#Numer Tel

[byllsbytch]

Cumming home to you <3

Nicholas Alexander Chavez

Ok, it’s pretty shitty, I’ve written this in 30mins, n im too lazy to write smut. (Besides I’m shit at it on a good day.)

here ya go cuties.

Genre: Fluff

Summary: Nicholas Alexander Chavez comes home late to his gf after a long day of filming, after many attempts of trying to get freaky they decide - fuck, we’re both too tired.

Warnings: Girl none?

I’d sat on the couch watching a cooking show, it was the most entertaining channel on at the time and seeing as the night was drawing to a close, I needed something easy to watch. It was my first week in our new apartment and Nick certainly was working his ass off for it. I numerously checked the time on the microwave in the kitchen and watched as the minutes passed.

I pulled the blanket up higher to my chin, slowly fluttering my eyes trying to keep them open. A tough inner battle. Being alone in the house it wasn’t hard to keep them open, when alone I’m always restless, however I was overtired. A wave of sleepiness hit me harder causing me to slump to the side of the couch. The words from the television became unintelligible and I began to drift away.

It felt like it had been two minutes before I woke to see Nicholas had finally gotten home and stood over me, pecking my cheek and playing with my hair.

“Come on princess off to bed.” He whispered. I struggled to open my eyes and glanced at the time again.

“2am! Nicholas! Are you ok baby?”

He smiled at my concern.

“I’m fine babe, just let me get you to bed.”

I mumbled before nick swooped me up in his arms and carried me to bed. I stretched and sprawled out in the centre of the bed before groaning in satisfaction.

“I’m sorry baby, I’m so tired.”

“You’re fine my darling girl. I’ll just go for a shower and I’ll be right back. I’m sorry for coming home late and waking you.”

He walked into the bathroom the next room over and turned the water on.

-

The steam began to snake its way into the bedroom. After a few minutes I managed to pull my dead weight up off the bed and dragged my body to the bathroom doorway staring at Nick’s physique behind the shower glass.

I slowly began to pull off my shirt and kick off my pants. I heard the water turn off and Nicholas got out drying himself then wrapping the towel around his waist. He finally noticed me standing in the doorway in my old, ratty underwear. He bit his lip before coming close to me.

“What are you doing babe? You ok?”

I smirked at him, placing my hand onto his abdomen. He looked down to my hand and smiled closing the gap even more.

“I was going to get into the shower.”

“Oh damn it!” He joked, “Come on baby, let’s just go to bed it’s late.” He lent over and kissed me on the forehead.

I looked up at him and gave him puppy eyes a slight frown.

He looked away. “Oh come on! I feel bad that I woke you up.”

I placed my hand on his cheek before pulling him into a kiss.

He leant in with no hesitation and tangled his fingers into my hair. We both closed our eyes in each other’s embrace as Nicholas began to make his way from my lips down my neck. I took my hands behind my back before undoing my bra. He kept all his attention to my collar bone leaving sloppy kisses. He pulled away sensing the warmth from my breast and stepped back to glance at them. My forearms rested in his, he stared in complete adoration and love.

“You’re so gorgeous and perfect.”

He placed his hands onto my chest before going back into the kiss. I moved my hands down to his towel and gently tugged, teasing him.

“Mhmm” He hummed, nodding in the kiss.

I pulled it off before he lifted me up and carried me back to the bed.

He placed me down delicately before crawling over me.

He was out of breath and visibly excited.

“How was work handsome?” I asked keeping my hand on his face his stocky frame above me.

He stopped puzzled, already panting from the little action.

“Yeah it was alright baby. Long and boring but it’s ok because we’re about to wrap up filming soon. Tell you what got me through it, you. I couldn’t help but think about you all day. I’m so happy it’s over so we can be in this moment right now.”

I felt a grin grow wider across my face.

“Especially the snap that you sent earlier, that REALLY helped me wind down.” He chuckled, winking.

My eyes widened as I gasped, slapping him playfully on the chest, “Nick! Oh my god!” I couldn’t help but laugh and he soon joined in with me placing his forehead against mine.

“You know what this is nice. How about we just do this.”

“Oh thank god!” I said, “I’m so fucking knackered.”

I rolled onto my side and felt Nick press himself up against me, wrapping his arms around me and resting his head into the crook of my neck.

He smirked at my reaction. “Oh ok! You came onto me remember!”

I smiled at him, “Well it’s hard not to.”

“You wanna know what’s hard?”

I turned my head back to look at him grinning before rolling my eyes.

We had some more pillow talk while he continued to spoon me.

“We’re definitely on in the morning, you know that?”

“Oh yes!” He triumphantly pumped his fist.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Latest batch of Iranian missile is coming down on Israel right now, hitting numerous locations including Tel Aviv.

The IRGC claims to have launched hundreds of missiles so far as well as hypersonics. 15 June 2025

[mariacallous]

Writing a comprehensive history of Polish citizens during the Holocaust is a hefty task. A Polish law that criminalizes any mention of Polish responsibility for or complicity in Nazi crimes makes it even harder.

That makes the groundbreaking research conducted by acclaimed Holocaust historian Jan Grabowski for his new book, “On Duty: The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust” all the more remarkable. 

Relying on meticulous documentation, the book argues that Polish institutions were more than willing to assist the Nazis in their extermination campaign, and often led the way through their own initiatives. Grabowski, a professor at the University of Ottawa, spent more than 10 years conducting the research, including years in Poland going through Polish archives, private diaries and records from more than 100 small towns where Jews lived in high concentrations. 

