#lod quotes

[ladymirdan]

Young Drizzt: “I want to join Bregan D’aerthe when I grow up.”

Vierna :”Why?”

Drizzt:” Zaknafein says they are all high class male escorts, and I love tracking stuff and finding paths.”

Vierna: “Oh, baby, no...”

Drizzt:” Zak said that is why uncle Jarlaxle dresses like that. I dont understand what that means”.

[boxandgardens]

As He inspires us, let’s seek to persistently pray and never give up. In His time and perfect way, God will answer.

[elderbloodcarrier]

“The landscape depicts the meeting between Cregennan of Lod and Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal, the legendary lovers, torn apart and destroyed by the time of contempt. He was a sorcerer and she was an elf, one of the elite of Aen Saevherne, or the Knowing Ones. What might have been the beginning of reconciliation was transformed into tragedy.”

“I know that story. I always treated it as a fairytale. What really happened?” 

“That,” said the sorcerer, becoming serious, “nobody knows. I meant almost nobody. Lydia, hang up your picture over here. Geralt, have a look at another of Lydia’s impressive works. It’s a portrait of Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal taken from an ancient miniature.” 

“Congratulations,” said the Witcher, bowing to Lydia van Bredevoort, finding it hard to keep his voice from quavering. “It’s a true masterpiece.”

His tone didn’t quaver, even though Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal looked at him from the portrait with Ciri’s eyes. 

- The first time Lara & Cregennan are mentioned in the novel, Time of Contempt.

[annualamaranth]

When Satinder Sartaaj said :

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[jade-eclipse-lithium]

We’ve got to do something!

“We” meaning “me”.

You’re Miss Fisticuffs! I’ll stay here and give you a shedload of moral support.

[threeletterslife]

"You wanted to leave a mark, an impact. Just like the heroes in your fairytales."

Me reading: oh god she will but at what cost

"You rarely bought anything, though you one day dreamed of owning closets filled with an assortment of fancy gowns and elegant petticoats."

Me: oh god she does but at wHaT cOsT!?!?

"Maybe you'll be the General of the fucking Army one day"

Me sobbing: oH goD AND SHE DID 😭 but AT WHAT COST!?!?!?!?!

LMFAOOO I'M LAUGHING THIS IS SO REAL

[chanaleah]

So this is a great example of a fundamental misunderstanding of history!

In 1948, the land that is now Israel/Palestine was controlled by the British Empire. It wasn't owned by either Jews or Arabs in its entirety, and additionally there had not been an independent state in the land since the Jewish Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 CE.

Secondly, the pre-State of Israel agreed to a UN partition partition plan in 1947 that guaranteed an Arab state and Jewish state in the borders shown on the map below:

On May 14, the State Of Israel declared independence within the borders shown in blue on the map. Rather than accepting an Arab state and a Jewish state, the armies of surrounding Arab states, including Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, attacked the nascent State Of Israel with the intention to destroy it in favor of an Arab state in the entirety of the former British Mandate of Palestine.

Before it was attacked, the State Of Israel had no intention to fight the Arab states or hurt the Arabs living in the borders of Israel. This is shown clearly in Israel's Declaration of Independence.

WE APPEAL — in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months — to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. WE EXTEND our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.

Direct quotes from Israel's Declaration Of Independence.

However, during the 1948 War* the majority Palestinians living in Israel fled out of fear or were kicked out. Similarly, all of the Jews living in Judea & Samaria/the West Bank were kicked out by the Jordanian army.

Massacres were committed by both sides during the war, including the Deir Yassin massacre, in which many Palestinians were killed by right-wing Zionist militias and the Gush Etzion massacre in which many Jews were killed by the Jordanian army.

Both Palestinians and Jews had to flee/were kicked out of places in which they had resided for centuries - some examples being Lydda/Lod (for Palestinians) the Old City of Jerusalem, specifically the Jewish quarter which was later looted by the Jordanian army (for Jews).

