#Israeli-Hamas war

[mckitterick]

Israeli-Hamas war update: One month

The Gaza Health Ministry said that the Israeli army had killed 10,022 people in Gaza, including more than 4,100 children and 2,600 women, and about 140 Hamas fighters. More than 2,300 more people are missing in Gaza and believed buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

Some 800,000 civilians have evacuated the embattled north Gaza, but hundreds of thousands more remain in harm's way due to Israeli attacks making leaving the area just as dangerous.

The Israeli army said 30 of their troops have been killed since their ground invasion began a week ago, in response to last month's Hamas attack that left 1400 Israelis dead and some 240 taken hostage.

Hamas and other militant groups have continued firing rockets into Israel, disrupting daily life, though most are intercepted or fall harmlessly in open areas. Yesterday, Israel rejected the UN's call for a ceasefire to allow refugees to escape the invaded region.

AP News story: X

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

POEM AT WAR Gaza and Jerusalem

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The world minds for awhile, is dismayed, (dismay a momentary stay against the world's minds mining the words they make from that which is at stake for us, O Lord, says a friend on the other side of the

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line): the world loves what it knows, it glows in droves of pharmacies, walls of balms to no end, the mystery of this so-called calm we bend these sides of the line. The lines.

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My dear friend Annie Kantar Ben-Hillel, a wonderful poet (in addition to being an educator and mom and activist and friend and all sorts of good things) recently released a book that is very worth reading (and owning, link for ordering in first comment). It includes this poem that really speaks to this challenging moment (to hazard an extravagant understatement). Like almost all poetry I love, it rewards reading aloud. Poetry must be heard. It's music is fundamental to its ability to move us. So, please read aloud. Most of you probably won't. I think. But I truly urge the minimal effort to maximize emotional/spiritual impact. I love that this piece isn't about trying to paint the horrors in words. It doesn't indulge in sensation to the point of sensationalism. Rather, it hovers above, yet without detachment. And in doing so, it blurs the line between the heart and the head, reflection and immediacy, which is the place where I locate hope.

(An additional piece of context, intentional or not, is the image of the pharmacy. A very high percentage of pharmacists in Jerusalem are Palestinian. Nurses and doctors as well. But every time someone Jewish here in Jerusalem throws out "they really all want to kill us," I ask them when they last had a prescription filled. Because if Palestinian Maqdsi [Jerusalemites] wanted to mass murder Jews, they could pick one day amongst them and poison tens or even hundreds of thousands of Jews. When someone fills your prescription, you put your very life in their hands. I take medications daily. I'm still here. And when I go to get them filled, I don't see anyone in line looking nervous or hesitating to ask questions. Again, I don't know if Annie was thinking of this. But idea of pharmacies and walls of balms in this city i inseparable for me from the many compassionate and competent Arab professionals who regularly assist me with my health. Keep that in mind and read it aloud again. And again. And...)

[Ori Hanan Weisberg]

[i-am-aprl]

Hamas just released its proposal for a permanent ceasefire. Israel has dismissed all of their proposals as “unrealistic” — and that has been echoed across the U.S. corporate media.

Here are the actual proposals from each side.

[filosofablogger]

How To Cope With The Madness? 'TOONS!!!

Another day dawns, more people open their mouths without a clue what they are talking about, and thus life goes on.  Oh, and did I mention that the cartoonists keep on buying more pencils to try to keep up with the barrage of lunacy in the world today?  Luckily for us, they haven’t run out of pencils and paper yet, so we can sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labours!

[troythecatfish]

[hussyknee]

Not surprised but also

TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE MURDERED FOR THIS.

"We made an oopsie while shooting at all the other unarmed people trying to run away."

[kadampalife]

What could a Buddhist do?

A couple of days into all this chicken stuff, all hell broke loose in Israel. Since then, things have gone from bad to worse to a hell hole, threatening to engulf the region and the world. When I got back to London from Spain, my dad’s kind new neighbors were asking me what a Buddhist would do to solve this problem if I could? Much ink is being spilled on this conflict from every perspective, and…

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 🚨

💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES TOOK THIS PICTURE TO HUMANIZE THEIR FORCES, ONLY TO KILL THE MAN MINUTES LATER💥

According to Al-Quds News Agency, Israeli Occupation Forces took the picture of an occupation soldier with an old Palestinian man on his arm.

