#palestinian ingredients

[claraameliapond]

Cultural Appropriation in Settler colonialism is nothing new, reaching into every facet of a country's identity and globally rebranding it as their own, to steal a history and an identity in an attempt to delegitamise native peoples, culture, history and community, erase their connection to their own land and violently assert the coloniser as 'authentic'.

Even in crops, produce and food, ingredients and recipes are stolen from Palestine and rebranded as 'Israeli' , in yet another blatant attempt to erase Palestinian culture, history and people and their true historical connection to their own land.

A country's food is its identity. Its history. Its connnection to land. All the things violent settler colonies like Israel wish to erase by ursurping. But it is not their history. It is not their identity. It is not their land. Zionists are historically European.

Do not let Israel erase Palestinian identity by staying silent about their cultural identity theft. Google Palestinan cuisine specifically, correct anyone anywhere and everywhere calling it Israeli. That is not their food. That is not their culture. That is not their History. That is Not their Land.

Israel has never been and is still not a peaceful immigrant population. They are genocidal thieves who wish to legitimise themselves and claim stolen land that has always belonged to other people by erasing the original native population, their culture, history and identity.

[llycaons]

I just realized I never made a post about it, but for the global strike I am

keeping my socmed posts focused on Palestine

refraining from all shopping as possible

not working

buying eSims for Gaza

paying even more attention to the news of the genocide

reading more about the history of the Nakba and Palestinian culture

[dullanyan]

Love when people making recipes have a very different definition of simple/easy.

You, a professional, may find it easy, but you straight up told me to cut up 6 onions. This is no longer easy and is now a trial of wits.

[magz]

[ Original Twitter Thread by @/beelektra ] - Not by Magz, am not Palestinian

Palestinian Foods. (long post)

Quote:

"🧵 Thread of Palestinian desserts I've grown up around and seen A thing I'd like to add is that I just like to share my culture! I do not want to spread the narrative that our culture is dying, I only want people to see our foods and traditions 🇵🇸

"As mentioned in the last post, we have knafeh (or kunafa), a buttery dessert made with shredded pastry layers such as cheese and other ingredients like pistacho or cream!"

"Burbara; which comes from Saint Barbara, fun fact! It's a soup dessert that mainly consists of barley, licorice spices, anise, cinnamon, and fennel powder This is a dessert usually many Christian families have to celebrate Saint Barbara, which is December 4th!"

"Malban, which resembles a fruit jelly! Made from starch and sugar Specifically, it's made with grape molasses, thickened with starch and flavored with rose water, and stuffed with almonds (or other nuts including walnuts, treenuts, and peanuts)"

"Khabeesa is simply just a pudding made with grapes, but you prepare it by mixing the grape juice with semolina and nuts + seeds."

"Mtabbak or mtabba, a crispy dough stuffed with crushed walnuts. It also contains cinnamon, sugar, and syrup. Photo credits go to Bartek Kieżun on Instagram"

"Tamriyeh, a fried pastry filled with semolina pudding, scenter with mastic and orange blossom water, and topped off with powdered sugar"

"Ka'ak bi Tamer, which are date paste filled cookies with cinnamon! A dessert made for Eid-Alfitr. It's topped with nigella seeds, and the cinnamon-spiced date paste is the most important part of it all– you can eat it on its own or have it with coffee"

"+ Ka'ak Asawer, another dessert that can be prepared for Eid-Alfitr. It's translated to bracelet cookies, and they use date paste, flour, anise seeds, sugar, ground cinnamon, and olive oil"

"Muhallebi or mahalabia, a milk pudding that's made with sugar, corn starch, and fragrant flavorings! It's topped off with nuts, pistachos, and almonds and sprinkled with ground cinnamon or shredded coconut"

"Rice pudding, which is a common dessert in Palestine, and it's your choice to top it off with nuts or not"

"Stuffed dates, using medjool dates and cracking them open to be stuffed with goat cheese and pistachios– but you're free to add anything else"

"Ma'amoul, a buttery crisp cookie primarily made of farina and can be stuffed with (spiced) dates, walnuts, or pistachios. This is another Christian dessert made by Palestinian mothers during the week of Easter Sunday."