Israel ended up winning the war -- and winning more territory than had originally been given to them. This was what the map looked like after the Armistice Agreement at the end of the 1948 war:

At the end of the war, Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea & Samaria/the West Bank. There was no Palestinian state.

During and in the aftermath of the 1948 War, 700,000 Palestinians became refugees from Israel, and between 17,000 and 40,000 Jews became refugees from Judea & Samaria/the West Bank and Gaza, and about 1 million Jews became refugees from the rest of the SWANA region.

This post is in no way an exhaustive or authoritative history, but it shows clearly the history of the 1948 War is much more complicated than "forcefully took that land from them".

If you would like me to make a post about history pre-1948 I can do that as well.

*I chose to call this war the 1948 war so as to be impartial as possible. Other names used include the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israel's War Of Independence, and the 1948 Palestine War.

Keep reading below the cut for sources.

SOURCES:

[eretzyisrael]

By Arik Kitsis

In late Summer of 1929, things reached a boiling point. As part of the Arab riots that were now raging throughout the country, there was an attempt to attack members of the Jewish community in Gaza as well. According to press reports at the time, local Jews barricaded themselves in the Jewish hotel near the police building. An Arab mob that attacked them had to retreat after one of the Jews fired a gun and others poured sulfuric acid on one of the Arab intruders (see, for example, an article in Haaretz dated September 1, 1929 and the recollections of Gaza resident Sara Yaffe as quoted in Ma’ariv dated December 9, 1956). With the help of some distinguished Arabs locals who were on friendly terms with the community, along with the British police, the Jews managed to board trucks that took them to the Gaza train station, where they had to wait for the train from Alexandria to Lod, all while the angry mob was still trying to get at them. This was the end of the Jewish community in Gaza.

Holtzman himself had planned to renew Jewish settlement in Gaza. In a draft memorandum that was found in his personal archives, there’s a detailed plan to establish a stock-holding company, “The Land of Israel Company for Planting and Building, Ltd.”, whose purpose was to establish a Jewish farming colony (moshava) near Gaza. The plan was never realized, and we don’t have any further details about it. It is possible that Holtzman abandoned his plan so that he could focus on establishing the Gush Etzion cluster of settlements, which he founded at that time.

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

Hello There❤️

First Thoughts on LOD After An Impulsive Download:

Yeah, the English translation is pretty bad 😭 I've read fanfic with worse translation and I read by skimming so it's not too obvious, but it's there so be wary of that

Love the character customization options at the beginning and how that affects the character's background! I was able to choose a different skin tone and eye color, and between different personality traits and hobbies, which actually affects the story.

For instance, I chose the Tehran sprite and that background was different from the other sprites. Here's a quote from the WiKi:

Her mother, Bahar Davoudi was the daughter of an influential Persian subject who Peter met during his visit to Iran. Peter had to make many efforts to persuade the girl's father to give his only daughter in marriage to a European. They married in Tehran and lived there for several years, but moved to Hungary soon after the birth of their daughter. She was seven years old when her mother traveled to Iran to visit her family and became an accidental victim due to a revolution in her homeland. She speaks fluent Farsi and respects Middle Eastern culture.

I can't speak on how accurate the information is to Middle Eastern (or Hungarian culture for that matter) but I like that was a really cool addition I wasn't expecting!

Keep in mind that this is a newer book I haven't tried any of the other books yet which may have different customization choices

[girlactionfigure]

🇮🇱 ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

Morning Report - Wednesday

▪️WAR SIGNS.. British Foreign Ministry has now asked its citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible. This joins instructions from: Canada, Kuwait, Germany, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Russia, USA, Ireland, Jordan, Australia and Spain.

▪️FRENCH PRESIDENT ASKS.. asked Netanyahu to avoid starting the fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Macron also asked all parties involved to move quickly towards a diplomatic solution to the disputes in order to establish stability in the region.

▪️BIDEN.. Barring a surprising last-minute change, Biden will meet with Netanyahu during Netanyahu's upcoming visit to Washington ahead of his speech to Congress.

