Fingertips have memories

megatronianian: catswithbenefits: “those damn lemon stealing...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:18:46 -0500

catswithbenefits:

“those damn lemon stealing whores”

Done.

cultureshit: In the UK we don’t hear an awful lot about...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:08:54 -0500

In the UK we don’t hear an awful lot about Palestine, or at least not for the right reasons. In fact news on Israel’s ‘illegal occupation’ (words of the UN, not mine) are a somewhat rarity and are forgotten just as quickly as they are broadcasted. Although we are presented with pleasantly thorough and heart wrenching coverage when a story speaks of the Israeli struggle, be that past, present or future. All alone, surrounded by regions who don’t like them, who want to apparently wipe them off the map and who do not ‘recognise’ their state or birth right.

It seems Israel can do no wrong, like butter wouldn’t melt, even. So much so that just commenting on their blatantand confirmed (by the international community) atrocities is a damning outrage and requires an apology. So just to put this into perspective, Israel:

Has illegally occupied the West Bank (since 1967)

Created 7 million Palestinian refugees

Mercifully allowed 1.5 million Palestinians to live under its race-based apartheid laws creating inhumane ghettos with:
Race-based ID cards

Restricted Marriage laws

Property acquisition discrimination (Palestinians cant buy land)

Restricted social participation

Restricted public transport (visualised, not that public transport is overly accessible to Palestinians in the first place)

Restricted road usage segregation

Restricted and purposefully contaminated water supplies (with intentional destruction of the already limited infrastructure and sewage system)

Border checkpoints where Palestinians are forbidden to travel between their own regions whilst also being humiliated, intimidated and discriminated against. This has in some cases even lead to women giving birth at checkpoints and others dying in labour at checkpoints.

Restricted access to hospitals because of the Israeli checkpoints

Israeli settlers stoning Palestinians (grown apparently civilised adults stoning school children whilst the soldiers watch on. Weird how we only usually associate the Palestinians with throwing stones…)

Has banned Palestinians from studying at universities in the West Bank

Bombed and damaged civilian structures including over 100 schools

Has used weapons including white phosphorus and tungsten against the Palestinian population

Has used up to 75 tonnes of depleted uranium on the Palestinians (resulting in a sharp increase in cancer)

Is the largest recipient of US taxpayer-funded military aid ($30 billion from 2009-2018). Thats $8.5 million aday

Regularly sprays the Palestinian territories with its missile ridden drones (hell, they can afford to right)

Holds part of Syria illegally

Has created siege manufactured poverty leading to 80% of Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians to be food-aid dependent with 10% of children under five years old suffering from malnutrition and also spreading rampant anemia among women, in particular those who are pregnant

Turned Gaza into the worlds largest open-air prison camp (with the blessings and funding of the US Government)

Destroyed Gaza’s sole power plant (in 2006) resulting in daily power outages (that last between 8-20 hours)

Injured and killed over 7,700 farmers and fishermen as they worked out at sea (making the Palestinians all the more dependent on Israeli controlled food sources)

Enforced a buffer zone which has cut off Gazan’s from 35% of their agricultural land (again depriving them of more land and food sources)

Use Palestinian civilians as human shields

Have this wayward perception that it is okay to sniper scope children.

To some readers though all of the above may be deemed ‘collateral damage’, so here’s an infographic that visualises the deaths on BOTH sides. Considering Israel is under apparent constant battle trying to ahem, defend itself it doesn’t seem have an awful lot of casualties does it? Not to fear mind, the Palestinian causalities seem to more than make up for that…

Looking at the infographic, some of you with a keen eye may also have noticed that Israeli casualties actuallydropped after Hamas won the parliamentary election and came into power…funny that isn’t it (or at least it would be, had this not been about slaughtering human beings)? Also notice the spikes after both US Presidential elections? Yes, I did too.

Benjamin Netanyahu also said Israel would ‘abandon the peace process’ (I know the audacity) between Israel and Palestine if the UN voted to investigate Israeli war crimes in Gaza (talk about throwing your toys out of the pram).

This investigation however still went ahead and found Israel to be surprise surprise… guilty of war crimes. Not that anything came of this as the US vetoed the claim, not for the first time.

So for taking the peaceful and non-violent route(à la UN bid), the very bid the Palestinians fought for despite thethreats, after the UN verdict Israel returned in kind by cutting off $100 million in tax transfers to the Palestinians and announcing plans to continue building thousands more new homes in the West Bank.

Not to mention Netanyahu also said the “unilateral step the Palestinians took at the U.N. is a gross violation of previous agreements signed with Israel”. The government of Israel, he added, “rejects the General Assembly’s vote”.

So just to clarify Israel controls oppresses the people in its vicinity yet is portrayed as the innocent bystander, peacekeeper, victim even. Anything against its wishes is deemed as inciting hatred and is categorically rejected whilst its own views are just, true and unquestionable. Israel also has full monetary, food, medical, water and population control.

Palestinians are not fighting for their land, before they can even contemplate that ‘luxury’ they are having to fight for the meager right to exist in a dignified humane manner on a land that they have always lived on but is controlled by others.

This quote from the Israeli (and obviously impartial) border patrol guard seems to somewhat capture the essence of the occupation and eloquently reflects their stance on peace and the Palestinians whom they lovingly oppress:

“Animals. Animals. Like the Discovery Channel. All of Ramallah is a jungle. There are monkeys, dogs, gorillas. The problem is that the animals are locked they can’t come out. We’re humans. They’re animals. They aren’t humans we are.” - Israeli border police (you can find at 5:03 of this video)

And this border patrol solider who says Arabs cannot use the same walkways because “that’s the law”.

