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“Khalid’s kite frightens Israel because Khalid himself does.”
“But now, the occupation seems to tremble before Palestinian children holding paper and string.”
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“This kite, like all Palestinians, suddenly became an existential threat to the colonizers.”
“Twenty-four years after that girl spoke from Jenin, Palestinians in Gaza are still refusing to kneel.”
“In this life, we will be free, from the river to the sea, and kites will fly again.”
“Israeli forces killed Mohammed Bakr while he fished with his family.”
“Earlier this month, settlers killed two teenagers in a raid on the village of al-Mughayyir.”
“This attempt by Israel to muzzle hope and stifle joy keeps repeating itself in all aspects of Palestinian life.”
“A child at play has already imagined a life beyond violence and, for a moment, begun to live there.”
“Ahmad Ibsais Gaza genocide Israel kites occupation Palestine Ahmad Ibsais Ahmad Ibsais is a first-generation Palestinian American and lawyer who writes the newsletter State of Siege.”
“What should come after the colonizer?”
“Israel wages war against Palestinian children because it cannot tolerate Palestinian adulthood.”
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“Literary Hub » On the Existential Threat of Palestinian Kites to Colonial Power Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks CrimeReads Log In On the Existential Threat of Palestinian Kites to Colonial Power Ahmad Ibsais on the Children Who Imagine a Sky Beyond Israeli Rule Ahmad Ibsais September 11, 2026 There is an old colonizer adage that “the old will die and the young will forget.” In fact, Israel built its future wagering that the Palestinians violently displaced and expelled in the Nakba would eventually move on, assimilate, forget the depravity that ripped them from their land.”
“At the Great Omari Mosque, volunteers use paintbrushes to lift dust and gunpowder from the few thousand books that survived from a collection of twenty thousand .”
“At the height of Israel’s assault on Gaza, women and children accounted for close to seventy percent of those murdered, proportionally more than any other recorded genocide in the last century.”
“That they too are born free, even inside a cage.”
“People who have lived even fragments of freedom together are harder to persuade that domination is eternal.”
“Our grief keeps the stolen world from disappearing, and our joy keeps the thief from determining the world that follows.”
“Because colonial powers have always feared the child who survives its violence and continues to imagine a sky beyond its rule.”
“End the siege, impose sanctions and an arms embargo, dismantle occupation and apartheid, and return the land and political power Israel has taken.”