#india send help to palestine

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പലസ്തീനിലേക്ക് രണ്ടാംഘട്ട സഹായമയച്ച് ഇന്ത്യ

പലസ്തീനിലേക്ക് രണ്ടാംഘട്ട സഹായമയച്ച് ഇന്ത്യ.32 ടണ്ണോളം വരുന്ന സഹായ ശേഖരങ്ങള്‍ അയച്ചതായി ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വിദേശകാര്യമന്ത്രാലയം അറിയിച്ചു. വ്യോമപാത വഴി ഈജിപ്തിലെ അല്‍ അരിഷ് വിമാനത്താവളത്തിലാണ് സഹായമെത്തിക്കുക. അവിടെനിന്ന് റഫാ അതിര്‍ത്തിവഴി ഗാസയിലെത്തിക്കുകയാണ് ചെയ്യുക. ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വ്യോമസേനയുടെ സി.17 വിമാനത്തിലാണ് സഹായങ്ങളെത്തിക്കുന്നത്. 32 ടണ്‍ സഹായശേഖരങ്ങളാണ് അയച്ചതെന്ന് വിദേശാകാര്യമന്ത്രി ഡോ.എസ്.…

[abuhamdasblog]

Guys Let's Reach the first Goal Together!

We've raised 426$ out of 40,000$ and we're almost there to get first 1,000$ I only need 28 people to donate 20$ to reach our first goal

Here's a FUN WAY to get us to the finish line:

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Every contribution counts, Together, we can make a difference! Your donation makes a huge difference, no matter how big or small. Let's get to the goal and support the Palestinian cause!

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[babybatz414]

Hello,am Hassan from Gaza, pleading for help,am suffering from leukemia and my children are suffering from sickle cell,due to the recent attacks,I have not been financially stable to support my family,

I Kindly request if you could help us we need to get treatment in INDIA

My email is *emilymwelu64@gmail.com*,,whatever little will be mean alot

Hi. I'm sorry I don't have anything at thing at the moment. But I'm sure that others can help. I'll share your message in hopes that it gets out to someone who can help.

[lonemasroorul]

Muslims in pain & suffocation

Muslims around the globe are suffering from violent attacks of other groups. They ruthlessly kill muslims, burn them , destroy their homes and cause verbal and sexual abuse. These violent activities are promoted by politics through their enforcement of police. Rulers have become shameless animals with no seed of mercy. They justify every violence taking place.

What should we do?

We, as Muslims, always believe in Allah, both in times of hardship and ease. Whatever is taking place is under the decree of Allah. We have to put every effort in practice for making some change.

As Zuraykh says, "Arabs need to return to their faith as well as to their culture". When we look to the factors that unite people, we realise these two factors are so strong in bringing people together.

A United Ummah is, when everyone care of the other. Today, we see Soudi Arabian King is planning new parties of immoral shows , dancing with women and establishing industries for its promotion without reckoning his heart for Palestinians. Palestinians, as we all see, suffer with exceptional and ruthless genocide which included everything from killing of Women , men, children, and elderly equally, from shamefully abuses of Israels who promote Rape of Palestinians in the name of God which is broadcasted with media. Stealing of land, poisoning, harrassing, mob attacks, are some of the least that every individual have suffered.

We can unite only when our we, as individuals understand Ummah as a body, and Rulers understand Ummah as his family

As we unite ourselves when we understand when is common for all of us [as I said earlier, Faith which makes almost common culture]

We have to elect those rulers who have Wisdom of Islamic governance or who knows Islam well. We, as a public, have to raise a voice of just. Just should be equally exercised for all, Muslims and non-Muslims. Whenever we feel disheartened from the regulating body , we must complane against it.

Everyone, at an individual level, should be eager for social and religious growth by making those subordinates accountable.

We have to raise Questions about our country resources and their use. As it is essential for the growth of Ummah

Also our writer and public figures have very important role in changing our society. They can dessiminate their writing for betterment of the Ummah. They can stand voluntarily, as potential, for spreading Islamic teaching, thus promoting morally healthy social norms.

Nowadays, adults become so engaged in gaining followers and they fall in sin along the way. Many of them have started shameful and obscene content to drive followers. This life isn't amusement, as Allah says, so we must maintain our own integrity and modesty!

By doing these things, it will begin to shrink our Ummah under the same shadow. When umbrella torns, everyone will suffer from heat and put efforts for betterment of the whole.

[drdemonprince]

how do i respond to a friend who is certain that I should be contributing to palestine non-profits instead of boosting operation olive branch campaigns for individuals and families? Is it really more strategic to help an org than to send a person money?