“I read horrifying things in the diaries of Polish policemen describing how many Jews they killed each day,” said Grabowski, 61. “There were anecdotes about a cop asking for a glass of vodka before shooting a Jew, or using hot water to clean the blood off their hands. They killed friends and schoolmates without remorse, even in places where no Germans ever came to check up on them.”

Much of the evidence Grabowski uncovered had never been seen before.

“It’s not easy to write a book like this when you have opposition from massive Polish organizations with teams of PhDs whose job is to go after people like myself,” said Grabowski, who began his research for the book before Poland passed the controversial 2018 Act on the Institute of National Remembrance. “But thorough and independent historical research is necessary to make sure that a nation can’t rewrite its history into a happy story of righteous Poles saving Jews.”

In particular, the book focuses on the actions of Poland’s Blue Police, officially known as the Polish Police of the Generalgouvernement, established shortly after the German occupation of Poland in 1939 and consisting mainly of prewar Polish police officers.

“We are talking about a police force of 20,000 people that previously was in charge of enforcing mundane civilian laws like making sure that horses walking on the street had horseshoes,” Grabowski said. “What fascinates me is how quickly these normal ordinary cops were transformed into ruthless killers.”

Grabowski’s 496-page book is now available on Yad Vashem’s website.

Grabowski has written numerous books and articles focusing on the Holocaust in Poland. His book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland” won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize in 2013.

On the eve of World War II, Poland’s 3.3 million Jews formed a vibrant and diverse society, noted Havi Dreifuss, director of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem and professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University. 

“Many were engaged in Jewish and Polish causes or active in political movements such as the Bund, Zionist, and Orthodox groups. While most lived in cities, these were often small, alongside villages that reflected the richness of Polish Jewish life.”

This last point is a critical issue for Holocaust scholarship, Dreifuss said.  

“Research often focuses on large ghettos like Warsaw and Lodz, each housing hundreds of thousands of Jews. But over 340 ghettos existed in the Generalgouvernement, 83% of them with fewer than 5,000 Jews,” she said. “These smaller ghettos, representing the majority of Polish Jewish communities, remain understudied, despite their significant role in understanding Polish Jewry during the Holocaust.”

Chronologically, Polish persecution of the Jews progressed in three stages, according to Grabowski.

After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Third Reich entrusted Polish police forces to introduce and enforce new restrictions on the Jews. 

“The first phase was the beginning of the inhuman ghettoization of the Jews,” Grabowski said. “The Germans created laws designed to break down the Jews, limiting where they could go and what they could do or own. Yet until now, virtually no historians have examined how the large Polish police force suddenly became so deeply involved with Jewish affairs, effectively condemning them to starvation.”

By 1941, Polish forces began working on the second phase, liquidating hundreds of ghettos. As trainloads of Jews were sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka in 1942 and 1943, Polish police participated in the Nazi evacuations of these ghettos, rounding Jews up, killing anyone who resisted and sometimes even conducting the evacuations themselves.

“It is important to understand that it wasn’t the Germans coercing the Poles to shoot; it was the Polish execution squads making these decisions themselves,” Grabowski said. “In November 1941, Polish police were shooting Jews on a regular basis, much earlier than in Nazi-occupied countries in Western Europe.”

Perhaps the Poles were just acting to avoid facing punishment from the Nazis? 

“The interesting thing is that there is no record of any penalty given to someone who refused to kill a Jew, except maybe some sneers by your colleagues,” Grabowski said. “If you didn’t want to do it, there was always someone else who would be happy to.”

After the ghettos were liquidated, Polish forces continued their killing sprees through the third phase, searching throughout the country for Jews who may have escaped, according to Grabowski.

“At this point, they are murdering with gusto, without any German involvement,” according to Grabowski. “They are working with locals, with their neighbors, and they don’t even inform the Germans about what they are doing.”

As the Holocaust progressed, Polish police acted on their own to kill Jews without coordinating with Germany, Grabowski said. 

“They knew that if they reported their activities to the Nazis they would have been forced to share the money and property they stole,” he said. “They might also incriminate their neighbors who were actively sheltering Jews. And they didn’t want that.”

Poland’s Foreign Ministry declined to respond to the claims in Grabowski’s books, saying, “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not comment on the scientific activities of individual people, considering scientific sphere and activity exempt from political assessment.”

While writing “On Duty,” Grabowski faced a powerful barrage of opposition from the Polish government and was slapped with a number of lawsuits, two of which are still pending. 

“It has not been good for my psychological well-being,” Grabowski said. “When you study for a PhD, no one trains you in how to handle attacks from the state for slandering the good name of the nation.”

But exposing the truth is exactly why Grabowski believes his work is important. 

“The Holocaust has become a universal benchmark of evil, but even after decades of Holocaust education, you have governments bending history out of shape to conform with their own needs,” he said. “This is a very dangerous precedent, and we have a responsibility to prevent it to preserve our future.”

[girlactionfigure]

Did you know that Gaza is integral to Jewish history?

Did you know that Gaza is integral to Jewish history?

For thousands of years, Jews lived, studied, and prayed in this coastal city. From the Bible to the Talmud, from Samson’s struggle to rabbinic wisdom, Gaza was and remains part of the Jewish story.

In the bible, Gaza is included in the territory allotted to the tribe of Judah, together with other cities like Ashkelon and Ekron.

