#full and immediate ceasefire

[mydonutyouth]

Understanding the Ceasefire Between India and Pakistan in 2025: What It Really Means

Ceasefire Between India and Pakistan in 2025

In recent news, the announcement of a full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan has dominated headlines and social media feeds alike. With tensions historically high and multiple incidents of ceasefire violations, the move has sparked both hope and questions. But what exactly is a ceasefire, and what does it mean in the current context between India and Pakistan?

🤝 What Is a Ceasefire?

A ceasefire (or cease fire) refers to a temporary or permanent halt to military action between warring parties. It is usually negotiated to reduce tension, protect civilians, and pave the way for longer-term peace agreements. In the case of India and Pakistan, a ceasefire often relates to the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu & Kashmir, where both sides have historically engaged in artillery and small arms fire.

Ceasefire meaning: A mutual agreement to stop the use of weapons and avoid further escalation.

📜 Historical Background of India-Pakistan Ceasefires

The first formal ceasefire was brokered by the United Nations in 1949.

In 2003, India and Pakistan entered a landmark ceasefire agreement which held relatively stable for years.

Ceasefire violations by Pakistan have been recorded consistently, with both sides accusing each other of initiating fire.

In 2021, both DGMO India and DGMO Pakistan reaffirmed the commitment to the 2003 ceasefire.

Now in 2025, after growing tensions and backchannel diplomacy, a renewed ceasefire has been agreed upon — with some credit going to diplomatic mediation, including statements from figures like Donald Trump and international allies.

🧭 Who Is the DGMO and Why Is It Important?

The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) is a key figure responsible for overseeing military strategies and ceasefire operations. Both DGMO India and DGMO Pakistan Army regularly communicate to reduce misunderstanding and de-escalate potential conflicts along the border.

In many ceasefire updates, the DGMO-level talks are where violations are reported and accountability is discussed.

📰 Ceasefire in the News: What’s Happening Now?

Reports from Srinagar, Akhnoor, and Peshawar suggest calm after days of cross-border tension.

The latest DGMO briefing confirmed no new violations since the ceasefire announcement.

Political figures like Shashi Tharoor, Omar Abdullah, and security experts like Commodore Raghu R Nair have urged continued dialogue.

Social media buzzed when Donald Trump’s Truth Social account praised the peace agreement: "After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire. Congratulations to both countries on using common sense and great intelligence."

⚖️ Is the War Over Between India and Pakistan?

While the ceasefire agreement signals a welcome pause, experts caution that it is not the end of conflict. Peace is a long process that requires political will, regional cooperation, and continued pressure against acts of terrorism.

Many are asking:

Did Pakistan violate the ceasefire?

Is war between India and Pakistan over?

What does full and immediate ceasefire mean?

These questions reflect the complexity of Indo-Pak relations. As of now, both sides have agreed to hold fire — a significant step toward lasting peace.

🧠 Ceasefire FAQs

Q: What is a ceasefire agreement? A: A ceasefire agreement is a mutual understanding between two or more sides to stop active military operations, often as a precursor to peace talks.

Q: Who is the DGMO of India? A: The Director General of Military Operations of the Indian Army oversees strategic operations, including ceasefire monitoring.

Q: Has Pakistan broken the ceasefire? A: Historically, there have been violations. However, as per the 2025 agreement, no violations have been officially reported yet.

Q: What is the role of international leaders like Donald Trump? A: International figures often act as mediators or issue supportive statements to encourage peaceful outcomes.

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Conclusion

The 2025 India-Pakistan ceasefire is a significant diplomatic step, showing that even in volatile geopolitical climates, dialogue and restraint can prevail. While it is too early to declare a permanent end to tensions, this ceasefire represents an opportunity to reshape the narrative of Indo-Pak relations — from hostility to hope.

Stay updated on India-Pakistan developments at [blackcarrot.in/news] and follow us for neutral, well-researched coverage.

[kikiswords]

the icj is so full of shit cause what the FUCK is that ruling

[ursie]

Brennan’s statement on Palestine :

[ ID: Statement from Brennan Lee Mulligan, on Instagram. It consists of three black squares with plain white text. The text reads as follows:

"I'm calling on my government officials to immediately demand a ceasefire and de-escalation in Gaza.

I applaud anyone and everyone calling for peace, with the understanding that real peace only exists if it deeply and honestly accounts for and fully ends violence in all its forms. Real peace addresses and corrects wrong-doing in the past and guards against it in the future. It goes hand in hand with justice and requires truth, restoration, reconciliation, reparation.

Peace cannot co-exist with collective punishment, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. It cannot co-exist with blockades, embargoes, or with 2.2 million people, half of which are children, trapped with no hope of escape or political recourse. it cannot co-exist with murdered journalists, bombed hospitals, or years of protesters being shot and killed at the border. it cannot co-exist with illegal settlements, segregated roads, and the silent, imperial chill that settles over the gaps in the violence - the unspoken geopolitical consensus that a group of people need to unflinchingly accept permanent subjugation and occupation.

My hear breaks for every Israeli person who lost loved ones during the attacks of October 7th. It breaks for every Ukrainian person who has lost their loved ones. It breaks for every Congolese person who has lost their loved ones. I do not speak on behalf of Palestinians now because some lives are worth more than others. I speak on their behalf because I, and all Americans, have a responsibility to pressure our government because we are responsible for this. Some have said that this situation is complicated. The Unites States government clearly disagrees. It has definitively, categorically, militarily chosen a side, and I do not agree with that decision.

