Just putting this idea out there. It's about transitioning towards a better way of living. We must strive to be a healthier and happier nation.
- 4 day schooling
- 4 day working
- 1 day universal basic income
It can be done. Easily.
#TimeToChange#UBI#Education#Work
A Zio spits on a Christian father who was walking peacefully with his son on a street while another Zio pepper sprayed him in the eyes.
This Is Life Under Occupation.
Remember when Holocaust movie director Jonathan Glazer accepted an Oscar and CONDEMNED Israel.
“Our film shows dehumanization at its worst ... We stand as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation”
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"Those who suffered the Holocaust do not want to be involved in anyone else's genocide". A Jewish Holocaust survivor making the Jewish people proud again in the face of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
⚡️BREAKING: WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
➤ 2,092 families completely wiped out, with 5,967 members killed.
➤ 4,889 families left with only one survivor, losing 8,980 members.
➤ 17,861 child martyrs, including 214 newborns who were born and killed during the genocide.
➤ 808 children under the age of one were killed.
The Government Media Office has released an updated report on the key statistics of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli occupation on Gaza, which lasted 470 days, from Saturday, October 7, 2023, to Saturday, January 18, 2025:
➤ 470 days of continuous genocide.
➤ 10,100 massacres carried out by the Israeli occupation.
➤ 61,182 martyrs and missing persons.
➤ 14,222 missing persons not yet recovered by hospitals (as of January 18, 2025).
➤ 46,960 martyrs whose bodies were received by hospitals.
➤ 9,268 massacres targeted Palestinian families.
➤ 2,092 families completely wiped out, with 5,967 members killed.
➤ 4,889 families left with only one survivor, losing 8,980 members.
➤ 17,861 child martyrs, including 214 newborns who were born and killed during the genocide.
➤ 808 children under the age of one were killed.
➤ 44 deaths due to starvation and malnutrition.
➤ 8 deaths from extreme cold in refugee tents, including 7 children.
➤ 12,316 female martyrs.
➤ 1,155 medical staff killed.
➤ 94 civil defense members killed.
➤ 205 journalists killed.
➤ 736 aid and police officers killed.
➤ 520 bodies recovered from 7 mass graves established by the occupation in hospitals.
➤ 110,725 injured received by hospitals.
➤ 15,000 require long-term rehabilitation.
➤ 4,500 amputations, 18% affecting children.
➤ 70% of victims were children and women.
➤ 400 journalists and media workers injured.
➤ 220 shelters and displacement centers targeted by the occupation.
➤ 10% of Gaza’s area was deemed “safe zones” by the occupation.
➤ 38,495 children left orphaned or missing at least one parent.
➤ 13,901 women widowed.
➤ 3,500 children face death from starvation.
➤ 12,700 injured require treatment abroad.
➤ 12,500 cancer patients need treatment.
➤ 3,000 patients with various illnesses require urgent medical care abroad.
➤ 2,136,026 cases of infectious diseases due to displacement.
➤ 71,338 hepatitis cases from displacement conditions.
➤ 60,000 pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare.
➤ 350,000 chronic patients in danger due to medication shortages.
➤ 6,600 arrests made by the occupation.
➤ 360 medical personnel arrested, with 3 doctors executed in prisons.
➤ 48 journalists and 26 civil defense workers arrested.
➤ 2 million displaced in Gaza.
➤ 110,000 tents deteriorated, no longer suitable for use.
➤ 216 government buildings destroyed.
➤ 137 schools and universities destroyed entirely.
➤ 357 schools and universities partially damaged.
➤ 12,800 students killed during the war.
➤ 785,000 students deprived of education.
➤ 760 teachers and educators killed.
➤ 150 academics and researchers executed.
➤ 823 mosques destroyed completely, and 158 heavily damaged.
➤ 3 churches targeted and destroyed.
➤ 19 cemeteries destroyed partially or fully.
