Souls of Azza will haunt you 4ever

✝️🇨🇭🇬🇷🇲🇦 All we want is equal rights, justice, dignity & security in a non apartheid regime amongst people of different faiths. Basic rights 4 everyone.

[Souls of Azza will haunt you 4ever @CharlieAndrea65]

@mrbarnicoat @UNRWA I don't think the Isr gov cares about Hamas at all. It's just an excuse to drive out all Palestinians, dead or alive, from Gaza to occupy the territory.

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil has died from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike earlier this month, family and friends say.

For more than 20 years she was a dedicated & stubborn protector of Lebanon’s sea turtles.

She had stayed at her home on the beach in Mansouri, southern Lebanon, despite the war.

I had the privilege of interviewing her in 2017 when she was resisting the construction of a beach resort backed by powerful local players.

[Souls of Azza will haunt you 4ever @CharlieAndrea65]

@LauraLoomer That’s code for “Mossad, deliver the false flag operations asap”

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

That Ben Gvir post that everyone is sharing aghast? It is a perfectly normal and common Israeli view, held by millions. It is the Israeli mainstream, and not extreme in the least. I grew up hearing that endlessly

[Souls of Azza will haunt you 4ever @CharlieAndrea65]

@brucefenton Without “antisemitism”, Israel can’t exist.

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

Palestine didn’t “fail to qualify” for the World Cup.

Israel literally killed everyone on the team.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Posted by former US Congressman @AdamKinzinger on Facebook. Beautifully written, in both form and substance:

Hey everyone, happy Sunday. Are you ready for some good news? I know I am.

We are told, over and over, that America has gone cold on the rest of the world. That we have decided the people on the other side of the ocean are a threat to be kept out. That the welcome mat got rolled up and put away for good.

Then a soccer team from the North African nation of Algeria showed up in Lawrence, Kansas, and within a week the whole town was wearing green.

For today's Good News Sunday, I want to tell you about one of the best things happening in this country right now. It is happening at a soccer tournament, and it has almost nothing to do with soccer.

The World Cup is here, 48 teams playing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each team in the tournament picks a base camp, one town to live and train in between matches. Germany set up shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Spain is training in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And Algeria, playing two of its games up the road at Arrowhead, picked Lawrence and made it home for the summer.

What the people of Lawrence did with that is the part I can't stop thinking about.

It started small, with a whole town of people who had never given Algeria much thought deciding, more or less overnight, that this was their team now. Flags went up in shop windows. Folks pulled on the green jerseys. People drove over just to catch a glimpse of the players. And then a local news crew stopped an older gentleman on a Lawrence sidewalk, standing in front of a storefront draped in a whole row of Algerian flags he had clearly just gone out of his way to find.

They asked him what he actually knew about the country whose colors he was flying. He grinned, paused for a beat, and said something along the lines of: not much yet — but we want to welcome you here. There is no agenda in that man. Nothing performative. Just a neighbor, thrilled to his bones that these strangers chose his town, and perfectly at ease with the fact that he has a lot left to learn about them.

The welcome only got bigger from there.

The University of Kansas, the state's flagship school that calls Lawrence home, sent its marching band out to the training ground. They had spent the previous days learning Algeria's national anthem, note for note, and they played it as the players walked out for practice. Think about what that means for a moment.

These men are thousands of miles from their families, living out of a hotel in the American Midwest, preparing for the biggest sporting event of their professional lives. And the first thing they hear when they step onto the grass is the sound of their own country's song, played by a hundred American college kids in red and blue who learned it just for them. Several of the players stopped walking. A few of them looked like they weren't sure what to do with themselves.

Algeria did its part, too. The team opened a training session to the public and spent the afternoon out on the grass with neighborhood kids, walking them through drills, signing autographs, posing for pictures. There are children from small-town America who are going to be telling the story of the day they trained with a World Cup team for the rest of their lives. And the Algerians have spent the last week calling themselves honorary Kansans, falling hard for a corner of a state most of them could not have found on a map two months ago.

But it's not just Lawrence.

This is happening all over the country, in towns you would never expect.

The city of Alexandria, Virginia threw a street festival with an evening of Croatian food and music, and wrapped a city bus in the team's red and white. After crowds in Spokane, Washington flocked to watch Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah, a brand-new Egyptian restaurant in town suddenly had locals lining up for food most of them had never tasted. All told, 19 American communities that are not hosting a single match still raised their hand to take in a national team and call them neighbors for a month.

There is a story we get told constantly about who we have become. That Americans have soured on outsiders. That we have decided the rest of the world is a threat. That we look at people who do not talk like us or pray like us or come from where we come from and see a problem instead of a person.

And then a college town in Kansas goes and learns every note of a North African country's national anthem, just so a group of strangers feel at home for a few weeks. An old local stands in front of a row of its flags and tells them, in so many words: we don't know much about you yet, but we are awfully glad you came.

That is who we actually are when nobody is telling us to be afraid. The band on the field, playing somebody else's song as if it were their own. The neighbor who knows next to nothing about you and waves you in anyway. We forget it sometimes. The good news is that it takes about one afternoon to remember.

That, my friends, is good news for your Sunday.
— Adam

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Israel is destroying every single home in the southern 40 miles of Lebanon.

This is not “targeting Hezbollah strongholds.”

These are Christian villages and Sunni villages and Shia villages where people have lived for centuries.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

The OLDEST CHRISTIAN village in the world is burning.

Taybeh, Palestine.

The last 100% Christian Palestinian village, where Christ resurrected Lazarus, build the Church of St. Michael.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If Zionists hadn't invaded Palestine in 1948, Jews, Muslims, Christians and Atheists would be living in peace in Palestine as they had done for hundreds of years.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

Stealing land since 1948 and crying victim. Fuck Israel.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.

Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Lebanon is the second most-documented genocide in history after Palestine, yet the most denied.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Israel blew up Gaza's airport in 2001 and then bulldozed the remains.

[Carrie Prejean Boller @CarriePrejean1]

Starve civilians.

Bomb hospitals.

Destroy churches.

Kill innocent human life.

Then claim God told you to do it.

This is Zionism.

[Souls of Azza will haunt you 4ever @CharlieAndrea65]

@BossenRalp11708 @SSellam249439 @neyikaybettik Now most of the world chants death to Israel.
What should Israel do, nuke most of the world
or move to Mars?

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Soy de las Naciones Unidas y vine del Líbano hace 2 semanas, como nadie hizo nada en Gaza, Israel está haciendo lo mismo en Líbano, no han dejado ni un pueblo en pie. 3 compañeros mios fueron asesinados y a nuestro gobierno le importa una mierda".

Un trabajador de la ONU en Canadá, denuncia el genocidio de "Israel" en Líbano y Gaza mientras enfrenta a la policía canadiense que reprime a los manifestantes que protestan contra los sionistas en las calles.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

For LGBT people, Israel is pure unadulterated evil
https://t.co/hQcvdOGRgv