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designingmonkey · 6 months

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Again, the far right and far left show us what they really are by supporting Hamas. You can disagree with Israeli politics, you can support The Palestinian People but you should not support Hamas or this incursion. Hamas has betrayed Palestinians who live in a hell most cannot imagine. Think a place almost as packed as Kowloon, and just as corrupt. They have done nothing but line their pockets and stoke hatred, they use rape, torture, kidnapping and robbery to remain in power. Their hatred for Israel and its people is vile.

Butcher’s bill will be high; The innocent will pay, the young boys sent to fight on both sides will pay, the mother’s that won’t see their sons again will pay. But the leaders will not.

#israel #palestine #it’s always the innocent that suffer #terrorism #antisemitism #palestinian people

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queenie-says-free-palestine · 5 months

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"when my kids ask me, 'mom, does it hurt when we get bombarded? do we feel the pain, or do we just die at once?' and i have to tell them, 'no, dont worry. its not going to hurt.' their father reassures them, saying, dont worry. it just happens once, and thats it.' in the past, we would comfort our children, saying, 'dont worry. its going to be okay. its going to end soon. youll be fine. we'll be fine.' ... but now, every night, we tell them, 'dont worry. we're together, sticking together. if we die, we die together.'

-youmna el sayed, journalist

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #israel #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #save palestine #gaza strip #this is genocide #gazaunderattack #gaza genocide #palestinian #palestinian people #palestinian journalists

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licorice-lips · 4 months

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Okay, so what's happening in Palestine and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes/The Hunger Games have been on my mind lately (it's really all I think about, but okay), and I was thinking about the State of Nature of human beings and society as a whole and I got to some points to take out of my heart:

I've always been told that the world is a bad place, that the world is dark and bleak, the whole circus, and the first actual conversation I remember having about this was with my dad:

We had just left the theaters after watching Joker and I remember being really shocked and taken aback by the raw violence in it - not only the physical violence, but the underlying violence as well, the cruelty of it all - and my father saw this. I remember him saying in a kind of patronizing way that "that's the world" and that was the first time I remember being reluctant to accept that as a fact.

The second time I was put in contact with that point of view about the world was actually with my therapist: I was leaving an abusive relationship and I'm not sure whether she was referencing the abusive person's way of thinking or making a point to me about it, but she said that the world was cruel and egotistical. And once again I felt this really strong reluctance to accept that.

And it was only now, with TBOSAS and Palestine, that I finally pieced it together: I was reluctant because even if the world - the social and economic system we were raised in, the very system that depends on inequality and unfairness to prevail - is a bleak and cruel and unforgiving world, the same is not true at all for people because every time I look at people, there is always - amidst greed and cruelty and ignorance - someone, a lot of someones really, who stand up and do the right thing, like Katniss, or who is kind and protest in their own way, like Peeta.

I've read somewhere as well that anthropology has one main and silent principle: that people have always been people, in the sense that there were always people who loved each other so very much they were willing to die for them (it doesn't matter how different our concept of love is) but there were also people who drew dicks in walls because they were bored. And I know that has nothing to do with TBOSAS and the whole thing I was talking about in the beginning but bear with me for a second, I'll lead this back to where we started, okay?

When the Titanic was sinking (and I learned that from ashling on TikTok, okay) there was an ongoing stream of messages being sent everywhere in the seas that can be translated into messages of help, of worry, of discussions on how to help the Titanic and the people there, but not only that, the ship that rescued the people from Titanic, the Carpathia, actually almost burnt their engines trying to speed to the last coordinates of the Titanic so they could help out without thinking twice.

And that really struck me, not only because it's obviously a take on human kindness but because it resonates with what I was told before: the world is bleak - the very tale of the Titanic is the greed that created the catastrophe. But in the middle of that, around all of it, there are so many tales of compassion, humanity, and kindness that it's overwhelming, not only for the ships around the Titanic but in the very ship as well, like the musicians that stayed and played to the end to comfort the people.

And again, that reminds me of Palestine, how it's being destroyed by greed for oil and gas, how it's being destroyed by a belief system that dehumanizes Palestinian people. And still, in the middle of all of that, we see every day the Palestinian people fighting any way they can in the kindest of ways, by giving food to people even if they have little of it because they know their neighbors are starving, by going to bombarded places where there's shrapnel and rubble everywhere in flipflops and with no gear on because people need saving, by staying in occupied hospitals because their patients need them.

