Dreamer

There is always another secret

[animentality]

[moonlayl]

^for the sheep that immediately follow for what the western media says and need reminding every 3 business days that Palestinians have been in a constant state of oppression for decades.

[redvelvetwishtree]

[karmacharmeleon18]

The only thing stronger than Antisemitism in the American right wing, is their Islamophobia.

If they ever realized many Palestinians are Christians, the tables would turn real quick.

To all the Jewish people now siding with the right wing and spreading their violent bs everywhere, remember this: they hate us.

They only tolerate and support us when the "enemy" is someone they hate more.

Before the UK and European colonizers created Israel, Palestine was a land where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together; once Israel was established, Israeli forces started stealing land, houses and belongings from Palestinians of the "wrong religion" to make space for European Jews.

This started in 1917, long before WWII and Nazi Germany.

Since then, Israel has displaced millions of Palestinians, killed and imprisoned thousands.

When in 2018 Palestinians peacefully marched, the biggest peaceful march in the world, Israel shot them.

When in 2014 Israel bombed Gaza, Israeli civilians gathered in cities nearby with binoculars and popcorn to enjoy the show.

Little Israeli children wrote their names on the rockets.

Israel has killed over 3000 Palestinian children in the last 20 years alone.

Israel destroyed Gaza's only airport in 2001 (and is currently bombing the only escape point into Egypt; they are trapped)

Israli soldiers officially left the Gaza Strip in 2005, but the Israeli government still has control of Gaza's water, electricity, road/routes for the arrival of food, fuels, medicine, etc.

Gaza is the world's biggest concentration camp, under Israeli control.

As a Jew, I don't say this lightly. But there is no other word for it.

I will never call Gaza a "prison", because in most societies prisons are filled with criminals; the Palestinians are innocent people forced into a concentration camp, turned into an extermination camp.

And before you start: Israel created Hamas. And Hamas is a recent political development. Palestinias have been suffering since long before its creation.

Recently, in 2019 Netanyahu, Israel's current prime minister, said that the only way to stop the creation of a Palestinian State was to SUPPORT Hamas.

(The other political party in Palestine wanted peace BUT at the condition that Palestine be recognized as an independent State; Israel couldn't tolerate that, so they supported Hamas, which was for armed resistance against apartheid... Israel literally chose the continuation of violence because they couldn't tolerate Palestinian freedom)

He also defended Hitler, saying he wasn't antisemitic, he was just controlled by Palestinian forces.

And today, Netanyahu is acting like Hitler, trying to create a "breathing space" for Israel like Hitler tried to do for Germany.

As a Jew, I cannot stand with this. I cannot stand with apartheid. I cannot stand with genocide. I cannot stand with colonization.

And you, right wing or left wing... don't you ever dare say "Never again!" from now on if you side with Israel.

"Never again!" is happening right now.

There can be no peace without justice. No justice without freedom. No freedom without colonizers giving back stolen land.

No other people in the world was ever given the right and international permission to create a theocratic ethnostate at the cost of innocent lives.

Israel has violated international law and committed war crimes for the past century, with the blessing of the Western World.

This is unforgivable.

Israel has lied about Israeli children being locked in cages: it was actually Palestinian children in Israeli cages, and international media, which of course ran with it, had to issue a correction.

It has lied about Israeli children being beheaded. The government of Israel and the White House then issued a correction: there is no proof of such thing.

It has lied about dead Israeli hostages, when their families have come out saying they are still alive, they have spoken with them and they are being treated in Gazan hospitals... which Israel is currently targeting and bombing.

What I have seen with my own eyes, is videos of Hamas soldiers help Israeli children, putting clothes on them, rocking them to sleep, giving the water.

What I have seen, is videos of Israeli hostages who were quickly let go say how nice the Hamas soldiers were with them.

What I have seen, is the video of an Israeli woman and Hamas soldiers telling her "No one will harm you! Tell them this is the humanity of Palestinians" as she and her children were let go without incident.

What I have seen, is videos of Palestinian children without a head: this morning Israel ordered them to live the north of Gaza before they would bomb it again in 24 hours; Palestinians obeyed... and Israel bombed them as they marched south. Israel lied. It was a trap. Children blown to bits.

What I have seen, is videos of dead Palestinian civilians and Israeli pissing on their corpses while cheering.

What I have seen, is videos of mutilated Palestinian civilians and Israeli driving their cars over them while cheering.

What I have seen is videos of armed Israeli civilians shooting at unarmed Palestinians (the Israeli where given guns by the IDF).

What I have seen is countless videos of injured and dead Palestinian children (over 600 were killed in the last 6 days)

What I have seen, is Israeli soldiers pouring concrete on water springs to make sure no water can reach Gaza in any way possible (water in Gaza is 97% undrinkable already; now Israel has cut it off altogether and eliminated all natural resources of it as well)

War crime after war crime after war crime.

Israel says "release the hostages!" while keeping thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons for "secret motives" and "concerns" (which is the whole reason why 100 hostages were taken in the first place: to be exchanged).

Israel says "release the hostages!" but it has already killed 13 of them with their bombs.