But its fine, lets just pretend Israel is the victim and ignore the sadness is this child’s eyes as he travels to and from school or the unnerving trauma so many Palestinians, in particular children have become accustomed to, not just through the terrorism inflicted upon them but also due to the loss of loved ones. Lets just blame Hamas or something.

Does Israel really look out of control to you? Does Israel really look like the casualty? The one that needs protecting, rescuing?

p.s Ohh and please don’t misunderstand or misrepresent this article as being against the Jewish community, Thereare plenty of rabbi’s that agree with me. Besides there is nothing more anti-semitic than Zionism…

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:07 -0500

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:03:02 -0500

boygrimlark: scout-ebubbles: docot: freddybenson: leovaldezstyle: freddybenson: A B C the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:59:15 -0500

boygrimlark:

scout-ebubbles:

docot:

freddybenson:

leovaldezstyle:

freddybenson:

A

B

C

the brazilian wandering spider’s venom can give you an erection lasting for hours

D

E

partybarackisinthehousetonight: pro tip: fill the piñata with absolutely nothing to prepare your...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:56:32 -0500

partybarackisinthehousetonight:

pro tip: fill the piñata with absolutely nothing to prepare your kids for the letdowns of adulthood

hom3stuck-pon3: zandifer: lifelessxvxpageants: bless this...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:56:17 -0500

hom3stuck-pon3:

zandifer:

lifelessxvxpageants:

bless this post

i wonder how many times the spongebob illustrators and animators have completely lost their shit while trying to draw these omg

who you callin’ pinhead

psilentasincjelli: If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:53:56 -0500

psilentasincjelli:

If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking things online for about an hour immediately after that, I promise I wasn’t lying to you, I’m just bad at going to sleep and it is usually a long process that begins with disengaging from any sort of immediate contact with people (chats, for example) and ends when everything on my screen is blurry and I’m hallucinating plot points I haven’t written yet

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:52:47 -0500

kanayastuck: eriridan: eriridan: so i have two days of school left and my teacher decided to give...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:49:52 -0500

kanayastuck:

eriridan:

eriridan:

so i have two days of school left and my teacher decided to give us an essay, and i’ll p much be turning in this

thank

ERICA I’M SO DONE WITH YOU

schr0dinger: will never not reblog because historygasm

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:47:48 -0500

schr0dinger:

will never not reblog because historygasm

schr0dinger: will never not reblog because historygasm

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:53 -0500

schr0dinger:

will never not reblog because historygasm

run-cause-hitler: enayalate-h8-this-year: bbanditt: slett: winchestercodependency: ibecameacat: ...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:48 -0500

run-cause-hitler:

enayalate-h8-this-year:

bbanditt:

slett:

winchestercodependency:

ibecameacat:

what if all your fingers just turned into tongues… like what would you even do

dude people with vaginas would have the best time getting off

“People with vaginas”

what are those called again

I can’t remember

this is what yahoo payed 1.1billion dollars for

gay-men: Guy holding Martini while walking his cat.

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:19 -0500

gay-men:

Guy holding Martini while walking his cat.

dayglobetty: This gif set will never get old, ever.

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:41:33 -0500

dayglobetty:

This gif set will never get old, ever.

mini-slashthegreat: thepreciousthing: adire-adire: victorysunshine: goldfish-kisses: geek-in-a-b...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:38:55 -0500

mini-slashthegreat:

thepreciousthing:

adire-adire:

victorysunshine:

goldfish-kisses:

geek-in-a-box:

martiemcfly:

WHY ARENT THERE ADULT-SIZED PLAYGROUNDS

LIKE EVERYTHING IS THE SAME AS A KIDS PLAYGROUND

BUT BIGGER

WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THOSE

theme parks. just. theme parks.

but u have to pay for theme parks

that’s the adult part

son of a bitch

ladies and gentlemen, behold

the St. Louis City Museum:

Playground for adults and children.

They even serve alcohol.

THE best place on the fucking planet!!

I LOVE the City Museum. It’s the best part about St. Louis!

Well, and the Cardinals.

benedictedcumberbabeof221: mighty-thor-of-assgard: danniauttumns: ser-merlin-of-valyria: tumblr...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:31:43 -0500

benedictedcumberbabeof221:

mighty-thor-of-assgard:

danniauttumns:

ser-merlin-of-valyria:

tumblr has fallen

david karp is dead

yahoo is coming

your second sentence only has 5 syllables. Haiku fail. Though… they all do have 5, poem pass, haiku fail.

it wasn’t a haiku, it was a harry potter reference:

“the ministry has fallen

scrimgeour is dead

they are coming.”

dystopiamachine: dietnutella: nohomocide: accent marks and italics can make any word look...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:39 -0500

dystopiamachine:

dietnutella:

nohomocide:

accent marks and italics can make any word look beautiful

bonèr

Chlàmydîa

gęńìtãl thüñdērštørm

shavingryansprivates: indepenisday: Banana Knuckles (organic...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:29:03 -0500

shavingryansprivates:

indepenisday:

Banana Knuckles (organic edible brass knuckles) with mp3 player

wheres the kickstarter… i wanna pledge….

BABY DUCK FALLING ASLEEP

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:25:37 -0500

BABY DUCK FALLING ASLEEP