The courage of it all, the kindness, the fairness, and faith - it's all so Good it's almost suffocating. But more than that: the humanity with which we saw H'mmas' hostages being treated by them, the millions of people protesting everywhere in the entire world, the people crying all over TikTok, the people who are making themselves sick of preoccupation over those millions of people in Gaza and the West Bank. I look at this and it made me realize that the world might be dark, it might be cruel and unforgiving, but people are not.

And I stand for this: when it comes down to the people, we are good.

And it's really maddening to think about Snow and his own view of the world and how he thinks people at their very core are evil and therefore refuses to be influenced by every evidence of the contrary, by every tribute which shows kindness and compassion in the Arena, by every act of love and selflessness throughout not only his own book but The Hunger Games trilogy as well because it's how some people really view the world and project this to humans.

He refuses to see the humanity in Lucy Gray coming back to save him after the bombing of the Arena, or the humanity of Lamina killing Marcus out of mercy, or Reaper's insistence on remaining kind to Dill as well as the other fallen tributes. He refuses to see the kindness in Sejanus' insistence on honoring Marcus with their district traditions, the deep empathy and regret in Dean Highbottom for his own foolishness, or even Tigris's selfless acts to support her family in every way she could.

He refuses to see the kindness, the goodness, the selflessness in the middle of the dark and cruel environment - world - the Capitol had created for all of them.

But people have always been people, we've always been the Kindness, the goodness that makes us protest and boycott, the empathy that makes us sick at having to bear witness to such horrors that are being done to our own. And that's because - as I referenced in my other essay about this - we humans thrive on community.

When we talk about our State of Nature, I genuinely believe that, if we were in fact evil in our cores, we'd be unable to form communities because they can only be formed through connection. And the more I see people, the more I see attempt, after attempt, after attempt to connect with people any way we can: could be through our phones, watching and bearing witness to the pain of others; through our protests and marches, screaming for our own to be saved because we know they're hurting; we are, everywhere at every time, connecting with people, even people when shouldn't be connecting with - like villains such as Snow.

And I think the first weapon of brainwashing beliefs such as fascism, nazism, and Zionism, is the suffocation of our children's ability to connect - with a targeted group, at first, but then everyone else that protects or "sides" with the targeted groups. As I typed that, I remembered a video I saw of Israeli kids being taught a song about destroying Gaza and its people by their mother.

And that's so sad for so many reasons, but especially because the suffocation of our children's ability to connect is the very doom of their existence - not only because it's isolating but also because we only thrive when we cooperate, since the beginning of our History. To suffocate our ability to empathize is to doom them to a very isolated and fearing-based life, it's why great empires based on dictatorships have always fallen - because connected people do not betray, connected people do not falter in their loyalty, but people who are only together out of collaboration - like the careers, or the US and Israel? To gain something from it?

They cheat and betray, and that's no basis for a thriving society..

It's ironic, really.

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helpfree-palestine · 4 months

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bisan is live right now and i seriously don’t understand how people can’t see what is going on

as she is speaking, you can hear the incredibly loud buzzing of the israeli war drones

they’ve nicknamed the war-crafts zennane because of their loud buzzing

she’s talking about the kids who were kidnapped by israeli soldiers and the massacre that happened earlier that day

she’s talking about the desperate measures that palestinian people need to go to just to survive

she’s talking about her life before october 7 and how much she wanted to grow up and be an influencer

at one point, she starts crying because of how much she just wants to go back to living normally

she’s talking about how a hospital that helped service 10,000 people was targeted in october

someone asks her what she wants more than anything in the world, she answers that she wants to one day be able to forget the horrors of what is happening

she’s talking about what it feels like to lose EVERYTHING you’ve been planning for your entire life

these people have little to no food, no clean water, no hygiene products, nothing.

bisan was grateful to be able to eat a moldy orange for breakfast because even though it’s not good for her health, it’s her only option.

as the live is going on, two massive bombs strike right near her which shake the entire ground

they are being wiped off of the face of the earth and people are looking away

you read about this kind of stuff in history books and always think to yourself, “i would definitely help these people if this was happening now”.

but IT IS HAPPENING NOW

you may think that you can’t help but you CAN

boycott whatever you can that supports israel because that is funding the genocide of these people

it doesn’t matter what you think about boycotting, it absolutely works. support businesses that support palestine and boycott the ones that are against them

don’t turn your back to genocide.

