《Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen》

DONT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE! DONT STOP TAKING ABOUT GAZA!

"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.

"Pain. Then more pain. Then more of this pain. Until you wake up. And you turn this pain into strength and resilience and power. The thousands are stories, each person who has experience an unnatural level of heartbreak and pain. Those in Palestine who are now exhausted, so be their strength and be their voice." from Rahma Zein, 12/Feb/2024:

Israel had killed 126 journalists in 129 days!

10% of Gaza's journalists have been killed by Israel

Just yesterday, another journalist, Alaa Alhums, had succumbed to the injuries she sustained following an Israeli air strike.

If you saw the photo of the child hanging in the rubble with her legs blown off, this is her.

I’m not going to say every single person on here can afford to give up a dollar, because that’s absolutely insensitive to people’s individual situations—but if you can, please donate. So many of us on here aren’t swimming in money, but we still make it a point to donate, regardless of how little or how big a sum it is. I promise it adds up.

We see Sejanus thrust into a world he doesn't feel like he belongs to, and we can assume he wasn't a revolutionary until he was directly faced with the horrors of the capital where he became one of the only people willing to speak up. On the other hand, years later, we see Katniss willing to do her own thing and not be involved until the games directly involve her and suddenly she's fighting like hell against the capital specifically, not the other tributes.

Lucy gray controlled the snakes and used them as her weapon of choice, the snake biting him was Lucy’s kiss goodbye. She is the snake.

Snow sold Sejanus out through the jabberjay’s, they were his tool to fly back home and back into power. He is the songbird.

But at the same time…as in her Ballad, Lucy Gray flys away with the mockingjays after she sings the Hanging Tree one final time while fleeing Snow. She is physically a songbird. And Snow chose to work with Dr. Gaul, who created and controlled those snakes. He was the snake who betrayed his friend.

Snow truly believe he had Peeta after the hijacking, right on the palm of his hand, to be wielded like a knife that would always strike true into Katniss's heart. Because that's humanity for Snow — animals whose hunger can be twisted and corrupted, and would kill to sate it. To him, this boy from 12 was just a smoothtalker who trailed after his childhood crush like a lovesick puppy, had his feelings manipulated by this stubborn brunette from 12 who could sing, just like how Snow was.

So he sought to twist that adoration into something ugly, feeding the mistrust and indignance that he thought was in Peeta, thinking them powerful enough to overshadow any affection. Because that was what happened to Snow. Lucy Gray is wrong once again. Snow lands on top.

But no. Despite it all, Peeta's heart, who he is at his core, survived because Snow never really understood him.

Though Katniss had Lucy Gray's songs and heritage, Peeta had her heart. The pair of them combined was the true threat. Two halves of a Lucy Gray.

Lucy Gray and Peeta were never really ones who hungered.

Lamina mercy kills Marcus to save him from further pain and suffering. Reaper spends his whole time in the arena — to his dying breaths — honoring the dead around him. Katniss sings to Rue as she dies and openly, publicly mourns her death. Thresh saves Katniss’s life, not for his own benefit, because arguably she is one of his biggest threats still in the arena at that point, but out of love for Rue. Mags volunteers for Annie. The Morphlings sacrifice themselves for Peeta and Katniss.