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inspired  by :  elizabeth swann ( pirates of the caribbean  ) / added inspo ! , jo march  (  little women  )  , elizabeth bennet (  pride and prejudice  )  , kate sheffield / sharma (  the viscount who loved me / bridgerton  ) , kat stratford (  10 things i hate about you  ) , nancy wheeler (  stranger things  )
full name. elizabeth marianne swann. faceclaim: lily james ( future : minka kelly ) dob. april 11 zodiac. aries occupation. unemployed currently. birthplace. london, england. orientation. bisexual/biromantic song. she was out of the water - one little plane. film. the princess bride  education. secondary school.  temperament. choleric ( proud, ambitious, violent  ) mbti. esfp ( spontaneous, resourceful, perceptive ) alignment. neutral good abilities. excellent swordsmanship  hogwarts house. slytherin emoji.  ( ⚔ )
present !! ( bio can be found here )
elizabeth had come to elias to help jarrah save his beloved ship, the black pearl. not only that it was a chance for her to leave the constraints of the live she had lived prior to coming to elias.
since living here she met montgomery mcqueen. the two married and had a son caspian. they are expecting another child soon.
wrapped up in her whirlwind romance elizabeth lost herself. while being married and motherhood were a blessing it did not fulfil her as she had hoped it would. she longed for more. to be more. to do more. the life of domesticity was not for her. not yet anyways. there was too much she needed to do. thus leading her to divorce monty. 
elizabeth is now on a journey of self-discovery. she’s living the life she had sought out. which meant a life at sea. she chases after the life of a pirate, because it promises freedom from the constraints of society. of course, it’s not quite feasible yet being pregnant and having a son who recently turned one but once the kids are older she plans to do as such.
in the monster attacks elizabeth came out triumphant in defeating the spider queen
past !!
tw: elizabeth’s past mentions parental death.
elizabeth swann was born to governor weatherby swann and his late wife agatha swann. elizabeth was only five when her mother passed from illness. she doesn’t remember much of the woman only that her father said she carried her spirit within her. 
from a young age her father would let elizabeth accompany him to port royal. life at sea was not suitable for a young girl but elizabeth was a free spirit ( as well a stubborn ). she was always fascinated by the sea especially since she was told stories of pirates. they interested her. the freedom they had and adventures they went on were something she wished she could have a taste of. 
on one of their many travels to port royal they encounter wreckage from a ship anda. boy alone. elizabeth was the one to instruct the captain of the young boy. it was will turner, someone she would come to grow fond of in years to come, that day she also found a priceless medallion that would lead her on adventures she only dreamed of. 
being the daughter of a governor meant that elizabeth was held at high standard. there were endless rules and restrictions. she was meant to be a proper young lady, not the tomboy she was at heart. elizabeth chafed under the rigid rules of society set for her, because she wanted to live freely in accordance with her own sense of right and wrong. she played the part of the perfect daughter as long as she could if only to keep her father at bay but as she got older she became more disobedient  often dismissing opulent gifts, missing balls and of course scaring off suitors. elizabeth did not want to be paraded around as some prize to be won. she had a brilliant mind and a strong voice to match. she was so much more useless than to sit still and be pretty. 
as if her free will was not bad enough her close relationship with will turner rubbed those in high society the wrong way. will was of lower-class than elizabeth. how she could mingle with someone below her was beyond the ton but elizabeth didn’t care. she never cared about social perception.  
as she grew older her affinity for pirates only grew more. the medallion she kept locked in her jewelry box was a reminder that there was more out there for her. the only person who heard her desires of life at sea was of course only will. her father often shut elizabeth’s ideas down. so it became her little secret. 
while elizabeth had her dreams her father had plans for his daughter. on the day of Captain James Norrington’s promotion ceremony, governor weatherby had given the captain his blessing to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage. marrying the captain would ensure elizabeth’s wealth and status for years to come. however, the dress he had given her was not fitted correctly leaving elizabeth to faint from heat exhaustion right into the water below.
call it fate or perhaps a curse but that day she was rescued by jarrah sparrow a pirate whose reputation precedes him. he was jailed but elizabeth would not let the man who saved her rot in a cell. it was there jarrah told her of his quest to retrieve his beloved ship: the black pearl. elizabeth had heard tales of the infamous pirate ship. she offered to help jarrah help to find his ship. he wasn’t to be trusted, she knew that, but this was the adventure she had waited for staring right back at her. she would have been foolish to not take this chance. 
future !!
in the future, as stated in the present, i want elizabeth to go on her grand adventure at sea and live the life she has dreamed of. adventure around the world will finally allow her to scratch that itch she’s had from a young age.
breaking the curse of the black pearl ??? yeah would like to see that !!
lots of self discovery. there’s much to peel back with her. she’s so much more than society allowed her to be and i’d like to see her prove that. 
once she’s gotten it all out of her system i do see elizabeth settling into a more ‘normal’ life. going back to school to further her education and doing something that allows her to use her intelligence, vast knowledge of the world and love of the sea to good use. 
right now in the present she feels as though time is running out for her to figure out who she is and to be what she wants. in the future i want her to be content with the life she has lived and not continue chasing and feeling as though she’s behind. 
taken connections
weatherby swann & agatha swann  ( née howard ) / parents .
montgomery mcqueen  / ex-husband .
jarrah sparrow / annoyance .
will turner / childhood companion .
caspian mcqueen ( & athena mcqueen not yet born but will be in january ) / children .
sally carrera / friend, ex-wives of monty mcqueen member .
