#HOSPITALS SCHOOLS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP WERE BOMBED

[penwrythe]

Learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is important. I'm genuinely not okay when I hear, see, and research more about the genocide happening in Gaza, the history of Israel's founding, and its terroristic actions. It is important for me to know.

Taking short breaks (usually a couple of hours or so) does help when things get too much. Then, I return and continue engaging with reblogs on Palestine.

I really don't know what else to say, but this genocide must end. All genocides must end and must never happen again. Keep talking about Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and Sudan! Keep protesting! Keep fighting!

What is important now is to be as loud as you can be! Raise ruckus! Make your voice unavoidable! Be as annoying as possible! Do not let your representatives ignore this!

[sayruq]

Biden's visit has concluded. Israel has spent his entire visit trying to muddy the waters of what happened to Al Ahli Hospital and despite their cartoonish efforts, it hasn't worked

The Global South and especially West Asia know who is responsible for the bombing and no amount of AI voice recordings of 'Hamas operatives' can change that.

Israel war crimes continues to backfire on them even in America

Biden backing Israel has had an impact on America's image. Here's a Wall Street Journal article warning that America's continued support is turning countries towards Russia and China which is code for turning countries against America

An EU official said that the EU will pay a heavy price in the Global South for its continued, unabashed support for Israel

There's also speculation that the Biden administration knew about the bombing before it happened.

Countries that were/are allied with Israel continue to distance themselves from Israel like Russia. The reason I keep highlighting Russia is because the West has been running out of ammunition due to the Russia-Ukraine war and that includes Israel which is rumoured to have sent 80-90% of its ammunition to Ukraine. If this conflict lasts a long time, Israel will need to buy weapons and ammunition and Russia would be one of the countries they would turn to (same with China)

So, where are we in terms of the conflict? After days of waffling over a ground operation in Gaza, Israel postponed it until some time after Biden's visit and now we're back here again

Now I'm no military expert but constantly going back and forth on whether or not you'll invade Gaza is bound to do damage to your troops' morale. No wonder they're dealing with mass desertions while their citizens demonstrate on the streets. The Israeli leadership has no plan besides bombing Gaza.

I've seen people on twitter say that the hospital bombing was done deliberately to normalise IDF soldiers to mass civilian deaths in places like hospitals, schools, places of worship, etc. I don't know if I believe that - I think they wanted to push Iran and Hezbollah's buttons before hiding behind Biden. I don't think these people are thinking strategically.

As far as the possibility of regional war is concerned, all indicators show that the West preparing for the war to escalate

Seems to me the Israel has seen what Ukraine has received in just a year and a half of war. They're done receiving a paltry 3.8 billion every year and now prepared to drag out the conflict and I can't say I blame with Biden proposing a 100 billion package for both Ukraine and Israel. This will stretch America too thin as far as funding in concerned. Cracks are already showing

There are parts of the US government that is unhappy that the Ukraine war is losing attention. During the Ukraine war, you had parts of the government that wanted focus to shift from Russia to China. Because of that, the US government has spent the past year alternating between hostility to Russia and threatening to go to war with China over Taiwan. When Niger expelled France from within its borders, America was preparing to join that conflict until Mali and Burkina Faso declared they would fight with Niger. Now they're entering a third front in West Asia. In short, the mighty empire is expending a lot of resources right now and it is not the threat it was when it invaded Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s.

At any rate, the ground invasion of Gaza won't go the way Israel and America hopes it will

The coalition of Palestinian resistance fighters are still patiently waiting for the IDF to come meet them. Their allies aren't backing down either

The reason I keep making these posts is to remind people that, while the genocide of the people of Gaza is horrifying, the war for the liberation of Palestine has not yet been lost.

Do not lose hope. From the river to sea, Palestine WILL be free

[vanish-lou]

WW1 was started from the assassination of one man.

The Spanish American War started with the sinking of one ship.

The American Revolution was started over taxes.

Yet tens of thousands of children are dead in Palestine at the hands of an invading, occupational, regime, and we are expected to turn a blind eye and ignore them. More than a million people starving, freezing, huddled terrified under the ambience of fire and metal raining from the sky. Schools, hospitals, neighborhoods, places of worship, reduced to rubble. Children buried in collapsed buildings, men stripped and humiliated, the press shot, mothers being forced to give birth with no medical care. Treated like animals. Treated like less than animals. We're supposed to be ok with our government funding and condoning and defending this. We're supposed to think that little girl deserved to sit in that car for two weeks surrounded by the dead bodies of her family. We're supposed to be ok with journalists dropping off the earth one by one. We're supposed to turn a blind eye to the one place Palestinians were told they'd be safe being bombed. To think it's fine they have to pay thousands to escape to Egypt just to survive. We're even supposed to see that regime as the "good guys"

Where is their war? Who is helping them? What do they do when everyone who defends them is attacked? Where do they go?

But no, Israel are the good guys. Hamas is the problem, they're just defending themselves against the thousands of children who are so clearly a national threat. Bombing the hospitals filled with injured and sick folks who obviously threaten their way of life. Destroying neighborhoods filled with common every day citizens who are definitely out for blood. Don't think about it too much, trust your government, listen to the propos. You're anti-Semitic if you ain't a Zionist. Isreal are the good guys.

