For some reason a middle schooler crying over his stolen PlayStation just hits so hard (｡•́︿•̀｡)
Like it's bad enough you're gonna show up and trash the place and murder a bunch of people, you really gotta steal a little kid's toy? Like literally stealing candy from babies evil. So often my gut just wants to say "these people are inhuman", but I have to keep remembering, evil is a human choice.
In the UK police arrested journalist Sara Wilkinson and trashed her home, then imposed crippling bail conditions. The vandalism was so gratuitous - they deliberately spilled her mother's ashes from an urn - that there is a suspicion these thugs are IDF embedded in the police (they'd really be at home in the Met, aka the Metropolitan Police).
This is a wonderful piece of journalism in its brutal truth and the courage of those who dare to expose it. Dear Drop Site, take care; you've just slung a rock at the aging Goliath. And thank you to all for the ethical, moral courage it takes to keep that close and for the time, effort, and reporting that reveals there is indeed people in the world with integrity, willing to risk their own lives for as yet unfulfilled dream/ idea of freedom, justice, human rights, and peace in a escalatingly chaotic and hard to believe for some, world. Hopefully, because of reporting like this and others, so many martyrs, the truth will seep under the walls raised against it, and we will become freedom fighters too. Because freedom is not what they have intended for any of us. Just look around: who have the come for first? Do I need to name them? The sooner people see that Palestinians are us, the sooner we weaken a tenacious hold that man's inhumanity to man has upon this little globe in an immense universe we all call home.
I do worry about the names named and their families becoming targets. I pray they were all false names. I know they weren't false stories.
Martin Buber's perspective on Zionism was rooted in the view that ‘two vital claims’ were ‘opposed to one another’. Stressing the role of justice and imagination during speeches at the Zionist Congresses of 1921 and 1929, his ‘prophetic’ perspective emphasized the indivisibility of politics and morality. Distinguishing between ’Israel’ (nationalism) and ‘Zion’ (a spiritual ideal) led him to advocate for a bi-national state in Palestine. He called the way the State of Israel came into being in 1948 as an entry into history through ‘a false gateway’. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/european-judaism/57/1/ej570112.xml
For some reason a middle schooler crying over his stolen PlayStation just hits so hard (｡•́︿•̀｡)
Like it's bad enough you're gonna show up and trash the place and murder a bunch of people, you really gotta steal a little kid's toy? Like literally stealing candy from babies evil. So often my gut just wants to say "these people are inhuman", but I have to keep remembering, evil is a human choice.
In the UK police arrested journalist Sara Wilkinson and trashed her home, then imposed crippling bail conditions. The vandalism was so gratuitous - they deliberately spilled her mother's ashes from an urn - that there is a suspicion these thugs are IDF embedded in the police (they'd really be at home in the Met, aka the Metropolitan Police).
A lot of American, and Canadian, police are trained by Israelis. British cops too?
Yes, this is particularly despicable. Stealing toys from a child!
Indeed, but some are trained and predisposed.
This is a wonderful piece of journalism in its brutal truth and the courage of those who dare to expose it. Dear Drop Site, take care; you've just slung a rock at the aging Goliath. And thank you to all for the ethical, moral courage it takes to keep that close and for the time, effort, and reporting that reveals there is indeed people in the world with integrity, willing to risk their own lives for as yet unfulfilled dream/ idea of freedom, justice, human rights, and peace in a escalatingly chaotic and hard to believe for some, world. Hopefully, because of reporting like this and others, so many martyrs, the truth will seep under the walls raised against it, and we will become freedom fighters too. Because freedom is not what they have intended for any of us. Just look around: who have the come for first? Do I need to name them? The sooner people see that Palestinians are us, the sooner we weaken a tenacious hold that man's inhumanity to man has upon this little globe in an immense universe we all call home.
I do worry about the names named and their families becoming targets. I pray they were all false names. I know they weren't false stories.
Martin Buber's perspective on Zionism was rooted in the view that ‘two vital claims’ were ‘opposed to one another’. Stressing the role of justice and imagination during speeches at the Zionist Congresses of 1921 and 1929, his ‘prophetic’ perspective emphasized the indivisibility of politics and morality. Distinguishing between ’Israel’ (nationalism) and ‘Zion’ (a spiritual ideal) led him to advocate for a bi-national state in Palestine. He called the way the State of Israel came into being in 1948 as an entry into history through ‘a false gateway’. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/european-judaism/57/1/ej570112.xml
They were certainly given by the UN more than their "fair share". But that wasn't enough for them.
If Israel is not committing genocide, it is not for want of trying.
October 7th gave them the excuse they have been wanting for years.
Thank you Mariam. I really appreciate the perspectives of so many different individuals that were quoted.
Thank you, Mariam, for this brave reporting.