07/30/2014: Another massacre in Gaza, this time in the middle of a SUPER MARKET. Damn, where was Hamas firing from? Behind the produce isle? Bullshit. Shame on you and your excuses, Israel.
[ID : instagram post by almayadeenenglish : text description:
Image 1 : “Israel’s” massacre in Qana
Image 2 : Today marks the 26th anniversary of Qana’s massacre in South Lebanon, when the IOF shelled a UN compound
Image 3 : On April 18, 1996 Israeli occupation forces fire artillery shells at a UN compound, well-marked on Israeli maps, housing more than 800 Lebanese taking refuge from Israeli attacks
Image 4 : 106 Lebanese civilians were killed and 116 injured along with 4 Fijian UN peacekeepers
Image 5 : Half of the civilians killed in the Israeli shelling were children
Image 6 : “Israel” denied that it had purposefully shelled the compound. However, an Amnesty International investigation concluded, “the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound. The IF have failed to substantiate their claim that the attack was a mistake.” / End ID]
This is one of the biggest massacres done by Israel, known as the first Qana massacre (they did another massacre in Qana in the 2006 war). An American Veto aborted the decision to condemn the crime in the UN Security Council.
Today’s Israeli PM, played a crucial role in this massacre, as he was the one who ordered the massive artillery and airstrike attacks on the compound and village. “Bennett sounded hysterical, and his stress contributed significantly to the terrible accident.” said an IDF officer
Never forget that while Palestinians may be their main target, Israel’s target is Arabs and anything Arab.
It is critical to understand the Nakba if you want to support Palestine, and how Palestinians, 74 years later, cannot reclaim their stolen land, homes, and belongings. And not only that, but to many, the Nakba never ended. Palestinians are still having their homes stolen or demolished, still in refugee camps, still having to deal with settlers encroaching on their land and committing acts of violence against them, Palestinians are still being murdered and left under brutal settler military occupation.
(This song is called Home taken from their debut album named same as this song. The album as released on by Season of Mist on the 22nd of July, 2016.
Numenorean is a post black metal with an influences of epic black metal, sorrow, nature, and grief. The band is coming from Calgary, Canada. It was found in 2011.
I want to post this to counteract out the sickening amount of posts that blame the patriarchy/male privilege/men for this tragic event. For those who use the suffering of others to promote their own agenda. To those who use this massacre to insist that our society pre-conditions men to believe that they have the right to sex:
Assuming that our society has a system that teaches men from birth that they have the right to have sex with women is assuming that all men have been conditioned to think this way, and therefore currently DO think this way. The only people who actually think they have the right to sex… are rapists, not simply the entire male gender. Elliot was a psychopath, and to parallel his motives with innocent men who are also saddened by the massacre is very misguided.
I have a brother, father, uncle, boyfriend, more male friends than female, and to see so many women on my dash this morning making unfounded statements about men, absolutely sickens me. Everyday men do not display the same sentiments that Elliot expressed.
Here are two quotes from Elliot Rodger’s manifesto: “I will torture some of the good looking people before I kill them, assuming that the good looking ones had the best sex lives. All of that pleasure they had in life, I will punish by bringing them pain and suffering.” and “On the morning before, I will drive down to my father’s house to kill my little brother, denying him of the chance to grow up to surpass me, along with my stepmother … as she will be in the way. ”
Four men and two women are in an early grave because a psychotic man had a jealous rampage fuelled by sexual frustration. I don’t understand the amount of mental gymnastics people have to jump through to come to the conclusion that his actions weren’t spurred by any mental illness from those quotes alone. Just because one murderer/potential rapist/psycho made some inherently sexist comments about women to justify his actions, does that give people the right to presume that all men think like this?
Can we stop stereotyping and generalizing the entire male gender over the actions of one mentally-unstable human? Can we just get back to supporting the victims families.
It’s been equally tough realizing how much time has just kind of beaten that Columbine shock into just this hardened disappointment thing.
For people my age, it’s just happened all our lives, and it sucks and we hate it, but there’s just always so much going on, ya know? Like, you’re mad because you feel guilty for being somewhat emotionally prepared, but realistically you know that only so much time can pass. It just happens again, and again, and again, and that stillness can only last so long, and lately it feels like there’s been virtually no stillness at all.
You judge yourself for not feeling it hit you like a ton of bricks. Instead, it kind of just slowly washes over you. But for me, it’s like growing up in some vicious sort of circus, and my conscience is standing outside of the cage, judging me for not being completely shocked and terrified when a tiger comes out of the floor, and after 22 years, I want to yell at him and say, “What the fuck do you expect me to do? How am I supposed to feel about something that I’ve seen for the one-hundred-millionth time? Like, I wish I was fucking shocked and terrified, too.”