What a fucking joke.

[beardedmrbean]

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Authorities in a northern Indian town imposed an indefinite curfew and ordered police to shoot violators after clashes over the construction of a Muslim seminary and a mosque left at least five people dead and more than 150 injured, officials said Friday.

The violence Thursday also led authorities to shut down internet services and schools in Haldwani, Uttarakhand state government official Chief Radha Raturi said.

The situation was brought under control with nearly 4,000 police officers rushing to the area, said police officer A.P. Anshuman. He said police were ordered to shoot protesters violating the curfew.

On Thursday, thousands of protesters tried to block government officials and police who arrived to demolish the seminary and mosque following a court order that the structures were being built on government land without local authorization, Anshuman said.

As violence escalated, police fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protesters using petrol bombs and stones to attack a police station and set several vehicles on fire, Anshuman said.

State police chief Abhinav Kumar said five people died in the violence. He did not give details but said no fresh violence was reported on Friday.

Government administrator Vandana Singh Chauhan over 150 police officers were injured and several people were hospitalized.

Anshuman did not say whether police fire killed the protesters. He also didn't identify the religion of the victims.

Haldwani is about 270 kilometers (170 miles) northeast of New Delhi.

Muslim groups and rights organizations have accused India’s Hindu-nationalist government of demolishing their homes and businesses in the past. Officials have defended their actions, saying they are only targeting illegal buildings, but critics call it a growing pattern of “bulldozer justice” aimed at punishing activists from minority group.

In a report released this week, Amnesty International condemned several instances of bulldozers razing Muslims’ homes, businesses and places of worship, which it said was often done under the guise of illegal encroachment and without adequate notice.

“The unlawful demolition of Muslim properties by the Indian authorities, peddled as ‘bulldozer justice’ by political leaders and media, is cruel and appalling. Such displacement and dispossession is deeply unjust, unlawful and discriminatory,” said Agnès Callamard, the rights group’s secretary general.

The group’s researchers found that between April and June 2022, authorities in five states used demolitions as punishment following incidents of communal violence or protests, and documented at least 128 demolitions during this period.

Critics and opponents have long accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of looking the other way and sometimes enabling hate speech against Muslims, who comprise 14% of India’s 1.4 billion people.

Modi’s Bhartiya Janata Party denies the accusations.

[area51-escapee]

It is unthinkable to me that people are continuing to not just try and justify this, but some are still denying it’s even happening. Palestinians are live streaming the genocide of their people. There have been real time updates as bombs are dropped and homes and hospitals and schools and places of worship have been destroyed. You can open any social media and see bodies being dug out from underneath rubble, people crowding the halls of hospitals, people forced to live in tents because their homes were destroyed. IDF soldiers post videos and pictures bragging about committing the violence against Palestinians, Israeli officials have made explicitly genocidal statements again and again and there will still be a post trying to say that it’s not REALLY a genocide, while the posts above and below it show dead bodies and emaciated children, devastating before and afters of city blocks, people begging for the world to just look at what is happening.

Do you think it’s only a genocide years after the aggression has stopped??? Do you think that somehow millions of people have worked together in the world’s largest group project to make Israel look bad? As if the posts and statements made by Israelis doesn’t make them look bad enough on their own???? I don’t understand how you can sleep at night while being okay with mass starvation, forced displacement, destruction of everything they had, but if you feel strongly enough in your belief that it doesn’t haunt you then why don’t you just admit that you support a genocide when everyone can see that’s what’s happening here?

There is no scenario in which any of this is justifiable. I cannot imagine what it takes to dehumanize a group of people to the point that you are okay with this and I hope to god I never learn what it takes. Nobody deserves to go through this.

[trappedinavelociraptor]

A heartbreaking speech from Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Majed Bamya.

Transcript under cut.

Ambassador Majed Bamya @majedbamya I am from the generation born with the Nakba, with its massacres, its tents and its hardships. I never thought I would see it happen again in my lifetime. 70% of Palestinians in Gaza are already refugees, who were denied their right of return for decades now. Many of the people in Gaza have had their homes destroyed in previous assaults. Palestinians in Gaza today mourn their loved ones, and mourn their homes, that they built and rebuilt for themselves and their families. They mourn their city, they mourn the Gaza Strip as all its landmarks have been destroyed. Every place people had happy memories in has been disfigured. Now every corner is filled with agony and death and suffering. In 100 days, virtually every Palestinian in Gaza has been displaced multiple times, from a home to a UN shelter to a tent. Searching for safety everywhere, finding safety nowhere. Searching for life anywhere, met by death everywhere. Israel has deliberately destroyed everything. It killed and maimed our children, our doctors, our journalists, our engineers, our poets, our academics. It destroyed the very requirement of life and of a life in Gaza. No homes to live in, no schools or universities to study, no hospitals to heal, no mosques or churches to worship, no agricultural land to farm, no bakeries for bread, no drinkable water, no markets to buy from, no safety, no future. It was hoping Palestinians would leave under the pressure of its bombardments, they have not. Now it is hoping they will leave because of the destruction the bombs have left behind. Palestinians are traumatized by the Nakba. They have laid even deeper roots in the hope of preventing it from reoccurring. But it is unjust that their lives should be hell on earth just because they refuse to leave their homeland. Our people have a simple dream, to live in freedom and dignity on their land. This is their right!

