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Boycott, Disrupt, Delay, and Embargo Israeli commerce until God comes back!!!!

To be very clear, this is the only way that can actually halt Israel's violence: imposing sanctions and arm embargo.

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People waiting the IDf to withdraw from the Rashid Street to back to their homes in the North.

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Humanity …to this tariffed day!!! Trade War.

“Complaint to Ea-Naṣir” (UET V 81)

To: Ea-Naṣir

From: Nanni

When you came here, you said, “I will give Gimil-Sin good ingots.”  You came here, and you said it to me, but you didn’t do it!  You supplied bad ingots to my messenger, and you said, “either take it or get lost.”  Are you really going to treat me this way, insulting me like that?

I even sent gentlemen like us to receive my financial capital, but you simply insulted me.  Once or twice you even sent them back, empty-handed, through enemy territory!  Do you think that anyone else among the merchants of Dilmun has acted this way to me?  But you – you even insult my messenger!

Just because you took a pound of silver from my estate, you think you can talk to me like this.  Yet I myself paid half a ton of copper to the palace on your behalf, and Shummi-Abum also paid half a ton of copper.  I only held back what we recorded in our contract at the temple of Shamash.  And how have you acted toward me for that copper?  You withheld my financial capital in enemy territory!

You owe me my financial capital, paid in full into my account.  You’ll learn that around here, I will not accept poor quality copper!  From now on, I’ll select it in my own courtyard, piece by piece, and take it myself – and because you’ve insulted me, I reserve the right to reject it.

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Using this post to try to wrap my head around the past week, from Gaza to Jenin. It’s very much understood now that Israel has merely shifted its active genocidal practices from Gaza to Jenin. Terrifyingly, it’s employing the exact same methods.

The people of Jenin have been ordered to evacuate their homes. Homes are being bombed, burned and destroyed. Water and electricity has been cut off and over 70% of infrastructure has been destroyed. The people of Jenin have been denied medical care as hospitals are put under siege.  Children in Jenin are being killed by sniper bullets in their heads.

Israel’s justification is also identical: to eliminate the resistance. 

It’s unfortunately a repeat from Gaza. Since the start of the year, 16 Palestinians have been killed as part of Israel's operation dubbed "Operation Iron Wall", and the situation is only intensifying. Don't know what else to say other than we really need to be aware and vocal about it.

Israel's genocide knows no bounds.

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I have been wondering if the reason the violence in the West Bank has not received much attention even from advocates who were rightfully vocal about Gaza is due to a lack of understanding of what and where Jenin is in relation to the West Bank. So here is a very, very quick run through that barely scratches the surface:

All of Palestine has been divided by Israel into three main parts.

Historic Palestine, referred to by the Zionist entity as Israel, where Palestinians (referred to as Arabs) live as second class citizens.

The West Bank, occupied by Israel and where Palestinians live in an ever shrinking landmass, continuously being chipped away at by violent Israeli settler mobs. This area is theatrically governed by Israel’s puppet, the Palestinian Authority (the PA), with an apartheid wall running through 80% of it and settler-only roads that render the territory into tiny, isolated bantustans. This is where Palestinians fight two fronts: the PA and Israel.

Gaza, where Palestinians are cornered into a small area and placed under an 18 year total siege by Israel, where even calorie intake is controlled by Israel. This area, likened to a concentration camp, is periodically used as a testing ground for weapons and is where Palestine's worst episode of the ongoing genocide took place between October 2023 and January 2025.

The West Bank and Gaza are not connected geographically. People in the West Bank can’t drive to Gaza and vice versa.

Now, the West Bank itself is also divided into three parts. For a visual representation of this, check out The Palestinian Archipelago but the three areas are:

Area A: comprised of 18% of the land of the West Bank, where administration and security matters are lead by the Palestinian Authority.

Area B: comprised of 22% of the land of the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority leads administratively, but share security with Israel. Riddled with Israeli checkpoints, this area sees the most dangerous examples of restriction of movement.

Area C: comprised of 60% of the land of the West Bank, where most of Israel’s illegal settlements are, and where Israel has full control, both administratively and security.

Understand this deliberate fragmentation; understand it from a settler colonial mindset of divide and conquer. Understand it as a way for Israel to fragment the Palestinian identity, to make it an almost impossibility for a Palestinian body to act as a sovereign. Understand it as Israel manipulates laws, including occupation law (!) to cast Palestinians and their situation as sui generis; a unique situation due to this fragmentation, which permits Israel to create new, unfounded laws to "control" the native population.

Jenin is in Area A of the West Bank; it has been under a brutal Israeli military assault that has intensified over the past few weeks, with dozens being killed, including children. Definitely not the first assault against Jenin in recent history (watch the documentary Jenin, Jenin for that), but extremely daunting as it emerges in the aftermath of Israel’s accelerated genocide in Gaza where a minimum of 180,000 Palestinians were brutally murdered in the span of 15 months.

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The Palestinian spirit is the epitome of strength and courage!!! #boycottandembargoisrael

These scenes of return are unprecedented in Palestinian history.

And you have to realise that these people are returning to destroyed homes and they know it. All of them said they will set up a tent on top of the rubble.

All of them are made to walk several hours to return to their homes in the north. Some even said they would do it even if they had to crawl.

What further living testimony do you need in order to understand that Palestinians will never give up their land and their right to return to their land?

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its time to take the turkey out of the oven. its done now.

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On the topic of the Doctor Who Christmas special ending on a shot of Bethlehem, I feel like it's an apt time to remind everyone that for a second year in a row, the real-life Bethlehem has canceled their Christmas in a show of solidarity with Gaza, which is continuing to face heavy bombardment and genocide by the Israeli forces

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28 December 2024.

"Here I am holding another child in my arms and surrounded by dozens of martyrs, and I know very well that even this picture will pass by like thousands of pictures before it.

Every day I post about our children under the rubble, about their screams that no one hears and about the mothers whose eyes have dried up from the abundance of tears.

I wrote about everything about hunger, oppression, the blood that has flooded our streets.

I thought one scream from a child would shake the conscience of the world, maybe a picture would hurt their hearts but the truth is no one cares.

There is nothing left that I haven’t talked about, and there has never been a day that I haven’t tried to make our voices heard, but it’s as if we are talking to the walls, as if the world is blind and deaf.

The amount of disappointment that I feel is not spoken about, even while I post, I feel as it is my duty to continue, not because there is hope, but because there is nothing else left for me to do but scream into the void."

— Nooh Al-Shaghnobi (member of the Palestine civil defence)

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Blue Dream 😍

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True nobility lives in Palestinian Blood 🩸

This is one of those images that I will never forget, one that should be etched into our collective memory of the genocidal horrors of Gaza.

This is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, forced to walk out of the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza towards Israeli tanks to be taken captive by Israeli forces. His whereabouts are still unknown since this picture was taken yesterday (28 December 2024) and the hospital has been burnt down since.

His crime? He maintained his oath as a doctor and refused to abandon his patients.

What kills me is that at least since October he made so many pleas and posted so many videos relaying the horrific situation as the hospital was being besieged and bombed constantly by Israel. For months. Yet, everyone let him down and his multiple calls were met by silence and inaction. The same silence and inaction that contributed to the killing of at least 54,000 Palestinians by Israel since October 7 of last year.

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List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war

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Pre-Tanagra Nude Figurine with jointed arms seated on a throne

Thebes

c. 350 B.C.

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The Literal Definitions of Country Names, North & Central America.

by Silent_Knowledge5197/reddit

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Nike phainomeride (”with the beautiful thighs”)

Myrina Tomb

150 - 100 B.C.

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