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It's not my fault Jet is tragic and fascinating
Just someone who adores beloved and/or misunderstood characters.
Instead of posting abt anime or Nightwing, this blog has rapidly turned into a Jet/atla blog. Jet stan with some Katara defense. I can't write about anything else now without feeling disorginized.
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Don't let the media make what's happening with Israel, Iran and Jordan into some "middle-east problem" again. This was entirely orchestrated and encouraged by the US and the UK. Israel initiated every attack against Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iran. Israel KILLED, targeted, the children and grandchildren of Palestinians political leaders. And the US could've stopped all of this by simply not giving Israel money and weapons bu they didn't.
The Western media has constructed this narrative that countries like Iraq and Iran are the problem and the western nations are the antidote keeping their 'terrorism' at bay. No, they have always and at all times started the conflicts, or worsened them.
Because they want the land, they want hegemony over the resources of that region and that is it. And they've demonstrated already by killing over 33,000 people that they'll do anything.
Stop joking about World War 3 and take the loss of lives and the horror of what is happening seriously. This cannot keep escalating
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Here's more of what's been happening on the ground. (Once again I'm not an expert in war).
Palestinian fighters are still waging war on the state of Israel
It is clear that Hamas and other groups have access to anti aircraft weaponry and long range missiles, partly from looting Israeli bases but partly from (and this is unconfirmed) from the Russia-Ukraine war. It's not unexpected for weapons to end up smuggled into other countries during a war.
On the other hand, Israel went from swearing it would invade Gaza on the ground to doing just about anything but that
It's understandable why Israel would hesitate even with its 300,000 strong army
IDF is made up of mostly conscripted soldiers who normally act as civilians once they've served their 2.5 year mandatory conscription. Not only that, IDF acts more like a police force than an army. Its soldiers simply don't have the training or mentality to fight militia groups in their home turf.
America itself doubts its capabilities no matter how it words it. This is a country that has yet to win against a guerilla army so it has experience when it comes to this
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Edit 2: above Hamas states the obvious
In my previous post I highlighted how disorganised the Israel military was in response to Operation Flood Al Aqsa.
This hasn't changed in the days. Israel is behaving more like a cornered animal lashing out than the so called 'strongest army in the Middle East.'
It has been dropping bombs on Syria, Lebanon and Egypt aimlessly, more out of anger than calculated strategy
Its efforts to pushing back against the Palestinian militia isn't going well either
in addition to naked, barbaric cruelty towards Gaza because it is not producing results elsewhere
The tweet below is important as Russia is an Israeli ally. The Israeli right wing has been very favourable towards Putin, even willing to disagree with the US and EU policies on Russia. However Israel repeatedly bombing Syria is quickly souring Russia on the country. While Putin doesn't want to go against Israel at this point, he has become increasingly critical of the country in the past couple of days.
Saudi went from making a half-hearted 'both sides need to stop statements to cutting ties with Israel (ties Israel and America have worked very hard to form) to outrightly condemning Israel's treatment of the people of Gaza.
Naturally, with all of this happening, Israel has responded, not with ceasing the bombardment of Gaza, but by killing and assaulting journalists covering the genocide.
so that it could committ war crimes without it being documented and seen by the world. War crimes such as announcing that they'd bomb a hospital in Gaza and giving doctors and nurses just hours to evacuate their patients.
This, btw, is part of the reason they cut electricity so that Palestinians can't post their own genocide on social media. Israel brutality is costing them allies but they have no intention of stopping.
Despite all of this, there has been a great deal of support for Palestinians globally
In short, this war is not going the way Israel thought it would. They didn't crush Hamas and the other Palestinian military groups immediately after the battle of Re'im. In fact, they're still struggling against those groups right now. They've been humiliated in front of the world after being revealed to be paper tigers and as such, they're going after Palestinian civilians in increasingly horrific ways.
The Palestinian resistance is still optimistic and they're still carrying out their plan. There's still hope for a future without apartheid.
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So, let's talk about Jet. Both the episode and the character. I think I've discovered here the core philosophical flaw that's really going to haunt the rest of the Last Air Bender's runtime and exponentially expand in Legend of Korra.
Before we really get into this, I will acknowledge a boldness to Avatar: The Last Air Bender. This came out in 2005. So, Bush has just been solidly re-elected, the imperial invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan are in full swing, and the American propaganda aparatus is firing on all cylinders to ensure public support for all of this. That a story about fighting colonialism and imperialism would even come out of a major studio (Viacom) at that time is nothing short of a miracle. It was a very brave story to tell at the time.
