
A dear friend of Moon of Alabama tweets:
annie fofani🇵🇸 @anniefofani – 22:08 UTC · Dec 7, 2023
I miss you so much Refaat. i assume you sent me this so i could pass it on after your death. so, here it for the world. click, the date is at the base.
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Rest in peace.
The Crimean Turks [?] killed their slaves by working them to death. They took slaves from Russia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and beyond for 100s of years, and the slaves they took disappeared…
Posted by: MiniMO | Dec 9 2023 9:33 utc | 226
oh. look. A cascade of categorical errors washes the victorious march of my neandertal and denisovan allele-bearing cousins into the 21st century!
Barker, H. Egyptian and Italian Merchants in the Black Sea Slave Trade, 1260-1500
On September 19, 1363, a ten-year-old Tatar boy named Jaqmaq was sold as a slave in the Black Sea port of Tana. His first owner had probably been a Christian, since Jaqmaq had already been baptized with the name Antonio. His second owner was a Muslim inhabitant of the port named Aqbugha, the son of Shams al-Dīn. Aqbugha sold Jaqmaq/Antonio to his third owner, Nicolò Baxeio of the parish of St. Patermanus in Venice, for 400 aspers in the local
currency. Nicolò also bought a fifteen-year-old Tatar girl from Aqbugha and a twelve-year-old Tatar boy from another local man. All three children were to be delivered to different people in Venice. Jaqmaq/Antonio was destined for Gabriel Teuri of the parish of St. Severus, his fourth owner.
Roughly twenty years later another boy named Jaqmaq, this time a Circassian [Syria a/k/a 14th cen. Palestine], was also sold as a slave in the Black Sea. He was purchased by a merchant named Kazlak, who brought him to Egypt. There Kazlak sold him to a commander in the army, the amir ‘Ali ibn Ināl, who raised him as a mamluk, a military slave….
1271-1295 attributed to Rusticiano a/k/a Rustichello a/k/a Ramusio of Pisa by some 14th cen. French translators of vulgar Latin vellum manuscript:
Wright. T ed., The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian, 1854
…Under the stern rule of the Tatar monarchs, the interior of Asia, knit together in one vast empire, was fare more accessible to strangers than it has been since that empire was broken up; and many European merchants and artisans proceeded thither to trade, or to find employment at the courts of the different princes of the race of Jengiz [Chingiz, Ghengis]. The two brothers, Maffeo and Nicolo, learning at Constantinople that a market for certain costly articles was to be found amont the Western Tatars, purchased a valuable stock of jewellery, and with it crossed the Euxine [Black Sea] to a port in the Crimea; and travelling thence by land and water, reached at length the court or camp of Barkah, the brother or son of Batu, grandson of Jengiz-khan, whose places of residence were Sarai and Bolghar, well known to the geographers of the middle ages. After turning their jewels to good account, they were preparing for their return, at the end of twelve months, when their plans were interrupted by hostilities between Barkah and Hulagu [brother of Kublai], this cousin, the chief of another horde or army of Tatars, who in consequence of their approach from the eastern side of the Caspian were then denominated Eastern Tatars, but were principally Moghuls [“Turkic-Mongol” dynasty], as the former were Turki or natives of Turkistan [nth anachronism]. They are said to have crossed the Oxus [Amu Darya river], on their march from the headquarters of Mangu-kaan [grandson of Jengiz], in the year 1255….
Yule, H. and Cordieer, H. eds., The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian, Vol. I, Vol. II, 1903 third edition
Masefield, J. ed., The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian, 1908
Moral of all Tall Tales: Always read the footnotes!
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 9 2023 17:37 utc | 259
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