as many of you know, gaza has now gone dark.
targeted israeli strikes have wiped out the telecommunications infrastructure. phone lines and internet services are gone. gazans cannot call their loved ones to check if they are still alive. they cannot call for ambulances for aid. if they survive the increased bombardment tonight and the following nights, they will bleed out alone with no aid.
now i will tell you what will happen in the next few days/weeks, and i pray it to be untrue. unfortunately the apartheid state, also known as israel, has been quite obvious and transparent with their plans.
the stated goal of many politicians over the years from israel, including netanyahu, has been to have the entire strip of land of gaza as israel, with no separate region for palestinians. i am not going to provide links, google is free and i am fucking tired.
what they had done before tonight, in the last two weeks, was destroy over 50% of buildings in gaza city as well as neighbouring areas, so gazans have nowhere to return to. gazans have been forced south, and israel will use this opportunity to have troops in north gaza (currently referred to as the ground invasion) advancing south while bombing "h*mas sites" in the south. israel will do this knowing there are plenty more civilians there that will die, causing terror and panic and having palestinians want to flee to anywhere, anywhere that is safe.
israel is doing this in the hopes that this panic and terror will convince egypt to open the border (well, the border israel isn't currently bombing) so that palestinians can escape to the sinai desert in egypt.
once survivors leave, the area that is currently the gaza strip will 1) be reduced in size if a lot of palestinians stay, should they not be bombed out of existence, or 2) be entirely absorbed into israel if very few palestinians stay, which is the ultimate aim of israel. those remaining palestinians will be moved to the west bank, or the remainder of gaza will be converted to west bank conditions where they'd go through the same problems palestinians in the west bank go through (reduced access to water, checkpoints to go from any place to any place within their own land, getting dispossessed, or randomly killed by racist extremist settlers).
now, egypt has been adamant not to displace the palestinians. in online discourse, people have been dehumanising palestinians by talking about past disruptions in other refugee areas and saying that is why egypt does not want to take them. while there may be slight truth to this from egypt's perspective, the major reason egypt is refusing is that no palestinian refugee abroad has even been given the right to return to their own land. and this will be the fate of gazans if they are made to leave in a mass exodus to egypt/other neighbouring countries such as jordan, which these leaflets from army-backed israeli are threatening palestinians with (photo from salfit in the occupied west bank):
therefore, what i likely see happening is the above bombardment (in increased numbers now that gaza has gone dark) -> mass panic in gaza, more so now that gazans are cornered in the south -> a reluctant egypt, but with the US will promise a large amount of "aid" money to egypt to facilitate the mass exodus of palestinians, the borders will open.
palestinians will be forced out. israelis are already planning on hoovering up the prime real estate there, for amusements park no less!
this is nabka 2.0. this is genocide.
btw, as we speak: israel's leading newspaper is already making claims that h*mas's main operation base is under shifa hospital. the hospital currently housing 50,000 displaced palestinians. the idf is claiming h*mas is using the hospital as a human shield, which is their new favourite phrase to justify killing civilians. so you already know what to expect in the news.
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What if you're the French Minister of Labour and your pension reform is so bad and unpopular that you decide to make your coming out only for political purposes in one of the country's biggest gay magazines to justify it, because pinkwashing is apparently the last desperate communication trick left up the sleeve of your idiot advisers.
Haha just kidding, unless...
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just in case you're interested in french politics but nearly 2 weeks after the left coalition won the elections, the government still hasn't resigned and have even voted for the president of the parliament yesterday, which is a breach to the constitution, and now it's like the elections were for nothing bc we still don't have a leftist prime minister but the presidence of the assembly is still the same and macron is sending a big fuck you to all french people just before his olympic games so i beg of you, if you do care about us do not watch, do not even talk about the olympics, he has to understand that we want him out
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LR "qui découvre" que Ciotti est du RN...
Ben oui les gars faut regarder ce qu'il a foutu dans le sud, de temps en temps... Genre jsp mais quand Reconquête décide de pas opposer un candidat à quelqu'un (législatives 2022) ça peut être un signe de politique extrêmement extrême-droite-compatible
Bon point de la journée: Attal qui se réveille et qui décide qu'en fait il a pas envie de vivre en extrême-droitie. (On notera, après que les candidates aient posé ou non leur candidature hein) Est-ce que ça va tenir jusqu'à dimanche? Je suppose qu'il calcule avec un gvt de coalition où il compte demander un portefeuille.
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NKP 190 to GVT Von Storch Shops por Otto Vondrak
Por Flickr:
On temporary display at Steamtown, "NKP 190" (ex-ATSF 62L) is owned by Genesee Valley Transportation.
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My dad can help us install the new light fixture thank god
I didn't want to have to ask him for help cuz he's a septagenarian and stuff but I looked into hiring someone and they all have pricing for like, big jobs where you're replacing all your lights or renovating or something. I just need to fix one light. Which I guess I could hire a handy man for but... my Dad was a handy man most of his life so
If hubby Jon and bro Duck help out, I'm sure they can get it done. Dad installed the lights in my bathroom 10+ years ago and there's been no problem. He helped fix the ceiling around the hallway light last year. So hopefully this should be ok
And the only payment I'll need to worry about is the cost of the fixture and treating Dad to lunch or something.
So that's a little bit less stress at least
The bigger stress on my mind now is that my final disability hearing thing is tomorrow. I am not optimistic about it. I just want it to be over. At least by this time tomorrow it will be over
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