Most organizations are run not by Palestinians, but by wealthy American & European people who represent the interests of their state more than the wellbeing and autonomy of the people being colonized. They offer aid conditionally, and deny it to the people who do not meet those conditions, and place firm restrictions on which kinds of resources they can access with that aid. That's before you even consider the percentage of the money that non-Palestinian employees for these organizations (particularly leadership) sop up for themselves.

Giving people in need money directly is *always* the best use of your money. It means less waste, less likelihood of supporting a shady governmental agenda, and even more importantly, it signals to the people who are directly effected that you respect them to make their own choices. It's far more empowering and respectful. The people on the ground in Gaza know best what they need, and they are in the position to access those needed resources immediately, on their own terms. Giving money to an org just makes them dependent upon the very countries that have colonized them.

(You should always give money directly to unhoused people for the same reasons, too).

[crooked-sketches]

Please read the full post!

Thank you all so much for the amazing response received for this project! To date, an astounding 30 artists have joined! I could never have expected that kind of response so soon, so I have decided to close the signups early and move forward with the next steps!

Who will we be drawing?

The one and only...

India!!!

Introducing, in order, the artists participating!

@aphfroghat  2. @samrut 3. @ashafox 4. @Winteree 5. @doomspiral 6. @maibluemen 7. @the-heaminator 8. @itstokkii 9. @paperuniverse 10. @ama-the-weeb 11. @j-ellyfish 12. @chaoshiki 13. @viktuurishipper96 14. @theheroinewashere 15. @solareeluna 16. @dis-mr-slovenia 17. @noonartist 18. @umahumahumah 19. @f0rgetf0rgetting 20. @ellmovy 21. @loverboylen 22. @Sukno-enjoyer 23. @k3llyb3an 24. @arnikaaa 25. @currybowls-blog 26. @gybas-blog 27. @aurum-cat 28. @dapotatoauthor 29. @spadeset 30. @lecirueblr

Remember, if you no longer wish to participate or need to pull out for whatever reason please dm me!

Wooo! Now what?

I will draw the starter drawing, blur it, and send it along to the first artist in line! Then, when they are finished, they will send the drawing back to me so I can blur it and send it to the next artist. Who will then send it back to me and so on and so forth.

How will we send you the drawing?

Since the quality in Tumblr dm's is, quite frankly, ass, the drawings will be sent to me via either Discord or email. Depending on your preferences please ask me for my @ or email address via DM.

Remember, each artist has two weeks! But you are welcome to send it to me early if you finish before the two weeks are up!

Some quick rules

The minimum required for your drawing is a lined and coloured piece. NO sketches and NO black and white. Fully rendered pieces are very much appreciated, but lined and flat colour is perfectly fine.

Digital art is preferred however if you intend to do traditional art PLEASE make sure that when you send me the picture of your work that it is scanned and not a simple photograph for maximum clarity.

I will be using a canvas size of 3000 x 3500 for the initial drawing, please keep a similar ratio so that they will all fit nicely on the final graphic!

when it is your turn, I will send you a dm on Tumblr or whichever communication method you prefer. If I receive no response/indication that you have seen the message after one week, your turn will be skipped. Sending updates on your progress isn't obligatory but it is appreciated!

My Dm's are always open for questions of any kind! Or even if you just want to stop by and chat!

Finally, a personal message from the mod.

I really cannot thank all of you enough. You all make the community a little better with every piece of art you post.

This project comes at a very difficult time for me. As well as having some personal issues, my family in Lebanon barely managed to escape the war with their lives, they got out but their neighbourhood is gone and the fate of many family friends remains uncertain. Our family in Venezuela is also severely struggling during this time of unrest, and we are not always able to contact them. I decided to host this project now because Hetalia has always been a deep comfort of mine and has helped me through many personal issues in the past. I longed for a sense of community and wanted to interact with more of you all. I could not have imagined so many of you would be interested in my small passion project, especially so many artists and creators who I have looked up to for years.

In addition to this, I wanted to thank all of you who hold Lebanon, Palestine, and Venezuela in your hearts during this time. It warms my heart whenever I see people in the Hetalia community (many of whom are participating here with us!) uplifting fundraisers, charities, and honest discussion about these events.

Perhaps you don't really care about this small message, but it was important to me to say it.

If you reached this far, comment with a ❣️ and I can't wait to see y'all amazing works!

[fairuzfan]

do you have any advice on convincing a parent/family member to take boycotting seriously? if you can't answer that's completely okay!

