#fund peace not war

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If Hamas had spent the billions they received from Iran, US, Syria, turkey, Quatar on development of hotels, factories, energy, bomb shelters for civilians and real public works projects instead of bombs and killing machines and brainwashing their children to believe lies like the elders of Zion and other ignorant antisemitic books. Palestinians would have proved they could live in peace next to Israel. Instead Palestinians a term for European invaders coined by the Roman’s still call for the killing of every Jews and the destruction of the only Jewish state in the world. The family only has Hamas and the fundamentalist in her own county to blame.

If she had white skin the world would've stopped for her.

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Wow, I thought Trump would start WWIII and looks like all the wars started with Biden. I guess the old saying is true-

No one messes with crazy. But everyone messes with the weak and the old.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[zilodak]

plutionium jazz is in fact fake lmao

I knew it! Atomic gardening on the other hand is real!

[everyones-favorite-butchboy]

🛑Stop, wait and listen. Don't be silent and participate in the crime. 🛑🛑

I stand on the rubble of our home, but my heart is filled with hope. I need your help to leave Gaza and complete my education to build my future. Every donation, no matter how small, will help me achieve my dream. Join us on a journey of rebuilding💔💔💔

Thank you for your support. Every bit of your kindness means so much to me 💔

https://gofund.me/0a0ac124

As I said to the previous people, I don’t have any money. I’m sorry that I can’t help you. But you are amazing and worthy and strong. What you are going through is absolutely appalling but the strength you have demonstrated by surviving through all of this is incredible. I believe you will do good things! G-d bless you.

If you have money, please help them. If you don’t have any money then, please reblog/repost. Spread this please!

[nando161mando]

Israel and American styled "peace"

[brushed-gecko]

my friend wrote a message to a youtuber she likes after seeing her comments regarding the recent war between israel and hamas, explaining why supporting hamas is wrong. i wanted to share it with you all so as many people as possible see it.

"Hi, my name is Hila, I live in Israel, and for the past few years I've followed your content and loved watching your videos. Your content has cheered me up in difficult times, which is why it's important for me to write this message. I have been debating whether or not to write this to you for some days now, so I hope you take the time to read it.

I want to start off by saying something that sadly isn't as obvious as it should be these days- I am against the killing of innocent men, women and children in Gaza. I am against most actions that my own government, which I did not vote for, has taken in the past years toward Palestinians. I believe that while the Israel-Palestine conflict is an extremely complex one, it can and must be solved peacefully and with as little loss of life possible.

The problem right now is that Hamas, the terrorist organization that started the war that is happening in my country now, has nothing to do with the Israeli Palestine conflict.

I want to explain this further with the next few very important points.

The first, is the way Hamas treats Palestinians and the Gaza strip, and while I assure you that the facts I'm stating here are true and proven, I urge you to read for yourself upon these issues. Throughout the years, all the donations sent to Gaza for humanitarian purposes, food and medicine, has been taken by Hamas and used to fund weapons.

Every time Hamas fires rockets at Israel, around 15 percent of them land inside Gaza, killing people who live there.

Hamas place their rocket launchers inside schools and hospitals, and surround them with children, so that if the launchers are attacked it will result in the death of children and injured innocent people.

These facts have created the saying known in the middle east- most countries use rockets to protect their citizens, Hamas uses it's citizens to protect their rockets.

The second point, is that because Hamas is a terror organization, they have never been involved in any discussion about the conflict, and as they stated many times that are only interested in the killing of the Jewish people, they can never be involved in these discussions.

The third point is that even in the eyes of countries and activists who are pro Palestine, Hamas has crossed a moral line. They are the same as ISIS, they are the same as the people who are responsible for the bombing in Manchester and the same as the people responsible for 9/11.

They are not an activist group who fight for the freedom of Palestine, they are murders and war criminals who use Gaza and it's innocent citizens as a base and cannon fodder.

I would like for you to know some of the things that Israel is doing right now.

