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rynamari · 7 months

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The Israel-Palestine Conflict(i.e Israel committing genocide)

Alright, this post ties to my timeline post about Israel and Palestine's history. But I wanna give some facts and point out some thought experiments that I feel people pull out but then don't fully follow through. You can always refer to them because I've labeled things Facts, Points, Thought Experiments, and Opinions.

Will this probably piss some people off? Maybe, but I'm not staying quiet. These thought experiments matter

CW: Discussion about politics and genocide below

Here's the facts right now.

Fact 1 - Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing are two different things that can be closely related.

A - Ethnic Cleansing is defined as rendering an area ethnically the same by using force or intimidation to remove those of a different ethnic or religious group.

B - Genocide is any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. This can be things such as the following; killing members of that group, causing serious bodily harm or mental harm to members of that group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life meant to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures to prevent births, and forcibly moving children from the group to another group.

This means that they are not the same thing, although Ethnic Cleansing can result in genocide.

Fact 2 - Israel has only existed for the last 75 years. Prior to that, it was in fact just Palestine, which consisted of Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. Attached is a link to this post I made which talks about the History of the two. Long and short, Israel is a Zionist colonized state that has forced the Arab population out and continues to commit genocide and apartheid.

Fact 3 - Every year since 2016, the U.S. has provided $3.8 billion dollars to the Israeli military. They have the Iron Dome, the radar-controlled launcher to intercept missiles. They have 339 aircraft and 169,500 personnel with 2,200+ tanks and 530 artillery. In 2022 Israel spent $23.4 billion on its military, actually putting it ahead of the U.S in regards to per capita military.

Fact 4 - Palestine has no air force, and no naval force, and their military forces tend to side with Israel. And even calling it a military force is a stretch as they have no land army. In fact, in Article XII of the Oslo II Accords, Palestine is only allowed a police force, and Israel is supposed to defend them. Thus Palestine has no way to defend itself from Israel.

Fact 5 - Israel has indeed poisoned water for Palestine in the past and is currently making the water undrinkable for those in Gaza. In 1948 Israel poisoned dozens of water wells in places that were about to be evacuated to stop Palestinians from going back there. Currently, Israel has imposed a blockade that is limiting people from getting clean water. The only aquifer in the Gaza area is contaminated by sewage and seawater.

Fact 6 - That by definition means Fact 5 is considered a violation of human rights. As of 2010, the UN General Assembly recognized that water is a human right. The countries that abstained included Israel and the United States. Both those states also objected to the proposal to make Palestine a non-member observer state(can't vote on resolutions). In fact, Palestine cannot submit itself to be appointed or elected to a position in the UN.

Fact 7 - Gaza has been under a strict blockade for the past 16 years. When it started, Israel cut down food supplies, and fuel imports and even during ceasefires refused things like medical aid to Gaza. In fact, when people tried to bring medical aid into Gaza by boat, the Israeli Navy boarded and used live ammunition with some of these aid members being shot from behind. In 2006, Israel bombed and destroyed the only power plant in Gaza as a result of a soldier being captured. As of 2023, that power plant still has not been repaired. In 2014, while there were claims that Hamas hid in a hospital, Israel still proceeded to bomb said hospital, cutting off aid. Israel controls everything that goes into Gaza including even food and building materials.

Fact 8 - Israel is targeting residential as well as medical areas in Gaza with missiles. This is in line with the attitude they have taken toward the Defense Minister saying that there will be no electricity, water, food, or fuel in Gaza anymore. And saying "We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly." Netanyahu used similar language about Hamas saying that they are "an abominable enemy, human beasts who celebrate the murder of women, children and the elderly.” Most of Gaza is refugees and children.

Fact 9 - Palestinian casualties have always been massive whenever there has been a conflict compared to Israel. From January 1st, 2008 to August 31st, 2023 the total number of Palestinian casualties was over 6,000. Israel was 308 and of that 308, 177 were civilians and 131 were Israeli Forces. I do not separate the Palestinian casualties as there are no military forces. Data from United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Fact 10 - Apartheid is defined as enforced racial segregation, and the domination and oppression of one racial group by another. By this definition, what Israel is doing is in fact Apartheid against the Palestinian people.