In wiring this, I have been wrestling with what I am sure many people like me wrestle with: There is a powerful narrative surrounding violence in the Middle East that asserts and ever-moving goalpost of self-education and study in order to even be qualified to have an opinion. As someone with a love of research, I have at times in my life fallen into the trap that I am not educated enough clever enough, or aware enough to have a worthwhile perspective, and that three more articles and two more lectures and one more book will do the trick. Unfortunately, democracy doesn't work that way - we, the citizens of any democracy, cannot possibly be experts on every aspect of the policies of our governments, and yet if we do not constantly weigh in an make our voices heard, the entire experiment falls apart. Not only do people constantly doubt themselves and the things they can see with their own two eyes, but old shortcuts for political action can fall apart as well: This specific issue exists along a raw, charged and unique faultline in American Politics. Nobody I grew up with has ever challenged me on my support for abortion rights, LGBT rights, Black Lives Matter, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, none of it. The people in my country who would despise me for those positions are, for all intents and purposes, strangers to me. But there are people who I've broken bread with and shared honest affection with who will see the words I've written here and incorrectly conclude that I do not wish for the security, dignity and happiness of them and their loved ones, and that breaks my fucking heart. Full-throatedly condemning the actions of the Israeli government while battling rampant anti-semitism at home is an urgent moral necessity, and doing so is made unnecessarily challenging for the average person to navigate by the pointed obfuscations of cynical opportunists, bigots, and demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum who see some advantage in sowing that incredibly dangerous confusion.

So, I'm calling my representatives. I'm having hard conversations with friends and family. I'm here, talking to you. I should have done it sooner. If you're Israeli and hurt by this statement, know that I want freedom, dignity, security and peace for you, and that every ounce of my political awareness believes whole-heartedly that the actions of your government are not only destroying innocent lives, but doing so to the detriment of you and your loved ones' safety. If you're American and feel lost and confused - I understand and empathize. This, the whole country, only works when we get involved. I am constantly haunted by the specter that maybe I missed some crucial piece of information on this, or any, important world event. I'll just have to make my peace with that self-doubt and trust my gut by going with Jewish Voice for Peace, Amnesty International, the Geneva Conventions, the United Nations, etc. And if you're Palestinian and reading this: I unreservedly support your right to life, to freedom, to happiness and human flourishing, to full enfranchisement and equal rights, to opportunity, prosperity and abundance, to the restoration of stolen property and land, and to a Free Palestine." End ID ]

[sayruq]

The Secretary-General was deeply saddened to learn of the death of a United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS) staff member and injury to another DSS staffer when their UN vehicle was struck as they traveled to the European Hospital in Rafah this morning.The Secretary-General condemns all attacks on UN personnel and calls for a full investigation. He sends his condolences to the family of the fallen staff member.With the conflict in Gaza continuing to take a heavy toll – not only on civilians, but also on humanitarian workers – the Secretary-General reiterates his urgent appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and for the release of all hostages.

[i-am-aprl]

Canadians: TIME-SENSITIVE CALL TO ACTION! 🛑 Monday, March 18 is CRITICAL. The is forcing a vote in Parliament on an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo on Israel, full restoration of funding for UNRWA, imposing sanctions on genocidal Israeli officials and officially recognizing the State of Palestine. All NDP Members of Parliament will unanimously support the motion. It will be up to the and to pass it, since all Conservatives will no doubt vote against it. Call your MP asking them to support this motion.

Sample email: Hello, My name is ABC and I live in City, Province, and I’m calling/writing out of concern for what is happening in Gaza. On Monday March 18, do the right thing and support the NDP’s Opposition Day motion, which calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an arms embargo, the full restoration of UNRWA funding and humanitarian aid, and more. We need you to use all levers you have to push for the only humanitarian solution that really matters: an end to the atrocities.

[evilwickedme]

It's so clear to me that so many so called "anti Zionists" - especially the non Palestinian goyim - have no idea how the Israeli election system works, and how bibi remains in power, and why we had five elections in like, three years, despite elections supposedly being every four years - because he couldn't keep a government stable enough to stay in power. Bibi netanyahu is MASSIVELY unpopular, and his approval rate has tanked even more since the war started, even among likud voters, the people who vote for HIS party (although their approval rates ranked less than the rest of the population). He has an extreme right wing government because if he didn't cooperate with right wing extremists and haredim he straight up wouldn't have the majority he needs to be our prime minister in the first place. He's been on trial for corruption for years at this point, and tried to completely restructure the judicial system just to avoid prison - leading to nearly a full year of protests until Oct 7. Luckily it didn't end up passing.

If elections were held at any point in the last five months since this war started, not only would he not be PM, we'd straight up have a center-left government. My recent transformation into a Yair Golan stan account is a joke but also 100% real - according to polls from the last three months or so, if he does what he's campaigning to do, leading a combined avoda and meretz party, he'd get enough votes to have an actual influential left wing party in the government for the first time in decades. An unbelievable amount of Israelis are calling for bibi to resign, many of them not calling for it to happen after the war ends, but right now.

I am sourcing this information from polls conducted by channels 11 (kan), 12, and 13, as well as by the Israeli democracy foundation, all but one of our important news channels - channel 14, the last channel, is our equivalent of fox news, and despite their numbers often being extremely different due to what is in my opinion biased reporting and flawed methodology, even they at times have had to admit that gantz is currently leading in the polls.

(Disclaimer that I work for a company that provides subtitles for channel 13, but i do not directly work for channel 13. Channel 13 leans mostly center left, and employs several (self identified) Arab Israelis in front of the camera, including Lucy Aharish, who makes considerable effort to bring Palestinian and Bedouin perspectives to her show. It also employs at least one massive racist though.)

I write this post because I keep seeing an unsourced claim by goyim that there's a poll showing a high rate of approval - 88%! - of the destruction and/or deaths Israel and the IDF are causing in Gaza. I went down a rabbit hole and simply couldn't find a poll asking about approval of deaths or destruction, although maybe I was looking up the wrong keywords? As a result I have just... So many questions. Because with the information I have from trustworthy local news sources, from the news channels I mentioned above and papers such as yediot aharonot/ynet and Haaretz, it doesn't fit with current public opinion, including many recent protests for more efforts towards a ceasefire. So my questions are thus -

Who conducted this poll? Was it a think tank, a government agency, a paper, a news channel? If so, which one? Are they left leaning, right leaning? Was it conducted by an Israeli or foreign institution?

