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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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It is upsetting and difficult to see how these hostages have changed since they were taken captive on October 7.

This is the true face of Hamas's depravity. We are grateful that Or, Ohad and Eli are on their way home to begin their recovery.

Unfortunately, Or and Eli will not be fully reunited with their loved ones who were slaughtered by Hamas.

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The treatment of recently freed hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami.

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The United Nations long ago lost credibility as a moral arbiter, but its assault on Israel is hitting a new low. On Wednesday the U.N. will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.

Ms. Nderitu is an accomplished mediator, whose U.N. bio describes her as a “recognized voice in the field of peacebuilding and violence prevention.” She has served in that role since 2020 and her tenure has been marked by careful study of humanity’s worst crime. She is being dismissed because she has stood firm in her belief that Israel’s war with Hamas isn’t genocide.

In 2022 her office issued a guidance paper on “when to refer to a situation as ‘genocide.’” The paper noted U.N. officials should “adhere to the correct usage” of the term because of the political and legal sensitivities that surround it and “its frequent misuse in referring to large scale, grave crimes committed against particular populations.”

rest of article: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-ns-anti-israel-genocide-purge-c8feef1a

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On this Yom Ha'Zikaron Le'Chalalei Ma'rachot Yisrael (Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims), I figured it's important to remember that Israeli victims did not exist solely on Oct 7. We have lost loved ones before and since. Here's a list with just one random victim to represent each year. Please scroll down the list to see how far back it goes.

(part 1/5, all parts in the reblogs)

2024: On Jan 7, we lost 19 years old Shai Garmai

2023: On Oct 7, we lost 28 years old Osama abu Madiam

2022: On Nov 23, we lost 18 years old Tiran Faro

2021: On May 12, we lost 5 years old Ido Avigal

2020: On Aug 26, we lost 39 years old Shai Ochayon

2019: On May 5, we lost 49 years old Zaid al-Chamamda

2018: On Dec 12, we lost Amiad Israel Yish Ran, who was murdered in his mother's womb

2017: On Nov 22, we lost 21 years old Hodaya Nechama Assoulin

2016: On Oct 25, we lost 14 years old Rami Namer abu Amar

2015: On Feb 17, we lost 4 years old Adelle Biton

2014: On Oct 22, we lost 2.5 months old Chaya Zissel Brown

2013: On Dec 24, we lost 22 years old Salech al-Din abu al-Atayef

2012: On Jul 18, we lost 28 years old Yitzchak Idan Kolangi

2011: On Apr 17, we lost 16 years old Daniel Aryeh Viplich

2010: On Feb 26, we lost 52 years old Netta Blatt Sorek

2009: On Apr 2, we lost 13 years old Shlomo Nativ

2008: On Mar 6, we lost 26 years old Doron Trunach Mahareta

2007: On Jun 17, we lost 85 years old Meir Cohen

2006: On Aug 10, we lost 4 years old Fatchi Assdi

2005: On Jul 12, we lost 16 years old Nofar Horvitz

2004: On Sep 29, we lost 2 years old Dorit Massarat Binsan

2003: On Sep 9, we lost 20 years old Naava Appelbom

2002: On Nov 10, we lost 4 years old Noam Levi Ochayon

2001: On Dec 12, we lost 42 years old Ester Avraham

2000: On Nov 21, we lost 19 years old Itamar Yefet

1999: On Jun 24, we lost 34 years old Tony Eliyahu Zanna

1998: On Dec 2, we lost 41 years old Osama Moussa abu Aisha

1997: On Mar 13, we lost 13 years old Natali Alkalai

1996: On Feb 25, we lost 57 years old Yitzchak Elbaz

1995: On Jul 24, we lost 60 years old Zehava Oren

As Tumblr limits a post to 30 images... part 1/5 - the next parts will be posted in the reblogs momentarily. Please check out the full list.

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"Now, take a second to consider how there was NEVER any UN agency dedicated specifically to help about 1.5 million Jewish Holocaust survivors at the end of WWII, which is May 1945" the UN didn't exist in May 1945

Is this supposed to be a clever rebuttal?

The UN charter was signed in June 1945, and the organization was officially established in Oct 1945. Is there anyone under the impression that Oct '45 was too late for the UN to do anything for all the Holocaust survivors?

In reality, many survivors continued to live in Displaced Persons camps for years after that since they had nowhere else to go (the last recorded one was in 1956), and there are still Holocaust survivors around today who require special help, while having lesser means to get it. It's been close to 80 years in which the UN could have set up any special organization for the Holocaust survivors, the victims of the worst, most extreme and only industrialized genocide in human history, and they did nothing.

But in 1949, the very same year in which the Israeli Independence War was over, the UN already established UNWRA, a special agency for the Arabs in Israel (not yet referred to as Palestinians at that point), the only one separate from all other refugees in the world. Despite the fact that the Arabs were the side that started the war while declaring genocidal intents towards the Jews in Israel (including Holocaust survivors). Not every Palestinian was responsible for the decisions and actions of their leaders to invade Israel and attack Jews, and they did suffer, but then again there were lots of Germans (many of them citizens of East European countries) who were not responsible for the decisions and actions of their leaders, and they did suffer, but can you imagine the UN setting up a special agency to help German refugees, and they would be the only ones out of all the world's refugees to get such a unique treat?

