#nabka

[haykhighland]

[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]

via ig: belalkh

[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]

via ig: stufankjian

[mysharona1987]

South Africa’s suit against Israel detailing instances of senior government officials publicly declaring genocidal intent.

And these aren’t even *all* the examples listed.

[girlactionfigure]

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“An appeal has been made to the Arabs by the Jews to reopen their shops and businesses in order to relieve the difficulties of feeding the Arab population. Evacuation was still going on yesterday and several trips were made by 'Z' craft to Acre. Roads too, were crowded with people leaving Haifa with all their belongings. At a meeting yesterday afternoon Arab leaders reiterated their determination to evacuate the entire Arab population and they have been given the loan of ten 3-ton military trucks as from this morning to assist the evacuation.” Photo from: Carl Hermann Voss, The Palestine Problem Today (Boston, 1953).

[artflameball]

Hey there! I realized constantly reblogging the "please donate to palestine" post again and again wasn't the most helpful strategy, and could've been annoying. So I decided to go for a different strategy: just open commissions, with a full commission sheet!

I do wanna establish something: I'm still not gonna post much art unless commissioned. If someone commissions me for a specific art piece, I'll post it. But for art I do in my free time for fun, I won't post that unless someone donates at least a dollar and requests that I post art I've got backed up.

PLEASE donate if you can. The reason my commissions are so cheap is because if my commissions are cheap, they're more accessible to those with less money. If you can commission me, please do.

If you'd like to commission me, hit me up on Discord or this website here! My Discord is @/joyflameball, and my main account is @joyflameball on this website. My DMs on Tumblr are open. Don't worry, I don't bite.

So, if you can donate to help bring us closer to a free Palestine, PLEASE do. Send me the receipt (with identifying details hidden, I encourage that, privacy first!), and if it's 2$ or over, I'll draw you something. But if it's just 1$, that's okay too! I'll post art I have backed up. Either way, every little dollar helps.

FREE PALESTINE!

LINKS:

CareForGaza (sending humanitarian aid to Gaza)

PCRF (Palestine Children's Relief Fund, it's one of the MAIN humanitarian organizations)

Operation Olive Branch + GazaFunds (for donating to Palestinians' GoFundMes)

eSims (Palestine is running low on eSims, which allow Palestinians internet access, so this one is urgent)

Most importantly, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA. They're fucking constantly under attack, so they especially need funding.

Again: to commission me, donate at least two dollars to one of these organizations. Send me the receipt (with your personal info censored), and give me your request, and I'll draw you something. If it's under two dollars, I'll either doodle something random, or post something I haven't posted yet. If it's over 15 dollars, I'll make it more complex, eg with backgrounds.

(Examples of my horror art below the cut)

I dabble in horror sometimes. So it will be possible for ask for horror art, or art with a lot of blood. Here are some examples:

[thatshowthingstarted]

Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE !

A marble tablet inscribed with nine of the Ten Commandments, said to be the oldest intact version of its kind in stone, is set to go under the hammer next month in a single-lot sale at Sotheby’s in New York. 

According to the auction house, the Commandments were inscribed into the tablet in Paleo-Hebrew script in the Late Roman-Byzantine Era (c. 300–800 CE).

The slab was unearthed in 1913 during railway excavations near what was once known as Iamnia during the Roman-Byzantine period (the modern city of Yavneh in Israel and Jabneh to Palestinians, who were forced out following the 1948 Nakba).

The object was being used as a paving stone at the threshold of a local residence for 30 years before its significance was recognized, Sotheby’s said.

There are 20 lines of text incised into the tablet, but only nine of the Ten Commandments are featured as found in the Book of Exodus, with the omission of “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain.”

The original site of the tablet was most likely destroyed between 400–600 CE during the Roman invasions, or by the Crusaders in the 11th century.

The tablet also includes an additional directive to conduct worship on the holy site of Mount Gerizim, sacred to the Samaritans.

White marble tablet, approximately 24 ⅞ x 22 ⅛ x 2 ⅜ inches (632 x 562 x 62 mm), weighing approximately 115 pounds (52 kg), neatly chisel-inscribed with the Mosaic Ten Commandments in their Israelite Samaritan version, 20 lines in a Paleo-Hebrew script, each line containing between eleven and fifteen characters, with margins of about 10 cm on either side; the letters have a width of between one and 2 cm and words are separated from one another with one or two dots; a few letters are confused for each other (especially ה and א) and a few characters on the right side of the first two lines are effaced and re-inscribed.

