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cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113378235413238538

For Gaza’s schoolchildren, another year of destruction, loss, and uncertainty:
Makeshift schools in tent camps have served thousands of Palestinian children. But can they survive the approaching winter and Israel’s intensifying assaults? (+972 Magazine, 2024-10-24)

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-tent-schools-scholasticide/
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cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113382389410587332

Opinion | Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon May Doom Kamala Harris’s White House Chances:
Michigan’s Lebanese community is being asked to overcome its grief. That’s a tall order. (Abby Ellis | The Intercept, 2024-10-26)

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/26/kamala-harris-michigan-voters-lebanon-israel/

#USPol #Michigan
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"If a foreign worker is required to quit her job due to a complaint she filed, she is also, in fact, losing her place of residence," noted Shiri Lev-Ran

They're the ones for are always talking about Hamas' alleged rapes :

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21819748

Mona Mawari
Thu 24 Oct 2024 10.46 EDT

[Please read the entire article - it is very thoughtful and informative. With her record on Gaza and Lebanon, voting for Harris will be difficult for millions in the US. --PL]

Harsh winter is coming, if you can, please help.

https://www.instagram.com/taghread__family/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21774418

Dalia Hatuqa
October 20 2024, 6:00 a.m.

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113366501879205090

Open Letter | Israeli citizens calling for true international pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire. (Israeli Citizens For International Pressure)

[https://israelicitizensforin.live-website.com/english/] ———

In eleven languages: Hebrew, Arabic, French, Russian, Italian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Turkish.

“We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world – to intervene immediately and implement every possible sanction towards achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and its neighbors, for the future of both peoples in Israel/Palestine and the peoples of the region...”

“Many of us are veteran activists against the occupation, for peace and mutual existence in this land…”

“Please, … save us from ourselves, and use real pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire.”

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Self explanatory. Who bombs people with such an artillery??!!!

Self explanatory. I had to cut it because of duration.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21758829

Tom Perkins in Detroit
Thu 24 Oct 2024 07.00 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21758758

Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Abubaker Abed
Oct 23, 2024

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113361576959117988

Iranian-German Photographer Asked to Apologize for Saying “Free Palestine”: The German Photographic Society called Shirin Abedi’s award acceptance speech “dogmatic fanaticism” and “anti-Israeli agitation.”
(Hyperallergic, 2024-19-23)

https://hyperallergic.com/960502/iranian-german-shirin-abedi-photographer-asked-to-apologize-for-saying-free-palestine/
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＊With a short video of her giving speech in kufiya＊

“At its October 12 gala, the organization presented the laureates of this year’s awards, including Iranian-German photographer Shirin Abedi, ... Upon receiving her award, Abedi made a minute-long statement that ended with a call to ‘free Palestine.’”

“A few days after the ceremony, German photojournalist Thomas Gerwers, the chairman of DGPh’s Art, Market, and Law Section, sent Abedi a letter asking the artist to issue an apology and accusing her of ‘political propaganda.‘”

“‘… we have a special responsibility for the right of the State of Israel to exist. Without ifs and buts,’ he continued. ‘We have been abused by you …’”

#GermanyLost
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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/14810842

Original URL: https://www.ft.com/content/151eb482-6415-48a8-bf3f-baed00018c4e

Israel’s military forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and is suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus close enough to injure 15 peacekeepers, according to a confidential report outlining a dozen recent incidents in which the IDF attacked international troops in Lebanon.

The report — prepared by a country that contributes troops, and seen by the Financial Times — underscores how Israeli troops have targeted Unifil, the UN-mandated force deployed along the de facto border between the countries, on multiple occasions. They have damaged several facilities and caused injuries to troops stationed at border posts in southern Lebanon.

Unifil has called these incidents a “flagrant violation of international law”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21757629

Razia Iqbal
Tue 8 Oct 2024 08.00 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21721641

October 18, 2024

from +972 magazine - produced in Israel by Jews and Palestinians

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113358492659421800

‘Copy-paste the West Bank to Gaza’: Hundreds join Gaza resettlement event
(+972 Magazine, 2024-10-22)

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-israeli-resettlement-event-sukkot/
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“‘We came here with one clear purpose: to settle the entire Gaza Strip.’ That was the declaration of Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss at a gathering of hundreds of right-wing Israelis near Gaza on Monday, where they celebrated the Jewish festival of #Sukkot by calling to erect settlements inside the besieged enclave.”