wanted connections
friends : friends are always welcomed [ open ]
work out partner : she needs someone to spar with from time to time [ open ]
friendly competition : someone to push her to be her best and vice versa [ open ]
mutual dislike : she does not hold back if she’s not a fan of someone [ open ]
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lefondamentsdelislam · 11 months
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POURQUOI LES PROPHÈTES ONT-ILS ETÉ ENVOYÉS? Partie.4
POUR MONTRER L'EXEMPLE
Les ProphĂštes ont Ă©tĂ© envoyĂ©s pour servir d'exemples qui doivent ĂȘtre suivis consciencieusement. AprĂšs avoir mentionnĂ© les ProphĂštes dans la sourate al-An'am, Dieu dit Ă  son dernier Messager: VoilĂ  ceux que Dieu a guidĂ©s: suis donc leur direction. (6:90) Et l'on nous demande en particulier de suivre l'exemple de Mohammed: En effet, vous avez dans le Messager de Dieu un excellent modĂšle Ă  suivre, pour quiconque espĂšre en Dieu et au Jour dernier et invoque Dieu frĂ©quemment. (33:21)
Le Messager de Dieu est notre leader. De mĂȘme que nous prions comme il priait, nous devons nous efforcer de vivre comme il vivait. Ceux qui le suivirent durant le premier siĂšcle de l'Ăšre islamique Ă©taient de rĂ©els reprĂ©sentants de la vĂ©ritable vie islamique. L'EnvoyĂ© de Dieu dit d'eux:
LES ARMÉES MUSULMANES ARRIVERONT, APRÈS MOI, AUX PORTES DES VILLES. ON LEUR DEMANDERA: «EST-CE QUE L'UN DE VOUS A DÉJÀ VU LE PROPHÈTE?» LA RÉPONSE SERA AFFIRMATIVE ET LES PORTES S'OUVRIRONT À EUX. CEUX QUI LEUR SUCCÉDERONT FERONT AUSSI LE DJIHAD ET SERONT DE MÊME INTERROGÉS: «EST-CE QUE L'UN DE VOUS A DÉJÀ VU CEUX QUI ONT VU LE PROPHÈTE?» ILS RÉPONDRONT PAR L'AFFIRMATIVE ET ILS CONQUERRONT CES VILLES. QUANT À LA TROISIÈME GÉNÉRATION, ON LEUR DEMANDERA: «EST-CE QUE L'UN DE VOUS A DÉJÀ VU CEUX QUI ONT VU LES DISCIPLES DES COMPAGNONS DU PROPHÈTE?» QUAND CETTE QUESTION AURA UNE RÉPONSE AFFIRMATIVE, LEUR CONQUÊTE SERA COURONNÉE DE SUCCÈS.
Dans un autre hadith rapporté par Bukhari et Muslim, le Messager de Dieu dit: «Les meilleurs de ma nation sont ceux de ma génération, puis ceux qui leurs succéderont, puis ceux qui suivront ces derniers.»
Ces trois générations ont scrupuleusement suivi le ProphÚte et, grùce à cela, ont obtenu de grandes victoires à travers le monde. Jésus les avait prédites: «Les banniÚres des saintes personnes sont entre leurs mains.» Les «saintes personnes» sont les Compagnons de Mohammed et ceux qui suivent leur chemin à chaque époque.
Selon un hadith, bien que sa chaĂźne de transmission soit faible, le Messager de Dieu dĂ©clare: «Les savants pieux de ma nation ressemblent aux ProphĂštes des Enfants d'IsraĂ«l.» Parmi eux, Omar se soumit Ă  Dieu si sincĂšrement que, en tant que serviteur de Dieu, il fut bien plus efficace que ce qu'on aurait pu espĂ©rer de lui. C'est pendant son califat que l'Iran, l'Iraq et l'Egypte furent conquis. Les armĂ©es musulmanes ƓuvrĂšrent Ă  travers un large territoire et furent dirigĂ©es par de grands commandants tels que Abou 'Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, Shurahbil ibn Hasana, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, 'Amr ibn al-'As, et Yazid ibn Abi Soufyan.
JĂ©rusalem fut aussi conquis pendant son califat. Quand le commandant suprĂȘme des musulmans demanda aux prĂȘtres de leur donner les clĂ©s de la ville, ils rĂ©pondirent: «Nous ne voyons pas parmi vous celui Ă  qui nous devons dĂ©poser les clĂ©s.» Ils avaient lu dans leurs livres religieux la description de l'homme qui serait qualifiĂ© pour recevoir les clĂ©s. Alors les prĂȘtres et les commandants musulmans attendirent pendant que Omar et son serviteur arrivaient Ă  JĂ©rusalem au moyen d'un chameau qu'ils montaient Ă  tour de rĂŽle. Bien que Omar rĂ©gnĂąt sur un vaste territoire, il ne possĂ©dait pas de chameau. Il avait empruntĂ© celui-lĂ  Ă  la trĂ©sorerie de l'Etat et s'Ă©tait mis en route avec son serviteur. Quand ils approchĂšrent du fleuve du Jourdain, les commandants qui l'attendaient de l'autre cĂŽtĂ© Ă©taient trĂšs anxieux et priaient: «Ô Dieu, fais que Omar soit Ă  dos de chameau quand ils traverseront le fleuve, car ces Romains aiment le faste et la parade. Peut-ĂȘtre ne nous estimeront-ils pas s'ils voient le calife marcher en tenant les brides d'un chameau sur lequel se trouve un serviteur.» Mais Dieu avait destinĂ© cette derniĂšre mise en scĂšne. Quand Omar s'approcha, les prĂȘtres remarquĂšrent, entre autres choses, des morceaux cousus sur sa robe. C'Ă©tait bien l'homme qui avait Ă©tĂ© dĂ©crit dans leurs livres et ils lui remirent donc les clĂ©s de JĂ©rusalem.
Omar ne dĂ©via jamais de la voie du Messager de Dieu. Alors qu'il Ă©tait sur son lit de mort aprĂšs avoir Ă©tĂ© poignardĂ© par un esclave parsi, il refusait de boire et de manger parce qu'il Ă©tait trop faible. Cependant, il priait toujours quand l'heure de la priĂšre arrivait, mĂȘme si cela faisait saigner ses blessures. Il disait: «Ceux qui ne prient pas n'ont rien Ă  voir avec l'islam.» Disciple exemplaire du Messager de Dieu, il allait lui-mĂȘme devenir un exemple suivi par les gĂ©nĂ©rations suivantes.
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ltwilliammowett · 3 years
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The excamination of the wreck of the schooner Barbara a rare example of early Australian shipbuilding
The Barbara was a wooden schooner built in the Exeter River, Tasmania in 1841. Used as a lime trader, the Barbara was 12 m long, 3.29 m wide and 1.68 m deep. The deep hull, solid design and sophistication of the build make the Barbara very interesting. It has an excessively thick hull, with the planking being two layers of jarrah from Western Australia, the frame was made of tea tree, and there was eucalypti from New South Wales and Victoria.
The ship's builder was Joseph Hind, a farmer from the Tamar Valley in Northern Tasmania who came from England to Van Diemen's Land in 1828 with his wife Barbara. Records of shipping movements show Barbara transported livestock and wool up the rivers, before being registered in Victoria from 1846. Ships weren't built in Australia until 1820, which makes the Barbara one of Australia's earliest vessels.
The Barbara dragged anchors in a strong northerly force 10 gale and went ashore in the shallows at White Cliffs, Rye, in Port Phillip on 6th August 1852, becoming a total wreck.
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detailed summary of (one of) the crucial articles from Al Akhbar today - this one explaining the background behind the 11-day Saif al-Quds battle from a strategic planning & intelligence perspective- basically explaining why the war happened.
- The Zionist army had been planning a game-changing operation for years, based on a military doctrine consisting of 1. accurate intel 2. "swiftness" (i.e. a surprise factor), and 3. "breadth" (i.e. no mercy when it comes to civilian casualties, i.e. war crimes).
