#Alon Liel

[mounadiloun]

L'apartheid dans l'entité sioniste vu par ses dirigeants

On se souvient de l’hostilité à laquelle avait été en butte l’ancien président des États Unis Jimmy Carter  après la publication en 2006 de son livre «Palestine: la paix, pas l’apartheid». Ce président qui avait somme toute laissé de lui une image assez sympathique dans l’opinion internationale  avait pu être dès lors affublé du qualificatif infamant d’antisémite. Ce qui est certain est que ce…

[girlactionfigure]

His family is asking for urgent prayers. 

His name: ינון שבתאי בן מרים

Yinon Shabtai Ben Miriam 

And the other soldiers injured in the drone attack earlier today also need prayers. 

אביב בן רינת 

Aviv Ben Rinat

אדר בן אלינור

Adar Ben Elinor

איתי בן הילה

Itay Ben Hila

איתמר בן אתי אסתר 

Itamar Ben Eti Esther 

אלון בן עדנה

Alon Ben Edna

אלעד בן שרית

Elad Ben Sarit

אמיר בן הדר

Amir Ben Hadar

ארז יהונתן בן שרה

Erez Yehonatan Ben Sarah

בועז מרדכי אברהם בן שרית

Boaz Mordechai Ben Sarit

גיא בן איילה

Guy Ben Ayala

גלעד בן דורית

Gilad Ben Dorit

דוד ישראל בן עליזה נעמי

David Israel Ben Aliza Naomi

יהודה בן עליזה 

Yehuda Ben Aliza 

יהודה בן שרון

Yehuda Ben Sharon

יהונתן יוסף בן שירה

Yehonatan Yosef Ben Shira

ליאל בן שרית

Liel Ben Sarit

מתנאל יאיר בן אורית

Matanel Yair Ben Orit

עומרי בן שרון

Omri Ben Sharon

עמית בן חנה

Amit Ben Chana

רואי בן עפרה

Roee Ben Ofra

שניאור זלמן דוד בן רחל

Shnior Zalman David Ben Rachel

If you pray, pray. 

If you don’t pray, now would be a good time to start. 

@HilzFuld

Refuah Shlemah.

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

The IDF estimates, maybe based on a baby bottle that was found where hostages are known to have been held, in the basement of the Rantisi hospital in Gaza, that a woman who was kidnapped while pregnant, has given birth in captivity. That makes her child the youngest hostage, at the age of a few days at most.

While our kids and babies are being held hostage in dark basements and tunnels, Israel is offering Gazans medical assistance for their kids. At this link you can listen to a subtitled conversation (the article is in Hebrew, just scroll to the first embedded vid), where an IDF officer is offering the Shifa hospital manager to place at the entrance to the building 37 incubators and 4 respirators for the kids and babies. The officer also vows to the manager to help protect as much as possible the patients, wards and staff in the hospital. During the conversation, the offer is accepted, but the IDF says later it was rejected. As I can't see who would outrank the hospital manager, I'm guessing the "No" came from Hamas.

Rockets continue to be fired into Israel. Today, a rocket barrage at Tel Aviv, at a kids playground, left one person seriously wounded, and two moderately.

Thank you so much to the Israeli Nonnie who sent me this vid. Yes, that is exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned in my update yesterday, this is Hamas attacking Palestinians in order to take over this aid truck and get all of the food for themselves (the relevant footage starts 11 seconds in):

Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been the British Prime Minister, and who British Jews called out on antisemitism, was interviewed by Piers Morgan. He was asked 15 (arguably 16) times to answer the question whether Hamas is a terrorist group, but refused to give a reply.

I was listening to this interview with Ella Keinan (it's in Hebrew), an Israeli travel vlogger, who has started posting about the Israeli POV since Oct 8. She didn't say anything I didn't know, but I thought the way she phrased things was powerful, so allow me to translate:

They created a brand called Free Palestine, which is not actually freeing the Palestinians and giving them what they want, but under this brand it's possible to do anything nowadays, it's possible to rape, it's possible to slaughter, it's possible to kidnap, it's possible to abuse, to kill, it's possible to hurt and kill Jews in LA, it's possible to attack them at universities, and you'll still be applauded. Meaning, you'll still be popular. That's how powerful this brand is.

Meanwhile, Israel's foreign diplomacy has officially been shut down due to a lack of budget. A lot of government offices are being shut down, and their budget is being re-directed to help the evacuated, the families of the murdered, the injured, financially supporting people whose businesses have collapsed, compensating those whose homes were destroyed by Palestinian rockets. So when you hear people dismissing regular Israelis' posts as paid propaganda by the Israeli government... what a fucking joke, Israel can't even currently pay professionals in this field, let alone regular people.

This is 19 years old Noa Marziano.

Yesterday, Hamas published a vid of her as a hostage. The Israeli media refused to cooperate with the psychological warfare, no one published it. Today, the IDF was able to confirm that Noa was murdered in captivity.

This is 12 years old Liel Hetzroni.

Her mother Shira, after gaving birth to her and her twin brother, suffered brain damage, and couldn't take care of her kids, so they were raised by their grandparents. Liel's grandfather and brother's bodies were already found. Today, after having been missing for 38 days, Liel's death was also pronounced.

This is 75 years old Vivien Silver.

She was a peace activists. Among other things, she used to volunteer her time driving Gazans to medical treatments in Israel. She was thought to be kidnapped in Gaza, but today her body was identified.

May their memories be a blessing.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[secular-jew]

These are 9 of the 10 children murdered in cold blood at Kibbutz Be'Eri (10-month old Mila Cohen is missing from the pics). Let's remember their names:

Alon Even

Yahel Sharabi

Yanai He Tzroni

Carmel Bachar

Lior Tarshansky

Liel Hetzroni

Noya Sharabi

Ido Even

Tahel Bira

השם יקום דמה Hashem yikkom dama

השם יקום דמו Hashem yikkom damo

עליו השלום alav ha-shalom

May Hashem avenge their blood. May their memory be a blessing. A"H. BDE.

