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children are starving at the fastest rate that the world has ever known

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DONT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE! DONT STOP TAKING ABOUT GAZA!
DONT LET THEM MAKE YOU FORGET!!
"Iâm 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 armyâŚand then I found out that it wasnât exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
Thereâs 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 - thatâs whatâs called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.
Thereâs a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel youâre not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though itâs 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 itâs much worse than it was then. Itâs 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, canât even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horribleâŚpeople call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You donât have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, thatâs 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."
don't just reblog these. read them. sit with them. understand this is actually happening.
"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:
Another journalist has been targeted just about an hour ago by Israel. Ismaeel Abu Omar and his cameraman Ahmad Matar were specifically targeted by an Israeli strike which resulted in them sustaining sever injuries. The doctors had to amputate Ismaeel's leg, and both their conditions are bad. Their crime? They were covering the conditions of refugees in Rafah. They were deliberately targeted in a "safe zone".
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.
This is a warcrime in case anyone was wondering. Israel is trying so damn hard to silence the truth and to spread fear amongst those who are determined to keep speaking out and exposing israel's crimes.

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If you saw the photo of the child hanging in the rubble with her legs blown off, this is her.
Their names are Amouna and Suazanna Hasouna. May they rest in peace
Overnight bombardment in Rafah comes as Hamas says Israelâs planned ground assault would derail truce talks.
I donât even know what to highlight here anymore. The horror stories from last night are so harrowing. Israel is still saying theyâre going to push for the ground invasion in Rafah and the âevacuationâ of everyone there. Protestors are still blocking vital aid for Gaza from crossing the Israeli border. When will this end?
it actually makes me sick to see the NFL, 49ers, and chiefs all make statements supporting Israel and saying shit like "we mourn the lives lost at the hands of terrorists" YOU'RE SUPPORTING THE TERRORISTS YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! what israel is doing is GENOCIDE. you're supporting GENOCIDE. who started the war? ISRAEL. who has a huge army? ISRAEL. who has continuously broken ceasefire? ISREAL. who is killing thousands of innocent people a day? ISRAEL. guess who doesn't have an official army and is basically defenseless? PALESTINE.
i wanted to say this again in light of recent events: i highly highly highly encourage anyone who sees this to read Edward W. Said's book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (available on internet archive for free, but i recommend buying it). Said is palestinian, and in the book he talks about his childhood in palestine and the effects of being exiled from his homeland. the book is a true eye opener, and everything that Said says is still relevant today. it also includes photos, which truly emphasize the trauma and horrors the palestinian people have faced.
I have seen posts on Palestine get thousands on thousands of notes. If each person who engaged with them donated one dollarâliterally just one; no more, no lessâthousands of dollars would be raised to humanitarian aid in Gaza just like that. I understand thereâs the whole bystander effect going on. People are probably like âWell thereâs likely someone out there donating right now, so they can probably do without my one puny dollarâ wrong. One dollar makes a huge difference. Any amount you can afford can make a huge difference.
Iâm not going to say every single person on here can afford to give up a dollar, because thatâs absolutely insensitive to peopleâs individual situationsâbut if you can, please donate. So many of us on here arenât 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.
The PCRF could use every last penny. Donât be a bystander in a world of bystanders. It matters.

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the thing I really love about tbosas is that you go into the story thinking you know whoâs the songbird and whoâs the snake but âsongbirdsâ and âsnakesâ are both plural because as individuals Lucy Grey and Coryo are both a songbird and a snake in their own right, in this essay I will
I know it's been said before, but I feel like Katniss gets compared to Lucy Gray a lot because they're both victors from 12 and both women, but its actually Sejanus that she's really similar to. Side note- forgive me if i get a few things wrong, I just saw the new movie and re-watched all the old ones but I haven't read the books in a while.
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.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins CHAPTER 26 / CHAPTER 27 / EPILOGUE
Watching the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is realizing that despite the obvious implication that Lucy Gray is the songbird and Snow is the SnakeâŚitâs likely the opposite.
Lucy gray controlled the snakes and used them as her weapon of choice, the snake biting him was Lucyâs kiss goodbye. She is the snake.
Snow sold Sejanus out through the jabberjayâs, they were his tool to fly back home and back into power. He is the songbird.
But at the same timeâŚas 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.
Who is the songbird and who is the snake? Itâs unclear, but isnât that the mystery?
This has all been said before but I just need to put it in my own words.
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 â 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.
They were the ones who fed. Him with his burnt bread, and her with her haunting songs.

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No cause they cant erase Lucy Gray no matter how hard they try! They may erase her game, her memory but not her music, never her music. Cause the Covey may not sing anymore but their tale in songs will go on to their kids. Maude Ivory is Katniss's grandmother!! Thats how Katniss knows the Hanging Tree song! And i think when Katniss and Prim was kids and Katniss was singing the Hanging Tree and their mother took their necklaces they were making and said "dont sing that ever again" it was because she didnt want anyone knowing they were Covey. Singing that song could get you killed and thats why she didnt want anyone to know that theyre Covey!
They might make everyone forget about Lucy Gray but Covey will remember. Only way Katniss could know about that song is that shes Covey and Maude Ivory makes perfect sense! Maude Ivory loved to eat the plant Katniss and Katniss's dad knows about the lake which only the Covey's know and Katniss can sing everysong with hearing it once (or something like that) therefore Katniss is Maude Ivory's granddaughter!!
Something I keep thinking about from TBOSBAS is just how consistently Dr. Gualâs worldview is proven to be wrong. For all her and Snowâs talk of âthis is who people are when released from control,â all three of the games we see in the series prove that wrong time and time again.
Lamina mercy kills Marcus to save him from further pain and suffering. Reaper spends his whole time in the arena â to his dying breaths â honoring the dead around him. Katniss sings to Rue as she dies and openly, publicly mourns her death. Thresh saves Katnissâs 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.
That is Gualâs âhumanity unmasked.â Even when their own lives are at stake, even when they are pitted against each other in a literal fight to the death, these childrenâs love and compassion and humanity still finds ways to come through. Because Lucy Gray is right, there is an inherent goodness in us all.