- This formed the plan to wage a war beginning with a huge, unexpected blitz strike that would take out 80% of all key resistance leadership and effectively paralyse their ability to function - what the article says would have been "the biggest assassination operation in history"
- Initially the resistance sought to counteract this by 1. giving access to a generalised set of commands to all resistance fighters, not only squad leaders, so they can continue even if their leaders are martyred,
And 2. by setting up a rotation system, whereby only 1/3 of all leaders would be above ground at any one time, with the remaining 2/3 underground, aiming to bring down the Zionist's expected assassination success rate in such an operation from 80% to 20-30%. This was implemented over a period of months, but it quickly became clear that it was unsustainable, and it was also clear that the Zionist army had become aware of the resistance's measures. So the resistance sought a new way by which to foil this expected Zionist operation.
The resistance foiled this plan by starting the battle themselves, taking away the element of surprise and turning it against the Zionist army, who were forced to initiate their plan prematurely. This foiled a crucial part of the plan: part 2, the "swift, unexpected strike".
(This reminds me [Ibn Riad] of the 2006 war in Lebanon: the Leb. Resistance knew the Zionists planned a large-scale war against Lebanon, and thus pre-empted this war by the kidnapping of two Zionist soldiers, forcing the Zionist army to begin the war prematurely & on the resistance's terms)
- In addition, the resistance in Gaza had waged an intense long-term intel war, particularly exposing and neutralizing all double-agents and collaborators. this foiled part 1 of the plan by denying the Zionist army the necessary intelligence to reach important field leaders
There were also other clear examples of the knowledge learned from the resistance in Lebanon, and the shared experience, in addition to shared military and intelligence action during this war. e.g. The Palestinian resistance adapted the Lebanese resistance’s tactic (from 2006 war) of setting up decoy launch-sites to deceive Zionist Air Force, and further enhanced it, setting up a whole decoy operations room to fool Zionist army into thinking it had hit key leadership.
- Part 3 of the Zionist plan was basically no holds barred war crimes: leaders were to be targeted no matter if they were in busy squares, amidst family, etc. - This is how they assassinated Al-Qassam's northern sector commander, taking out an entire residential block with him.
- This, however, was no real success given that the entirety of their broader, years-long plan had failed. The resistance announced a total of only 80 martyrs: of them, only 3 were high-ranking commanders, 20 second-tier field leaders, and the rest rank-and-file soldiers.
- The huge, wide, swift strike that was intended to paralyse the the resistance failed - the resistance functioned at full capacity all 11 days. Given that the Zionist target bank ran dry, it could even have continued fighting for months without any further losses in leadership.
The Zionist plan was to paralyse the resistance and force them to accept any terms just to end the battle, such as bringing in collaborator Abbas in to rule Gaza, amidst the Palestinian people turning against the resistance after the shock and awe of the Zionist strike.
None of this happened - but in fact the opposite: the resistance has never been more beloved, nor more secure or safe or capable, and instead it is the Zionist army, in the complete failure of their years-old plans, whose people are turning against them.
When discussing who won/lost we now also consider these additional goals for each side: the Zionists had high ambitions, all of which failed utterly. The resistance had one major goal: to foil the Zionist army's plan... and they foiled it spectacularly
Next the article discusses the Resistance's approach to the war. The initial goal of the resistance was to foil the Zionist amy's plans - but it soon turned, with the help of its allies, to thinking about how to turn the enemy's plans completely against the them.
The resistance hit two birds with one stone, taking the opportunity to intervene against the crimes taking place at Sheikh Jarrah, while at the same time pre-empting the Zionist army's plan to attack Gaza. Thus the resistance's goals in the war were twofold: the military goal was to foil the expected Zionist plan and turn it against them, while the strategic goal was to set a new equation where the Gaza resistance's weapons also protect the rest of Palestine, including Al-Quds.
The resistance had 7 primary axes within their strategy. 1. The factions clearly demonstrated they had no red lines, and neither Arab nor international pressure had any effect on their plans or actions, and no viable target was ever taken off the table for political reasons.
2. The staging of precisely-timed special operations such as the launching of volleys of hundreds of rockets, while asking media to take note of the timing and begin coverage, served to demonstrate the Zionist army's utter inability to stop or deter rocket fire in any way. This both vindicated the truthfulness of the resistance any time it gives a pledge, and equally demonstrated to the Zionist settlers that there is nothing that can provide them with security from the resistance's missiles.
3. The doctrine of "burned cities": settlements near Gaza were targeted heavily, serving to show settlers (upon emerging from shelters) the extent of damage the resistance was capable of, reinforcing that they have no safety so long as they continue their colonial settlement. As part of this, what is known as the "Gaza envelope" [Zionist settlements surrounding Gaza, historically easiest for the resistance to hit] was widened from the usual range of 15-17km now stretching all the way to 45km(!) being within the "easily & constantly hit" category
4. The targeting of strategic sites, such as air bases, ports, gas lines, oil rigs at sea (for the first time ever), causing shock to both the Zionist army and settlers and upsetting the idea of "life as normal" within the Zionist entity.
5. Potentially the most important: the imposition of the equation of "we hit 'Tel Aviv' if you hit our residential civilian buildings". This nullified a huge part of the Zionist army's approach, which was the wanton destruction of Gaza as a means of pressuring the resistance. This equation was further developed by Ziad Nakhale [head of PIJ], who declared in his post-war victory speech that 'Tel Aviv' will also be hit in response to any targeted assassinations of resistance leaders outside of any declared war, too. Zionists no longer have free reign
6. Deif's equation: opening shelters across all of occupied Palestine, ruining Zionist pretense of "life as normal" anywhere in the entity while Gaza was being bombed. Long-range rockets, but also the rockets from Lebanon aided this. 6 million settlers were forced into shelters.
7. Finally, there were efforts to cause many casualties in the ranks of the Zionist army. This was not intended as a moral message of "we only target soldiers", but as deterrence against any idea of a ground incursion by demonstrating capabilities to take out enemy soldiers.
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politicaltheatre · 3 years
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Empathy, pt.3
Let’s start with this: Jamal Kashshoggi was a man.
Do you remember him? He was a man, a human being, and like any of us he had hopes and dreams and memories.
He was also a journalist. After years of supporting the Saudi royal family and their authoritarian regime, he was murdered in 2018 for writing and speaking out against their abuses and, eventually, their war in Yemen. That was the version of him who fled Saudi Arabia, and the one who was marked for death by the Saudi crown prince he had once called a friend.
Last fall, the Saudi regime commuted the death sentences of the men it offered up as his murderers. Three months ago, an investigation confirmed that it was the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who had ordered his death.
We’re forgetting him. Even now, reading this, we are already forgetting. We can’t help it. At least, we tell ourselves we can’t.
