#kahana

[kaalbela]

Elderly Palestinian women sit in wheelchairs as they enjoy the waters of the northern part of the Dead Sea in West Bank, Palestine. Photographed by Menahem Kahana, 2008.

#menahem kahana #palestine #palestinian history #west bank #dead sea #street photography #portrait photography #ph #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[dozydawn]

“Palestinian girls pass by closed shops in Arab East Jerusalem, 31 January. Shopkeepers went on strike to protest the death of a Palestinian shot by Israeli forces 26 January.”

Photographed by Menahem Kahana, 1999.

#menahem kahana #1999 #1990s #palestine

[gleesonarchive]

Domhnall Gleeson at the HFPA press conference for 'Peter Rabbit' 🐰

📷 Yoram Kahana (01.02.2018)

#domhnall gleeson #peter rabbit #2018 #yoram kahana #press conference #photoshoot #hfpa

[claudia1829things]

Unpopular Opinion

Isn't it ironic that so many "LOST" fans still hate Michael Dawson after nearly two decades? Yet, if it were not for his idea of stalling the bomb's explosion aboard the Kahana freighter in the Season Four finale; Jack Shephard, the rest of the Oceanic Six, Frank Lapidus, Desmond Hume and Jin Kwon would have never survived the freighter's destruction. And that would have spelled disaster for the future of the island and the world in Seasons Five and Six.

#lost tv show #LOST TV SEIRES #lost abc #michael dawson #lost season 4 finale #jack shephard #kate austen #hugo reyes #hurley reyes #sayid jarrah #sun hwa kwon #desmond hume #frank lapidus #jin kwon #kahana freighter #oceanic six #anti lost fandom

[littlesolo]

Jane Tennant Duo

#jane tennant #vanessa lachey #ronda kahana williams #ncis hawaii #twitter

[dadyomi]

Thursday 11/10, Nedarim 16: Professional Profaning

I know it’s just a translation but “Profane your oath for the desires of Heaven” belongs in some kind of epic poem. 

#daf yomi #buckle up here come the amoraim #rav kahana #rav giddel #rav #rav tavyumei #shmuel #crafting with the rabbis

[gliklofhameln]

“My mother Rivka and my children Gil and Roni”, Vardi Kahana (Israeli, b. 1959), 2003, printed 2007, gelatin silver print

#jumblr #judaism #jewish art #jewish photography #vardi kahana #myposts

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

”Jordan Valley: murmur of starlings”

AFP Photo by @ Menahem Kahana

#art #photography #birds #afp #starling #murmur #jordan valley #mystery snail #menahem kahana #reflection #poetry #nature wonders

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[willowchild]

It's actually so sad to see more and more people in your country becoming far right, hateful and either violent or a violence apologist.

#its scary and disappointing and angering. can you guys just be normal??? #and some moderate right wing People will pretend its not that bad because they can't handle the truth of our side having bad people #they think it has to be black and white #settler violence and right wing/far white wing racism feels like its been growing faster. look at how many ppl voted 4 ben gvir and smotrich #ugh!!!! i hope the people who are responsible for the things in umm safa huwara all these places are heavily punished #i hope people become more moderate. like kahana had like 1 mandate and otzma yehudit got tons wtd #i fucking hate this. people feel comfortable saying stuff graffitinh stuff and going out to harm Palestinians and their property #how can people be so hateful... #rant #israel #אם יש פה ישראלים: היי #I'm not right wing but you can be a right winger anf not an evil maniacm #I've heard ppl recently saying they think ppl r getting more moderate but I don't see it! #these ppl wouldn't listen to a Palestinian talking abt Israeli crimes. doesn't support their narrative and would make it hardrr 2 harm them #i hope 2 see changes by next elections. who knows maybe non voters will vote. maybe 18 yr olds are more progressive idk #it speaks

[sakamotoproperties]

#kahana ridge #single-family home for sale #home for sale #west maui #million dollar homes

[otogariado]

mentioning LOST's church ending got me riled up about the racism in LOST again lol. i obviously am aware that some actors just did not return to production for possibly other reasons, but also especially in the case of harrold perrineau (michael dawson) he felt like his character (and walt, his son) was treated like shit by the writing. and he was absolutely right. i've already made posts about this (will try to dig them up later), but michael was treated absolutely bullshit and unfairly wrt the story. michael betrayed them and killed two people, yes, but what did he do it for but to protect his son? he felt like nobody gave enough fucks about walt and there was some truth to that claim. his whole character arc is about being a dad to walt and their improving relationship over the course of being stuck on the island, so of course he would do that. it just makes sense.

which is why i don't think it's all that fair to punish him for it immensely in the narrative. harrold perrineau said it himself that he didn't want michael and walt to be another case of the absent black father stereotype [citation needed, i'll look for it but he said it in an interview] yet that's what he ended up being anyway. after his and walt's escape from the island, apparently walt cast him away because he doesn't agree with what his father did—which i actually think its interesting to explore: walt disagreeing with michael's actions and trying to grapple with it, but i don't think separating him from his dad was the best writing choice to make. walt is being punished for caring about his son by making his son be the one to cast him away. you can argue it's supposed to be tragic, michael is supposed to be a tragic character, but with the context surrounding michael's character? there's better ways to make his character be tragic than this.

which brings me to his next punishment. i was happy to see michael again on the kahana (just happy to see him in general), but it didn't last long when he gets killed, sacrificing himself to prevent/prolong the kahana's explosion from happening. (put a 📌 on this bc it's similar to how sayid dies and we'll come back to that later.) michael dies here and walt doesn't know about this. and then michael joins as part of the whispers, his soul trapped on the island (presumably forever) and that's why he's not in the church ending.

