To walk into a war zone is brave. To walk into a genocide is ...
White privilege.
“I’m a Lebanese-American Muslim who is gay.
“From that, I have a lot of experience going to Lebanon and experiencing war. “In 1998, I was there when one of the sonic booms was above the sports stadium.
“I remember that just because it was so traumatising as a child to hear bombs, even though in 2006 there were way more experiences and it was way more horrifying, for some reason, the 1998 experience when I was 11 was really, really traumatising.
“I think these experiences set me up for always really being interested in the Middle East as just a place of complexity and competing interests, narratives that feel different than my experiences.”
Lebanese people are white - https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/news/2014/11/20/how-the-lebanese-became-white/
How is this article about the Lebanese community gaining "white" status in the Jim Crow south relevant in order to become a naturalized citizen relevant to our discussion.
It is infinitely infuriating when some middling engagement with the material presents a loose keyword match of the topic at hand masquerading it as something relevant worthy of a "gotcha ya" moment. Citing this article in this context is a waste of everyone's time when the whole of your argument is "Lebanese people are white". It didn't matter to to racists then and it doesn't now.
Nou’la had immigrated with his wife Fannie from Zahleh to Valdosta, Georgia around 1906. They decided to move to Lake City, Florida in 1926 after N’oula was flogged by the local KKK chapter, and after several run-ins with the law in Valdosta. Unfortunately for the family, problems with the law persisted in Lake City, and came to a head when the Sheriff and his deputies shot Fannie to death over an altercation at the Lebanese couple’s store. They then placed N’oula in jail where later that night a mob dragged him out and killed him.
This happened in 1929. They were declared "free white men" in 1913.
Tbf he does look pretty white
Looks pretty middle eastern to me
I would say very.
what the hell is your problem?
I get your intention, but it's not the case here.
The distribution site was run by a new aid provider active in Gaza for only a few weeks. Khalil quickly noticed military presence. “We saw the Israeli soldiers in full military uniform standing next to their armored vehicles. We arrived knowing the place was dangerous. But, there was no clash, no threat to them,” Khalil said.
Imagine the fear, waiting for food distribution, surrounded by the enemy that has been indiscriminately killing your people for years, nay decades.
He stood in line with hundreds of others. There were children, women, and elderly men. “Some were barefoot, some had been waiting since the night before,” he recalled.
As his group inched closer to the point where they hoped they would be able to grab a parcel of items, gunshots rang out. Khalil ran for his life.
“They began shooting directly at unarmed civilians,” he said. “The bullets were chasing us as if we were targets on a shooting range, and not just hungry people. We scattered under a hail of bullets. I got closer to death that day than a piece of bread.”
Khalil survived that quest for food — alive to starve another day instead. But at least 36 Palestinians did not, and 207 more were wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Since Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas in mid-March, more than 875 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food.
Calling this humanitarian aid is "Ministry of Truth" level cynicism.
Further:
Usually during war, the distribution of medical care and food to a besieged population would not be administered by any party waging war against it, much less by an illegally occupying military. And in most situations, aid operations would closely involve established organizations already active in the area.
But that’s not the case in Gaza. Israel has effectively banned the biggest and longest-running aid group in the region: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA. And by gutting the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, a critical funding vehicle for aid groups including UNRWA, U.S. President Donald Trump has strangled international aid in Gaza.
Israel and the U.S. have instead rolled out a new scheme centered around a fledgling U.S.-based nonprofit that operates alongside the same Israeli military responsible for killing more than 230 journalists, 1,400 health care workers, and 17,000 Palestinian children in the last two years.
With a few small exceptions, all aid reaching Gaza since May has moved through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was established in Delaware in February. The organization has received tens of millions from the U.S. to distribute aid in Gaza — and, reportedly, some $100 million from an unnamed country.
There it is again. Government-funded terror and mass murder under the guise of humanitarian aid.
And nothing will be done to stop this tragedy.
The left are filled with toothless pacifist pussies impotently waving signs while waggling their fingers uselessly at openly aggressive fascists, and the right are filled with wealthy cartoon villains exploiting people openly with zero consequences.
And what the fuck are you doing?
I'm really tempted to say your mother right now, but also seriously nothing because it's an entire fucking culture of people leveraging all the resources of their whole nation-state perpetrating this on the other side of the planet so you and I are actually powerless.
"All the impotent left do is protest" he says while admitting to feeling too impotent to even protest.
Sounds like you need to work up to at least "protesting in the face of overwhelming opposition" before you chastise the protestors for not doing even more in the face of overwhelming opposition.
Fair enough. I'll go out an join the finger waggling (serious) and wave signs and chant. That's all I can do though, is support the movement. You got me with facing the opposition, because that sounds brave and i respect it.
I love this! Good on you, hope to see you on the streets!
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