Israel is targeting hospitals, refugee camps, residential buildings, even ambulances.

Israel is using white phosphorus, which is illegal according to international law.

It has just used it on a children's hospital.

It had also bombed and killed people in Syria and Lebanon.

Egypt knew the attack from Hamas was coming, and told Netanyahu. He did nothing.

He wanted this to happen so that he could start a "war" and exterminate Palestinians once and for all.

It's not really a war. Not when the oppressor has the 4th best military force in the world, nuclear power, the Iron Dome and billions of dollars in international support from the US... while the oppressed have homemade rockets, no water, no electricity, no fuel.

It's a genocide.

When will it be enough for the Western world to condemn it?

I and many other Jewish people stand for a free Palestine ✊🏾✡️️🇵🇸

[heritageposts]

if you support israel right now, you're supporting the extermination of the palestinian people.

it really is that simple.

this isn't a 'complicated conflict,' it isn't a situation that 'requires nuance,' it's not a 'geopolitical event' that requires us to condemn the 'bad actors' on 'both sides.'

it's a genocide.

there is no 'nuance' to be had here. it's a genocide, committed by the israeli state against the palestinian people, and it's happening right now as we speak. you don't have to infer anything: israel has openly, with next to no pushback from so-called liberal democracies, cut off gaza's access to water, food and electricity. that's more than two million palestinians denied even the basic necessities for life. a million of them, children.

what is that, if not a genocide?

and that's only the latest escalation. we could go all day, listing the atrocities the palestinian people have been subjected to. the killings, the beatings, the children sexually abused in detention center, all the hospitals and ambulances being blown up, videos of palestinians being heckled by settlers as they're driven from their homes, israelis gathering on hilltops to cheer as their military drops bombs on gaza...

but all westerns want to talk about, is hamas.

because the murder of palestinians by the IDF is status quo; it doesn't affect them. what's one more dead palestinian but a statistic? but if hamas has killed a handful of israelis — if they've go as far as to even kill babies — then that justifies the extermination of two million palestinians, children and infants included.

westerns will even say that the palestinians brought it on themselves; that they should have know that a drop of israeli blood requires a river in return.

and just so we're clear, you don't have to like hamas. but when you equate hamas with the IDF, when you derail every conversation by demanding a condemnation of 'both sides,' or when you, god forbid, agree that israel is justified in dismantling hamas — which, as israel themselves have outlined, will involve the complete destruction of gaza and the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians — then either wake up, or own up to the fact that you're a participant in the extermination of the palestinian people.

do you think i'm being harsh? then imagine how it's like living under constant aerial bombardment. with no food, no water, no electricity. constant air-raid sirens. a bomb, dropping every minute. never knowing a moment a peace, always wondering if today is going to be your last day, if you and your family are still going to be here tomorrow.

could you stomach living in gaza, for even a day? i doubt it.

and still, now, on the eve of what might be the ground invasion of gaza — with one million palestinians being told to flee, with nowhere to go — i'm getting messages from people who demand my sympathy... for israel.

well, you're not getting it.

i'm not even humoring your hand-wringing.

if you live in israel, and you're one of the ones who've turned a blind-eye to the suffering of the palestinian people, if you've fought for the IDF or tacitly supported them, if you've callously called upon the memory of the holocaust thinking the death and suffering of your ancestors would wash the blood of your own hands....

then yeah, i think you deserve every single hamas rocked lobbed at you and so much more.

[aranaya]

Elend: You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

Vin:

[autumns-drafts]

"True courage is pursuing your dream, even when everyone else says it's impossible." – Barbie and the Three Musketeers (dir. William Lau)

[badinfluencez]

This is feminism to me

[everythingfox]

The cat did it better 😳

[rickmctumbleface]

It's an illusion....

[kosmogrl]

growing up really is scary, deep down I’m still the same as when I was 16 and with no idea of what to do or how to start. and I’m stuck in my head while life goes on

[glowcowboy]

hi everyone. does anybody else miss something they can never return to. anyone else being swallowed whole by grief. anyone else clinging to love as a life preserver

[libralita]

God Brandon is silly

[broodingandbooks]

[hugs-and-squishes]

It’s important to realize that platonic love can sometimes seem a lot like romantic love.

It can make your heart pound and your stomach flutter. It can make you nervous to act upon it. It can be just as full of meaning and desire as any relationship, and it can be confusing at times, but that’s alright.

If it brings joy, that’s all that matters.

[aro-momo]

This is super important. Platonic relationships can be extremely moving and very emotional. Some people would literally give anything for some of their friends and that is an amazing part of humanity.

[stoportotouch]

the fact that a cat considers “sit in the same room ignoring each other” to be an acceptable social activity and not an insult is great for me because that’s how i like to socialise

[gauntletqueen]

HEARTBREAKING: Poor girl has to get out of the soft warm bed even though she is so so so so comfy

[pointnclick]

how is a little freak like me supposed to make it in this world

[dom-arktos]

Today, students, academics, and bookworms alike cry the death of z-lib.

RIP our beloved.