Who did they ask? Was it a sample of likud voters; all Israeli adults; did they include only Jewish Israelis or also Arab citizens (approx. 1.5 million out of our 8 million population), Bedouins, and other minorities?

When was the poll conducted? Was it in October, immediately after the Oct 7 massacre, before the death toll in Gaza grew? Was it conducted more recently?

What, exactly, did they ask? Did they ask about destruction in general, or about the death toll in particular? Did they ask about the attempts to rescue hostages with military means, or all military actions? Did they ask about the number of Hamas operatives dead, about their estimated ratio of Hamas to civilians, about the total deaths?

What was the size of the pool surveyed? Was it conducted on a few dozen, a few hundred, or a few thousand people?

Because without this information, that one, sole statistic is essentially useless. As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Always look at the source and ask: who asked the questions, who got asked, and what the questions were.

More specific statistics and sources under the cut.

I did find one survey by the Israel democracy foundation that asked if the IDF should take the Gazan suffering into account - an entirely different question, although it did still have a horrific 89% Jewish Israelis and 14% Arab Israelis and Palestinian citizens who said they shouldn't. That said, the pool they were drawing from was not very large - 500 of the interviews were conducted in Hebrew, 100 were conducted in Arabic. Also, of the people who supposedly said that they shouldn't, a little more than half of both populations said they should "somewhat" take it into account - that is, they didn't say they shouldn't take it into account at all, just not make it their first priority. This survey was conducted mid December.

In another survey by the same source with a slight larger sample size (a little over 600 Jewish Israelis and a little over 150 Arab Israelis), an insanely low 15% still wanted Bibi to be the PM, with the only candidate who received more than 6.5% being the center candidate Benny Gantz, who historically has tried to cooperate with center and left parties, with a whopping 23% of the votes. The survey included 10 candidates, as well as five other non candidate options. 4% voted "just not Bibi", and an actually insane 30.5% voted they were undecided. Only a quarter of those surveyed believed Bibi would manage to maintain a coalition after the war, a number that includes more extreme right wing voters, and only the ultra Orthodox haredi population had a majority of people (60%) who believed he can. This survey was conducted in January.

The channel 13 news survey from early March - barely over a week ago! - covered more specifically which parties would manage to get into the government and how many seats they would get, as under a certain amount of votes you simply do not get seats. Not all seats get into a coalition. According to their poll, the amount of seats the likud would get is halved, from 32 to 17, while gantz's the state camp would grow from 12 to 39. While currently meretz gets 4 seats and haavodah do not get enough votes to get a seat at the table so to speak, a combined haavodah and meretz under Yair Golan gets 9 mandates. In total, the right wing only get 47 mandates, well short of the amount of mandates necessary to create a government.

Channel 12's corresponding poll from January shows 35 mandates for gantz, and bibi had 18 mandates. Channel 11, in the same month, gave gantz 33 mandates and bibi 20.

I also sources an English Jerusalem post article which reports on channel 14's polls; jpost is a right wing biased paper, and yet even they report 36 mandates for gantz and 18 for bibi as of February.

Sources

The Israel democracy institute: 1 (English), 2 (Hebrew), 3 (Hebrew)

Haaretz: 1 (English) (paywalled)

Channel 13: 1 (Hebrew)

Ma'ariv: 1 (Hebrew) (reporting on channel 12)

Podcast which summarizes the above article: 1 (English) (includes transcript)

Kan 11: 1 (Hebrew)

Jpost: 1 (Hebrew)

[heritageposts]

By Haidar Eid, associate Professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza.

Now that we have heard the interim judgement the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, we can confidently say a new world order is in the making. The World Court confirmed today that South Africa’s charge under the Genocide Convention that “Israel has engaged in, is engaging in and risks further engaging in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza” is “plausible”. It has further ruled that Israel must “take all measures” to avoid acts of genocide in Gaza. The court has stopped short of calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, which has already been demanded by an absolute majority of world nations. Still, most of the “provisional measures” called for by the Republic of South Africa have been endorsed by the court. It is difficult to see how Israel can implement these measures and fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention, without agreeing to a ceasefire. There is no indication, of course, that Israel has any intention of heeding the Court’s provisions. In fact, since the ICJ heard South Africa’s case two weeks ago, Israel has doubled down on its genocidal acts in Gaza. In the past 24 hours alone, it carried out 21 mass killings, murdering 200 and injuring 370 civilians. So Israel’s message to the Court, and the world at large, is clear: It does not care for the opinion, demands or “measures” of any international institution – legal or political. It will do as it pleases. [...] Israel may not heed the court’s rulings and provisions, but South Africa’s historic stance will still have consequences. As stated by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa after the ICJ’s interim decision: “Third States are now on notice of the existence of a serious risk of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. They must, therefore, also act independently and immediately to prevent genocide by Israel and to ensure that they are not themselves in violation of the Genocide Convention, including by aiding or assisting in the commission of genocide. This necessarily imposes an obligation on all States to cease funding and facilitating Israel’s military actions, which are plausibly genocidal.” With this case, South Africa has put not only Israel, but the entirety of the global justice system on trial. This case is a major turning point for humanity, because it marks the first time in history when a Global South country bravely crossed a red line drawn by the colonial West and demanded its favourite settler colony, Israel, be held to account for the crimes it has long been committing against an Indigenous people. Today, thanks to South Africa, the entire colonial West, and its centuries-long history of theft, dispossession, and injustice is on trial at the World Court. Future generations will remember January 26, 2024, as the day on which the world has finally decided to hold a genocide state, and its powerful backers, accountable for repeated, longstanding violations of international law. Yes, a new world order is in the making.