Joshua 15:47: Ashdod, its dependencies and its villages; Gaza, its dependencies and its villages, as far as the Wadi of Egypt and the Great Sea was their boundary.

During the First and Second Temple Periods: Gaza's location on the southwestern border of ancient Israel made it a strategic and contested city. Jewish influence in the region waxed and waned, depending on the strength of the central Israelite kingdom.

In the 1st century BCE, during the Hasmonean expansion under King Alexander Jannaeus, Gaza was temporarily brought under Jewish control, reflecting a revival of Jewish sovereignty and religious identity.

During the Roman and Byzantine Periods a notable Jewish community existed in Gaza. Ancient rabbinic literature—including the Jerusalem Talmud—mentions Jewish sages from Gaza, such as Rabbi Yose of Gaza. Discussions of halacha (Jewish law), trade, and agriculture connected to the region are recorded in Talmudic sources.

Archaeological discoveries in the wider Gaza region, including synagogue remnants and inscriptions, confirm a Jewish presence during the Byzantine era. These findings demonstrate religious life and cultural continuity in Gaza for Jews well into Late Antiquity.

In 1929, when Arabs slaughtered Jews in numerous communities throughout Israel (then British Mandate Palestine), the Jews of Gaza were evacuated to Tel Aviv to save them from the lynch mob.

In 2005, the Jews of Gaza were uprooted from their homes and removed from Gaza in the hope that giving the land to the Arabs living there and allowing them to build their communities as they pleased, would create peace.

Forest Rain Marcia

[ouroborosmoons]

Four Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody on 30 December, bringing the number of detainees killed in Tel Aviv’s brutal prison system up to five within the past 24 hours.

[…] Mohammad Rashid al-Akka, Samir Mahmoud al-Kahlout, Zuhair Omar al-Sharif, and Mohammad Anwar Lubbad were killed while detained by the Israeli army on Monday

The statement held the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) responsible for the crimes committed against prisoners, warning of a “growing humanitarian disaster” and accusing Israeli authorities of working to “systematically and publicly liquidate prisoners.” […] All five were detained from the Gaza Strip, where Israel continues its genocidal campaign against civilians and medical facilities.

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees announced last week the deaths of two other Palestinian prisoners, Samih Aliwi and Anwar Aslim. Aliwi, a Hamas leader from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, died last month after being transferred from the Ramle prison clinic to a hospital. He was held under administrative detention by Israel since October last year despite his several serious medical issues.

Israeli detention centers and prisons where Palestinian detainees are held are known for their extremely repressive and violent conditions, which include torture, rape, and other human rights violations.

The director of north Gaza’s besieged and destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, was detained on 27 December in the latest of many raids on the medical facility. Abu Safia was reportedly taken to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp, where there have been numerous incidents of rape and torture.

“Sde Teiman is known for brutality and torture, we can't imagine what our father is going through in that place and if he is well or not, warm or cold … hungry or in pain,” the hospital director’s family told CNN.

The UN warned earlier this year that Palestinians imprisoned across Israeli jails and detention camps have also faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and electrocution by Israeli prison authorities since 7 October 2023.

The Sde Teiman torture camp, where dozens have been killed, has been referred to as Israel’s Guantanamo.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have studied free-ranging fruit bats in a colony in Egypt to answer the long-standing question of whether animals have complex cognitive abilities previously thought to exist only in humans.

The study focused specifically on mental time travel, episodic memory, delayed gratification and planning ahead, a press release from TAU said.

“For many years, the cognitive abilities to recall personal experiences (episodic memory) and plan ahead were considered exclusive to humans. But more and more studies have suggested that various animals also possess such capabilities, but nearly all of these studies were conducted under laboratory conditions, since field studies on these issues are difficult to perform. Attempting to test these abilities in wild animals, we designed a unique experiment relying on the colony of free-ranging fruit bats based in TAU’s I. Meier Segals Garden for Zoological Research,” said Dr. Yossi Yovel, a lead researcher of the study and a professor in TAU’s School of Zoology and Sagol School of Neuroscience, in the press release.

The study, “Time-mapping and future-oriented behavior in free-ranging wild fruit bats,” was published in the journal Current Biology.

“Episodic memory is the memory of our individual experiences. In animals, people talk about episodic-like memory which is the ability to remember what-where and when an event happened. We show that bats remember how much time (when) passed since they visited a specific tree (what) at a specific location (where),” Yovel told EcoWatch in an email.

The research team surmised that bats who depend on fruit trees to survive would need to develop the ability to track food availability both spatially — where trees are located — and across time — when each tree produces fruit.

“We think that fruit bats map time in order to keep track of available fruit. For example, they know that if two weeks have passed since their last visit to one kind of tree, then there will be no food on that tree, but if only one week passed there might still be food. We show that they plan their visits according to such reasoning,” Yovel told EcoWatch.

To navigate landscapes with numerous nectar and fruit trees, the bats would also need to be able to mentally track resources so that they could revisit them at the right time.

