"I have dreams I have not yet achieved. I have a life that I have not yet fully lived." 10.15.2023

walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say "its only a 3 minute walk" when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away

also anyone who thinks "3 minutes isnt THAT bad" you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer

israel just bombed a hospital in gaza, hundreds killed...

from aljazeera:

jews deserve to live without fear of being bombed or kidnapped. palestineans deserve to live without fear of being bombed or kidnapped. these two statements coexist, and that conclusion should not be so controversial.

child relief fund

jhco

 unrwa

middle eastern child alliance

hospitals in palestine

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It really does look like Bibi's career will finally be over

From your lips to His ears.

I was talking to someone recently who said something that really clarified this for me, which was that Bibi was a "Giffen good", that is, "the Israeli electorate feels like it needs more of him when he has hurt them so badly that they can’t afford anything better." And historically, that feels correct... but the way that this analogy doesn't work is important, and I think relevant, for the current situation.

For folks who aren't familiar with economics, a Giffen good is something that people buy more of when its price rises. Say that you have potatoes every single day for dinner, six days a week, and meat for dinner once a week on Shabbat. If the price of potatoes rises so that you can no longer afford meat, you'll instead have potatoes for dinner seven days a week, and as a result, you'll buy more potatoes.

The difference is... you actually need to eat. There was a reason why you didn't have a choice but to be priced out of eating anything other than potatoes – it's because in this situation, potatoes are all you can afford as a staple in the first place. When the market shifts and you get screwed, it's not the potatoes conspiring to rob you of other food sources. The potatoes and you are, bizarrely, in it together in a way that Netanyahu and the Israeli electorate never were.

Netanyahu isn't a Giffen good; Netanyahu is a payday loan company. He's never been just passively milking the rally-around-the-flag effect whenever a tragedy occurs. His entire political strategy is built around causing so much harm to befall his own voters that they get scared and are naturally drawn to bad authoritarian policies – the exact same policies, in fact, that he's used to spread fear in the first place. He engineered this current crisis, by enacting policies which he knew full well would both inflame tensions and undermine military readiness. He's being doing it since the very beginning – he literally backed Hamas back in the day. And now his claim is, in essence, "unless you support me going in guns blazing into the conflict that I engineered to keep you crawling back to me, I won't get you out of the the conflict that I engineered to keep you crawling back to me." Why should any Israeli believe him?

The illusion that Netanyahu maintains is that he's a staple like potatoes – that's he's the thing you need to fall back on even as the price of supporting him rises, because he's sadly the best and only option that you have. I sincerely hope that "worse than the Yom Kippur War" is enough to finally shatter that illusion for good, because if it isn't, then I don't think anything will.

Copying the article and text across to this version too, because good commentary

Netanyahu's Approval Ratings Have Hit Rock Bottom In Israel, Haaretz

"...In this survey, Likud sank to just 19 seats, a precipitous drop of 32 percent compared to the pre-attack poll. Gantz’s National Unity Party catapulted from 29 to 41 seats... ... Among those who voted for Likud, just under half preferred Netanyahu, while one-third supported someone else... ...Two-thirds responded that the debacle was worse than that of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. A majority of Jews who voted for parties in the Netanyahu coalition in 2022 agreed."

Palestinian women fighters take part in a Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP) rally in Gaza (Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

Thousands of people have died, so many more are injured, hundreds of thousands are displaced.

Please at this time Donate to the Red Crescent and the Red Shield of David... They need all the support possible.

Also ZaKA (זק"א). They are an organization that works to preserve the dignity of the dead by recovering their bodies and ensuring they receive respect and proper treatment according to their religious rites (they have other religious wings aside from Jewish). I don't know what the Palestinian equivalent of this organization is, but if it exists please share it and support it. There's a lot of dead and unfortunately there's probably going to be many more and they all deserve dignity.

The greatest mitzvah is helping a soul along to its burial, because it's the only mitzvah where you cannot be thanked by the person you're helping.

A friend of mine has asked me to specifically mention this project which is near completion.

Sadly it will be sorely needed. The exterior walls are not yet complete and are needed to protect the burials from being disturbed by dogs and other such menaces that may dig into graves.

Adding Medical Aid for Palestinian.

"My message to the colonizers who left their home countries to occupy our lands is simply to go back home. As for those who were born here, my message is: You are secondary victims of this colonial project. You are being used to occupy other people’s lands, and your Jewishness is being politicized for colonial means. Meditate carefully on the examples of South Africa, Angola, Algeria—they may not apply wholesale to the settler colonization of Palestine, but they hold lessons for you. Today you must make a choice: Either support this deadly colonial project, or side against it by supporting the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a democratic state that liberates Palestinians, as well as Jews, from Zionism. A state that will honor the right of Palestinian refugees to return and compensation and that will welcome and protect its Jews as citizens of Palestine. This transition from Zionism to democracy will not cost anyone’s life; it will cost you your colonial privileges, and will free you—and us, its primary victims—from colonialism."

—Mohammed Zraiy, Gaza coordinator for the One Democratic State Initiative in an interview with Jewish Currents

LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO🤙🤙🤙

the single most important stance anyone in the US can take right now is a call to negotiate a ceasefire. the white house is saying these calls for peace are “repugnant.” will we let them continue to use our tax dollars to fuel a genocide?

@sweetstarcollector Jewish Voices for Peace put this together:

I know it may seem a little bit hopeless, but what I’ve heard from people who’ve been organizing around this for a while is that anything helps because representatives are currently being flooded with calls for genocide. you can also look to see if there’s any organizing in your area (lots happening in NYC and DC, for obvious reasons, but there’s orgs elsewhere, too).

"Trans fury"

Seen in Bogotá, Colombia

"some of you are miserable because you're mean" post except its "some of you are miserable because you only look at and talk about stuff you dislike"

"why don't i have any friends" because you only know how to bitch about stuff and be a hater

The IDF rounds up Gazans and deliberately bombs them where civilians were told to “evacuate to.” Israel has created an extermination camp.

Concentrating a people into an enclosed prison they can’t escape so you can drop bombs on them is explicitly genocide.

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Zionists are waxing poetic on the efficiency, popularity and vision of the Nazis, again.

This is fun to contrast with the Zionist propaganda that Palestinians, especially Hamas = Nazism. So what, Palestinians are dollar store Nazis, who could never compare to the greatness and appeal of the original Nazis?

This reminds me of when Benjamin Netanyahu spread that lovely piece of Holocaust revisionism when he claimed the Nazis did not intend to exterminate Jews until the Palestinian Arab mind virus infected Hitler with the suggestion. “Our glorious fascist oppressors would never commit genocide, they only would be pushed towards that because of barbaric Muslim outside agitators” is such intricate, advanced ideology just thinking about it makes me feel drunk. Zionists love publicly admiring Hitler and the Nazis.

couldn't decide which lie to go with

The duality of "If you even imply that being aro or ace condemns someone to a sad and lonely life I will fucking fight you"

and

"being aro and ace is the most isolating thing I will ever experience"

i think the tags are important