"Halawit Smid, a farina based dessert with added sugar and unsalted cheese. It's preferably served fresh"

"Namoura cake, aka harissa dessert! It's made with semolina or farina flour, and then topped off with syrup once baked"

"Qatayef, which is eaten during the month of Ramadan. It's made of farina, flour, water, and yeast blended together– the process is pretty similiar to making pancakes, but only one side is cooked"

"Since I've mentioned using zaatar for a lot of things, I recently just discovered this but– there's also things such as zaatar cookies!! It's just as implied that the cookies are filled with zaatar, I'd be so willing to make this on my own"

"Baklava, made from phyllo pastry dough, butter, nuts, basil, and a sweet honey syrup"

"Aish el saraya, arabic version of a bread pudding. It's basically a layered bread, where it starts from the bottom, then covered with a sweet syrup, cream, and crumbled pistachios."

"Awwami, it's defined as "crisp donut ball" in English. It's a deep fried dough ball coated with sesame seeds, and dipped in cold syrup water."

"Halawet el Jibn, a sweet cheese dessert rolled with custard, heavy cream, drizzled rose water + syrup, and garnished with nuts."

"Lastly, I'd like to add watermelon and cheese– for me, it's like,,,, bittersweet!!! You should totally try it and we also have this during Ramadan"

"Well, that's all I can think of for Palestinian desserts! Here's the first part for general foods, I know I did make a promise for part two

I hope you guys liked this thread, and if you have any opinions please feel free to quote tweet anything on here if I made a mistake, feel free to correct me, it's always appreciated P.S if you're a zionist commenting here I really don't care, just scroll, I'm sharing my culture

One LAST thing. if you want any of the recipes from here, check out this website, the creator (Wafa) shares so many wonderful traditional Palestinian dishes."

[End Quote]

[hazemfromgaza]

‏, I am Hazem and these two children, my nephews and sisters, "Majdi and Essam, their condition, and all Gaza families are very difficult, they have no ingredients for life, no medicine, no food, no health, no education, nothing but death, destruction and hunger. I appeal to all those who see my campaign to stand by my family, whether by donating or sharing the story with your friends to collect an amount that helps my family get out of Gaza safely, this video before the attack on Rafah 💔🍉😔😔😔

10£ may seem small

But ‏ your contribution helps save the life of an entire family suffering from the threat of genocide, repeated bombing, and displacement in Gaza. Hand in hand, we put hope and a smile back on my family’s face Please donate now 🙏

[justsomeunsurefancat]

The Palestinian Hamza Abu Toha from the north of Gaza : “My wife just gave birth to our son, Ali, and I wanted to bring her a gift of appreciation. I spent five days looking for meat in the North of Gaza, and some rice. The ingredients that you see in this photo cost me $95 $70 for the meat, and $25 for the rice. This type of food became luxurious gifts for our loved ones.“

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[najia-cooks]

[ID: A decorative orange ceramic plate with a pyramid of green herbs and sesame seeds, topped with deep red sumac and more sesame seeds. End ID]

زعتر فلسطيني / Za'tar falastinia (Palestinian spice blend)

Za'tar (زَعْتَر; also transliterated "za'atar," "zaatar" and "zatar") is the name of a family of culinary herbs; it is also the name of a group of spice blends made by mixing these herbs with varying amounts of olive oil, sumac, salt, roasted sesame seeds, and other spices. Palestinian versions of za'tar often include caraway, aniseed, and roasted wheat alongside generous portions of sumac and sesame seeds. The resulting blend is bold, zesty, and aromatic, with a hint of floral sourness from the sumac, and notes of licorice and anise.