[dailyakira]

home is where the heart is ft. tooru oikawa

gn! reader

a/n: hi guys! it's been a while since i've wrote a ff, so forgive me if it isn't that good. i've been fixating on haikyuu ever since the movie!! also this is not grammar checked.. i wrote this within an hour at 2 AM!!!

warnings: a bit angsty, tooth rotting fluff at a certain point, i forgot how to write, oikawa is sad and yearning, oikawa is scared to come back home, childhood friends to exes to something else?, tears are shed, please don't cringe i will cry

oikawa inhaled the familiar cool breeze surrounding him. he hadn't been in japan for years due to his hectic volleyball schedule. he was lucky enough to fly back for a short break before his season started again in a few months.

a wave of homesickness hit oikawa the second he landed. the memories of his mundane lifestyle in japan compared to his ever-changing way of life in argentina had shocked him.

oikawa wrapped his scarf around his neck tighter as snowflakes scattered from the skies. the delicate crystallized flakes began to litter his chestnut colored hair.

he hadn't told anyone that he was back in japan - oikawa felt no need to celebrate his arrival. he had burned too many bridges while chasing his dreams. arguments out of pure pettiness had ended relationships that he could never repair.

whenever oikawa thinks of japan, he thinks of you.

his dearest childhood bestfriend, who could never leave his side. until of course, he left for argentina without much of a say from you.

the only person he could say he loved, even through numerous flings and failed relationships.

he blames his fiery passion that became suffocating to be near. he blames his refusal to change his behavior. he blames every part of himself for driving you away.

because when he thinks of airports, he can't help but wander back to the memory of you not showing up to see him off. when he's gifted an alien keychain as a gag gift, he thinks of the two of you at ten years old, staring into the sky all night attempting to spot a flying saucer.

being back in his home country opens new wounds that he's tried to heal over and over. he wanted to enjoy his time off season without any worries.

his shoes tapped against the concrete evenly as he began to approach the convenience store. oikawa had left his hotel room earlier to clear his mind, and the only thing that could put him at peace was a slice of milkbread.

he hoped to go unnoticed, since he heavily disliked wearing an obnoxious disguise that would make him stand out even more. still, he raised the hood of his maroon sweatshirt over his head. oikawa desired some semblance of anonymity.

the bell clanged against the door loudly as oikawa quickly avoided the front of the store. he observed the vast selection of packaged milk bread loaves, before deciding on his usual choice brand.

he sauntered towards the beverage isle in curiosity and ended up settling for a bottled green tea to pair with his bread. he had never been a fan of green tea, but you had made it for him consistently after his practices to 'calm his nerves.' a tiny smile stretched onto his face as he thought back fondly.

he wanted to head home and collapse in his bed. the jetlag refused to leave him without a good night's sleep. after making sure he was satisfied with his choices, he walked up to the counter.

with his head down, he placed the items in front of the cashier. they scanned his items while he shuffled in the pocket of his pants for his wallet.

oikawa lifted his head slightly, comparing his money to the price shown on the register. he placed the money on the counter, not bothering to pay attention to the cashier.

he turned to leave and quickly get back to his hotel.

"i thought you hated green tea?" an easily recognizable voice remarked behind him.

he felt his heart drop as a lump began to form in his throat. out of anyone he could've ran into on his first night back, it had to be you? he contemplated putting on a brave face and telling you how he felt all these years or running out of the store just to avoid you.

he decided on the former, quickly turning around to face you. his breath paused as he looked at you for the first time in years. oikawa remembers you being beautiful before, but you had changed entirely.

you looked like you were crafted by the gods themselves.

the blush inched on his face as he tried to find the words to say. he had never been this anxious in his life. you looked at him with a puzzled expression as he continued to gape at you.

"i was... came home... off season...you're gorgeous?" he spoke in gibberish since he was unable to formulate his thoughts.

you laughed at his words as he stared at you with a stunned face, trying to determine whether or not you were real. you decided to ignore his shock and ask him about himself.

"how has your professional career been going? i heard you went to the olympics!" you gushed as he embarrassedly nodded along. you ignored your unpleasant past with him and continued with the formalities.

"i was glad to represent argentina in the olympics. going abroad to play volleyball was one of the greatest decisions i could've made."

oikawa sighs as he continues on.

"i still regret it, you know? arguing with you and leaving our relationship on bad terms. i think about it all the time. you inspired me to keep improving everyday. i'm so sorry for leaving.."

silence echoes throughout the store as he finishes his thoughts. you cut him off, beginning to explain your faults.

"i should've came to the airport. i knew that you were leaving, but i held a grudge." the regrets spilled out of you as the two of you continued to think about your every decision.

oikawa blinked away tears that formed in the corners of his eyes. he had missed you more than he could comprehend. there hadn't been enough words in his language to express how much he cared about you.

a few tears escaped his eyes, rolling down his cheeks. you leaned forward, wiping away the stray tears from his face. you softly grasped his jaw with a gentle smile.

"i've regret letting you go for years. you mean so much to me, tooru."

oikawa grins elatedly at you as he stares back into the comfort of your gaze. he could never get tired of this feeling.

the security of your embrace, the jokes that only you would laugh at, your support of his passion, your fixation on romance movies that you force him to watch with you, the longing gaze you send him whenever you're apart, and his overwhelming love for you.

there was nowhere else he'd rather be than with you.

whenever tooru thinks of home, he thinks of you.

[veganism]

The genocide is also experimentation on living beings

Israel is currently testing new weapons in Gaza, some of which will soon be sold globally as "battle-tested," according to Antony Loewenstein, an author who has written a widely acclaimed book on the issue.

For years, the Israeli defense sector has used Palestine as a laboratory for new weapons and surveillance tech, he told Anadolu, adding that this is also the case in the current ongoing war on Gaza.

One of the main reasons why "many nations, democracies and dictatorships support Israeli occupation" of Palestine is because it allows them to buy these "battle-tested" weapons, asserted Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.

Another aspect of Israel's war on Gaza has been the use of artificial intelligence technology, he said.

