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This video shows ongoing, systematic demolitions in Gaza.

Homes are being destroyed, neighborhoods cleared, and entire areas wiped out even now, while a ceasefire is supposedly in place.

People are watching their houses disappear piece by piece.

Not during fighting.

Not in the middle of airstrikes.

But after everything, when they were told it was safe to breathe again.

The destruction didn’t stop.

It just became quieter.

These images show displacement tents set up right next to a heavily damaged building.

The building was hit before and is leaning, at risk of collapsing at any moment.

Families are living in these tents because they have no other place to go.

There are no safe areas left, no intact homes, no shelters to move to.

Leaving this spot doesn’t mean safety it just means being displaced again.

So people stay.

Not because they feel protected,but because this is the last option they have They sleep knowing the building beside them could fall.

They wake up hoping it doesn’t.

This is not temporary living This is forced survival.

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They are in Gaza, trying to survive something no human being should ever have to endure. Constant bombardment, displacement, hunger, fear, and the feeling that tomorrow is never guaranteed. Every day is about staying alive one more night.

And why I believe Jaime is a bad brother to Tyrion.

The Tyrion-Jaime dynamic is one of the reasons I could never bring myself to like Jaime. Basically, Tyrion from a young age was abused by his father, even to the point of being made to watch his wife being raped and being forced to rape her himself. All because Jaime was forced into lying by Tywin. I know he was forced, but Jaime was in his twenties at the time. And what’s worse was that he kept it a secret for maybe 15 years without telling Tyrion the truth. Bearing in mind this is Jaime. Jaime pushed a ten year-old child from a window for Cersei, but he couldn’t even tell the truth for Tyrion. It gets even worse because when Tyrion was blamed for pushing Bran he kept quiet for Jaime’s sake and endured weeks in a skycell and yet more embarrassment, all because he loved Jaime. Tyrion hated Cersei, but never had her killed because he loved Jaime. Tyrion despised Joffrey but never considered treason against him (even though he knew Tommen would be a better king anyway) because he LOVED JAIME. Tyrion has sacrificed SO MUCH and lied constantly about the incest and covered for the twins’ asses so much all because he loved Jaime so much.

But the bitter horrible thing we see is that Jaime was never really a good brother to him. Sure he was KIND to Tyrion, but he did nothing in the way to stem the abuse from Cersei and Tywin, he just “went into himself” like he did when he seen the Mad King raping the Queen. He still loved and was woobified by Cersei even though he knew that she treated baby Tyrion like shit, to him Cersei can do no wrong. He covered up bad brothering by buying Tyrion horses and taking him out on horseriding trips and stuff. I’m not denying that Jaime didn’t love his brother, I’m sure he did, but he never actually went out of his way for him. To Jaime there is Cersei, himself, and then Tyrion and Tyrion’s interests are never above compromising himself. Even when he released him from the cell I thought okay here’s a chance for Jaime to repay Tyrion for all that love and for those two to be good brothers but no… the horrible thing you realise is that Jaime didn’t release Tyrion for love, he released him for guilt. In his new-found chivalry (brought on by a year as the Stark’s captive and new friendship for Brienne) he thought FINALLY Tyrion deserved to know the truth so Jaime could put his own soul at rest and he released Tyrion and told him the truth and it was just so horrible.

Tywin Lannister is…Tywin Lannister. If that doesn’t make you shudder with fear, well, it should. At this point in their lives, Tywin Lannister had obliterated two entire families and no one knows this better than his children. No one knows this better than his children because he spent days lecturing them about strength, legacy, and ruthlessness to the point that they adopted that identity for themselves. Tywin Lannister is a cold, calculating, ruthless guy and absolutely frightening. You know what’s even more frightening? An infuriated, spited, shamed Tywin Lannister. Just picture it.

Do you really think gallant, brave to a fault/foolishness, does-everything-for-love Jaime would be moved to make such a lie by anything other than being completely scared shitless? And Jaime had every right to be, honestly. Tywin proves time and time again that he controls their lives and it’s pretty clear how devoutly his children fear him. (Otherwise how else would he have forced Tyrion into an unwanted marriage, and likely would’ve done the same for Cersei should he lived?)

And if you watch that scene in episode 1x07 of Jaime and Tywin closely enough, you’d see how emotional he gets over daddy. Tywin has a predominant sway on all of his children. Profoundly. To the point it really fucks them up. That’s not to say Jaime couldn’t have told Tyrion the truth, but it is certainly an intimidating factor.

