The goal was to terrorize Yemen into ending the blockade and attacks against Israel. As a response to Israel's invasion and occupation of the Gaza Strip, the Houthis have been blocking ships bound for Israel from travelling along the Yemeni coast, as well as sending missiles and drones towards Israel proper, drawing the ire of Israel's Western allies.
My breaks from tumblr aren't even intentional anymore, I just genuinely don't know what's left for me to say. I've dedicated this blog to talking about Palestine and spreading awareness for at least the past 13 years and never has it been more difficult to articulate and put into words the daily horrors we're bearing witness to.
Over 100 people were massacred in Gaza today, over 30 of them in an Israeli strike against a school. I saw two headless babies in the past three days alone. I saw at least five headless Palestinian babies in the past 15 months.
I hate this world so, so much.
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[Something dangerous is happening in G-za now. The IDF is creating the "Morag Axis" & evacuating all of Rafah. This means Gaza is completely isolated from all borders, again making the entry of aid through Rafah impossible until you crush all the soldiers & tanks up to the Morag Axis.]
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“I’ve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can’t sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians don’t talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.”
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I need everyone to know that they are now selling novelty talking trump fish, and the psychic damage I received from realizing the commercial was real and not some kind of joke is something I will never recover from
Imagine trying to do wound care on someone with this playing in the background
(Quds) “Israel attempted to kill American doctors after CNN interview.”
Hours after a CNN interview, where they spoke about the Israeli genocide and denounced the complicity of the US and European countries, Israel attempted to kill two American volunteer doctors when airstrikes deliberately targeted Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis last Sunday.
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another thing about the signal leak is that oil prices remaining low was a serious thing being brought up in the discussion
It's truly amazing how transparent the conversation is and how people (from the journalist who leaked it to the parade of people who are clowning on my notes) try to pretend otherwise, willfully or not.
In a single conversation the leaders of the United States nakedly admit everything; that the US military exists to support the US imperial economy (oil prices and shipping, but also intimidating other economies, even supposed allies like Europe) and that they're perfectly willing to kill innocent people (because again, it was a strike against an apartment building) for this. Again, innocent people died to make the US look strong (and to support a genocidal war by Israel), and it was celebrated.
(these aren't hidden facts at all, we in the third world know this for a fact, the only special thing about this is that we see that people in charge say this explicitly while others had the "decorum" to hide it)
but the whole focus was "oh look how dumb they are by leaking the super secret chats how embarrassing", honestly, I don't even know what to tell them. I hope they'll realize someday.
What's funny, again, is that people on my notes say I "don't know how to read" or I'm doing an "uncharitable reading" of the article when I actually read the whole article and the whole chat and that's exactly what's happening.
The cabinet of the United States got in a chat and say, explictly "Hey, we need to kill people, we know that innocents will die but we need to look strong and also secure our trade and economy" and they did. This is undeniable.
The thing is, dozens of these conversations must happen every month, the only unique thing is that we got to see them. I don't really care about how sloppy the Trump administration is, I find it amazing that the US leaders are admitting this openly and few people are outraged about it.
for anyone claiming that Palestinians citizens of Israel have "equal rights" why do you conveniently leave out that there are only 3 entities that control the transfer of land and one of them the Jewish National Fund will only lease out land to Israeli jews? that it is extremely difficult for a Palestinian citizen of Israel to obtain a permit to build a home and therefore tens of thousands of Palestinians citizens of Israel are at risk of losing their home? or conveniently leave out that Israel counts east Jerusalem Palestinians of which no more than 5% have citizenship while the rest have "permanent resident status" that can be revoked anytime?
"Equal rights"
"equal rights" literally said that they would not pass a bill that creates equality between jews and non-jews omg
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guys this is so crazy to me i feel like we're regressing if we, despite the history of this country droning and bombing civilians and covering it up to, are still led to believe at face value that the people killed were "justified targets this time around!" And now that trump is in charge well the guy and his fascist crew certainly believe who theyre bombing are all guilty, right?
In 2009, the Obama administration conducted "the first known U.S. cruise missile strike in southern Yemen . . . That strike, which killed 14 alleged "militants," also killed at least 41 civilians, including 21 children and nine women, five of whom were pregnant at the time."
The Obama administration would continue to claim that their drone strikes were "exceptionally surgical and precise" and "do not put… innocent men, women and children in danger" but we know then and now there was mass civilian casualties.
