@Balabusta79 @ASE @FarhaFilm Wars are fought between armies. The Nakba was a systematic ethnic cleansing of civilians. And it started months before any neighboring army attempted to come to our rescue. 140+ massacres. 500+ villages ethnically cleansed/destroyed.
We make it so hard for ourselves, this human experience.
Like it would be hard enough just being born into mortal bodies that have to experience pain and get sick and deteriorate and die. That alone would be more than enough to deal with. Then on top of all that we go and create these psychological ego structures in our heads that make us miserable for a whole bunch of other reasons that arenât even real.
I mean, weâre thrown into this world and we have no idea whatâs going on, surrounded by chaotic and unpredictable giants who are full of neuroses and delusions handed down to them by previous generations, weâre very quickly taught how to make ourselves miserable using belief systems and shame and self-hatred and enmity, we stumble around for a few years, maybe plop out a baby or two and teach them how to be as crazy as we are, and then we fall down and they throw us in a hole. And then itâs over.
Itâs so weird, man.
We could just be taking care of one another and holding each otherâs hands as we hurtle toward the grave. When someone is born into this strange and mysterious world, we could just tell the new arrival âWelcome, we only get to be here for a little while, but we love you and weâre here for you as we experience our short time on this planet together.â And then we could hug and kiss and cry and cuddle as we spin through a universe not even our best scientists understand, until night comes.
We could do that, but we donât. We barely pay attention to death. We barely pay attention to the fact that everythingâs mysterious and lifeâs big questions have gone completely unanswered and science canât explain 0.0001% of whatâs actually going on.
Instead, we make up stories in our heads that cause us distress and discontentment. Stories that we are inadequate or unlovable. Stories about how other groups of people are bad. Stories about how the people around us arenât doing the right thing. Stories about how weâll be able to feel okay with ourselves if we can just rack up one more career accomplishment and achieve one more life goal. Stories about how people get tortured for eternity when they die if they donât believe the right thoughts in their heads. All kinds of stories. Nonstop mental chatter that we believe with all our might.
And none of itâs real. We stress ourselves out so bad entertaining these nonstop mental monologues in our skulls, and we made up the whole show. All of it. All the defects and unworthiness. All the enemies and conflicts. All the doing it wrong and getting it wrong. Itâs all made up.
Most people live in this imaginary world of believed mental constructs that offer up all sorts of reasons to feel anxious and afraid and hostile and ashamed. And then clever manipulators use those feelings to get us consenting to wars and injustices and all the self-destructive human behavior we see before us today. And thatâs why everythingâs as messed up as it is.
The world as it actually exists could not be more different from the world our thoughts describe. Life experienced lucidly is as different from life filtered through thought as any two things could possibly be.
The human organism can function perfectly fine without nonstop mental chatter. Thought can be nothing more than a useful tool that gets picked up when itâs needed and set down when itâs not, with attention resting in the profound wondrousness of the senses instead of mental babbling about made-up nonsense throughout the day.
It can take some work to undo all the interior dysfunction and come to this level of clarity, but itâs not nearly as much work as weâre already exerting in continuously turning the wheels of our insanity and keeping all these fictional worlds happening inside our heads. Bringing clarity to our inner processes and awakening to reality is actually the easy path. Itâs just so much more peaceful and enjoyable.
And then we can just be with reality. We can just be on this ride as it actually exists. All the beauty. All the love. All the pain. All the death. We can be with it all. The whole thing. Until the end.
No society in history has ever reached this level of mass psychosis.
If you are unable to discern that, you yourself are in urgent need of psychiatric evaluation.
An entire society dancing cheerfully to the beat of GENOCIDE.
Too many people assess the pro-Palestinian movement through a Zionist lens. If we judge actions mainly by Zionist reactions, we make them the center of the movement by default. Judge actions by their impact, strategy, and results. Operate like Zionists are irrelevant and thatâs how our movement will grow.
BREAKING: Cardinal Pizzaballa issues statement on Ben-Gvir video abusing flotilla activists.
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, has issued a statement on videos showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir abusing detained, bound flotilla activists, describing the images as âdisturbing, but not surprising.â
What troubles him, he says, is not the incident itself. It's what made it possible.