[crwncks]

when i learnt the history behind the Israeli occupation last year, i did have hope for a return to a two-state resolution

since then, however, the true nature of both the idf and israeli colonisers as passionately genocidal and inhumanly sadistic has become all too apparent

learning that the idf held al-nasr hospital at gunpoint and forced them to leave behind premature babies in the ICU bcos footage of their decomposing bodies hit my tl was one of the most inconceivably heartbreaking moments i've ever experienced

the degree of sinister hatred from israeli settlers towards innocent civilians is genuinely unlike anything i've seen; the level of entitlement to people's property is beyond delusion and their enthusiasm towards and normalisation of the indiscriminate murder of complete strangers is beyond absolution

moreover palestinians were (and are) more than just in declining such a resolution that was effectively trying to force them to acknowledge an illegitimate occupying nation and entitle them to divisions of their homeland, now more than ever after their atrocious human rights violations, which include:

targeting bombing of hospitals, ambulances and medical services (in addition to schools / libraries / places of worship / residential areas, i.e. places that hold NO MILITARY THREAT)

arresting and detaining palestinians without fair trial (often military trials instead of civil trials, with a 99% conviction rate)

the forcible transfer / displacement of palestinians in gaza (leaflets dropped by israeli warplanes today, nov 1st, instructing civilians of further restriction of "safe zones", which have also been indiscriminately bombed)

the targeting of journalists and press (critical employs amidst an israeli-lobbied western media)

palestine's resistance to israeli occupation has given me a deep-seated respect and admiration towards palestinian resilience and their sense of community that i believe will endure and be granted justice as the international community's abhorrence towards isreal inevitably reaches it's peak

[kneedeepincynade]

Israel has tried to starve Gaza, but the international community and especially China, have refused to let this happen and have sent more and more aid to gaza and are fighting to let the aid in

The post is machine translated

Translation is at the bottom

The collective is on telegram

🥰 帮助巴勒斯坦 | LA CINA INVIA AIUTI UMANITARI ALLA POPOLAZIONE DI GAZA 🇵🇸

🇨🇳 Durante il Vertice BRICS, il Presidente Xi Jinping ha ricordato l'importanza della Risoluzione della Questione Palestinese. Dal "Cessate il Fuoco" ai Negoziati, con l'obiettivo di costruire uno Stato di Palestina, che sia indipendente e sovrano 🇵🇸

🕊 Uno dei punti fondamentali della Posizione Cinese, fin dai primi giorni dell'escalation del Conflitto, riguarda l'apertura di un Corridoio Umanitario a Gaza. Migliaia di persone, tra cui bambini, sono morte sotto gli incessanti bombardamenti d'Israele. Ospedali, magazzini, case e luoghi di culto sono stati distrutti 😭

🇨🇳 La Cina ha fornito aiuti ai Palestinesi, e continuerà a farlo. La Cina ha inviato l'equivalente di otto camion carichi di forniture umanitarie, biscotti, latte, miele, acqua potabile e altro ad Arish, in Egitto, per trasportarli nella Striscia di Gaza 🇵🇸

🇨🇳 Inoltre, ieri la Cina ha donato 1.000.000 USD all'UNRWA, le cui scuole sono state distrutte dai bombardamenti israeliani 🇮🇱

🔍 Approfondimenti:

❤️ La Cina invia aiuti umanitari alla Popolazione Palestinese di Gaza e della West Bank 🏥

❤️ L'Agenzia Cinese per la Cooperazione Internazionale allo Sviluppo invia beni di sussistenza all'UNWRA, ma Israele bombarda i magazzini dell'ONU a Gaza 😡

一 La Cina condanna l'espansione degli insediamenti israeliani nei territori della Palestina, e sollecita Israele a cessare l'escalation di violenza dei coloni contro i civili di Gaza 🕊

二 Wang Yi a Borrell: «La Palestina ha il Diritto di fondare uno Stato, l'ingiustizia storica contro il Popolo Palestinese non è mai stata corretta» 🇵🇸

三 Zhang Jun: «Fermare la crisi umanitaria, promuovere l'Istituzione di uno Stato di Palestina» 🇵🇸

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan 😘

🥰 帮助巴勒斯坦 | CHINA SENDS HUMANITARIAN AID TO THE POPULATION OF GAZA 🇵🇸

🇨🇳 During the BRICS Summit, President Xi Jinping recalled the importance of the Resolution of the Palestinian Question. From the "Ceasefire" to the Negotiations, with the aim of building a State of Palestine, which is independent and sovereign 🇵🇸

🕊 One of the fundamental points of the Chinese position, since the first days of the escalation of the conflict, concerns the opening of a Humanitarian Corridor in Gaza. Thousands of people, including children, have died under Israel's incessant bombardment. Hospitals, warehouses, homes and places of worship have been destroyed 😭

