Every time I open twitter I see people hating on each other too often and mostly unnecessarily, which unconsciously forces an ordinary person to believe that people don't change and we're better off hating them too, that's a total lie and a vicious cycle, don't fall for it.
I just want a just peace to emerge, Iran to come in out of the cold and link up w/ Turkey and Pakistan to allow visa free travel and build rail connect from Lhe/Khi to Tehran/Isfahan to Ankara/Istanbul & citizens of these countries to greet each other warmly wherever they meet.
Now Isfahan is being bombed. These ancient landmarks are older than the countries bombing them. Unfortunately there is no one to stop this madness.
Photos from August 2022 — Isfahan
تو نے کہا نہ تھا کہ میں کشتی پہ بوجھ ہوں
آنکھوں کو اب نہ ڈھانپ مجھے ڈوبتے بھی دیکھ
شکیب جلالی
tu ne kaha na tha ki main kashti pe bojh hoon
aankhon ko ab na dhaanp mujhe doobte bhi dekh
Shakeb Jalali
You know, the killing is so relentless that you almost get used to it. A classroom of children killed every single day. You write about it, you read about it. Someone’s mother digs herself up from the rubble. Someone’s father is split in half. There was a video of wounded man using his arms to crawl across the road. Another man is so hungry he weeps. You read the stories. Each one is more brutal than the next and somehow the brutality is banal. You are numb, for better or for worse. But there are moments in the day, maybe just a singular moment, when you actually contend with the magnitude of the tragedy, when you are able to quantify the loss and in those moments you feel crushed—there are no adjectives. There are people mourning their lovers. Students missing their teachers. Orphans. Widowers. Grandmothers who look just like your own. I cry when I think about the people who were martyred just hours before they could apologize for something, or confess to something, or have something to eat. Or the slain who believed they would survive. And as the rancid rotten people of the world pontificate and debate the definition of genocide, you are at war with yourself, trying desperately to ignore the material meaning of the word. You read the news and you read the news and it is so hard to accept that the dead, the thousands of people they are slaughtering, they are your loved ones and your loved ones’ loved ones. This isn’t just a bad dream.
US Green Beret saw IDF war crimes at aid delivery sites in Gaza.
“In my entire career I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed starving population,” according to US Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, who deployed to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites in the Gaza strip. “Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
“The American people need to know what the United States is involved in in Gaza. We’re not bystanders. We are a part of it. U.S. tax dollars are going towards this effort. Americans are on the ground, armed, in Gaza, engaging with Palestinians and involved in things that America needs to know about.”
Aguilar has provided direct testimony of his experience working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which manages US- and Israeli-backed 'aid delivery' in Gaza.
“Dystopian to the tenth degree. It’s horrible. There was no box for this young man. So he picked up some things that he found on the ground, and he was so thankful for even that. And he walked up to me and he extended his hand, and I beckoned for him to come forward, and he grabbed my hand, and he kissed my hand and he said, “Shukran, shukran,” and he was sincere.
“Then he held my hand and he kissed it, and I knelt down to look at him in the face so I can let him know that, you know, people care. You’re not alone. People care. And he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me.
“And he says, “Thank you.” And he picked up his bags and he went back to join this group. This was the last remaining group of people on the site that were picking up remnants of aid.
“The IDF [Israeli military] opened up with machine gun fire into the crowd to get them to leave faster, to get them to hurry. Shooting at their feet, shooting over their head, shooting into the berm. There’s video of this. It’s been verified. That’s the first time I had experienced such use of force against… So I didn’t know what was going on because he had walked through the berm, and I heard the shooting. So I ran up to the berm to look, and there were dead Palestinians. He was one of them.”
1/10 Trump’s announcement of a US-Pakistan oil partnership should terrify Islamabad. History shows that nations claiming vast oil wealth rarely keep their sovereignty. Pakistan’s narrative of having the world’s 4th-largest reserves has transformed it from strategic ally to intervention target.
BREAKING: A lynch mob of Israeli settlers just killed a 23 year-old US citizen – Saif-Aldin Musalat.
The settlers invaded the Palestinian town of Sinjel in the West Bank and beat Saif to death. They then intentionally blocked an ambulance from reaching Saif in time to save him.