Hey thanks for sending this in. Honestly, I would give previous examples of how boycotting worked.

For example, I provide the Ben&Jerry example where they withdrew from settlements (click) and how our IMMEDIATE goal is to try and get settlements to stop happening. Having examples where actual material change as well as examples of how this directly helps Palestinians (as stated by Palestinians themselves!) can help people take things more seriously.

Omar Barghouti is the person who founded the BDS movement for Palestine and he lives in Palestine and describes how it affect Israeli, and thereby Palestinian, economy and livelihood.

I would also give them examples of how it worked in South Africa and India to remove the colonial forces. The boycotting crippled the occupying economy to the point where they couldn't sustain themselves anymore.

Check out if the BDS website (click) also might have things and click around to see what they have.

I'm not sure if this answers your question, feel free to send it in again for more information!

[mariacallous]

Reflecting the instincts of a cold war veteran, Joe Biden’s strategy was familiar: contain the conflict. When the US president spoke in Warsaw in March 2022, a month after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he drew a red line at Vladimir Putin’s toes. “Don’t even think about moving on one single inch of Nato territory,” he warned.

The western allies would provide weapons and aid to Kyiv, impose sweeping economic and financial sanctions on Moscow and reduce the rouble to “rubble”, Biden vowed. Though not a Nato member, the US would help Ukraine win this symbolic battle for freedom and democracy. But it would not directly confront Russia unless Russia first attacked Nato.

Thirty months on, Biden’s containment strategy is failing miserably. Like an untreated cancer, Ukraine’s crisis metastasises uncontrollably. Far from being confined to the mud and ice of the Donbas, the war’s spreading, toxic fallout grows more globally destructive by the day. It contaminates and blights everything it touches. True, a “hot” war between Russia and Nato has been avoided so far. Yet Polish and Romanian territory has been affected by stray missiles and maritime attacks. The entire Black Sea region is embroiled, as is Belarus. Putin claims that the west is already waging war on Russia and threatens it with nuclear weapons. Propagandists vow to vaporise Poland.

The crisis has triggered US-Europe splits in Nato and within the EU. Rows flare over sending troops and long-range missiles to Ukraine, inviting Kyiv to join the alliance, and forging a separate European “defence identity”. France’s newly hawkish stance is cancelled out by German caution.

Neutral Sweden and Finland were panicked into joining Nato. The Baltic republics fear renewed Russian aggression. Hungary and Serbia appease the Kremlin. Italy wavers. No one feels safe.

The war is fuelling right-left political extremism as support surges for Putin’s paid-for populist apologists. In Moldova, last weekend’s EU membership referendum was grossly distorted by what its president, Maia Sandu, called a huge bribery operation by “criminal groups working together with foreign forces” – namely, Kremlin stooges.

Now Moscow is eyeing this weekend’s elections in Georgia where it covertly conspires to ensure pro-western parties lose. Such hybrid warfare – subversion, disinformation, influence operations, cyber-attacks, scams, online trolling – has mushroomed worldwide since 2022, as authoritarian regimes follow Russia’s lead.

Failure to contain the war is encouraging seismic geopolitical shifts, most notably the China-Russia “no-limits” partnership. China’s president, Xi Jinping, gets cheap oil; ostracised Putin gets sanctions-busting dual-use tech plus diplomatic backing. But it’s so much more than that. At last week’s Brics summit – hosted by Putin – Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa were joined by Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and, alarmingly, Nato member Turkey (among many others). Putin envisages a global anti-western alliance, Xi a post-American, China-led 21st-century new world order.

These are no idle dreams. For many second-tier countries, the west’s condemnation of Russian aggression in Ukraine and its refusal to condemn, and active facilitation of, Israeli aggression in Palestine represents an intolerable double standard. Some are switching sides.

What better illustrates the unbounded nature of this inexorably expanding conflict than the startling news that North Korea, in a breath-taking counterpoint to US and UK military intervention in the Korean war nearly 75 years ago, is deploying troops to the Ukraine theatre?

And how appalling that Donald Trump can cynically use Ukraine’s “forever war” to persuade US voters that Democrats like Kamala Harris cannot control a chaotic world, Nato is a con-trick run by freeloading Europeans and the UN is useless.

The war diverts attention from other grave conflicts, from Sudan to Myanmar. Attacks on Kyiv’s grain exports have caused food shortages and price spikes hurting poorer countries. It disrupts cooperative action on climate; indeed, it has greatly increased greenhouse gas emissions While Putin, indicted for war crimes, goes unpunished, respect for international law and the UN charter plummets. Impunity flourishes.

