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Keep your distance from the upcoming Wonder Woman movie. She is played by Gal Gadot, an Israeli who served in the military and supports the genocide of Palestinians. 

During Israel’s last major attack on Gaza in 2014, she said: “I am sending my love and prayers to my fellow Israeli citizens, especially to all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting my country…” 

Her words rubbed salt into the wounds when you remember that Israeli citizens were relaxing on hilltops overlooking Gaza as they watched Israeli jets focus on killing large Palestinian families. 

More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, and six Israelis.

It’s impossible to hear of that movie and not immediately think ‘genocide’.

You’d heard of Roadhog before. that name was infamous around these parts. But you never thought you’d actually SEE him, in your favorite bar, no less.
At his side was the ever faithful (if not equally infamous) junkrat, who looked even crazier than the wanted posters had portrayed him. His wild, slightly singed hair stood up at all angles, and the scent of gunpowder was so strong that you could smell from your seat at the bar.
If junk rat was startling in appearance, he was nothing compared to the large man in front of him. Massive seemed to be the only way to describe him, as his broad shoulders and Incredible height rendered him barely able to squeeze through the front door, his towering frame attracting all eyes from their drinks.

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We came to this country, already inhabited by Arabs, and established here a Hebrew, i.e. a Jewish state. In large areas we bought land from the Arabs, Jewish villages arose in place of Arab villages. You don’t even know the names of these villages and I’m not reproaching you for that, as those geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books no longer exist but the villages don’t exist anymore either. Nahalal arose in place of Mahlul, Gevat in place of Jibta, Sarid in place of Haneifs, and Kefar Yehosu'a in place of Tel-Shaman. Not one place in this country was built where there hadn’t formally been an Arab population.
Moshe Dayan, in a speech to the students of Haifa Technical University in April 1968 (via kufiyah)
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kufiyah: “ Calling Israel’s occupation of Palestine apartheid isn’t lazy or inflammatory – it’s based on fact “In the West Bank, the Israeli state has created and established a network of illegal settlements whose residents – citizens of Israel –...
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Calling Israel’s occupation of Palestine apartheid isn’t lazy or inflammatory – it’s based on fact

In the West Bank, the Israeli state has created and established a network of illegal settlements whose residents – citizens of Israel – live among Palestinians subject to military law. While settlements expand, Palestinian homes are demolished.

Recently, in the words of Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem, Israeli authorities have “stepped up efforts to expel Palestinian communities from vast areas in the West Bank” – this is ethnic cleansing. From January 1 to February 15 of this year, according to United Nations data, Israeli forces destroyed or confiscated 283 Palestinian homes and other structures, displacing 404.

As a senior UN official explained, while most of these demolitions “take place on the spurious legal grounds that Palestinians do not possess building permits”, Israeli figures themselves show that “only 1.5 per cent of Palestinian permit applications are approved in any case”.

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Palestinian children and the reality they’re born into.

A third generation of Palestinian children has been born into the Israeli occupation by now. A third generation of children who know only the reality of daily human rights violations. It’s hard to find hope when the occupation infiltrates every aspect of your life; it’s hard to grow up when you don’t feel safe even in your own home, with soldiers waking you in the dead of night; it’s hard to feel free when soldiers and police officers detain you on your way to school; it’s hard to breathe when you live, whether as child or adult, with your most basic rights as a person denied – the right to freedom and to dignity.

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VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles

Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.

More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”

[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]