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Elia Ayoub (he/him)

May your offspring avert their faces from you

Text: Shema by Primo Levi You who live secure In your warm houses Who return at evening to find Hot food and friendly faces: Consider whether this is a man, Who labours in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies at a yes or a no. Consider whether this is a woman, Without hair or name With no more strength to remember Eyes empty and womb cold As a frog in winter. Consider that this has been: I commend these words to you. Engrave them on your hearts When you are in your house, when you walk on your way, When you go to bed, when you rise. Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, Disease render you powerless, Your offspring avert their faces from you. Translated by Ruth Feldman And Brian Swann
13 August at 22:37 | Open on spore.social
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Elia Ayoub (he/him)

Understand that this is who we are dealing with. The Telegram channel has over 100,000 subscribers. This is how they reacted to a man finding out his twin babies and his wife were murdered as he was on his way to register their births.

They celebrate each and every Palestinian death. They thoroughly document the deaths to make sure they don’t miss. The more horrified a Palestinian is, the more they celebrate.

Telegram channel of Israelis celebrating Palestinian deaths
13 August at 23:06 | Open on spore.social
Elia Ayoub (he/him)

Incredibly, surreally: I just posted the Primo Levi poem when I saw this post by a Gazan collective on Twitter.

Compare.

Text: Martyrs of Gaza & @GazaMartyrs Follow Before you lay your head on your comfortable pillow and bed, remember that here we sleep in the streets with nothing but a piece of cloth to protect us from bombings, missiles, and fire. Our children sleep hungry; a mother sleeps crying for her children who were killed; a wife mourns her husband who was taken from her; and a man grieves for his family that Israel has destroyed. Here, we sleep to the sights of death and wake up to them. You watch us, and some of you engage with us, but by the next day, the images of our deaths are forgotten. Thank you all for your messages and support, but nothing is worth the risk because tomorrow we will be forgotten. 22:51 • 13/08/2024 From Earth • 43K Views
Text: Shema by Primo Levi You who live secure In your warm houses Who return at evening to find Hot food and friendly faces: Consider whether this is a man, Who labours in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies at a yes or a no. Consider whether this is a woman, Without hair or name With no more strength to remember Eyes empty and womb cold As a frog in winter. Consider that this has been: I commend these words to you. Engrave them on your hearts When you are in your house, when you walk on your way, When you go to bed, when you rise. Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, Disease render you powerless, Your offspring avert their faces from you. Translated by Ruth Feldman And Brian Swann
13 August at 23:13 | Open on spore.social
Elia Ayoub (he/him)

Today’s footage from the hell that is Israel’s genocide in Gaza is the corpse of a young boy. He has no bottom as it was blown off in a blast. They found his head and torso on a tree branch and his legs on the ground.

I’m so sorry little boy. I’m so so sorry.

14 August at 20:07 | Open on spore.social
Yeshaya Lazarevich

@ayoub
Do you know when this was posted?

14 August at 0:07 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elia Ayoub (he/him)

@alter_kaker the photo of the mourning father is from Monday/Tuesday as that’s when his family was killed

14 August at 6:39 | Open on spore.social
Yeshaya Lazarevich

@ayoub
Do you have the link to the Telegram message? I don't know much about Telegram but I'd like to take a screenshot without the translation. If not I can try to find it myself

14 August at 11:37 | Open on hachyderm.io
Yeshaya Lazarevich replied to Yeshaya

@ayoub
A lot of those guys were reading Lamentations on Monday night and fasting on Tuesday to remember the destruction of Jerusalem. I have no words

14 August at 11:55 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elia Ayoub (he/him) replied to Yeshaya

@alter_kaker I’ll try and find the link. Sadly there are so many such comments like the ones in response to this post x.com/jackyhugi/status/1823468

14 August at 12:56 | Open on spore.social
Yeshaya Lazarevich replied to Elia Ayoub (he/him)
Yeshaya Lazarevich replied to Yeshaya

@ayoub
By the way, I don't know if this interested you at all but last Saturday, we were reading Isaiah 1:1-27 as preparation for Tuesday's fast. The whole section is worth reading, but of particular relevance is verse 21: "Alas, she has become a whore,
The faithful city
That was filled with justice,
Where righteousness dwelt—
But now murderers."

And of course Lamentations itself, written about 150 years later by the Prophet Jeremiah, will sound familiar, like a recurring nightmare.

@ayoub
By the way, I don't know if this interested you at all but last Saturday, we were reading Isaiah 1:1-27 as preparation for Tuesday's fast. The whole section is worth reading, but of particular relevance is verse 21: "Alas, she has become a whore,
The faithful city
That was filled with justice,
Where righteousness dwelt—
But now murderers."

14 August at 13:55 | Open on hachyderm.io
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