[animeaandp]

[Emptying out my drafts]

MHA Prompt Based on song "Parachute" by Liel Bar-Z

Oboro x reader x Aizawa (if you squint) (think sort of Wednesday Addams vibes)

Your quirk; manifestation; “The Power of Words”. Words spoken coming into being, more so if done with intention, including singing. Lucky you, you had the voice of an angel. Sing about beautiful birds and they’ll appear from thin air. Sing a sweet winter holiday song and suddenly the town is covered in snow and police flooded with reports of fat white guys trying to fit down chimneys.

You are Present Mic’s twin sister. Growing up you spent plenty of time with him and his friends, being the ‘responsible adult’ entrusted by the actual adults to ensure they didn’t get into trouble. As far as twins go, you shared key physical features, sans eye colors; you had red eyes verses your brother’s greenish/yellow, and your personalities were complete opposites. Your voice hardly rose above a whisper and you preferred sitting alone in silence over everything else. You were very bright, capable, with great potential. Life was yours as you wanted it, however, you didn't seem to care.

It’s not that you didn't take care of your health, but you had no goals in life, no dreams, anything you wished for. You had no strong feelings, were incredibly difficult to approach, and showed zero interest in getting close to others. The aura you gave off told anyone within an ounce of their right mind to give you a wide girth. “I’d cut out my vocal cords with a rusted butter knife” you said when asked what'd you do if you had Hizashi's quirk. Oboro fell into a fit of laughter while your brother rightfully took offense, but Aizawa felt a chill run up his spine.

You lived your life in the grey, and the longer Aizawa observed you, the further in it seemed you walked. His concern grew so much his heart hurt just to think of you. It’s the way your eyes never truly looked alive. Sometimes he’d just watch you, and the way you carried yourself personified 'dead man walking'. Everything you did, every way you moved, and behaved, there was just…nothing, behind any of it. A shell; a doll, doing as it should and nothing more. Hizashi refused to look too closely and left it at “that’s just how she is man..” Oboro either wasn’t aware or always busy attempting to find the bright side, like laughing at that disturbing answer you didn’t hesitate to come up with. Aizawa wished he could’ve been more like that for you. Not that you showed it but Oboro was definitely your favorite of your brother's friends. You never said a word against him or to having him around so much. He was the only one allowed in your room as well so long as he sat quietly didn’t move an inch touch any surface and barely breathed (it wasn’t that much of a privilege). There was a time Aizawa believed the two of you might be growing 'close' resulting in Hizashi causing a scene at the beach. He demanded Oboro atone for the sins of coveting something as precious as his sister with his life. It was funny at first but the crowd of beachgoers, team of lifeguards, angry sea-turtles, and that one baby might’ve gone too far. You continued reading your book and acting like you didn't know any of them.

The memories make Aizawa smile to himself but there it is again, that ache in his chest. Oboro tried to add color to your life, Hizashi tried to be a supportive brother, but Aizawa never found a way to solidify his place in your corner. He couldn’t lighten the mood, or seamlessly change topics. And the one golden opportunity he had ended up being the last time you’d see or speak to each other for many, many years.

——The golden opportunity:

The boys were having a sleepover at Hizashi's parents house during a school break, a common occurrence. Your room was past the guest bathroom and where you stayed holed up most of the time. (Despite their best efforts you had zero interest to partake in a ‘2v2’ or whatever they called those video games.) Aizawa had gotten up in the middle of the night to use the restroom but on his way out heard you singing. Not that it wasn’t common knowledge, but Aizawa never admitted how beautiful he found your voice. A few times his friends would give him grief for nodding off or zoning out and he never defended himself. It would be too embarrassing to admit that your voice soothed him to the point of rest. So it’s difficult to walk back downstairs when your voice was up here.

He meant to only listen for a moment, and with the door cracked he’s lucky you had your headphones in and back turned. However he ends up wishing you had heard him enter. You would’ve stopped singing, scolded him, then sent him on his way, and that would be the end of it; everything back to normal. Instead you carry on singing, hunched over scattered papers with lyrics scribbled here and some crossed out there. Your song writing was the one thing that comforted Aizawa’s concerns about you. He even secretly found out what specific kind of paper you used so to restock it whenever he noticed it looking low.

“I did it, I did I jumped I stepped right off that cliff without a parachute”

Aizawa frowns. This song sounded different

“..and no part of me knew how But the moment came and it had to be now, so, I did it, i did I jumped..”

The honesty in your words crawled up his back and it feels hard to breathe

“..No promises, or thoughts Just hope That I could trust myself enough to jump..”

These were your words and thoughts, and his fears being realized-literally manifested

“..deep inside I’m sure i knew That this was something i was born to do To take off and leave And step right off that cliff and fall without a parachute-“

He didn’t mean what followed. Any of it. He swore to himself for days it was an accident.

The slam of the door behind him Making you jump out of your skin and ripping off your headphones Looking down at you with hatred The first real facial expression you show him being fear-no, pain Heavy and shaky tears in your eyes Watching him desperately throw your desk in disarray Kicking the bin in pure spite and cursing you when he finally left Forcing you to your knees to pick it all up

He snatched his bag from downstairs and stormed out in the middle of the night. Maybe all of his internal worrying and anxiety for your wellbeing finally boiled over and that’s why he lost it. It’s not like he’s never heard you singing morbid songs, but hearing you explicitly say you wanted to-… “damn you.” The next morning he just said something about not feeling well to explain himself. He avoided going back over to Hizashi’s house for a while and any other possibility of running into you. Thinking of you was just unbearable now and relief didn’t come until you went off to college, choosing not to follow your brother to UA.

