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Reminder that if you support Israel, unfollow and block me. I will not argue with you. Just block me.
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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.
But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.
In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.
One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.
Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.
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The communists: "Comrades and peasants, the PLA is here and we have rounded up the landlords! We are letting you decide what to do with them!"
The peasantry:
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What is the highest number of notes on a post you have made? What's your most "successful" post?
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This photo express how all of people gaza feeling.
This hurts my heart she's so tired look at her tear my heart to pieces 😭
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Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).
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ive been thinking about this video quite literally since i saw it 3 weeks ago
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That moment Donald Duck became the most powerful Black Mage in all of Final Fantasy lore.
To put in perspective how absolutely insane this is
Can’t see shit, captain. Even when I open in a new tab.
Here’s a copy and paste:
“For those unaware, let me show you how fucking retardedly universe-breakingly strong Donald is.
Flare is a spell type from final fantasy that is reserved for only the strongest individuals. Top level party members, top level enemies, main bosses, and secret bosses are the main users of this spell type. It’s so powerful that it’s been simply referred to as the “Nuke” spell before.
There are multiple tiers of Flare:
Megaflare: used by summons and top level enemies. Mostly known to be used by Bahamut, the strongest summon in the entire Final Fantasy franchise. Although this is it’s basic form
Above that you have Gigaflare: A stronger version of Mega flare. Mostly used by stronger versions of Bahamut, and inter-dimensional demons and secret bosses.
Above that you have Teraflare: this move is exclusive to the abso-fucking-lute most powerful versions of Bahamut. Like, you need to be the strongest motherfucker in the final fantasy multiverse to use this. This is universe erasing shit here
Above that you have Zettaflare: It is one quadrillion times (yes this is canon) more powerful then Megaflare, and it is a move that only Donald Duck has been able to do in all of Square Enix history.”
I’d also like to point out that Donald has used Flare several times before, its one of his most common magic moves when doing a combo with Sora, Albiet he uses them with a goofy, cartoonish firework effect.
I should mention that Donald gets knocked out/dies after this, either from the strain of using the spell or from the heartless that swarm right after, but even if it’s cast from hitpoints, Donald literally just busted out the most powerful magic move in Square history.
The only other character in Square enix games who used Zettaflare was the third form of Airy in Bravely Default, who at that point had a world eating eldritch abomination powering her. Donald didn’t have any of that backing him up, he literally cast Zettaflare on his own.
Donald fucking duck is canonically the most powerful red mage in square enix history PERIOD.
Also here’s a bonus for ya; right before setting it off Goofy yelled “DONALD, DON’T!” implying that either he’s been apprised of how dangerous zettaflare is for donald to use, OR DONALD HAS DONE IT BEFORE.
Don’t fuck with the duck.
Heritage Post
02/07/2019
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man yozora and roxas rly grew up haha
Heritage Post
01/22/2020
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play Kingdom Hearts
Addendum:
Are the same person
Not the same person
Play kingdom hearts
showed this to my brother and he made this
thanks I understand even less
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Kingdom Hearts meets interpretive art.
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09/11/2014
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yeah
[ID: The bugs bunny in a suit meme, and the text says: i wish all fan creators who have since moved on to medias I didn't follow for, who now make mostly oc content or who have turned their headcanons into separate ocs, a very pleasant I still love and enjoy your work and i'm here for whatever content makes you happy /End ID]
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Theodore Herlz, father of Political Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial
Ber Borochov, father of Labour Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, father of Revisionist Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial
David Ben Gurion, founding father of the Settler state: Yeah, it's colonial
Small bean fandom Zionist: Umm, lol, it's literally not colonial???
Relevant quotes:
Herzl wrote to Cecil Rhodes, "It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial...
Theodore Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes from unpublished letters by Theodore Herzl (11th of January 1901)
"The Jews could in short time assume the leading position in the economy of the new land. Jewish migration must be transformed from immigration into colonization"
Poale Zion, Our Platform, B. Borochov (1906)
"We cannot offer any adequate compensation to the Palestinian Arabs in return for Palestine. And therefore, there is no likelihood of any voluntary agreement being reached. So that all those who regard such an agreement as a condition sine qua non for Zionism may as well say "non" and withdraw from Zionism. Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population"
Iron Wall, Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1923)
If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben Gurion, quoted in the The Jewish paradox, Nahum Goldmann (1973)
...on the other hand, this is not how the word "colonialism" gets used today. Those "small bean fandom Zionists" operate in a paradigm where the desire of a people to return to the land from which their ancestors were forcibly driven out would NEVER be referred to as "colonialism" - unless it's the Jews, and Israel. That's what they mean when they say "it's not colonialism".
Likewise, Ben-Gurion was 100% right that most non-Jews don't care, and arguably no non-Jew SHOULD, that their god has promised them Israel as their homeland - but that doesn't mean there are no good arguments for why the Jews should be allowed to live in Israel. (See: it was the land of their ancestors, long before the Arab expansion.)
This doesn't excuse the methods used to take and keep control of the country - which do owe a lot to colonialist methods - but saying it's exactly the same thing as white Europeans subjugating African nations is ridiculous.
Oh, and the person who was saying "this one Jewish dude said the Jews were the master race and the Palestinians were slaves" - please. Just because there's no opinion so stupid or horrible that you can't find one person who'll gladly offer it up, doesn't mean it's something you get to plaster over an entire group of people.
