#anti daesh

[straynoahide]

human beings really be like: i just beheaded💀 someone we have just captured BUT *tawhid*☝️ i have the Book☪️ so it was good actually. and then think they're part of a proto-Caliphate that's gonna usher in a golden age under a virtuous philosopher-king

[determinate-negation]

SINCE OCTOBER 7, German politicians have proposed rescinding the nationality of German citizens, restricting the civil rights of non-EU foreign residents, and limiting the number of children with a migration background who can attend any given school, which have been promoted as means for preserving and supporting “Jewish life” in the country. A German politician credibly accused of harboring neo-Nazi sympathies in his youth blamed the country’s antisemitism on immigration. Germany’s largest newspaper published a fifty-point manifesto on what it means to be German; number forty-seven reads, “Germany has a heart for children. They are not beaten but promoted.” A prominent German journalist published an article with the title: “The Jews or Aggro-Arabs: we have to decide who we want to keep.” The Anti-Semitism Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg, who is not Jewish, wrote, “The Nazis were still hiding their mass murders, whereas Hamas celebrated them in the media, like Daesh before them.”

Not everything is as it seems in Germany. That tree? It used to be a Jew. That building was once a Jew. That streetlamp was a Jew. And the Jews? It seems they’re all Germans.

[rootjin]

dear radfems,

i want to introduce you to Viyan Antar – a woman who fought against ISIS – and the controversy that followed after her death.

Born into a kurdish family, Antar married very young through a marriage arranged/forced by her family. After three months, she got divorced and joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) to fight for the emancipation of women from the hands of patriarchal oppression in the region.

Antar gained international attention in 2015 when a photojournalist took photos of her and described her as "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie". Many media sites recirculated the photos, turning it into news and also comparing her with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz.

On August 30, 2016, three ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front line. Antar and other YPJ fighters destroyed two of the cars but the third detonated close to Antar, killing her. Her death was announced on Facebook on August 31, saying she was "martyred in battle against Daesh [ISIS]".

After her death, news headlines announced "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie has died," emphasizing the physical resemblance between the two as much as her participation in the fight against ISIS. This was condemned by supporters of the Kurdish cause including other fighters. This is how the controversy started.

The media's treatment of her as a person was seen as demeaning by many Kurdish activists, especially given Antar's feminist leanings. Choman Kanaani, an activist and Kurdish fighter who repudiated the Western media's treatment of Antar, told the BBC that, "The entire philosophy of YPJ is to fight sexism and prevent using women as a sexual object". He added:

We want to give women their rightful place in society and for them to own their own destinies. Viyan died for these ideals. In the media, no-one talked about the ideals for which she gave her life, nor what Viyan achieved for women in Rojava in the past years when she joined YPG.

Agrin Senna, a YPJ commander also lambasted the comparison with Angelina Jolie and said all of the women fighters who had died and had refused to live under ISIS’ rule were equal.

Look at their pictures, they are all angels, all beautiful, you can’t pick one just because she looks like a Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts.

They have nothing in common with them. They prefer to die rather than live under one of the most anti-women groups in the world.

Rest in Power, all the women who lost their lives during their fight against ISIS!

BERXWEDANA JÎYAN E!

[elumish]

Sort of related to the post I just reblogged about the anti-abortion movement, but:

I think that some people have an impulse in recent times when writing antagonists and villains to shy away having them be acting based on truly held beliefs or even beliefs based on reality.

They have to be grifters or incorrect or misunderstand the world. If they truly believe in something right (correct and/or morally good by whatever standard), if they truly hold their beliefs, then they can be an anti-hero or a minor antagonist but eventually they are revealed to Have Been Right All Along and someone else is the Big Bad of the story.

And there's nothing wrong with doing that, with having the villain be someone who is taking advantage of average people or is lying about their beliefs or whose belief is based in something inaccurate. The villain can be mistaken or confused or just wrong.