But then Hizashi took a break from school when he heard you’d been in an accident. Having just lost Oboro his heart couldn’t handle it and he decided he’d make up the missed time during summer or something, but not being there for you wasn’t an option like it was for Aizawa. After Oboro’s death his feelings towards you twisted further. Concern, anxiety, anger, and something close to resentment all molded together. He’d have to be all alone for the rest of the school year thanks to you. It was unfair of him and he knew it. You’d been caught in the cross fire of a villain attack and got blasted away with some debris. When you woke up in the hospital your eyes opened yet couldn't see anything. They said there was a chance some of your vision could be restored but the truth was that even then; you were legally blind. With Hizashi by your side he grieved and expressed every emotion for you, as you sat stoic in your bed, squeezing his hand.

It took a long time to adjust and your brother was there every step of the way. He helped you move into a place much closer to UA so even after you got the hang of things, if anything happened, he could be there. Current technology couldn’t fix your sight but it had advanced enough that you didn’t need a seeing eye dog. Your walking stick had sensors as well as all of your shoes, and your brother had some more installed around your home. It all relayed back to a necklace that you kept on, a minimalistic choker, to alert you of your surroundings. It helped speed up the adjustment period but your life was still flipped upside down. You had to switch schools to UA since you moved and take modified courses to account for your disability. You had to learn braille as well and sharpen all of your senses substantially if you wanted to regain your independence. You needed to memorize routes around town, how to tell time and direction, what to do if you ever get lost. Everything.

When Hizashi finally returned to school he was more worn out and depleted than you were. He still worried of course and every other day debated dropping out to find a job and help, maybe even move in. You didn’t need that level of care and Aizawa tried reminding him that you were perfectly fine on your own. Sometimes it was well meaning sometimes leaning towards selfish and fueled a few arguments. At no point did you express gratitude for all your brother has done and Aizawa firmly believed you were a toxin he should let go of. By the time they graduated things had mostly settled but Aizawa wanted nothing to do with you.

—

Years pass and Aizawa grew into the adored instructor for class 1-A. He dedicated himself to preparing them for the life of a hero and cared deeply for their wellbeing. It made it impossible to imagine that he was once so heartless and selfish. At some point he began to realize how distorted his perception of you had been. He explains this to his friend and asks for advice on how to fix things. "I don't know man, that's a lot to try and unpack. Honestly, your best bet might just be talking to her."

"What; face to face?"

"Yeah, she doesn't work too far from here, in fact she's working tonight."

"..."

"..Look, I know what my sister is like, how she's always been. I used to worry about her as well especially after Oboro then more so after her accident. But I don't anymore and I think it's time you didn't either. At the very least you owe her an apology."

Easier said than done.

A couple hours later and Hizashi jumped as Aizawa burst through the doors absolutely fed up-in disbelief that he even tried. "Whoa whoa wait! What happened?!" He chased after him but stopped short. "Not a damn thing's changed!" Hizashi tried asking what happened the next day but Aizawa was still in too foul a mood, so he goes to see you instead. The following afternoon he pulls him aside during their lunch break to talk about it. Aizawa pushes his meal away suddenly disinterested, "What else is there. I tried and wasted my time." "'Tried'?" Hizashi wanted to understand his friend's side of things but "you didn't try; you did the exact same thing as you did back then. So now that you have one more thing to apologize for, go and actually talk to her." Aizawa’s left with his thoughts but he can't stop grumbling about what happened the first time.

-- A couple nights ago

Aizawa found the place and couldn't believe he was really doing this in the spur of the moment. The lounge wasn't on a main street, it's entrance technically down an alley, but the line to get in stretched around the block. He realized he was severely underdressed as well. He'd never heard of this place either, so why did it seem so popular? Hizashi warned Aizawa to remember "you're going as Aizawa Shota, not Eraserhead." A vague but clear warning that this place may not be up to 'hero-code'. He scoffed, thinking 'just one more thing'. So far there hasn't been any suspicious activity or shady characters though, only the complete opposite. Stepping inside was more of the same; swanky from floor the ceiling. The space was large and packed. Every bar stool, booth, and bistro table filled. Aizawa finds a seat at the back, not really here for the show just a moment of your time. Hizashi said you knew that he was teaching at UA alongside him, "She's never asked about you but doesn't seem displeased when I talk about you either, so who knows how she'll react."

A few minutes later the band comes out to get setup before you take your place center stage. Aizawa expected a roar of applause but instead the room gave a surprising show of respect and immediately fell silent. 'Impressive' Aizawa thinks. You looked well, healthy, surprisingly more...put together, than he expected. He frowns though. That same look on your face still made his heart drop even after all these years. Now with your glowing red eyes washed and pale; if you held your breath you could pass for a corpse. He no longer wanted to be here He didn't want to do this He didn't want to see you He stands up and makes his way back towards the door once the band begins playing, hoping no one will notice. In turn, he misses the subtle shift in your demeanor, only hearing the band stop for a moment before picking up another tune. Aizawa nearly escaped before being thrown back in time. Every muscle in his body goes stiff hearing those words again. He ends up racing out and all the way back to UA. There were so many things causing Aizawa pain but none more than the fact that you clearly did that on purpose. You knew he was there.

— present day

He came back to this vile place with an even worse attitude than before. This time Hizashi set things up for you two to meet before the lounge opened, meaning there was no rhyme or reason for Aizawa to try and run away again. The staff sits him by the stage and offers a drink while he waited for you to come out. Aizawa notices you before he can see you; the people prepping to open calmly stop what they're doing and leave the floor. Like a ghost you slide into the chair opposite him, not making a sound at any point. For whatever reason here you held authority and everyone admired you. Yet you stare right at him with those damned dead eyes.

"I hate those eyes."

"I know."

So that's what your voice sounded like now

"You know why.?"

"How could I; you don't even know why you hate me"

"I do hate you”

"I know."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Well, this has been a wonderful apology, I'll be sure to tell my brother how you fell to my feet groveling and begging forgiveness."

