For Whom The Bell Tolls Applies To You. Your Loss Or Lessening Is All Of Our Loss. That Is To Say, Please

For whom the bell tolls applies to you. Your loss or lessening is all of our loss. That is to say, please take care.

I hate doing these posts but if this gets 10,000 notes by February 12th (which won’t happen) I will ask for therapy AND finish every wip

please do not feel forced to add notes

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

if you're in the dungeon sending prayers up to your god every single time you need a fireball or a beam of holy searing light or a healing spell you're a fucking chump. you may as well be on your knees begging like a dog for the power you were already promised. I've got a system worked out: I negotiate. I bargain. I'm not begging I'm buying and selling. "oh that's dumb they're gods they already have everything" not true! my god is ontologically righteous and pure and just! which means there's one thing that sucker is hungry for but cannot produce, but I have an infinite supply of on tap: sin

These are so fun to make

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/17/does-israel-have-the-right-to-self-defence-in-gaza

That link is to an Aljazeera article examining Isreal's right to self-defense. The tldr: many experts say no because Isreal controlled the area for years either via direct means, aka occupation, or through the Israeli governments well known "mowing the grass operations."

Further, the post you were responding to was about Israeli action against Gaza and its people. This may include Hamas, a terrorist organization that killed many innocent people on 10/7. I have no sympathy for those people. However, Gaza also holds well over a million innocents. It holds many children. It holds architecture that is important to Christians and Muslims. It holds communities of people with no reasonable way out of a conflict they did not start.

Holding true to the morals set forth in the previous paragraph, I cannot stand the IDF. It is the most powerful military force in the area, and it chooses to use it via snipers killing grandmothers. (https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/what-is-israels-military-strength-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/amp_articleshow/104615713.cms)

In the art of child murder the idf too takes the lead. (https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children) that link is to a human rights watch article explaining the idf's lack of penalty for the deaths of those in Palestine's West Bank. This says nothing of the other children murdered in Gaza. Though it is a war zone, the idf has taken no extra precautions to ensure the safety of civilians. In fact, the idf has done the opposite. The idf calls for evacuation to one location and then bombs it. The following politico article talks about this in some more detail. (https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-bombs-refugee-camps-central-gaza-report/)

Human Rights Watch

West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children

The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability.

POLITICO

Israel bombs refugee camps in central Gaza

The airstrikes occurred amid an expanding Israeli offensive against Hamas.

Furthermore, the IDF is also using its expanded resources to kill catholics in Gaza, I guess they aren't Jewish enough to be people.

I ask of you sir, what warning was given to these women? What of the children? What of the peaceful Christians? Let's not forget that not every man is a terrorist either, and thus, many of them are innocently killed to satisfy idf blood lust. The following is a quote from CBS News, "More than 20,900 Palestinians — two-thirds of them women and children — have been killed." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-refugee-camps-bombed-central-gaza-netanyahu-repeats-hard-line/).

cbsnews.com

Israel bombs refugee camps in central Gaza, residents say, as Netanyahu repeats insistence that Hamas be destroyed

Latest strikes could mean Israel is set to expand its ground offensive into a third section of Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu co

Continuing, the assertion that the state of Israel is willing to subject itself to humanitarian cease fires is laughable. It was a prisoner exchange with trucks moving (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/22/israel-agrees-to-ceasefire-deal-paving-way-for-some-captives-release) as far as prevention of civilian casualties are concerned the idf couldn't care less. (https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/16/why-israels-gaza-evacuation-order-so-alarming)

Al Jazeera

Israel, Hamas agree to truce, paving way for some captives’ release

Fifty women and children held in Gaza will be released in exchange for Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails.

Human Rights Watch

Why Israel’s Gaza Evacuation Order is So Alarming

On Friday, the Israeli army ordered more than 1 million people — half the population — to leave northern Gaza within 24 hours, in advance of

Isreal has no real need to be in Gaza to stop Hamas attacks again. Isreal is intentionally killing non combatants, women, children, and fathers. Isreal is engaged in prisoner exchanges, not hostage nor peace negotiations. Isreal has found no proof that Hamas was using the hospitals, schools, and mosques as fortresses nor weapons platforms. The idf argues with its high court for permission to use human shields. It is cowardly and shameful. Hamas and the IDF have much to answer for, to hide, and to regret.

Next time you see a video of a child dying remember this, the war could have been stopped but US vetoed this.

@kittenvonfrundsberg