But the thing is that, in real life, many people who we see as villains are acting under truly held beliefs that are based largely in reality. The things that make them villains in our view are what they want to do about it.

Part of what galvanized Stewart Rhodes to begin to take action against the U.S. government was his opposition to what he saw as unconstitutional overreaches of the surveillance and detention powers/efforts taken by the federal government in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It galvanized a lot of people and faced a huge amount of opposition in the years following the attacks. In that sense, not only was this belief "real" but it also would considered "morally good" by many people, including probably most people here on this site.

The problem is that Stewart Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers and has since been convicted of seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, and evidence tampering for his part in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The leaders of Islamic State/Daesh are acting based on truly held beliefs. Bin Laden's demands were based in reality. Many anti-abortion people operate based on an internally-consistent logic and belief system--it may just not be one that makes much sense to or fits the belief of people who disagree with them.

My point here is that you don't need to shy away from villains who have extremely strong beliefs, where "proving them wrong" isn't possible or isn't relevant because they are also acting based on facts, where the problem isn't the validity of the beliefs but the actions they are taking.

In many ways, those can be the hardest villain to stop in stories, because they can't be talked out of what they're doing any more than the protagonist can.

[tamamita]

I see a lot of people who seem otherwise to have normal politics (are not zionists) say really wild things about Hezbollah, claiming that they love to kill Syrians, that they are following Iran's commands, and will take over Palestine (??? Why would they want to do that) after "Israel" is done. Do you know what causes such Hezbollah (and Iran) derangement? Is it mostly/entirely anti-Shia discrimination? These people don't seem religious either. Idk. I've also seen people claim both that Majdal Shams residents were pro and anti Assad. I'm guessing they hold a range of opinions as do Syrians in other places.

It's the Anti-Shi'i sentiments and the fact that Hezbollah was a major player in the Syrian Civil War in which they allied themselves with Assad's regime against the Islamist rebel groups. Hezbollah feared that there would be a spillover of Sunni and Salafi islamists into Lebanon that could have stoked a subsequent sectarian conflict, given that DAESH had one of its strongholds near the Golan Heights at that time and was aided by Israel.

[antifainternational]

Why is Antifa a pro Semite organisation when ther Semite’s are the biggest fascists there are (look at Palestine and what they’re trying to do to it)?

"Semites," Anon, are speakers of a semitic language. That includes both Jews and Arabs. But that's not what you mean, is it? You mean "Jews" but you don't want to portray yourself as the bigot that you are. We're not fooled that easily. Your second problem is conflating the policies and practices of Israel that very plainly amount to apartheid to a racist crime against the human rights of Palestinians committed by all Jews. That is as reasonable as claiming that all 1.9 billion Muslims in the world support Daesh/ISIS or that all 579 million people living in North America are in full support of the genocide committed against the Indigenous peoples there. In other words, it's completely unreasonable and erases the efforts of Jewish anti-apartheid activists like Not In Our Name, Israeli conscientious objectors, and many Orthodox Jews who do not accept the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Bottom line here, Anon, is that antifa supports the right of Jewish people to exist without fear of persecution and also the right of Palestinians to exist without fear of persecution. The anti-fascist movement opposes Israeli apartheid, full stop, just as it opposes anti-semitism. These positions are not contradictory because we recognize the difference between being Jewish or Israeli and being a Zionist - a supremacist ideology that prioritizes the rights of Jews over those of any other people. We don't accept your attempt to smear all Jewish people with the crimes of Israeli apartheid and we'd like you to give your head a shake or fuck off. (CAVEAT: on the off-chance that you are actually writing about the unequivocal pro-Israel position of the German "anti-Deutsch" movement - we don't consider them to be legitimate anti-fascists precisely for their refusal to acknowledge the racist crimes of apartheid committed by Israel against Palestinians).

