I’m just tired of people on the left wincing when we talk about this as an occupation. NYC is an American city in an American state yet our local government literally has no higher priority than facilitating the sale of illegally stolen land for Israel
I just want to point out....
The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.
palestine, sudan, congo, tigray, iran, lebanon, syria, yemen, cuba, west papua, black, brown, and indigenous people in america + likely more are all undergoing genocides or have been destabilized by past genocides and invasions.
all for grotesque displays of wealth from elites.
On this day 25 years ago, the world watched, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach- whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
reminder that for writing & speaking truths like these, zionists planted a bomb in his car in lebanon & tore him & his teenage niece's bodies to shreds ... but martyrs never die & some truths are in fact eternal