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After that first ultrasound and seeing our babies (and learning there were two) every one of those thoughts vanished.

Libby Cohen Meguri was a 22-year-old young woman, touring South America when she decided to cut the trip short to attend the Nova festival, surprising her family by coming home early one morning.

On October 7, Libby was shot while trying to escape.

At 8:11 AM, she called her parents and said:

“They shot me in the stomach. They shot me in the arm. I’m losing blood. I’m going to die.”

Calmly, quietly, she understood that these were her last moments. She asked her parents to call Tomer, her twin brother, and Maya, her little sister, and said:

“I’m going to die. I just want you to listen to me. I love you, Yariv, you’re the best father I could have ever asked for.

Mom, stop screaming, just listen to me—you’re the best mother we could have had. Don’t forget to keep being a good mom to Tomer and Maya after I’m gone.

Tomer, how lucky we were to live this life together. I love you.

My Maya, never forget—you are the treasure of my life.”

When she finished speaking, her parents begged her to get out of the car and played. She did, yet Hamas came back to shoot her again. They fired an entire round of bullets into her.

Her gravestone reads, “Our sunlight was extinguished.”

Never forget Libby.

Courtesy: @HenMazzig on X

May her memory forever be a blessing.

People in Gaza to Hamas: accept the deal — we want to live. Hamas supporters outside Gaza: let’s march on Friday to say no to the deal. The ones under the bombs are begging for survival, while the ones far away demand rejection so Gaza keeps burning. @IhabHassane

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Don't hide in the comments cuz you're so right.

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

they haven’t accepted it because a two state solution implies TWO states, not one arab state that’s established after the destruction of israel and the murder of every single jew living in its borders.

for the vast majority of the arab countries, it’s never been about a free palestinian state or the freedom of palestinians (because if it was, jordan and egypt easily could’ve done that)

it's hard to unlearn the numbers, unsee the graphic images of children harmed by Israel, and still question who the real monster is in all of this.

Through choices, friendship, and salad, he found his way to the path of the warrior. But he won't walk it alone.

Their path is just beginning, but this story is over.

Right.

Because the military, an establishment that has historically been run for men, by men, while miles away from women for sometimes years at a time, has never allowed drag.

What the fuck

Do you think our forefathers

Would think of us

If they could see us now

Emasculating ourselves with makeup

Dressing like pansies

Making fools of ourselves

Absolutely mocking the very concept of masculinity

While they were giving their lives fighting the Nazis.