🇨🇳 China has provided aid to the Palestinians, and will continue to do so. China sent the equivalent of eight trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies, biscuits, milk, honey, drinking water and more to Arish, Egypt, to transport them to the Gaza Strip 🇵🇸

🇨🇳 Furthermore, yesterday China donated 1,000,000 USD to UNRWA, whose schools were destroyed by Israeli bombings 🇮🇱

🔍 Further information:

❤️ China sends humanitarian aid to the Palestinian population of Gaza and the West Bank 🏥

❤️ China Agency for International Development Cooperation sends subsistence goods to UNWRA, but Israel bombs UN warehouses in Gaza 😡

一 China condemns the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and urges Israel to cease the escalation of settler violence against civilians in Gaza 🕊

二 Wang Yi to Borrell: «Palestine has the Right to establish a State, the historical injustice against the Palestinian People has never been corrected» 🇵🇸

三 Zhang Jun: «Stop the humanitarian crisis, promote the establishment of a State of Palestine» 🇵🇸

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collectivoshaoshan 😘

[haunted-and-harrowed]

so something has been bothering us and i wanted to write about it on our main blog but people would probably get pissed at us so i’m writing it here.

we saw a post a while back that had a list of contradictory truths surrounding jewish folks and the palestinian genocide. we were going to reblog the post, as it had a lot of points we agree with. there was one point, though, that had us balking and we ended up having to move on.

that point was the contradictory truths: “hamas committed war crimes” and “israeli politicians helped put hamas in power.”

we have a lot of issues with these statements.

1. hamas, to our understanding, has committed little to no war crimes, actually. taking part in a war, initiating a war, and fighting back against occupation… none of those are war crimes. we do believe they have been fighting with dignity, and have been targeting iof soldiers, equipment, and stolen land over civilians.

2. of the 1200 israelis killed on october 7th… 600 were iof soldiers. and of that remaining 600, a staggering 80% of the casualties were caused by the iof themselves with their indiscriminate bombing and gunning down people.

3. we thought that hamas was elected into power by the palestinian majority (albeit 7-8 years ago). also, hamas is not the only actor fighting for resistance in palestine. there are lots of militant groups who are working together for the goal of liberating palestine. even if israel played a role in putting hamas in power, that doesn’t change the fact that right now hamas is fighting for a free palestine.

4. israel has committed a vast amount of atrocious war crimes, such as killing those who are surrendering, purposefully killing non-combatants, bombing houses, hospitals, schools, and places of worship, cutting civilians off from access to food, fuel, and clean water, mistreatment of hostages and pows, targeting journalists and medical personnel… the list goes on and on. hamas has not committed even a tiny fraction of the war crimes that israel is responsible for. hell, we’ve all heard about the israeli hostages released by hamas who were treated ethically and with compassion by their captors.

so yeah, that post made us upset because, while many of the contradictory truths were serious and interesting and excellent points to be made, we can’t stand to see people so willing to condemn hamas for literally making a genuine, valiant, and somewhat successful attempt to liberate palestine from israeli occupation. there is no such thing as a non-violent resistance. “non-violent resistance” is just another word for complacency.

if we’re wrong about anything we’ve said here, we’re happy to be corrected. but please, be critical of your sources! we all know the media is all-too-willing to lie in order to properly side with israel. we all know israel is regularly amending and retracting statements, getting caught in lies, and is actively trying to craft a narrative that demonizes hamas and the people of palestine. this is why we’ve been trusting people on the ground in palestine and diaspora palestinians more than any news outlet. all too often journalists will craft a fake narrative that twists palestinian resistance into something it’s not, their words spread like wildfire, and then by the time they’re caught in their lies and have to delete their articles… it’s too late. the people have seen it and choose to believe it, even when it’s not true. so we stay wary and vigilant, always.

from the river to the sea, palestine will be free!

[esr10]

Hamas is a literal terrorist organization, what are you on???

“Freedom fighters,” yeah they’d freedom fight their way to throw every queer and Jewish person off a cliff, that’s what they’d do

Right… Well at least the queer and Jewish Palestinians that are being killed en mass by Israel are dying next to their Palestinian brothers and sisters because of their ethnicity and not their queerness and their jewishness. That must bring you so much comfort!

It's time to stop treating Israel like a safe-haven for queers. Here's a graphic excerpt of Israeli soldiers killing a gay Lebanese man in the middle of sex, just to traumatize his partner. The only group of people Israel is a safe-haven to are sexual predators and zionists.

And since you want to make this a very black-and-white "Jewish vs Muslim" thing, explain to me why there are only 800-1000 Christians left in Gaza? Explain to me why Israel detained an Israeli man for simply expressing sympathy for Palestinians.

Meanwhile, Israel can proudly proclaim themselves as "the children of light" and call Palestinian children "the children of darkness" as an excuse to murder children. They can call for a second nakba with their entire chest and no one bats an eye.

