“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.” ― Neil Armstrong

(April 14,2024) No buzzing of drones over Gaza for the first time since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa storm, after Iran's retaliation🇮🇷🫂🇵🇸

The Palestinian source: Iran's attack was only from one front

🔹 Jenin al-Qassam telegram channel close to Hamas in the West Bank wrote: The recent attacks in the Golan were not from Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza or Yemen; It was from Iran.

🔹 Iran's attack was from a front thousands of kilometers away; What will happen if all fronts are opened at the same time?

🔹 This was a clear message to the enemy.

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Footage emerging from Iran shows air defence systems blocking ariel attacks in the sky. Citing a senior US official, ABC News reported that Israeli missiles have struck a site in Iran. According to Anadolu Agency, Iranian media reported an explosion near Isfahan's airport, impacting the 8th Shekhari air force base.

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There are people on Instagram's book reading community demanding creators don't show books by Russian authors and telling everyone to throw such books away ... ...like ??? How do their brains work? Why are western people sooo sure of their political correctness and shove it down aggressively down others' throats? Everyone can decide on their own what they want to do or not. It is always the western people policing and bullying everyone.

Also, ma'am, when are you throwing away all your American and British literature? Lemme know when please.

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Almost every country should sign out from the UN and establish a new fairer global organization without that 5 bloodthirsty veto-able countries in UNSC.

very funny that trump probably doesn't really know how to respond to kissinger's death, and his followers are waiting for him to form an opinion so they can react accordingly .

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle

✊🏻🇵🇸On April 5th,

Shut it down for Palestine❤️‍🔥

enough is enough actually. how much more. the usa is breeding ground for world terrorism. no more. we don’t want it anymore. bring back culture>capitalism

Hey! I'd really like to learn more about the (recent) history of Israel and wanted to ask if there are any books you can recommend?

Hey I've thought about this ask quite a while and there's just so much stuff about Israel, what exactly do you qualify as "recently"? Like since 1948, since the 1967, since 1990s etc?

There's quite a lot of books and tbh, it also really depends on what you're interested in and if course, you should also read Palestinian stuff along with it. Personally, the Israeli writers/intellectuals I really enjoy are Yehuda Amichai (mostly poetry but really political), Yoram Kaniuk (his book "1948" is, I think, the closest to the true story of the founding of the state from the Israeli POV that you're going to find, even if many people won't admit it, also his book about the Exodus is really really good) and Yeshayahu Leibowitz (who has some really interesting thoughts especially about the relationship between state and religion, which is a super complex issue in Israel). I also remember enjoying Rabbi Sachs' book about the future of the state of Israel and a lot of people say he's very approachable even if you know very little about this whole issue.

From the Palestinian side, of course reading Mahmoud Darwish is just as important as reading Yehuda Amichai is for Israel, Edward Said is also considered important enough that you have to read him even though I honestly am kinda ambivalent about him. There's also currently a lot of debate at least in Germany about the book "A minor detail" (which deals with "the other side" of Kaniuk's 1948) and while I felt like that book left a lot of things out (like the fact that all of the Israeli soldiers involved in the main action of the book faced criminal charges and the whole thing was not just treated as a minor detail but rather a big scandal in the Israeli army) it is an important part of the story.

If you want more recent history, I've read both Pfeiffer's biography of Bibi (which was HILARIOUS because that guy very obviously hated Bibi and was using the weirdest opportunities to be petty about him) as well as Bibi's autobiography and I feel like there is no understanding current Israel without understanding Bibi and while I absolutely have zero love for the guy as a person or a politician, he is also very much a product of his circumstances.

Also this isn't a book but my boyfriend is currently obsessed with a YouTube channel called "The Ask Project" where people can send in questions and he asks Palestinians or Israelis that, and I think a lot of the questions are good and he really makes an effort to be fair.

What's your take on vikings?

Just asking because I'm going to a medieval festival event dressed as one and I even got a wooden sword!

Ah dude I love vikings, my Special Interest a few years back was early iron age norsemen. I wrote a super detailed mythic norse setting for the TTRPG Dungeon World, read both the Poetic and Prose Eddas as research and made it my mission to try and imagine a myth based fantasy setting decoupled from viking lore's post-syncretist narrative. (practically all viking myths were translated and recorded by christian monks MANY hundreds years after most of their oral lifespans so there's a very obvious slant to most of them once you look a little closer).

I'm definitely not a professional expert but I really enjoyed the deep dive, I learned SO much.