[Diggers350] Fwd: Back in Palestine gardening, More from Iran, Gaza, West Bank

[Tony Gosling]

>From: Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin at qumsiyeh.org>
>Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 19:24:14 +0300
>Subject: Back in Palestine gardening, More from Iran, Gaza, West Bank
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>Dear Friends After the ordeal of a canceled 
>flight and a rebooking from Paris to Cairo to 
>Amman, we spent a whole day at the bridge 
>crossing from Jordan to occupied Palestine on 
>Easter Sunday.* In total some 70 hours "on the 
>road." It was costly financially and physically. 
>The profiteers are everywhere and the Zionist 
>harassment (mostly via the collaborating 
>Jordanian government) of people coming back here 
>is intentional  to make us (Palestinians) suffer 
>and leave. Yet, it was good to return home and 
>the first thing I did was work in the botanic 
>garden, weeding and tending to plants that are 
>doing very well thanks to the rain. Also seasona 
>fruits (loquats, green almonds, etc).  WE COULD 
>USE SOME HELP IN THE GARDEN SO PLEASE COME VISIT 
>AND VOLUNTEER (we could use the company and the 
>garden is beautiful). It is te best relaxation 
>and excercize. I also managed to get my phone 
>number back (stolen phone not recovered). * 
>Note: This was Western Easter calendar- next 
>Sunday is orthodox Easter. The passover stories 
>of the old testament are now recpognized to be 
>mere stories without any historical reality 
>(slavery or exodus from Egypt). The idea. Easter 
>holiday is itself based on Ishtar (goddess of 
>Fertility) celebration (hence eggs and bunnies). 
>But for 2.4 billion Christians, the resurrection 
>of Jesus gives hope. For 2 billion Muslims, 
>Jesus was the Messiah - a most revered prophet 
>but he was not crucified; he ascended to heaven. 
>For Palestinians (Christians and Muslims), the 
>Easter holiday reminds us that there is always 
>hope for Palestine's rise from the ashes. 
>Wishing you all, no matter your beliefs a 
>peaceful holiday and PEACE. More from Habib in 
>Iran: On the 35th day of the Saturday war, 
>Israel bombed Iran's largest petrochemical plant 
>in Mahshahr this morning at the start of a 
>working day. The number of workers killed and 
>injured there has not yet been announced. The 
>war is showing its ugliness more and more every 
>day. Trump has publicly said he wants to return 
>Iran to the Stone Age. People here joke that we 
>cannot return him and his government to the Age 
>of Freedom because there was no American at that 
>time. We used to go to Bushehr every year for 
>Eid al-Fitr, but this year we decided to stay in 
>Tehran. Today was the first day of my eldest 
>grandson's virtual class, who is in the second 
>grade of elementary school. He connected to the 
>class through his mother's mobile phone. But he 
>was very upset when I asked him what happened, 
>Dad. He said I would have liked to go to school 
>and see my friends.  I remember my own school 
>days and the end of the Eid holidays, which felt 
>like a day of mourning, perhaps because children 
>are at home during this period and school is 
>considered a pastime for them, and during this 
>month of war, they are under stress that needs 
>to be relieved in some way, and this can only be 
>achieved by playing with other children. If 
>Trump carries out his threat to cut off the 
>electricity and water supply to the cities, the 
>war will automatically enter a new phase. At the 
>bottom, I have posted a video of the bombing of 
>people under the Karaj bridge who were bombed on 
>Nature Day. In the evening, we will go to the 
>Minab children's painting exhibition again to 
>help a little. This is the only joy of doing 
>something positive in these circumstances." 
>Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank: It’s Even 
>Worse than You Think,  Voices From the Holy Land 
>panel https://youtu.be/Xp6y9RBymGs What Gaza 
>looks like NOW https://youtu.be/Y86qXXEQtW8 
>https://youtu.be/edcPQzqywzo Jeffrey Epstein 
>sighted in Jaffa? Is this Fake too? 
>https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2040808692031873288 
>  Clarissa Ward of CNN on Gaza 
>https://www.facebook.com/reel/1027075736261348 
>Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Worst of Iran War 
>Still Ahead https://youtu.be/9fBciZHmnF8 Mazin 
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