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Gilliosa

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Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old,
With faltering speech and visage incomposed,
Answered: "I know thee, stranger, who thou art— ***

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rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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Martyr Izz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades bombed Tel Aviv today, reportedly from per another of my news sources.

The Mujahideen of Filisteen are undefeated.

ما شاء الله

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Gilliosa ,
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@rabia_elizabeth @palestine reported on Al Mayadeen aswell.

rabia_elizabeth , to bookstodon group
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I find I can't stomach most fiction anymore, especially anything written since about 1990. But Vanessa Chan's "The Storm We Made" is a powerful exception. Minutely and lovingly observed and the emotional punches it delivers are all earned and deserved.

It's set in #Malaysia in the 1930s during the British colonial period (when it was still called "Malaya") and the #Japanese wartime occupation of the 1940s, and its principal characters are Malay and Japanese. So right away that sets it apart from anything I've ever read before.

What's more, most of the principal characters from whose points of view we see the story are women and girls.

It is so rare, in #English language fiction, to have a glimpse into the dynamics of #Colonization when it's not practiced by a Western state.

The #Audiobook is beautifully narrated by Samantha Tan, a woman of #Asian ancestry.

Would love to hear #TootSEA thoughts on this book.

#HistoricalFiction #SoutheastAsia #WorldWarII

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Gilliosa ,
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My Arabic Tutor bought me this book, I had just finished it before Al-Aqsa Flood. (2016)

Gilliosa ,
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@rabia_elizabeth @bookstodon have you read any Tolstoy?

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@rabia_elizabeth @bookstodon yes a very dark story, Hadji Murat is a shorter work that would be up your street. His last writings are a collection of shorter stories and much deeper in quality.
War and Peace took me months to read lol

rabia_elizabeth , to palestine group
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A steadfast youth of Balata, , relays a strong message following the occupation’s invasion of the camp, which saw fierce armed clashes.

“Everyday there are clashes, every time they they invade every week there are [IOF] special forces, but we are going to remain steadfast, no matter what they do and whatever they are going to do, they can kill a generation but another generation will replace them, they kill martyrs and another generation will rise to replace them. They can bomb, do what they want but we will remain steadfast and we are going to defeat their faces.

I send a message to the Arab world who allowed for Gaza to die and be killed like this, while you stand there and watch them just for the sake of money. The Arab governments are standing idly just for money.

Tomorrow, money won’t cut it for you.

You are better off standing with than the money. Tomorrow on the day of judgement you will be judged for everything you did to Gaza.”

@palestine

Slender boy age 10 or 11, black hair in buzzcut, light brown skin, wearing short-sleeved black shirt with white stripes on shoulders, delivers a message from a city street, closed metal store door in background, bicyclists riding by.

Gilliosa ,
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@rabia_elizabeth @palestine sadly Palestine is but a small pawn in the wider geopolitical sights of OPEC+, BRICS and the wider Axis of Resistance that has emerged in the past few years.

faab64 , to israel group

It's hard to be on the right side of the history.

Vietnam 1967
South Africa 1985
Palestine 2024

WE WILL WIN.
But it's worth it.

@palestine @israel

Gilliosa ,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel trust a veteran, they didn't have them tents in 85 lol

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This drawing is a perfect depiction of reality — how the world is run by a corporate dictatorship while you and I are kept complacent, stuffed with bread and circuses.

Read the for more.

Cartoon drawing shows an older white male dressed in a business suit, presumably a corporate oligarch, sitting in a plush chair and speaking on a phone, giving out orders. Surrounding the man, in a schematic depiction, is a line of police in blue uniforms, and in front of them are paramilitary police in riot gear carrying automatic weapons. Next come the average citizens of modern society, seated on sofas watching TV. Behind them is a line of kneeling soldiers, dressed in desert combat gear, facing out toward the rest of the world -- showing poor people of color who are forced to salute an Army tank. We see that their oil is being taken away for use in the rich world.
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    @breadandcircuses outdated, no mobile phones, over simplified, no polarisation and portrays a classically cultural superior view of the Global South from a western mind which in reality is not correct.

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    "Fuck your second home"
    Sticker spotted in Llanberis, North Wales

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    @RadicalGraffiti they never are though, mostly buy to let like the problem we have in Cumbria.

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    Gilliosa ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor as they did to Haile Selassie to usher in the yoke of more famine under the communists!

    Gilliosa ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor the life of Diderot..."His fortunes improved significantly in 1766, when Empress Catherine the Great, who heard of his financial troubles, generously bought his 3,000-volume personal library, amassed during his work on the Encyclopédie, for 15,000 livres, and offered him in addition a thousand more livres per year to serve as its custodian while he lived."

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