Zack🗝️

Proud Palestinian/Ashamed American

Refuse to be a coward or a collaborator

[Zack🗝️ @Z_liberal]

@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.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

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 aren’t even real.

I mean, we’re thrown into this world and we have no idea what’s going on, surrounded by chaotic and unpredictable giants who are full of neuroses and delusions handed down to them by previous generations, we’re 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 it’s over.

It’s so weird, man.

We could just be taking care of one another and holding each other’s hands as we hurtle toward the grave. When someone is born into this strange and mysterious world, we could just tell the new arrival “Welcome, we only get to be here for a little while, but we love you and we’re here for you as we experience our short time on this planet together.” 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 don’t. We barely pay attention to death. We barely pay attention to the fact that everything’s mysterious and life’s big questions have gone completely unanswered and science can’t explain 0.0001% of what’s 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 aren’t doing the right thing. Stories about how we’ll 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 don’t believe the right thoughts in their heads. All kinds of stories. Nonstop mental chatter that we believe with all our might.

And none of it’s 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. It’s 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 that’s why everything’s 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 it’s needed and set down when it’s 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 it’s not nearly as much work as we’re 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. It’s 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.

[Doc Jazz ✌ طارق @docjazzmusic]

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.

[انوس @anoosify]

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 that’s how our movement will grow.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

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 “disturbing, but not surprising.”

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 — 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 — before it is ever a political one.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Tenemos los planes para fomentar la expulsión de la población palestina desde Gaza, para promover la expulsión desde Cisjordania y para colonizar el Líbano. Estamos en un periodo de redención bíblica, por eso no debemos parar y seguir en Gaza, Líbano, Cisjordania".

Ben Gvir, ministro genocida de Seguridad Nacional de "Israel", dio rienda suelta a sus delirios mesiánicos y colonialistas afirmando que la limpieza étnica en Gaza, Cisjordania y Líbano son "planes bíblicos de dios".

Estos dementes que te hablan de redenciones bíblicas para referirse a limpiezas étnicas, tienen un botón nuclear y al mundo no parece importarle.

[Shane @Mountain_Twhick]

A major PR problem facing Israel is that “we should kill them all” is such a widespread opinion among the general public that the notion that they shouldn’t be saying that into a camera doesn’t even occur to a lot of them

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Lebanese towns should put little statues of Christ on their solar panels, desalination plants, homes, schools, hospitals and maybe that’ll slow down the Israeli demolition of everything in their path

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

"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.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: At least 250 students and teachers have been killed and 600 educational facilities targeted since the US-Israeli war on Iran began.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/zfOEEtl9FZ

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Someone dropped a remix.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If the so-called international community—led by the West—had cared even a little about Palestinian lives, Israel would’ve 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.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

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 won’t be removed from the blacklist until Trump’s term ends
• Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

These people need to be stopped

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

She tells us at least one high-ranking officer in the unit is “war hungry” making repeated comments about this being a Holy War for Armageddon, causing some Marines & families to believe they have “no regard for safety” of his men or legality of orders.

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

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 weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists.

They didn’t 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 didn’t win in court. They weren’t 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. I’ll 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 “strategy of war”.

And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it.

This is just what their society does.

They torture Palestinians.

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

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?

[mohammad @mohammadonx]

the reason there is even a convention on cluster munitions is because in 2006 israel fired 4.6 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)

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Happy International Women's Day.

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

It’s 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, it’s 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 race— and continues to oppress the Indigenous people of America.

It’s really twisted times we are witnessing.

[Bissan بيسان @Bissan_Fakih]

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