Not a century has been recorded that #jerusalem has NOT been under siege. The region and tribal conflict is literally a black hole for humanity.
An ancient living graveyard of #terror.
It's not to be understood but must be never forgotten. #war @palestine@israel
#KSA has long called for an independent Palestinian state to be created along #Israel’s 1967 borders, with East #Jerusalem as its capital. However, that likely may be untenable for Israeli PM #Netanyahu, whose government hinges on support from hard-liners.
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
What happened instead was a wave of Palestinian violence… with the goals of eliminating Israel over freedom—that has been the preference of generations of #Palestinian leaders.
A people on the cusp of liberation instead suffered war deaths and the moral rot caused by the veneration of suicide and murder.
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
#JERUSALEM - Israeli war Cabinet minister #BennyGantz demanded on May 18 that Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the #Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with #Hamas. #Israel
In other news, my poetry collection (two books in one binding) is finally out! It is in Russian (unfortunately, in some sense) and consists of texts, written between 2004 and 2016.
It is currently available in Moscow, Yerevan, and Tbilisi, and will come to Israel a bit later.
At the presentation in Yerevan as asked something along the lines "how do you feel to be so weird?", event in Jerusalem — sometime in June, most likely.
Israël en pleine confusion après des attaques antipalestiniennes et des manifestations pour une trêve
L’#UNRWA a annoncé fermer temporairement son quartier général de #Jérusalem-Est après deux incendies criminels, jeudi 9 mai, et des manifestions de l’extrême droite israélienne. Parallèlement, d’autres #manifestations, en faveur d’un cessez-le-feu, se multiplient à Tel-Aviv.
Das UN-Palästinenserhilfswerk UNRWA schließt sein Büro in Ostjerusalem - zumindest vorerst. Das Leben der Mitarbeitenden vor Ort sei bei Fällen von Brandstiftung in ernster Gefahr gewesen.
Earlier today, Israeli settlers launched an attack on the #UNRWA headquarters in occupied #Jerusalem, setting fire to its surroundings. Israeli authorities have not intervened or made any arrests among the Israeli attackers.
»Nur um’s zusammen zu fassen: sexuell progressive Kulturen bescherten uns Literatur, Philosophie, Zivilisation und den ganzen Rest, während sexuell restriktive Kulturen uns das Finstere Mittelalter und den Holocaust einbrockten. Ich versuche aber freilich nicht, mein Argument zu überfrachten.«
— #AlanMoore: »Sumpf-Venus gegen Nazi-Penis-Ring. Einige Gedanken zur Pornographie«
@Literatopia Hab mir diesen Essay von Moore mal zurecht gelegt als Entspannungs-Übersetzung, wenn ich mit der heißen Arbeitsphase von »#Jerusalem« für #CarcosaVerlag feddich bin.
Würde ja wahnsinnig gerne einen Verlag bei uns finden, der sich traut den Pornographie-Essay und das Langgedicht »The Mirror of Love« in einem Band rauszubringen.
À la mosquée Al-Aqsa de Jérusalem, le ramadan s’est achevé dans la tristesse
Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, #Israël impose des restrictions sans précédent aux Palestiniens qui souhaitent accéder au troisième lieu saint de l’islam, surplombant la vieille ville de #Jérusalem. Des musulmans venus du monde entier célébrer la fin du #ramadan sont aussi visés.
Human trafficking is always part of a #terrorist negotiation. The price per human life on display.
During this stage, Hamas would release all civilian women, children, elderly and sick hostages, in exchange for Palestinian women, minors, elderly and infirm prisoners, at a rate of 30 inmates for every hostage. @palestine @israel
Hamas would then release female soldiers at a price per soldier of 50 Palestinians — 30 serving life sentences and 20 others chosen by Hamas.
After 2000 years of tribal war over 500 miles of beachfront real estate plus #jerusalem, I don't think it's possible to conclude who started the fight.
The only thing missing is who will be brave enough to find the #peace.
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre, when hundreds of armed Zionist militiamen from the pre-1948 #Irgun and #Stern gangs committed one of the cruelest massacres in the history of Palestine.
On April 9, 1948, Zionist gangs raided the village of Deir Yassin, west of #Jerusalem, killing nearly 250 Palestinian civilians, mainly women, children and the elderly. Cases of rape, mutilation and humiliation were documented.
Of nearly 70 #massacres during the 1948 #Nakba, Deir Yassin would become one of those atrocities where almost all the acts of war criminality were unleashed: killing, destruction, pillaging, rape, and displacement.
#DeirYassin is a powerful symbol of Palestinian dispossession, as well as a historical fact that the occupying Israeli regime must confront when retelling its national narrative.
What happened in the last few hours: #Israel says that around 300 drones and missiles were fired by #Iran, and that some of the launches also came from #Iraq and #Yemen
Videos showed explosions and fireballs over #Jerusalem as Israeli air defences worked to defeat Iran's unprecedented attack
This is the first time #Tehran has directly attacked Israel after years of waging proxy wars with its affiliates, including Hezbollah and Hamas