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quimbyflether · 1 month

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girlactionfigure · 5 months

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#Palestinian People #Jews

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jonlisterarchive · 6 months

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Waiting for the funeral to begin. Gaza city, 2000

#a funeral in gaza #gaza city #gaza #palestine #palestinian people #palestinian #documentary photography #photojournalism #colour photography #kodachrome #jon lister #leica m6

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the-lady-maddy · 1 month

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eretzyisrael · 8 months

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As the publicity increases for the new "Golda" movie, and anti-Israel activists are freaking out over the possibility that people might watch it and learn that Israel isn't wholly evil, let's revisit the quote that the haters consider the most damning and racist from Golda Meir.

Wikipedia traces Golda Meir's supposedly bigoted quote denying that there were a Palestinian people.

1969: "There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country from them. They did not exist."

Fact check: True. The quote is often butchered, but her words are precise: There was no independent Palestinian people in a Palestinian state. It was considered "southern Syria" by the Arabs and Westerners included Transjordan in "Palestine" which usually meant Biblical Israel and Judah. While there were isolated exceptions, Palestinian Arabs did not consider themselves a "Palestinian people," by and large, until the 1960s.

1970: "When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area before the First World War when Britain got the Mandate over Palestine? What was Palestine, then? Palestine was then the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraqian border. East and West Bank was Palestine. I am a Palestinian, from 1921 [to] 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such thing in this area as Jews, and Arabs, and Palestinians, There were Jews and Arabs....I don't say there are no Palestinians, but I say there is no such thing as a distinct Palestinian people."

Fact check: Mostly true. I would argue that by 1970 there was an emergent "Palestinian people" that had been formed by decades of Arab mistreatment of and marginalization of Palestinian Arabs - and the Arab League decisions to maintain their stateless status until Israel is destroyed.

What she didn't say is that the creation of a Palestinian people was specifically to deny the legitimacy of the Jewish state and ultimately meant as a weapon to destroy Israel. Their Arab "brethren" (and their own leaders) did everything they could to destroy Israel, and when they couldn't do it militarily, they decided that they could appeal to the Western proclivity to root for the underdog. Before 1967, Israel was the clear underdog, so they needed to create a Palestinian people who could make Israel look like the bully and the tiny, stateless Palestinian people as the hapless victims.

Meir's comments were in the context of that deliberate re-framing of history, as she witnessed this change in the meaning of the word "Palestinian" and the emergence of the new phrase "Palestinian people" to refer to Arabs.

#golda meir #palestinians #palestinian people

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designingmonkey · 6 months

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Just talked to a friend in Israel, his son has been called up, spoke to a Palestinian waiter at my local Arab joint, he’s not heard from his family. Both are scared but really fucking angry at Hamas. For Hamas to have entered Israel proper like this and to have kidnapped citizens including some from other countries is beyond stupid and clearly shows the “old guys” who knew better aren’t running the show anymore.

There were Saudi/Israeli talks in which KSA was trying to get more for The Palestinians and this just ended that. Top it off, Iran has openly said they’re supporting Hamas.

Because some of the taken civilians are foreigners there are reports of sog teams from Poland and other EU/NATO nations to extract Polish/EU citizens but no one is sure about rescuing captives. There is one carrier group en route and the posibilites of US teams already there, there’s talk of Jordanian teams. Supposedly some of the captives might be Chinese citizens (God I hope not) Israel is planning a ground incursion… that will be brutal. The bill will be high.

Iran is going to have to back Hamas down quick or prepare to eventually take a hit from more than the US. The solution to this will be very ugly and usual the poor people in Gaza will pay the price.

#Israeli #palestine #Hamas #terrorism #antisemitism #palestinian people

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vintage-middle-east-life · 6 months

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Palestinian women from nazareth in 1930

#vintage middle east #middle east #old photo #old phography #palestinian #arabian woman #arabian girl #palestina #palestinian people #black and white photo #black and white photography #1930s

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this-world-of-beautiful-monsters · 6 months

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hassanatforusmk · 6 months

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A child has his first meal after being rescued from under the rubble of his family home that was bombed by an air strike in Gaza. 2.10.22

طفل يتناول وجبته الاولى بعد انقاذه من ركام منزله المدمر في غزة

#gazaunderfire #stand with gaza #gaza news #free gaza #Gaza #gaza strip #israel is committing a full blow genocide #genocide #one of them is in the top 5 armies in gje world and is backed by the fucking us and most of the western ready to send it billions and arms #isreal #israel #war #palestinian people #palestinian #palestine #palestinians

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claraameliapond · 4 months

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Martin Kerr's beautiful version of "Away in a manger", telling the truth of Palestinian children and people this Christmas, literally in the exact holy land

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scooobies · 4 months

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#palestinian people #palestinian art #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine #anti zionisim

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quimbyflether · 24 days

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