Za'tar is considered by Palestinians to have particular national, political, and personal importance, and exists as a symbol of both Israeli oppression and Palestinian home-making and resistance. Its major components, olive oil and wild thyme, are targeted by the settler state in large part due to their importance to ecology, identity, and trade in Palestine—settlers burn and raze Palestinian farmers' olive trees by the thousands each year. A 1977 Israeli law forbade the harvesting of wild herbs within its claimed borders, with violators of the law risking fines and confiscation, injury, and even death from shootings or land mines; in 2006, za'tar was further restricted, such that even its possession in the West Bank was met with confiscation and fines.

Despite the blanket ban on harvesting wild herbs (none of which are endangered), Arabs are the only ones to be charged and fined for the crime. Samir Naamnih calls the ban an attempt to "starve us out," given that foraging is a major source of food for many Palestinians, and that picking and selling herbs is often the sole form of income for impoverished families. Meanwhile, Israeli farmers have domesticated and farmed za'tar on expropriated Palestinian land, selling it (both the herb and the spice mixture) back to Palestinians, and later marketing it abroad as an "Israeli" blend; they thus profit from the ban on wild harvesting of the herb. This farming model, as well as the double standard regarding harvesting, refer back to an idea that Arabs are a primitive people unfit to own the land, because they did not cultivate or develop it as the settlers did (i.e., did not attempt to recreate a European landscape or European models of agriculture); colonizing and settling the land are cast as justified, and even righteous.

The importance of the ban on foraging goes beyond the economic. Raya Ziada, founder of an acroecology nonprofit based in Ramallah, noted in 2019 that "taking away access to [wild herbs] doesn't just debilitate our economy and compromise what we eat. It's symbolic." Za'tar serves variously as a symbol of Palestinians' connection to the land and to nature; of Israeli colonial dispossession and theft; of the Palestinian home ("It’s a sign of a Palestinian home that has za’tar in it"); and of resistance to the colonial regime, as many Palestinians have continued to forage herbs such as za'tar and akkoub in the decades since the 1977 ban. Resistance to oppression will continue as long as there is oppression.

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Ingredients:

Za'tar (Origanum syriacum), 250g once dried (about 4 cups packed)

250g (1 2/3 cup) sesame seeds

170g (3/4 cup) Levantine sumac berries, or ground sumac (Rhus coriaria)

100g (1/2 cup) wheat berries (optional)

2 Tbsp olive oil

1 Tbsp aniseed (optional)

1/2 Tbsp caraway seeds (optional)

Levantine wild thyme (also known as Bible hyssop, Syrian oregano, and Lebanese oregano) may be purchased dried online. You may also be able to find some dried at a halal grocery store, where it will be labelled "زعتر" (za'tar) and "thym," "thyme," or "oregano." Check to make sure that what you're buying is just the herb and not the prepared mixture, which is also called "زعتر." Also ensure that what you're buying is not a product of Israel.

If you don't have access to Levantine thyme, Greek or Turkish oregano are good substitutes.

Wheat berries are the wheat kernel that is ground to produce flour. They may be available sold as "wheat berries" at a speciality health foods store. They may be omitted, or replaced with pre-ground whole wheat flour.

Instructions:

1. Harvest wild thyme and remove the stems from the leaves. Wash the leaves in a large bowl of water and pat dry; leave in a single layer in the sun for four days or so, until brittle. Skip this step if using pre-dried herbs.

2. Crumble leaves by rubbing them between the palms of your hands until they are very fine. Pass through a sieve or flour sifter into a large bowl, re-crumbling any leaves that are too coarse to get through.

Crumbling between the hands is an older method. You may also use a blender or food processor to grind the leaves.

3. Mix the sifted thyme with a drizzle of olive oil and work it between your hands until incorporated.

4. Briefly toast sumac berries, caraway seeds, and aniseed in a dry skillet over medium heat, then grind them to a fine powder in a mortar and pestle or a spice mill.