According to Loewenstein, AI has been one of the key targeting tools used by the Israeli military in its deadly campaign of airstrikes, leading to mass killings of Palestinians-now over 28,500-and damage on an unprecedented scale.

The current war on Gaza is "inarguably one of the most consequential and bloody," he said.

He described Israel's use of AI against Palestinians as "automated murder," stressing that this model "will be studied and copied by other nation-states" and Tel Aviv will sell them these technologies as tried and tested weapons.

In the last 50 years, Israel has exported hi-tech surveillance tools to at least 130 countries around the world.

To maintain its illegal occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israel has developed a range of tools and technologies that have made it the world's leading exporter of spyware and digital forensics tools.

But analysts say the intelligence failure during the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks casts doubts over Tel Avis's technological capabilities.

Israel's reliance on technology "is an illusion of safety, while imprisoning 2.3 million people under endless occupation," said Loewenstein, who is Jewish and holds Australian and German nationalities.

He described Israel's response in Gaza as "apocalyptic," stressing that the killings of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, is "on a scale of indiscriminate slaughter."

- 'BLOOD MONEY'

Loewenstein, who is also a journalist, said Israel has honed its weapons and technology expertise over decades as an occupying power, acting with increasing impunity in the Palestinian territories.

This led a small country like Israel to become one of the top 10 arms dealers in the world, he said, adding that Israeli arms sales in 2021 were "the highest on record, surging 55% over the previous two years to $11.3 billion."

In his book, Loewenstein explores thoroughly Israel's ties with autocracies and regimes engaged in mass displacement campaigns, and governments slinking their way into phones.

The Israeli NSO Group sold its well-known Pegasus software to numerous governments, a spyware tool for phones that gives access to the entire content, including conversations, text messages, emails and photos even when the device is switched off.

Israeli drones were first tested over Gaza, the besieged enclave that Loewenstein referred to as "the perfect laboratory for Israeli ingenuity in domination."

Surveillance technology developed in Israel has also been sold to the US in the form of watch towers now used on the border with Mexico.

The EU's border agency Frontex is known to have used Israeli drone technology to monitor refugees.

Loewenstein explains in his book that the EU has partnered with leading Israeli defense companies to use its drones, "and of course years of experience in Palestine is a key selling point."

"So again, one sees how there are so many examples of nations that are wanting to copy what Israel is doing in their own area in their own country on their own border," he said.

These technologies and "are sold by Israel as battle-tested," he said.

In other words, he contends that Palestinians essentially have become "guinea pigs," and despite some nations and the UN publicly criticizing the Israeli occupation, in reality "they're desperate for this technology for themselves for their own countries."

"And that's how in fact, the Palestine laboratory has been so successful for Israel for so long," he said.

In his exhaustive probe into Israel's dealings with arms sales around the world, he noted that the country has monetized the occupation of Palestine, by selling weapons, spyware tools and technologies to repressive regimes such as Rwanda during the genocide in 1994 and to Myanmar during its genocide against the Muslim Rohingya people in 2017.

"This to me is blood money. I mean, there's no other way to see that and again, as someone Jewish, who has spent many, many years reporting on this conflict, both within Israel and Palestine but also elsewhere, it's deeply shameful that Israel is making huge amounts of money from the misery of others," he said.

"This is not a legacy that I can be proud of."

- 'NO NATION ACTUALLY HOLDING ISRAEL TO ACCOUNT'

Profiting from misery is to some extent the nature of what capitalism has always been about, but Israel does this with a great deal of impunity, "because Israel does what it wants," said Loewenstein.

"There is no accountability, there is no transparency, there is no nation actually holding Israel to account," he added.

Israel's regime is shielded from any political backlash for years to come because nations are reliant on Israeli weapons and spyware, said the author.

Israel may not be the only player employing surveillance technology that leads to human rights violations, but it still plays a dominant role, which is why Loewenstein insists that it deserves singular attention.

Israel's foreign policy has always been "amoral and opportunistic," he said, calling on all nations to take a stand and hold Israel accountable, and acknowledge that the world is buying what Israel is selling.

[athena5898]

(MPN)

British company ships over 100 tonnes of weapons to Israel

An investigation by Declassified UK has uncovered that Permoid Industries, an engineering firm based in Durham, UK, has dispatched numerous shipments of “storage containers” to Elbit Systems—Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer—since October 2023.

The total weight of these shipments exceeds 100 tonnes, with the majority delivered to Elbit Systems Land in Ramat HaSharon, near occupied Tel Aviv.

[jazumst]

Jazu poniedziałkowy

Żeby Was... Niespodzianki, wqurw i sranie. Posłuchajcie:

Historia początek swój ma w sobotnią noc, kiedy to klucze do sklepu niemal wyrwała mi Manekin, bo "ja za późno przyjeżdżam". Tak też zostałem bez kluczy, co z resztą obojętne mi było jak los drugiego człowieka. - W niedzielny wieczór Kiero zdecydowała, że dziś damy Manekinowi wolne, bo ta ryczy, że ma maraton i nie wyrabia, a dziś miała być Wiktoria 4 na szkoleniu. Ale Manekin miała klucze, więc chcąc nie chcąc musiała mi albo Kiero je dostarczyć, i w mózgu wyjebał jej fatal error. Albo wolne, albo nocą lecieć z kluczami. - Dziś Wiktoria 4 nie przyszła. W sobotę jej nie było, bo niby miała pogrzeb dziadka, dziś nie przyszła, bo ją sranie ciśnie. I ona już wie, że srać będzie do końca tygodnia. Ile w tym prawdy? Mi się wydaje, że czeka na odpowiedź z innej roboty, ale to tylko mój rzut w przyszłość. - Kiero wkurwiła się, a te wszystkie sytuacje odbiły się na klątwie poniedziałku.