But I don’t say anything to him at all. I just fight the tiger off as best I can, again, staring the man in the face and asking myself questions I don’t have answers to.
The island is so popular that it closed itself to tourists, except those who are willing to help repair and maintain the island. However, there is a darker side.
Almost 1,500 cetaceans (dolphins and whales) were killed last Sunday (with also pregnant whales)
“This is, we believe, the largest ever single hunt of dolphins or pilot whales in Faroese history — the next largest being 1,200 pilot whales back in 1940 — and is possibly the largest single hunt of cetaceans ever recorded worldwide.
Sea Shepherd
The Faroe Islands are formally part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but have significant autonomy.
EU law bans “deliberate capture or killing” of any dolphins or whales, but since the Faroe Islands are not part of the union they do not have to abide by the rules.
The barbaric fishing process involves boats heading out to find pods of whales and dolphins, and rounding them up into shallow waters. They struggled for breath on the beach until they are killed.
The Faroese insist that this meat is not sold, but every part of the whale is used and is shared amongst their community as a valuable source of meat for a region that has very little in terms of natural resources. The whole of that statement is a lie for four reasons:
Whale meat from the grinds is sold in supermarkets and restaurants in the Faroe Islands, so it is bringing in money for some of the people involved which makes it a commercial enterprise.
Every part of the whale killed is not used, not even every whale killed is used. The hunters have been documented discarding whole whale carcasses into the sea that they did not have time to process before dusk.
It is not a valuable source of meat, it is very dangerous due to the amount of toxins (high levels of mercury and PCBs) even Faroese doctors confirm it contains. The poisonous levels would not be legal in any other food approved for human consumption and the fact that children are being given this meat to eat by parents who should know better means that they are being poisoned. There is a high incident of disease on the island related to these pollutants.
The Faroe Islands have a thriving fishing industry including farmed salmon. They also have a large amount of sheep. They trade these commodities for all the benefits of a materialisic society and with this and their subsidies they enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world.
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage. Part of the struggle for self-determination by Palestinians has been to tell the truth about Palestinians as victims of Zionism. For too long their history has been denied, and this denial has only served to further oppress and deliberately dehumanize Palestinians in Israel, inside the occupied territories, and outside in their diaspora. Some progress has been made. Westerners now realize that Palestinians, as a people, do exist. And they have come to acknowledge that during the creation of the state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries.
The Deir Yassin massacre was led by Menachem Begin in his capacity as head of the Irgun terrorist forces, which were also responsible for several acts of terror, including the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Supporting the Irgun was the Haganah, a group that went on to form the basis for the Israeli army, and the Lehi, led by Yitzhak Shamir. The criminals responsible for this horrific and bloody massacre enjoyed full impunity. In fact, a few weeks after this tragic event, the man politically responsible for the Haganah (future Israeli army), David Ben Gurion, became Israel’s first prime minister. Even more astonishing is the fact that the head of the ‘operation’ at Deir Yassin, Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Shamir, the leader of the Lehi who participated in the massacre, would also go on to become Israeli prime ministers….!
Good morning world. Just a reminder that Azerbaijan literally opened a dead Armenians theme park last month.
Parents brought their primary school-age kids to play with models of dying Armenian soldiers, helmets from actual dead Armenian soldiers, and even practice strangling an Armenian themselves.
I drew this piece to commemorate those massacred in the Orlando Pulse Nightclub.
6 bars of blue & 12 golden bars comprise the sea & sky, signifying June 12th. The silhouette flock of 49 flamingos represents the number of loved ones killed.
I chose the flamingo for their long association with Florida – admired for their flamboyant displays & vibrant beauty – but more so, for their name derived from the mythical fiery phoenix.
The central figure soars upward to contrast the sunset as a symbol of hope renewal & celebration of life, to embody the perseverance of the queer community, rising from ashes in defiance of injustice and in the quest for human rights.
An 8 year old girl describes the night Robert Bales killed 17 civilians. Watch the video here [x]
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Panjwayi massacre in Afghanistan in which a US soldier, Robert Bales, left his military base and murdered 16 innocent civilians (9 children, 3 women) in two separate villages, cut off their limbs and set them on fire.
today is the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec 29, 1890). The United States in cold blood murdered Lakota men, women, and children. Slaughtered them and have the nerve to call it a “battle” as if there was any fighting done in return.
Today native people still struggle against the effects of cultural and physical genocide. Our voices are often smothered by others but we are still strong. And we never forget.
