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Every day has been the worst day. Israel outdoes itself in brutality and destruction every day, so every day is the worst day.
The day that you have Gallant announce that Palestinians would be denied food, water, and aid and supplies was the worst day. The day that the Israeli officials announced that they were rolling out the Gaza Nakba was the worst day.
The day that they sieged and surrounded Al-Shifa Hospital, bombed the maternity ward, bombed the outside clinic was the worst day. The day that I read that the director of Al-Shifa Hospital was calling on the world for assistance because people were screaming of thirst was the worst day.
The day that Israel dropped six one-ton bombs on the Jabalia refugee camp was the worst day. Every day after that was the worst day because Israel continued to bomb Jabalia refugee camp every single day after that, but the media didn't report on it. The day that we watched the Al-Nasr Hospital premature babies be discovered in their hospital beds decomposing was the worst day.
The day that we watched photos and videos of dozens of Palestinian men who were kidnapped from one of the schools where they were sheltering with their families and they were taken by the Israeli occupation forces stripped of their clothes blindfolded, forced to kneel. Only to be taken away in the backs of trucks was the worst day.
The day that I watched hundreds of thousands of Palestinians be forcibly displaced walking on Salah-e-Din Road from the north part of Gaza to the south in images that are reminiscent of the Nakba of 1948 images our grandparents created for us when they told us stories of the Nakba. That was the worst day. Watching the Nakba of 2023 play out on our phones was the worst day.
The day that we read accounts of Palestinian families whose children they were carrying in their arms as they were being forcibly displaced and their children were sniped by Israeli snipers and they were forced to lay their children's bodies down on the ground and continue marching. The day that report came out, that was also the worst day.
Every day I see a video of a Palestinian toddler whose head has been blown off split open, or a Palestinian child whose limbs are missing after being hit in an airstrike. Those days are also the worst days. The day I saw the faceless boy with both of his legs blown off that was the worst day. The day I saw the young Palestinian girl who had been completely disemboweled and whose intestines were outside of her body that was also the worst day.
Every day I see a child who has had to undergo amputation after being injured in an airstrike. Most of the time without proper anesthesia was the worst day. The day that we heard the report of a Palestinian physician having to amputate his own child without anesthesia and whose child actually had succumbed to his wounds that was also the worst day.
The day that we heard that disease began to spread in Gaza and when an Israeli official wrote an op-ed saying let the disease spread it will help us achieve our objectives quicker that was also the worst day.
Every day has been the worst day because every day is the worst day for some family for someone on the ground and we are as a community, every day grieving every attack as if it's an attack on us, on our families on us as individuals because every attack against any Palestinian family is an attack against all of us so every day has been the worst day.
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Lara Elborno is a Palestinian-American international lawyer and activist based in Paris though her family originally hails from Gaza and Yaffa. She dedicates a large part of her legal practice to human rights work including accompanying asylum seekers in asylum proceedings before French jurisdictions. She is also co-host to a weekly English-language podcast called the Palestine Pod which aims to support the Palestinian struggle for liberation against Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid.
Reader Comments
And to go further one must wonder if others delivered the "worst days" - do they ever get justice for what they delivered to us?
I think they do.
But - I'm still alive and I still have hope for Justified Retribution.
I call for it.
In the name of the Arabic word spoken today by a Colonel Macgregor - the word meant basically - "time to be together" - for the sake of justice presumably.
Here is the link he spoke of this - I give his wisdom heed.
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
You are dead on....but few will know what your 1st sentence meant. A few here might. But as the predictive programming in movies such as A FEW GOOD MEN, says, The Truth!! You want the Truth!? You dear American cannot handle the truth, nadda, never will be able to, nor would you do anything about it once it was revealed, over and over and over...
You are a third gen Stockholm syndrome baby and your offspring are worse.
Come on VonCraq - tell me if I'm wrong , but that seemed unnecessarily hostile in sentiment and a tad exaggerated and over the top..... still - go deep down enough in the HOLE then for sure - you sense things few others live to express i reckon - Stockholm syndrome is so 20th century and offspring ought be "off limits" in judgement for the sake of better discourse? That is what I think - but hell - war is war.
People pass on addictions, morays, morals, crimes, prejudice, hate, anger, love and compassion.
You get what you give. Period
I "say" it myself as well - thee shall reap what thee sows ....one gets what they "give"....yep.
It is sort of another way of saying --- "do onto thy neighbor as thou desires for thee-self".....
So - if that is the "reality" - some zigaboos individual are fixing to die soon enough cause they ain't special - they don't get a different set of "rules". With all the dead babies in Gaza already - it can't be soon enough - it is too late already in a way.... but it will happen .
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Anyhow - I just wasn't clear on what you were expressing...so now I know a bit better (maybe)...