In 2013, the administration launched four Hellfire missiles in a counterterrorism operation in Yemen. The Obama administration claimed all killed were militants and terrorists, witnesses said the administration killed a wedding procession
We know that the Obama administration would define militant as any "military aged male" to drastically lower the "non-combatant" death
Biden continued this policy. In 2021 there was footage showing a drone strike killing civilians, seven of the ten those killed children. In fact civilian deaths are so rampant that this "mistake" continues to happen. In Syria, the biden admin claimed to kill an al-Qaeda leader then find out they killed a father of ten children
Now, with the lack of accountability, may we ask why the hell we should believe that this airstrike the TRUMP administration sent killed only the "bad guys". He killed civilians in Yemen before
Whats even more just disappointing is that people not only believing at face value what the administration will say who they target, but the complete pivot from "progressive" people being against droning to just not caring. I was in class this semester and my professor thought it would be a fun learning exercise to ask the class how many civilian deaths would they be alright with if it killed so and so top dictators and people kept their hand up for 100+ civilians. I had to disrupt that shit and say "so would any of you would have raised your hand if it was you and your family at risk of being killed because canada claimed they needed to bomb your town to eliminate a terrorist group and they cant help but kill civilians because its just war?" and surprise i was met with silence.
Can we bring back being against droning? can we make that a mainstream belief again wth.
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You will misunderstand the economic history of white supremacy in America if you’re under the impression that convict labor (the “except as punishment for a crime” bit of the 13th Amendment) was how the plantation economy of the South continued after the official abolition of slavery. It mainly wasn’t. Convict labor was always only a relatively small sector of the Southern economy.
The vast majority of freed slaves became sharecroppers and tenant farmers on white-owned land. This was the real basis of the continuation of the slave-based Southern agrarian economy. And though many of the most egregious elements of slavery were now mostly gone (the whip, the overseers, the legal inability to leave), the basic slave-plantation economy was still intact as these black farm laborers now basically worked for the same “wages” as they had as slaves. Landowners would sell a few basic living essentials like food, clothing, and heating oil to the laborers on credit, and at harvest time, the sharecroppers’ or tenant farmers’ “earnings” from their crop would be used to pay off their debt to the landowner, usually leaving them at zero, or even still in the red, indebted to the landowner. From a financial standpoint, this was hardly any different than slaves working and receiving zero wages besides those same basic living essentials from the slave master.
Forced convict labor existed in all of this, and was used to keep many black people involved in more obvious slavery (complete with the chains, the overseers, and even the whip), but the convict-leasing system and the state-run plantations run by prison labor did not constitute the majority of the Southern economy, neither in terms of the percentage of the population involved nor in economic output.
To this day, prison labor in the US only constitutes a small fraction of the economy, and is not in any way profitable. The companies that use prison labor are able to profit because they don’t have to pay any of the living costs of the prisoners, nor the costs of incarcerating them, as the state pays for all that. The amount of money the state has to spend incarcerating people dwarfs the amount of revenue there is to be gained from exploiting prison labor. It is generally a net loss for the overall economy. Even in cases where the state saves money by using cheap prison labor to replace expensive free labor (like California’s firefighters), this is simply them attempting to recoup some of the cost they spend incarcerating those workers in the first place. Whether the state uses prisoners as firefighters or not, it costs them the same amount of money to lock those people up, it’s a sunk cost. So they figure they might as well try to save some money on their fire-fighting budget by employing prisoners at $2 an hour instead of free labor at $40/hr.
Prison labor cannot in any way be described as the basis of the US economy, and it cannot grow to become one either. It is unproductive. Incarceration loses more revenue than it generates. The prison-industrial complex is a parasitic tumor on the economy. It does not constitute the economic logic of white supremacy. The US carceral system needs to be understood as an apparatus of state terror, not of economic production. Its purpose is to discipline and intimidate, not to produce. Its purpose in the structure of white supremacy in America is not for the exploitation of black labor. If that were its purpose, it does so incredibly inefficiently, spending more money than it earns. Its purpose in the structure of white supremacy is for terrorizing and disciplining the black population, breaking urban black political power, and strengthening rural political representation.
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not unique to zionists really but i get so angry at how zionists respond to hard facts with hypothetical nonsense. a Palestinian or pro-Palestine person will say something along the lines of, "Palestine is being ethnically cleansed, here is all the evidence, including witness and survivor testimonies from people on the ground and even the perpetrators" and zionists will almost always respond with something like, "but WHAT IF we didn't ethnically cleanse and WHAT IF these people then killed everyone and WHAT IF i had to hide in the basement forever from these EVIL ARABS that i literally just made up and aren't real but WHAT IF all that happened and then the Holocaust happened again??" and none of what they say is referring to a concrete present. its always this "what if", this unreality, that they then expect you to stoop to and argue from as if its legitimate. Palestinians, Lebanese, etc we're always speaking of our experiences and the experiences of our families and friends of real events etc but Zionists rarely ever are. but somehow the world is more willing to believe their genocidal fantasies than the reality Arabs face because that's racism and colonialism, i guess. the weaponisation of lies and dellusion