🌿 ” IT is NOT A WAR IF ONLY ONE SIDE HAS AN ARMY
🌿 “ Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson
🌿 ” Rather than love, money, or fame, give me Truth. ~Henry David Thoreau
🌿 ” It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
🌿 ” Human Rights invented America. ~Jimmy Carter
🌿 ” I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. ~Jesus Christ
🌿 ” We will not learn how to live together in Peace by killing each other’s children. ~Jimmy Carter
🌿 Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me. ~Jesus Christ 🌿
“We are like a torn tapestry and we all have to be responsible for making the threads that we weave golden.
It is the only honorable thing to do.
~Marianne Williamson
Lawyer’s incredible speech dismantling Israeli occupation of Palestine at The Hague
Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research.
Intelligence comes only when you are free of fear,
when you are tremendously alive and not when you are
disciplined, fighting, quarrelling, competing and being violent.
~KRISHNAMURTI
Malcolm X visited the Khan Younis refugee camp, which was created in 1949 following the Nakba to house people displaced from other parts of Palestine.
He also visited a local hospital and dined with several religious leaders in Gaza.
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1760444177416872302
“Peace cannot be kept by force,
it can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein
@dametravelerofficial IG sajakilani ・・・ Our Women🤍🍉 I wrote this poem in response to an interview that shook my core. #poem #poetry #women #dametraveler ♬ original sound - Dame Traveler
Israeli teacher who was locked up and persecuted for opposing war on Gaza
Israeli troops killing civilians handcuffed and blindfolded execution-style.
Jan 31, 2024
Palestinian officials have accused Israeli troops of killing civilians handcuffed and blindfolded execution-style.
The corpses discovered blindfolded bodies with hands tied behind them in a mass grave in northern Gaza.
It comes as the Palestinian Health Ministry reports the death toll in Gaza is now nearing 27 thousand.
..::”The world is as full of opinions as it is of people.
And you know what an opinion is. You say this, and somebody else says that. Each one has an opinion, but opinion is not truth; therefore do not listen to mere opinion, it does not matter whose it is, but find out for yourself what is true.
Opinion can be changed overnight, but truth cannot be changed.
~Krishnamurti
...::” As the Buddha said, his teaching will not be destroyed by outsiders, but by insiders who do not practice the true dharma. ~Chogyam_Trungpa
Thomas Friedman on Israel and Hamas
Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, Calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Losing family members to the Nazi killing machine and surviving the Allied bombing of Hamburg. “What Israel is doing will not end conflict. It will only exacerbate it,” says Ingram: https://youtu.be/oMwzYPxJETg?si=1Y2xO4BGV-hmQc08
Do zionists see other people as inferior?
Colonizing Palestine:
THE ZIONIST AND THE MAKING
OF THE PALESTINIAN NAKBA
Hashomer Hatzair colonies were also active participants in the process that ultimately transformed large portions of Palestine into Jewish territory. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury investigates this ostensible dissonance, tracing how three colonies gained control of land and their engagement with Palestinian inhabitants on the edges of the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn ‘Amer.
Based on extensive empirical research in local colony and national archives, Colonizing Palestine offers a microhistory of frontier interactions between Zionist settlers and indigenous Palestinians within the British imperial field. Even as left-wing kibbutzim of Hashomer Hatzair helped lay the groundwork for settler colonial Jewish sovereignty, its settlers did not conceal the prior existence of the Palestinian villages and their displacement, which became the subject of enduring debate in the kibbutzim.
Juxtaposing history and memory, examining events in their actual time and as they were later remembered, Sabbagh-Khoury demonstrates that the dispossession and replacement of the Palestinians in 1948 was not a singular catastrophe, but rather a protracted process instituted over decades. Colonizing Palestine traces social and political mechanisms by which forms of hierarchy, violence, and supremacy that endure into the present were gradually created.
How Israel indoctrinates its people
w/Miko Peled | The Chris Hedges Report
Israel: How a Settler Colonial State
Destroyed Itself
Israelis protest at Netanyahu’s home
Crucial context to the genocide in Gaza
The Cherokee word “tohi” – health – is the same as the word for peace. You’re in good health when your body is at peace. The “medicine circle” has no beginning and no end and therefore represents a concept of “harmonious unity.”