The Cardinal points to a "culture of contempt" entrenched in Israeli society â one that has gradually taken hold in how the other is perceived. It doesn't live only in shocking acts. It seeps into everyday language and reductive thinking, reducing the other to a stereotype. A vague enemy.
"A form of human and spiritual impoverishment," he calls it â before it is ever a political one.
"Tenemos los planes para fomentar la expulsiĂłn de la poblaciĂłn palestina desde Gaza, para promover la expulsiĂłn desde Cisjordania y para colonizar el LĂbano. Estamos en un periodo de redenciĂłn bĂblica, por eso no debemos parar y seguir en Gaza, LĂbano, Cisjordania".
Ben Gvir, ministro genocida de Seguridad Nacional de "Israel", dio rienda suelta a sus delirios mesiĂĄnicos y colonialistas afirmando que la limpieza ĂŠtnica en Gaza, Cisjordania y LĂbano son "planes bĂblicos de dios".
Estos dementes que te hablan de redenciones bĂblicas para referirse a limpiezas ĂŠtnicas, tienen un botĂłn nuclear y al mundo no parece importarle.
A major PR problem facing Israel is that âwe should kill them allâ is such a widespread opinion among the general public that the notion that they shouldnât be saying that into a camera doesnât even occur to a lot of them
Lebanese towns should put little statues of Christ on their solar panels, desalination plants, homes, schools, hospitals and maybe thatâll slow down the Israeli demolition of everything in their path
"American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings."
No one ever talks about this but the use of stimulant drugs including dextroamphetamine and modafinil among ruling class elites is a huge part of why US foreign policy is so violent and insane.
BREAKING: At least 250 students and teachers have been killed and 600 educational facilities targeted since the US-Israeli war on Iran began.
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If the so-called international communityâled by the Westâhad cared even a little about Palestinian lives, Israel wouldâve been stopped a long time ago.
The disaster that is now impacting people across the region and globe is the result of giving a genocidal state total impunity.
French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC:
⢠Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards
⢠I cannot make any purchases
⢠I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal
⢠Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated
⢠A colleague told me my name wonât be removed from the blacklist until Trumpâs term ends
⢠Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded
She tells us at least one high-ranking officer in the unit is âwar hungryâ making repeated comments about this being a Holy War for Armageddon, causing some Marines & families to believe they have âno regard for safetyâ of his men or legality of orders.
Insane framing.
He was anally gang-raped.
He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used.
There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it.
Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera).
He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well.
After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera.
These protests werenât just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists.
They didnât stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested.
And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didnât win in court. They werenât somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial.
This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. Iâll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process.
The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official âstrategy of warâ.
And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large donât have any problem with any of it.
This is just what their society does.
They torture Palestinians.
We have so far spent 10 billion dollars to replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei.
Tallying up the loss of equipment, including the THAAD batteries and money to Israel, we will have spent enough to solve homelessness in the United States for a year plus.
The US government bombed schools, hospitals, refineries, desalination facilities to make life unlivable for everyone in Iran while leaving the rest of us to sink further into poverty. Every war the Empire fights is a war against YOU.
What are you going to do about it?
the reason there is even a convention on cluster munitions is because in 2006 israel fired 4.6Â million of them into civilian areas of southern lebanon...90 percent of which came within the final 72 hours of the war (after the conflict was already resolved by res 1701)
Itâs telling that the US is willing to pay an estimated $891.4 million dollars PER DAY in ongoing attack on Iran, but refuses to shelter Americans, or provide them with free healthcare & education.
This is not just a war against Iran, itâs a clear declaration of war against Americans.
The US administration is and has been denying Americans right to political engagement and clamping down on dissent to appease and benefit warlords & death cults.
Emphasizing what we all already knew, Pentagon made it very clear that there was no sign Iran was going to strike first.
The US is conducting a mass slaughter with Israel in Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine and using Iran as a scapegoat.
The US cannot claim to be supporting Iranians for freedom when Trump sent armed forces against Americans, greenlighted their murder, put children in cages, mass imprisoned American men because of their raceâ and continues to oppress the Indigenous people of America.
Itâs really twisted times we are witnessing.
There's no way the feeling of having Israeli domination over your skies can be explained. Pure hell, pain, loss can rain upon you at any time. With entitlement, with impunity. You on the ground: wait, with the people & things & homes you love. Wait for Israel to decide your fate