▪️PROVING BIDEN’S FITNESS - SEE, HE STOPPED ISRAEL.. (N12 quoting NY Times) Biden told Netanyahu in a phone call after the huge Iranian attack on April 14: "Let me be very clear, if you carry out a large-scale attack against Iran - you are left alone." Netanyahu tried to say that a strong response was necessary to prevent future attacks, but Biden said: "If you do that, I'm out," according to the New York Times.

The publication comes as part of an attempt by Biden's associates to provide evidence of the moments when he acted with clarity, sharpness and composure - against the background of the presidential debate.

▪️POLITICS.. Senior member of coalition member United Torah Judaism party meets with opposition leader National Unity party MK Gantz at his home.

▪️UGLY POLITICS.. The state attorney wants to open a criminal investigation against National Security Minister Ben Gvir for making statements against the citizens of Gaza.

.. Statement from the Minister: "Unbelievable! The state attorney is trying to prosecute an Israeli minister, for "incitement" against the citizens of an enemy country who danced on the blood of our soldiers in the streets of Gaza on Oct. 7.”

▪️UGLY “JUSTICE”.. MK Gottlieb: “We have gone off the rails! A country trying to suicide! A soldier who went south on Oct. 7 and fought fiercely against Nuchba terrorists who murdered and raped our sons and daughters, was arrested because in that event, in which he fought with other fighters by his side in fierce battles against brutal terrorists, he courageously eliminated a violent terrorist in the process.

The claim: that the elimination was unnecessary.

We pressed the self-destruct button. Someone is trying very hard to hurt the spirit of our soldiers during combat.”

▪️SAMARIA - 3 TERRORISTS ARRESTED.. 3 armed terrorists arrested in their vehicle by IDF forces near Shevai Shomron.

▪️AFTER RELEASING TERRORISTS.. including the head of Shifa hospital, Honeni notes the Shin Bet today is opposing the release of a Jewish security prisoner convicted of a racially motivated attack on an Arab. One of the reasons is the "explosive situation in light of the war". Multiple channels are commenting: “Releasing terrorists in war is important for stability. Releasing Jews is dangerous and explosive.”

▪️CRITICAL AID DEMANDED - SODA AND CIGS.. According to Palestinian reports, Israel has decided to prevent the entry of fizzy drinks into Gaza. A Gazan journalist: We call on the international organizations to negotiate with Netanyahu so that he will bring cleaning materials, fizzy drinks and cigarettes into Gaza.

▪️ROUTE 1 OVERNIGHT ROAD WORK - AIRPORT IMPACT.. Starting tonight at 10:00 p.m.: Route 1 from the Ganot interchange to the exit from Ben Gurion will be blocked until 5:00 a.m. Entry to Ben Gurion from Tel Aviv will be possible via Route 40 and the Lod interchange only.

♦️IDF watches terrorists plant another road mine (bomb) in Nur Shams, eliminates from the air. 4 terrorists killed. Islamic Jihad claims them.

⭕ HAMAS ROCKETS at Sufa, Holit, near south-Gaza towns.

[artemis-entreri]

[[ Transcript:

Razu: I was slowly falling in love with Minthara and now I love her more than anything I love Sorn Orlith when he mimicks Drizzt My first Tav is my LoD OC who is Drizzt's sister and she'd 100% join Sorn Orlith in mocking her brother

sno4wy: Her face if one of her party members asks the male escort drow to pretend to be Drizzt: 🤮

Razu: No no she asked him She was amused instead And told Sorn "my brother is not at all like that! He's more like insert heavy mockery"

sno4wy: Oh goddddddd I'm loving this Sorn being like, I MUST TAKE NOTES SINCE SHE IS HIS SISTER the next time someone comes to request Drizzt he does the lamest, most turn-off RP EVER 🤣 actively quoting passages from his journal entries In the middle of foreplay just suddenly says, "I am dying. Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk."