Journalist Chris Hedges addressed the Middle East crisis with a talk titled “The Genocide in Gaza” on December 6, 2023 at
The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY.
Israel’s ‘war against Gaza’s children’ explained
Aren’t children legally protected in wars?
Yes, they are meant to be.
Internationally accepted rules of armed conflict were passed under the Geneva Conventions in 1949, which state children must be protected and treated humanely.
Israel ratified the conventions in 1951, just a few years after one and a half million Jewish children were killed in Europe during the Holocaust. But Israel does not recognise the 4th Geneva convention, which protects civilians fighting an occupation, as Israel does NOT consider Palestine to be occupied land.
The disproportionate use of military weapons in Gaza is being billed by Israel as a legitimate means to destroy Hamas. And so civilian deaths tallied up in the attacks, including children, do not qualify as war crimes, Israel claims.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/israels-war-against-gazas-children-explained
The anatomy of Zionist genocide
What are the motivations behind Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza, and what is the way forward?
The Zionist fallacy of ‘Jewish supremacy’
Zionism is a modern movement, which gained traction among a minority of secular Jews only in the late 19th century in response to Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and romantic nationalism.
Early Zionists syncretised many aspects of European fascism, white supremacy, colonialism and messianic Evangelism and had a long and sordid history of cooperating with anti-Semites, imperialists and fascists in order to promote exclusivist and expansionist agendas.
In fact, throughout the past century, anti-Semites and Zionists have worked towards the mutual interest of concentrating Jews in Israel; the former as a means of scapegoating and expelling an unwanted population, and the latter to combat the “demographic threat” posed by native Palestinians. Further, both anti-Semites and Zionists construct Jews as a biological race, which needs to be segregated as part of a utopia of global apartheid.
Zionism is a racist and settler colonialist movement, which opportunistically coopts aspects of Judaism in an attempt to justify its criminal practices of apartheid and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.
Zionist strategists manipulate the past traumas Jews have endured to galvanise support for aggressive policies that disenfranchise Palestinians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/1/9/the-zionist-fallacy-of-jewish-supremacy
Israeli apartheid is more obvious than ever, and supporters of Zionism are being confronted with a reality that they have tried for so long to deny.
Demolition of Palestinian homes, its deliberately terrifying midnight raids on Palestinian families, and its brutalization of Palestinians at checkpoints, in schoolyards, in olive groves, and on pastoral hillsides. And the soldiers of its occupation army have been shooting to kill Palestinian men, women, and children at a rate of more than one every single day so far this year. A recent update by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, covering the period from December 20, 2022, to January 9, 2023, documents the killing or wounding of 399 Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces; the demolition of 69 Palestinian-owned structures (and the resulting displacement of 70 Palestinians); 31 attacks on unarmed Palestinians by heavily armed Jewish settlers; and 202 Israeli raids into the West Bank. All this in just three weeks—and not counting the recent incursion into Jenin, in which Israeli troops killed nine more Palestinians (a 10th victim later succumbed to injuries) and inflicted massive damage to homes and infrastructure; or a later raid into Jericho in which Israeli soldiers killed another five Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s new and much more explicitly racist Israeli government is poised to amplify all of these forms of violence even further. In response to a Palestinian reprisal attack at an illegal Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem which left several Israelis dead, there were renewed promises to demolish the family homes of Palestinian attackers, arrest or expel their family members, and carry out other forms of collective punishment.
Such actions correspond to existing Israeli policy. (They are also all flagrant violations of international law.)
via Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman
“ISRAEL SOLDIER ADMITS HE WAS GIVEN ORDER TO FIRE INTO HOUSE OF ISRAELI CIVILIANS KILLING 12 PEOPLE INCLUDING CHILDREN
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1739216916106150085
via Abier @abierkhatib
“How did #Israel prepare the world for the massacre of Palestinian children?
#Gaza_Genocide
https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1739149997847830637
via Rania @umyaznemo · “Why is #Israel deliberately ki11ing Palestinian children in #Gaza ?