➤ 2,300 bodies stolen from Gaza’s cemeteries.
➤ 161,600 housing units destroyed entirely.
➤ 82,000 homes rendered uninhabitable.
➤ 194,000 homes partially destroyed.
➤ 100,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza by the occupation.
"Without the Western media, this genocide would never have been possible."
British journalist Owen Jones spoke out against Western media for suppressing coverage of Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Jones condemned the silence of Western media, describing it as complicity in the face of unimaginable atrocities and condemned journalists for failing to express solidarity with their colleagues, even in the face of what he described as 'the biggest massacre of journalists in human history'.
He made these remarks during a demonstration in central London, where over 100,000 people gathered to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, despite last-minute restrictions imposed by the Metropolitan Police, which many viewed as an attempt to stifle the protest.
For centuries: *Palestinian Arabs and Jews live together peacefully, respecting each other’s religions and cooperating; Jews account for 5-10% of the Palestinian population*
1914-1916: *Ottoman Empire collapses, Britain and France carve up Middle East, Britain occupies Palestine with absolutely no right to do so*
1917: *Balfour Declaration signed, promising Zionists a home in Palestine, also with no right to do so*
1919: *Zionists begin immigrating to Palestine in massive numbers to make Palestine “as Jewish as England is English” (Weizmann) — looking to replace the existing population with this <10% minority group*
1922 - 1935: *Immigration takes Jewish population in Palestine from 9% to almost 27%; Incoming Zionists rename towns and cities, ignoring existing practices and customs*
1936: *In an attempt to protect their homeland, Palestinian Arabs mount revolt against British and Zionist colonists; British violently suppress revolt, killing, injuring, imprisoning or deporting 10% of Palestinian males by 1939*
1944 - 1946: *Zionist colonists declare war on British colonists — eventually bombing King David Hotel in 1946 killing 91, including Jews, Arabs and Brits — as they wanted to take over Palestine faster than Brits would allow*
1947: *Brits hand over Palestine to the UN; due to relentless immigration, 1/3 of population are now Jewish, but only 6% of land is Jewish-owned, however the UN partitions the land giving Zionists 55% of the land including key Arab-populated areas*
1948: *Nakba happens: Zionists ethnically cleanse Palestinian Arab homes and lands by force*
For the next 77 years: *ethnic cleansing, apartheid, massacres, rapes, oppression of the worst kind against Palestinians*
Every day, right up to Oct 6th, 2023, where a 19-year-old was shot dead in the West Bank by a Zionist settler: *Palestinians endure kidnapping/rape/torture/murder/dehumanisation of the worst kind*
Oct 7th, 2023: *Hamas attacks Israel, taking hostages to trade for some of the thousands Israel holds*
Oct 8th - ongoing: *Israel unequivocally commits genocide on Palestinians, refusing to agree hostage release deal, creating the worst live-streamed collection of war crimes in the history of mankind*
Some drooling little man sitting behind a keyboard who can’t even fathom the totality of suffering that exists within a single point on this list: hAmAs StArTeD tHiS wAr
We must BDS Israel even if there's a ceasefire. What they've done--for the past 15 months and since 1947--is unforgivable. Israeli leaders and soldiers must face trial and punishment. We must never give up the cause of justice for and liberation of Palestinians.
Do you know what the colours represent in the Palestinian flag?
Red - the sacrifices of the Palestinian people
Black - the continuous oppression and persecution of Palestinians
White - symbolizes peace and love
Green - prosperity, blessings, and hope for a thriving future
This is what I was used to; I was afraid even to think about it. I don't know how the compass of my mind and heart deviated to this extent. I couldn't even watch a burnt or mutilated body in a movie, yet I found myself carrying and burying them.
Once, I held in my hands the severed remains of 27 bodies, gathered them, and placed them in a shroud. A bullet pierced the heart of my cousin as she stood beside me. It wasn't like any other bullet that was fired. None of the destroyed houses, not even my own, weakened me as much as that bullet did.