“…this well-organized, calm, and joyous gathering — which was approved and held against all logic in a closed military zone near the border, and was attended by several senior figures in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party — marked a new step in the effort to mainstream the idea of resettling Gaza with Jewish Israelis.”

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The Armenian population of Palestine on the eve of World War I numbered between two and three thousand persons. The majority lived in Jerusalem, with smaller communities in Haifa, Jaffa, Ramla, and Bethlehem. As noted earlier, Palestine’s indigenous Armenian population had been overwhelmed during the war by huge waves of Armenians from Cilicia, the ancient Armenian kingdom in what is now southwestern Turkey.²⁵

Cilicia, in addition to having one of the largest Armenian concentrations in the empire, was also the seat of the Cilician Catholicos, the theological head of the Western half of the Gregorian church.²⁶ Indeed, the first wave of refugees to Palestine, which arrived in Jerusalem in early November 1915, consisted of the Cilician Catholicos himself, Sahag, accompanied by archbishops and priests.²⁷

A few days later, fifteen to twenty Armenian families were sent to Jerusalem from Adana by the Damascus-based commander of the Ottoman Fourth Army, Jamal Pasha.²⁸ Soon the number of the Armenian refugees in Palestine grew to six hundred families. Jamal Pasha, who was on good terms with the Armenian Catholicos, played an important role in saving hundreds of Armenians by sending them to Palestine. In 1916 he even made a visit in person to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

In a report addressed to the Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul, Catholicos Sahag described what he saw on his journey from Cilicia to Jerusalem:

The road from Aleppo to Damascus was lined with thousands of Armenian refugees. Some were living in tents and others in the open air, begging for bread and water and asking for news about their friends. We went through places where one tenekeh [tin can] of water cost six to seven piastres, but still there was no one to give it.

Many refugees—no one knows the exact number—are in the area of Kerek, and in the district of Salt there are about 400 households. Every village has 100 households of refugees and in the sanjak of Serai there are approximately 500 households. These people come to the Monastery [in Jerusalem], where they receive 30 to 40 loaves of bread a day, which [they] eat in the kitchen. About 80 refugees from Adana—with the special favor of Jemal Pasha—have arrived in Jerusalem and are living in the monastery compound.²⁹

By 1920, some two thousand Armenian refugees had arrived in Jerusalem. The military governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ronald Storrs, described the situation in his memoirs as follows:

As if these things were not enough, there were added to our troubles thousands of refugees. Over two thousand desperate Armenians besieged the saintly but incompetent locum tenens of the Armenian Patriarchate.There were the Christian refugees from Salt, a city older than Genesis [...] and OETA [Occupied Enemy Territory Administration] had to face feeding and housing of Saltis³⁰ as well as Armenians. Later I find [...] 7000 refugees—Armenian, Syrian, Latin Orthodox, Protestant and Moslem suddenly flung on my hands this week: a good deal of typhus, but malaria not expected till autumn. No easy matter feeding and looking after them and I have had to detail three members of my staff for the purpose.³¹

Most of the refugees arriving in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine viewed their situation as temporary and were waiting to return to their hometowns in Cilicia. But in 1922, Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Ataturk) launched an offensive in Cilicia, and several shiploads of Armenian refugees arrived in Haifa. By 1925, there were about 15,000 Armenians in Palestine, mainly in Jerusalem, with smaller numbers in Haifa and Jaffa.³²

[...]

Inevitably, the almost-overnight demographic transformation of the community in the early 1920s caused strains. [...] Eventually, however, they were won over by the locals’ kindness and generosity, and a gradual process of integration began.⁴⁰

Only when the Herzlians ethnically cleansed most of Palestine did the Armenian population shrink:

The 1948 war brought to an end an important period of Armenian history in Palestine. Major dislocations followed: The Armenian communities of Jaffa and Haifa and other areas that became Israel were reduced to insignificance.

West Jerusalem—including the wealthy Arab neighborhoods of the New City where several hundred Armenian families had lived—was occupied by [settler] forces and almost the entire non-Jewish population was expelled; losing their homes and businesses, the Armenian residents left the country entirely.⁷⁹

Jerusalem’s Old City, with its Armenian Quarter that for many centuries had been the heart of Palestine’s Armenian community and a vital part of the city, remained in Arab (Jordanian) hands until 1967. But the community had already been dealt a mortal blow, and its dramatic decline was already underway.

(Emphasis added in all cases.)