Fact 11 - Israel is claiming that Hamas is beheading bodies however this claim has been proven to be propaganda and debunked and shown as coming from an extremist Israeli soldier, and this is not the only propaganda that they are pushing. This is similar to how the US claimed Iraq had WMDs to justify invading Iraq.

Point - Dehumanizing the people to animals which is common rhetoric when committing genocide. In fact, by the 10 Stages of Genocide Israel has reached roughly stage 4.

Point - With Israel being such a huge ally of the U.S. it is not surprising that they would start using the same playbook.

Thought Experiment - If you were to flip this, with Israel having the limited resources that Palestine has, and Palestine having the backing, land, and resources of Israel and it was Muslims doing to Jewish people would you be siding with Palestine? Just a thought to think about.

Point - Being anti-Zionist does not mean being antisemitic. Zionism is based on a colonial belief. Zionism counted on the idea of an imperial power thinking that a Jewish colonial outpost in the Middle East was worth backing. The founders even said how they would remove the indigenous people by force.

Opinion - The Two-State solution is impossible because based on the above points and facts it would still imply the acceptance of the Arab population having been displaced by their native land.

Thought Experiment - If you claim that by supporting Palestine or Hamas you are supporting violence, ask yourself this. What should the Palestinians do? They are being attacked even during ceasefires have lost basic human rights and are slowly being killed. Should they just continue to sit there and hope that peaceful protests will stop the bombs being dropped?

Opinion/Thought Experiment - Think of either the Holocaust or the American Slave Trade. Both did not end through peaceful means and in this case, the Palestinians are the oppressed. Is it unreasonable that groups would fight back against their oppressors?

Thought Experiment - If you are fine with Ukrainians using military force to stop Russia, why do you not feel the same about Palestinians doing the same against their military aggressor?

#fuck israel #pro palestinian #thought experiment #israel is a terrorist state #palestine is a country #israel is committing genocide #palestine

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neopronouns-in-action · 1 year

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033: Customer Service

Neopronouns: xiy/rik/ix/sirav which follow the same rules as he/him

Replace he with xiy

Replace him with rik

Replace his with ix

Replace himself with sirav

EX:

"He is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as he gets a fence set up around his yard so the puppy can go outside without him having to walk it. His uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he’s letting him use, since he lost his. He's going to buy toys and train the puppy himself.”

Becomes:

"Xiy is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as xiy gets a fence set up around ix yard so the puppy can go outside without rik having to walk it. Ix uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he’s letting rik use, since xiy lost ix. Xiy's going to buy toys and train the puppy sirav.”

= = = =

“Excuse me, /what/?”

Cloud knew better than to expect anything except this sort of reaction. Tiffany wouldn't be Tiffany if she reacted any other way.

Xiy resisted the urge to sigh, and repeated with irritation that was difficult to conceal, “I don't hate it. Why should I?”

Tiffany stared at rik, her blue eyes wide and shocked.

Her red mask with strawberries on it thankfully hid her mouth from view, because xiy had flat out refused to even touch any of her items until she put her mask on properly, but xiy could only assume it was dropped open to match the rest of her scandalized expression. “But- -” She seemed at a loss for words. Her white skin turned slightly red as she got worked up. “But it's a nightmare! You're turning into a monster!”

Yeah, this was why Cloud tried to avoid Tiffany whenever xiy could. Unfortunately xiy couldn't do anything about it this time. Tiffany had probably sought rik out, knowing xiy couldn't escape this time.

Xiy said, slowly and clearly so there was no chance of Tiffany- -or anyone else listening in on the conversation- - pretending not to understand, “No, I'm not turning into a monster. There is nothing monstrous or nightmarish about it, it's still literally just me, plus some fur and claws and stuff. I'm still me when I change form.”

“But Patricia told me you turned feral!” Tiffany exclaimed, “She said you went completely out of control, and slaughtered a poor, sweet, innocent deer! No one in their right mind would do such a terrible thing!” She put her hand over her heart to emphasize her distress. “I know you're a good person, Jordan, you wouldn't have done that if you were in control of yourself!”

Xiy resisted the urge to growl. As it was, xiy bared ix fangs behind ix mask, and managed to say /almost/ evenly, “My name is Cloud, Tiffany, not Jordan. It's right here on my name tag so you don't forget again.” Xiy tapped ix free hand on the nametag pinned to the front of ix uniform shirt.

