The Nakba, commemorated annually on this day as "Nakba Day", was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 following Israel's creation. Nakba Day protests take place around the world and have been attacked by Israel.
The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1947-1949 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians, the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, and the creation of permanent, stateless Palestinian refugees.
Although May 15th had been used as an unofficial commemoration of the Nakba since 1949, Nakba Day was formalized in 1998 after Yasser Arafat proposed that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba during the First Intifada.
The Nakba was a key event in the development of Palestinian culture and is a foundational symbol of Palestinian identity, along with "Handala", a ten-year old cartoon character developed by Naji al-Ali; the keffiyeh, a checkered black and white scarf worn around the head; and the "symbolic key" (many Palestinian refugees have kept the keys to the homes they were forced to flee).
On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event. At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.
"In resisting the Nakba, the Palestinians have struck at the heart of the Zionist project that insists that the Nakba be seen as a past event. In resisting Israel, Palestinians have forced the world to witness the Nakba as present action; one that, contrary to Zionist wisdom, is indeed reversible." - Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad
Palestinian Refugees Answer Questions about the Nakba :palestine-strong:
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary :palestine-heart:
Farha (2021) internationally co-produced historical drama film about a Palestinian girl's coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Its on Netflix :palestine-heart:
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Just got home from my first renfaire. Holy shit, why did nobody tell me how hot everybody at these things was 😳
No one did? Kilts and under-bust corsets are at least half of the reason to go to one. The goods are odd but the odds are really, really good.
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Just got out of the shower, I won 5 arguments this time. I'm getting stronger every day :gigachad:
I keep trying to not do warcrimes and Call of Duty makes me re-start the campaign mission every time I don't do the war crimes. ww
The first thing you do in the game is murder General Soleimani, although they call him something else. I'm sure someone's done a video listing all the war crimes. The game is so weird. Like I keep throwing frags in to a room, but I guess it would be too sequence breaking to allow that, because the game doesn't let you kill anyone in the room until you actually go through the house and open the door to that room. It's such silly, low effort BS.
web sites asking me to turn on my location is some bullshit. buddy this is a desktop computer, there is no GPS in it
Fun fact: there are hot shingles in your area.
In the daytime there are, anyway
They can use other data to approximate your location. Ip is one. I think they can look at what wireless networks are visible to your NIC and extrapolate from there. Just knowing your IP and isp is probably enough for them to consider collection useful.
The one flaw in Succession's writing is their stand-in for a fascist Republican candidate is a huge nerd who talks about philosophy and shit. That guy shouldn't get past the primary.
"why are all of these time travelers coming to kill my baby?"
- Clara Hitler, 1890
Interesting moral dilemma framed the other way around. If hundreds of time travelers are coming to kill ur baby at what point do u start to believe there might be a good reason
Pretty sure if you are time traveling to kill Hitler as a baby you'd probably explain why to his mother. Also if a time traveler is going back in time to kill hitler what is really going to get in the way? Like even if we are going Terminator rules and they cant bring anything back with them how hard is it for a naked spec ops dude to kill an entire family of 1890s peasant farmers?
Killing hitler does nothing. Material Conditions caused the rise of nazism.
If we are going to time travel we should indoctrinate Hitler with a hate for capital and respect for the USSR.
Communist Hitler and Stalin touring Britain together executing members of the British royal family along the way culminating with Elizabeth's head being placed on a spike on top of Big Ben.
screenplay idea: the whole movie these people keep trying to kill the baby of this unnamed Austrian family, and the twist in the final scene reveals it's Adolf
Oh, apparently there's a new Zelden Ring out. I hadn't noticed. :capybara-fancy:
I'm starting to think audio people are just bullshitters on the level of wine tasters. Just making up terms and stuff to sound smart and important when it's all just down to preference. Uh, yeah, the upper midders sound really low on the equalizer frequency scale. You'll want to buy a headset with a different planar magnet matrix that support a lower midrange.
Nah, it makes sense, it’s just after roughly 200 bucks, it’s taste and you can eq it, headphone can deal with it at that point.
But obviously people searching for -100 db of whatever or crystalline cables are just rich nerds
I did need to order the little antenna that extends the bluetooth for my motherboard. I had it, it came with it. But I had it in a box and thought "I won't need this" and then the box got water damaged and I tossed it out :deeper-sadness:
I think they picked up on their mistakes earlier in the show and continue to course correct in good ways and it ends pretty well
It's a good show. I think the hate it gets is for being "cringe" in some sense.
Comically imagining some small business owner kulak freak leaping into action the moment a homeless poor wanders in: TARGET SPOTTED
Unfortunately it's part of the nationalist narrative people are spoon fed every day from their birth.
Its either thinking they are krogans or elevens lol