And since we're already here, let's talk about the hostages. The hostages and their families have been urging Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate and exchange hostages(/"Palestinian prisoners") with Hamas, but the hostages are the perfect excuse for Israel to wage a genocide against Gazans, so they're being ignored. Hostages have come forth saying they were treated well, meanwhile Israel will bomb ambulances, schools, hospitals and places of worships claiming they're all being used as operation bases by Hamas. There are several videos of hostages begging for an exchange, but they've unjustifiably been made the face of Israel's entire campaign against Palestine now.

I don't consider myself particularly eloquent, nor am I the most well-versed person in this topic (although I have been following up on it for 9+ years), so fuck you for making me write all that. I urge everyone to listen to Palestinian voices first and foremost.

[glorbo-from-your-evil-show]

‘Cut the power’ hey that sounds familair

‘Cut the communications’ hey that sounds familiar

‘Bomb the living hell out of everyone’ hey that sounds familiar

About the ‘israel warned people’ hi yeah they told palestinians about safe zones, waited til they GOT to those safe zones, and bombed em! That sure sounds cool, right?

Also, no, the icj WOULDNT declare it a genocide. How do we know this? Because there is a literal court case GOING ON NOW about how this IS a genocide. And it isnt being publicised on ANY euro/us-centric news. At ALL. Wonder why…?

Hey, remember that post where an official israeli government twitter account posted images of bomb shells beneath a child’s bed and claimed it was hamas, and about 20 different professionals immediately noticed the fact that they were ISRAELI MADE BOMBS, called them out for it, and the post was promptly deleted?

Remember the time israel said hamas beheaded babies, which turned out to be a COMPLETE lie?

Hey. Do you think europe didn’t know about the holocaust as it went on? They 100% fucking knew. Do you honestly, whole-heartedly think the uk, russia, the us, didn’t know about these camps? Because they did. I assure you, they did. Was it publicised in these places? At all? No, not until they managed to free the prisoners. Do they make any mention of how the prisoners fought back? How there were several uprisings? How this wasn’t just a mass ‘oh well, what can we do?’

No. Because no country ever wants to admit to a genocide happening. I wonder why the us still hasn’t admitted guilt to several genocides?

Why has japan not admitted guilt to what they did to the people of china?

No country will EVER admit to wrongdoings. The icj admitting that this is a genocide WILL trigger a world war. So, even if this court case is won, they won’t call it a genocide. Because they want the facade of peace.

Hey, do you know who else bombed hospitals, schools, and places of religious worship?

Russia.

Germany.

America.

Who was it that fired upon the hostages being returned to palestine during a ceasefire?

Whose hostages said they were treated kindly, and whose came back broken, bruised, and said they were kept within inhumane conditions?

Who is posting videos of captured palestinians, blindfolded, in a car while blasting the israe anthem and laughing at them?

Who is posting videos of their soldiers doing tiktok dances, and trying to humanise their weapons of war?

Who is having several countries, many of which have been victims of apartheid and genocide, taking them to the icj for genocide?

Who is using white phosphorous, a banned substance, on civilians? Something so horrible that it is flat out illegal for use, even during war?

People against israel are (largely) not antisemitic. Calling a genocide what it is isn’t being antisemitic. Genocide isn’t exclusive to jewish people.

If israel is letting palestinians leave, if they’re trying to let civilians live, why are they using banned substances? Why are they preventing civilian movement outside of palestine? Why are they cutting all communications frequently? Why are they bombing hospitals, why are they killing journalists? Why was there a news story, just a few weeks ago, about a little palestinian girl, hiding in a car with 2 corpses because they had just been killed in a bombing? Why was the news story not that the israeli soldiers around the car saving her, but killing her? And not indirectly, but by shooting her?

If israel has such intimate knowledge of hamas activity that they KNOW they are hiding in hospitals, including which ones and when, as well as that they have ‘underground tunnels’ (which even more professionals have proved impossible, due to the lay of the land and how close to the ocean these ‘tunnels’ would be) why are they not able to more selectively target them rather than bombing an entire hospital?

Hey, who else called a genocide a war? I seem to remember someone calling an event in 1942 a war on jews? Might just be me.

I feel so angry, scared, and powerless right now. I hate living in a country that actively supports genocide, I hate how many companies actively support genocide. And I hate how difficult it is to find reliable sources of information about what's going on.

[librewolf]