In the IDF there is a protocol for bombing a building in Gaza called "Knock on Door". It means that as soon as a building is targeted, the IDF sends a message to evacuate the building and it's surrounding, as to minimize the loss of life.

Right now, as Israel is in an all out war with Hamas, the IDF has sent out a public announcement in all possible platforms to Gaza to evacuate the area which will be bombed 24 hours before the attack.

While we know that this is war and loss of life is inevitable, the IDF is doing the most it can to minimize Palestinian casualties, while Hamas is telling citizens not to evacuate, and use their own people, who they claim to fight for, as a human shield.

I don't know if you are aware of exactly what Hamas is doing in Israel right now, and I hope for your sake that you have not seen some of the terrible photos and videos that I have seen, but I must tell you what supporting Hamas means right now. It means supporting the killing of families in their homes, lighting houses on fire so the family hiding inside will have to run outside so they can be shot, the killing of children in front of their parents and the killing of parents in front of their children. It means supporting the massacre of people in a music festival. It means supporting the raping and kidnapping of around 130 men, women and children, and the literal beheading of 40 innocent civilians, some children younger than 5 years old. It means supporting the holding of entire families and children hostage. It means supporting sending a mother a video of her son being slaughtered through a message from his own phone which they have. It means supporting the killing of more than 1,300 people.

It means supporting pure evil. Even Palestinians and social activists are saying that this is not what they want, you do not fight for freedom with the blood of innocent people on both sides.

Almost all Israeli citizens, myself included, are extremely aware of the problematic way our country has treated innocent people, but if after reading all I have written here you can still say that you support Hamas, I suggest that you take a look into your own moral values.

One last thing, more than half of Israelis and Jewish people are brown and black."

[martyrbat]

Reisner {former chief international lawyer for the Israeli military} is proud to have been the first international lawyer to have defended, at a specific request of then–prime minister Ehud Barak, the policy of ‘targeted assassinations’ towards the end of 2000, when most governments and international bodies considered the practice illegal. ‘We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it. At first there were protrusions that made it hard to insert easily into the legal moulds. Eight years [and, as he said subsequently in this interview, referring to 9/11, “four planes”] later it is in the centre of the bounds of legitimacy.’ [46]

Asa Kasher, a professor of ethics at Tel Aviv University, has worked with Reisner to provide an ethical and legal defence for targeted assassination. He talks in similar terms about the nature of law and the ways in which it might be transformed: ‘We in Israel have a crucial part to play in the developing of this area of the law [international humanitarian law] because we are at the forefront of the war against terror, and [the tactics we use] are gradually becoming acceptable in Israeli and in international courts of law . . . The more often Western states apply principles that originated in Israel to their own non-traditional conflicts in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, then the greater the chance these principles have of becoming a valuable part of international law. What we do becomes the law.’ [47]

After the Goldstone fact-finding mission on Gaza, Israel’s prime minister emphatically called for a radical rewriting of international humanitarian law. ‘Paradoxically,’ Benjamin Netanyahu said, ‘it is possible that the firm response of important international leaders and jurists to [the Goldstone report] will accelerate the re-examination of the laws of war in an age of terror.’ His Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, added: ‘We cannot change the law but we can help develop it.’

The actions of the Israeli state against Gaza may become acceptable in law. The siege, ongoing since 2007, the 2008–9 invasion, and the 2009 attack on an international flotilla carrying supplies into the enclave, have all been carried out with relative impunity, and do not appear to have significantly affected Israel’s international standing. Each of these forms of aggression contains within it a multiplicity of small-scale practices and incidents: restricting the supply of food to the threshold of starvation; targeted assassinations; sending advance warnings that then allow the military to kill those civilians who choose not to evacuate; [48] attacks on activists in international waters; the use of white phosphorus in inhabited areas – the list goes on. In these acts – if Israeli lawyers have their way and continue to play with the law as if it was a toy – lie the seeds of new legislation.