5. Toast sesame seeds in a dry skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly, until deeply golden brown.

6. (Optional) In a dry skillet on medium-low, toast wheat berries, stirring constantly, until they are deeply golden brown. Grind to a fine powder in a spice mill. If using ground flour, toast on low, stirring constantly, until browned.

Some people in the Levant bring their wheat to a local mill to be ground after toasting, as it produces a finer and more consistent texture.

7. Mix all ingredients together and work between your hands to incorporate.

Store za'tar in an airtight jar at room temperature. Mix with olive oil and use as a dipping sauce with bread.

[littlestpersimmon]

When ppl talk about the "banality of evil" its often about how boring the system that upholds imperialism is, but it's also how evil is commonplace, an ingredient to the cement that builds the foundation of the imperial core. You read about what the IOF is doing to Palestinians and yet fail to realize that American soldiers were doing the same things in the Philippines in 1902 during the american occupation, which is still not recognized as a genocide to this day. You think about Congo today but don't realize that a hundred years ago within the same land, the king of Belgium would cut off the hands of natives if they didn't collect and extract enough rubber, and its not much different when you replace"rubber" with "cobalt", "Belgian king" with "American oligarch".. the world immediately, utterly feels godless. One war seamlessly transitioning into another. How can there be so much grief for something as ordinary as a component to something I am literally holding in my hands right now. How can you make sense of that.

In the Philippines, there is a legend that says that the sturdiest, strongest buildings are constructed using the blood of a thousand children. The most prominent structure to remember this legend by, was a bridge called "Tulay ng San Juanico", built by none other than Philippine Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who is renowned to this day by his record of unfathomable human rights abuse. San Juanico Bridge stands, used for commute in the daily lives of filipino civilians under the shadow of the empire, in an all consuming, impenetrable and unbearable mundanity. You can find 20, 45, a hundred, a million people who are kind, but at the same time I think about how so many of these kind people walk this earth without thought or personal responsibility, completely and totally unwilling to lose an iota of comfort and convenience, without once stopping to think, what do they owe the next coming generation, the ones that are still here, and the ones nameless and buried in this world's wreckage, in the necessity of its evil.

[xclowniex]

It is still wild to me that people will claim that "Israel is stealing palestinian food/cusine and calling it Israeli"

Cause like, most countries have food taken from other cultures as part of their cusine.

Like i don't see anyone yellings at New Zealand for eating fish and chips and calling it a Kiwi Classic even though it originated in Portugal. Suprised that I didn't say Britian? Yeah that because it didn't orignate in Britian despite most people thinking it did.

The reason why there is so much middle eastern cuisine in Israel which is considered Israeli cusine is because A) Mizrahim literally were forced out of the middle eastern countries they resided in by the government of said middle eastern countries and were forced to go to Israel and took their food and cooking with them, B) Israel isn't made up of only jews, C) a lot of palestinian cuisine are foods which did not originate in Palestine and instead come from other middle east countries (which is valid and still palestinian cuisine) and D) its almost like countries also use ingredients that are around them in their cooking and don't only eat imported food.

Like Manuka is used in NZ as its native to here. Its wood chips are used to smoke meat and you get manuka honey from bees making honey from manuka pollen.

If Palestine gets to have food which did not originate in Palestine be labeled as Palestinian cusine, then so does Israel. Either all countries can have food which didn't orignate from that country as their cusine or no country can. Israel should not be the exception.

[sugarmarbles21]

Finally!🎉

The day that Netanyahu has been dreading is coming soon: his incarceration day! If we ever get the chance, let’s send a bunch of party stuff and ingredients for cakes to the Palestinians because they definitely deserve to celebrate this!

Also, I know everyone here, including myself, wants the icc to put arrest warrants on everybody who is complicit in these killings, but they can only do so much, so they target the people on top while those below is dealt with by the local authorities and in this case it’s the state of Palestine and the state of Israel, but with our luck, it’s the Israeli who gets to decide what to do with the IDF, which is nothing.