In many ways, Kashshoggi was a lot like Alexei Novalny. Novalny hasn’t left the news quite yet. Like Kashshoggi, he supported the corrupt, authoritarian regime in his country, Russia, before turning against it. The attempt on his life, by poison, failed. Barely. He’s still alive, locked up in a Russian prison, a cautionary tale for those daring to oppose Vladimir Putin.
How long before we’ve forgotten him, too?
It’s a lot to ask of ourselves, remembering everyone around us. Sure, in some abstract way most of us try, “Good will towards men,” and all that, but we have the luxury of looking away and of not having to commit ourselves to thinking of others the way those two men did.
For each of them, it was an inescapable empathy for the suffering of they saw around them that compelled them to risk their lives to draw attention to it. They did so knowing the cost.
That cost - personal loss, imprisonment, death - is enough to keep most of us looking away. So much of what we do is to enable us to look away, to keep unpleasant reality at a distance. When others are already physically far away, it only makes it that much harder for us to do the right thing.
Looking out past our borders, the world today is filled with men, women, and children suffering, more than a few at the hands of authoritarian regimes, and of them far too many paying that cost for standing up against abuse.
The most present case this past week, because videos on social media have made it impossible to ignore in ways that it has been, has been that of the Palestinians.
The facts of this latest series of abuses against them should not be in doubt. During the last days of Ramadan, Israelis began forcing Palestinians out of their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district in East Jerusalem. This was followed in quick succession by Israeli troops occupying the Al-Aqsa mosque following a confrontation between Palestinians at the mosque for Friday prayers and Israelis celebrating the capture of the mosque in 1967.
This was all a deliberate provocation, beyond the aggressive offense of what the Israelis were doing. The timing of it, during the Muslim holy month while right wing Benjamin Netanyahu struggles to cling to power, was intended to add insult to injury.
It worked. Clearly.
Hamas, ever eager for an excuse to be violent and to be seen to be violent, gave an ultimatum that would make Netanyahu’s regime look weak if accepted, Netanyahu gratefully rejected it, and Hamas began firing rockets, knowing that Israel would escalate and retaliate with a kind of brutality that can only be described as criminal.
The unpleasant reality is that both political powers rely on perpetuating the conflict between them, doing so at the expense of the people they claim to want to serve and protect. And those people pay the cost of it.
Note, please, how I have avoided referring to those instigating these atrocities as Muslims or Jews. That they use their religions and their histories as justification for violence and abuse should not be taken as representative of either religion. If anything, it should be taken as a kind of cruel irony, or perhaps an insight into how the abused, as individuals or groups, can become abusers themselves.
Zionism is not Judaism. It never was and never will be. It grew out of two things: the technology-driven late 19th century belief by Europeans, and their North American “cousins”, in their right to colonial domination of non-Europeans; and the centuries-old, routine and systematic attacks on Jews - pogroms - especially in Central and Eastern Europe that led millions of Jews to flee for their lives, many of them to the United States.
The establishment of Israel in 1948 followed the same pattern: that same, late 19th century belief in the right to claim or assign ownership of others’ land - no matter that it had once belonged to your ancestors; and the routine and systematic attempted genocide of all Jews in Europe - the Holocaust - by Europeans who chose to believe Jews not to be Europeans but some other, lesser race from West Asia.
That, of course, has been the assigned role for Jews the world over: they are accepted as insiders when times are good and scapegoated as outsiders when times are bad. To be Jewish - I am - is to understand that this never quite goes away. There’s always somebody having a bad day, always a big lie ready for justification.
Technically, it is true that Jews are Asian, in the way that Palestinians are also Asian, and that Egyptians are, too, but also African because different people have had different maps which they used for different purposes at different times.
Also true is that these things are only true due to the arbitrary drawing of continental lines on maps made by Europeans, from the ancient Greeks to those carving up the “New World” in the century after Columbus to the 1885 conference in Berlin carving up Africa for colonial exploitation.
This is not, strictly speaking, a European thing. Every culture has a tendency to see themselves as the center of the world. Just ask those living in China, or as they call it, Zhongguo, the “Middle Kingdom”.
The difference here is that modern day Israel was carved out of Palestine, a colonial “protectorate” which was itself carved out of the Ottoman Empire and awarded to the British following World War I. As a spoil of war, formerly-Ottoman Iraq, with its vast oil reserves, had greater value to the British. Palestine had ports on the Mediterranean - “the center of the world” - but was otherwise an afterthought.
Not, however, to the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. We must remember that the rest of the world didn’t want them. Jews attempting to flee the atrocity they and everyone else couldn’t help but see coming were turned away by everyone else, including the United States.
This in no way justifies what was done in Palestine in the 1930s and 40s, it’s just to place it in context. By turning Jews away, by attempting to forget them and their suffering, the world gave weight and power to right wing groups within the refugees.
Starting in the 1930s, those groups began to engage in terrorism against Arabs to force their position into Palestine and against the British to force them out. Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and later the Stern Gang carried out assassinations and killed hundreds of Arabs and British with bombs.
After what the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, memorialized in newsreels for all the world to see, who would take the Arabs’ side? Who could? The British were in no position to hold onto their colonial possessions anywhere, so they gave up and pulled out and in 1948 the state of Israel was born. Palestinian Arabs were forced from their homes and stripped of rights they had held under the Ottomans and even the British.
Again, this was not Judaism. As the name “Irgun” suggests, those terrorists were a right wing, nationalist militia doing what right wing, nationalist militias have done before and since, using an ethnic or religious identity to justify committing atrocities to take land and property.
After standing by and allowing the Nazis to do what they did, the world vowed never to forget; part of the price they were willing to pay - that they were willing to allow the Palestinian Arabs to pay - was to forget what Irgun and the Stern Gang had done, and to turn a blind eye to anything the Israelis did going forward.
There was a racist element to it, to be sure. This is part of the pattern of colonial withdrawal, negotiating a partition of land and possessions among the colonized groups, pitting them against each other, and then letting them fend for themselves. Nothing like creating a power vacuum to draw out the worst of us.
The British did the same thing in South Asia in 1947, pitting Muslim and Hindu groups against each other, erupting in spasms of violence before settling into a Cold War, complete with nuclear weapons. Even in their most secular eras, religious nationalism has defined the politics and leadership of each nation.
The result of this, naturally, has been an increasingly corrupt leadership exploiting religious hatred and mistrust to gain more power and wealth for themselves. It should be noted, yet again, that the political entities of Pakistan and India, though led by religious nationalists, do not represent Islam or Hinduism.
Their actions and failures do not represent those religions in any way. They are the actions and failures of men and women seeking power, seeking to acquire it and seeking to hold onto it. They are no different than the Netanyahu regime or Hamas, or our own right wing leaders in the United States.
For all of them, it is in their interest to cling to memory of conflict as a means of manipulation; in Israel and Palestine, nationalist leaders preach as if 1948 or 1967 are now; in India and Pakistan, it’s still 1947; and for America’s white nationalists, it’s either 1865 or 1965, take your pick. For the Serbs slaughtering thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica twenty-six years ago, it was 1389, the year the Ottomans conquered the Balkans.
