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Friends in #Gaza: western media are reporting that #Hamas has agreed to disarm in return for #Israel withdrawing from Gaza. This deal is reported to have been negotiated by the so-called

Trump says Board of Peace has reached agreement for disarmament of Hamas
A senior Hamas official has told the BBC they have agreed to the Board of Peace's plan. Israel has not commented.

Geht's hier jetzt auch los mit den #Gaza-Scammern? Zwei zum Blocken und Melden, sind mir heute nacht "gefolgt": @… und @…

Another powerful blog post from #Gaza by @…, talking about #education in a time of #genocide

Between the Key and the Schoolbag
There is a history in her eyes that is older than she is.

Bellingcat shows the destruction in Gaza.
#gaza #bellingcat

RE: #Gaza. She is a young widow. She h…

RE: #Gaza today. Because the

RE: #Gaza

Gaza children send a message of support to rapper Macklemore 🍉
#Gaza : des enfants adressent un message de soutien au rappeur #Macklemore

Friends in #Gaza, I've now completed the work I've been doing in trying to understand the patterns of giving to people verified by the @… volunteers.
The good news: donations are gradually rising, the number of people receiving donations is rising, …

I've now extended my #Gaza donations investigation to look at the pattern of giving. 17,113 people have donated and given a name. Most of them haven't given very much. Anonymous donations have amounted to almost a million dollars, but obviously we don't know who from.
@…

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide

"I've been giving to people on the ground in #Gaza for more than a year now. Inevitably, the people I'm choosing to support are among the most vulnerable of those who are able to reach me...
But, realistically, the people I am supporting have little real chance of survival..."
#GazaGenocide

Helping Gaza

I've done a wee experimental feed aggregator for #Gaza #blogs here:
https://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/tmp/gazab

A friend whom I know well and trust has just messaged me about bombing she can hear close to her position in #Gaza tonight.
Another friend, in a different part of Gaza, posted photographs this morning of the aftermath of bombing that had happened close to her last night.
The #Blitz of Gaza contin…

RE: #Gaza. Malak is verified. She says:
" we live…

RE: #Gaza in need, and one person cannot support them all…

The Grauniad is reporting that Andy#Burnham (almost certainly the UK's next Prime Minister) claims that he will change policy on #Gaza.
If he delivers on this, it could be a very big deal.
Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’ | Andy Burnham | The Guardian

Andy Burnham apologies for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’
Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel

Dear friends, you will remember that I have written often about my friend Bara'a in #Gaza. She is a young widow. Her two daughters were killed when their house was bombed. Her surviving child, Ibrahim, who is five, has suffered from repeated pneumonia this year. Because of medical bills they are living mainly on lentils and rice, which means he is not getting enough vitamins to rebuild his immune…

Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.
Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.

#Gaza is a hot, arid place, Scotland a cool damp one. There aren't that many commonalities between them. But here, too, we pick, and sing about, the wild mountain thyme. Fortunately for us, we have other things to eat with it.
I've seen several people from Gaza lately commenting the wild thyme is the last thing they have left to add savour to their food. Here @…

Thyme, Heavier Than Hunger 🌿💔
In Palestine, thyme needs no introduction. It is the scent of old homes, the memory of quiet mornings, and a small piece of our land that we carry with us wherever we go. 🇵🇸

Sick brainwashed Israeli soldiers, men and women, cruelty and dehumanization is the point. War crimes and genocide always look the same.
#genocide #israel #gaza #palestine #idf

New blog post by @… on education under siege in #Gaza.
https://www.jo…

Opening the book
I greeted the faces before me, offering a greeting accompanied by a sense of apology. It was not an apology for the absence of a greeting, but for the inadequacy of words in the face of the stories these faces carried. In their eyes were a million questions, and in their hearts were mountains of reproach and pain.

Here's @… with an extraordinary story of honesty and community solidarity from within #Gaza

🍎 The Children Ran Toward the Fruit… But What Happened Next Left Me Speechless. 💔
In one of Gaza's neighborhoods, a street vendor's cart lost its balance, and fruit spilled across the road. 🍎

RE: #Gaza now need medical support -- which is inevitable given the continual shelling and…

'Met de maatregel wordt niet alleen de import, maar ook de tussenhandel in goederen uit de nederzettingen verboden. Ook Nederlandse bedrijven in het buitenland moeten zich eraan houden. De sanctie geldt in principe voor drie jaar.
Invoerverbod producten uit illegale nederzettingen Israël gaat in op 22 september
#Israël #Gaza #bezettegebieden

RE: #Gaza are hungry. Most of the people I am in touch with have eaten nothing but grains and w…

RE: #Gaza

Everyone I know and give to in #Gaza who used a mastodon.social account has now had their account restricted at least once. Every single one. For many, it was their verified account.
@… , what is happening? These are mostly not political people, they are ordinary people…

@… here's your new post published. I think this is a particularly effective one!
#Gaza
#GazaGenocide

Gaza... Where Life and Death Walk the Same Street 🕊️💔
There are places in the world where beginnings and endings remain distinct—where birth is separated from funerals, joy from grief, life from death. But Gaza has long since transcended these boundaries.

From a friend, a young woman, in #Gaza, just now:
"The bullets are reaching me.
I can't move freely. I'm trying to protect myself and my children."

