wittewieven:
raspberryflavored:
adelineandthebirdcage:
wtfitsclurrqzo:
I feel nauseous.
Christ. What is wrong with the world?
I’ll say it again: This needs WAY more attention than it is getting.
this too. the world makes me so angry at this point in time. what happened in egypt holds a lot of hope, and i hope that people keep paying attention to all of the other countries, allied or not, where protests are taking place. to all the people who follow me that i know don’t think this matters: THIS IS A BIG DEAL AND YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH IT.
This is WHATAmerica, and the whole world must be looking into.
America, walk the talk about your being the leader of free world blah blah… and NOT just a bumper for Israel.
dorkery:
They transcribe audio tweets and translate them into English and (sometimes) French from Arabic.
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exhilarating:
“Muhammad al-Durrah incident”
The Muhammad al-Durrah incident took place in the Gaza Strip on September 30, 2000, on the second day of the Second Intifada, amid widespread rioting throughout the Palestinian territories. Jamal al-Durrah and his 12-year-old son, Muhammad, were filmed by Talal Abu Rahma, a Palestinian cameraman freelancing for France 2, as they sought cover behind a concrete cylinder after being caught in crossfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian security forces. The footage, which lasts just over a minute, shows the pair holding onto each other, the boy crying and the father waving, then a burst of gunfire and dust, after which the boy is seen slumped across his father’s legs.
The boy had died after being shot by 4 bullets. After an emotional public funeral, Muhammad was hailed throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds as a martyr. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accepted responsibility at first, a position they formally withdrew in September 2007.
(via fuckyeahmiddleeast)
lostgrrrls:
reelaroundthefountain:
hopesichord:
secretlighthouse:
honestwolf:
Known as the Tower of Faces this three-story tower displays photographs from the Yaffa Eliach Shtetl Collection. Taken between 1890 and 1941 in Eishishok, a small town in what is now Lithuania, they describe a vibrant Jewish community that existed for 900 years.
In 1941, an SS mobile killing squad entered the village and within two days massacred the entire Jewish population.
This was the most overwhelming part of the Holocaust museum for me. It completely surrounds you. It’s pretty intense. Made me cry.
Since this is on my dash again, I will tell you all a story.
When I was in 8th grade, my class went to Israel. This is the life of a student at Jewish day school. And, of course, we went to the Holocaust Museum, as you do, and the last thing you get to at the end of the museum is this dark room with one candle and a bunch of mirrors that reflect off each other, so it looks like an infinite number of candles. And, overhead, they just read out the names of the dead, and it’s horrifying. It’s horrifying enough that I, who can remember quite little of my life, can still picture it with total clarity. But then, you walk out and there’s this panoramic view of Jerusalem, which I imagine you’ve all seen pictures of at least and it’s this glorious city, and the moment is simultaneously the most intense state propaganda in the universe and also so emblematic of what it means to be Jewish, not because of the city itself, but because I suspect that the only way we make it through our shit is insisting that everything happens for a reason. That’s what the principal of my school said when we stepped outside from that cold, pitch black room into the glaring May sun. He said, “That had to happen so we could have this country.” And it’s horrifying. It’s disgusting that we have to try and convince ourselves that a genocide that quite literally wiped out a significant portion of the Jewish population — because there’s not that many of us and a lot of us lived in Europe — was useful for something. But I think, looking back, it’s the sort of thing we have to do. 3,000 years of the same violence over and over again, you develop some coping mechanisms.
I have this list of countries I won’t go to because I’m Jewish and countries I won’t go to because the history is just too much, and this is one of those things. I will never set foot in Poland. I will not go to Romania, where my relatives were locked in a synagogue and burned to the ground. I spent two months in Germany, and it was a bad decision, and far too much. I went to Nuremberg for 12 hours and my entire life changed in the span of a two-hour visit to a museum. This history is exhausting, and it’s made worse by the fact that Jews never forget. We don’t forget a thing, and in fact we insist on rehashing the same information over and over again and it makes me sick. I am tired. I am so tired. I am tired of being afraid all the fucking time. I think I once described being Jewish as waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am tired of waiting for the other shoe.
Reblogging because although I’m not Jewish and though you may not be Jewish, this needs to be read.
Reblog for the commentary.
Yes. HOLOCAUST did happen. Taking the lives of millions of people. The Nazi really showed the world the horror humans are capable of doing, and sadly, are doing. But, I want to remind you that Jewish people WERE NOT the only victims of the Holocaust. Homosexuals, people whose writing or speech did not go with the idea the Nazi supported, political dissents, ANYONE the Nazi found dangerous, or of different view, were victimized.
And the same things are happening all over the world, with those who should have the power to do something about this (I’m looking at myself, and, especially, America), don’t do much or do NOTHING about it. South Africans suffered from Apartheid for tens of years, before they finally regained their rights. What of Palestine? Zionist regime in Israel took the lands of the Palestinians, takes away their water, robs their children’s chances of playful, happy lives, takes away their freedom, and systemically conducts actions, nothing short of holocaustic.
Zionists are apartheid are Nazis.
And America, and many, many governments of the world support this.
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elliottmarshal:
notthemarimba:
boyfriendreplacement:
Guys PLEASE reblog this , Libya need to get the same attention Egypt Got.
image description: a tweet. @libyanmaddog: 400 dead in two days while 350 died in 18 days in Egypt. Libyan population=6 million, Egyptian population=82 million #Libya
every voice deserves recognition no matter its volume
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brooklynmutt:
Hoor Hussain, 6, holds a poster with other anti-government protesters at the Pearl roundabout on Feb. 21 in Manama, Bahrain. Demonstrators continue to fill the square in a daily protest while opposition leaders hold talks with the government on the weeklong uprising.
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fuckyeahmiddleeast:
theghostinmylungs:
i hate to post something so gory on tumblr, but i’m really hoping that this encourages more people to be concerned about what’s going on in Libya and Yemen right now. This is reality. This picture is of two Libyan men slaughtered by the Gadaffi government. This hasn’t happened to just these two men, it’s all over Libya and Yemen. Please spread this around. It may be gross to some of you, but it may just be disturbing enough to have an impact on someone who stumbles upon it on their dashboard.
Please sign this petition to send help to Libya, and keep them all in your prayers!
http://www.petitiononline.com/01031988/petition-sign.html
I’m so so very SORRY if the picture would offend anyone. But, this is happening to many people in Libya at current time. Again, I am sorry.
palestina:
A WALL UP: Part of the Israeli apartheid wall that divides the West Bank village of al Wallaje, left, from buildings under construction in the Jewish settlement of Har Gilo Feb, 2011. The occupied West Bank - Palestine (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
(via fuckyeahmiddleeast)
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