Yes, Jaime lied. But it haunts him for the rest of his life and he expresses several times that he wished he would’ve told him the truth by now. But y’know, love is a funny thing. It would hurt Tyrion, it would turn him against the family, it would turn him against him; so it’s just not that simple. Selfish, yeah. Based on being unloving, no. We can’t really say many of the Lannisters are selfless, either, can we?

Jaime actually releases Tyrion against Cersei’s express wishes and Tywin’s implied wishes. This would get him a lot of shit – he does it anyway. No matter what you think are his intentions (which we don’t ACTUALLY get, because the scene is in Tyrion’s POV, so your assumptions that he only does it out of guilt are a stretch, tbh) he still goes to free Tyrion risking the remaining relationships he has with his family. Maybe his life even, if his involvement got out. He also STILL releases him even after Tyrion has verbally wounded him in return, because he wants him alive. Ohhhhh, right!

Re: not sticking up to Cersei, well, this could be true. But unless I’m mistaken (and I could be, I’m no expert scholar on Tyrion’s chapters), there aren’t any/many instances mentioned in which Cersei abuses Tyrion as a child in Jaime’s presence. (The most specific thing I can remember is her tugging on his genitals as a baby, which I’m sure she didn’t bring Jaime along for.) And anyways, from what we know about Jaime, he’s not averse to telling Cersei she’s overreacting or telling her to shut up. They’re very sibling-oriented that way. So if she DID send anything more than casual insults his way in front of Jaime, wouldn’t it be very consistent with his character if he told her to cut it out, she’s acting a fool? …yeah, seems like it to me. (Jaime repeatedly tells her in ASOS and AFFC that she’s overreacting, jumping to conclusions, and being paranoid. He also hushes her in the same way during her Bran reactions. Likely he’s acted this way with her…forever.)

[[Honestly I’m a little baffled at the hypocrisy/apologism here, because Tyrion does relatively the same thing. Once Jaime comes clean, Tyrion tells him a lie (that he killed his son) with the EXPRESS PURPOSE of HURTING him. That’s some good-brother-behavior for the guy who just saved your life, isn’t it? The point is that their relationship is not that black and white. It’s complicated. Like everything Lannister, really. But it’s textually evident that Jaime has a big bag of love for his bro, even if he doesn’t show it like he should.]]

I think Tyrion and Cersei bore the brunt of Tywin’s abuse, since Jaime did separate himself a little from House Lannister by joining the Kingsguard, but even after Tywin’s death, one of the big things on Jaime’s mind is “If I do this thing, will you love me now, Daddy? If I threaten to trebuchet babies, will you love me now, Father, please? Will you be proud of me now?“ 

Yeah, Jaime “went into himself”. Because those were extremely traumatic experiences.  How was Jaime supposed to stop Rhaella’s rape? He spoke out. He thought it was wrong. But the other Kingsguard shut him down. And stopping a Targaryen king from doing what he wanted wasn’t exactly an everyday occurrence. 

How exactly was Jaime supposed to stem Tywin’s abuse, OP? 

"he never actually went out of his way for him”

Two words: Black Cells.  Jaime went to the Black Cells to free Tyrion, despite believing Tyrion was guilty and at great risk to himself.

Two more words: Casterly Rock. Do you really think Jaime traveled hundreds of miles to the Rock all those times in Tyrion’s youth to visitTywin? 

We only have the one instance of Cersei abusing Tyrion in Jaime’s presence, and Jaime calls her out on it right away.

lol, “newfound chivalry” lol. Two more words: Babies. Trebuchets. [See also this]

“To him, Cersei can do no wrong.”

See: Jaime’s thoughts while she burns the Tower of the Hand with wildfire. 

“Because it probably just dawned on him what a terrible brother Jaime actually was to him.”

I think. Tyrion. Would disagree with you here.

It was Jaime, he thought, despairing. He was my own blood, my big strong brother. When I was small he brought me toys, barrel hoops and blocks and a carved wooden lion. He gave me my first pony and taught me how to ride him. When he said that he had bought you for me, I never doubted him. Why would I? He was Jaime, and you were just some girl who’d played a part. I had feared it from the start, from the moment you first smiled at me and let me touch your hand. My own father could not love me. Why would you if not for gold?