Was quite a relief at the start of the week - I found fascist graffiti in the building entrance and wondered if I was being dramatic, but one of the local antifa said no, that’s a new development in this area, and cleaned it up. Things are slowly but definitely intensifying in Berlin.
Thank you!
mutual aid in Lebanon
Just saw a displaced man by the seafront take down a cage with a songbird in it from a hook on a barbed wire. I assume he brought the bird with him when he evacuated his home and hung the cage there earlier in the day. Now at sunset, he’s putting it away. What a beautiful act of care.
Smotrich just said Dahiyeh will soon look like Khan Younis.
I wrote about Dahiyeh in 2024 and Israel’s domicide/urbicide
www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November.
Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social
Thank you
This one i can vouch for. Will share more
www.instagram.com/p/DViMZnDiNG...
These are friends as well. I can vouch for it
This one i can vouch for. Will share more
They are systemically disenfranchised in Lebanon, many forced to live in camps, and now they’ve once again faced a generational indignity from Israel.
Today the Israelis ordered the evacuation of the southern suburbs of Beirut. This included a couple Palestinian refugee camps. People who were displaced during the Nakba or in 67, settled in Beirut and now their grand/great grandchildren are once again displaced.
“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Feels a bit late now that all of the South and southern suburbs have been ordered to evacuate. As well as 3 major towns in Bekaa.
But I’ll take all the help we can get. I don’t expect Macron to come thru but if he can put this into action, I will take it
www.thedial.world/articles/new... - new from the always-excellent @justinsalhani.bsky.social
This piece starts with a vignette about an Israeli drone flying around broadcasting the message that “The architect Tarek Mazraani continues his conspiracies. Chase him. Drive him out so security returns and reconstruction begins" and then somehow manages to get MORE dystopian...
Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November.
Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social
Smotrich just said Dahiyeh will soon look like Khan Younis.
I wrote about Dahiyeh in 2024 and Israel’s domicide/urbicide
www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
At this point, I think we have to acknowledge that "the international community" is a purely notional entity.
Israeli army just ordered all of Dahiyeh residents to evacuate. Yesterday the entire south, now all of Dahiyeh (Beirut's southern suburbs).
Still have yet to see comments on proportionality from the international community. Macron asked Israel not to launch ground invasion but seems too late
During 2024’s Israeli intensification they said if you wanted a commercial flight out you had to promise to pay the government back for the ticket
Honestly the Americans have been useless at this for decades. My wife called the US embassy in Beirut once when I was stuck in a battle (by chance) and they said ‘well what is he doing there in the first place, we told citizens not to come here’
Of course, that was also b4 launching a major war
I asked someone with a registered NGO and they said they weren't having these issues. This particular kitchen was receiving individual donations to a particular person, so that might be part of it. It's also not an uncommon issue in this part of the world that transfers get flagged.
I’m so sorry, Lina
My grandmother’s home, the family home, the home I spent nearly every Sunday in for over 3 decades, the home I lived in as a teenager, that my grandparents bought in 1965 when Ghobeiri still had orchards, the house my aunt inherited & in which my cousins grew up, is gone.
No one was home, thank god
big typo here.
Israel ordered residents leave all villages/towns/cities south of the Litani.
i mistyped. their residents were ordered to leave
Israel has ordered all villages/towns/cities south of the Litani River (which runs across south Lebanon).
This means hundreds of thousands of people.
I spoke to someone running an aid kitchen in Beirut. He told me way less donations are coming in this time. Also Western Union and Whish money transferring services have blocked them from receiving money transfers.