i'm gonna be frank. michael being trapped on the island because of his guilt or remorse or perhaps repenting for his sins is just bullshit to me. a lot of characters seen in the flash sideways and in the church ending are characters who've done "bad things". it's bullshit to have michael be the only one doomed to pay for his misdeeds forever. his misdeeds for... killing two people. not that killing two people is Nothing, but moreso if you examine the circumstances it's hardly anything to be damned eternally for.

remember the 📌 we had wrt sayid and michael? both of them died trying to prevent an explosion from reaching everybody else. which makes this more egregious imo. i can say 1000 things about sayid's arc (points to url), but this is about michael and not him, so i'll just focus on this: sayid was grappling with "being a bad person" for torturing and killing so many people. he worked as an assassin for ben. and yet, somehow, you're telling me sayid is not being damned eternally for his misdeeds but michael is? if you don't see the BS in that i don't know what to tell you.

i'm also aware why some characters don't appear any more re:conflicts with their actors (or just availabilities or other reasons for declining to come back), but even then arguably any conflicts with harrold perrineau stemmed from a justified place because of how michael was treated.

i think mr eko had a more dignified arc (he's one of my fav characters, thematically speaking) and honestly he had some of the rawest shit i've ever heard:

I ask for no forgiveness father for I have not sinned, I have only done what I needed to do to survive. A small boy once asked me if I was a bad man, if I could answer him now I would tell him, that when I was a young boy I killed a man to save my brothers life. I am not sorry for this, I am proud of this. I did not ask for the life that I was given but it was given none the less, and with it I did my best.

but despite this it doesn't change the fact that his absence in the church ending is very noticeable. he had meaningful connections with charlie, with locke, and interestingly like michael he kind of parallels sayid but this time thematically through their arcs. sayid is constantly burdened with feeling like he's a bad person and resigning to it as some sort of self-fulfilled prophecy, but mr eko is very firm about how he sees himself as not necessarily a bad man, just a man whose hands were forced because of the cards he was dealt. i wish we could have seen a more direct parallel between them, because it would've been interesting. back to the main point: i think it's such a missed opportunity for mr eko to not be here. especially since even after his death, hurley was able to communicate with his ghost, showing that he still had connections with his fellow losties even long after his death.

ana lucia being "not ready to move on" is interesting. but ultimately you can't help but raise a few eyebrows at it anyway. you can argue that, unlike mr eko she died an unresolved death, but most of the LOST characters died with an unresolved death. (she was killed early.) that's the whole point of the sideways segments. so what makes ana lucia so different from the others? yeah she killed shannon, but that was completely a freak accident. her people (the tailies) were being picked off one by one by the other so she was understandably on edge. she was kind of a hated character but i think a lot of it is just racism and misogyny combined tbh. (LOST is...notorious for a lot of misogynistic character writing decisions.) ana lucia was just as complex and morally "ambiguous" as the rest of them. i find the decision to make her corrupt in the sideways segments interesting (negative). cz like, there was never any indication she was like this in real life. what does that corruption symbolize? because obviously that corruption is a key to why she "can't move on yet". what exactly is she supposed to be repenting for? they hinted at a possible direction her arc is going towards before killing her off, ie. her ultimately choosing not to kill "henry gale" because she no longer wants blood on her hands. again, in a way, she's just like sayid! someone who decided they'd turn away from ceaseless violence. only right afterwards she got killed. so what does she need repenting for so much that she's left out of the church ending? much to think about.

i don't really know how to conclude this post. but my main point is that the lack of these characters during the church ending is and has racist implications. (again, i understand the casting issues, but it's still a writing decision you can critique as a viewer at the end of the day). i'll try to find the old posts i made last year abt michael and mr eko and their parallels to sayid and link them here (and self reblog).

edit: go read/look up "burn it down". it details a lot of the behind the scenes mistreatment of the staff (including racism and sexism), including actors and writers. the quote from an interview from harold perrineau that i mentioned was also linked in a reblog. (post link)

#op #lost #lost abc #abc lost #lost 2004 #<- have we agreed on a main tag yet #michael dawson #mr. eko #ana lucia cortez #meta #analysis #media analysis #church ending #// #lostposting #<- my tag for LOST rambles on this blog

[tropic-havens]

Hiking the Puumanumanu Trail looking at the Kahana Valley, Ahupuaʻa O Kahana State Park, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#hawaii #tropical

[centuriespast]

A 3,700-year-old ivory comb found in southern Israel bears an inscription that reads, “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” The 17 letters on the comb form the oldest full, decipherable sentence ever found in an early alphabetic script.

Credit...Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

[littlesolo]

Young Jane Tennant!!!

#ncis hawaii #jane tennant #young jane tennant #Ronda Kahana Williams

[dadyomi]

Wednesday 7/26, Gittin 71: Back In Divorce Court

I was sad to see us leave the Home Remedies section of Gittin, but it does seem like after several tractates of functionally assuming Deaf people aren't capable of living adult lives, the amoraim are getting to grips with the idea that maybe being unable to hear and speak isn't an automatic indication of incompetence. It seems to be fucking with them to consider it and I must say I'm enjoying that.

Also, "A mute, you say?" is cracking me up for some reason.

#daf yomi #rabbi zeira #rav kahana #might need a new tag something like #talmudic sensitivity training