"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
I’m also realizing that some Christians are okay with war and genocide if they believe it’s in alignment with their faith or not happening to them.
To call yourself a follower of Christ and be complicit with entire bloodlines being wiped off the planet is..
I have vivid memories of being in church as a kid and hearing an outpouring of support for Israel. Couldn’t make sense of it then but now I understand a lot of Christians think modern Israel and biblical Israel are the same place. (They aren’t)
Unibrow gone. Brows not connected to my hairline no more. Shape, thickness, arch all on point. WE BACK IN THE MFN GAME. Can’t wait to do my makeup and get cute
I don’t like haunted trails/houses. Anything more intense than Hocus Pocus is too much for me and my zombie apocalypse plan is simply to lay down and tell the Lord to come get me. Leave me be with that spooky season shit 😭
I don't think I've seen this cast break character that much but I can tell this episode was pure fun cuz there are so many moments... this one was one of my favorites cuz baby Maxine Shaw! Lol #LivingSingle30#LivingSingle
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