[captain-price-unofficially]

The official tier list of globally recognized terrorist organizations based off of their flag designs

This is 100% scientific fact based off of my personal research into the field of vexillology. Argue with me if you want to in the comments. There groups in order from left to right are: (S): Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah, People's Defense Units, Khalistan Liberation Force (A): Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, People's Anti-Fascist Front, Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, Oromo Liberation Front, Free Papua Movement, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Tigray People's Liberation Front, United Liberation Front of Asom, Balochistan Liberation Army, Ogaden National Liberation Front (B): Al-Qaeda, The Base, Daesh, Hurras al-Din, Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan, Lord's Resistance Army, People's Liberation Army of Manipur, Syrian Revolution, Kurdistan Workers' Party, National Liberation Army (Colombia) (C): Jamiat-e Islami, Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Badr, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, United National Liberation Front, National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz, Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (D): Taliban, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hamas, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (F): Houthi, Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Kata'ib Hezbollah, Tehreek-i-Taliban, Turkistan Islamic Party, Shining Path

[soup-mother]

Australia has never and probably will never reckon with it's islamophobia and anti SWANA racism, throughout i's entire history as a colonial nation and especially during the syrian civil war and Daesh periods. (at least that's the strongest periods of my lifetime anyway)

like it barely even died down, ppl were just a bit more quiet about it and more ppl considered migrants from the area to be "part of Australian life" now and then everyone got to stoke up the islamophobia again because our best pal israel decided to be more brazen about it's genocide. (which we'd never criticise as a nation because we'd have to think about our own historical and ongoing genocides)

like we use diversity for like the prestige and cachet of the blatantly colonial "anyone can make a life here in the lucky country" australian dream schtick but the average Australians immigration politics are still stuck in the fucking gold rush and apparently we'd all rather die than be anything more than a racist colony.

[the-cunt-of-montecristo]

October 15th 2023

The major Italian newspapers are flat out lying about the peaceful pro-Palestine march that happened yesterday in Milan.

They describe it as attended by relatively few Palestinians, and the bulk of the protesters being "Arabs from North Africa" and "radical leftist fringes". The interviewed protesters - all brownTM - characterized as "Tunisian raised in Milan" and "resident of [italian town] from Egypt".

All of this to avoid saying the word "Italian".

The march was full of Italians. We were all Italians, regardless of the other nationalities some people might also hold.

The press focused on the "veiled girls" which are one of the scariest thing to ever happened to the west. They completely ignored the sheer amount of FAMILIES with CHILDREN, both white and brown Italians, marching peacefully.

They claimed we "insulted Netanyahu" and "shouted anti-semitic slogans". Bibi was called a murderer, which is not an insult but an adjective that describes someone who does what he does. Israel was called criminal, fascist and genocidal, all things it manifestly is. Not a word was said against the Jews; it was often remarked by the organizers how this was not a matter of religion, how Palestinians ARE semites, and how Judaism =/= Zionism.

The press pretended there were no "true" italians at the march, all the while openly comparing Hamas to alQuaeda and Daesh (always Isis on their papers), criticizing the choice of holding the march "on Shabbat" as if that was an intentional choice and not an organizational necessity, and publishing interviews to the Israeli ambassador about how "other democratic countries banned these protest in favor of terrorism, why doesn't Italy?" with heavy implications that it's because italy is antisemitic. All the while equating Jew and Israeli, and claiming that Israelis feel unsafe in Europe because of the widespread pro-Palestine sentiment.

The march was criticized for the absence of peace flags and lack of "focus on the part of the organizers on the matter of peace."

Peace WAS discussed. The first day of peace will be the last day of the occupation.

As the organizers spoke, they received news that in that very moment a hospital in Gaza had been flattened. People were dying as we marched. An organizer, a girl named Filastin, lost her voice from crying out her people's pain and anger and commitment to justice, until someone else had to take over to lead a "free Palestine" chant.