The “colonialism” that Herzl & co. were referring to is exactly the same kind of “colonialism” that refers to the displacement & oppression of indigenous people(s). Zionist founders literally said it themselves:
“We can be the vanguard of culture against barbarianism.” [Max Nordau believed the Jews would not lose their European culture in Palestine and adopt Asia’s inferior culture, just as the British had not become Indians in America, Hottentots in Africa, or Papuans in Australia.] “We will endeavor to do in the Near East what the English did in India,” he said at an early Zionist Congress. “It is our intention to come to Palestine as the representatives of culture and to take the moral borders of Europe to the Euphrates River.”
— One Palestine, Complete: Jews & Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev.
The fuller quote, from another source:
"We would endeavor to do in the Near East what the English did in India—I mean the cultural work, not the domination—we propose to come to Palestine as the emissaries of civilized behavior and to push the moral boundaries of Europe up to the Euphrates."
Max Nordau, who said this, was the co-founder of the Zionist Organization along with Theodor Herzl.
There’s also this quote from Jabotinsky:
And it made no difference whatever whether the colonists behaved decently or not. The companions of Cortez and Pizzaro or (as some people will remind us) our own ancestors under Joshua Ben Nun, behaved like brigands; but the Pilgrim Fathers, the first real pioneers of North America, were people of the highest morality, who did not want to do harm to anyone, least of all to the Red Indians, and they honestly believed that there was room enough in the prairies both for the Paleface and the Redskin. Yet the native population fought with the same ferocity against the good colonists as against the bad
— Jabotinsky’s The Iron Wall
Even if these sorts of quotes did not exist to explicitly confirm the colonial intentions of zionism, the actions and relations of zionists is damning enough. Theodor Herzl wrote Cecil fucking Rhodes a letter, referencing as well as expressing admiration for his colonial projects in Africa (Rhodes is the man who headed the colonization of Mashonaland and Matabeleland— today known as Zimbabwe— dispossessing thousands of Africans of land in order to found his settler-colony Rhodesia), and asked Rhodes for his “stamp of approval” upon the zionist project. Herzl admired European settler-colonial projects in Africa and, as his intended communication with Rhodes demonstrates, was directly inspired by their “success” & methods.
operate in a paradigm where the desire of a people to return to the land from which their ancestors were forcibly driven out would NEVER be referred to as "colonialism" - unless it's the Jews, and Israel. That's what they mean when they say "it's not colonialism".
Settler-colonialism is defined by what you do, not who you are or what your “ancient history” in that land is. It is the process and project of replacing an inhabitant group with another people. This is precisely what was done in Palestine. Whether the settlers committing displacement & ethnic cleansing “have a history” with the piece of land they are doing it on is irrelevant; having ancestors from 2,000 years ago be from a place does not mean your violent conquest of that place now is given a free pass from being considered “settler-colonial” when all your actions follow the paradigm of the settler-colonial process, in particular forcefully displacing the populations living there to take their land for your own settlers.
It’s also disingenuous to act like the Israel project was just “people returning to the land their ancestors were driven out of”; Zionist early leaders (including first Prime Minister Ben-Gurion) described ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the land— and replacing them with Jewish settlers— as important to creating Israel. Israel is correctly identified as a settler state because that is the process of its creation. It seeks an exemption from being considered a settler state— arguing it’s magically different from every other state who does these same things— through appeals to antiquity & bullshit "blood and soil" nationalist logics.
but that doesn't mean there are no good arguments for why the Jews should be allowed to live in Israel. (See: it was the land of their ancestors, long before the Arab expansion.)
What the fuck are you talking about? Firstly, whether your 'ancestors' were in a given place or not has no bearing on your right to be there today. Everyone should have the right to safely immigrate and live anywhere. If Jewish people wanted to live in Palestine, they should have avenues to safely immigrate & do that-- same for anywhere else. Jewish people and non-Jewish people alike should have the right to safely immigrate and live anywhere, because where you should be 'allowed' to live shouldn't be constrained to where your fucking ancestors were. And just because your ancestors were supposedly in some place doesn't give you more of a "right" to live there than other people whose ancestors 'weren't'.
Secondly, the concern isn't whether Jewish people should be allowed to live in Palestine, it's about the state of Israel and its actions since its founding.
This doesn't excuse the methods used to take and keep control of the country - which do owe a lot to colonialist methods - but saying it's exactly the same thing as white Europeans subjugating African nations is ridiculous.
Why? Why is it 'ridiculous' to compare one situation of a group displacing & violently oppressing a population to steal their land, to another instance of just that? Why is it 'ridiculous' when Herzl himself even admitted he looked to Rhodes and his settler-colonialism in Africa as inspiration for what he wanted to do? You acknowledge that Israel literally used colonial methods in making and maintaining its state, but still hesitate to refer to it as 'colonial'? Why? If it had been non-Jewish European settlers that founded their own state on the ruins they made of Palestinian society, had done exactly everything that the Jewish settlers had done to make Israel, would you hesitate to call it 'colonial'? Why is ethnicity what stops you from identifying it as colonial? Does race trump actions when it comes to identifying wrongdoing-- do some people get a "pass" from being identified as settler-colonizers because of their ethnicity, in spite of their actions being that of settler-colonizers’?
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the Biden admin "inquiring with the Government of Israel" about some heinous crime against humanity Israel has committed is basically a way of publicly signalling that nothing will happen and that they're hoping people will move on to the next Israeli atrocity and forget about the previous one.