The war’s enormous economic costs are escalating. The World Bank estimates that the first two years caused $152bn (£117bn) of direct damage in Ukraine. The UN predicts $486bn is needed for recovery and reconstruction. Each day, the totals rise. Meanwhile, Russia constructs shadowy international networks – an officially approved black market – to circumvent sanctions and undermine dollar hegemony.

The cost in lives is heartbreaking. Conservative UN estimates suggest that about 10,000 civilians have been killed and twice that number injured. More than 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers may have died. Russian military casualties are an estimated 115,000 killed and 500,000 wounded. The cost to Russian society of intensifying authoritarianism, corruption and suppression of dissent and free media is immeasurable.

Ukraine has not lost the war, which is a remarkable feat in itself. But it is not winning, either. Western support is weakening, despite the rhetoric; Russian forces advance. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan” has few takers. Winter is coming.

How much of this could have been prevented? Some developments, such as the China-Russia axis and rising rightwing populism, were happening anyway. The war simply accelerated them. But a lot of the wider damage was avoidable, wholly or in part.

In Warsaw, Biden was candid, almost boastful: back in January 2022, US intelligence knew that the invasion was imminent. He said he had repeatedly warned Putin it would be a big mistake. Yet, given his passionate belief that Ukraine’s fight for democracy and freedom has vital universal significance, surely what Biden should have done is told Russia’s dictator bluntly: “Forget it. Don’t invade. Or else you will find yourself fighting a better-armed, more powerful Nato.”

It’s called deterrence. It’s what Nato is for. Containment was never enough. Putin might still not have listened. But coward that he is, he probably would have – and saved everyone a world of pain.

[matan4il]

Seeing your daily updates about the Israel-Hamas war breaks my heart because so very few people are talking about it. I've not seen a single pro-Palestinian blog talking about the rockets still being launched into Israel nor are acknowledging the terrorist attack on Oct 7. How am I supposed to trust an international women's organisation again when they're not even acknowledging the horrific crimes committed against Israeli women on that day?

Israel's government is shit, but it's not an excuse to dehumanise Israelis and Jewish people elsewhere. The Palestinian people deserve better than an organisation that rapes women and uses children as human shields. Saying "I'm an antizionist, not an antisemite" while simultaneously making the diaspora worse for Jews is being antisemitic actually. So many people can't understand these basic facts while they keep posting about this war.

I don't want to speak on a conflict I'm not a part of. But seeing the way people are being so insensitive about this is terrifying. I didn't know the hatred ran this deep.

I can't even imagine how awful it must be to be in the war zone and still facing so many comments from internet strangers. Please don't forget to take care of yourself. I can't speak for the world but there are definitely those of us who support Israel AND Palestine. Both states deserve to live peacefully.

You don't have to reply to this ask, it's just a reminder that you aren't alone. And thank you for the updates.

Sending you love and strength from India🧡🤍💚

Hi, lovely Nonnie! Thank you SO much!

Thank you for caring, for not accepting all the anti-Israel propaganda uncritically, thank you for seeing us as human beings.

I basically agree with everything you've said, so IDK if I have anything of use to add.

Maybe just these two things -

"How am I supposed to trust an international women's organisation again when they're not even acknowledging the horrific crimes committed against Israeli women on that day?"

Absolutely this! And not just women's organizations. Yesterday (Nov 20) was International children's day. There were kids, babies and fetuses murdered during Hamas' massacre, there were kids who survived and would never be the same, there are kids who weren't there, but lost their parents (there's a beautiful initiative in Israel right now, of mothers donating their mother's milk, or even breastfeeding themselves babies whose mothers were murdered by Hamas), and I haven't heard children's organizations, including the most important one (the UN's UNICEF) saying anything about them, nor about the almost 40 kids and babies still in captivity in Gaza (the thought about the probably 15 day old Thai baby who was born hostage, who has never taken one breath as a free human being, kills me). There are SO MANY "human rights" organizations that have lost all of their credibility after this IMO.

"I don't want to speak on a conflict I'm not a part of."

See, that's a very sensible position. I also try to not speak about subjects I don't fully understand. But there is a whole movement of people, who get their education from social media, who don't understand the conflict, but who do help spread the antisemitic narrative that de-humanizes Israelis and Jews. It is terrifying to see it happening. It is terrifying to see how such a well documented massacre can be denied or minimized. It is terrifying to see how easily people can take a stand against a marginalized group, just because it's been presented as if it's not marginalized.