As Filastin said, people in revolt are those whp write history. Intifada until victory.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[fursasaida]

[Excerpts from this piece on the particular German psychosis and relationship to an imagined Jewish life that props up the German repression, islamophobia, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians we've seen explode from their previous levels in the last few months]

Since October 7, German politicians have proposed rescinding the nationality of German citizens, restricting the civil rights of non-EU foreign residents, and limiting the number of children with a migration background who can attend any given school, which have been promoted as means for preserving and supporting “Jewish life” in the country. A German politician credibly accused of harboring neo-Nazi sympathies in his youth blamed the country’s antisemitism on immigration. Germany’s largest newspaper published a fifty-point manifesto on what it means to be German; number forty-seven reads, “Germany has a heart for children. They are not beaten but promoted.” A prominent German journalist published an article with the title: “The Jews or Aggro-Arabs: we have to decide who we want to keep.” The Anti-Semitism Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg, who is not Jewish, wrote, “The Nazis were still hiding their mass murders, whereas Hamas celebrated them in the media, like Daesh before them.”

Not everything is as it seems in Germany. That tree? It used to be a Jew. That building was once a Jew. That streetlamp was a Jew. And the Jews? It seems they’re all Germans. [...]

In the eyes of many German critics, Wolff’s greatest sin was to argue, in the guise of a Jewish identity, that supporting a boycott of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, even though he did not support such a boycott himself. Wolff was subsequently castigated as a costume Jew (Kostümjude) by Germany’s largest Jewish and gentile newspapers. He’s been called an aspiring Kronzeugejude (key witness Jew). Contra Wolff’s complaints about German, this is a language with an astonishingly nimble capacity for creating neologisms on the word Jew:

Alibijude: an alibi Jew, one who provides cover for antisemitic (or anti-Israel) rhetoric

Berufsjude: a professional Jew, a Jew by profession

Faschingsjude: a carnival Jew

Großvaterjude: someone who has one Jewish grandfather

Kostümjude: a costume Jew

Kronzeugejude: a key witness Jew, providing testimony for antisemitic (or anti-Israel) rhetoric

Meinungsjude: An opinion Jew? Or a Jew by opinion??

Modejude: A fashion Jew??? Or fashionably Jewish????

Schmusejude: a cuddly Jew, one who presumably cuddles up with Germans

Vaterjude: someone who has a Jewish father

Vorzeigejude: a model Jew

With the possible exception of Vaterjude, these constructions are pejoratives about giving the appearance of being Jewish or utilizing your Jewish identity for gain. Far from an aberration, the revelation of Wolff’s fabricated Jewish identity turns out to be something of a German tradition. Not a year seems to pass without a scandal involving the identity of a prominent German Jew. [...]

Not everyone assumes a Jewish identity; some are satisfied with appearances.

The television journalist Lea Rosh was the public face and most vocal proponent of the campaign to build Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Rosh has cultivated a Jewish aura—a Scheinbarjüdin, perhaps. “I don’t look so Aryan,” she once enthused during an interview. Rosh changed her name from Edith to Lea, and unsuccessfully sued the (Jewish) author Ruth Gay for writing that she had done so to sound more Jewish. She once fiercely rejected a proposal to place the Holocaust memorial across from the Reichstag: “Did the ‘German people’ murder the Jews? Hardly.”

Then there are the literal costume Jews. I have twice witnessed large groups of Germans wearing kippot. Once at a rally against antisemitism and once marching with a large police escort down Sonnenallee, the hub of Arab life in Berlin, chanting pro-Israel slogans. To hold a sign that said “Stop Genocide” or “From the River to the Sea” on that same street today would invite certain arrest and potentially criminal prosecution. The police violently suppressed demonstrations and even basic symbols of Palestinian identity on Sonnenallee in the weeks following October 7; I had to extricate a friend, a prominent (Jewish) journalist, from one such demonstration after he was pepper-sprayed for filming the brutal arrest of a man whose crime was to hold a Palestinian flag. But few here are trying to co-opt a Palestinian identity.

