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san8ny · 4 months

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Funfact, the oldest churches in HISTORY are in ‘muslim countries’—don’t let them tell you we’ve never co-existed.

Muslim and Christian Arabs don’t even care that they’re of different faith I swear, they just be chilling

#its free palestine until i fucking die #give the palestinians their land back #stop the war on gaza #stop the genocide #free the arab world #free palestine

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queen-of-sand-castles · 23 days

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we need to bring back assassinations.

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the-silli3st-girl-in-the-world · 7 months

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y'all think global warming is bad, wait till y'all go to jahanam for supporting isnotreal

#entry.txt #if you support the state of israel in anyway you're going to hell #give the Palestinians their land back

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runalongprincevaliant · 2 months

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It’s so obvious why they’re trying to ban Al Jazeera. Isra-hell trying to hide their evil deeds and war crimes.

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queen-mihai · 3 months

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Kamala Harris: "there must be an immediate ceasefire"

Me: good. Stop. Stop there. Not another word. Leave it there.

Harris: "for the next 6 weeks..."

Me: "I'll take your 6 weeks and raise you PERMANENT"

You will stop this killing. Permanently. NOW.

Keep protesting. Talk louder! Talk MORE! Biden and bitch ass netanyahu DO NOT start this shit up again. Not in 6 weeks. Not EVER.

And

I'll believe it when I fucking see it.

#you don't get to just pretend 6 weeks is enough for families to heal before you break them again #you want to get rid of Hamas?#then STOP GIVING THEM MORE REASONS TO WANT REVENGE #stop the killing FOREVER #give people their houses back #let the WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS pay these families to rebuild #they don't get to weasel out of this scot-free #HELP Palestine rebuild.#send Palestinian history experts and artists out there to rebuild everything that was lost #and DO NOT TAKE ANOTHER SQUARE CENTIMETER OF PALESTINIAN LAND.#PERIOD #EVER.

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wakandas · 7 months

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The Beyhive is telling Parkwood Entertainment that a RENAISSANCE can't happen in the middle of ethn1c cle4nsing. I sent the below email, myself:

"Please email [email protected] and [email protected] to ask that they don’t show the RWT on occupied land that is actively committing a gen o' c1de..." - yoncecapital (Twitter)

#stealing a Palestinian family's home from them at gunpoint. FCK OFF and give that land back

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ofdinosanddais1 · 5 months

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"Do you condemn Hamas—" of course i condemn Hamas.

I condemn Hamas the same way I condemn gangs in America for existing due to children becoming latchkey kids and joining gangs to survive and help out their family. I condemn Hamas the same way I condemn theft for existing due to people trying not to starve or die of treatable disease or hypothermia or because they don't have the resources to safely detox from alcoholism and drug use. I condemn Hamas the same way I condemn homelessness for existing because the US government is designed for people (especially Black and Indigenous people) to FAIL. I condemn Hamas the same way I condemn recidivism for existing because the government does not want to help people find a job after they get out of prison because they WANT people to go back to prison to be eternally enslaved by the private prison industry.

I condemn Hamas for the audacity to be in a system they don't have control over where their neighbors are getting murdered and kidnapped by Israel because Israel want Gaza and for Palestinians to not exist.

#in case it wasn't clear #i condemn Israel and the IOF #Hamas is a symptom of Israel's tyranny #you don't want Hamas? give Palestinians their land back #you don't want Hamas? treat Palestinians like people #you don't want Hamas? decolonize #Palestine has a right to defend itself #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #fuck Israel #protect palestine

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heyimboredtalktome · 8 months

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You’re 19…child you really don’t know what you don’t know. And hamas ≠ Palestine lol.

believe it or not you don't have to be very old to understand and be horrified by what the israelis do to palestinians, even when there isn't a full scale war going on

#asks #and yes hamas is not equal to palestine #hamas was funded and supported by israel because they needed someone who was easier for the world to hate #since they are zionist fucking land stealers they obviously didn't want to follow international rules and give back the land which belonged #to palestinians rightfully #and since the other parties that palestine had #the one who had normal people who just wanted their fucking rights without violence #made a lot of sense #the zionists were scared of them #so they funded the hamas who are obviously terrifying #but its #much easier to play the victim card in front of the world against them #fucking zionists

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lovelylunas-world · 7 months

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I’m convinced Israeli people don’t read their own newspaper…. this ⬅️ link

you can check the link I put for more and the qr codes in the photos can be scanned, the articles are in Hebrew so you’ll need to translate it

#free palestine 🇵🇸#fuck israel #killing their own people…#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #give back the Palestinians land.#free gaza #free the west bank #from white supremist fascist racist occupation #palestine #🇵🇸#israel are terrorist.#end the occupation.