"Sit back down."

"Or what?? I doubt you can afford to trash the place."

"Just sit down...please."

You pause before gladly slipping back into your chair, "Wow, I always believed that I'd remember my final moments before death and going to heaven but poof here I am! Aizawa Shota saying 'please' to me.."

"..."

"...I can only afford you so much patience Aizawa. Why are you here."

"..."

"..."

"You look well. Heathy, happy.."

"Anyone else would love that for me."

"...I do."

"You don't."

"..No, I don't and that's why I'm here..I'd like to apologize for that." Aizawa sits up and it's now or never to man up and offer the apology you deserved. "I have been unfair to you, held prejudices for no real reason and was a poor person when I was younger...and it seems that I still am. I only have myself to blame for the years of upset i've carried believing that you were the issue instead of realizing how careless I was myself. You're right I don't understand my feelings towards you. I'm sorry for making that your problem." It was difficult to get the words out but there is a weight off his shoulders now. This was a start.

You stay silent for a moment before sighing and relaxing back in your chair. "Forget your apology Aizawa. Just tell me what I ever did to make you hate me so much." He holds his tongue and reminds himself that it was a time for honesty not relieving pent up emotions. "My hatred stemmed from concern for you and your wellbeing. You seemed like a deeply disturbed child when we were growing up. I worried, we all did."

"Hmm" you noodle over his words, "you thought I'd kill myself.?"

"...I doubted your will to live, yes."

"Why?"

"'Why?' Who wouldn't?? You were always so morbid and talked about death like it was this beautiful thing you couldn't wait to try."

You sigh and mumble something under your breath as you lean forward in your chair. You hold out your hand to Aizawa. "Take it."

"What??"

"Take my hand. Hold it. I'll show you something."

Your fingernails are well manicured, skin well moisturized; it was a nice normal hand, yet he hesitates. How could he hold something he's always perceived as lifeless? Your hand didn't flinch, shake, or sway as you held it out to him right now; as still as a doll, as still as always. He finally dares to reach out and fit his hand around yours. You chuckle feeling the shiver run through his body from the contact, "Honestly you're the worst. Children aren't even this afraid of me." "Cut me some slack; I used to have nightmares about finding your body, or of finding your brother finding your body." His hand begins to relax around yours as you prop your head up on your other one. "Why though? What have I ever done to make you think that I was suicidal, name one instance that someone could mistake for suicidal tendency." You feel the roll of his hand with yours and slowly start to trace his hand back as he thought. "Well" but he's stumped. Why was nothing coming to mind?? You used to haunt his thoughts but now that he needed those memories to justify his fears he's coming up short.

"Tough one?? How about this then: when have I ever actually tried to kill myself or outright said that I would?" He scoffs tangeling his fingers between yours, "Easy. That horrid song you keep tormenting me with." You laugh, "Sorry, couldn't resist when I realized you were here. I bet your expression was priceless. Also, that song isn’t about what you think it is.”

"How did you know I was here..?"

"I knew right away; I'd know you anywhere."

"..."

"Does hearing that make you uncomfortable."

"Not as much as playing handsys with you right now does. Why am I doing this again?"

"Right. Do you notice it yet?"

"Notice what."

"How warm it is."

"..."

"That there's the exact same amount of blood pumping through my veins right now as yours. That I'm just as alive and well as you are."

"I see."

You drag your fingers through his and trace his hand with both of yours now. "I can understand your initial concerns. I was an unusual kid, I'm still unusual, but don't forget that you were just a child as well. You weren't fully developed or aware and still perceived things with a distorted point of view." His fingers mold around your hand as you familiarized yourself with his touch. You can feel how intently he was paying attention to you right now. "I scared you, but I have never been suicidal or wishing to die. Sure my interests and the things that I enjoyed were on the morbid side of things, but so what? I find it wonderful and magical to be able to peak around the corner that every living thing must turn. Not everyone loves the same things about life as you Aizawa, and you fail to understand that, so you could never imagine that I loved living at all." You caress his hand, feeling how strong and rough it is, yet reliable and capable of being tender. "Your students are very lucky to have someone like you in their corner. Almost makes me jealous."

"Y/n-" "Don't apologize anymore Aizawa. I never blamed you for our relationship straining or the discord between us. You only ever cared about me. It must've felt impossible trying to think of a way to help." You release his hand and smile as you hold your own, "My brother already had the advantage of not needing to do much, and Oboro was a natural..."

"...This is the first time he's come up between the two of us."

"Yeah"

"...You and I never talked about what happened."

"no.."

Why is it that the only true emotions he's ever seen you show were sad ones... His hand carefully reaches for yours, thumb tracing over your knuckles as his fingers wrap around your fist. "I'm sorry for your loss, y/n...truly...I wasn't there for you when you needed someone, and from the bottom of my heart I have regretted that. I know how much you cared for each other.”

"..."

"..."

"Ha, what a cruel man, making a feeble blind woman cry like this."

"Nah you're fine" he smiles softly as you wiped your face, and before either of you realize it he's brushing away the last of them himself. “You’ve grown up beautifully. I wish I hadn’t wasted my chance to admire that.” You chuckle leaning into his hand, “You’re talking like I’ve got one foot in the grave. We’re the same age you know.” “That’s how I know you’re getting old.” Soon you need to start rehearsals but leave Aizawa with your number. “Let’s catch up again some time. I think Oboro would like it if all of us visited him together.”

“He would. I would as well.”

“Alright then…wanna stay for the show?”

“Hell no.”

You laugh and wave goodbye over your shoulder as you head one way and Aizawa the opposite. He’s looking forward to learning to meet you in the middle, and the four of you all being together again soon.

[natureismynature]

if you had to assign at least 10 qsmp characters songs that fits them. what qsmp characters would you choose and which songs would it be.

