#keep talking about Lebanon

[notyourtoday]

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Interview with released prisoner and cancer patient Mohammad Aklouk, who had been detained since the start of the war. Mohammad describes the horrific conditions of his detainment, including the small, oppressive cell windows and the inability to see sunlight. The repression units frequently ordered prisoners to drop to the ground and brutally beat them. Mohammad emotionally recalls a fellow prisoner, Mohammad Al-Kahlout from Jabalia, who was struck in the head and died in his arms. Aklouk is one of 70 prisoners who were released on June 11th 2024 through the Zikim crossing west of Beit Lahia currently staying in Kamal Adwan Hospital.

By @translating_falasteen on Instagram.

Source: @mahmoud_awadia

Translation: @translating_falasteen

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[melhindips]

🚨🤚 Urgent 🤚🚨

My children are hungry, where are you?, my children without clothes, my children without shelter ، my children without life, where are you? I don't forgive anyone who watch this video without share it, where are the people of humanity? Be a human and help me and my family, please help us to change the beautiful reality

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[333mp444thy]

Today, I think of Sudan, I think of Palestine, I think of Yemen, and Lebanon. I think of all the people around the world whose lives cannot be simple or straightforward because of where they were born and the so called leaders they have been cursed to live under. Ya Allah. Protect us all from the worst of men. So many wars happening.

[teal-deer]

Donate to the ACS Palestinian Scholarships Fund

Hi Tumblr friends, it is my birthday! For my birthday I would like it if people could donate to an institution that is near and dear to my heart, the American Community School of Beirut, Lebanon, in order to support Palestinian refugee youth.

My mother attended ACS Beirut when she was a teenager, and I grew up with the alumni association being a big part of my life. Mom's stories were very important to me, and they're actually how I learned so much about the Middle East, and specifically about the Israel-Palestine conflict. She lived through the Hundred Day's War and has many harrowing stories from that time.

It turns out ACS has a fund specifically for scholarships for Palestinian refugees, which can be found here:

https://www.acs.edu.lb/page.cfm?p=1740

Making sure that Palestinian youth who have managed to flee Israel can get access to an excellent education is crucial during this horrible time.

If you have a few dollars to spend, I would greatly appreciate it if you could throw money at this. While many people in Lebanon are doing their best to support their neighbors in Palestine, the Lebanese economy is in crisis and that makes it VERY difficult for them to provide material support to refugees. This is one avenue by which I know the money will go to helping Palestinian youth.

Here also is ACS on Charity Navigator;

However, if you donate to the first link, you can ensure your donation goes directly to supporting Palestinian youth.

Even if you can't donate, every reblog helps, and so does linking this to other social media sites (I no longer have Twitter, and do not have a presence on BlueSky or Mastadon or whatever).

[labbaik-ya-hussain-as]

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[runalongprincevaliant]

More awful news updates: 3/29/2024

[aluthepotato]

Places to donate for different causes (it’s mostly Palestine, but I have included Congo and Sudan). This list will grow but here’s what we have for now

https://piousprojects.org/

https://www.wfp.org/

https://www.launchgood.com/

https://www.pcrf.net/

https://pay.lahza.io/PRCS-Donation?lang=en

https://www.palestinercs.org/en

https://www.healpalestine.org/

https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/

https://palestinianfeministcollective.org/

https://nationalsjp.org/

https://friendsofthecongo.org/

https://bdsmovement.net/

https://www.anera.org/

https://sudansolidarity.com/

https://www.unrwa.org/

https://www.focuscongo.com/en/

Gaza Funds

Homepage - Eastern Congo Initiative

Home | Congolicious Foundation

The Khartoum Kitchen appeal (gofundme.com)

https://sapa-usa.org/

https://gascf.org/

[nando161mando]

"Moo Deng wants you to keep talking about Palestine & Lebanon" (EN: English)

[cinemafromcinema]

“You can’t put lipstick on that pig and make it look good”

[notyourtoday]

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Every year on 15 May Palestinians mark the Nakba, "catastrophe' in English, when around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of lsrael in 1948. It is an event that has shaped politics in lsrael and Palestine ever since, and one which Palestinians say continues today in different forms of war, occupation, siege, home demolitions, land confiscations and more. Those expelled in 1948 and their descendants number 5.8 million refugees today, living mostly in neighbouring Arab countries. lsrael has never allowed Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, making their plight the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history.

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[zmediaoutlet]

okay first of all. Lovee the takes on each character/ship dynamic. second this one is kind of a given so I completely get it if you don't really have any opinions at all about them but I was wondering what your thoughts are on Sam/Jess. Obviously most people just think about them in the existing dynamic of the show but idk! Personally I find their dynamic to be really interesting in the context of what Jess is representative of to Sam. Especially in that time of his life. So I guess it's more of a question of if Sam/Jess is interesting to you, what makes it so and your thoughts on that.