[Graphic: Netanyahu's War, Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Alijadeed Newspaper, London] By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD How to Distinguish between Moral Beings and Beasts of War? Human beings as a species were created by God on the best “possible structure of creation”, as the most intelligent moral beings on this Earth given a choice of being righteous versus evil-mongering and therefore, recognized by our character and actions. Do the Israeli and American war planners know the consequences of their evil-mongering? Are they waging the war of insanity against the innocent people of Gaza and the West Bank (Palestinian) attempting to avoid their end of history and inundation? If Israel and the US leaders ever claimed any moral and intellectual values, surely they were misinformed and delusional? “Hell on Earth” – warns the conscientious global community from all spectrums of reason with more than 41,000 civilians massacred, more than 91, 355 injured, more than 16,000 children and women still buried under rubble and unaccounted for, and the rest of humanity under continuous bombardment by the Israeli war machine supported and aided by the US-supplied weapons of mass destruction. Even the hospitals, places of worship, schools, graveyards, and safe zones are not spared by the Israeli war agenda. Israeli leaders reportedly have dropped more than four equal to Hiroshima nuclear bombs on Gaza. International observers spell out the tragic events: words cannot describe the humanitarian calamities and sufferings of the besieged people of Gaza and the West Bank. Are the global institutions of peace, security, and conflict management fast becoming obsolete in a real crisis? And global humanity is captive of the US-Israel’s intransigence and plans never experienced in recent times. History is repeating the cruel insanity - the cursed evil of egoistic power - the unstoppable insanity of the war continues unabated. The professed animosity is against Islam and Israel spearheads the killings of Muslims throughout Palestine to end the freedom movement for an independent State of Palestine. Evil is inseparable from the political agenda. When sinisterism and unacknowledged motives conduct the affairs of life, the people, societies, and policymakers become abnormal, disfigured, and lose their sense of rational direction. President Biden and Secretary Blinken continued to deceive the humanity of a ceasefire deal since May, 24 except it was a delaying tactic to complete the crimes against humanity and open Gaza to new Israeli settlers. It was PM Netanyahu and Israel who were not sure of a ceasefire and peace in the region. Thousands of concerned Israeli citizens march daily and hold continuous night vigils in Tel Aviv to demand peace, the resignation of Netanyahu, and an immediate ceasefire for the safe return of 100 or so hostages. Netanyahu’s political goal was to flatten Gaza and he has done it without any challenge. The cycle of dreadful humanitarian crises unfolding in Gaza and across Palestine is baffling as if global humanity and institutions do not exist for anyone other than Americans and Israel-allied Europeans. The war scenario emboldens Netanyahu‘s political absolutism – an egoistic leader with a controversial profile will do his utmost to pursue his unbridled ambition whether by manipulation, violence, or new conflicts. The current paradigm links directly to PM Netanyahu’s affiliation with extreme Jewish Ultra Nationalists to deny the Palestinian people their right to exist as an independent State and to dismantle the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Please see: “Al-Aqsa Mosque Waiting for the Arab Leaders”. The Israel-American Collaborative War against Earth, Muslims, and Humanity The UK Government is one of the staunch supporters of the Israeli war against Gaza. British Prime Minister Starmer claims Islam and Mohammad are at the epicenter of challenges and animosity towards democracy and liberal values.“UK politicians are whipping up an anti-Muslim panic. Where’s the evidence?” is the headline appearing in the Middle East Eye magazine (UK), and The Sun:

Our real problem is with Islam itself and will remain so because we have no choice but to confront the Islamic flow and Islamic thought in all ways…...*Our differences are not really with the Islamic peoples or the ruling regimes, because the regimes revolve around us and derive their survival from us, and implement our policies that serve Western national security first, regardless of their national security….*Our real problem lies with Islam and Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam because it is a civilized religion that has detailed answers to all existential and civilizational questions, and it is a stubborn competitor to Western civilization, which has begun to lose its brilliance, while Islam and Muhammad are becoming increasingly brilliant even within our European societies, which liberal values have allowed freedom of thought and weakened the authority of the Church, and this free and abstract thinking has led many elites and youth to embrace Islam, because they found in it all the answers to their psychological, spiritual, existential and social needs that our contradictory civilization has drowned them in. Those bombing and destroying the Earth and its life cycle are not normal human beings. Were the ancient people of the Stone Age more intelligent and responsible for not destroying the earth and environment in wars keeping mankind in safety and unity? The Earth is a Divine living entity and a trust to mankind. American-supplied weaponry massacred more than 41,000 innocent people of Gaza, 16,000 children and women, and several thousand buried under the rubble; and Israel bombed and destroyed the habitats and its citizens for no other reason except intransigence and hatred against Arabs and Muslims. If the original population of Gaza and West Bank-Palestine happened to be Jews or Christians, the bombing and destruction were unthinkable. “ It is only wrong doers stand as Protectors- one to another; But God is the Protector of Righteous” clarifies the Divine message. (Quran: 45;19). Another clarification spells out the truth: “We have not created the Heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in sport: We have not created them but for a serious end. But the greater part of them understand it not.” (Quran: Chapter 44: 38) The Earth belongs to all humanity and is a living entity. It rotates itself at a speed of 1000 miles per hour at the equator and orbits the Sun at an average speed of 67062 MPH. The Divine warning (Chapter 7: 56: The Qur’an), tells: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good. Earth is a trust to humanity and trust includes accountability. The Earth sustains all forms of living things(known and unknown), the essential foundation of our very existence. Pathologically wicked leaders and nations claiming to be most powerful start acting like God to challenge the sanctity and limits of the Laws of God; historically, they become an object of unthinkable natural calamities- earthquakes, wildfires, floods, deaths, and destruction.“Say! Travel through the earth; And see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.” spell out the annals of human history. Those who are bombing and causing catastrophic events to destroy the planet Earth and mankind and all of its treasures and enrichments are not normal human beings. And the killing of innocent people is prohibited in the Ten Commandments (Torah): 'Thou shalt not kill' (Exod. 20:13; also Deut. 5:17). Jewish law views the shedding of innocent blood very seriously, and lists murder as one of three sins (along with idolatry and sexual immorality), that fall under the category of yehareg ve'al ya'avor - meaning "One should let himself be killed rather than violate it. Arab-Muslim Leaders Waiting for the End-Game Sigmund Freud (Civilization and its Discontent, 1930) noted that “the inclination to aggression is an original self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and that it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