So thank you for not being a part of that herd. IDK if you can speak up for us. But please know that even just the fact that you didn't fall into the trap of de-humanizing us means a lot. Thank you, again and again! And awww, you're from India! I want you to know that the Jewish people will never forget that India is the one place, where there has been a long existence of a Jewish community, and it has never suffered persecution. <333

I'm sending you so much love, and all of the best wishes! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[eatmangoesnekkid]

Belly Dance Week "I have no idea...I imagine I have been belly dancing with 2 different lovely teachers for 9 rebirthing months, but really I have no clue :P)

If most women were to be honest, there is a cellular-deep desire to live the life of a dancer.

"I want to live this life dancing," I wrote in my journal in 2012.

And this is exactly what I have created.

I am a dancer, a dancer archetype..... whirling in pole, aerial, belly dance, the occasional ballet, and my "hoochie mama" shake dances in my living room to incredibly nasty music that I keep hidden just for myself on a private playlist, a code red Kevin Gates level nastiness.

I have lived what I call an “Art-life” for most of adult grown woman life....

....opening, gyrating, arching, pulsing, bending, stretching, elongating, protruding, and widely winding into new narratives in the global world. Women do not realize the amount of real shadow work and repair that's done when we "heal" our relationship with our body parts, when we learn to move in different ways and open up more space in our tissues. We are initiatated into a different level of trust and surrender for our own oracle with somatic care like neck circles. I have always been inspired by art. Muse consciousness. The muse is part of my lineage. Not “me” as the muse always, but life itself —as it is showing up in the moment—as my muse, however uncomfortable or at ease, it may be. Trying new things, being a vulnerable curious doe-eyed beginner at something and devoting to it without giving up. in other words, permitting creative energy to unwind and be redirected through my body is what has helped me to create new narratives.

Women do a lot of "healing" work-but it doesn't translate into something real unless it touches our matter. Dance-especially when it is not curated and so organized is a powerful tool of transformation. Don't get me wrong--there is room for cultivation and actual skill development like foot work or aerial technique, which I honor and work on as well. But when I'm in conscious and deliberate creation of my life, I'm unrefined and messy which open the channels of my body parts for energy to truly flow. Orgasmic.

I am always creating new narratives because I am always dancing.

Today we started class with a dance for Palestine. It was unpracticed and we, the students, flowed by following the lead of our teacher as she twirled us around to a classical Lebanese song. It was truly beautiful and heartfelt.

Then the teacher said we would do something divine to bring forth the Goddess! Our task was to shimmy (shaking our hips up and down in a rigorous expression) to a 9 minute Egyptian song. I love long songs. Long songs tend to send me into a natural trance state. Making the quiet commitment to myself to shimmy my hips vigorously for 9 minutes with 20+ other women without stopping was like a high-intensity workout at first but after a few minutes turned into a ceremony (for me) I imagine because I naturally live very close to the veil between worlds and spirit. I, India, the personality, was gone.

We were melting (sweating and heaving), releasing what didn't serve liberation to our hips and spine down into the floor/earth with long sweeping gesture with our hands. Encouraged to breathe deep from our bellies with our eyes closed to harness more energy upwards from the earth, not one woman stopped or would give up before the miracles happened. We breathed into the depths of spaces in our bodies that usually do not receive breath. Yoga.

What were the miracles for me? At the end of 9 minutes there was a lightness in my being and a greater radiance to my skin. Because when you shake your hips continuously for that long, you are unclogging the pipes. It is like an enema and kundalini yoga on 1000. Although I don't suffer from constipation and get plenty of different probiotics, herbs, and enzymes in my diet, I could feel how I was thawing out calcified density and other emotional accumulations from Intergenerational trauma and soul wounds that nest between the smallest interstitial tissues leading to freedom in the hips and better absorption of nutrition and better blood flow to belly, pelvis, and pussy. If you are a person who tends to intellectualize your feelings, which means that you may have the tendency to bury energy in your pelvis, psoas, and hips, all the hip drops, shimmies, and shakes will help you to release density that you may not fully ever understand or have proper language for.

But as someone who is sensitive to energy, I could feel archaic density naturally melting like ice water like the time I was decompressing my inner thighs at my pubic bone on a block at home and felt heat release that sent my into a real orgasm. In class, I emerged back into my physical body warmer and lighter, less in my head on "how to move," and deeper into my body, feeling grounded and true to my essence. Constipation is a great cause of low libido as we age, mainly because the gonads, pancreas, and pussy are unable to receive proper blood flow due to the blockages in the colon. It's also a great cause of bad body odor.