Working on the margins of the law is one way to expand them. For violence to have the power to legislate it needs to be applied in the grey, indeterminate zone between obvious violation and possible legality, and then to be defended diplomatically and by legal opinion. Indeed, the legal tactics sanctioned by military lawyers in Israel’s invasion of Gaza in 2008–9 were framed in precisely this way. ‘When something’s in the white zone, I’ll let it be done, if it’s in the black I’ll forbid it, but if it’s in the grey zone then I’ll take part in the dilemma, I don’t stop at grey,’ said Reisner. Proportionality might indeed be thought of as one of the mechanisms for the reshaping of juridical space in a way that increases the extent of and makes use of the grey zone.

The invasion therefore did two simultaneous and seemingly paradoxical things: it both violated the law and aimed to shift its thresholds. This kind of violence not only transgresses but also attacks the very idea of rigid limits. In this circular logic, the illegal turns legal through continuous violation. There is indeed a ‘law making character’ inherent in military violence. This is law in action, legislative violence as seen from the perspective of those who write it in practice.

This use of the law has much in common with that of the George W. Bush administration’s misappropriation of the Office of Special Counsel in the Justice Department, in order to figure out a way to legalize the use of torture. Inherent in this was the clear intention to stretch the law as far as possible without actually breaking it. [49] In this example, US Department of Justice Attorney John Yoo used balancing of interests to authorize certain forms of torture. His famous torture memos were grounded in an Israeli precedent: relying on what is essentially a proportionality analysis, the 1987 Israeli commission of inquiry into the methods of investigation in the General Security Service (the Landau Commission) arrived at the conclusion that the prohibition on torture is not absolute, but is rather based, using the commission’s words, ‘upon the logic of the lesser evil’. Thus, ‘the harm done by violating a provision of the law during an interrogation must be weighed against the harm to the life or person of others which could occur sooner or later’. [50] Some legal scholars have suggested that such legal advice in itself might be considered a crime.

[...]

Gaza is a laboratory in more than one sense. It is a hermetically sealed zone, with all access controlled by Israel (except the Egypt border, now controlled by a still yet-to-be-defined post-Mubarak regime). Within this enclosed space, all sorts of new control technologies, munitions, legal and humanitarian tools, and warfare techniques are tried out on its million and a half inhabitants. The ability to remotely control large populations is also tested, before these technologies are marketed internationally. Most significantly of all, it is the thresholds that are tested and pushed: the limits of the law, and the limits of violence that can be inflicted by a state and be internationally tolerated. This limit, newly defined with every attack, will become the new threshold of what can be done to people in the name of ‘war on terror’. When the legislative violence directed at Gaza unlocks the chaotic powers of destruction that lie dormant within the law, the consequence will be felt by oppressed people everywhere.

the least of all possible evils – eyal weizman

(Bold text was my emphasis. Provided footnotes below cut)

45: See Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau, ‘Consent and Advise’, Ha’aretz, 5 February 2009. [Internet Archive]

46: Ibid.

47: Asa Kasher, ‘Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just War’, Azure, no. 37, summer, 2009: 43–75. [Internet Archive]

48: The military’s ‘international law division’ and its operational branch have devised tactics that would allow soldiers to apply what might be called ‘technologies of warning.’ Delivered to homesteads by telephone or sometimes by warning shots, they aim to shift people between legal designations – as soon as a civilian picks up the phone in his home, his legal designation changes from an ‘uninvolved civilian’, protected by IHL, to a voluntary ‘human shield’ – from a subject to an object, a simple part of the architecture. Technologies of warning intervene in the legal categories of both ‘distinction’ and ‘proportionality’: with regard to the former, they transfer people from illegitimate to legitimate targets by forcing them into a legal category that is not protected; and with regard to the latter, they imply a different calculation of proportionality. Human shields are not designated as combatants but are not counted as uninvolved civilians in the calculations of proportionality which must assess damage against the life lost.

49: John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

50: Itamar Mann and Omer Shatz, ‘The Necessity Procedure: Laws of Torture in Israel and Beyond, 1987–2009’, Legalleft, 2011 [Openyls]

[stardust9905]

Hello dear,,,,

My name is Marah from Gaza.