Anyway, Netanyahu is going to prison! And the Hamas leaders too, I guess. I am not terribly sad about that, honestly. I just think that the Palestinians rather want someone who isn’t a war criminal in charge, that’s all.

[gothhabiba]

Every day I do this research, another new facet of how Israel and Zionists use food to whitewash Israeli atrocities and theft comes to light.

In 2018 or 2019, Herb Karlitz* organised a trip to Israel specifically for celebrity chefs (which he called a "Birthright" trip), presumably intending to get as many eyes as possible on food writing that presented Israel in a positive light, free from all the "politics" and "arguments" ("politics" such as, viewing military and settler theft, murder, genocide &c. as bad, or viewing Palestinians as people).

His motivation was explicitly Zionist in nature:

When culinary event marketer Herb Karlitz visited Israel in 2018, he was blown away by the food scene, and how it had changed from his first trip, more than 20 years before. “I had left schnitzled out and underwhelmed by the lack of variety in dishes,” he confessed. “After eating the most amazing food this last time and seeing the difference the country has undergone in terms of ingredients and technique, I was convinced Israel’s food story had to be told.“ [sic] Herb decided he would go back with a group of his friends, who happen to be the country’s most celebrated chefs and culinary influencers. The trip was dubbed “Celebrity Chef Birthright.” [emphasis mine]

During this same time period, Palestinians who were walking along border fences and walls in the Great March of Return were killed and disabled en masse. Per OCHA:

Between 30 March 2018 and 22 March 2019, 195 Palestinians, including 41 children, were killed by Israeli forces in the “Great March of Return” demonstrations, including during the weekly protests near the perimeter fence, protests against the naval blockade at the beach, and the night activities near the perimeter fence. 28,939 Palestinians were injured, including 25 per cent wounded by live ammunition in these GMR demonstrations.

People chide "Arabs" and Palestinians who get angry at hummus bi tahina and falafel being deemed "Israeli" foods as though they are being divisive, silly, or upset over nothing; or as though they are literally contesting the ownership of a specific dish, because they're too stupid to understand how cultural diffusion works (liberal Zionist academics in particular love to take this latter tack).

It couldn't be more obvious that what is actually being responded to is this exact Zionist strategy, where aspects of culture are presented as "Israeli" specifically in order to present Israel in a particular way: as cultured, pluralistic, peaceful, colourful, beautiful, storied / with a history connected to the land, with a particular culture that is its own entity and exists nowhere else.

Food is used in an extremely political way, to "cover up" Israeli atrocities (as Eurovision has been used to do). But this is such a useful strategy because it doesn't seem, to the unpracticed eye, to be political at all! It's just food! Eurovision is just music! So people (especially Arabs and Palestinians) who object are the ones bringing politics and conflict into a situation that, itself, has none. Nevermind the fact that hop-skipping over checkpoints that Palestinians are not allowed to pass, in fact, reeks of politics, divisiveness, and sectarianism.

*U.S.-based entrepreneur who markets "experiences," organises events centred around "celebrity chefs," and has been credited with creating the concept and terminology of a "celebrity chef," though who knows if that's true

[academicdisasterfic]

When I first started dating @saintgarbanzo he told me about this Palestinian cookbook he loved and I went and bought it that same day. It told stories of the people living there.

A man ground tahini slowly, by hand, so the seeds wouldn’t get scared. Scared tahini splits.

A woman collected seeds into a library and told school children to be proud that they gave the world wheat.

Restaurant owners refused to discuss politics, saying everyone was welcome in their establishments. Some didn’t, and sat down and said how hard sourcing ingredients has been with Israel controlling their food supplies.

People who have lived and died on that land for centuries, who have dreams and passions and hopes.

The people who gave me recipes that I fell in love to.