Occupation Forces killed the old Palestinian man soon after the photo was taken according to the man's granddaughter and Al-Quds News.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[cavalierzee]

Every Israeli Accusation Is A Confession

“Hamas radicalizes their kids to hate and kill Jews”

No. It’s the opposite: Every Israeli accusation is a confession.

Jory Micah

[lilithism1848]

[news4dzhozhar]

[that-rad-jewish-girl]

“They came in on humanitarian aid trucks!”

“This is a war crime!!!”

“They massacred 200+ people!”

It’s actually a war crime to take hostages babe. It’s also a war crime to kill people you take and/or attack civilians. All of October 7th was a war crime. You cannot enter another country and slaughter random civilians dancing at a rave. You cannot go door-to-door in a village and burn people alive. That’s a war crime.

On the other hand, it is not a war crime to attack an entity involved in war, even if it would normally be a crime to do so. For example: attacking a refugee camp is not a war crime when the “refugees” are hiding hostages. If a hospital is being used as a base for terrorists, the hospital is now legally fair game for war. When we have satellite videos of Hamas members driving UN vehicles and operating out of an UNRWA building, those vehicles and that building are up for grabs.

They will literally video themselves wearing press vests while firing rockets into Israel. But if they die, they won’t be reported as a combatant death. The headlines will read “Israel Kills Member of Gazan Press”. And people eat it up.

At this point people have two options:

1. You’re a sheep. You do no real research. You follow blindly.

2. You’re a Jew hater. You are antisemitic.

Which one is it? Maybe a combo of both.

[mylight-png]

You know how I know that the anti-Israel hate is deeply rooted in antisemitism, and not just "social justice" or whatever people are calling it right now?

Let me tell you a common situation I encounter:

So, being a college student away from home, I don't have a car here. This means that if I ever need to go anywhere, I need to get an Uber or Lyft or something along those lines.

I always tuck in my Bring Them Home tag, magen david, turn my "am Yisrael chai" pin to the inside of my clothes, etc. I hate doing it, but I have heard of violently antisemitic drivers, and I'd rather not risk it, considering I'm alone in the car with them.

Every time, I call my mom. It makes me safer to have someone on call. And every time, she makes the same two recommendations.

The first is to put in an address of a neighboring house for pickup, because the house I live in has my landlord's car out front, and his car has stickers in Hebrew on it.

The second is, if asked where I'm from, to say Russia. I don't get asked where I'm "really from" unless I'm with my parents usually (they both have strong accents). But it's a warning my mom repeats every time anyway. The choice of Russia isn't random, I was raised fluent and can back up the claim if need be with random knowledge. But I have never been to Russia, except for the airport once to catch a connecting flight to Israel. I was, however, born in Israel, and I've been there multiple times (unfortunately not since 2014 though). So to say I'm from Russia is a lie, and to say I'm from Israel is the truth.

Both are countries at war. Russia, unlike Israel, actually started the war. Unlike Israel, Russia actually does have a history of colonialism, genocide, imperialism, and worse.

So why is it safer for me to lie about being from an aggressor country than to tell the truth about being from a country caught in a war it didn't want?

Antisemitism. Anti-Russian hate crimes globally didn't spike, Russian women haven't been raped as "justice" for Ukraine. Russian businesses weren't commonly vandalized simply for being from Russia. Meanwhile, all of these things were done to Jews as a result of a war Israel did not start.

If this global response to the war wasn't antisemitism it would be equally safe or unsafe for me to give either answer.

But in reality, it's safer for me to lie about being from Russia than to tell the truth about being from Israel.

That's how I know it's antisemitism.

[i-am-aprl]

[nomoresympathy-eh]

According to zionists, Hamas are the UNRWA, Hamas are health workers, Hamas are journalists, Hamas are children and babies, Hamas are fathers risking the bullets and the bombs to bring food for their families, Hamas are hospitals, schools and places of worship, Hamas are ambulances and aid trucks...

So what zionists are saying is that Hamas is basically everyone innocent, heroic and good. We get what you're not saying out loud, you sly dogs, you.

[troythecatfish]