Lauren Booth – Great Homecoming I The Victory March

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			As-salamu alaykum.
		
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			So Gazans are finally going home after more
		
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			than 450 days of horrific bombardment, agony, pain
		
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			and hunger.
		
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			And I want us to look at their
		
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			great return through three different lenses.
		
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			The first lens, as somebody returning, what are
		
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			they finding?
		
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			What is the carnage that they face?
		
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			Secondly, through the mouths of the occupier, who
		
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			are so frustrated that their job was almost
		
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			done, but not quite.
		
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			And finally, through the lens of true faith
		
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			and goodness, which is allowing the budding shoots
		
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			of hope to spring from the rubble of
		
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			despair.
		
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			Only the Palestinian people, chosen, handpicked by Allah
		
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			Ta'ala, could possibly make beauty out of
		
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			such ugliness.
		
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			Imagine your first night after 450 plus days
		
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			without the sound of drones or rockets firing
		
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			or shooting or the screams of agony.
		
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			That in itself must bring such peace to
		
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			the hearts of every man, woman and child
		
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			in Gaza.
		
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			But where are they spending those nights?
		
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			On the rubble of their homes?
		
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			Back in tents because they found their homes
		
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			unlivable?
		
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			Or in the broken vestiges of what was
		
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			yesterday?
		
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			It must be sinking in now, just how
		
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			much there is to do and how much
		
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			pain they have to work through.
		
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			Subhanallah, Allah gives them strength.
		
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			It's estimated that more than a million people
		
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			right now are without any fixed place to
		
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			stay.
		
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			Most utilities such as sewage, water, communications, schools,
		
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			universities, hospitals, roads have all been completely damaged.
		
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			Gaza is still cut in two by the
		
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			Netzarim corridor, which Israel installed below Gaza City.
		
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			Meanwhile, in northern and southern Gaza, whole families
		
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			continue making the long journey back to their
		
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			towns, to their villages and the refugee camps
		
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			that frankly no longer exist.
		
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			How are they doing this?
		
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			Well, they're either on foot or they're in
		
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			donkey-drawn carts and the roads are littered
		
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			with unexploded missiles, with broken glass and worse,
		
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			the unburied martyrs.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And now the real search is underway.
		
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			Housing is just an issue, but going back
		
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			and searching with your own hands for the
		
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			vestiges of a loved one, or perhaps everyone
		
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			you loved, is something that I pray to
		
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			Allah we never have to experience.
		
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			I've seen mothers hugging bones and saying, my
		
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			son, my son, I'm not afraid of you.
		
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			A lot of the footage we can't show
		
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			here, but people gathering bits of clothing from
		
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			someone from the last time they saw them
		
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			before a missile took their lives and that's
		
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			their memory of them because they were there
		
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			in the last moments and then they were
		
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			vaporized or they decomposed so completely they can't
		
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			be put together, but Allah will bring them
		
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			back together.
		
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			But beneath the pain and sorrow there's another
		
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			emotion, one which the occupier still fails to
		
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			get any handle on.
		
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			Natural, fearsome, overwhelming feelings.
		
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			There's another one that is gifted by the
		
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			sakinah of Allah Ta'ala to the dignified
		
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			of Gaza and it is hope and belief
		
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			and determination.
		
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			SubhanAllah, in writing we can recite it, but
		
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			for the Palestinians, no.
		
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			He, our Habib, he stood here and he
		
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			led all of the other prophets in prayer.
		
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			He was momentarily here.
		
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			He spoke of this place.
		
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			He loved Al-Aqsa.
		
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			He prayed towards this direction.
		
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			They will never forget and they will never
		
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			give up.
		
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			The steadfastness is utterly confusing to the murderers
		
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			in the offense forces who can't understand why
		
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			the carnage they wrought isn't enough to drive
		
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			them away.
		
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			Listen to this.
		
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			Okay, so
		
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			that's an admission of looting, of wanton destruction,
		
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			of war crimes, of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
		
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			Hello?
		
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			Anybody listening?
		
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			International community?
		
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			Hello?
		
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			Never mind.
		
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			He's listening.
		
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			He knows all and sees all and retribution
		
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			is certain.
		
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			These people may be without paperwork and without
		
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			physical mementos of the ones who went past,
		
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			but we are an oral tradition.
		
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			Hamdulillah.
		
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			They will pass on the stories as they
		
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			always have of who, what, where, and when.
		
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			The Arab tradition is made on lineage.
		
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			They know who their great-grandfathers were and
		
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			great-grandmothers and they know where they lived
		
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			and what they farmed and who they were
		
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			and how many stanzas of the Quran they
		
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			knew.
		
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			You won't wipe them out.
		
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			Bits of paper don't make a people.
		
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			Huge conflict here, isn't there, between good and
		
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			evil, between understanding and devastation, that a bit
		
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			of paper makes you a human being in
		
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			the eyes of the state.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			The humanity of the Palestinians, by the grace
		
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			of Allah, is different.
		
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			It's on a different standard.
		
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			So some of the occupiers on TV have
		
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			been asking, where will they go now?
		
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			That's the question.
		
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			Where will the Palestinians go?
		
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			And the answer is clear.
		
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			They're not going anywhere.
		
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			They're staying home in their land.
		
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			And the question should be, but where will
		
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			you go now?
		
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			Because your attempt at an ethno-state has
		
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			failed because it rested on the murder and
		
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			displacement, entire displacement of the people and they
		
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			won't sit for it.
		
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			Today, today belongs to the Gazans.
		
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			Today belongs to their healthcare workers who, through
		
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			everything, stuck to their word to look after
		
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			the people, even when it was dangerous to
		
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			their own well-being, to the journalists who
		
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			lost their families and their limbs.
		
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			Subhanallah, it belongs to everyone who stood fast
		
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			with their families, everyone who has been praying
		
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			to Allah Ta'ala in Gaza and for
		
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			whom the angels heard their prayers.
		
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			Today is for Gaza, who gave up everything
		
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			in dunya for the dream of freedom and
		
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			faith.