As a backup question to that, thoughts on Dean/Jess? Dean/Jess/Sam?

eyyyy continuing the wine party into post-workout saturday morning tea party --

sam/jess:

to be honest friend, I'm falling into the "most people" category here because my real opinion about Jess is that she... basically isn't a person. And I love that for her, sincerely. Some characters really are tools in a story to spin in forward, and I am soooooo tired to death of all the carrying on about "fridging" and whatnot. Some characters are characters and some characters are narrative tools and, yes, bad luck to the angry ladies out there, spn is a show built on super classic-traditional bones about men who are getting revenge for the dead wife and what they learn along the way. That's good and fine. I'm into it.

with that aside, and given that she is a tool, I just -- don't... care about her. Like I thought about writing a fic one time as a demonstrative exercise called "Five Personalities Jessica Moore Could Have Had," because she's such a blank-slate (again, correctly!) in her like five minutes of screen time. We can't even count the djinn dream of Jess, because that was a pretty vision dreamed up by Dean to hurt himself worse, lol.

but as you say, her being representative of something to Sam is legit interesting -- he didn't fully engage in the relationship, he was gonna marry her without telling her the truth -- like a gay man desperately hitching himself to a nice wife in some misguided attempt to "fix" it. Like if he just tried hard enough he would be someone other than who he is. Which is the whole Sam-at-Stanford story, really. And it's an important part of his story -- the hero has to go away from home and return to it with a better sense of who he is -- but it makes Jessica entirely figural and metaphorical instead of being, again, a person. Like when Sam says in whatever late season ep that he "still thinks about Jess," I'm left going... really? Because even by late in the first season he's reoriented into the family revenge story, not specifically the for her revenge story. But if we reorient that to "I still think about the life I could have had" -- that, I believe. And she'd be part of that. Whatever her actual personality was. Apparently she made cookies. How... fridged wife of her.

WITH all that said, what I'm most interested in with stories that circle around Jess are stories that completely ruin that relationship, haha, because the whole point of it in the larger frame-story of Supernatural is that it has to end so Sam can get back to his real life. So -- if it's an AU where Sam for some reason stays at Stanford and they do get married, I'm only interested if their marriage kinda sucks and they get divorced by year five. (e.g. maybe, like his mother, he pretended he could be 'normal' but he keeps sneaking out on hunts after all, and Jessica thinks he's cheating, and they end up dead bedroomed, etc etc.) Or, if it's set during Stanford, I'd go for an almost horror-story dramatic irony fic where she's introduced to this tall hot guy by her smiling blond classmate Brady and we can see fate rearing up to grab her by the neck, and she feels almost compelled to stay, and she doesn't know why when Sam keeps obviously not telling her things but she forcibly dismisses it from her mind and goes he'll tell me someday. And then it's November 2nd. :)

Dean/Jess similarly I guess I'd only be interested in from a symbolic sense -- Dean attempting to get closer to Sam any way he can in the period of not-talking. I have no interest in Jess living -- her job is to die -- so it'd have to be still at Stanford, and it'd be a really tight window to make it work in a way that wouldn't screw up everyone because Dean isn't a piece of shit and Jess (being a figural Nice Girl who Dies) can't be a cheater. Maybe in the very early Sam and her have only gone on like one date but they're not an 'item' yet, Dean sees her at the bar after Sam leaves and decides he'll take her for a spin...? Eh, that's too mean. So, I guess not for me. And I never like ot3s so the other one is not for me either. But if you can make it terrible and Jess dies at the end anyway, maybe!

[yournewfriendshouse]

the times we’re in are really too interesting. I’m still reeling from the fact that Israel did a villain in a batman movie move of exploding pagers (the device I thought only doctors use anymore) within a civilian community and people were just like ‘yeah’

[servuscallidus]

we're getting posts and newspaper articles from october but with lebanon and lebanese people instead of palestine and palestinians. just all over again and everyone batting their eyes but it's not as if it matters

[sayruq]

It's actually crazy talking to friends and relatives about what's going on because very few of them know that this is a retaliatory attack. I keep seeing people online call the attack unprovoked too.

So those who don't know, on April 1st Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus. The attack killed 7 of Iran’s military advisers including 3 senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

Iran's ambassador to Syria said the strike hit a consular building in the embassy compound and that his residence was on the top two floors. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.

This attack on the embassy is against international law. Embassies are protected sites. But instead of condemning the attack and putting pressure on Israel, the US has spent the past week and a half calling West Asian countries to put pressure on Iran, with Biden going as far as to warn Iran not to attack Israel and saying that his support for Israel is 'iron clad'.

The West, the UN, and UN Security Council have largely failed to condemn the attack which means Iran has no choice but to retaliate with force in order to prevent future attacks. Otherwise, the country will look vulnerable and weak, especially to the Israeli occupation government which has spent months bombing neighbouring countries like Syria and Lebanon