I don’t want to lose them. I don’t want this world to lose them. A whole beautiful culture and history, facing a nuclear superpower hellbent on destroying them.

I don’t believe in a god but tonight I’m trying to.

[butchsophiewalten]

03/03/2024 Twitter Space Recap (1/2)

Martin & Kyle did a twitter space (with a late appearance of Eva) in the earliest hours of the day on the 3rd, here's a recap of what they talked about then:

-Kyle brings up that he wants to do a charity stream for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! He says Him, Martin, Coral, and Eva would be there playing Lethal Company. He says he plans to do this "sometime this month".

-Martin describes the 'Walten Dog Saga', saying that first the family got Carlitos, who was Sophie's dog, and everybody loved him, but then one day in 1968, they're playing and then Carlitos gets run over. And it's so tragic that they're like, 'no more dogs!', until one day in 1973 Jack runs into this homeless street dog and brings him home, and names him Jaimito, and they have him for a few months before he bites Edd's arm and "almost gives him rabies", so Jack just gives the dog to Susan, and the one week that she has this dog is like the worst week of her life. He pees everywhere, he tears up her furniture, and after a week of that he just peacefully dies while Susan is out of the house.

-Martin says that aspects of episode 5 are inspired by some of the leaked stuff he's seen from Joker 2. "It's a very fairy-tale, unreliable narrator kind of episode."

-Martin spitballs his "perfect idea for a Walten Files game", a PS1-style game where you work as a Bon's Burger's employee, "in the kitchen at 3am making burgers", fixing up orders to be delivered (by another employee, I'm assuming? He mentions 'a guy with a motorcycle', so I think this is what he means. Like pizza delivery.) He talks about how the supply closet would be on the other side of the restaurant, so whenever you run out of ingredients you'd have to walk all the way over there and back in the dark. He says it'd be really funny if there wasn't even anything supernatural in it.

-Martin talks about how it really bothers him when people say or imply that, because The Walten Files takes place in the time period it does, it would be more accurate or make more sense for his characters to be bigoted. He brings up a specific instance where someone asked him how the other BSI employees would treat Chris. "The point that this person was making is that it would make sense for the team to be racist, and I was like 'No, it doesn't make sense! That shouldn't happen, it shouldn't be a thing!'" He goes on to say... "And then it was shit like, [mockingly] 'Why are Sophie and Jenny a couple if it was the 1980s?' and it's like, gay people existed in the 1980s!"

"It's just like, just because something was the thing back then, doesn't mean the characters should do a very bad and harmful thing, y'know? It's a really stupid mindset, in my opinion."

-Kyle talks about this genuinely really funny Showstoppers Halloween special idea he had a long time ago, where the Showstoppers are really excited for the holiday, but for some reason Bon has never heard of Halloween before, and the other Showstoppers have to explain it to him, telling him about costumes and trick-or-treating and everything. And it culminates with them going up to somebody's doorstep to trick-or-treat, and all the Showstoppers are telling Bon that he should go first since he's the newbie, and when he knocks on the door some lady answers, going "Hello! How are-" and then she looks up in horror. And the shot reverses to show like a full, "hyper-realistic" Scary Animatronic Bon looming over to her, with a Text-To-Speech voice going "Trick.... Or.... Treat."

-Martin talks about his own funny showstoppers idea, where Bon, for some inexplicable reason, has the feeling that he is dying. and he spends the whole episode trying to make amends with people and be nice to his friends, like 'I don't hate you, Banny, I really care about you,' 'Boozoo, you can have Bon's Burgers when I'm gone, because you're my friend and I trust you,' etc. And at the end of the episode you find out he just had a tummy ache, and he was being really dramatic about it.

-After some related banter, Martin jokes that it'd be funny if Jack was at a table eating with the rest of the 'Bunny Smiles family', and out of the blue he goes, like, 'I've got a tummy ache! :(' in a really high-pitched voice. Eva, who had joined the space a while earlier, jokes that his normal voice is just him faking it, and the high-pitched voice is what he actually sounds like.

