Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, and advocates for Palestinians' rights to health and dignity. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2002.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.
MAP History
Between 16 and 18 September 1982, Lebanese Phalangist militants entered the Beirut refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, and killed and injured hundreds of unarmed Palestinian and other civilians inside. The camp’s residents were defenceless.
The Israeli army, who had invaded Lebanon earlier that year and had surrounded the camp, had full knowledge of what was taking place inside, yet they never intervened. Instead, they illuminated the camp throughout the night by flares launched into the sky from helicopters and mortars.
Working in a hospital inside the camp at the time was a young orthopaedic surgeon from London, Dr Swee Chai Ang. Refusing to leave the hospital, Dr Ang worked tirelessly to save the injured and protect her patients during the massacre.
On her return to London, Dr Ang joined with fellow medical professionals and humanitarians to establish Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), in order to send doctors and nurses to work in the Palestinian refugee camps and provide frontline care.
MAP today
Since then, MAP has been working with Palestinian communities, to deliver locally-led health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement.
Today we have offices in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Lebanon and London. With our extensive local knowledge and experience, we work closely with communities, hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers to coordinate care and medical aid even where there are severe restrictions on access.
MAP provides immediate medical aid to those in need at times of crisis, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.
We are also committed to speaking out against injustices that prevent Palestinians from fully enjoying their rights to health and dignity, and campaign to ensure the voices of Palestinians impacted by occupation, displacement and conflict are heard at the highest levels.
Mutual aid for Palestine and Gaza: https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donation-details/484 
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If ever in your life you recommended linux to anyone for any reason I hope you piss blood and have no insurance
Oh? Shit goes wrong a million times more often and you can't look up how to fucking deal with it?? HOW LIBERATING.
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When you get a problem on Windows that's beyond just finding the right entry in the settings app, the solutions gonna be like:
Gotta say Linux isn't for everyone though, but if there's enough time in one's life to learn the hang of it, it's rewarding.
haha the user clearly isn't having the experience they're reporting they must be lying I am great
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It's cool to attack people with sarcasm but when they respond to you with slightly less veiled sarcasm then they have emotional problems and they're the asshole
Linux people are the ultimate gamer
And you know what? MAYBE I WOULD RATHER DEAL WITH MY EMOTIONAL ISSUES THAN THIS COMPUTER BULLSHIT, YOU THINK OF THAT PROFESSOR THREE HOURS READING DOCUMENTATION???
DING DING DING!!! I HAVE OTHER SHIT GOING ON RIGHT NOW
"Liberating open source code" holy shit most people aren't programmers and being able to look at the code is less than useless in that case
skill issue
you had a problem with my favorite platform that you haven't elsewhere?
lol you must be fucking stupid piece of shit loser haha
It is more difficult to use than Windows or Mac but the Mac OS is built on top of Linux. It's a great free OS which runs a majority of back end servers (Redhat , Cent OS).
It is basically a Wikipedia of operating systems. There is a great book titled "A Peoples History of Computing" which describes how silicon valley internationally obscured history to make it seem as if innovation were pushed by individuals like Jobs or Gates.
In reality innovation happened bottom up. Literally in public schools across the country. It's a very eye opening read , even for those familiar with the subject.