. . . full article on al jazeera (26 Jan 2024)

[rabotimagines]

This is a bit old but I was reading this post of yours https://www.tumblr.com/rabotimagines/777430496310329344/battlefield-flirting-gn-bot-reader-x-megatron

And it for me thinking of the constructicons cause the way your wrote Scrapper was adorable. And it had me thinking of a rare time the bots and cons have to work together over something, and you have the constructicons being little fangirls.

And holding back Scrapper from going over as he gushes you glanced at them(completely missing Long Hual who’s already walking over)

Just big dorks, I love big dumb himbo mechs my sweets

Please never be shy to mention my older works I like talking about stuff I've shared old or not (*´∀｀)ﾉ, also I'm assuming you meant Scavenger based on context.

"Paparazzi" GN BOT Reader x The Constructicons

Summary: Constructicons fanning from afar. (Long Haul up close)

G1 characters: The Constructicons, a lil' bit of Ironhide.

Genre/Theme: Yearning/jealous gestalt.

Warnings: Constructicons being possessive while not in a relationship with Reader.

Pronouns: You, Your, Yours

Notes: Flirty Autobot Reader! The cons all want a piece, actually, but Constructicon focus, reader threatening Long Haul a little. (He likes it so its fine)

"Scavenger, stop fragging trying it, you useless fragger!" Bonecrucher yanked Scavenger back by his grappler. Scavenger yelped and nearly took a knee from the force of it. Scrapper grabbed his arm and forced him to stay up right before he could make a big show falling down in the dirt.

Scavenger helplessly wriggled against the hold he was in. "Why not!? We're on the same side right now!"

"Because you're going to embarrass us, you pathetic loser!" Mixmaster snapped. Hook scoffed and tried very hard to pretend he was not a part of his own gestalt via looking away from the entire scene while off to the side.

The Decepticons were on a temporary ceasefire right now with the Autobots. And well... more than a few Deceptions figured they'd obviously try and take advantage of the situation to interact with you a bit.

But the Autobots were smarter than that. Because they had made sure not to let you be without at least one of them by your side at all times. Optimus had kept you particularly close for the first joor of the cease fire. Megatron making a point to converse with both of you. Optimus smart enough not to let Megatron even a klick of privacy with you. But you just seemed somehow entertained by the development. Chiming in occasionally with your usual smile like you weren't stuck in between both faction leaders heated glares.

Thundercracker had surprisingly managed a few private words in with you. You were stuck with the twins as guards at the time, and they were both distracted by Skywarp and Strascream. All until that red mini bot noticed and came stomping in and physically got between the two of you. He immediately and loudly started chastising Thundercracker for being a pervert. That got people's helms turning back towards you and Thundercracker to retreat. While you physically held the red mini bot back from breaking the held peace.

Ironhide was with you now sitting right next to you on a large rock. And they were faced by a truth they hadn't had the privy to know before now. You and Ironhide were close to one another. Very close. Sure, you were friendly with everyone enemy or not, but-

Scapper watched you grab Ironhides arm and then use it to both pull the mech closer and lean your full frame weight against him. Ironhide jolted and stared at you with a frown. Your smile curled a bit more in clear amusement, and you said something to him. Whatever it was made, Ironhide's optics brighten, and his plating fluff. Scrapper could feel a bit of jealously curl in his own fuel tank. So Scrapper already wasn't looking forward to their next mind meld if even he was feeling this way about it.

Scrapper then watched Ironhide shove you off his arm aggressively- which had Bonecrucher and Scavengers plating visibly bristling at the sight. You were theirs to break and make after all- but you only laughed and pushed Ironhide back. The sound much lighter than how you'd usually laugh on the battlefield around any of them.

"Slag it all-!" Scrappers' attention was brought back to his gestalt when Scavenger cursed and promptly broke out of the hold he was in- and rushed forward. Oh Primus, if this idiot breaks the ceasefire on accident!

You noticed Scavenger running over and wordlessly stared. Which only made Ironhide turn and watch just as Mixmaster closed in on Scavenger and tackled him. They hit the ground, and Mixmaster sat down on top of Scavenger, effectively pinning him in place. Scavenger scrambled at the ground while Mixmaster rightfully degraded him.

And you saw that entire thing- Oh, joy and Ironhide was making his way over here now. This could only go well...

-

Ironhide marched off towards Long Haul's disruptive gestalt. Now Long Haul couldn't help letting himself get a touch closer and ended up stopping in his tracks to stare. You looked- different so close up. Well, it's not different, but it was definitely different being able to actually see you like this. Your faceplate, the shape of your olfactory, and your optics. He could even make out a few scrapes and scratches in your metal.

You must've felt him staring because you turned immediately towards him, and your optics found his visor. Oh, slag- well- it's been a fraggin while since he's done this, but he knows he's supposed to go over or make himself scarce when he's been caught staring. Long Haul glanced at Ironhide, still focused on the rest of his gestalt before he let himself get even closer to you.

"Hm- oh uh-" your optic bridge creased in thought. "...Long Haul-? Right?" You wondered aloud. Slag- you knew his designation- unaware of the effect you had on him, you just continued on. "Sorry I call y'all different things in my helm." You laughed like it was no big deal. "I like 'Doll' a bit better for you to tell the truth." You're smile curled, and Long Haul could feel his visor brightening under the playfulness in your tone.

"Uh, right. That's me! ...Ha ha-" Oh Primus, fragging come on-! it hadn't been that long since he'd done this... had it? Primus, how long had he been a Decepticon, and how long ago was his last bar pick up? Long Haul stared before finally sitting down next to you on the rock. Not nearly as close as Ironhide had been not feeling particularly lucky about you saying something if he got as close as you two had been.