Some years ago, a friend of mine was invited to a Shabbat dinner. The attendees all gave the appearance of being religiously observant. They knew the hymns, the men wore kippot, one even had payot. The hosts insisted that my friend recite the various blessings. Through a chance comment during dinner, he discovered he was the only Jew in attendance. They were Germans who enjoyed enacting Jewish rituals, and wanted a Jew to unwittingly give his blessing.

Many more Germans than Wolff, Hingst, and Seibert “feel Jewish.” Jewish community archives evidence that many Germans attempted to “discover” their Jewish heritage after the war. Everyone seems to have a Jewish aunt here. Or their grandparents were in the resistance. Or maybe it was their great-aunt. Others have simply converted. [Note from me: obvious parallel to Americans' "Cherokee princess" great-grandmothers here.]

[...] German television recently ran an award-winning talk show called Freitagnacht Jews (Friday Night Jews) that featured a roundtable of Jews talking about what it’s like growing up Jewish in Germany. Vogue Germany once ran a column called “Jewish Today”—subhed: “The everyday life of a German Jewess, who takes us on a journey through a world we hardly know”—where readers could learn about Jewish bodies, Jewish sex, Jewish doubt, Jewish decision-making and why Jewish men can’t come as quickly thanks to circumcision. Germans love the peculiarity of Semitic sorrows, the specificity of Jewish joys. They love klezmer music. They will solemnly nod their head when you tell them, “My grandfather is a tree.”

The great beneficiaries of this funereal interest, assuming they don’t criticize Israel too much, are Israelis. In common perception, Israeli is synonymous with Jewish. The reality is more complicated inside of Israel, but Israelis are nonetheless regarded as the summa of all things Jewish by a German public whose thinking is still fundamentally characterized by a nation-state framework. And the cultural predilections of Israeli society—an obsession with interrogating Israeli identity as a sort of special existential condition, an enormous capacity for self-aggrandizement and self-pity—conveniently align with German expectations of “Jewish culture,” and largely mirror those of German society. Germany is the largest market for translated Israeli literature in the world.

[...] To be German is to be a Täter, a perpetrator. But the crux of Germany’s national identity, its famed memory culture and the “overcoming of the past,” is, paradoxically, its relationships with Jews, the universal victims. Through empathizing with and supporting Jews, conveniently embodied in the state of Israel, Germans can expiate the evil inherent in being German, passed down from generation to generation as though it were in their blood. Jews become the bearers of an inherited virtue as victims.

Yet far from overcoming the past, this dynamic seems to demand its constant reenactment. Non-Germans can only become German by checking their own histories at the door. Minister of Culture Roth recently told the new Cameroonian-born director of a state cultural institution: “You have become part of the Täternation.” Cameroon was formerly a German colony.

These prevailing tendencies have become ever more apparent in the wake of the horrifying violence in Israel and Palestine over the past months. Germany’s political, media, and cultural elites have rushed to demonstrate who can stand closest to Israel. The identification has been so intense and Israel’s security so frequently invoked as a matter of Staatsräson that at times I have wondered if some Germans don’t believe Hamas’s attack wasn’t obliquely directed at Germany. Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck gave a much-lauded speech in which he called on Muslims in Germany to “clearly distance themselves from antisemitism so as not to undermine their own right to tolerance.” No similar imperative was given to Germany’s good Christian citizens. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU (Angela Merkel’s party) who is widely presumed to be the frontrunner to become the next chancellor, proposed mandating recognition of Israel’s right to exist as a condition of acquiring German citizenship. His proposal has become reality in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

This formulation of German identity does not offer an inclusive vision for a diversifying country. A friend’s partner, the descendant of Kurdish “guest workers” who arrived after the war, was so impressed by her vociferous school lessons about the misdeeds of Germany’s prior generations that she briefly believed her own grandfather had likewise slaughtered Jews in Europe during the war. Germanness as such has no aspirational, positive content. It’s not hard to understand why some would want to escape this cycle of pathologized guilt, just as it’s not surprising that some would take identification with Jews a step further.