-They talk about various Godzilla movies for a while, and Martin brings up how he really enjoyed the way Minus One managed to connect the narrative between its human and its monster characters, and how that's something he thinks a lot of other monster movies and horror films fail to do.

"Y'know, it's funny, because when I wrote The Walten Files, I always had the idea that like, there are two parts of the story? Part one, which is like, the human drama, and Edd and Molly, and the crash. And then part two, which has more to do with the animatronics and the place itself. And you have this feeling where there's going to be a moment where those two parts connect and link to each other, and I think that's something you gotta have in, like, horror movies, where- it- you can't just like, make up characters, and just put them in the existing world and have them exist, and then just sit around waiting for the killer to appear, y'know?"

-Eva brings up an incident that's been happening in the Walten Files community on Twitter, where some people have been getting some flack over headcanoning members of The Showstoppers as Black. Martin gets really incensed talked about how much this bothers him, saying "I saw that, it's so fucking stupid. If you- It's just common sense! If you look at someone going 'Hey, I think this character would be Black, I headcanon this character as black,' and you go, like 'I'm not comfortable with that,' what the fuck do you mean? How? That's so weird! And that's what I'm saying, it's like, how does it effect the story in any way that would be negative to you? Like, the only way you would be against that, is if you were like, racist. And it's like, huh? And I think, a lot of people bring up the argument that, 'Ah, but this character is clearly intended to be White,' and it's like, who cares! Who gives a shit? Like, that's not, like a valid argument to go against someone for doing something like that. It would be very different if, for example, someone looked at Chris and went, like, 'What if he was White?', it's very different. The context of that is very different, than just headcanoning a character as Black, y'know? That's completely fine and normal. Why would you be against that, that's so weird."

"I find it even funnier, because, from what it looked like, it was because someone said they headcanon Sha as Black, and it's like, that makes so much sense! I mean, like, I think that if Sha had a human design, she'd definitely not- she wouldn't be white... again, if you're against headcanons like that, you- you're not welcome here."

-"We end this stream saying these few words: Headcanoning characters as people of color is great, supporting Palestine is great, uh, being a Zionist is Bad! Being a racist is bad! And if you like Godzilla: I will give you a kiss on the head. Muah!"

___ They ended up holding another Space much later the same day, which I've decided to cover in a separate post, because it's twice as long as this one, and a lot more of the conversation in it was Walten Files-Centric, so the recap will take way longer to write.

[chilewithcarnage]

that tiktok I just reblogged of the man making a huge amount of smash burgers to give away made me tear up low key. I really love food and cooking as an expression of love. the time it takes to prepare, the sheer exorbitant amount it more than likely cost to obtain fresh clean food and ingredients amongst abject scarcity, the danger to find said ingredients as we’ve seen from the specific targeting of people searching for food by the ruthless, cruel iof killers. i love you Palestinian men. The amount of love, resilience, and sacrifice you all display everyday for your loved ones, your people and your country. we will never stop caring for you as you care for others, we will not rest until the israeli regime is no more and every last one of you is safe in your homes and cooking meals in your kitchens once again.

[magz]

February 22, 2024 - February 23, 2024

[Note: A lot of posts have video and image, but am only posting screenshots]

A few posts from "Eyes on Palestine" (on telegram news channel):

More than 29,000 martyrs and 69,000 injured, massive destruction in Gaza, and over 2.2 million people in the Strip without water, food, or any life essentials. All of this hasn't prompted the United States to support a resolution in the UN Security Council to halt the ongoing brutal aggression on the Strip for over 138 days.

The veto right has been used three times for projects calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, the latest being an Algerian resolution. Despite the fact that the UN Security Council, established in 1945, was formed with the hope of achieving justice for most countries in the world, the monopoly of 5 countries on the right of refusal "veto" shattered these hopes.