Fortunately, you just seemed to find his floundering amusing because you just slightly raised your optic ridge. You then huffed a breathy vent that could have been taken as a laugh- (He was taking it as a laugh and a win in his processor.). "Right, now... what's got you over on my side of the red tape, Doll?"

"What? I can't-" Long Haul gestured vaguely, and why the slag did he do that? "Socialize during the ceasefire?"

"Oh, is that what you're doing now? How brave of you." You praised him, and Long Haul knew you were trying to make a joke from the soft amusement oozing into your voice. But he had to tamper down the urge for his engine to purr. Why the frag was he acting like this right now!? He wasn't Scavenger! Have they not had an actual interaction with you in so long that his frame was glitching over benign slag now!?

Long Haul was so worried over his frames reaction- and his plating fluffing and what you'd think that he almost misses it. But he was close. The closest he'd ever actually been to you before. And Long Haul needed to have a critical optic for noticing small slag for all the projects they'd build- so he sees it. Long Haul notices your optics crinkle and your smile becoming just slightly more pronounced over his response. Long Haul is struck with a sudden realization that made his plating clamp back down and his processor to stop to focus immediately.

You knew.

You knew what you were doing to him-!? You knew!? You knew what you'd been doing to them, and- you enjoyed it! It wasn't just some thoughtless habit!

Something heated, he usually only feels when it's all of them as Devastator forms in his tank, and he acts without thinking.

Long Haul couldn't stop himself from grabbing your arm when you almost turned away. "You know-!"

Before anything else happened, you grabbed his own arm with your free one and yanked him closer. Your chassis pressing against his own Immediately derailing his train of thought and making him release your arm. You waggled a digit in his face and clicked your glossia. The pad of the digit coming down and pressing were a mouth would've been on his mask if he had the equipment. "Careful now, Doll, you might just get burned if you get too close. We don't want that now..."

Long Haul arched his spinal strut instinctively when your other servo suddenly dug into the notches of his back. Only making him press closer to your own frame, causing a slight sound when metal pushed on metal. You tilted your helm slightly, your face now only a digit away from his own- "Do we?" Your tone was dark. Your optics sharp. Your em field that was brushing along him warmly had gone completely flat. And Long Haul suddenly remembered the other Autobots weren't the only reason the Decepticons hadn't been able to capture you right yet.

... And maybe Long Haul did want whatever you were promising him if he didn't comply.

But the look in your optics told him that was not what you wanted to hear from him right now.

"N-no." Long Haul settled on getting out.

The almost devious expression on your faceplate turned back to looser and more playful- like usual. "Good." You pulled away from him and stood up. "Till next time then, Doll!" You practically sung. With that, you turned and waltzed your way over to where his gestalt was definitely getting threatened by Ironhide- and Long Haul was suddenly very aware he really liked watching you go... he has to suppress his engine from revving, and he could still feel his back plating shifting where you'd grabbed him roughly.

You threw your arm over Ironhide's paldron and tugged him closer to you, making him and the rest of his gestalt snap their attention right to you instead. His gestalt was absolutely going to hate him when they mind melded again. But hey, it wasn't Long Haul's fault you were so addicting! Primus- they needed a better strategy to get a hold of you and make you theirs yesterday! Especially when you did everything on purpose!

They may be mad after the mind meld, but afterward, they'd at least be as serious about you as Long Haul was right now... For better or worse.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

DAY OF ACTION: Today – Wednesday, October 16 – marks the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Ceasefire Now Resolution by Reps. Cori Bush, Delia Ramirez, and Summer Lee. For a year the US has failed to secure a ceasefire in Gaza because it continues to supply Israel with billions of dollars in weapons that are used to kill Palestinian civilians. Tell your Senators: It is beyond time for the US to use our immense leverage to stop this bloodshed.

In November the Senate will hold the first-ever vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel. Join thousands around the country in demanding your Senators stop these weapons to Israel: jvp.org/stopweapons

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Emma El Ghadban, a Palestinian-Lebanese Montrealer, has attended many protests since the start of the current war in Gaza. She says she doesn't remember her last full night's sleep. With family in Lebanon and the West Bank, and friends in Gaza, she attends demonstrations because she hopes those in power will stop the war. "If I was alive during the Holocaust, if I was alive during the Vietnam war, if I was alive during the civil rights movement, I would be doing exactly what I'm doing right now," she said.  "It doesn't matter your religion, it doesn't matter your politics. We don't care about any of this stuff. We've been saying that if it was anybody's children, we would be in the streets for them," said El Ghadban in her speech to the crowd gathered at Place-des-Arts. 

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[pyramid-scheme-of-the-ewe]

Could you share with us your favorite shamgoat headcanons? I need them for… uh… reasons 👀

Ooooh, let's see here.

How do I go about this without spoiling my fics hmmm.

Ah screw it, here have some sneak-pics on what's to come.

For one, assuming that it is somewhat confirmed the Goat was Shamura's vessel, we know that the Goat's realm Shamura is probably a different Shamura from the one in the Lamb's world. Now, it may or may not be that the Goat had failed to defeat their god in the final battle and was killed by them. This was how I wrote it in my main Goatfic (The Damn Fellowship of Death and War. No, I do not know what I was on when I came up with that name and no, you cannot have some), but I didn't exactly think of it as canon. Apparently there are some hints in the update that point to the Goat being 'undead', at least that's what people are theorizing, so it just may be actually canon that the Goat was killed by their Shamura.

Now this is so funny to me, because I imagine that when the Goat comes to the Lamb's world and meets their Shamura: they are so incredibly pissed. And for no actual reason. Like this isn't the guy who betrayed and killed them. It sort of is but sort of isn't.