[...] The “I am Jew in Germany” essays articulate something like the opposite: a brittle, uncertain identity in a country that offers Jews many assurances and no certainty. They mark out “Jewish” and “German” as dichotomy of distinct, irreconcilable identities. These essays celebrate “Jewish humor” and are chronically unfunny. They nod to the profundity and factiousness of Jewish culture and hew to the schema of the local Weltanschauung. Profoundly awkward social mannerisms abound. It is almost as though they were . . . German.

The farce of this situation is readily apparent. But the tragedy has never lingered far from the surface, and that tragedy has come into clearer view since October 7, which occurred a few weeks after I initially turned in a draft of this essay to a different magazine. Since October 7, German politicians have authorized breaches in the country’s constitutional order on the basis of nebulous sensitivities, unwittingly setting a ruinous precedent for when the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland comes into power. Since October 7, German arms shipments to Israel have risen so substantially that the total for 2023 represented a ten-fold increase from the previous year, and now account for 30 percent of Israeli arms imports (another report puts it as high as 47 percent). And since October 7, those munitions have been used by Israeli forces to kill more than fourteen thousand children in Gaza. Germany has a heart for children.

[straynoahide]

The War on Christmas has begun early this year. The advance of rebel forces into and beyond Hama, a very recent development, could also mean the Crac de l'Ospital region (a coastal corridor between Turkey and Lebanon), whose population is majoritarily eastern Christian, falls under DAESH Jihadist rule. Fuck Assad, but we have to be watchful for human rights and minority rights abuses. The region and situation are volatile. All Westerners must denounce these things, not just Christians, don't sleep on Jihadists.

[taraljc]

I always knew Holocaust deniers were psychos and whackjobs but today I found out there are Partition and The Nakba deniers, and no fucking wonder the Daesh has been able to fan the flames of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatred so easily in the western world. what the actual fuck.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

#CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern #JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava SDF: 47 ISIS terrorists killed, 300 civilians freed [UPDATE]

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/sdf-47-isis-terrorists-killed-300-civilians-freed-32216

The SDF press center has presented its current 24-hour record of the offensive against ISIS in Deir ez-Zor region Accordingly, 47 ISIS terrorists were killed and about 300 civilians rescued...

RELATED UPDATE: ‘We will finish them soon’: The last days of the Isis caliphate loom as jihadis face defeat in Syria

RELATED UPDATE: [VIDEO] Isis caliphate ‘reduced to just 700sq m’ as US-backed forces close in on last enclave in Syria

RELATED UPDATE: Deir-ez-Zor residents find help to rebuild lives from the city's ruins

RELATED UPDATE: Deir Ezzor, at a crossroads with Daesh

RELATED UPDATE: Eight ISIS members arrested in Heseke, Deir ez-Zor and Manbij

RELATED UPDATE: Joint anti-ISIS operation in Deir ez-Zor countryside

RELATED UPDATE: SDF's Media Center publishes an update regarding military movements in Deir-ez-Zor

RELATED UPDATE: ISIS gang leader arrested in Deir ez-Zor

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[scentedchildnacho]

That creepy lower bunk lady for several hours now has not shut up .....it's illegal to refuse medical care but they just leave her going and going and going like a crack head does

All coke freak is all it does and that's how they leave her or threaten to call the cops

My german instructor told me comfortability is the worst thing....so it's really wrong to refuse adequate means to people not fighting or who have stopped fighting

So I think allied security mostly steals stuff till death penalty privileges

I think they don't kick out that creepy little old lady in the lower bunk because they cant actually call people a criminal without premeditated intent to harm....she hasnt recieved adequate intelligent health care to call her intentioned though she confesses in all ways that she is a rapist

She confesses in all ways sympathy with Africans i met in mckinney texas who get their own pharmaceutical business.....and i find people maybe daesh sad though as a terrorist group and maybe wanted in the green belt also

She tells on people for any activity they have if she can't comatose us all on her pharmaceutical budget she won't have enough in life

So i think to the shelter staff she is an old creepy rapist....and has never given anyone in her life a trial and adequate means and so does not deserve constitutional rights here

McKinney Texas was a satanic place for Africans....and they want the large plates of missing beef rations for others and to watch other prostitutes collapse and people can sit and have coffee jitters instead of food stamps and they can collapse us of anti biotics meant for African green belt children so

Did you not pass your military exams and refuse to bring things to African crisis....