(and feel free to explain your reasoning behind the choices, but you don't have to)

OOHHH FUN ASK! Thank you Anon! Now, sorry if this takes me really fuckin long to answer because I am gonna be thinking about my answers very deeply-

Foolish - Parachute by Liel Bar-Z ("I did it, I did, I jumped, I walked right off that cliff without a parachute" is SUCH a banger way to describe how qFoolish lives his life. He would just jump into situations and make brash decisions without a fallout plan JUST because he's curious about what would happen.)

Badboyhalo - Momento Mori by Fish in a Birdcage ("Momento Mori, leaves a debt. You haven't paid it yet. I never wanted to sleep" HELLO?? "My suit stayed the same, can't remember my own name, inside a timeless cage" need I explain myself???)

Jaiden - Who Am I by Besomorph ("You've given us everything and nothing at all, so why do you build us up to crumble and fall?" "I'm falling apart at the seams, I can't deny, I'm losing grip of what I knew" Just thinking about how terrible it must have felt for her when she realized she used to be part of the organization that is causing so much pain to her and her friends, yet she's still powerless... GHHH)

Baghera - Rät by Penelope Scott ("I came from scientists and atheists and white men who kill god, they make technology high quality complex physiological, experiments and sacrilege in the name of public good, they taught me everything, just like a daddy should" Thinking about Baghera thinking the Federation's her only family now... AUGHHH"

Forever - Give a Little by LeGrand ("Everyone projecting all their dreams on me, a million life plans of what they want me to be" Dude, listening to this song while thinking about Forever's story ever since he became the president? It hurts. "Just give a little, give a little, give a little, until you disintegrate")

Pac - Ship in a Bottle by fin ("You set sail alone, there is no crew. No one on deck who can help you, this is all your own battle to win, this is your ship and you are the captain" His whole story during the Happy Pills arc!! He was alone at that moment, driving his own boat, trying to save his friend and himself and everyone who could potentially be affected.)

Cellbit - Stronger by The Score ("I write truths and never fiction, my disease is what you fed, I can't stop with my ambition, like a missle on a mission, I'm a force that you will dread" Cellbit's way of dealing with the Federation, so unrelenting, never ending. They keep pushing him down and he always comes back)

Tubbo - Middle Finger by Bohnes ("So I put my middle finger up, I'm done being your slave. My generation's had enough and you should be afraid" His beef with the Federation will always be famous <3)

Roier - Pretender by AJR ("I'm a good pretender, won't you come see my show? I've got lots of problems, well, good thing nobody knows" IT'S LITERALLY HIM "Don't you think I'm clever? We laugh at all the same jokes")

Etoiles - Do What I Gotta by Naethan Apollo ("Imma do what I gotta. This city got issues, lucky for us, though, I'm a one-man armada" I don't even know enough words to express how ETOILES this song is. Just- just listen to it idgsjs)

[capybaracorn]

Egypt says it will join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ

Cairo says the move is due to Israel’s worsening attacks against civilians in Gaza.

(12th of May 2024)

[See article for the embedded videos]

Egypt says it will formally join the case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday that Cairo intended to join the case due to escalating Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians.

“The submission … comes in light of the worsening severity and scope of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the continued perpetration of systematic practices against the Palestinian people, including direct targeting of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure in the Strip, and pushing Palestinians to flee,” the ministry said in a statement.

South Africa brought its case against Israel in January, accusing the country of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza, which began in October, has surpassed 35,000, and most of the dead are women and children, according to Palestinian authorities.

Israel launched the assault after Hamas led an attack on southern Israel, killing at least 1,139 people, mostly civilians, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on Israeli statistics.

The top United Nations court issued an interim ruling in January that found there was a plausible risk of genocide in the enclave and ordered Israel to take a series of provisional measures, including preventing any genocidal acts from taking place.

The court, which sits in The Hague, rejected a second South African application for emergency measures made in March over Israel’s threat to attack Rafah.

Egypt will join Turkey and Colombia in formally requesting to join the case against Israel. This month, Turkey said it would seek to join the case after the South American country asked the ICJ last month to allow it to join to ensure “the safety and, indeed, the very existence of the Palestinian people”.

Egypt said it is calling on Israel “to comply with its obligations as the occupying power and to implement the provisional measures issued by the ICJ, which require ensuring access to humanitarian and relief aid in a manner that meets the needs of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”.

It also demands that Israeli forces do not commit any violations against the Palestinian people.

It will likely take years before the court will rule on the merits of the genocide case. While the ICJ’s rulings are binding and without appeal, the court has no way to enforce them.

Israel has repeatedly said it is acting in accordance with international law in Gaza. It has called South Africa’s genocide case baseless and accused Pretoria of acting as “the legal arm of Hamas”.

‘Diplomatic blow’

Alon Liel, former director of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Al Jazeera that Egypt’s move was an “unbelievable diplomatic blow to Israel”.

“Egypt is the cornerstone of our standing in the Middle East,” he said. The connections that Israel has in the Middle East and North Africa today, including with Jordan, the UAE and Morocco, are all “a result of what Egypt did 40 years ago”, he said, referring to the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.

“With Egypt joining South Africa now in The Hague, it’s a real diplomatic punch. Israel would have to take it very seriously.

“Israel has to … listen to the world – not only to the Israeli public opinion asking now for revenge.

“We have to look overall in the wider picture, in the long-term security of Israel, not only in the next few weeks in Gaza.”

The latest legal development comes as Israel engaged in new battles with Hamas in northern Gaza and ordered tens of thousands more people to evacuate from the southern city of Rafah, which lies close to Gaza’s border with Egypt.

Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday, a day after Hamas said it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated ceasefire proposal, which Israel quickly rejected. The crossing had been the main entry point for aid into Gaza, but it has been closed since Israel took control of it.

Tanks and planes pounded several areas and at least four houses in Rafah overnight, killing 20 Palestinians and wounding several others, according to Palestinian health officials.