Computer engineering student

I hope you are well . 🇵🇸

I write to you with a heart full of hope and faith, and I ask for your urgent help. My family is in great danger due to the war, and I am running a fundraising campaign to save them. My father and mother suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure. Help me secure them

Please, any donation makes a difference in our lives, and every reblog helps reach as many people as possible. 🍉

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for any help you can provide .

^ Not my typical post, but it's also not a typical ask either.

I am genuinely so sorry for your loss. It is devasting and absolutely heartbreaking. I wish you all the best for luck, health, safety, recovery, coping, and education!! 🫂❤️‍🩹💔 I'm sharing this in hopes anyone is able to share &/or donate money to help out. ❤️‍🩹🫶

~ Ka'ra ★��︎★

[somedeadbeatloz3r69]

There was a dog named Rasmi, it had two puppies. It loves the mother of the puppies so much, Eslam. They're a happy doggy family. They play fetch, groom each other and chase each other around and play. They have over eleven other dogs in their pack that they love oh so much. They were happy, day from day living contentfully. Then one day disaster strikes, the pound hunts them down. They do whatever they can to capture them. They kill random street dogs, kick them and abuse them. Shove them in blenders and cover them in glue. They're relentless, and they abuse them badly. One by one, eleven members of the pack die. Imagine how bad the father dog and mother dog must've felt, hearing that dogs of their pack died. Ones they loved, ones they had stories with, ones that they played with. Kicked, hurt, gone. The members of the pack were gone, and the poor pups could barely process it. They're starved, their mouths dry from so little water. They fell ill, really sick. Their fur was matted and dirty and their paws were so bruised and their skin under the fur affected by a disease. 'It'll be okay' the father pup said. but would it? would it really be okay if no other animals bit back? if the birds didn't fight, the cheetahs didn't bite, the cat's didn't hiss, and the mice didn't help find food? would it really be okay for these dogs? One day the pack will die. Rasmi. Rasmi and his two pups he loves dearly. Eslam, the mother. They all might die if the other animals don't help. Now what if I told you these were humans? Humans, with dying kids. Humans with their families, grandparents, cousins and siblings dying before their very own eyes. years and years of memories lost to a unruly bombing. These humans, barely surviving, breathing, HUMANS. TODDLERS. BABIES. are losing family, starved, sick and ill. No more laughing and smiling. just surviving and crying. One day this family might die, their story will end and everything they've done is gone to shreds. No pets. No food. Death. Gone, and lost after fighting. Fighting for what? for death? This can be prevented, they can be saved. But you need to take action. They can't save themselves. A bird cannot fly with no wings. A bird with no wings can only fly if someone makes them new wings. Or if the other birds in the sky help them fly.

"Hello, I'm Rasmi from Gaza supporting my wife, Eslam, and she a mother of a 2 daughters. We have been subjected to bombing, siege and starvation. Unfortunately,

I HAVE LOST A 11 NUMBER OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS❗ and I cannot bear to lose more.

Can you write a post talking about my story and share my story with your friends? I hope that you will donate a little, 40$ or 50$ from each person.

It will make a difference with me so that we can start a new life outside of the stricken Gaza.💔

My daughters are suffering from many diseases such as skin diseases , malnutrition and hepatitis." - @rasmi-gaza

[alicewhimzy]

Here's some more donation links!

https://gofund.me/e7c7528a

https://gofund.me/ba5b76e9

Free Palestine. Free Gaza.

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[news4dzhozhar]

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This has Biden hand and international pressure written all over it. This I fear will result in more violence not less. It will have the opposite affect because extremist and extremism will take hold instead of peace.

[gender-euphowrya]

Are you fucking kidding me ? Are you absolutely shitting me ? Am I in hell ????

french government fucking Decided without warning without Any input from the people to take from people's fucking savings to fund war ?????

[industrialgender]

are you anti ukraine?

im anti war

[chaoticcosmos666]

THE ABSOLUTE URGE TO ABANDON SOCIETY AND CAPITALISM TO BECOME SOME FOREST DRUID OF SOME SORT IS GROWING IN ME