The wars, cold or hot, can never end because time is never allowed to change. This, again, is a function of proximity. By freezing themselves in the increasingly distant past, the leaders and those choosing to follow them do not have to accept the changes facing them in the present. Their fantasy is to return to that idyllic, earlier time, when they possessed everything and did not have to be accountable to anyone.
And they will all fail for the same reason: in the present or near future, we will have reached a point at which we can no longer allow ourselves to ignore those suffering and in doing so forget them.
That is what we have done to the Palestinians. What has been done and what is being done now is in no small part because we forget them, routinely and systematically and purposefully.
The videos sent from Gaza of children being pulled from rubble should help us remember. They should. Ideally, they will have the same effect as those of last year’s Black Live Matter protests, but the people of Gaza remain far away. For many of us, it will be enough that the missiles and rockets have stopped.
Videos sent from India’s emergency rooms and crematoria should help us remember, but they, too, remain far away. Already, we’re starting to put India’s crisis behind us.
Will we remember either of them a month from now? Two? Or will they fade into the background, as the imprisoned Hong Kong democracy protesters have, or those dying of Covid-19 in Brazil, or those shot down in the streets fighting police brutality in Columbia, or those caught between warring factions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region? Or, for that matter, those half a century ago in Argentina who were simply “disappeared”?
What about the coup in Myanmar? Remember that? How about the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya people, supported by the now-deposed and jailed regime of fallen-hero Aung San Suu Kyi? What was done to them was no different than what was done to the Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. That genocide was recently recognized by President Biden, an act of official, international recognition that took over a century and which itself is already being forgotten. The Rohingya may have to wait as long to be remembered themselves, or longer.
The point of all this isn’t that we forget, try as we might, but that despite it we find ways to remember. That Biden recognized the Armenians came because they did not forget and did not allow that crime to be forgotten. 
If this sounds like what nationalists all claim to do themselves - always demanding that everyone remember this date or that insult - remember that actual justice never seems to be their goal.
Justice requires memory, full memory. For us to remember anything fully, we must take the good with the bad. We must recognize the good and bad in each of us and in each group and in each series of actions. We must understand that for the worst act done by anyone in the name of any group or religion, there remain those within those groups and religions who stand against it.
So, let’s end with this: George Floyd 
George Floyd was a man, a human being, and like any of us he had hopes and dreams and memories. He died one year ago today in no small part because we forgot him. 
We remember now, today especially, because of what was done to him on this date, but we should recognize the role that forgetting him and people like him played in the events that led to his murder. We as a society have looked away from the suffering of minorities in this country, and from the violence done to certain groups within our society.
The easiest thing to say, certainly as we watched that video and the countless videos of police brutalizing non-violent protesters all last summer, was that “all cops are bad”. They aren’t. Hard as it may be to hear, they aren’t.
They are, however, led by men and women who push an adversarial culture, who encourage violence and racism, who are corrupt, and who thrive on the failure of reform. And most of them, far, far too many, stand by in silence as men and women are murdered in that culture’s name. In that silence, they have failed us all.
If we want to change that culture, we need those who would stand for justice to stand up and speak. They are there, just as they are in Israel and Palestine, and in Pakistan and India and elsewhere: intimidated, ostracized, and struggling to be heard.
Of course, May 25th, 2020 wasn’t just any other day in America. It was Memorial Day. That is a cruel irony. Another is how little we do to honor that day. It was created to honor those who died for this country, to remember not only them but what they did and what they supposedly did it for. Instead, we grill meats and drink beer and forget our troubles for just one day.
Few deaths may have the lasting impact on this country that George Floyd’s has had and will have, and he died in no small part because he, too, had been forgotten. This coming Memorial Day, let us take a moment to remember him and all of the others everywhere in this world who have died and deserve to be remembered.
- Daniel Ward
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Turkey: Erdogan faces mounting criticism over wildfires (AP)
"As Turkish fire crews pressed ahead Tuesday with their weeklong battle against blazes tearing through forests and villages on the country’s southern coast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government faced increased criticism over its apparent poor response and inadequate preparedness for large-scale wildfires. Fed by strong winds and scorching temperatures, the fires that began Wednesday have left eight people dead, forced thousands of residents and tourists to flee homes or vacation resorts in boats or convoys of cars and trucks."
Israel: Palestinians and Israelis baulk at evictions compromise (BBC)
"Under the court's plan, the four Palestinian families - among dozens threatened with eviction in and around Sheikh Jarrah - would remain as "protected tenants" who cannot be evicted for the foreseeable future so long as they pay rent to the Jewish organisation which owns the land. But the Palestinians say they want recognition of their rights to the properties. "They placed a lot of pressure on us to reach an agreement with the Israeli settlers in which we would be renting from the settler organisations," said Muhammad el-Kurd, from one of the families involved. "Of course this is rejected.""
Afghanistan: Lashkar Gah residents urged to evacuate amid Taliban battle (BBC)
"General Sami Sadat, who is leading the battle against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, called on people to leave its capital Lashkar Gah as soon as possible. At least 40 civilians have been killed in Lashkar Gah in the past day amid intense fighting, the UN says. The Taliban are reported to have captured most of the city. But the fighting is continuing and government forces have vowed not to let it fall into militant hands."
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Infrastructure: Bipartisan bill leaves out key climate, clean energy steps (AP)
"The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package unveiled by the Senate includes more than $150 billion to boost clean energy and promote “climate resilience” by making schools, ports and other structures better able to withstand extreme weather events such as storms and wildfires. But the bill, headed for a Senate vote this week, falls far short of President Joe Biden’s pledge to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one and stop climate-damaging emissions from U.S. power plants by 2035."
Covid: More than 110M Covid vaccines sent to 60 countries (AP)
"The 110 million donated doses came from U.S. surplus vaccine stock as the pace of domestic vaccinations slowed amid widespread vaccine hesitancy in the country. Roughly 90 million eligible Americans aged 12 and over have yet to receive one dose of vaccine."
South East Asia: Harris to focus on security, economic ties on SE Asia trip (AP)
"In an early preview of the goals for her trip to Singapore and Vietnam, Harris deputy national security adviser Phil Gordon said the vice president will emphasize the Biden administration’s commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region, with a focus on reinforcing regional security in the area."
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Eyebrow Micoblading Sessions
After the cuts are made, ink is then positioned over the cuts filling in the top layer of the forehead, filling in the place there may be hair loss. It costs wherever from $300 and up, and experts say can final anywhere from 1-2 years depending on the pores and skin type and age. 