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Z rana zrobiłem zwroty i zamówienie na szlugi. Zabrałem się za spożywkę, a Kiero nie mogła się odnaleźć. Córa ma anginę, coś tam jej w domu jeszcze nie gra, a do tego miała być pomoc Wiktorii 4, a chuj był wielki. - O 10:13 jechały dosłownie wszystkie dostawy i przedstawiciele. Zatrzymał się czas. - Strzałem w łeb była Pepsi i przeklęte normy unijne. Otóż faktura na maila, chociaż dostajemy papierowy dowód dostawy. Jaka, kurwa jej zajebana mać, różnica czy na kartce wydrukują dowód dostawy czy fakturę? Ja muszę wprowadzić towar jakoś. Na numer tel wysyłają niby też. Wysłali na mój prywatny, bo służbowy ledwo MMSy obsługuje a co dopiero PDF. Chuj, to dowód dostawy. - Sprawdzam 10razy, Kiero też. Zgadza się ale się nie zgadza. Przedstawiciel ma wysłać fakturę na fon. Wysłał skurwysyn zamówienie ze swojego tableta. Takie kolorowe z obrazkami, jak to widzimy przy zamówieniu. - Dostałem ataku szału. Od spierdolonych klientów słyszę, że mam przestać bawić się telefonem i ich obsługiwać. Jedna suka była centymetr od dostanie lepy na mordę. - Jakoś doszliśmy co jest pięć. Pięć też groszy się nie zgadza ale pierdolę to. Pierdolę unię, pierdolę zasady, klientów i wszystko inne. I z tego całego burdelu nie pierdolę się tylko ja, a to by może akurat pomogło.

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Miałem pojechać po robocie do apteki i na Kaufland, ale byłem tak wyjebany, że wróciłem do domu spać. Tak też chałupy nie posprzątałem, zakupów nie zrobiłem, moje życie stanęło w miejscu. Po wczorajszym miłym dniu nie pozostało nawet wspomnienie.

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[eretzyisrael]

From the first two interviews we have our baseline.

Conducted respectfully

The statements from the two religious leaders were not challenged

Both interviews were headed by related footage

And both were accompanied by numerous respectful religiously themed images.

It is time to turn to the interview with the Jewish Rabbi. The only way to balance this out would be to have played a video related to the hostages, or the rockets still being fired at Tel Aviv before the interview started. Or perhaps footage from the funeral of 12-year-old Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha who had been shot and murdered by Palestinian terrorists on 12 December. Instead there was nothing. The BBC gave the Reverend the unverified tent attack, and the Imam the week-old settler attack on the mosque – but the Rabbi had to start cold.

It began with the same type of questioning the other two had faced about general thoughts, peace and the idea of a two state solution:

Can there be more peace in 2025 than in 2024?

What about the idea of a two state solution – of Palestinians living in a homeland alongside an Israeli homeland – is that still a viable option?

And this facade lasted for about one minute and eight seconds. As Rabbi Gideon Sylvester was (correctly) stating the problem of peace required a Palestinian partner – the BBC’s Ben Brown (who had sat quietly as the Imam spouted his nonsense) interrupted the Rabbi and began to visibly unleash the BBC’s hatred of Israel, by turning what had meant to be a discussion about Jews celebrating Chanukah into a raw anti-Israel rant. His third question suggested the war was needless and Bibi Netanyahu was simply killing Palestinians to keep himself out of jail:

“But doesn’t it also (peace) depend on your government – on the government of Benyamin Netanyahu. Because there are a lot of Israelis who say that he has been pursuing war for his own ends in a sense and he has been pushed by some of the right wing nationalists in his government. And there are a lot of Israelis who want to see an end to war and also deals to release the hostages?”

His fourth question simply turns a Rabbi who had come to answer questions about Jews celebrating Chanukah into an IDF spokesperson being expected to personally respond to Hamas propaganda points and justify Israeli military action:

“when YOU look at the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza which many people around the world have condemned – some people in Israel itself have condemned as well – 45000 people dead according to the Hamas run health ministry in Gaza, most of them, the majority of them, they say, women and children – do you think that has been a proportionate response to the attacks of October 7?”

Struggling to make enough time to continue his attack Ben Brown squeezes in a fifth question.

“But, I mean, just very briefly, we have only got a few seconds left. I’ve frequently interviewed people like Gideon Levy from Ha’aretz Newspaper who said Israel cannot keep living in a state of war – it has to make peace.”

And when the Rabbi hits back (correctly) that Gideon Levy is not representative (it would be like frequently interviewing George Galloway types in the UK and holding them up as representative) Ben Brown continues arguing:

“we interview lots of voice in Israel (remember, he said he interviewed people like Gideon Levy ‘frequently’) including your own right now”

Then it was over.

And remember the respectful religious civilian images and footage, the BBC ran alongside the interviews of the Reverend and the Imam – well this is the imagery that the BBC put alongside the interview with the Rabbi. Soldiers, bulldozers, and tanks:

[darkmaga-returns]

The Bible is regarded not only as a religious text but also as a historical document. Over the years, numerous archaeological discoveries have provided tangible evidence that supports the historical claims made in the Bible, confirming the existence of key figures, locations, and events.