Courtesy: Sotheby's

[greencarnation]

To fully understand what's happening right now, you have to understand that Palestine has been going through an ethnic cleansing since 1948.

But let's start simpler than that. What exactly is ethnic cleansing? There are several definitions that vary very slightly, but they all agree on one thing: it's a crime against humanity and punishable under international law. However, for Palestinians, no justice was ever served.

The Hutchinson encyclopedia defines ethnic cleansing as expulsion by force in order to homogenise the ethnically mixed population of a particular region or territory. The purpose of expulsion is to cause the evacuation of as many residences as possible, by all means at the expeller’s disposal, including non-violent ones.

This definition is accepted by the US state department, whose expects add that part of the essence of ethnic cleansing includes the eradication by all means necessary of a regions history. Sound familiar? The UN employs a similar definition, linking a state/regime's desire for to impose ethnic rule on a mixed area with the use of acts of expulsion and other violent means.

(To understand ethnic cleansing from a more detailed, scholarly standpoint, the work of Drazen Petrovic is recommended, who exposes the close connection between politicians and the army in the perpetration of the crime.)

Wikipedia can be turned to to reflect the most popular definition, due to the fact that it can be edited/added to by anyone. It says: "At the most general level, ethnic cleansing can be understood as the forced expulsion of an ‘undesirable’ population from a given territory as a result of religious or ethnic discrimination, political, strategic or ideological considerations, or a combination of these."

So what happened in 1948? The Nabka ("Catastrophe") is the Palestinian word for the ethnic cleansing that occured when Israeli settlers systematically uprooted almost a million Palestinians from their native homes.

On the evening of the 10th of March 1948, military orders were dispatched to units on the ground to prepare for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from large areas of the country. Methods outlined to forcefully evict people included: large-scale intimidation; laying siege to and bombarding villages and population centres; setting fire to homes, properties and goods; expulsion; demolition; and, finally, planting mines among the rubble to prevent any of the expelled inhabitants from returning. Each unit had it's own list of villages and neighborhoods as targets.

This was called Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), and was the fourth and final version of the plans that outlined what the Zionists had in store for Palestine and its native population. Previous schemes delt only obscurely with how they would deal with so many Palestinians living in the land that the settlers wanted as their own, however this one spelt it out clearly and unambiguously: the Palestinians had to go.

The aim of the plan was the destruction of both the rural and urban areas of Palestine. They succeeded. After six months, 800 000 people had been violently uprooted, 531 villages destroyed, and 11 urban neighborhoods emptied. Very few Palestinians were ever able to return.

Many atrocities and war crimes were committed during this time, including the poisoning of the water supply into Acre with typhoid, numerous cases of rape and dozens of massacres the Jews perpetuated.

This is the most formative event in the modern history Palestine, and it has ever since been systematically denied and erased from the global public memory. It's still today not recognised as an historical fact, let alone acknowledged as a crime that needs to be confronted politically as well as morally.

"When it created its nation-state, the Zionist movement did not wage a war that ‘tragically but inevitably’ led to the expulsion of ‘parts of’ the indigenous population, but the other way round: the main goal was the ethnic cleansing of all of Palestine, which the movement coveted for its new state." - Ilan Pappe

This is still happening today. We are watching live on our phones the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, that's a direct continuation from what began in 1948. It hasn't ended and will not end until Palestine is free and has it's land returned to it. There are no two sides here.

[secular-jew]

This is the true Nabka

[katiehuerteruncensored]

'Farha means joy. And Palestine was the joy that was stolen from the Palestinians. We told the truth.’ - Darin Sallam, director of Netflix’s powerful new film, ‘Farah,’ on portraying the Nakba or “The Catastrophe,” in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by the Zionist militias in 1948 as the new state of Israel came into being, and is still committing these horrific atrocities, ethnic cleaning, war crimes, apartheid and much more towards Palestinians to this day. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #Farha #FreePalestine #Nabka #EndIsraeliApartheid #WithinOurLifetime #NoMatterWhatItTakes https://www.instagram.com/p/CmNqRPMtvOP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=