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[ruminativerabbi]

Queen Berenice

March is Women’s History Month, an annual observance since 1987 and one of several such months each year proclaimed as such to encourage the study and appreciation of some specific group within the fabric of American society. Known to most will be Black History Month in February and LGBTQ+ Pride Month in June, but there are also Jewish Heritage Month (May), Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15), Arab-American Heritage Month (April), German American Heritage Month (October), Italian-American Heritage Month (October), Native American Heritage Month (November), and a few others. (For a full list, click here.) These months mostly come and go, leaving in their wake a few op-ed pieces, some longer essays, perhaps a television special or two. And, of course, they are focused on mostly, although surely not exclusively, by the groups whose heritage they exist to celebrate.

To take note of Women’s History Month this year, I thought I would write about a woman no one, I’m guessing, will ever have heard of…and yet who was present at a truly pivotal moment in Jewish history and who rose remarkably to the occasion.

In general, the role of women in history has been understudied and underappreciated—which observation applies across the board to all sorts of academic disciplines. But the degree to which the prominent Jewish women of antiquity have been mostly forgotten, their names themselves mostly unknown, is slightly astonishing. And a little depressing too. Some will have heard of Beruriah, one of the few female Torah scholars from antiquity to be cited and praised in our literature, but fewer will have heard of Yalta, an important figure from the mid-3rd century CE, a communal leader respected and taken fully seriously, and the second-most mentioned woman in talmudic literature. And fewer still, I think, will have heard of Imma Shalom, the sister of Rabban Gamliel II of Yavneh and the wife of Rabbi Eliezer (one of the most prominent sages of his day), who is also quoted prominently in the Talmud in a way that suggests the respect she commanded in her day and in her place.

Those three—Beruriah, Yalta, and Imma Shalom—were part of the rabbinic world. But women also occupied positions of political importance, some of whom were actually the queens of their countries. Almost all have been completely forgotten, their very names unfamiliar despite their prominence in their own day. Queen Helena of Adiabene is a good example. Adiabene was a small kingdom located in the Kurdish part of today’s Iraq when Helena  and her husband King Monobaz converted to Judaism early on in the first century CE. Eventually, Monobaz died and Helena moved to Jerusalem, where she played an important role as a philanthropist, famously giving gifts of gold to the Temple and personally dealing with a crippling famine by importing gigantic amounts of food at her own expense from all over the world to distribute among the hungry. She was famous for the huge sukkah she constructed in Lod, where she lived before coming to Jerusalem, and for her even larger tomb which exists to this day a few miles north of the city. But who has ever heard of her? No one!

But the personality I thought I’d write about this week in honor of Women’s History Month is Queen Berenice, another personality long since forgotten by all. And yet, in her day, she was the voice of reason that tried—unsuccessfully but nobly—to prevent the destruction of the Holy City by the Romans…and in the same way Queen Esther saved the Jews of Persia from annihilation: by getting the Roman most likely to spearhead the campaign to the destroy the city to fall in love with her and then, at least possibly, to spare the city simply because she wished him to.

It's a long, complicated story. When Berenice was still a child, her father was named King of Judea by the Roman Emperor Caligula. And so, at the age of ten, Berenice became a princess. She was married at age fourteen to a much older man who died shortly after the wedding and left her a widow at age sixteen. Her father died shortly after that, but not before he succeeded in marrying her off a second time, this time to his own brother, King Herod of Chalcis. (Chalcis was a tiny kingdom in what today is Lebanon.) And so Berenice became a queen. And that same year she became a mother too, giving birth to the future king of Chalcis, whom she named Berenicianus after herself.

When Berenice was twenty, she was widowed for the second time. For a while, she lived with her brother—who, in the meantime, had become king of Chalcis and who ruled as Agrippa II—and served as the female presence in his many palaces across Chalcis and Judea, something along the lines of how Grover Cleveland’s sister Rose served as First Lady until he eventually married. And now she really does become a Zelig-like character, showing up everywhere—including, semi-amazingly, at the trial of Paul of Tarsus, the founder of the Christianity as we know it and the author of most of the New Testament.