The severed hand that stuck to my face, the shrapnel that fell into my dinner plate, the soldier who whipped my body while shouting, "Walk, you dog," and the one who tore up my picture with my father-these moments pass through my memory every day, ripping it apart before they fade away.
I believe that one great movie can change the world. FROM GROUND ZERO: STORIES FROM GAZA is that movie. You are that audience.
If you live near any one of the theaters scattered across the country showing this incredible film this weekend, GO SEE IT. Bear witness to this work of art by these 22 artists imprisoned in Gaza and see the Palestinian people for who they are.
They are taxi drivers and mothers, toddlers and teachers, comedians and artists — finding ways to survive. To feed their families. To bathe their children. To retain a sense of self and normality. To bring joy to their community. To keep warm at night. To keep hope alive…
https://t.co/9H6vncsMCr
Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s hands up in the air, to despair, to want to shut the cruelty out, to find solace in oblivion and disengagement. But, it is not only ethically wrong to surrender to despair – it is also factually wrong that nothing good can be expected. Things change every day and, yes, the seeds of hope are already planted on the blood soaked soil of the ancient land of Palestine. They may be only seeds, but that’s how new life is born.
So, let’s take a look at the seeds of hope that are taking root underneath the rubble.
1. Israel is not winning on the battlefield
Gaza has been destroyed. Its population is on death row. And yet the smart people in the Israeli military know full well that the destruction they wreaked does not translate into a victory. Fifteen months after they re-invaded the open prison that has been the Gaza strip since 1948, they still cannot control more than a small portion of it at a time. Armed resistance, including the regular blowing up of Israel’s mighty tanks, is continuing. Israeli military officers also know that their political leaders’ stated aim, of eradicating Hamas, can never be demonstrably achieved, however many Hamas fighters they kill. As a former Israeli general put it to me: “Even if we kill most the Gazans before we declare victory, a single teenager raising the Hamas flag over a pile of rubble will prove that we failed.”
Similarly in Lebanon. Yes, Israel has killed much of the Hezbollah leadership and, yes, the ceasefire it imposed on Hezbollah succeeded in stopping the Hezbollah missile launches in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance further south. However, the ceasefire was also forced upon Israel by its army’s inability to venture without massive losses by more than a few kilometres into Lebanese territory. And, lest we forget, it is simply not true that Hezbollah had to accept the ceasefire because its missile arsenal was destroyed: Israel signed the ceasefire hours after missiles hit Haifa, and indeed Tel Aviv.
The past year, in other words, will be remembered as a cruel paradox: Israel destroyed Gaza and much of South Lebanon, mainly from the air, but failed abysmally to control the ground. The time is fast approaching when Israeli society will realise that the thousands of Israeli soldiers who died or were seriously injured were the victims of a leadership that, ultimately, placed the Israeli people’s interests very low in their own list of priorities. This is also confirmed by the readiness of Israel’s government to lie through its teeth about its own casualties on the battlefield: compare the low number of casualties officially admitted with the more than twenty thousand soldiers that Israel’s health authorities say have been admitted to veteran rehabilitation centres.
2. Israel’s economy has entered a ‘spiral of collapse’
Turning now to the medium and long term impact of the war on Israel’s economy (which is of great importance from the perspective of the apartheid state’s capacity to reproduce itself through war and devastation financially), it is instructive to read a letter signed by Israeli economists, including Dan Ben-Davidwho explain how Israel’s economic miracle hinges on a hi-tech sector that numbers at most 300 thousand people (including doctors, scientists, academics etc.) His point? If only 10% of these people leave the country, say thirty thousand, Israel’s already hugely indebted economy will fade. In Ben-David’s even starker words,
“We won’t become a third world country, we just won’t be anymore. Only 0.6% of the population are doctors, but who trains them? The senior staff in research universities are 0.1% of the people. High-Tech workers are 6% of the population. Altogether it’s 300,000 people. It’s enough that a critical mass of this group chooses not to be here tomorrow morning, and the State of Israel leaves the developed world.”