Because Israel knows that these children will grow up and naturally become resistance fighters, and one of these children will finally liberate #Palestine. And that’s Israel’s biggest fear and nightmare.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1735505564019400852
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss، Activist and Spokesman for Neturei Karta,
talks to Al Jazeera
Opening Transcript:
I want to speak to the massacre now taking place before our eyes in Gaza.
I speak as someone who deplores violence in all its forms and condemns violence against civilians of Any Nation The war crimes being perpetrated by Netanyahu against Palestinians however are in a league of their own and have reached genocidal proportions with Palestinians denied food water medicine and electricity while being relentlessly bombed as they’re forced to flee their homes running for their lives.
President Biden and bipartisan leaders are not only complicit they are full Partners in Netanyahu’s war crimes supplying the bombs raining down on Gaza the airplanes dropping them the aircraft carriers defending the Israeli military $10 million a day to strengthen the IDF and propaganda to run political interference.
The US role in blocking a UN ceasefire resolution is absolutely unforgivable we call for an investigation of the Netanyahu regime’s war crimes as well as the role of Biden and US leaders in aiding and abetting them and above all these crimes must stop now.
IT’S NOT A WAR IF ONLY ONE SIDE HAS AN ARMY
Those of you who watch and post diluted messages like “I want peace for both sides” imply that there is some kind of symmetry of power within Israel and P@lestine. You are displaying your ignorance. There is only one “side” with an army, only one “side” with nuclear weapons, only one “side” funded by billions of US dollars, only one “side” that is an oppressor, a colonizer. Peace can only be achieved if you draw this distinction and call for a cease-fire against the genocide of 2 million innocent civilians, an end to the colonization of the P@lestinian people, a stop to the heinous war crimes and ethnic cleaning perpetrated on the P@lestinian people for 75 years, a stop to military funding to the IDF which is a military organization created to engender terror, hopelessness, and fear on the daily lives of P@lestinians for decades. Tell it how it is. There is no peace until the oppressor stops oppressing.
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Rabbi Chaim Brisker, one of the greatest rabbis a century ago, once said: “There have been many heretical groups in Jewish history, but Zionism is the worst.
IT’S A 75 YEARS OF GENOCIDE. pic.twitter.com/TBpccMy52U
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) December 15, 2023
Existence of Zionist Israel is antithetical to Judaism
Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians:
a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has control over their rights. This includes Palestinians living in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), as well as displaced refugees in other countries.
“When lies are systematically present as truth in order to obfuscate the truth, and are done so specifically for political purposes, we have a serious problem on our hands. Neither intellectual analysis nor political strategy nor brute force alone can annihilate the explosive energies of politicized hatred. Only a higher truth can prevail against which would obliterate truth entirely. Only the power of the heart can triumph over manipulations of the mind. Only the power of the soul can override the mortal dangerous posed by soullessness in our politics, or anywhere else.” An excerpt from *A Politics of Love* by 2024 Democratic Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson
http://Marianne2024.com
#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP
https://x.com/AmericanIndian8/status/1733260166949151105
via Lisa Christie, Ph.D.
@PartnershipVibe
Human rights are basic. They only become “political” when someone is seeking to deny them to others.
~Lisa Christie, Ph.D.
https://twitter.com/PartnershipVibe/status/1361734791444406273
#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP pic.twitter.com/2O3EOggMVe
— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8)
Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me
~Jesus Christ 🌿
Jews and Muslims in brotherhood :
– What Zionists cannot tolerate is that Jews are in peace and brotherhood with Muslims.
-Jews and Muslims are never enemies. The problem is not Islam or Judaism, the problem is Zionism.
..::” The first PEACE, which is the most important… is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their ONENESS with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” ~Black Elk, Oglala Sioux
https://empathymatters.org/now/the-first-peace/
#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP
“The very culture we live in denies that there’s truth, makes people hungry, hurts people, leaves them isolated, therefore empty, therefore wanting satisfaction from the outside, therefore addicted, and then it creates all these products, and all these activities, and all these cultural diversions to fill the very emptiness that it creates. And then they say ‘that selfishness is the nature of human beings’. And there’s the complete circle of the ideology.”
GABOR MATÉ