Tiffany widened her eyes comically, like this was brand new information, like she hadn't already been told more than a dozen times. She stared down at ix nametag, then clapped a hand to her forehead. “Oh, silly me!” She exclaimed, throwing her other hand into the air and waving it in a circle, “I forgot again!”

At the back of the line, which was now over seven people long, someone called out, “Hurry the hell up, Tiffany, some of us have got places to be!”

Tiffany turned to glare, even more scandalized than before. “How rude!”

“No,” the same voice called back, “What's rude is making all of us waste time standing around here. I got in this line specifically because I know Cloud's the fastest cashier here, but thanks to you I've been standing here for ten minutes now! Go the hell home already! You already paid and all your shit's bagged, and xiy literally put it in your damn cart for you to give you the hint to get out of the line, now will you please take the damn receipt and go home already? Or at least get out of the damn way so the next person can check out? My leg is killing me and I didn't bring my rollator because I didn't think I'd be standing around this long.”

Glad for the mask that stopped ix grin at the reinforcements from being visible to Tiffany, xiy pressed the receipt xiy held forward even further, so that Tiffany couldn't help but have her attention drawn back to it.

Tiffany blinked, then finally took the receipt. She reached up towards her face with her other hand as though to instinctively pull her mask down, then aborted the motion abruptly.

Seemingly getting over her confusion, she shoved the receipt into her purse in the top of her cart, and glared poisonously back at the rest of the line, which was now nine people long.

“Well forgive me for wanting to have a friendly chat!” She snapped.

Cloud resisted the urge to sigh. This was not what anyone would call a friendly chat. A friendly chat was actually being nice to your cashier while they rang up your purchase, and then getting out of the way once you were done paying. Cloud was not here to make friends, xiy was here to do ix job, which xiy couldn't do if obnoxious customers like Tiffany insisted upon holding up the entire line by refusing to get out of it when they were done.

Especially if, like Tiffany, they insisted upon deadnaming and misgendering you while they wasted everyone else's time. Or being obnoxious about you becoming the town's first confirmed case of lycanthropy.

Despite the fact that everyone who watched the local news or talked to literally anyone who knew rik knew that Cloud wouldn't be dangerous or out of control when xiy transformed, Tiffany and her clique of other obnoxious friends still wanted to act like they had no idea how therianthropy worked, even though it had existed now for at least half their lifetime. There wasn't any excuse to not know how it worked in the year 2069.

Thankfully for everyone, Tiffany decided not to argue anymore or cause an even bigger scene. She just huffed, turned haughtily away from the line, which was now stretching back into the aisle, and left without another word.

The voice from the middle of the line from before called out, “Well it's about time!”

Cloud resisted the urge to laugh out loud, and settled for the next customer's items on the conveyor belt.

To ix surprise, though, the man - -whose hair seemed to cycle through every color of the rainbow every few weeks, this time bright, fire-engine red- -held out one hand to block rik and said, “Actually, just one moment, Xr. Cloud, if it's okay with you, I think I'd like to let Charley go before me, just so it can get off that leg of its. I already cleared it with everyone else behind me, so, as long as you don't mind?”

He looked at Cloud, and xiy nodded quickly, surprised but happy. “Yes, that's fine!” Xiy said, turning the belt off so it wouldn't move forward by itself, “I don't mind at all.” Xiy used the flat of ix arm to gently shove the groceries on the belt backwards a little, then place the next divider in front so that there would be space in front of them for Charley's stuff.

“Charley, come on forward so you can get off that leg.” The man said, and there was a short shuffle as Cloud watched everyone else behind him scooting to the side to let the person past. This was the person who'd told Tiffany off for taking so long.

It put up a slight protest as it was herded forward, saying embarassedly, “Well, no, no, I'm fine waiting my turn, you've been here longer than I am! Really, I'm fine, you don't need to wait on my account- -”

The man with the dyed hair just smiled and shook his head, and some of the other people in the line made various comments along the lines of, “No, please, I insist!” or “Go ahead of me, I'm in no rush!”

Finally the person was in front of Cloud, holding its small collection of groceries in one arm, the other holding its white cane.

It was wearing a blue mask with white checkers, and its grey and blue eyes (which up until now had been the only way for Cloud to remember ever meeting it before now, since xiy always forgot everyone's names) were staring slightly off to the side of where Cloud was.