The city is crammed with more than one million displaced Palestinians living in dire conditions, and the international community has warned Israel that a full-scale Israeli ground assault would trigger a humanitarian catastrophe for civilians.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the Rafah offensive was needed to defeat Hamas.

About 110,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah in recent days, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

[eretzyisrael]

BY JACOB SIEGELAND and LIEL LEIBOVITZ

The Israeli political class has known about the lopsided reality of the U.S.-Israel arrangement for some time, but for the past eight or nine years seems to have decided the farce had some value. For them, U.S. aid is valuable not because it is a good deal for Israel’s military-tech complex, but because the appearance of close strategic alignment with the U.S. serves as a public, tangible pledge, renewed annually, of Great Power backing, in a world that is largely hostile to the country’s existence. Even now, as it’s clear from Washington’s courtship of Iran that U.S. security pledges no longer mean what they once did (ask the Afghans, or before them the Vietnamese, Cambodians, and a long list of other former recipients of U.S. military aid), the value of these pledges to Israel has been based on the belief that other parties believe in them—and are therefore constrained accordingly. The point is for the world’s only hyperpower to be seen publicly putting a big diamond ring on Israel’s finger, even if the diamond is actually made of glass. The more “special” the relationship appears to others, the better.

As the price of its dependency, Israel is now being forced to downgrade its own defense industries. Whereas the previous MOU contained a special provision for Off-Shore Procurement (OSP) that allowed Israel to spend around 26% of the aid it received on domestic products, the new terms require that all aid received from Washington be spent inside the U.S. In 2018, Israel’s Defense Ministry projected that the new MOU would cost the country $1.3 billion annually in lost revenue and cause the loss of some 22,000 jobs. Moshe Gafni, a former chairman of the Knesset’s financial committee, warned of the deal’s “severe ramifications for the delicate fabric of the State of Israel, harming its security.” A separate assessment in 2020 by the Israeli think tank INSS, concluded that “anywhere between several thousand and 20,000 of the 80,000 jobs in the defense industries in Israel will be lost.”

In return for accepting Obama’s aid package, Israel has now become dangerously reliant on U.S. military technology. The result of this enforced dependency, according to the retired General Hacohen, is stunting the IDF. “Israel is so addicted to advanced U.S. platforms, and the U.S. weaponry they deliver, that we’ve stopped thinking creatively in terms of operational concepts,” Hacohen told the U.S. publication Defense News in 2016—two years before the new MOU went into effect.

This is especially dangerous because, having short-circuited Israeli competition and dumped tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment into Ukraine, the U.S. is increasingly having trouble arming itself—let alone anyone else. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office found systemic problems in the U.S. procurement system leading to widespread delays. The report found that more than half of the 26 major defense acquisition programs under review “had yet to deliver operational capability” and were delayed due to “supplier disruptions, software development delays, and quality control deficiencies.” And what does get produced often isn’t up to par. As part of its “special arrangement,” Israel gets preferential access to the F-35, but is then locked into a fleet of aircraft both riddled with technical problems and a poor fit for Israel’s strategic air priorities. At the risk of stating the obvious, it would be nice to be able to shop on the open market. 

The consequences for Israel’s economy and to the country’s security posture will get more severe in coming years as the full bill from the MOU comes due. According to a congressional report, the “phasing out [of] Off-Shore Procurement (OSP) is to decrease slowly until FY2024, and then phase out more dramatically over the MOU’s last five years, ending entirely in FY2028.” As a consequence, the report notes “some Israeli defense contractors are merging with U.S. companies or opening U.S. subsidiaries”—in other words, transferring their personnel and capacities from Israel to the U.S.

[dialogue-queered]

Comment: An impressive intervention in the public domain highlighting that the strength of Israel's democracy is it's diversity of opinion, and the deep longing of many for a just peace with the Palestinians that sets aside absolutist claims on both sides in order to achieve peace, security, prosperity and coexistence.

9 August 2023

Extract 1: The Benjamin Netanyahu-led ultranationalist government is racing towards annexation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), a manoeuvre which will not only end any chance of a two-state outcome, but also permanently entrench the daily humanitarian and anti-democratic nightmare that the Israeli occupation has become. During the last six months these methods have spilled into Israel itself, to a point of endangering our own precious democracy – the basis of our proximity to the western world.

To this end, Australian foreign affairs minister Penny Wong’s announcement on Tuesday that the federal government recognises the illegality of settlements under international law is a step in the right direction. While the Labor government is right to break away from previous governments, which failed to implement Australia’s commitment to international law and the two-state solution, Labor has a chance to take a real and decisive step in upholding its values by voting to recognise the state of Palestine at its national conference this month.

Now, more than ever, Israel needs the support of its friends, including Australia, to push back against the efforts of the Israeli government and help us continue striving towards two democratic states living peacefully side by side.

Extract 2: The Israeli right has always dreamed of a sole Israeli sovereign between the Mediterranean sea and the Jordan river. But with the rise in power of ultranationalistic parties in the Israeli body politic, it’s no surprise their dreams of annexation are explicitly spelled out in the government’s coalition agreement. For example, it ensures the government will promote the “exclusive and unquestionable right [of the Jewish people] to all areas of the land of Israel” and commit the government to “promote and develop settlements in all [its] parts”.

Thousands of settler housing units have been approved, millions in the budget have been allocated to develop settlement roads and infrastructure, “unauthorized” settler outposts have gained recognition, and formerly evacuated settlements are being resettled. The flip side of this scale of growth of Israel’s settlement enterprise in this way is the impossibility of a Palestinian state.

Extract 3: This is where Australia’s recognition of the state of Palestine is relevant.

The international community must push back by giving Palestine increasing international legitimacy. Doing so sends a message that they will not stand idly by while Israel’s far right realises its agenda. More states must recognise Palestinian statehood to push back against this impending reality.