That being said, we still have a problem. Despite this story's core conceit of anti-colonialism, it remains a fact that, like most Western creatives, the creators of Avatar are Liberals. And while from a distance they might obviously be able to agree that imperialism is terrible, it very much hinders their ability to engage with liberation movements. A problem that we see for the first time in Jet.
Watching the episode, and seeing the way this story deals with this character, I can't help but be reminded of every time I've gotten into a conversation about Palastine and been brick walled by "But what about Hamas!?" Because that's exactly what the Freedom Fighters are meant to stand in for. They are the liberation movement that goes too far. Hamas, the IRA, the Mau Maus, etc. Righteous goals but just too much violence and inconvenience for Western Liberal sensibilities. Scratch a Katara and an Ozai bleeds, apparently.
Maybe Jet just had to be a sacrificial lamb to get the whole project off the ground. Like I said, the American propaganda aparatus was Hell bent on promoting not one but two imperialist wars at the same time, and maybe a "Well, don't fight colonialism too hard" is what was required to keep the green light on. But considering how quickly the Legend of Korra descends into bare faced anticommunism in its first season, I'm not really inclined to believe this was just a solid they were doing for the network.
And I guess the thing that really grinds my gears about this is that Jet is never forgiven for this. In a story where a genocidal warlord like Iroh can find redemption, the angry 16 year-old boy who lost everything to colonial atrocity can not. He is doomed and eventually condemned to death by this offense against the Liberal worldview of his creators. Executed for being unpalatable.
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I'm never forgetting the Palestinian babies that were left to starve to death then rot in their beds by the IOF.
I'm never forgetting the Palestinian doctors surrounded by bodies of dead children begging the world to stop the slaughter.
I'm never forgetting the Palestinian children who held a press conference in English to beg the world to stop murdering them because they want to live.
I'm never forgetting the Palestinian Priest who said "We will not accept your apology after the genocide" to the world.
I'm never forgetting the Palestinian Imam who used the speakers of the Mosque, not to call people to prayer but to call out to God while the world around them was burning from American supplied Israeli bombs.
I'm never forgetting the grandfather who held his dead grandchild in his arms. Or the father carrying the remains of his two children in plastic shopping bags. Or the mother holding her dead child in a shroud. Or the father sitting among the rubble after he lost his whole family. Or the girl trapped under a broken building begging for people to save her family first. Or the boy who cried when he saw his brother alive. Or the girl who asked if she was still alive after being pulled from the rubble. Or the boy who carried the remains of his brother in his backpack. Or the old man the IOF used for a photoshoot before they shot him dead after getting pictures. Or the little boy wearing plastic gloves to pick up the remains of his family. Or the graves desecrated. Or the body of that small baby girl left alone in a tent because no one knew who she was or if her family was alive, small and alone and not one person who knew her name to bury her. Or the young boy who was shot in the street while his sister watched from the window. Or the men and boys who were stripped naked in winter. Or those tortured. Or those made to stand in open graves. Or the people who were raped by IOF soldiers. Or Palestinian workers kidnapped by the IOF and then labeled with wristbands, each one reduced to a number, then made to walk back to Gaza to be killed in the world's largest open air concentration camp. Or the people of Gaza starving because Israeli Zionists are blocking aid trucks. Or the Israelis dancing and celebrating the death of Palestinians. Or the lies spread by Zionists and their supporters. Or the people profiting off the oppression and deaths of Palestinians. Or the people of the West Bank being killed or kidnapped by the IOF. Or old woman who was older than the creation of the terror state of "Israel" who was shot by snipers for saying that. Or the Israelis dressed up as Palestinians to enter a hospital and kill three Palestinians in their beds. Or every single Palestinian currently kept in an Israeli prison. Or the journalists, doctors, poets, men, women, children, and the unborn all massacred. Or the fact that WCNSF exists now. Or the woman who refused to wash the blood from her hands. Or the dead, unburied and unmourned.
I'm never forgetting those who chose silence in the face of a genocide.
I may not know all their names but I will not forget the over 30,000 Palestinians dead. Or the over 60, 000 people hurt. Or the unknown number of people missing, still lost under the rubble. Or the 12,000 children slaughtered. An entire generation crippled or murdered.
I will never forget these things when Palestine is free.
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Be furious.
Be absolutely enraged.
Images put together by wearthepeace on Instagram, found them here
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still absolutely cannot wrap my head around how ppl are not condemning the iof and calling for a permanent ceasefire even after the news broke out about hind. she was six years old. trapped inside a bombed car where five of her relatives are martyred. iof tanks laid siege on a six year old girl calling her mom for help. because she was scared and alone and starving. iof waited until the paramedics came to save hind and killed them all. remember hind. remember yousef. remember ahmed. death to israel. ceasefire now.