I imagine Shamura immediately takes a liking to the Goat's intelligence and wits. Meanwhile the Goat just hates them and Shamura cannot for the life of them figure out why.

Pretty sure most of us see Shamgoat as having a lot of back-and-forth snark as their dynamic. But here's how I see it: Shamura's having the time of their life, exchanging quips, happy to have someone to match their wit, not taking anything personally.

Meawhile the Goat's losing their shit. They're actually trying to be genuinely mean (but deep down they do also end up enjoying the banter as well).

Also, you know how Shamura only talks in riddles sometimes? I imagine the Goat is the only one smart enough to immediately understand them.

I've actually thought of this kind of cute moment: Shamura's riddles are definitely super poetic, and I have this idea that they slowly, accidentally reveal their growing feelings for the Goat by essentially delivering a freaking love poem. And everyone just sort of gets absolutely confused, most of all the Goat.

Ok, these are definitely going in Damn Fellowship of Death and War.

Now for them already as a couple *rubs hands together*

Right, so they're dynamic in my head is kinda' interesting in the fact that they're both gods of war and wisdom, but they go about it in completely different ways. Especially for the wisdom aspect. I imagine Shamura is more what someone traditionally imagines when they hear the word 'wise' (mature, knowledgeable, experienced, rational), meanwhile the Goat is more like clever, witty, wily - that sort of thing. The Goat's also a lot more aggressive and gremlin-like while Shamura is more chill and calm.

But the truth is the Goat will outdo them. They will be the better god of wisdom. Shamura's 'greater-good' strategies that keep screwing them over are absent from the Goat. Despite the fact that the Goat seems like they're more impulsive and temperamental, they're not. They're straight-forward and don't take shit. That kind of attitude is what keeps things simple and away from overcomplications. Something Shamura lacked. At the end of the day, the Goat will make the better decisions. And Shamura is more than ok with it.

I mean it makes sense, they are sort of supposed to be the parallel to Narilamb, with the Lamb outdoing Narinder as his successor.

Ok, but like I imagine if they had an argument or fight, they would end up dealing with it like a freaking war negotiation. Like they would handle it with the utmost seriousness and calmness, with full out peace agreements, ceasefire contracts, powerpoint presentations and shit. (Ok, but this would be so healthy though. Imagine if you dealt with every argument and decision with the same diplomacy and seriousness as a war negotiation.)

Like imagine this meme in the most serious and literal sense:

This is so them.

Imagine the morning after a fight:

Shamura: I'll pass you the salt, if you hand over the northern territories of the butter plate.

Goat: Only if you include the pepper shaker.

Shamura: You drive a hard bargain.

Goat: This is war, not your local flea market.

At the end of the day though, this idea that the new god of wisdom will have someone to help them with their domain, to advise them and support them - that's just so special and significant. I think we can conclude that Shamura's domain is the probably one of the most difficult to bear - everyone relies on them, they're the one who has to know everything. Always. They always have to know what to do. But who would they have turned to if they're the ones who need advise? No one. They're supposed to be the most knowledgeable. They know the best. No one can help them.

But the Goat won't have to go through that. They will have someone to fall back on, they will have someone who can tell them something new. Because they'll have the former wisdom god by their side. When the Goat isn't 'all-knowing', Shamura can be. They can help carry the weight.

Shamura can make sure their successor will never feel as alone in the choices they would have to make as they once were. Because they both no better. They both know the best. And two all-knowledgeable heads are better than one.

Also, also, here's a weird idea no one asked for (...except for the person literally asking): If they had kids and let's say some are spiders, I kinda' think that spider babies would crawl all over their parents as a means of comfort and I have this mental image of a Shamgoat spider child climbing up the Goat's head, building a web in between their horns and sitting there all day, just having their dad carry them around everywhere.

Here, have this visual:

There's more stuff, buuuut that's as much as I'm willing to spoil. I still wanna' give these two a oneshot, if not a full out story, so you'll have to wait and see for the rest.

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I need to get something off my chest and this only became clear to me 45 seconds ago. 

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say the following. 

I am DEEPLY traumatized. 

For me, the trauma from losing my older brother to terror really never went away but it definitely became bearable. Life was going on. 

But then it came to an immediate stop on October 7th, 2023, the day my heart was ripped from my body over and over. 

So what happened 45 seconds ago that made me realize this? 

A friend of mine reached out. He produced a movie that he’ll be screening in synagogues across America on Tisha Beav, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, a fast day that starts in a few hours. 

He sent me a private link to watch the movie. He promised me it had no gore, no atrocities, and that I��d be safe watching it. 

I started the movie. I forced myself to keep watching. 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 15 minutes. 

But then I asked myself why I was doing this to myself and I stopped the movie. 

I simply could not. And no, there was no gore, no blood, just a whole lot of unbearable tragedy. 

The movie had many people, heroes who told their story from that dark day. There were many positive messages in the movie and I totally see what they were trying to accomplish with this movie. 

But I simply could not keep watching. 

This isn’t behind us yet for us to look back at it. We are still in it! That day hadn’t ended. The mourning and devastation hasn’t ended. 

Our national suffering hasn’t ended. 

This entire country is traumatized. The government will have to spend BILLIONS after this war to deal with the PTSD of this entire country. Tens of billions.  

I still find it hard to register that October 7th happened. That thousands of Gazans, and I chose that word carefully because it is an absolute lie to say it was only Hamas terrorists, came in and massacred families. And while they did it, as many survivors have attested, they laughed. 

A few survivors have said that among all the bloodshed and cruelty, the part that sent shivers down their spines was the laughter. 

As these animals raped and beheaded men, women, and children, as they burned families alive, they laughed. Hysterically. This for them was the highlight of their life. 

But I can’t watch a movie about it because we’re still in it. 