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san8ny · 4 months

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Please do not halt any posts about Palestine, but also realize people live real lives and aren’t on social media 24/7. So if they don’t for a bit, don’t be enraged and sideblog.

(This doesn’t count for people that are posting, just for the ones on hiatus.)

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #stop the genocide #stop the war #stop all wars #STOP THE WAR ON GAZA #GIVE THE PALESTINIANS THEIR LAND BACK #KEEP THE WEST OUT OF THE EAST!

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cina-full-moon-xanadium · 6 months

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post popped up on my dash and a couple things in it had alarm bells ringing and i went to check the OP

yeah this kinda doesn't seem like someone to be taking information from

#a cursory glance through their blog shows they are very veeery overly concerned with antisemitism while only barely mentioning palestinians #and one of their big posts is anti giving land back. lol #not trying to vague the person who put it on my dash btw bc in amongst everything it can be easy to miss

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jewishvitya · 6 months

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A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.

#riki babbles #I had this in my drafts for ages and I was like 'not the time' but a friend encouraged me to share so here it is #palestine

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thekricks0krickass · 4 months

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even though Cheetos supports Israhell I know Chester cheetah personally and he told me he never has and never will support genocide

#israhell #fuck the occupation #free palestine #chestar cheetah stands with palestine #no i do not care about what the brand says lol #give palestinians their land back #genocide #palestine

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gingerswagfreckles · 8 months

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I think people need to understand that when someone says the situation in Israel/Palestine is complicated they are not necessarily saying that the discussion of who the oppressor vs oppressed is complicated. The Israeli government has been oppressing the Palestinians for a very long time, that is clear, and it is not complicated to understand that at least since the 80s they have had dramatically more financial and military power to keep control of the territory in the way they like.

However, it is reductive and dismissive to insist that there is no complexity in the potential ways to move forward to bring peace to the region. Despite what people on tumblr.edu like to believe, "Israel should never have been created" is not a practical solution to an incredibly heated geopolitical situation in the present day. Israel was created and it does exist. 10 million people live there. 74% of the population is native born and the country has existed for 75 years. Hand waving these fact away with the opinion that "they should move back to where they came from" may make you feel good about being a Radical Leftist, but it does not give anyone a road map for how exactly millions of people without dual citizenship are supposed to just up and evaporate. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that 21% of Israelis are Arabs, the very people you are claiming to want to give the land back to.

Insisting that there's nothing complicated about expecting an entire country's population to willingly dissappear with no consequences is not a productive way to think about this conflict. It ignores the many massive superpowers that have an interest in proping up different states in the region, the power dynamics involved in any land back movements, and the inevitably negative consequences of totally dissolving an established state without a plan. It is also completely and almost comically unrealistic, so much so that it makes it hard to believe that anyone who's opinion starts and ends with this idea really gives a shit about anyone who lives in the area as much as they care about their online leftist clout.

There's nothing complicated in understanding that the Israeli government is and has been maintaining an oppressive apartheid state for decades. It is, however, very complicated to come up with a realistic way to resolve some of the most intricately entangled land disputes on the planet without plunging the region into total chaos. Not everyone has to be deeply educated on every geopolitical situation, but it is very hard to take people seriously when they know nothing about the politics or history of a region and yet insist that there is nothing complicated about it at all.

There's a lot of people on this website who are getting dangerously smug about their own ignorance, and are starting to go down Qanon type anti-intellectual paths in the name of being sufficiently radical. Not knowing the details of a very convoluted land dispute isn't something to brag about online as you call for intentionally reductive solutions. You can support the Palestinian cause and be aware of the oppression they have faced while also holding off on calling people trying to do real analysis and de-escalation work bootlickers. We need to get control of the urge to fit every global issue into a simplistic YA novel narrative structure that appeals to Western revolutionary fantasies.

#gingerswagfreckles #israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #i/p #i/p conflict

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lecoindecachou · 8 months

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Americans talking about Israel being illegitimate is just always funny to me. I mean, you're right but like. so is your country and I don't see *you* giving back your stolen land anytime soon.