Australia has a deep, historical connection to the two-state solution. In 1947, Australia’s then foreign affairs minister was instrumental in pushing through the UN Partition Plan which first called for a two-state resolution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Australia was the first country to vote in favour of the plan despite outside pressures against it.

More than 75 years later, only half of that plan has been realised. The state of Israel exists and has been internationally recognised; recognising the state of Palestine keeps that decades-old promise.

[infosisraelnews]

Bilan : voici à quoi ressemblera l’action de la Turquie d'envahir Israël

Le Dr Alon Liel, ancien directeur général du ministère des Affaires étrangères et ancien ambassadeur d’Israël en Turquie, a évoqué la menace du président turc Erdogan d’envahir Israël et affirme que la confrontation entre Israël et la Turquie est plus proche que jamais. Dans une interview accordée à Radio North 104.5, Lyal a tenté d’interpréter l’intention d’Erdogan : « Je pense qu’il…

[sapropel]

The UNSC called for a ceasefire, finally. Let's find out if the US, which is the major (vetoing) member of the UNSC, is willing to hold Israel to the ceasefire call.

My analysis^

Although the analysis of Alon Liel says Egypt is the country to look for when pressuring Israel on this ceasefire, not the US.

The ceasefire is binding under international law, which both the US and Israel are beholden to.

[ferrolano-blog]

Alon Liel, exdirector general del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Israel: El reconocimiento español del Estado palestino puede marcar la diferencia... La guerra que estalló el 7 de octubre de 2023 ha cambiado por completo la imagen internacional de Israel. El mundo es ahora más crítico con Israel y manifiesta con una mayor firmeza su respaldo a la autodeterminación palestina. Pareciera que esta situación podría hacer resurgir la dinámica de reconocimiento del Estado palestino... Para Israel, es muy preocupante el reconocimiento del Estado de Palestina por parte de países amigos. Lo último que quiere el gobierno israelí es ver legitimada a nivel internacional la condición de Palestina como Estado (me atrevería a decir que para los dirigentes israelíes actuales supondría una auténtica pesadilla). La equiparación de la condición jurídica de Israel y Palestina en la esfera internacional –que a nivel mundial se considera la antesala de la paz– se ve en Israel como un fracaso diplomático... El reconocimiento internacional del Estado de Palestina y su incorporación como miembro de pleno derecho de la ONU deben preceder a un eventual proceso de paz con Israel y ser independientes de su éxito o fracaso

[nedsecondline]

I was Israel’s most senior diplomat. I urge Australia to recognise the state of Palestine | Alon Liel | The Guardian

…currently we are witnessing something new. The Benjamin Netanyahu-led ultra-nationalist government is racing towards annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), a manoeuvre which will not only end any chance of a two-state outcome, but also permanently entrench the daily humanitarian and anti-democratic nightmare that the Israeli occupation has become. During the last six months…

[rogue-trader-samuel-drakon]

Passangers/Hires on

Archonis and Sariel

No one knows their face or if they are a man or woman. They boarded the ship a while back. Many believe Archonis is here to guard someone because they are destined for something special, but has refused to say who it is. Others say Archonis has become one of the Custodes who act as the eyes and ears of the Emperor and has chosen to make this ship the base of operations. No one knows. What they do know is Archonis usually waits for some kind of danger to appear before striking it down instantly. And never far behind is their closest companion, Sariel. A Sister of Silence who always has their back against any threats, be they psyker or otherwise.

Liel-Toor

Most were apprehensive about letting an Eldar on board. Let alone a Farseer. But she has shown herself to be very useful. Often times granting visions to aid the crew with dangers yet to come. They just wish she wasn't so vague and cryptic all the time. She seems to enjoy their frustrations, which annoys them more. But she, her Gyrinx Nightseeker, and many of her people who came with her on board have been of great aid.

Aethash and Antyn

These siblings are the Prince and Princess of Aeldari Corsairs and have had dealings with the Drakon family many times in the past. And so, they feel it is only right to treat Samuel like family, regardless if they view him as a primitive or not. Besides, his family has always been good partners for them. So how could they not? Especially since they come across a lot of nice loot with all the trouble they get into on board.

Vior Or'es

A member of the earth caste who had escaped the rule of the ethereals. She is now scared and on the run. She was happy that Samuel had allowed her and other Tau, Kroot, and a few Vesper who had come along with her late parents on board his ship. She has eagerly been helping with engineering. It had been a... chore getting used to working with such low-grade tech. But she has been able to manage. She is very young, even by Tau standards, and often sees the Captain as a father figure. She had also built up quite a bit of muscle training with an ork named Gaz and has taken to using a sword, a unique thing for a tau.

Gaz 'Eadkrakka

An ork mercenary who was kicked out of his warband with only his pet Squig Chompy and his Gretchin sidekick Bitz, along with a few Boyz loyal to him, and decided to be a hire on with whoever offered him the best fights. He had definitely enjoyed his stay on the Celestial Dragon since the Captain can't seem to stay out of trouble. So he has been having a blast.

Dra'vak Nar

A sergeant of the Salamanders, he has offered to act as security aboard the ship and has been of great help. Him and his brothers have gotten to know the crew bit by bit. Eventually, they stopped seeing him as a space marine and more like a part of the crew, actually.

Inquisitor Czevelle Rathgun

Even for an Inquisitor, she can be quite secretive and manipulating. The only reason she hasn't had Samuel and his crew killed for the xenos he had on board his ship is due to the fact she finds him interesting. She has on multiple occasions tried to make him a permanent member of her retinue. But he has declined each time. And each time has only made her more determined. She often walks along the ship with her retinue, acting as if she owned the ship, because if she had her way, she would own not only it, but it's captain as well.

Reikul, Wrythe, Madwen, Selaina, Leona and Zabyn

Known as the daughters of death, they serve as the bodyguards of the inquisitor. They hardly ever leave her side unless absolutely necessary. They don't say much unless spoken to directly. And usually only when it is the inquisitor herself. But they are always ready to kill at a moments notice. Each hailing from different assassin temples, each is trained to kill differently than the last.