Be good just sit there with it still bothering your cologne

Just kicking people out is leaving people to die potentially....and a form of deliberate incarceration and it's wrong to unjustly accuse others

I don't know her identifiers just creepy old lady....she is discolored.. .yellerd kind of which can be mexicanism could be Italian could be white black but it's intent is to find her very weird....covered in feces till discolored hygiene

The public art exhibit in riverside california told me my best peace culture for weapons would be cosmetology school......most desirable weapons are from Africa I don't want to go to gun combat when the conflict can viewed as surgically mediated....

And that's learning how to cause penitential complex about that skin film that can be shown through microscopic film ...

[tamamita]

I know that there were jewish people who hunted down nazi officers after world war 2 do shias have a similar concept during isis invasion?

Most of the Shi'as who fought against DAESH in Iraq formed into one militia called the Hasdh al-Shaabi or the Popular mobilization force. The main purpose of this group was to purge Iraq from any Sunni Islamist and Baathist elements. Of course, this did lead to sectarian tension, especially in places like Fallujah, Mosul and other cities in the Sunni Triangle. While some Sunnis and Christians made up sections of the PMF, they were mostly overshadowed by vast number of Shi'as.

PMF is split into several factions due to ideological differences between the Shi'as. You had the Pro-Iranis, the Anti-Iranian Sadrists, the al-Sistani followers and etc. One thing they had in common was that they were driven by vengence and reprisal attacks were not uncommon. Unfortunately, that meant that even innocent Sunnis were harassed.

[thepoliticalvulcan]

This is a real monkey’s paw too because to the surprise of essentially no one except a particular kind of liberal who memory holed Afghanistan and Iraq after falling back in love with the security establishment when it became #resistance, Israel is not going to occupy Gaza long term. It’s simply not economically feasible. It’s unclear it has the political will to even maintain an occupation long enough to set up a proxy government that it can hand off day to day administrative and low level security control to.

Now some may cheer this. I don’t blame them. A halfassed occupation sucks to be on the receiving end of. Us gray beards who remember the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan know how much of a shit show it is when no one is actually that invested in hearts and minds and the people who are have no real support. Everything built under those conditions is built on sand.

That also means Israel will likely do very little of consequence to make Gaza suitable for human habitation again if it’s not directly controlling the rebuilding.

So where does that leave Israel and Palestine? Probably back to the status quo. Whatever entity fills the power vacuum in Gaza may not call itself Hamas but it’s probably more likely to have more in common with Daesh than Mandela’s reformed ANC. Israel gets its pound of flesh after 10/7 but it’s unlikely in the extreme to know peace. West Bank Palestinians will likely experience ever greater levels of unfreedom and Gazans will spend years grappling with hunger, disease, the elements, and probably a small civil war as assorted Diadochi sort out who is going to rule.

So what was this all for in the end? Atavistic violence. Vengeance. The shoring up of the foundations of legitimacy for two religious fundamentalist supremacist movements that have always had a perverse symbiotic relationship and absolutely knew it all along.

And diddly squat otherwise. And it was so predictable. I remember antiwar OpEds before Israel crossed over into Gaza that were not even anti-Zionist, let alone shills for Hamas, predicting this would be the outcome.

The economy in the fourth quarter was impacted by a 26.9% drop in private spending - the main growth driver - an 18.3% fall in exports and 67.8% slide in investment in fixed assets, especially in residential building. Government spending, mainly on war expenses and compensating businesses an