Try it for yourself. The more times you practice shimmying, the easier it is to access this lightness in your being, from root to crown, when you are ready, and able to breath life all the hardened 'stuff' that anchors naturally in your hips from different stages of your life from girl, teenager, to woman.

With all the shimmying and foot stomping, I touched into a trance state, getting lost inside the invisible in ways that would relax my brainwaves and unconsciously triggered me to touch into altered states. I could feel when this happened because my quality of dance elevated to something more signature to me and native to my bones. I used to really stiff but always knew that I held more fluidity and freedom in my body. I could sense that I had colonial energy trapped in my hips and ass from some parts of my female line.

As I was dancing, my teacher sashays over and exclaimed "yallah," an Arabic expression that means "come on, yeah, let’s go, or that's good," while bent down on one knee, a sign for the other ladies to gather around me to celebrate, clapping and cheering on their knees and cheering. It's a moment of acknowledging beauty between us women, celebrating when a woman is deeply lost in her dance and moving from the depths of her soul. It's pure beauty. When you invoke trance in your dance, whether dancing at home in your living or in a room of over 20 women of various ethnicities, you become a vessel for pure creation to protrude itself through your body. All the walls that differentiate culture, race, size, or class or any other construction naturally fall down. And you are free, not organized or calculated in your movement, but circulating water all around instead throughout your entire body. When you are in this kind of trance state, you are not trying to look cool, polished or pretty. You just are all of it! Your true self. Moments of trance are essential nutrients for the female body. The spaciousness gained elevates your confidence even more.

Courage is one of the major keys to mastering energy. The level of trauma, insecurity, anxiety, frustration and stuckness that lives in the female body and inhibits our expression is asking for us to melt it away. When you think about it, the amount of energy expended trying to be cute, pretty, or organize your essence in any other way buries the stuck calcified energy deeper into your body. It also keeps you in your head worrying about how other people are perceiving you and less in the flow of the present moment. When you have courage, GREATER creative energy can now flow through you. More sun!

Energy doesn't die but transforms. Energetic transmutation, one thing becoming another thing, occurs when we tap in art. Because art, whether dance, painting, drawing, songwriting, singing, etc. is creation. When you you begin to move your lower body, pelvis and belly, you get to know yourself (your cells) as a love poem. In all my years, I have never had so much fluidity in my hips, feet, spine, pelvis, ass, or shoulders as I do at almost 50 years old. I am witnessing the truth of what it means to be liberated and free. In these moments, I am my own muse.

Belly dance for me has been another way for me to open up my mind, body, and spirit and permit myself to be changed from the inside out.

It's one of my north stars at this time.

And every day, whether at home, in a forest, starting my workout at the gym, or making love, I shake/shimmy my hips and I enter ceremony. And I emerge transformed yet again. -India Ame'ye

[i-cant-sing]

just wanted to say Kashmir has always belonged to India

And you were saying why people of India is always about Pakistan is because Pakistan is always sending terrorist in India and we are not going to forget about the death of our indian army

And you were talking about BJP, BJP is the first political partie in India that has guy to ban the three times saying divorce means divorce many of female muslim in India support BJP for this

By your logic, Pakistan and Bangladesh also belong to India? Should they all just reverse their independence???

Personally, as someone with Kashmiri ancestors, I think yall should have Kashmir vote whether they wanna stay in India, join Pakistan or be independent altogether.

As far as the whole "announce divorce 3 times" goes, that's an Islamic thing okay? There's a way things are done in each religion, they don't have to provide u or the state reasons for that. I'm sure, whoever passed the ban probably thought he was helping Muslim women out or something but it wasnt BJPs problem to deal with. Besides... why... why are they banning hijab?? What good is that bringing to the world? Is it fair for the Indian Muslims to not be able to practice their religion freely, while Indian Hindus get to do it??? What about Muslims slaughtering animals on eid? Should we ban that too because the BJP, a majorly Hindu party, feels its uncomfortable, if not outright disrespectful because they worship cows??? Then, should Muslims be allowed to bash all the idols because they consider it disrespectful to have so many gods????

And look, Im mot saying Pakistan is completely innocent. I'm sure they've done terrible things too when minoritiesare considered (like blasphemyaccusations end up costing u your life there), but to consider the actions of few bad people and assume everyone of association is a terrorist is just downright stupid. Not even sad, pathetic, its stupid.

Should you be afraid of me because I'm a Muslim? Huh? Do you hate me now?

Thing is u are probably wondering why I'm being all Pro Muslims rn when every other community in the world is also suffering/had suffered through something bad... why I'm soooo "insensitive" to the Hindus pain?

