soft error

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

books:

the hundred years war on palestine by rashid khalidi

my people shall live by leila khaled

on zionist literature by ghassan kanafani

zionist colonialism in palestine by fayez a. sayegh

the question of palestine by edward said

perfect victims by mohanmed el kurd

gaza writes back by refaat alareer

films:

jenin, jenin (2003) dir. by mohammad bakri

the stones cry out (2013) dir. by yasmine perni

the palestinian (1977) dir. by roy battersby

they do not exist (1974) dir. by mustafa abu ali

voices from gaza (1989) dir. by antonia caccia

introduction to the end of an argument (1990) dir. by jayce salloum and elia suleiman

gaza fights for freedom (2019) dir. by abby martin

children of shatila (1998) dir. by mai masri

where should the birds fly? (2013) dir. by fida qishta

the settlers (2016) dir. by shimon dotan

palestinian women (1974) dir. by jocelyne saab

on our land (1981) dir. by antonia caccia

more things to read:

decolonize palestine - a website with information debunking zionist talking points, stuff about history, etc

the wounded memory of the nakba by basel al araj

in gaza, you die a thousand times - written by an anonymous writer from gaza in 2022