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Such valuable work. So often history is written by the victors. A difficult listen.

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I can't listen to this as I can't make it better 😭. The Palestinians have, and are, being treated like other indigenous peoples - very poorly.

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same story in America - and indigenous people across the globe - and the framing of aborigines as the savage terrorists - i lived in New Mexico after growing up in NYC and wanted to see the land where humans were small. i had some idealism - when i saw the racism by chicano and white people toward Navajos i was horrified how accepted it was. Cultural destruction is what the US wanted and it’s what Israel has tried and failed to erase. It keeps trying harder and harder . Navajos were given the worst land to grow food on in NM and in the four corners area. i rented a place in the green valley where the water was, people were living without running water and basic necessities very close. At the local bar you could hear the degradation. This situation is heinous. Palestinians are dealing with modern weapons and tech - and the digital

war and propaganda . It’s 1984 in 2024 but we see the videos - in 1984 they keep saying “ war is good” but no one sees the kids with the missing limbs and the infant body bags - even in that world of 1984 they didn’t see the horror - they functioned in a system where there was no nature and perpetual propaganda and an outlaw of love.

Are we there ? outlaw of love- to stand up for humanity one must be outcast and demonized.

If israel devotees and supporters want to blame anyone for those of us speaking up for Palestine, blame the education i received in NYC and Rockland County NY on the Holocaust - and what not to do to human beings. I’m only repeating what i was taught.

And my life experience living in NM, knowing Navajo people, knowing real American history and its horrors and knowing actual Palestinians , Lebanese , Syrians, iraqis and Iranians and LOVING them, the kindest people . I marched against apartheid in SA and both Iraq wars with my Jewish friends.

There is no hiding the heinous brutality of taking land over and over from people who actually know how to live with it and in harmony w the ecosystem.

Doesn’t the West need indigenous knowledge right now ? what we have done has not worked . take and more more more …

it’s insanity. we live in insanity all of this killing of life - all life.

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Thank you so much for this!!

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War"s nonsense vs ordinary people 🎥 Kippur (2000) by Amos Gitaï

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You should join BlueSky too. The message is all too important

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Rachel is on BlueSky, there's a link in the YouTube description

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Show me another country in the world that while in war, sent thousands of food trucks to enemy territory, sent orphans out of danger zones and even gave the enemy polio vaccines.

More people in Gaza were born during the war than died and researchers who went though the names of the deceased found people who died of natural causes and in earlier dates.

This article is bias and ridicules.

Victims don’t hold babies as hostages 💔

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You can show me another country in the world whose "most moral army" puts thousands of small children in prison.

Pillages homes of displaced people and poses in women's underwater with deranged grins on their faces.

Lets aid trucks in only to organise mass murder of hungry people who came to get some flour.

Snipes babies through the head and heart while their mothers are holding them in their arms.

Rapes prisoners with iron rods as a standard and then riots in the streets of their country for the right to rape while their religious leaders celebrate said rape.

Abandons several tiny newborns to starve to death, alone and in fear and cold, in a hospital, after forcing all staff to leave at gunpoint.

Besieges a car with a 6-year old girl trapped in it for hours surrounded by bodies of her murdered family, then kills the girl with over 300 shots and finishes by killing two paramedics who tried to help her.

Want me to go on, or are you ready to hang your head in shame?

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Another proof that we suffer from a lack of real education. People who do not have the ability to admit when they, or their people, are wrong. Whose common sense, even after careful reflection, remains warped. While it is true that "truth" can be hard to find, and that people and politics are messy, some things are also pretty clear. Israel is the bad guy here. Full stop. End the oppression. Stop creating enemies. Do things the right way. Seek virtue and truth and have some courage to call out those who are wrong, no matter who they are.

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I suspect you are either ignorant or a liar, possibly both. anyone who makes the effort can see what Israel is doing - the thousands and thousands murdered, thousands and thousands who are children. the crimes are countless at this point.

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Fuck all the way off, Zionist scum🤮

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when you swear it weakens your arguments. If this post is about name calling I'm out.

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Claudia, speak for yourself. Not everyone believes civility is the #1 priority. You are tone policing.

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Don't you think you're omitting a lot here?

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He's a Zionist🤮 I reported him as pornography🤣

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