Because you/whoever that anon was decided that the time to bring up the Hindu suffering is when I'm talking about Palestine. The fucking nerve. What you/that anon was trying to do was overshadow the Palestinian suffering, by bringing up Hindus. Not to mention, how they mentioned being afraid of Muslims now?? Idc how old u are, its not okay to be racist and its not my job to teach you right from wrong.

Now, you could say whatever you want about me- I give two shits. If you really care about Hindus suffering and what not, post about it on your blog. Raise awareness. But you can't guilt me into sympathising for your cause by making me stop talking about Palestine. I'm not forcing u to raise awareness about Palestine, am I?

[beens-on-toast]

Practically 5% of Gaza's population is dead or injured. Most people have lost a limb or more. Some are in critical condition and will probably die from lack of fuel and medicine. Some sources say 800000 might die from hunger. Many Palestinians in the northern strip have gone without food for 3 days. And the world moves on.

The West hasn't won a single war it waged on the Middle East unless you think of kill count and complete destruction of infrastructure a win. All it has done is caused destruction, killed millions, created more radical groups, and left the countries it has invaded in economic ruin. Dear Zelensky had a wonderful taste of Western interference. He was convinced not to take a peace deal last year by Biden and Boris Johnson. 500000 Ukranians either dead or severely injured later, he requests Switzerland to write up a peace deal. All those promises of "we will stand with you till the end" to "we will stand with you for as long as we got the supply too" to "sorry your old news" cost half a million their lives. When a peace deal does come through the media will rave how Putin lost and was the one forced to make a deal. They won't mention the 500000 causalities of the war or that Zelensky drafted people as old as 70 since all their young men were either dead or so injured. They will never be able to work and live a normal life because a peace deal wasn't brokered earlier. An entire generation of men and women gone.

Anyone who thinks the West is still powerful is drinking some strong Kool Aid. Countries have surpassed the US in military strength. A million dollar missile is being used to take out 2000$ drones. Wrap your mind around that, what a trade off. For every 100 drones the Houthis send out to the Red Sea it'll cost around 100 million of missiles. And most countries are sick of being bullied. Sanctions only work for a certain length of time, it takes only a little bit of research that they only had a impact on Russia's economy for a short period, they just ended up trading with India. All tactics are ineffective and the world has realized that. And they have finally realized that it is better to be enemies with the West than to be its friend.

The only way I am able to stomach the horrors I have seen in Gaza is that they didn't die or suffer for nothing. Their deaths had an impact, it unmasked the West, showed the West has no interest in helping the "weak", that democracy and human rights is for some not all, and that the West, the boogeyman, is more afraid of the world than they are of them. Ceasefire, free Palestine, and stop the genocide.

[kaalbela]

Hi I remember you once posted about a march for Palestine in Kolkata. In that sense, I want to ask if it is safe to send esims as an Indian living in India? I am from west Bengal but I am not sure if it will get me in trouble. I don't really have any money or any social resource to back me up. So this is why I was asking.

Hi! Thanks for the question and I really appreciate you wanting to help.

The easiest and safest way is to find someone from Europe or North America to buy it for you and you pay them the money.

You can also buy it through Simly, HolaFly or NOMAD, and select Middle East regional data plan. NOMAD isn't available in India but you can access it through VPN. I don't mean to sound alarmist and as far as I'm aware there hasn't been any arrests based on search histories, but every state is a surveillance state and the central government does have access to your search history through LIM. If you are worried, I'd recommend doing it from a cyber cafe that you usually don't visit. Here is a guide if you want to go ahead with it.

Here and here are some other ways you can help.

[wherestoriescomefrom]

But should we send funds directly from our accounts if we are Indian? In earlier months we had a discussion that it is better to have a non resident send money and then you pay them. So that it can't be traced back to you, since not many in India is talking about Palestine. I only have google pay. I don't really know how to use UPI. I know this is not the time to think of this since rafah is being invaded. But it is election and tensions are running wild.

Well, the UPI ID works with Google pay also. Just copy the number in the gpay option "Pay Phone Number". One of my friends is Samer's batch mate, and I think at this point anything helps - whether through GoFundMe or GPAY. I sent money through GPAY, and the only thing I left in the note was "For your family." See if that works for you Anon.