We are doing everything we can to teach our enemies a lesson that gone are the days that you can just massacre Jews and not pay a price. They must pay a price big enough that they will know that they made a very big mistake on October 7th. 

Our enemies need to bleed enough that they can no longer say that they’ll do 10/7 over and over. They need to fear Israel. They need to know what happens when you invade our country and murder our people. 

In any normal society, the entire world would stand behind anyone trying to eliminate that evil. And you know what? They would. They’d stand behind anyone, anyone except the Jews. 

I’m going to say this as clearly as I can and yes, I am speaking from a place of pain, unbearable pain, pain and trauma, but I still have to say it. 

If you are calling for Israel to hold its fire before eliminating and obliterating Hamas, you are making a clear statement, “I know full well what they did on October 7th, 2023, and I am completely ok with them doing it again and again.”

That’s what a ceasefire with Hamas means. 

I have not gone down there to see the houses and cars burned to a crisp, to smell the death in the air. I couldn’t. I still can’t. 

I can’t watch or read about the atrocities. I block anyone who sends me that horror. From my perspective, those are snuff films, with one small difference. The atrocity in those films? The victims are my family members. 

Until Israel’s enemies, Iran’s puppets are a thing of the past, it is not only Israel’s right to eliminate them wherever they are, it is Israel’s responsibly! Its responsibility to its citizens. Its responsibility to those families. Its responsibility to the world! 

What Hamas did on that day, and I mean this whole heartedly, is the cruelest barbarism the world has EVER known. Ever. Yes, ever! 

There are many Holocaust survivors who were interviewed after 10/7 who all said the same thing. “Even the Nazis didn’t do this…”

The Nazis drank themselves to sleep. Deep down they were ashamed. Hamas live streamed it and is deeply proud of October 7th.  

So let me very clear. There is not ONE, not ONE other country on this planet that would have to justify a war like this after a day like that. Not one. 

Except Israel, the only Jewish state. 

I am far from being able to watch movies about October 7th. Maybe I’ll never get there. I’m unable to hear the stories, watch the videos, or even see the pictures. 

Every time I accidentally see anything about that day, I am retraumatized! 

So yes, I know we will win this war and I know things will be ok but I am far from there. I am far from being ok. This country is far from being ok.  

And the salt on the open wound is the fact that we can’t do what we need to do to eliminate the threat on our borders and ensure that 10/7 never happens again, because every step of the way, the global community puts wrenches in our wheels. 

“Proportionate response”? What’s proportionate to murdering 1200 innocent people in their homes? What’s proportionate to raping mothers in front of their children and children in front of their mothers? What’s proportionate to beheading babies? There is no proportionate response to such barbarism. It doesn’t exist. 

“Genocide” 

“Indiscriminate killing”

“Starvation” 

Such lies! 

“Don’t go into Rafah or else!”

The lies don’t stop. The deception never ends. 

Israel eliminates tens of terrorists. Hamas calls them kids and the world eats it up! 

The aftermath of 10/7, which continues till today, is almost as hard to believe as 10/7 was. 

There are two sides in this war and there is no option C. 

Israel who fights to live in peace and to remove the animals who raped our children from this planet before they do it again, but next time, it won’t only be Israel. 

Hamas who did what they did and aim to do it again and again. 

Those are your only two choices.  

Remaining silent today is the equivalent of witnessing first hand what the Nazis did and turning a blind eye. Remaining silent and neutral in this war is immoral. 

Defending Hamas or demanding Israel cease its fire and not finish the job is immoral. 

Giving Israel anything but your FULL support is immoral. 

And let’s say it as it is. Enough with the charade already. If, after October 7th, you don’t stand with Israel, you are actively encouraging Hamas to do it again. You are actively condoning the murder of Jews and encouraging them to do it again.  

If you don’t stand with Israel now, in our darkest hour, you stand with Hamas and pardon my French, but if you stand with rapists, murderers, and pedophiles who take pride in their “work”, well you are a terror-supporting, Jew-hating, mass murder-condoning piece of… and you will be remembered in history as such. 

I am deeply traumatized and the truth is, for this country and the Jewish people, trauma is the new normal because we are all traumatized. 

Anyone who knows what happened on October 7, 2023 should be deeply traumatized. 

Stand with Israel when we need you most. Do what you can to help. We won’t forget it. 

If you don’t, history won’t forget it. 

Tonight begins the 9th of Av, as I said, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. I’ll be going to the western wall to pray. 

For 45 years, I fasted on this day but deep down, I didn’t really feel the pain we are supposed to feel on this day. How can I authentically mourn the destruction of a temple I never saw and find very hard to relate to?

This year, I will feel it in spades! This year, we experienced an entire year of the 9th of Av. 

This year, we are fasting under the very real threat of our enemies murdering us again like they always have. 

Iran threatening to attack on the 9th of Av. They know what they’re doing. They know that this day is our most vulnerable. 

So tonight, I will begin my mourning and my fasting with a gaping hole in my heart and a deep prayer that God make this our last 9th of Av. That one year from now, we will dance again in the streets of Jerusalem and the prophecies of the Jewish people coming home will all have come true. 

Tonight I will try to embrace the pain and hope it’s not too unbearable. It will be. I know that. 

But tonight, for the first time in my life, the 9th of Av will be what it was supposed to be, a day on which we mourn and remember what our enemies did to us over and over. 

Tonight, this year, it won’t be hard to feel it. 

The only thing that’ll be difficult this year is to bear the unbearable pain that we feel as a nation. 

I wish you a meaningful fast if you’re fasting and if you’re not, spend a few moments to reflect on our history, specifically as it pertains to this day, the 9th of Av. Maybe even say a little prayer that we get past this. It can’t hurt. 

The Jewish people need the strength to get through this dark time in our history. We’ve been through worse and came out on the other side, but getting through this will require real strength and dedication. We need all the prayers we can get. 