#israel #there's just a certain level of hypocrisy there isn't it #americans talking about israel/palestine genuinely makes my nose bleed #you expect the people of israel to pack up and give back the land to palestinians? well okay you first then

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mariamlovesyou · 6 months

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tuned into Plestia's live with Rahma Zein's second account (she got shadowbanned). key moments:

plestia talked about her adjustment to living in australia. "it's 1:30am now and it's normal for me and many palestinians who live abroad to be awake hours into the morning. i am scared of sleeping. because of the time difference, i'm scared if i sleep i will wake up to bad news. in gaza i was scared of the sound of the bombs, here i am scared of the quiet."

contacting family and friends in gaza is near impossible. "sometimes i feel like a crazy person, calling 20 times in a row hoping that on the 21st time the call might go through."

on the destruction of entire communities and neighbourhoods: "i'm scared when i go back to gaza i won't recognise it anymore. someone sent me a picture of my neighbourhood, and i couldn't tell it was mine at first. all my favourite places, cafes where the aunties used to give me extra food and ask about my day, have been destroyed. i dread looking at my gallery or seeing snapchat memories because most of these people in the pictures are no longer alive."

rahma asked plestia to talk about one story that stuck with her. plestia said "i remember walking one time on the 'safe corridor', that's what they called it anyway, and i saw an older woman clutching onto a donkey cart where her son's body was, refusing to let go of it. i asked my colleague what the smell was, he said it's dead bodies under the rubble. it was the first time i familiarised myself with the smell. the son's body was decaying and the woman told me about cats and animals eating away at it. i've had children talk to me about birds eating away at their parents' decomposing bodies and not being able to chase them away."

"it seems so silly to go to hospitals for minor sicknesses now. i can't even think about how many palestinian children are going to be terrified of hospitals now. there was a girl who was taken to the hospital to get treatment for injuries by one of the bombs, and while she was in the bathroom another bomb landed nearby. the impact from that sent the ceiling crashing down on her.. she got another injury while getting treated for her first one."

"i hate how people talk about our resilience - as if it's okay that this is happening to us. we are only surviving because we have to, because we have no other choice."

rahma brought up the way family homes are set up in palestine and asked plestia to elaborate. "basically, there are floors. someone will live on the ground floor, and then their married son lives with his children on the floor above them, and then their successors above them and so on. so when family homes are targeted, they wipe out entire families. many families officially no longer exist."

"i used to wear my journalist helmet and vest all the time, felt naked without it, even slept with the vest on sometimes until i realised it only made me more of a target. they didn't give me any protection, only headaches and back pain."

"i am an optimistic person, i loved covering sweet sentimental things, like at my graduation asking parents of top graduates how they feel about their children graduating. that's what i love reporting on. i wanted to cover things like that when i came back to gaza, show the beautiful side of gaza that the media didn't really show, but i didn't have the chance." "do you think they'll give you right of return?" "i can only hope."

plestia mentioned how hard it was being a journalist with limited access to the internet, charging facilities, no mics, lack of equipment and how difficult it was uploading things. rahma asked her what's one story that wasn't really recorded or posted due to these constraints; plestia said "the evacuations. sometimes they informed us about them, sometimes they didn't. you have no idea how hard it was, everyone looking for their family members, making sure every one was there, taking to the streets in 5 minutes and not knowing which way to go. i remember i went to my friend's house for shelter for 30 minutes before the first evacuation was announced and we ran to another family's house, stayed there for 2 days before another evacuation was announced. me, my friend, and that family all evacuated together to another family's house. there were already so many people there seeking shelter, it wasn't just one family staying there. none of us knew how long we had in any place."

before october 7th, palestinians were used to limitations on electricity. plestia used to plan her day's tasks around when the electricity was working. "for example when the electricity was on from 12 to 4, i would say i will do my laundry and charge the phones during this time. life wasn't exactly 'normal', but all of us pray to have those days back in comparison to what we are experiencing now." plestia also said that cars are running on cooking oil now because there is no fuel.

on hygiene: "many pregnant women have to give birth without any pain medication or medical attention. once we ran out of medicine, that was it. women who had to get C-sections couldn't stay to recover or get followup treatments because someone else needed the bed. we have no water, no tissues, no pads, barely any bathrooms. in the shelter schools you have to wait an hour before even getting to use the bathroom because of how many people are there."

"something you don't hear about is how many people die because of sadness. there's so many ways to die in gaza, because of the bombardment, because of starvation, the lack of resources, but i also know many elderly people who died because their hearts couldn't take it anymore. i have been in gaza before and lived through 4 aggressions, but nothing compared to this one."

a recurring sentiment that was echoed in the video: "sometimes i thought to myself: who am i recording this for? because we've already shown everything, we've already talked about everything. everything has already been said, the proof is everywhere, nothing i talked about today is new." rahma said the first video posted about what's happening in palestine should've been enough.

she is 22 today. plestia's closing words: don't stop talking about us, don't stop boycotting, don't stop protesting, please don't get bored of fighting for palestine.

#this is all off the top of my head if i remember other key points i will add them

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