These findings demonstrate that the biblical narratives align with material evidence uncovered through excavation and research.

The following list highlights some of the most significant archaeological discoveries that validate the historical reliability of the Bible, spanning from the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Roman period.

1. The Tel Dan Stele (9th century BC) is an Aramaic inscription discovered in northern Israel. It contains the phrase “House of David”, the earliest extra-biblical reference to King David, supporting the biblical claim that he was a real historical figure.

[myslodsiewniav]

Śpiączka

7-04-2025

Nie mogę się obudzić... Od kilku dni nawet, gdy już zerwę dupsko z łóźka i doczołgam się do kuchni by zaparzyć coś z kofeiną, nie jestem w stanie tak naprawdę otworzyć powiek. Leją się. Wszystko dochodzi jakby zza ściany, jakbym spała. Nie wiem jak się z tego robudzić.

Poza tym... są problemy z projektem (chociaż powinno być już dawno za mną) - typ wystawił FV z błędem i teraz musi wystawić FV bez błędu, ale z datą, która się nie zgadza... Nie wiem czy mi to przyjmą na uni... Nie mówiąc o tym jebanym e-booku...

Noż kurwa.

Poza tym.. włosy mi się nie kręcą, skóra głowy boli i mam na niej strupy. Chyba muszę się z tym wybrać do dermatologa...

Muszę też kupić leki na depresje... Nie mam za co (brak wypłaty).

Nie mam prawie na nic siły... i z tej okazji skipnęłam zupełnie niespodziewany, spontaniczny przyjazd teścia z jego kolegom (zrobili sobie city-break do Wro), odwiedziny u moich rodziców (są na wakacjach w górach i chcieli żebyśmy do nich przyjechali). Natomiast spotkałam się z kumplem (na chipsy, piwo, ciastka, pizzę i maraton "Szybkich i Wściekłych" - potwierdzam, że było miło, chociaż czuję się po tej ilości fastfoodów jak ryba rozdymka wielkości wieloryba. Znowu sobie potwierdziłam, że nie lubię piwa... po co ja to w ogóle kupowałam?), przyjaciółką (bardzo mi tego było potrzeba) i z ekipą od projektu z którymi robię zaliczenie w tym semestrze... to upierdliwe zaliczenie...

No. Dużo. Chciałabym mieć wolny jeden dzień...

W piątek biegałam po mieście, po salonach tel. bo kończy mi się umowa i sprawdzam co będzie lepszą opcją. Wyszło mi, że najlepszą opcją dla mnie obecnie będzie... khem... Nju mobile. :P Więc dziś, jak będę miała czas po pracy idę przenieść numer - myślałam, że mam na to miesiąc, ale Pan z T-mobile mnie oświecił, że nie mam miesiąca, miałam po prostu ostatnie doładowanie, że mogę korzystać z usługi tylko tyle ile kosztowało doładowanie - jak się skończy kasa jutro to nie mam telefonu. Fuck you T mobile. Nju ma lepszą ofertę.

Poza tym... mamy plany na wyjazd na nr 1 - święta, nr 2 - na majówkę, nr 3 wstępnie 2 wypady ze znajomymi na weekend (z czego większe szanse, że jeden dojdzie do skutku - ten do Pragi, a czeskie Karkonosze odkładamy na dalszy plan), nr 4 - na festiwal jako współorganizatorzy, nr 5 - na drugi koniec świata.

W miedzyczasie: ja się muszę wystarać o indywidualny tryb studiów xD i znaleźć pracę, mój facet - napisać, zrecenzować i obronić pracę magisterską.

[W piątek jak wraz z psem robiłam rajd po salonach z telefonią komórkową przy okazji zaliczyłyśmy biblioteki meijskie: przyniosłam do domu kilka książek o designie, brandingu i ogólnym kreowaniu marek samochodowych - mojemu O. się przyda do pisania pracy magisterskiej - przewodnik po Słowenii, bo a nóż coś tam znajdę czego w sieci nie wygooglałam, a także tomy 28, 29, 30 mangi Naruto xD, yeah, tak, mój masochizm ma się dobrze xD]

Też od tygodnia co 2 dzień ćwiczymy rano wspólnie jogę. Mocno nam to pomaga - jesteśmy jak kłębki skurczonych stawów i mamy od jakiegoś czasu zakwasy od kochania się xD A trochę głupio w sumie mieć zakwasy od najbardziej ludzkiej czynności. Więc musimy i chcemy wrócić do ćwiczeń.

A! I jeszcze: jak zawsze wkurza mnie, że faceci w kilka chwil mają mięśnie! O. pracuje z ciężkim sprzętem - ale włąśnie go awansowali do roboty w programach, inżynieryjnej: będzie pół na pół siedział przy kompie i obsługiwał ciężkie sprzęty - raptem od 2,5 miesiąca i ma takie bicki i w ogóle tak ręce przypakowane, że mam bol dupy...

Potrzebuję więcej czasu by podładować baterie i to wszystko co sie dzieje spisać...

[girlactionfigure]

How to End the New War of Attrition

Welcome to that familiar location, the one between a rock and a hard place.

Since the day after the invasion and massacre on 7 October, Hezbollah has been waging a successful war of attrition against Israel. More than 80,000 Israelis have been displaced from their homes on the northern border, and more than 50 have been killed by rockets and antitank weapons. Border towns and kibbutzim have become wastelands. Homes and other structures have been destroyed, and fields burned.