Dear friends
You know I've been writing a lot lately about people in #Gaza whose verified accounts have been suspended in the crackdown on #Palestinian accounts on mastodon.social.
Nourhan is someone I've been corresponding with for some time; she's an academic, a very dignified…

RE: #Gaza are starving now. Each single family honestly needs far more than the total I…

Thinking about how I give money to people in #Gaza ...
I can afford to give £330 a month; that's roughly one third of my pension. After taking off money changers' fees, that means I can afford to give three gifts of £25 each per week.
Almost everyone in Gaza is in dire need. I imagine there are some landowners, and gangsters, and merchants who are doing well, but almost everyone …

RE: #Israel #gaza #genocide

Yet another beautiful and powerful piece by @… . It is a harsh world in which someone so young can experience so much loss and grief, yet she writes about it beautifully.
#Gaza

The City of Tents 🏕️💔
What does it mean to see the city where you were born and raised, then return to it and realize that it is no longer the city you knew?

Friends, I know that somewhere on the web there's guidance for how someone in the West can set up a #GoFundMe campaign on behalf of someone in #Gaza
Could someone point me to that guidance, please?

RE: #Gaza is a place of so many tragedies. In any civilised country, Mohammed's daughter would …

RE: #Gaza, but this one is urgent.

RE: #Gaza.

RE: #Gaza, ten euros for vitamins to help a child survive seems a small ask. Sure…

"This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave."
#Davos
#GazaGenocide
#Gaza

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power

Just amazing watching someone who's entire living is made by being popular try to weasel out of the consequences of doing unpopular and immoral things.
Ed Sheeran:
"Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine,"
Sheeran wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. "I would never let down the fans who had made plans, nor would I abandon the touring crew and the other support acts and musicians who rely on me for work and to make a living."
So here's the thing Ed, you could PAY YOUR ROADIES YOURSELF out of your estimated 400 MILLION DOLLARS.
#Gaza #Genocide #Money #Politics

RE: #Gaza

RE: #Gaza is obviously getting worse. There's clearly not enough food …

This is @… 's story, in her own words.
When you were sixteen, could you have carried her burden?
#Gaza
#GazaGenocide

My name is Layan
My name is Layan. I am 16 years old. At my age, I should be worrying about school, dreaming about my future, and laughing with my friends over little things. Instead, war chose a different life for me.

RE: #Gaza now reporting acute hunger. The situation in the markets there is obvio…

If your government cabinet includes one “extremist” hellbent on killing “30 to 40” people of a particular ethnic or cultural background every night then YOUR GOVERNMENT IS EXTREMIST.
This is known as the Nazi Bar principle.
Put a different way, parliamentary democracy, where MPs are elected and form the executive cabinet, function on the principle that the Ministers of Cabinet must always implement the direction and will of the government.
If they are not able to do so, then they must resign from the executive cabinet and another MP must replace them.
Therefore, as long as Ben Gvir and others like him remain in Cabinet and continue to advocate these policies, then the Israeli Government must be in agreement with his principles.
#genocide #extremism #israel #gaza #bengvir #netanyahu
https://apnews.com/article/ben-gvir-israel-gaza-hamas-netanyahu-53f98e92686746f3c9bccd7cf59f26ad?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link

I was doing a session today with a photographer friend, and as I arrived she took this picture. I like it!
#PalestineAction
#Gaza
#GazaGenocide

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sereen12/117268453886681525
Sereen is not yet verified, although she tells me this is in progress; but I have corresponded with her and her story is entirely credible.
Prices in

For those who might not be able to see the quoted post, here is the video from Mayor Mamdani as it was posted by @…
#video #mamdani #israel #warcrime #genocide #palestine #gaza

"Every time we are forced to flee, I feel like I grow ten years older overnight." -- @…
This must be the experience of many #Palestinians. Almost every family in #Gaza

My name is Layan
My name is Layan. I am 16 years old. At my age, I should be worrying about school, dreaming about my future, and laughing with my friends over little things. Instead, war chose a different life for me.

got very spicy outside all of a sudden. definitely storminess incoming.
flag is good tho! 🇵🇸
#palestine #freePalestine #gaza #endgenocide #israel #BDS
#bcstorm #poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

I Love This. As @… just said, Courage is Contagious!!
"Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour is coming apart at the seams as Finneas [brother of Billie Eilish], opener Aaron Rowe, and Sheeran's own house band Beoga have all dropped out in solidarity with Macklemore's dismissal.”
#FreePalestine #Israel #Expression #Music #EdSheeran #Gaza #Genocide #Palestinians
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ed-sheeran-tour-openers-finneas-aaron-rowe-drop-out-in-solidarity-with-macklemore-artists-must-not-be-silenced/ar-AA2chIBj

my wife @… has been really really plugged into reports and stories from #Palestine for the past year and especially the past few months.
So I got her a pre-anniversary present. She was very excited.
🇵🇸 Free Free Palestine!
#freepalestine #gaza #genocide #israel #BDS #BoycottIsrael
Ill take a better picture this afternoon when the southerly breeze picks up. It's a big flag. But it deserves to be.

This is important. A UK Appeals Tribunal (correctly imo) identifies Zionism as racist, ideological, and imperial as its purpose is to displace an indigenous population.
This also implies it is, at the very least, the framework for genocide, be it cultural, or physical.
Hope @… @… take this to heart.
#palestine #israel #zionism #racism #gaza #genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-appeals-court-upholds-anti-zionist-beliefs-protected-under-equality-law

RE: #spain #españa #immigration #ceuta #morroco #iran #russia #gaza #israel #palestine