Are they leaving? You bet they are – leaving behind them more influential, more dominant than ever before the low-productivity bigots who are driving the fascist settler movement. And, the more dominant these low-productivity bigots are in government and in society, the greater the exodus of the high-tech, secular more liberally minded Israelis. This is the definition of a spiral of collapse.
3. Israel has lost in the court of public opinion – the illusion of a liberal democratic state is gone
Meanwhile, the genocide of Palestinians, and in particular the manner in which so many Israeli soldiers and politicians celebrate it in videos, speeches and posts, has claimed what is left of the illusion of Israel as a European liberal democracy embedded in a hostile Middle East. That illusion has been a central underpinning of the propaganda that helped Israeli lobbyists succeed in Washington and Europe. Now it is gone. It has drowned in the sea of flesh and blood the Israeli military has strewn all over Gaza – and the trail of destruction, hatred and viciousness that the settlers have unleashed in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. Once Israel’s cleverly constructed reputation was gone, sullied, it cannot be reclaimed. And that is good news in the sense that the first step toward a just peace is the ethical fall from grace of the aggressor.
4. The situation in the Occupied Territories
Turning now to the situation in the West Bank, it is heart-wrenching to watch the non-stop violence against the Palestinians living under brutal apartheid conditions there. The violence against them comes from three quarters: From the Israeli military. From Israeli settlers. And, most tragically, from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) own security forces who are, in the midst of the genocide of their people by the apartheid state, are cooperating fully with the security forces of that apartheid state. Why the army is doing this, we know. Why the settlers are doing it, we also know. But why is the leadership of the PA doing it?
This is not the first time the PA has cooperated fully with the Israeli occupiers who steadfastly reject any prospect of a Palestinian state – the stated objective of the PA. Sure enough, the PA’s leadership have been doing this for years. But, now, in the face of the fully-fledged genocidal campaign by Israel, the PA’s excuses are becoming transparent. The unelected, unrepresentative, patently corrupt leadership of the PA is behaving as if to impress Netanyahu and Trump that they can do their dirty work for them, with a veneer of legitimacy courtesy of being Palestinians themselves. That they have a role to play. It is a pathetic plea to the genocidal US-Israeli establishment to give them a job to do against the Palestinian Resistance now that the Palestinian people has seen through them. Nothing else explains why they are turning even against Fatah members who continue to resist in Jenin and elsewhere.
This is the saddest, most depressing, aspect of the Palestinian tragedy. So I shall not dwell on it further except to reiterate the urgent need for the election of a representative and thus legitimate leadership of the Palestinian people. No peace can be imagined, let alone negotiated, otherwise. I hope and trust that the Palestinians will find a way to speak with one non-sectarian voice. Nothing short of succeeding in this will curb the genocide they face. As for the rest of us, we must stand by to help give this voice, their voice, a chance to be heard.
5. Summary
To sum up, days before Donald Trump enters the White House – a man who has never not liked any war crime aimed at eradicating the Palestinian resistance, the Palestinians as a people native to Palestine – we are at a crossroads. Mega Death and uber destruction on the ground wreaked by a US-armed and EU-supported Israel. A spiral of collapse within Israel’s social economy. Arab countries split between complicit regimes and enraged citizens. A Global South that is becoming increasingly powerful and intolerant of the Western-Israeli self-awarded right ethnically to cleanse the non-Jewish native population. And a Western public opinion that can no longer pretend to not know. What is the upshot of these ingredients?
If I were to issue an educated guess, it would be this: Things will get even worse for the Palestinians in the short run. But, in the longer run, the possibility of liberation, of a just peace for both Palestinians, who refuse to go gently into the good night, and for Israelis, who understand the trap into which Netanyahu has ensnared them, seems stronger than it has been for thirty years.