Ken
The Zionist’s people (If you will it it is no dream per Theodore Herzl own words & doctrine) who own everything & run the machine & system want to play God as a totalitarian dictator that you will own nothing, eat zee bugzzzz & be happy.
Proof of concept that exposes the lies & deception cited below:
“If you will it, it is no dream.” Theodor Herzl
“The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.” Theodor Herzl
“Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.” Theodor Herzl
“Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.” Theodor Herzl
Zionist Theodor Herzl Quotes [Link]
Am I missing something b/c I fail to see any Free Will in that.
Free Will - The term “free will” has emerged over the past two millennia as the canonical designator for a significant kind of control over one’s actions. Questions concerning the nature and existence of this kind of control (e.g., does it require and do we have the freedom to do otherwise or the power of self-determination?), and what its true significance is (is it necessary for moral responsibility or human dignity?) have been taken up in every period of Western philosophy and by many of the most important philosophical figures, such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant. (We cannot undertake here a review of related discussions in other philosophical traditions. For a start, the reader may consult Marchal and Wenzel 2017 and Chakrabarti 2017 for overviews of thought on free will, broadly construed, in Chinese and Indian philosophical traditions, respectively.) In this way, it should be clear that disputes about free will ineluctably involve disputes about metaphysics and ethics. In ferreting out the kind of control at stake in free will, we are forced to consider questions about (among others) causation, laws of nature, time, substance, ontological reduction vs emergence, the relationship of causal and reasons-based explanations, the nature of motivation and more generally of human persons. In assessing the significance of free will, we are forced to consider questions about (among others) rightness and wrongness, good and evil, virtue and vice, blame and praise, reward and punishment, and desert. The topic of free will also gives rise to purely empirical questions that are beginning to be explored in the human sciences: do we have it, and to what degree?Here is an overview of what follows. In Section 1 , we acquaint the reader with some central historical contributions to our understanding of free will. (As nearly every major and minor figure had something to say about it, we cannot begin to cover them all.) As with contributions to many other foundational topics, these ideas are not of ‘merely historical interest’: present-day philosophers continue to find themselves drawn back to certain thinkers as they freshly engage their contemporaries. In Section 2 , we map the complex architecture of the contemporary discussion of the nature of free will by dividing it into five subtopics: its relation to moral responsibility; the proper analysis of the freedom to do otherwise; a powerful, recent argument that the freedom to do otherwise (at least in one important sense) is not necessary for moral responsibility; ‘compatibilist’ accounts of sourcehood or self-determination; and ‘incompatibilist’ or ‘libertarian’ accounts of source and self-determination. In Section 3 , we consider arguments from experience, a priori reflection, and various scientific findings and theories for and against the thesis that human beings have free will, along with the related question of whether it is reasonable to believe that we have it. Finally, in Section 4 , we survey the long-debated questions involving free will that arise in classical theistic metaphysics.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [Link]
“ A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke ZarathustraRead [Link]
When does histories body count bring down the judges decision, he that is guilty remains guilty still and he that is just remains just still... when does the Phoenix burn in finality?
When?
This is the cry for justice of spilt innocent blood.
I can only attempt to posit an answer that per my highest level of ignorance speaking as a positive voice in the wilderness.
It falls when a collective consciousness of humanity becomes emotionally mature enough to handle the truth, super saturated, tired & exhausted of the lies, seeing through the illusions of the Matrix (Plato’s Cave) is reached, takes root and/or they’re symbols, contradictions, fait accompli logic trap dichotomies catch up to them. “Holly Pedo Wood” can’t even find its own rock bottom yet to re-group for a consistent narrative. No topics of real virtue to write about other than Child Trafficing ? That’s pathetic.
Look at the line up of films. Comic book fantasy (movies “Dream Factories” as Tavistock Institute deified Icon Theodor Adorno told us) sequels/prequels, occasional predictive programming gaslighters like Obama’s latest apocalyptic “Leave the World Behind” a intentionally & purposely racially charged dystopic & dysfunctional abomination of Netflix followed by Alex Garland’s May 2024 release “Civil War”.
At some point conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact after countless affirmations of truth & courageous traumatized victims expose the system. That’s my best summarization of how it happens if it does or simply continues to deteriorate as part of the Zersetzung/Zerseitzung gestalt of the whole empire dying a slow nihilistic death.
Hard for me to imagine a world as dystopia & dysfunctional as the current one they are trying to create on its current trajectory. Something’s got to give at some point.
Hang in there, hang on for a wild ride through this surreal storm of chaos.
Funny in one way - ironic in another - but fact of the matter - I concur. I agree with that "take" on the current situation.
Now taking it to the next level - is there any denying it could be "better"?
Thanks
I always learn more when you write like this.
I'm gonna have peppers for sale in '24 - I prefer payment in river rocks, but I accept coin as well!
C u round VonCraq - C U in 24!
Ken
I was banished here to find my lost child...
Found that but wisdom is lost...pearls cast to pigs...