Israel has responded in a carefully measured, tit-for-tat fashion which, as anyone familiar with the Middle East knows, sends a message of weakness and an invitation for further depredation. There are three apparent reasons for this:

The IDF does not want to fight a two-front war.

Hezbollah has between 130,000 to 200,000 rockets, missiles, and drones that it can launch at Israel, some of them with precision guidance systems that can strike within a few meters of a target. The home front is expected to suffer thousands of deaths and massive destruction of property and infrastructure.

The American administration has told Israel that if it attacks Hezbollah preemptively, it will not support us (presumably with weapons deliveries or at the UN).

On 28 July, a Hezbollah rocket with a 50 kg warhead struck a soccer field and playground in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. 12 children and teenagers were killed and numerous others injured, some critically. There was an alert, but it came only a few seconds before the explosion, and the children did not have time to reach a nearby concrete shelter. One child was missing for a day, before it was determined that his body had been blown to bits.

Majdal Shams is the “capital” of the Golan Druze. The Druze mostly live in Lebanon, Syria, the Golan, and the Galilee region of Israel. They have a unique religion, and a tradition of loyalty to the states in which they live. They also have a military tradition, and Israeli Druze serve in the IDF and Border Patrol. They are considered among the best fighters and officers and have paid a high price in blood in Israel’s wars.

The entire region is watching to see how Israel will react to the murder of 12 children. Such an atrocity demands a disproportionate response. If the reaction is typical of the recent past, our enemies will know that the understanding that murdering Israeli civilians is normal behavior is still in effect. The Druze will know that Israel does not care about them or value their contributions to the state. After all, we hit the Houthis’ oil industry and port after they killed one Jew in Tel Aviv.

The Americans have already informed us that yes, we are allowed to retaliate, but no, it cannot be disproportionate. And we may not touch Beirut, where Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah is holed up.

When we were invaded on 7 October, the Biden Administration expressed its horror at the massacre of 1200 Israelis and expressed its support. But in the following days it tried to delay or prevent a ground invasion of Gaza. Once the ground war started, it supported Egypt’s demand that not one Gazan would be allowed to cross the border; but at the same time it complained about civilian casualties in the Strip. Then it tried to prevent us from entering Rafiah and taking control of the border between Gaza and Egypt to cut off Hamas’ weapons supply. Even after we demonstrated that it was possible to move civilians out of the way, it continued to throttle our supply of ammunition, to “protect” them. The administration also delayed the delivery of “smart” munitions which enable precise strikes at military targets! All during the war it has pressed for a hostage deal on terms that would leave Hamas in control of Gaza. And it has encouraged the “bring them home at any price” movement in Israel, as well as the forces opposing PM Netanyahu, who wants to keep fighting. Following the philosophy of never allowing a crisis to go to waste, the Biden administration wishes to turn the “day after” the war into a “two-state solution” that would put most of Israel into jeopardy from 7 October-style invasions.

Many seem to have forgotten that on 13 April of this year, Iran launched a direct attack on Israel, launching more than 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones against us. Israel – with some help from the US and others – succeeded in shooting most of them down (at an estimated cost of $1 billion). But had a large number of them reached their targets, the destruction and death would have been beyond estimation. It was an attempt to destroy the fabric of our nation and demanded a suitable response. Instead, we bombed an Iranian air defense radar installation. We were told this would “send a message” to Iran. It did, but not the intended one. It informed them that it’s acceptable to shoot at Jews, and they should keep trying. After all, what do they have to lose?

The Majdal Shams attack cannot be allowed to go unavenged. We cannot afford to allow our deterrence to erode further. The wolves are circling. Yesterday, the little pisher of Turkey, Tayip Recip Erdoğan, threatened that he too could invade Israel. Why not? Everyone is doing it. But still more important: we cannot betray our Druze citizens (and those in the Golan who still hold Syrian citizenship but more and more are becoming Israelis). We owe them, and we need them.

There is little chance that we can make the Americans agree. I would like to think it is because they don’t understand the Middle East, and it’s partly that, but it’s also because the Democratic administration is still following the pro-Iranian policy established by Barack Obama. Nevertheless, we have no alternative but to do it anyway.

But what about the danger from Hezbollah’s arsenal? Many analysts think that Israel could not survive the full force of the blow it could inflict. Of course the state of Lebanon would also be bombed into the stone age, but the Iranian puppeteers are perfectly happy in sacrificing the hosts of their proxies if it will achieve their goal.

We are in a bad spot, but there is one strategy that might succeed: that is to strike a massive blow at the Iranian regime and Iran’s infrastructure, to cut off the head of the snake, so to speak. If this could be done quickly and effectively, Hezbollah would be left high and dry, and could be persuaded to avoid the mutual devastation that would result from all-out war with Israel.

Would it work? How would we do it? I am not a military expert. But I do know that we cannot continue along the road we are following today, because it leads only to destruction.

[troythecatfish]

On June 19, Israeli Minister of Religious Affairs Michael Malchieli informed the Hebrew media that Tel Aviv was getting ready for the possibility of

"mass burials" in the event that the confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon escalated.

This comment comes after Hezbollah unveiled a nine-minute drone footage video the day before Nasrallah's speech. The footage revealed numerous sensitive, key targets in Haifa. The Hezbollah video, according to Israel's Channel 14 news outlet,

"conveys an unequivocal message to Israel: that the party is present inside Israel by air, land, and sea, and that it is capable of carrying out severe strikes."

Source: Mintpress