” The Arab Middle East is no exception. The game is the same “do nothing” and talk loudly. In a global age of knowledge and information, Arab -Muslim leaders cannot pretend to be ignorant and unaware of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis unfolding daily on the television screen. Most are corrupt egoistic puppets of the West enjoying life within the palaces guarded by foreign mercenaries. The alleged war crimes and genocide in Gaza warranted swift action to safeguard human lives entrapped in the war zones - why did the UNO not organize a force to protect the civilians in war zones across Gaza and the West Bank? Caitlin Johnstone (“Opposing The Gaza Genocide While Supporting Biden Is A Dishonest” 04/29/24), offers rational insight into many concerns: You really couldn’t put together a more incoherent position if you tried. You can’t acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide without also acknowledging that the Biden administration has been actively participating in that genocide. If you acknowledge that Biden is guilty of genocide, then you are acknowledging that he is guilty of the most horrific crime a state leader can possibly commit short of initiating a nuclear exchange…..Those who are supporting Biden while opposing the destruction of Gaza do not have any kind of integrity. They’re just wearing whatever mask is politically convenient based on the way the winds are blowing on a given moment, while continuing to support the US-centralized empire which cannot be sustained without nonstop tyranny and bloodshed. Animals live and do not reflect on the imperatives of life whereas, we, human beings, cannot act like animals as we are supposed to be intelligent and responsible species on this Earth. At the edge of reason, the notion of evil leads to the realization that evil and the tyranny of war must be stopped by all means, and those responsible for the genocide and crimes against humanity must be held accountable to restore the manifestation of a sustainable human future. Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and is the author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. Germany, 12/2019.

[gravityghosts]

One thing I’ve been thinking about for months… I remember seeing a post once. I can’t remember the actual original context but it was something along the line of “I told my therapist I wasn’t [depressed? suicidal?], and my therapist asked what I would do differently if I WAS, and that made me realize I was wrong because there was no difference in what I would be doing.”

I wonder what israel supporters think… what would israel do differently if they were committing genocide?

Would they say they want ‘total victory?’ Would they claim that EVERY Palestinian citizen is a part of a terrorist group? Even the babies?

Would they kill children?

Would they commit war crimes (plural)?

Would they be part of an ongoing investigation as to whether or not they’re committing genocide?

Would they kill more people in a few months than those killed in the last few years in active war zones?

Would they commit ethnically cleansing?

Would they displace a huge portion of the population?

Would they forbid Palestinians from returning home if they leave?

Would they bomb medical workers?

Would the majority of their kill count be civilians?

Would they kill damn near every journalist in the area?

Would they bomb the land to hell and back, destroying local wildlife such as the olive trees?

Would they destroy schools, places of worship, hospitals?

Would they destroy all sources of food and prevent any more food from being imported, artificially inducing the largest percentage (100%) of food scarcity we’ve ever seen?

Would they kill a baby so young he hadn’t been named yet, solely for the crime of being born Palestinian?

Would they kill livestock?

Would they bomb people who said ‘hey we’re just bringing food. This is a is not a combat zone so please don’t kill us’ three times in a row? Even after being told ‘hey you bombed us just now. please don’t do that’

Would they post videos on social media of themselves looting things from the homes they bombed?

Would they strip the civilians of their clothes, holding them at gunpoint?

Would they blow a girl’s legs off, leaving her hanging, half of her body completely gone?

Would they obliterate a child so much that all the child’s mother had left of said kid was blood left on her hands?

Would they kill people going for food? Hiding bombs in cans?

Would they bomb a tent city of refuges?

Like. Maybe SOME of this is propaganda. I don’t claim to be an expert in any relevant field (ie: genocide, international law, international relations, etc.) and the Internet does not, in fact, always share true information.

But I’ve seen some of these things. And I KNOW they can’t ALL be fake. Unless I see convincing proof, I’m assuming they’re ALL true. The image of the girl with her legs blown off haunts me. The video of the woman crying with blood on her hands won’t leave my mind. Many of these things are known to have occurred or to be occurring.

What more does israel have to do for the rest of the world to realize this is fucked up?

This isn’t everything they’ve done!!! This is just what my chronically-amnesiac-ass can think of off the top of my head!

[brrtheblog]

Conflict, Crisis and Response: A Study on How Religion and Ethnic Prejudice Affects Public Opinion

-A.

3rd Feb, 2024

The Israel-Hamas conflict has been clear proof that public response to regional conflict is heavily determined by pre-jew-diced perceptions of religion and ethnicity. Highlighting a contrast between the response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Palestinian genocide, the stark indignation meted out by the masses in reaction to the merciless slaughter of Ukrainians far outweighs the cold reactions of the western “developed” nations to the systematic wipe-out of innocent citizens in the Gaza Strip.