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Because the colour is pretty rattling dark for the primary five to seven days – despite the fact that my tattoo artist had chosen the lightest pigment. Small blade strokes are made, then crammed with pigment and saturated. https://www.purehnb.com/microblading-wilmington-nc/
Brows can be saturated a number of times during the process to enhance retention – and this is carried out more so with purchasers with oily or delicate skin. DO NOT wax, thread, or tint your eyebrows no less than three days before the procedure. 
The specialized strategies used for permanent cosmetics are sometimes called “micropigmentation”, “micropigment implantation” or “dermagraphics”. The cosmetic implantation approach deposits colored pigment into the upper reticular layer of the dermis. The pigment is chosen to match the pure shade of the eyebrows. 
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back 2 basics 🌊
full name: calypso turner
nickname: so-so
age: 19
star sign: scorpio
date of birth: november 2nd
gender: female
parents: elizabeth & willl turner
preferred pronouns: she/her
occupation: college student
face claim: paris berelc
siblings:  caspian, buffy, athena
born: port royal, england
powers: skilled in swords
+, fearless, passionate, honest -, stubborn, reckless, independent
recently played ♫
Goddess - BANKS
Feel Something - Jaymes Young
River - Bishop Briggs
the story 📖
Out of all her siblings Calypso Turner resembles her father the most. That doesn't mean they’re totally similar though. Calypso is more reckless and just as un-tamable as the sea. But she did however pick up his love for sword fighting/making. When she was little her mother would tell Calypso the daring adventures of her parents and Jarrah Sparrow. Calypso would always ask for another story almost every night until finally Elizabeth ran out of stories. It was then Calypso truly felt the heavy absence of her father. No father daughter dances, no birthdays, he wouldn’t be there to see her accomplishments in the artistry of sword fighting. It just felt really empty without him there..
High School wasn’t much better either. Swords was ‘labelled’ a boy sport which was something that she got teased for alot. . It didn’t stop Calypso though, if anything it made her practice harder to be better than all the boys- and she was. Being so independent didn’t help her make any friends though. She felt a bit lonely to be honest. She felt like she had no one to talk too. Her siblings always seemed too busy and she didn’t want to burden her mother with her feelings. So instead she bottled it all up and pushed it below the surface becoming more guarded because of it.
Calypso has a fiery spirit and isn’t afraid of getting reckless just to prove her point. she’s quite honest and blunt and isn’t afraid to tell you how it is.
Now nineteen years later with her fathers curse broken and he’s back home she’s learning to re-adjust her home life and her attitude.
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caspian, buffy, athena - siblings!
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Day 187 — Princes Pier
Princes Pier is a 580 metre long historic pier in Port Melbourne, Australia. It was originally known as the New Railway Pier until renamed Prince's Pier after the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII who infamously abdicated and married American divorcee Wallis Simpson) who visited Melbourne in May 1920.
Opened in 1915, the pier was able to accommodate the largest of steamers and mail ships. Over many decades, this pier has played a critical role in commerce, wartime embarkation and migration. With the advent of modern commercial air travel, arrivals to Princes Pier gradually declined from the 1970s.
Today, the piles sway slightly in the current. At the outermost end of their ranks, they were over 70 feet long, sharpened ends driven firmly into the sea floor. In total, 5,000 turpentine (Syncarpia glomulifera) piles supported horizontal jarrah beams and red gum decking. Loosely bandaged by sea lettuce and ribbons of kelp, they are ghostly beneath the surface where they are sheathed by colonies of mussels. 
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Mass murders with more deaths than Las Vegas (since 1945)
September 11 attacks 2,996 dead, 6,000+ wounded Date: September 11, 2001 Target(s): World Trade Center (North and South Towers), The Pentagon, a field in Pennsylvania and public transportation (planes) Location(s): Manhattan, New York; Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania; The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia Weapon(s): Boxcutters, Multitools, hijacked commercial airliner jets Perpetrator(s): Waleed M. Al-Shehri, Wail M. Al-Shehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Satam M. A. Al-Suqami, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al-Qadi Banihammad, Mohand Al-Shehri, Hamza Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Khalid Al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf Al-Hazmi, Salem Al-Hazmi, Hani Hanjour, Ahmad Ibrahim A. Al-Haznawi, Ahmed Al-Nami, Ziad Samir Jarrah, and Saeed Al-Ghamdi Jonestown massacre 918 dead, 35 wounded Date: November 18, 1978 Target(s): an air strip, The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ’s headquarters building in Georgetown Location(s): Port Kaituma, Georgetown and Jonestown, Guyana Weapon(s): Cyanide (907 dead), Guns (7 dead), Knives (4 dead) Perpetrator(s): Jim Jones, Annie Moore, Sharon Amos 1983 Beirut barracks bombings 307 dead (including 241 US military personnel), 150+ wounded (including 115 Americans) Date: October 23, 1983 Target(s): United States Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut Airport and the Drakkar barracks of the French 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment and 9th Chasseur Regiment Location(s): Beirut and Ramlet al Baida, Lebanon Weapon(s): two truck bombs Perpetrator(s): Ismalal/Ismail Ascari and another unidentified bomber. Pan Am Flight 103 270 dead (259 died in the plane, 11 died on the ground) Date: December 21, 1988 Target(s): commercial aircraft Location: Lockerbie, Scotland (landed) Weapon: Bomb, Plane Perpetrator: Abdelbaset Al-Meghrani 1998 United States embassy bombings 224 dead (12 Americans killed), 4,000+ wounded Date: August 7, 1998 Target(s): United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya Location(s): Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Weapon(s): two truck bombs Perpetrator(s): Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali and Hamden Khalif Allah Awad EgyptAir Flight 990 217 dead Date: October 31, 1999 Target: commercial airliner Location: Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts (landed) Weapon: Plane, Water/Drowning (Ocean) Perpetrator: Gameel Al-Batouti Oklahoma City bombing 168 dead, 680+ wounded Date: April 19, 1995 Target: Alfred P. Murrah federal building Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Weapon: truck bomb Perpetrator: Timothy McVeigh Our Lady of the Angels School fire 95 dead Date: December 1, 1958 Target: Our Lady of the Angels School Location: Chicago, Illinois Weapon: Matches/Fire Perpetrator: A 10-year-old boy Waco siege 88 dead (including 2 unborn and 4 ATF), 14 - 28 ATF agents wounded (sources vary), only about 50 Branch Davidians survived the siege and fire (with only 9 surviving the fire) Date(s): February 28 - April 19, 1993 Target: Mount Carmel Center Location: Waco, Texas Weapon(s): Fire (33 dead), Guns (32 dead), Undetermined (18 dead), Blunt Force (4 dead), Stabbing (1 dead) Perpetrator(s): David Koresh and his followers / ATF Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege http://www.apologeticsindex.org/pdf/Graham.