According to official figures, the veto right "veto" has been used 261 times since the establishment of the UN Security Council….

The United States' share of this is 115 times, including 80 times using this right to prevent condemnation of its ally Israel, and 35 times against laws supporting the rights of the Palestinian people.

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“I have been without food for five days” .. The suffering of Palestinians in the north of Gaza amid the famine and siege.

معاناة المواطنين في شمال غزة

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The Palestinian Hamza Abu Toha from the north of Gaza : "My wife just gave birth to our son, Ali, and I wanted to bring her a gift of appreciation. I spent five days looking for meat in the North of Gaza, and some rice. The ingredients that you see in this photo cost me $95 $70 for the meat, and $25 for the rice. This type of food became luxurious gifts for our loved ones."

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This girl is picking grass to eat with her family due to the starvation forced by the Israeli occupation in the north of Gaza.

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Over 800 Palestinians are besieged by the occupation forces in the School of “Hinawi” in Al Amal neighborhood without food or water. The displaced people are demanding to evacuate the injuries and martyrs and provide protection for them.

مناشدة للصليب الأحمر والمؤسسات الدولي لمساعدة اكثر من 800 نازح محاصرين مدرسة حي الأمل" الحناوي" بدون ماء ولا غذاء ولا مساعدة للمصابين

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Israeli soldier posted a 3.5 min video of himself flattening the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the site of Netzarim, middle of Gaza City. He wrote: "The hospital accidentally broke.”

The hospital was the only cancer hospital in the whole strip!

Israeli military has never claimed or stated whatsoever that they found anything inside the hospital. Israeli soldiers used the hospital as a camp for their stay for the past 3 months.

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The Israeli occupation forces prevent worshippers from entering Al Aqsa mosque.

جانب من منع شرطة الاحتلال دخول المصلين إلى المسجد الأقص�� لأداء صلاة الجمعة.

(Afterwards) The Israeli occupation forces assault worshippers in Al Ghazaly yards at Lion’s gate, one of the Gates of Al Aqsa mosque.

الاعتداء بالضرب على المصلين في ساحة الغزالي أمام باب الأسباط أحد أبواب المسجد #الأقصى

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A Grandmother bids farewell to her grandchildren who were killed by Israeli bombardment on the “safe zones ” in Rafah.

جدة تودع أحفادها الذين است.شهدوا بسبب القصف الاسرائيلي على “المناطق الآمنة” في رفح

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Dozens of Palestinians were injured by Israeli bombardment in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza.

عشرات الاصابات في قصف إسرائيلي على دير البلح وسط القطاع

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Hebron, West Bank | Israeli soldiers of the 5060th battalion shared photos on social media today that show their abuse and humiliation of Palestinian detainees, including minors and elderly.

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Savta Michaela's potato kugel (Passover Kosher)

my grandma passed away last october, so i wanted to share her potato kugel recipe! our ethnic backround is. um. we're jewish, that's for sure, ashkenazi jews. my family immigrated to palestine in the 18-19th centuries from what was then russia. so our cultural practices are interesting, a mix of traditional ashkenazi with palestinian and middle eastern sephardic influences. for example my family generally ate kugel, as well as gefilte fish, with tahini. it's apparently pretty good (i dont eat fish so i wouldn't know). however, sesame is chametz so its not passover kosher :(

ingredients:

5-6 potatoes, preferably red. sliced into thin slices, either by hand or by machine

5-6 eggs

matzah flour

salt

pepper

oil (any type)

preparation:

- it's preferable you use a pot you can also put in the oven

- boil 3-4 cm (~1-1.5 inch) of oil in said pot

- add all the ingredients and mix.

- cover and leave for 10-15 minutes on medium-high flame

- remove all the leftover extra oil from the pot

- move to an oven which has been preheated to 200c (390f) for 10 minutes, uncovered

- lower the heat to 175c (350f) and bake for another 30 minutes

- take out of the oven when it reaches a brown color.