Anyway, this is your reminder that the UN is complicit. It's COMPLICIT AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

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My heart is broken

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I've written before, in my daily update posts, that Hamas' sexual violence on Oct 7 targeted men as well.

Now we have a firsthand account from a male rape survivor.

Listen to his words. Spread his testimony. If you can't watch yourself for personal reasons, that's okay, but please at least share this, so others can hear it. EVERY single one of the victims of this violence deserves to be heard, cared about and believed. Believe all victims! Denounce the abusers and rapists! Denounce those who stand with Hamas, in essence enabling such crimes!

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I've been thinking of Alex Dancyg, who I wrote about in this post, but maybe not as you might expect.

I've been thinking of him not as the man he was during the years we both worked at Yad Vashem (elderly gentleman, bearded grandfather, world renowned expert colleague with vast life and work experience conveyed in his every word and gesture), but as he once had to be, as a baby. I think about his parents, fresh out of the hell that was the Holocaust, in Poland where about 95% of the Jews (including their own families) had been exterminated by a combined hatred from foreign occupiers and bigoted neighbors, two people who should have been in every imaginable way broken, and I think about them instead bringing into this world this tiny baby.

I think about how small his hands and how big his eyes were. I think about what his mother must have felt like as she held his fingers and looked at his trusting little face. I think about how they struggled to provide for him, first as homeless Jews who couldn't go back to their homes at the end of the war (since their neighbors made that unsafe), then as new immigrants to the just established Jewish state.

I think about how "Never again" wasn't just a political slogan to them, to justify whatever political stance they were taking. I think about how having Alex, and bringing him to the Jewish state, was their "Never again."

And I think about the crowd that chanted "Never again," but then ignored, dismissed, even justified or celebrated the kidnapping and murder of Alex, because he was Israeli. Because he IS Israeli (just 'coz he's no longer alive doesn't make him any less of an Israeli. And his body is still being held hostage precisely because he is and will forever be an Israeli).

I think about his parents and all their hopes, I think about Alex and his hard work educating against de-humanization in order to make sure that the antisemitic genocidal violence that wished to fully destroy his family could truly be described as "Never again," and my heart just won't stop shattering.

Every one of Hamas' victims, each of the hostages, of the murdered, of the raped, of the wounded, each of the civilians and of the soldiers killed because of the war Hamas started, even a 75 years old man whose parents have not been with us for quite a while, every single one of them is someone's baby.

I can't stop thinking about Alex when he was a baby. Tiny, innocent and so, so vulnerable.

(illustration pics: Tova Rosen and her parents in the Displaced Persons camp Lechfeld after the end of the Holocaust, Uri Ovadia in the metal bucket in which they washed clothes and babies in an immigrant tent camp in Israel in the early 1950's)

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im so tired of hearing the “i dont want jews to die, i just want each and every zionist [80-90% of jews] to die!!” like sorry if you’re under the impression that 80-90% of any ethnic community is ulta right-wing pro-genocide, maybe it’s actually that you’re disinformed on the matter at hand. and if your ideology hinges on the vast majority of jews being classified as baseline evil or deserving of death, that is simply antisemitism, no if ands or buts.

tired of people pretending to care about life and wellbeing of humanity when they’re fine calling for mass deaths of any group, and somehow it’s always permissible to foam at the mouth at the concept of jewish death. these people do not care about jews and no matter how much they insist “it’s zionists not jews!” they always end up showing their true colors as either an ignorant fool parroting talking points hand crafted for silencing jews and ending any conversation, or a flat out bloodthirsty antisemite.

also, let’s say every single person in israel dies right this instant. is palestine suddenly free? no, they’re still under hamas rule. the economy in the middle east is destabilized, the surrounding countries will probably try to grab onto any land they can, and it’ll most likely lead to an even worse war. and all the while, jews everywhere are suffering a 50% loss in the tribe, the loss of family and friends and memories and stories, food music culture… say goodbye to any ancient artifacts left behind.. and millions of non-jewish people who have also been there hundreds and thousands of years lose everything..

like i genuinely believe rabid anti-zionists either live in an entirely separate reality or they would be perfectly fine with jewish death. the only time they care about us is when we’re dead, and even then, it’s often to mock us or spit on our graves.

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So, I recently learned about the “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media that has helped Iranians sentenced to die by the regime in the past.

I am now asking you guys for help with that again.

There is an Iranian Jew named Arvin Netanel ben Siona, whose execution date is set for this Saturday. The Iranian Jewish community have tried endlessly to pursue his release, but to no avail.

Please spread his name.

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An officer of the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit wounded in the hostage rescue operation in the central Gaza Strip has succumbed to his wounds, police say.

He is named as Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora.

Zamora was brought to a hospital in Israel in critical condition, where his death was declared a short while later.

May his memory be a blessing.

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cant stop crying