Imo the “bad boy who’s only nice secretly/after you get through his layers” trope in media functions as propaganda designed to get you to second guess yourself and your experiences in order to give bad men a chance. Some things need to be taken at face value and if he treats people like shit he is in fact a bad person even if he’s nice to you sometimes. Stop looking for hidden meaning and depth in his actions. He’s not misunderstood he’s just an asshole and it’s not your job to shovel through the shit to get to the disappointing “good” parts
“Tomorrow will be a very special day for me… For the first time as a professional, I face the team that watched me grow when I was a child and made me a man. The stadium where I lived, played, cried, yelled, made great friendships and made unforgettable dreams come true. #Barça #Betis”
The First picture shows the Palestinian city Yaffa (Jaffa) and part of what became israel, and the picture on the Second shows a mass grave was found with the remains of 100 Palestinians have been massacred since 1948 in Jaffa!
This is how they created their “state”.. by massacring my ancestors at the hands of the zionist gangs…
Settler colonial apartheid Israel was established in Palestine in 1948 on the corpses of thousand of Palestinians and the ruins of their homes, towns and cities, Palestinians were/are killed and ethnically cleansed from Palestine because of their ethnicity and national origin.
Your mother, the symbol of all that is good and pure in this world, is reduced to begging and pleading just to be able to move from one area to the next. You watch in horror and rage as a young Israeli soldier yells profanities and makes derogatory remarks to her. Yet she holds her ground and with the patience that only a Palestinian mother can have, she perseveres. She has been pushed to the forefront of trying to provide for and keep her family going. She undergoes the greatest humiliations at the checkpoints in order to spare your father worse treatment. She steps between you and danger, following her motherly instincts, shielding you from certain harm. You wonder what she thinks about during those sleepless nights, but you will never know, for she bears this burden in total silence…!!
Gaza|| This is the place where the three children were slaughtered yesterday night in an Israeli air strike targeted them near their house which is closed to the fence separating Gaza and Israel, as they were used to set bird trab in this time.
Israeli occupation forces enjoy killing the children, as it’s not the first time…
“Israel is a sick, psychotic society that barely holds together. The only thing that brings Israelis together is the feeling that they are under threat and there’s nothing that generates that more than a good war. Israel needs war and it needs enemies to keep it going. What we are seeing in Gaza is not war. This is a massacre. There is no point in negotiations. There is no one to talk to. Israeli society is not sane. It has to be forced to stop. The occupation must end. Unless the world forces Israel to end the occupation something like what is happening in Gaza now was bound to happen. As a former Israeli, I say Israel does not have a moral or political right to exist as an ethnically pure Jewish state, certainly not at the expense of another people. The world has been too patient at the cost of so many Palestinian lives, complicit in buying into the Israeli ‘poor me’ rhetoric. There is no symmetry between Israel and the Palestinians no matter how you twist the facts. Israel is an armed, unscrupulous and dangerous country with nuclear capabilities and a psychotic and perpetual need for war. The Palestinians are a people fighting desperately for freedom from oppression, but they will not win this freedom for struggle without our help. We must expand the protest until the world imposes a decisive economic and political boycott on the rogue, racist and genocidal state of Israel.”
Behind the now famous photograph's palpable kinetic energy and visual dynamism lies one of the most desperate human rights situations in the world
A picture can say a thousand words, but in today’s ever-connected world, the good ones can generate even more retweets. A viral image taken in Gaza by photojournalist Mustafa Hassona, which depicts a bare-chested Palestinian protester holding a large flag and wielding a sling, has achieved both of these feats.
The photograph was taken as protests continue on the border of Israel. Gaza’s health ministry said 32 Palestinians were wounded as demonstrators threw stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live fire. The image has provoked a huge reaction online, with social media users likening it to Liberty Leading the People, the iconic Eugene Delacroix painting of the French Revolution.
From the moment we sleepily check our phones in the morning, most of us are bombarded with information and imagery, some of which can be disturbing. This photograph is undeniably striking, but the online reaction displays a worrying tone of detachment in the face of human suffering that is becoming all too common.
Paintings such as Delacroix’s have decorated gallery walls for centuries. Encased within ornate gold frames and protected by glass, their figures are distant, providing us with the romantic fantasy of a world gone by. They might be based on historical events, but our minds can easily decipher that there’s nothing real behind the flat oily surface of the canvas.
But Hassona’s photograph couldn’t be more real. Behind its palpable kinetic energy and visual dynamism lies one of the most desperate human rights situations in the world.
The flag bearer, identified by Al Jazeera as 20 year-old Aed Abu Amro, is one of almost two million people that are trapped on the tiny Gaza strip, unable to leave. This year has seen hundreds of deaths at the hands of Israeli forces, who have been condemned by the United Nations for using “excessive force” against protestors. Unarmed medics, such as 21 year-old Razan al-Najjar, are among the fatalities. A 12 year-old boy was shot dead earlier this month. A UN report has warned that Israel’s blockade will make Gaza, the world’s third most densely populated area, “uninhabitable“ by 2020. 97 per cent of the territory’s drinking water is undrinkable and there are only four hours of electricity a day.
These facts are distressing to read. But this hopeless situation has been facilitated by governments across the world enabling what will one day be universally accepted as crimes against humanity.
Romanticising the image of a desperate man taking on an army allows us to justify its circumstances and distract ourselves from the grim truth that, in the real world, David rarely defeats Goliath. Aed could die today, tomorrow, or the week after that. If he keeps protesting, it is almost an inevitability.
Protesting is, of course, a choice. But it is also a choice for Israel to continue flouting international law by building on Palestinian land and planning to demolish Palestinian villages – a potential war crime. It was a choice for the US to deliberately inflame the situation by moving its embassy to Jerusalem, causing unnecessary bloodshed and anguish. Left to swelter without a trace of hope in what is essentially an open air prison where 50 per cent of children express no will to live, as the world looks the other way, is there not a chance we would all do the same?
In the most tasteless responses, social media users have remarked on Aed’s chiselled jaw and physique. This overt fetishisation of his suffering is obscene, but the idea that the pain and anguish of marginalised groups is a price worth paying for beautiful art is a notion far older than even the paintings of Delacroix.
From Asad’s chemical weapon attacks in Syria, to the bodies of refugee children washed up on the beaches of Europe, images have a radical, empathy-spreading power that can change the world. But the flippant reaction this particular shot, of someone literally risking being shot, represents our growing detachment from pain and lack of collective responsibility for it.
Don’t let this photograph fool you: there is nothing beautiful or poetic about the oppression of Palestinians. Beyond the lens, the constant misery of wasted life and unnecessary death in Gaza continues - we must not let that drift out of focus.
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