This report "The Scars of Zionism" (Part 2) with words of wisdom and understanding from Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh reminds me of nothing so much as the re-imagining of the settler colonialists across the land of First Peoples' Australia - as written about by people like Bruce Pascoe - farmlands - cultivated and filled with sheep and cattle - irrigation systems, dams and channels/canal - afforestation (the same kinds of pine plantations wreaking the same damage) the draining of wetlands - ruination of animal and migratory bird habitats to favour the growing of cotton - entire major river systems through inland Australia rendered sterile, poisoned, bereft of water flow (and arguments by states upstream with those further beyond towards river mouth receiving depleted water flow and all kinds of other negatives. This report, CM, should be forwarded to the UN and all other international agencies. The Zionists truly are destructive right across the spectrum of their ugly theft of Palestinian land, water and destruction of the original people's sympathetically built environment. I will disseminate this as widely as I can.
Thank you, Jim. Mazin Qumsiyeh traveled for 7 weeks in Australia and New Zealand last spring and met with many indigenous people. European settler colonialism was, and continues to be, a terrible blight.
Translated in French in a multi post dedicated to the Palestinians https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/voix-palestiniennes-and-voix-du-monde
This report "The Scars of Zionism" (Part 2) with words of wisdom and understanding from Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh reminds me of nothing so much as the re-imagining of the settler colonialists across the land of First Peoples' Australia - as written about by people like Bruce Pascoe - farmlands - cultivated and filled with sheep and cattle - irrigation systems, dams and channels/canal - afforestation (the same kinds of pine plantations wreaking the same damage) the draining of wetlands - ruination of animal and migratory bird habitats to favour the growing of cotton - entire major river systems through inland Australia rendered sterile, poisoned, bereft of water flow (and arguments by states upstream with those further beyond towards river mouth receiving depleted water flow and all kinds of other negatives. This report, CM, should be forwarded to the UN and all other international agencies. The Zionists truly are destructive right across the spectrum of their ugly theft of Palestinian land, water and destruction of the original people's sympathetically built environment. I will disseminate this as widely as I can.
Thank you, Jim. Mazin Qumsiyeh traveled for 7 weeks in Australia and New Zealand last spring and met with many indigenous people. European settler colonialism was, and continues to be, a terrible blight.
Then I am not telling you/MQ anything new at all... just confirming the whole ugly settler/colonial/ethnic and bio-diversity cleansing project...