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=WU42AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=%22branch+davidians+survived”&source=bl&ots=kQpQ1P56Ds&sig=ACfU3U0anBGjClhrsZEWJBUnLPt3XEE8hg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiiiK-Zoe7iAhVFmeAKHWjJBH0Q6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22branch%20davidians%20survived”&f=false http://www.policefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DOT-Report-ATF-Investigation-of-David-Koresh_Sept-1993.pdf Happy Land fire 87 dead, 6 wounded Date: March 25, 1990 Target: Happy Land social club Location: Bronx, New York Weapon: Fire (Gasoline) Perpetrator: Julio Gonzalez 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 64 dead, 120 wounded Date: April 18, 1983 Target: United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon Location: Beirut, Lebanon Weapon: car bomb Perpetrator(s): Unknown. Imad Mughniyah was alleged to have responsibility for this particular bombing, however this has been disputed. According to his Wikipedia article: “U.S. and Israeli officials have implicated Mughniyeh of many terrorist attacks, primarily against American and Israeli targets. These include 18 April 1983 bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 63 people including 17 Americans whom among them were 7 CIA officers which included Robert Ames the head of Near East Division. Agreement is not entirely universal on Mughniyeh's involvement, and Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense at the time of the attack, told PBS in 2001, "We still do not have the actual knowledge of who was directly behind and responsible for the bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon and we certainly didn't then."” 1992 Los Angeles riots 63 dead, 2,383 wounded Date(s): April 29 - May 4, 1992 Target(s): Supermarkets and other business stores (including video stores, shoe stores, auto part stores, check cashing stores, five and dime stores, etc.), city streets and intersections, residential neighborhoods, parking lots, city squares, gas stations and liquor stores, apartment complexes, etc. Location(s): Los Angeles County, California; 3 died in San Diego (South Park); 1 in Fresno (Del Rey) Weapon(s): 40 by gunfire (including 5 who were shot by police), 23 by other causes; including 1 by strangulation, 2 stabbed, 8 vehicle-related, 2 from blunt force-related injuries, 2 were beaten to death, 3 from fire, 3 unknown, 1 from a fall and 1 from a heart attack Perpetrator(s): Odell Whitley Jr., Leonard Hampton and another unnamed teen(?) (Lucie Maronian; stabbed), Aniceto Barajas (Jose L. Garcia; shot), Mario E. Olivera (George Alvarez; beaten), Three suspects, including a 17-year-old (Paul Horace; shot), Akim Dashawn Gilmore (Alfred V. Miller; shot), Traville J. Craig (Elias G. Rivera; blunt force), Fidel Ortiz and Leonard Sosa (Wallace Tope; beaten), three men, two of whom were teenagers (Matthew D. Haines; shot), 15-year-old boy (Juana Espinosa; shot), Samiee Farzan (Imad Sharaf; fire), Andre Webb and Lavelle "Frog" Williams (Charles Orebo; shot), most others no charges were ever brought against, because they were either unrelated to the riot (one person died with a cigarette in his mouth while he slept that burned the house down) or no arrests were made because, as according to the Chief Spokesman Bob Dambacher, "Would this person have died at that particular time and that particular place if riots had not occurred?" Was the criteria for his office. Also because some of them were by police/self-defense, were accidents or because the crimes were unsolved (22 - 23+ cases still remain unsolved to this day). Or at least I couldn’t find any articles naming the suspects for many of them. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/la-riots-deaths/? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4467960/amp/25-years-Rodney-King-riots-deaths-unsolved.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-02-mn-452-story,amp.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=10535592&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE3NzMwNDkxMSwiaWF0IjoxNTYwNjUxMDc3LCJleHAiOjE1NjA3Mzc0Nzd9.v_ihgb5EJErbv_zhntFDlBoLNScn2i9cPCV2IVmR_DA https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-24-me-26740-story,amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/patch.com/california/venice/amp/4135193/22-riot-related-homicides-unsolved-including-venice-killing http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread851974/pg2 http://www.sfweekly.com/news/dead-heat/amp/
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Life had given Elizabeth many happy little accidents recently. When she had agreed to come to Elias to help break the curse for Jarrah she hadn’t expected life to take the detour it did. Elias was never meant to be a permanent place. She had planned to return to Port Royal despite how much she hated life as a Governess. The opportunity for adventure she had waited for finally arose but Elizabeth’s life went on a different path. One she never expected for herself but one she was happy with nonetheless. Meeting Montgomery was unexpected. Falling for him even more so but the year she had spent with him was one she wouldn’t have changed for the world. She was happy with her new life but also felt the need to leave space for her old life. Old as in Will Turner. The feelings Elizabeth had for him had long subsided. Their time had passed and she made peace with that. Regardless if romantic feelings weren’t there Will was still her oldest and dearest friend. She wanted him in her life in some capacity. After Monty had told her about his run in with Will at the store it only seemed fair to catch Will up on what was going on since she had been living in her own bliss bubble for far too long.
A lunch date seemed like the perfect place to catch up. She left the mission behind and forged her own path as Elizabeth Swann, well, McQueen now, had always done for herself. She arrived early, her father’s teaching still well ingrained into her as she browsed the menu until Will’s arrival. Once he showed she smiled brightly at him happy to see his face once more. “Well, aren’t you a sight for sore eyes, Will Turner.” @will-turnerx​
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Israel-Gaza: Hamas official predicts ceasefire ‘within a day or two’
The worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting.
13 April
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Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police.
Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
Hamas – Mr Abbas’ Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections – react angrily to the postponement.
Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly.
15-16 April
Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave.
19 April
Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv.
20 April
In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans.
23 April
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Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people.
Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city.
24 April
Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes.
2 May
President Abbas’ Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there.
In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger.
4 May
Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires.
7 May
Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel.
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Later on after Friday prayers – the last of Ramadan – major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel’s police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles.
8 May
A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan.
Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones.
More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured.
9 May
Israel’s Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate.
10 May
Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades.
Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem in 1967.
The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site.
Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers
 from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00. When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters.
A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.
source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/israel-gaza-hamas-official-predicts-ceasefire-within-a-day-or-two/
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For two years, Kelly Warren and her family have operated Bk 2 Basics Melbourne from their car port in Jarrah Court, providing free food and clothes - and a shoulder to cry on - for the disadvantaged.
But after turning a blind eye until now, the City of Casey, in Melbourne’s south-east, has given Ms Warren until August 29 to cease operating from her house, or face legal action.
It says it is acting on complaints about noise, traffic and "visual impact" on the area.
bloody councils.
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L'un des assaillants derriÚre les attentats à la bombe du dimanche de Pùques au Sri Lanka a déjà été étudié au Royaume-Uni, selon des responsables, alors que de plus amples détails sur les terroristes sont publiés.
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Il s'est rendu dans le sud-est de l'Angleterre en 2006-2007 pour étudier, mais n'a pas obtenu son diplÎme universitaire complet, a déclaré un haut responsable de Whitehall à la BBC.