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"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 馃ズ馃ズ" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.
An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!
"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!
#Palestine#Yemen#it doesn't help that Israel and America have shut down any form of peaceful resistance for years#you can't deny people their right to live and then be upset when they react to save themselves
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yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.
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Every time people use ATLA as an example of progressive children's cartoons that was "unusally politically sound" I remember how there were two whole villain characters (including an orphan kid and an elderly Indigenous lady) who were victims of genocide and settler colonialism but chose to fight back and were thus rebranded in canon as terrorists for harming "innocents", as in, harming the very colonialists who have settled on their land and leeched off their resources and are definitely not in favour of the Fire Nation imperialist propaganda because they are cute little civilian folk ofc, and dont you get, the Fire Nation has good humans too 馃ズ馃ズ馃ズ.
And I'm not usually someone who makes those Hunger Games, AOT style comparisons to real life events etc but I am a literature student and I genuinely think it's not unsurprising the number of people who fall for American liberal "pacifist" propaganda in media, that paints revolutionaries and armed resistance as inherently evil, that has the central character call his indigenous love interest as bad as aforementioned canon "terrorists" because she wanted to kill the colonial officer who murdered her mother during a genocide, and she has to defend herself saying "no that was different Jet was killing civilians (aka settler colonialists are not = military and therefore are totally absolved of their crimes) I am killing a dangerous man (aka safe to blame imperial military)"
And like. Do you not see it. Do you just. Not. See it.
#YES YES YES#THIS WAS SO GOOD#THIS IS EVERYTHING#you have no idea how much this means to me#how much what's happening in Palestine now#and people denying it seem incredibly similar to people incapable of understanding narratives like this#also the idea that victims of trauma can become monsters#just validates the people who oppressed them in the first place#and also removes the consequences from the ones who caused them harm#this is so pervasive in stories about war or genocide#Uchiha clan#Kenny Ackerman or Ackerman clan in general#Eren Yeager
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The US and UK are now bombing Yemen because the country had the courage to fight for Palestine and stop the genocide by targeting the ships on the sea that provides weapons to Israel. The cruelty of the US is immeasurably evil and petty because this is also the same empire that backed the UAE/KSA coalition that bombarded Yemen and starved the people forcing the children to suffer from malnutrition for years and now decides to bomb the same country again so Israel can continue unabated in committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur
FREE PALESTINE.
#Palestine#people who sit back and claim 'no there's a better way to do things' have NO idea#what it's like to have a government control every part of your life#and be in constant danger everywhere you go#yes there are lines not to be crossed but have any of you even been paying attention?#if even one Palestinian had done something extreme it would be all over Western media#they have been treated worse than animals for over 7 decades and the only scape goat Israel has is their resistance fighters#and everything they claim about Hamas has all been proven false#what have these people done wrong?
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paramedics in Gaza stand on top of flattened buildings hearing voices from under the rubble until they fade out, standing helpless and crying because they just don't have enough resources to dig them out
the ministry of health in gaza had said that they are running out of fuel and will soon face complete shut down within 48 hours
the destruction is immeasurable and israel had used Gaza as a testing ground for its weapons in the past weeks. some reported the explosive power of these bombs amount to 13k tons, compared to the 15k ton atomic bomb
the bombing had literally been nonstop, nonstop
this is harrowing beyond words
israeli tears amount to nothing when a palestinian boy goes to buy bread and comes back to his entire family annihilated and he has to now identify them instead of having a meal with them
fuck israel
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the fact that the report [ file available at the bottom of this page ] listing every person who has been killed in palestine since oct 7th is over 210 pages long is fucking insane. the first of the 88 names are from one family. after that, the following 72 are from one family. one family. i am asking you from the bottom of my heart, do not become desensitized to these numbers. 7,028 killed. 2,913 of them children. thousands missing under the rubble. do not ever let these numbers be anything but shocking and disturbing to you.
#oh but don't you know how horrible Hamas is?#for real some people need to shut up#Israel has one of the most powerful governments out there#it needs to stop acting like it's powerless#or like a terrorist#Palestine
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This is definitely relevant what with the resolution that the US finally allowed (still couldn't vote for it), because it gives most of the control of aid into Gaza to Israel and we all know they won't be giving anything over easily. Can bet on some lies about how Hamas stole it or something.
(Oct. 26) @Mondoweiss: One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it once all the flour was unloaded.
They let humanitarian aid in. Then they bombed it so that Gaza would starve.
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