And then she married for a third time, choosing yet another king as her husband, a man named Polomon, king of Cilicia (a small kingdom in today’s Turkey), whom she insisted agree to be circumcised and fully to convert to Judaism if he wished to have her as his wife. He did it too! But their union still didn’t last. Why, who knows? Maybe he resented the whole circumcision thing. Or perhaps they just weren’t meant to be. But before long she was back in Jerusalem, powerful, famous, and in exactly the right place to do great good.

The 60s of the first century CE were a dangerous, difficult time. The Roman governors of Judea, called procurators, were greedy bullies, or at least most of them were. The procurator in Jerusalem was a man named Florus, who was eager to steal at least part of the vast treasury of riches stored in the Temple. When the Jews protested, he sent in his soldiers to terrify the inhabitants into submission. Berenice, present in Jerusalem, first sent some of her servants to beg Florus to call off his goons. And then, when they were rebuffed, she went herself, bare-headed and barefoot, to beg him to withdraw. In the end, Florus withdrew his men. But Judea was on the brink of open rebellion against Rome nonetheless. Seeing disaster on the horizon, Berenice gave a long, passionate speech in which she begged the locals not to begin a war they could not possibly hope to win. But no one was in the mood to listen. And so the rebellion began.

Berenice, however, had a plan. She moved into her brother’s palace at Banias, a lovely and verdant section even today in Israel, where she was able to hobnob with Roman aristocracy. She met Vespasian himself, the future emperor who was at the time in charge of Roman forces in Judea. But it was when she met Vespasian’s son, a young man of twenty named Titus, that she suddenly saw an “Esther” path forward for herself and her people. She was in her forties. Titus was just twenty. But he was no match for her and he fell quickly into her trap. She did her best to keep him from moving violently against the Jewish rebels, perhaps trying to convince him that the rebellion would just die out if the Romans didn’t rise to the bait.

Our source for this story is the work of the Jewish historian Josephus, himself a client of the Romans, who writes that, in the end, Titus—head over heels in love—only moved against the rebels when he had no choice. And he remained in Berenice’s thrall for all of his years. Eventually, once his father became emperor, Titus returned to Rome and Berenice followed, living with him until Titus was finally forced to send her home and instead to marry a Roman woman who could give him a Roman heir.  

And that is the story of Queen Berenice. Unknown to most today, and yet a woman who invented and re-invented herself time and time again, eventually positioning herself to attempt to defuse a full-scale rebellion against Rome by appealing first to the rebels and then, when that failed, to their future opponent. Queen Esther was successful where Queen Berenice failed. Is that why we remember Esther, but have totally forgotten Berenice? Perhaps we should remember her too: a brave, wily, and daring Jewish woman who did her best to head off catastrophe for the Jewish people and who, even if she failed, deserves to be remembered as someone who, at the very least, tried to do good.

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[lineofdutyapparel]

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[threeletterslife]

its 4 thirty and my phone is at 1 percent but I just spent 2 hrs making a mood board for LOD lol please check it if u wanna I'll post it later. (I really need to sleep I gotta get up early tomorrow)

This is the moodboard for anyone interested!

Oh my GOD IT'S AMAZING. Every photo fits SO well!! My favorite has to be the one with the glowing hand on the chest—it is SO perfectly Solaria that I can't even. (That photo—along with 4 others on the moodboard—is also on my lod Pinterest board so you are a MIND READER!) You even nailed the color schemes!!! The purple and the red ahh!! Everything from the photo placements to Heli to the candlelight is perfect! Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a meticulous moodboard :)

And the pull-out quotes!!! It was a genius move to add them! (Also the colored font wtf? How do you do that LOL??) I love how you can see the two general's starkly different personalities from their quotes! (In the story so far they haven't had a chance to be compared side by side, so this feels special hehe)

Hope you get some well-deserved sleep and again, THANK YOU for making this beautiful moodboard!!!