Rafa Barkay

Beyond Gaza’s statistics: A candle for my father - The Jewish Independent

This is my article in "The Jewish Independent", a simple tribute to my father's memory and a way to resist the world's tendency to reduce him and other victims of the Gaza war to mere statistics.

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Like Putin, Erdoğan, and Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper. Haaretz will not balk and will not morph into a pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government and its leader.
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Rashid Khalidi to Ha'aretz: "It's impossible to win without [a Jewish-Palestinian partnership]. It's a more difficult struggle than any other liberation struggle because this is not a colonial project where [settlers] can go "home". There is no home."

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hey there! it's still at the very beginning, but has a good crowd

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Pockets of Peace By Xavier Rudd Here and now our choices here are growing thin As children grow they grow with what they see In these times where paranoia closes in Power and hate a rampaging disease In our minds we build the blocks to what we need In our minds we are reaching out for peace In our hearts we know of such the hills to climb In our hearts a sense of mass defeat Shame shame these games that they play with you and me Shame for these games that they play our children will keep Shame these games that they play with you and me Shame for these games that they play our children will keep These are our times this problem much to big to hold For you and I it's far too high to reach We can begin by holding close the things we know And valuing our pockets of peace These are the earth the sun the moon the sea the sky These are the gifts to which we all agree Through these things and those we love we can unite And sink into our pockets of peace

Please take a few minutes to soak this song into your frantic, despairing soul

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I love the idea of building a new community from scratch.

can we do it to the offline world too?

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I needed this today.
You may too.

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