L’attaquant a ensuite suivi un cours en Australie, a dĂ©clarĂ© le vice-ministre de la DĂ©fense du Sri Lanka.
Le nombre de morts est passé à 359, avec plus de 500 personnes blessées.
Le Premier ministre Ranil Wickremesinghe a dĂ©clarĂ© que le groupe État islamique (EI) pourrait ĂȘtre liĂ© aux explosions.
L'EI a déclaré avoir perpétré ces attaques, qui visaient des églises et des hÎtels haut de gamme, sans toutefois fournir de preuves directes de son implication.
Qu'est-ce qui a conduit au carnage de PĂąques au Sri Lanka?
Ce que nous savons jusqu'à présent
Qui Ă©taient les victimes?
Par ailleurs, le prĂ©sident sri-lankais Maithripala Sirisena a remplacĂ© le secrĂ©taire Ă  la DĂ©fense, Hemasiri Fernando, et pris des mesures pour licencier l’inspecteur gĂ©nĂ©ral de la police, Pujith Jayasundara.
Informations clés des responsables aujourd'hui:
La police a identifié huit agresseurs sur neuf - dont une femme - sans étranger
La plupart des assaillants étaient "bien éduqués" et "de la classe moyenne"
L'émissaire américain au Sri Lanka a averti qu'il y avait "des complots terroristes" dans le pays
La police a arrĂȘtĂ© environ 60 personnes en lien avec les attaques
Ramesh was killed in the blast in Batticaloa
Que savons-nous des attaquants?
Un responsable de Whitehall a confirmé le nom du terroriste qui s'était rendu au Royaume-Uni sous le nom d'Abdul Latif Jamil Mohammed.
Le vice-ministre sri-lankais de la Défense, Ruwan Wijewardene, a déclaré que l'attaquant avait poursuivi "ses études de troisiÚme cycle en Australie avant de revenir s'installer au Sri Lanka".
La confirmation qu'il a étudié au Royaume-Uni au milieu des années 2000 aurait tendance à jeter le doute sur le risque de radicalisation de celui-ci il y a si longtemps, déclare le correspondant de la sécurité de la BBC, Frank Gardner.
The footage shows a man wearing a large backpack calmly walking towards St Sebastian's church
Cela indique également qu'il se situe entre le début et le milieu de la trentaine au moment des attaques, ajoute notre correspondant.
M. Wijewardene a ajouté que la plupart des assaillants avaient été "bien éduqués et venaient de familles de ... classes moyenne ou supérieure."
"Ils sont assez indépendants financiÚrement et leurs familles sont assez stables financiÚrement", a-t-il déclaré.
Deux des kamikazes seraient des frÚres et les fils d'un riche marchand d'épices de Colombo. Ils ont fait exploser leurs explosifs aux hÎtels Shangri-La et Cinnamon Grand, ont indiqué des sources policiÚres à l'agence de presse AFP.
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Du privilĂšge Ă  la terreur
Analyse du correspondant de la sécurité de la BBC, Frank Gardner
L’annonce selon laquelle la plupart des assaillants Ă©taient "bien Ă©duquĂ©s" et "de la classe moyenne" n’est pas aussi surprenante que cela puisse paraĂźtre.
Bien que la pauvreté et le manque d'opportunités aient guidé de nombreuses personnes sur la voie du terrorisme, il existe également de nombreux exemples d'abandons d'un mode de vie relativement confortable pour une cause violente.
Ziad Jarrah, l'un des assaillants du 11 septembre qui a détourné le vol 93 de United Airlines, venait d'une famille libanaise privilégiée. Plus récemment, des djihadistes britanniques ont travaillé pour le NHS, notamment des médecins.
Le bourreau de l'EI Mohammed Emwazi, alias "Jihadi John", a frĂ©quentĂ© l'universitĂ© de Westminster Ă  Londres. Et le cofondateur d’origine d’Al-QaĂŻda, Oussama Ben Laden, a choisi de quitter une vie luxueuse Ă  Djedda pour aller combattre les SoviĂ©tiques en Afghanistan dans les annĂ©es 1980.
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Le gouvernement sri-lankais a imputĂ© les attentats au groupe islamiste local National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), mais M. Wickremesinghe a dĂ©clarĂ© que les attaques "n'auraient pas pu ĂȘtre commises juste au niveau local".
"Il y avait eu une formation et une coordination que nous ne voyons pas auparavant", a-t-il déclaré.
Le fidÚle qui a bloqué un bombardier
Les bombardiers présumés: National Thowheed Jamath
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La police a arrĂȘtĂ© environ 60 suspects dans le cadre de l'attaque. L'Ă©tat d'urgence reste en vigueur pour empĂȘcher de nouvelles attaques.
Les attaques presque simultanées ont visé trois églises remplies de services de Pùques et trois grands hÎtels de la capitale, Colombo.
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Légende de l'image Des scÚnes d'émotion se sont déroulées à l'extérieur du sanctuaire Saint-Antoine de Colombo.
Une attaque contre un quatriĂšme hĂŽtel dimanche a Ă©tĂ© dĂ©jouĂ©e, a dĂ©clarĂ© M. Wickremesinghe. Il a Ă©galement averti que de nouveaux militants et explosifs pourraient toujours ĂȘtre "dehors" aprĂšs l'attaque.
L'un des hÎtels ciblés, le Kingsbury, a maintenant rouvert ses portes.
Le pays reste tendu et la police est toujours à la recherche de suspects et d'explosifs supplémentaires.
Deux explosions contrÎlées de colis suspects ont été effectuées mercredi, dont une prÚs d'un cinéma populaire à Colombo.
Mettant en garde sur les "complots terroristes en cours dans le pays", l'envoyée américaine au Sri Lanka, Alaina Teplitz, a déclaré à la presse que les terroristes pourraient "frapper sans prévenir".
Qui pourrait ĂȘtre derriĂšre les attaques?
L'EI a dĂ©clarĂ© en ligne avoir ciblĂ© "les ressortissants de l'alliance des croisĂ©s [coalition anti-IS dirigĂ©e par les États-Unis] et les chrĂ©tiens du Sri Lanka".
Il n’a fourni aucune preuve de l’affirmation, mais a partagĂ© sur les mĂ©dias sociaux une image de huit hommes supposĂ©s ĂȘtre derriĂšre l’attaque.
Le dernier territoire du groupe est tombĂ© en mars, mais mĂȘme Ă  ce moment-lĂ , les experts avaient averti que cela ne signifiait pas la fin de l'EI ou de son idĂ©ologie.
M. Wijewardene a également déclaré devant le Parlement que NTJ était lié à un autre groupe islamiste radical qu'il avait nommé JMI. Il n'a pas donné plus de détails.
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Il a Ă©galement dĂ©clarĂ© que "des enquