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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

@HHamayel2

Writer, Analyst and lecturer.

Palestine فلسطين

aboudhamayel.blogspot.com

Joined March 2014

Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Apr 27, 2024
To the students flying the Palestinian flag everywhere: In the 1980s, while attempting to raise the Palestinian flag under direct Israeli military control, Mousa Hanafi, a student at Birzeit University who hails Gaza, suffered a fatal bullet from an Israeli sniper.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
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Apr 27, 2024
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The raising of the Palestinian flag has always been, and will continue to be in the future, a transgressive act; it terrifies those who think of Palestine and Palestinians as a people destined for elimination.; "How dare they enunciate their existence?
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Apr 27, 2024
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Students were worried that Israel would take away his corpse. To smuggle his corpse without detection, the students placed a cap and glasses on him and positioned him in a sitting position in a car, claiming he was blind. The body ultimately reached his final resting place.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Apr 27, 2024
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After he was shot and killed, other students hid his corpse while Israeli soldiers searched for his remains. They smuggled his body from Birzeit in the West Bank to Rafah in Gaza.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Oct 17, 2024
He was not embedded among civilians, nor was he hiding or shielded by Israeli prisoners. He stood on the frontlines, facing his enemies head-on. His death was not the result of intelligence work or some calculated strike; it happened in combat. The entire narrative spun by the
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Apr 27, 2024
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To see the Palestinian flag raised at every university encampment, to see your hands held together, rubbing shoulder to shoulder, to see the attempt to oppress and smear your voices only attests to resonance of a flag that has become a symbol of liberation for all.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Apr 27, 2024
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When Mousa was killed, a song was written that speaks to his martyrdom: Stand in rows, rows, and rub your hands together, his mother has come. Oh precious, oh adorned one, oh teardrop, oh delight, our groom (The martyr) is scattered, where to? Our groom has closed his eyes.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Apr 27, 2024
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Our flag, like Moussa's body smuggled through checkpoints, reminds us that power cannot see everything; it is almost certainly weak. Despite all the tears and the bitter shattering of our bodies, Palestine lifts you and rises with you.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Jan 5, 2024
Palestinians have historically been accused of being emotional when they speak. Many used to say that Palestinians sounded hysterical and angry. These accusations were meant to suggest that Palestinians lacked rational arguments and therefore resorted to an emotional tone.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Aug 10, 2024
The massacres are more than just bloodshed—they are the weight Israel presses down upon Gaza and the rest of Palestine. This weight comes in many forms: deprivation that crushes the spirit, psychological torment that twists the mind, physical torture that breaks the body, and the
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Dec 9, 2023
Thread: Israel's insistence on showing naked men in performed scenes of surrender, mostly civilians (I highly doubt many are fighters, if any), is meant to reaffirm its own power and to tell its allies that it is accumulating some semblance of success.
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
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Apr 27, 2024
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here is the song: youtube.com/watch?v=1WOqKb…
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Jan 19, 2025
You can imagine them now, Israelis I mean, standing at the edge of Gaza’s trembling horizon, peering into a sea of life that refuses to drown, to Gaza that refuses to be swallowed by the sea. They see the faces of those who have returned—bodies caked with dust but washed clean in
Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
@HHamayel2
Dec 20, 2023
I am not sure that German and European collective guilt blinds it from seeing what is happening in Palestine. In fact, I think the opposite is true. European subjectivity takes delight in seeing its historical victims becoming oppressors.