“I really am sorry for cutting ahead,” It said, setting its few items down carefully on the belt- - A box of sandwich crackers, cupcakes, a box of water flavoring packets, a loaf of bread, and a bag of grapes - - “And I hope I didn't cause you any trouble, telling off Tiffany like that.”

Cloud had to resist the urge to laugh again, but this time in shock. “No, no,” Xiy assured hastily, “Don't apologize, you said what I wanted to. Thank /you/. And it's no problem at all! Do you want your groceries all in one bag again?”

Cloud rarely remembered customer's names, but xiy remembered what they looked like after enough times of seeing them, and Charley always wanted as few bags as possible, since it walked to the store.

“Yes, yes that's fine. Thank you again, Cloud.” It said, moving over to the payment reader and holding its wrist up to the screen. The reader chirped, and began reading off the name and price of the items as Cloud scanned them.

There was just its bag of grapes and a loaf of bread left to scan, so Cloud scanned the bread first, then put the grapes on the scale, oh so casually setting it “crookedly” while pretending not to notice, so that most of the weight wasn't registered.

If Charley or the man with the dyed hair noticed anything odd about how cheaply the grapes rang up, neither of them said anything.

Cloud smiled behind ix mask.

“Your total's $102.71” Xiy said automatically, a moment before Charley's reader repeated the exact same thing in a high, cheerful electronic voice.

“Thank you.” Charley said. The reader chirped again, and announced, “Payment transferred. Have a nice day.”

“Receipt in the bag?” Cloud asked, just to make sure.

“Yes please.” Charley replied.

Cloud stuck the receipt in the bag, then pulled the bag off the wheel and held it out to Charley, saying, “Here's your bag.” and making sure to let the plastic crinkle so Charley would be able to hear where it was.

Charley accepted the bag, and though its mouth was hidden, Cloud was pretty sure from the way its eyebrows were crinkling that it was smiling.

“Have a nice day, and try to stay cool out there!” Xiy said cheerfully.

“Thank you, and you too!” Charley turned to look over its shoulder one more time at the long line, and said, “Thank you again, Michael, thank you, everyone.”

There was a chorus of “you're welcome”s and “it's no problem”s and “have a nice day”s and one “I'll see you at book club on Thursday!” from all along the line.

Charley left, and now that it was his turn, the man with the bright red hair sat a five hundred dollar bill down on the counter while Cloud reached for the first of his items.

“I'll be paying with my reader,” He said, “This is for you. I don't want this to sound weird, and maybe I'm being impudent, but is there any chance I could pay you to bite me on the next full moon?”

This was just going to be the new normal, apparently. “I can't accept that while I'm on the clock.” Xiy said, making sure to stress the words 'on the clock' for emphasis, “But leave me your Hawire name and we can discuss it later. There is a waiting list, I've already promised a bite to eighteen people ahead you, so I probably won't be able to bite you until December. Three's the maximum number I can transmit it to per full moon so far.”

He literally clapped his hands in excitement, then put the five hundred dollar bill back in his wallet. “That's fine by me!” He said cheerfully, “I've been waiting my whole life, I can handle waiting six more months! You're the best, Cloud!”

The rest of the line went just as smoothly, with all the customers being nice and patient and several of them commenting that they didn't mind waiting at all, because they knew xiy was the best cashier ever to work there. “Tell that to my boss.” Xiy replied every time, and was met with variations upon, “Oh, I will, believe me.”

The irritation with Tiffany aside, it had been a good day.

When xiy got off from work later that night, it was to three dozen notifications on ix phone, informing rik that almost forty people had given rik a tip for ix excellent customer service, adding up to three and a half thousand dollars total.

That was more than twice ix official wages for the day.

Company policy banned and harshly punished accepting tips from customers, but that didn't stop the customers who were determined enough from tipping rik through ix Hawire account.

What the company didn't know about, they couldn't punish you for.

And the full moon was next week, so there was something to look forward to.

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brookstonalmanac · 4 months

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Events 2.6 (after 1950)

1951 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War. 1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history. 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. 1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster. 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. 1973 – The Ms  7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people. 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour. 1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. 1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia. 1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. 1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. 1996 – Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. 1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757. 1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. 2006 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada. 2012 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead. 2016 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people. 2018 – SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight. 2021 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries. 2023 – Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.

#Events

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