palestinians evacuating on their feet going through another nakba still carrying animals with them and feeding them and still joking around with each other and getting camera shy and saying hi to each other with hugs and kisses, holding peace signs and waving white flags as Israeli tanks surrounds them. yes very barbaric terrorists activities.
Israels actions against Palestine make me sick to my stomach. Every time I look at the news I see some new horror they are committing, and see how they are justifying the inexcusable, I feel sick to my stomach with rage. But now, in the heart of Ramadan, the word angry feels too small for the fire I feel in my chest.
Palestine will not be able to properly celebrate Ramadan this year. Trying to explain the situation to people who have never interacted with the community is difficult. Even when thinking to myself, I have the urge to compare it to what I know. "Imagine if there was no Christmas." "Imagine if someone took away Easter." "Imagine there was no food on Thanksgiving."
But Ramadan is not any of those things. The fact that there is no Ramadan in Palestine should be enough to make you angry.
I've been living in a muslim country for six months now. Ramadan is not nearly as festive as Eid was, but its presence is unmistakable. You can taste the joy in the air. Children here get out of school early this month. There is a school across from my home; I hear their laughter every day. String lights hang from the balconies of my neighbors, wrap around palm trees, dangle from streetlights. In the news I read that the Sheik has pardoned hundreds of prisoners, paying off their fines himself in the spirit of charity. Shops here are decorated to match, with cut out stars and crescent moons and streamers. Many shops offer discounts. "70% off home delivery."
There are festivals in the streets and lectures in the colleges.
It is wonderful. And the people of Palestine do not have this. Their fasting is forced, their children out of school by force, their houses lit by firebombs and not crescent moon LEDs, homes that smell of gunsmoke instead of oud.
I hate Israel. It feels childish to admit this. It feels like a shortcoming; hate is what causes this crisis, I should be able to focus on loving Palestine instead of adding more hate to the world. But it is a word I can't help but feel when I think about what Isreal has done, is doing, will do to the people of Palestine. What injustices they will force upon them next. Hate. It's not something I say lightly, but it is something I feel I must say.
I am not disappointed in Israel. I am not sympathetic to their 'cause.' I will not censor myself to sound more moderate, to convince the undecided. I hate Israel. I hate Israel. I hate Israel.
"The Evil History of Zionism. Its NOT a 2,000 year old problem. It’s NOT Complicated. It’s NOT a Religious Issue. It’s quite simple. A Coloniser is oppressing the Natives" from Reinspyre, 02/Mar/2024:
“Hamas was hiding in those hospitals and schools” “Israel is only defending itself” “this issue is complicated” “Hamas started the conflict” “Israel still has a right to exist” “what about Jews and the Holocaust” “There are so many rumours going around” “Do you condemn Hamas”These are all arguments I have been given whenever I get upset over what is being done in Gaza, by my own family nonetheless. As a Jew, and especially from the perspective of a culture that has suffered this over and over, how fucking hard is it for you to understand that NONE OF THAT FUCKING MATTERS ANYMORE. NONE of these arguments matter because Israel refused to stop when it’s hostages were returned, it has used highly illegal weapons like white phosphorus bombs, it’s leaders have STATED how the Palestinians are “human animals” and how their aim is absolute destruction, the entire first world is funding this genocide, Palestine can’t even fight back, etc etc. even if any of their arguments were true, it just doesn’t matter in the face of this genocide. How can you debate the reasoning behind any of this when your response should be THEY HAVE KILLED OVER TEN THOUSAND MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, AND THE DESTRUCTION NEEDS TO STOP. None of these issues matter. THEY ARE DESTROYING EVERYTHING. As a Jew, it disgusts me how my own family can stand by and debate while watching another people go through what they went through. IT DOES NOT MATTER. STOP TALKING. START ACTING.
THE LATEST CASUALTY FIGURE IS 10,177. THE NUMBER IS GROWING AS WE SPEAK. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DEBATE HERE.
feel free to reblog this with resources to help Palestinians and stop the bombings in Gaza.
European immigrants welcomed in Israel to populate and push out , displace Palestinians from Palestine since 1948- even when they are not religious, as evidenced by this video- they are white though, which is what Israel wants. They want numbers. Literally the same as 'ten pound pom' to " populate" Australia (that's how the Bee Gees came here as children )
ISRAELI OCCUPATION DESTROYS INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS TULKARM CITY IN WEST BANK
📹 Scenes from Thursday evening's raid, siege and attack on Tulkarm City and the Nour al-Shams Camp today by the Israeli occupation army, using D9 armored bulldozers to destroy the city's infrastructure, along with Palestinian homes and property in the occupied West Bank.
Egypt has been under martial law for many years already. People who come there for vacation often don't notice this, but there are always fully armed guys with shotguns in every airport. And in every public space, actually. They have a curfew every night. Technically, the only thing they lack to remind Ukraine is air alarm due to missiles' attack, and thanks Allah.
"It's because of Israel!" you would say. Well, no. Egyptians rarely complain about Jews, and they do pretty good business with them because Jews don't kill people to the glory of YHWH, and not in the countries they do business with. Then, who is the cause of such tension? There is only one option left.
There was an incident several years ago, in France. A woman in hijab entered the subway vagon and started shouting that now she would blow up everyone "to the glory of Allah" or something. Eventually, she didn't have any explosives, nevertheless, this didn't stop the French police from entering the vagon at the next stop and shooting her on the spot. No one needed problems. Why that woman did what she did still no one knows. They found out only her place of origin, which was Palestine.
It's not a secret that HAMAS financed by russia has been doing to Palestinians the same thing russian occupiers do to Crimea and Donbas region. They brainwash people. They destroy infrastructure. They repress people. Palestine neighbours know this like no one else does.
Anyway, the main source of income for Egypt is, obviously, tourism. Their whole economy is heavily dependent on tourism. What do you think will happen to Egyptian tourism if there are lots of people like that subway hijab woman? The same shit which happened to Ukrainian tourism after the full-scale russian invasion. There would be no tourism. There is already a lack of tourists to Egypt, thanks to HAMAS attack on Israel. Egypt can not afford that. Thanks to the Roman Empire occupation of Alexandria, Egypt can't produce tonnes of grain anymore to feed itself, Egypt has only Cleopatra left. The whole economy will be fucking destroyed if tourism is gone. This is also why Palestine poses a threat to the national security of Egypt.
Neighbours of Palestine don't like Palestine a lot. If we want to know the real state of affairs, we should talk to Palestine neighbours more.
love seeing goyische Takes™ about israel that conveniently and unsubtly ignore that the modern state of israel was founded in the wake of the holocaust
like, was european (and later american) states’ support of zionism an explicitly colonial project? yes. did european jews in the wake of the holocaust (and frankly before it) have a VERY GOOD REASON to want to have a nation-state controlled by jews? also yes. does that excuse the colonial way in which the nation of israel was founded and its national status enforced? no. is israel the only state involved and the only government at fault? also no.