#Israel cost of living

[mygidon73]

Becoming Israeli Again

Before October 7, living in Israel could leave you battered, bruised, and needing a stiff drink. Sky high housing prices, exorbitant childcare costs, heavy regulations, relatively low median wages that translate into a lack of purchasing power, and an overdependence on imports for food and other essentials are the bare bone basics of life here. When you combine all that with rising interest…

[remindertoclick]

Here's your reminder to Click for Palestine today!

[3liza]

I don't know how many times we have to say this but this is because the United States of America does not have public transit in any form that a European would recognize as such outside of a few very small, highly-dense municipal locations like NYC and Chicago, and having used both those systems and the U-Bahn i can firmly assert that the U-Bahn blows American subways into smithereens. we especially do not have accessible interstate passenger train service outside of that one commuter Amtrak loop in the northeast. the country is designed to force its citizens to use cars and only cars, and the government has made it policy to incentivize car ownership since the 1940s and punish any other form of transit, including just walking around. do you understand? the vast majority of roads here do not have bike lanes. when we do have bike lanes they are not protected by a curb or divider, they are just white lines painted on the asphalt. you will regularly encounter roads and streets--inside of cities and suburbs, not just in rural areas--that do not have sidewalks

[ghostlyfurball]

saw a post that's like your opinion on israel and zionism doesn't matter if you're not jewish and i'm like. no one else at all? not even the arab men women and children? the palestinians being murdered? the lebanese being murdered?

[jihadibaddie123]

This is actually chilling to me. Maya is very talented even though I disagree with her at times.

[hatake]

ppl on here really calling palestine protestors "hecklers" at rallies

[anthropomorphicbeancake]

Atrocities happening to innocents that are a part of the oppressor state or group, is still the fault of the oppressor, not the oppressed for using the same tactics in their defense.

[ember-knights]

Like.. i know the world does not care. I know only white lives and stories and voices and struggles are human in their eyes.... still it pains me to see the silence. The disregard. The apathy and lies.

[booasaur]

The House has passed it.

I know things like this are complicated and sometimes it's an oversimplification to blame the current big issue but I just don't think there's any other credible reason for the dramatic increase in bipartisan support for this ban since the last time an attempt was made. Especially pushing through this bill this quickly, it was only drafted last week.

[SOURCE]

TLDR: They want to ban Tiktok because its largely pro Palestine

[schoolhater]

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - Kamala Harris

The Vice President, Governor Josh Shapiro, and Former US representative Conor Lamb headed east in the Commonwealth today. The 'official' schedule is below.

Reading, PA Event Location: Café de Colombia Restaurant and Bakery Event Type: Breakfast and door knocking Event Time: 8:00 - 14:00 *The campaign ate breakfast at a local bakery and then spent the morning and early afternoon door knocking on homes and businesses around Reading. We are very committed in making sure that this region feels as though they know us as candidates.

Delaware County, PA Event Location: Location undisclosed Event Type: Town Hall Event Time: 17:00 - 22:00 ET *CNN hosted our campaign for a town hall event after former President Donald Trump refused to have another debate. Questions during this town hall covered a wide range of campaign policies including: fracking, cost of living, Israel-palestine, freedom of speech, and many more.

~BR~

[boreal-sea]

"Biden is funding a literal genocide!"

Yeah - and so will Trump. Like, if you don't vote for Biden, Trump will win, and he will continue to send aid to Israel - in fact, he will likely send MORE aid to Israel. That's the reality of the world we live in.

And, to be honest, any US president will support Israel. Because the USA is Israel's ally. That's how foreign policy works.

So who do you prefer?

Biden, who has helped lgbtq rights, reproductive rights, infrastructure, the environment, lowered medication costs, supported unions, and done MANY good, progressive things,

Or Trump, who we already know is awful. Who we already know will destroy any human rights Biden managed to gain. Who will not help the environment. Who will not help trans people, or immigrants, or women.

Because those are your two choices. And if you think they're the same, you are dangerous to all marginalized people.

[buttercuparry]

When does the Nakba that started 76 years ago stop?

[news4dzhozhar]

[whetstonefires]

the correct criticism would be observing that if irish-americans did have a right of return and, having exercised it, a pattern of bombing Northern Ireland

(which is not implausible; the IRA got loads of its funding from individuals in the US)

and driving random Protestants on both sides of the border out of their homes and casually committing sectarian murder to 'reclaim the stolen counties,' then if the Republic supported this activity and dedicated military forces to protecting and promoting this reconquista activity:

that would be a very obvious problem with Irish national policy, which other countries would probably take issue with, and which would make Ireland a horrible place to live for everybody.

which is why, to step back into reality, in the 80s and 90s the Republic of Ireland did not support the oppressed catholic minority in Northern Ireland in its anti-colonial terrorist activities. because it would have embroiled them in civil war until god knew when, and made them a pariah.

obviously the nuances of the situation are very different but like, if you're going to draw these kinds of parallels, get it right.

I just want to talk about how non-Jewish leftists are weirdly obsessed with Israel’s right of return. The way they talk about Israel in general is really messed up, but the right of return seems to really bother them. Like, you don’t have to know or care about the history of Israel and why it was founded to understand that a sovereign nation can make its own citizenship and immigration laws.

I’ve seen so many anti-Israel posts and comments where someone will say something to the effect of “I’m of Irish descent and I can’t return to Ireland and claim citizenship” and then turn that into an argument about why Israel is the most evil country to ever exist. And it’s like, yes and? Ireland and Israel are two separate counties with separate laws. Like, why does an American living in Ohio think they have the right to question how another nation chooses to define its own citizenship?

they think it shouldn’t happen because “jews are european colonizers and therefore have no right to return”, since they believe jews aren’t originally from judea. its not about a country deciding citizenship, it’s colonizers dictating how many white people get to live in the colony. they’re getting deranged about it, but that’s the reasoning I’ve seen from them. it’s disgustingly antisemitic but what else could we expect from rape apologist terrorist sympathizers.

[shurikene-of-spades]

How the fuck can Israel play a propaganda ad about bringing dads home, an ad that cost millions of dollars and was likely paid by OUR TAX DOLLARS and bomb Rafah at the same time? 1.4 million people are stuck in Rafah right now. How the fuck are we standing for this it has been over 3 months of this genocide enough is fucking enough. If you’re sick of hearing about it Palestinians are sick of living it.