Sister Palatine Katheryan Celestita

A proud Sister of Battle, she and many of her sisters ride aboard the Celestial Dragon, as they believe it is the will of the Emperor that they must. They have seen no end of battle since coming aboard, and so she is affirmed in her belief it is part of His plan.

Sergeant Caleb, Brokk, Bron and Emil

An Imperial Guard Sergeant, and his squad consisting of, an Ogryn, a Ratling, and a Squat that managed to remain in the Imperium, had been transfered aboard the Celestial Dragon to guard it, as many assets of the Militarum are often placed on it for transport. They had basically become unofficial members of the crew and had been a decent amount of help aboard.

[ashrinn]

[mariacallous]

A day after Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel is refusing Ukraine’s request for Israeli weaponry to shield it from Russian air attacks, many experts in the United States and Europe are irate with Israel’s decision, which left it a rare outlier among Western countries.

Russian leaders had recently put pressure on Israel to avoid arming Ukraine, especially with air defense capabilities, and Israel’s defense establishment argues that it needs Russian cooperation to ensure a free hand in bombing Hezbollah-bound arms shipments from Syria. Israel also wants to ensure unhindered emigration and freedom from maltreatment for Russian Jews. 

But Alon Liel, the former director-general of Israel’s foreign ministry, criticized the decision in an interview with Foreign Policy, saying Israel is “betraying” its Western allies. Liel, a veteran of more than 30 years in Israel’s foreign service, teaches diplomacy and international relations at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel.

The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Foreign Policy: Why won’t Israel provide Ukraine with air defense systems?

Alon Liel: Almost from day one, the Israeli decision-making toward this war was very selfish. Israel only looked at its own angle. At the beginning, it was considerations regarding Syria. Then it was considerations regarding the Jewish community in Russia, and then considerations regarding the nuclear agreement with Iran.

When Yair Lapid took over as prime minister [in July] from Naftali Bennett, he took a more moral approach and made some changes, mostly by supplying helmets and minor defensive equipment, which angered the Russians. We will have to see what Lapid does if he wins the elections [on Nov. 1]. The issue is controversial in Israel. Most of the public supports Ukraine, but the politicians are pressured by the security establishment, which made air superiority in Syria the dominant consideration.

FP: Does the security establishment have too much say in this matter?

AL: Yes, we have lacked an overview specifying that we are part of the West and will stay part of the West and that we should be loyal to the Western camp and contribute to the Western effort. Generals see things from a very narrow military angle while the politicians should have a wider, more flexible view.

FP: Do you think moral considerations should be a factor in the decision-making given that we are talking about a country that was invaded?

AL: In Israel’s foreign policy, in which I have had decades of involvement, moral considerations were never on top and were always secondary, if they existed at all, to realpolitik considerations. This Ukraine-Russia case is no different—Israel is putting its interests first. When you inject the position of the security establishment, they want the aircraft bombarding in Syria to come back safely. But when you have a much wider perspective of where the world is going, this consideration is completely marginal. If it’s existential to attack in Syria, you can do it in other ways, not only through aircraft. So this is an Israeli mistake, and I hope it will not cost us in the future.

If the war ends up with the West having the upper hand, everyone will remember that Israel declined to be part of the effort. In fact, with this policy, we are betraying the West, but this is not the way our security establishment sees the problem.

At the microlevel, if your measurement is how many Jews leave Russia and how many attacks you can carry out in Syria, it’s been a successful policy in the short term. But if you look into the future, it’s a mistake morally and also in realpolitik terms if it is not corrected.

FP: What impact would it have if Israel did supply Ukraine with the weaponry?

AL: Even if it’s only defensive weapons, Israel can decide this war. Our weapons are by far more sophisticated than the Iranian ones the Russians are using. We are a military power, and everyone knows it. The Ukrainians know it, and the Russians know it. We can make the difference on the side of the Ukrainians. Israel knows it can determine this war. The war is at such a stage that massive Israeli provision and sales can determine the future of the war. 

Maybe our politicians think that determining the outcome of this war is too much to take upon their shoulders in terms of future relations with Russia, Russia’s ability to cooperate with Iran, and that Russia has a nuclear arsenal. This is part of the hesitation. But still, I think morally we have to do it.

FP: Is there any concern in Israel that other nations will draw a comparison between the Russian occupation in Ukraine and the Israeli occupation in the West Bank?

AL: My point of view is that the occupation [of the West Bank] is immoral and the Russian attack is immoral. I think our government is wrong on the occupation of the West Bank and on its attitude to the Russia-Ukraine war.

I think some of the politicians here believe the West will not like us anyway in 20 years when we annex the territories and lose our democracy, so maybe they think, ‘Why fight with the democracies when in any event Israel won’t be a democracy.’

FP: How important is it for Israel to align with the West?

AL: We owe everything we have to the United States—the historic political support, the historic military support, the alliance with the U.S., the economic support. The reason we can say we won the war with the Palestinians is because, to a great extent, the U.S. sided with us, especially during the Republican and Trump period of time. I think our refusal to requests from the U.S. to help Ukraine may have a cost. Israel is very self-confident that the U.S. will never, ever do anything against Israel even if we refuse. Looking at the future, I don’t know if this is correct.

FP: Is Israel undermining its ability to identify as a state that belongs to the Western family of nations?

AL: Israel always says it’s a democracy. The government always says we are the only democracy in the Middle East and we are part of the West. But in real terms, we are not a democracy with the occupation, and we are only part of the West when it suits us. In this case, it doesn’t suit us because we want to stay on good terms with Russia and don’t want to take any risk. 

I think it is immoral to say you are part of the West and to act as part of the West only when it suits you. It is immoral to leave the U.S. and Europe with the burden of this war and to stand aside and see how it will end in order to decide what we are doing.