[missmayhemvr]

something i wanna do this year because ive been thinking deeply about this for a year already is prove that black and indigenous communities arent as poor as portrayed but actually just set up to be exactly like colonized countries and by that i mean sites of intense economic exploitation and extraction and i want to prove that gentrification is just the logics of settler colonialism being applied internally and is also being applied to a significant portion of the global south nations particularly Jamaica and parts of south east asia. as well as the methodology of this process being a key goal of the bretton woods systems after the failures of colonization of direct open colonialism and settler colonialism in asia and africa.

i think i could explain my key points that i would have to prove and show a connection of(tbh most of the points have been proved as separate phenomenon). i think the hard part of this would be proving intent and that predominately black cities and neighborhoods are made into isolated economic zones to the same or similar degree. i think i can prove the isolation by working forward from the mid 1800s and through the examination of a couple reservation economies and the economies of greenwood and tulsa prior to their destruction and also compare the logics of that to the destruction of the economic systems of india and asia. the settler colonial aspect of gentrification is something i honestly believe that any black or hispanic person in the us can speak to very easily, showcasing the numbers i think ill use new york and chicago and atlanta, i should also be able to clearly show that communities of color are primarily affected by this. the bretton woods part is gonna be fucking tough idk how ima start that portion but im likely going to rely on the work of nkrumah and other revolutionary leaders who wrote about the methods of imperialism following WW2.

i wanna do this because i think having this written out on a space like tumblr could actually get those that are lacking to understand why revolutionaries from palestine to turtle island say that its all one struggle and why they say "no one is free till we are all free". its been proven a hundred and one ways that militarily the imperialist learn from each other militarily and work with each other to bomb and destroy and conquer. now its important to understand why they work so hard to keep much of the world ordered the exact way they do economically and why they try so desperately to prevent china from helping the global south from industrializing. and hopefully showcase some of the ways the internal blow back by the imperial core nations is going to intensify until we dismantle the whole system down to the foundation.

wish me luck and if you have a resource i should see, please send it. or even add it to this.

[hungriestofbears]

hi, I saw your post about post-ww2 Germany, and it’s actually close to an ongoing argument/conversation I’ve had with my dad, because he does think that parts of Europe should have been given/taken (both words have been used) to Shoah survivors and Jewish refugees. It’s weird bc the whole notion goes against a lot of his usually much more pragmatic political opinions. it’s an unrealistic pipe dream that was never an option at the time, so at best it’s Monday morning quarterbacking but mostly it’s just trying to timetravel worldbuild.

I do see the logic, but i can’t follow it bc it also spits in so many other historical "lessons" learned at the time. the Allies purposefully deradicalizing and rebuilding Germany was the opposite of the more revenge-based treatment of Germany after ww1, which was a big contributing factor that led to ww2 in the first place. it wasn’t truly benevolence, and more a front for the Cold War, but so became Israel-Palestine, at least with the way it was/is treated internationally (and I could say more about the losing conditions of the 48 war irt the similarities to the conditions that gave rise to the nazis but this ask is long enough)

i think the last time my dad and I grumbled about this I learned something that explains his thought process, which was when he mentioned a program his synagogue did when he was a kid where they sent pine saplings to Israel, and how he realizes now that those specific trees couldn’t grow in the region, so Israel just doesn’t fit - it’s a shame filled guilt complex, and it’s much more about Americans making other countries all about them than anything those countries actually do. American synagogues sending trees to die in Israel doesn’t mean that Israelis don’t know how to farm, but my dad is filled with so much shame for being a 10 yr old who thought he helped grow a forest that he would rather call Israelis greenwashing propagandists for being grateful for useless gifts

So in my opinion, there are a lot of issues to consider with giving land to Shoah survivors after WWII. There were many who did not want to stay because of the trauma they faced and the antisemitism still rampant in the country. They were many who simply couldn't stay because their land and property was seized by other people, and the government didn't want to raise tensions by 'displacing' the new owners. So, there was nowhere to stay and the only choice was to leave.

Also historical context, Britain had just partitioned India in 1947 and was looking to partition Mandatory Palestine, but we know how that ended up with the Arab-Israeli war and the declaration of the state of Israel. We also know that the flood of Holocaust survivors needed somewhere to go, and nowhere accepting them influenced this decision.

Ultimately, non Jewish German civilians had no interest in returning stolen Jewish land, let alone giving up any German land for a Jewish state. The Allied forces were more interested in stabilizing Germany and saw a convenient solution with Palestine (even if that had its own host of conflicts). But if it makes your dad feel any better, there are pine trees that are native to the Levant, and the 'oil tree' mentioned in the Torah is recognized today as the Jerusalem pine tree. Israel's forestation efforts have made the Levant bloom with life again and have transformed the arid Negev desert environment. They're also leaders in the world with water waste management and they share their knowledge with other desert countries.

Pinus halepensis, commonly known as the Aleppo pine, also known as the Jerusalem pine.