Have a meaningful 9th of Av. I know I will.

@HilzFuld

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UCLA launched their Gaza Solidarity Encampment today. Their demands are as follows:

1. DIVEST: Withdraw all UCLA Foundation funds from companies & institutions that are complicit in the israeli occupation, apartheid, & genocide 2. DISCLOSE: Provide full transparency to all UC-wide & UCLA Foundation 3. END POLICING: End targeted repression & policing of pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus, & sever all ties w/ LAPD 4. BOYCOTT: Sever all connections to israeli universities, including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, research partnerships, & UCLA’s Nazarian Center. 5. END THE SILENCE: Call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and end to the occupation and genocide in Palestine.

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Northern Gaza is experiencing a “full-blown famine”, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said, and warned that it is “moving its way south”. In an interview with NBC News set to air on Sunday, Cindy McCain said that her remarks are based on what the WFP has seen and experienced on the ground. UN officials and aid agencies have for months warned of such a scenario. “It’s horror. It’s so hard to look at and it’s so hard to hear,” McCain told the US broadcaster’s Meet the Press programme. “What we are asking for and what we continually ask for is a ceasefire and the ability to have unfettered access, to get in safe through the various ports and gate crossings,” she said, according to a video clip of the interview. On Saturday, a delegation from Palestinian group Hamas was in Egypt to continue negotiations on a ceasefire amid an uptick in international pressure for a deal to be reached. Hamas’s spokesman Osama Hamdan said there had been “some forward steps”. Yet Israel has threatened to launch its ground invasion of Rafah in the southernmost tip of the enclave, which is home to more than 1.4 million displaced Palestinians who have fled the Israeli military’s relentless bombardment in other parts of the Gaza Strip. Israel has severely restricted the entry of critical humanitarian supplies into Gaza despite warnings from its allies and the United Nations of a looming famine in parts of the Palestinian territory. Its military has also repeatedly attacked and killed Palestinian civilians waiting to collect aid in the Strip. This week it reopened the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing into northern Gaza, but Israeli settlers attacked two aid convoys sent by Jordan. The UN has said the amounts remain insufficient to meet the vast and growing needs of Gaza’s starving population. The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has previously warned that more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is facing “catastrophic hunger” any time between mid-March and May

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If you're in the US, enter your address at the second link to get a full list of all of your federal, state, and local representatives.

Tell them that US support for this massacre must stop NOW, and the US must demand an immediate return to the ceasefire.

Israel has already killed over 100 people since the end of the ceasefire this morning. And it has already killed over 15,000 civilians, half of them children.

The US government and Joe Biden are perhaps the only ones in the world who can force Israel to stop massacring civilians in Gaza.

Find and contact your representatives now.

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by Gary Willig

The third round of hostage releases of the ceasefire deal is set for tomorrow. And once again, the youngest hostages, 2-year-old Kfir Bibas and 5-year-old Ariel Bibas, will not be among the freed hostages.

There are two possible explanations for the continued imprisonment of babies and toddlers. One is that Hamas is still playing games with the lives of innocent children, that after depriving them of light, love, food, and medicine for more than a year it still delights in prolonging their suffering. The other, and perhaps more likely explanation, is the terrible possibility that Kfir and Ariel no longer have lives with which to play games because they died in the captivity in which Hamas has held them for so long.

Either explanation is further proof that the evil of Hamas cannot be lived with or tolerated and must be destroyed once the hostages are returned. In either case, their lives mean nothing to their captors.

To kidnap a 9-month-old baby, the age Kfir was during the October 7 massacre, and a 4-year-old boy is an act of pure evil. The butchers of Hamas showed no mercy even to the most innocent of their victims, with the youngest murder victim of the October 7 massacre being just three months old.

The Bibas children should have been released immediately. Then they should have been released during the weeklong November 2023 ceasefire. They should have been released every single day, every single minute, since they were brought into Gaza by the bloodthirsty barbarians of Hamas. Instead, they remain captive 15 months after their abduction.

Why has Hamas done this? It has done this because it knows how precious their children are to Israel and the Jewish people. It knows that victimizing, kidnapping, and murdering children is the ultimate torture it can inflict on Israeli society. It has done this because its ultimate goal is exactly the same as the Nazis', the annihilation of every Jew down to the last baby.

To Hamas and its supporters, Kfir Bibas is evil personified because he is a Jew, the innocence of his childhood merely a smokescreen for his nefarious inborn Judaism. His birth is itself a capital crime. It is no wonder Hamas terrorists love to read Mein Kampf and stores named for Hitler are popular in Gaza.

There can be no peace with an entity that thinks like this. Hamas has not moderated an iota after its losses in the war. Thanks to its propaganda successes and the useful idiots who value the lives of baby killers over those of Jewish babies, Hamas believes it can continue to rule Gaza and prepare for the next war, where it will use the same strategy of both lying to gullible Westerners and deliberately causing the deaths of its own people to escape the consequences of murdering Jewish children. Its leaders still vow to carry out more massacres on the level of October 7.

This ceasefire has three phases. Whatever phases two and three look like, if Hamas is still in power in Gaza at the end, the war must resume. If a “permanent” ceasefire sees Hamas remain in power after what it has done to the Bibas family, after it has vowed to start this same war all over again with more massacres, then Israel will have failed, the US will have failed, and even Donald Trump will have failed. Evil will have been allowed to endure, and more hate and death with follow.

Only the full defeat of Hamas can put an end to the Hamas violence. Only the full defeat of evil can prevent its resurgence. Monsters who deny babies the right to live have forfeited the right to live themselves. Any person who joins Hamas is an enemy of humanity. Any person who joins the ranks of the baby butchers should be treated as part of the Nazi death squads, because that is the level of evil they have chosen to champion.