Whereas the attack on Ukraine provoked an immediate and unyielding response by the leader nations and the UN, the clapback towards Israel has been relatively lukewarm. This could also be due to the fact that the Palestinian genocide was prompted by an attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group, Hamas. The attack provoked an ongoing barrage over the Gaza Strip and West Bank in Palestine. Israeli planes opened heavy bombing upon the area, destroying homes, hospitals, school buildings and places of worship. As of the 22nd of January 2024, the death toll has passed 25,000, most of them women and children. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, over 62,000 have been injured, with most of the population of 2.3 million, displaced from their homes.

The general public response to the strife has been largely tepid. Where the Russia-Ukraine conflict widely incited one-sided sympathies of people far and near, the Israel-Palestine conflict( while it has prompted debates on varied topics) has had populations divided in their stance. This could largely be attributed to the history of displacement and discrimination against Jewish populations, as well as the islamophobia and internal bias against arab ethnicities that runs rampant in society to this day and age.

The UN and leading nation states have been staunchly extending support to Israel, emphasising its right to defend itself. The reporter questions the dialectic behind destroying hospitals and schools and keeping some 5,200 war hostages, which seems to be conveniently ignored by a majority of the nation states. The International Court of Justice did not order a ceasefire or suspension of the Israeli attacks, rather, instructing it to “take measures within its power to prevent genocidal acts against Palestinians.”

The United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Scotland have halted funding to the the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after Israel alleged that some of its employees were involved in the October 7th attack. This move has been heavily condemned by top Palestinian officials and Hamas. Contrarily, Ukraine was flooded by support and military aiding in its fight against Russian invasion. One could think of the possible reasons behind this disparity, in which islamophobia and ethnicity may or may not be deciding factors. The reporter leaves the readers to make their own conclusion.

Be it citizens of Ukraine, Palestine or any other nation, every individual deserves to live in the absence of threat of impending doom. Every individual deserves access to basic amenities, and every individual deserves the rights to freedom. The reporter hopes that UN committees work to draft and pass resolutions that equally benefit all sections and races of society, impossible as it may seem.

[shittyasexualwitch]

we should no longer entertain the argument that hamas is a terrorist organisation at all as a viable point, israel is a terrorist organisation, israel steals children from their parents, israel rapes and murders civilians, israel captures and tortures hostages, israel bombs civilian infrastructure, hospitals, schools and places of worship, israel guns down livestock to manufacture famines, israel runs fear campaigns to emotionally terrorise its victims, israel burns babies to the bone with white phosphorous, israel talks of razing its enemies to the ground and leaving no survivors, israel blocks foreign aid from reaching civilians, israel hunts down journalists and their whole families, israel mocks those they brutally murdered to besmirch their legacies, israel lies through its teeth about its enemies to stir hatred, israel has been doing all this and more since the very moment it was founded and hasn't stopped since 1948

when they were eventually released during a ceasefire hamas had been begging for for ages despite israel's adamant refusal, the so called "hostages" that had been held by hamas remarked to the press about how humanely they were treated, even in the harsh conditions of a gaza under israeli assault, meanwhile israel was bombarding and massacring anything that moved within gaza, not bothering to try to spare those "hostages" from their attacks

israel are the real terrorists, hamas are more humane than most western "democracies" and the fascists are getting away with defending a fucking ethnic cleansing and a genocide because those arguing in good faith keep conceding on a point that frankly isn't relevant

we shouldn't have to verbally condemn hamas for our point to stand, because israel is significantly worse, everything hamas has done that's bad israel has done a thousandfold, it should be pretty fucking obvious that we're anti-terrorism on account of we're condemning the terrorists who did way more terrorism, trying to argue about the wrongdoings of hamas in this conversation is like trying to argue a man deserves to be publicly executed for robbing a convenience store with counterfeit money, you'd have to be a fucking lunatic to ask people protesting that if they condemn the executed for stealing, this isn't about hamas, this is about the fucking genocide, israel is literally on a mission to eradicate the palestinian people entirely and we're here missing the forest for the fucking trees, if you really condemn terrorism you condemn israel

[laurelrusswurm]

Most of the news from Gaza is traumatic, as ambulances are attacked and hospitals, schools, homes, and places of worship are bombed, people are killed and wounded, whole families are wiped out in an instant. There isn't much good news.

But this little miracle baby is good news.

If we leave it up to Israel to decide the fate of Palestinians, this innocent orphan's future won't be very bright.

Palestinians have lost enough. Its time they were free. They need the opportunity for self determination and the right of return that is their due.

Hey, I've got an idea: since Israel has destroyed so much of Gaza's housing stock and real estate has been turned to rubble, its time the illegal walls and checkpoints came down, and the illegal occupiers were turned out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Its too bad Canada traded in peacekeeping for warmaking. This could have been an opportunity for real leadership. Sadly, we won't likely get that before we have #ProportionalRepresentation.