1000 days
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As we've approached the 1000 days milestone since October 7 2023, I've been gathering reflections on what has changed for me during this ongoing nightmare.
So I've made a list ✏️
And for the record, this is perfect proof of the duality that becoming pro-Pa|estinan has been for me.
I've had to deprogram my mind, as well as learn and evolve.
Eventhough I officially became pro-Pa|estinian
in 2014...it's not like there's a Zi0nist on/off switch.
It's a process.
1000 days ago:
🌱 I would not have felt comfortable wearing a kufiya.
🌱 There were chants at protests that felt intimidating.
(Notice my feelings have changed, thanks to my thinking being updated)
🌱 I believed that Israe| would prioritise saving hostages.
🌱 I thought the Zi0nist project started in 1948. Or at least history was VERY blurry before that.
🌱 I still wanted to identify with my family.
🌱 I didn't realise how many of my "good hearted and intelligent" friends would be silent during a gen0cide.
And as I reflect on these "seedlings"...
It's genuinely mind imploding to me that EVERY DAY
I STILL have someone attempt to use the embarrassingly ignorant "zio script".
Like:
🤦🏼♀️ But what about H*mas?
🤦🏼♀️ It all started on October 7th.
🤦🏼♀️ How can it be a gen0cide if babies are still being born?
🤦🏼♀️ Israe| has the most moral army in the world.
🤦🏼♀️ The Jews deserve a homeland.
If there are any of these points you want me to explore further in a seperate post, please let me know.
And of course there are MANY MORE.
These were just the ones that popped up first.
Also...I'm curious what has changed for you in the past 1000 days.
Thank you, Veronica. Everything you write is powered by that brilliant beautiful honesty and heart you bring to everything you do!
Before October 7 I didn't know that much about the Israel/Palestine conflict. So I read a few books by Jewish Israeli historians. Shock and revulsion ensued at how Israel has behaved over the decades. How Zionism has played the PR game with the UK since the early 1900s and the US a few decades later. Since the genocide I now, for the first time in my life, am filled with hate - for the genocidaires and Zionism. And grief for the Palestinians. And the line "the IDF is the most moral army in the world" elicits hilarity. The removal of all weapons from the Israelis and the deprogramming of their racist society can't come quick enough for me. Being 70 I just hope I live to see the day.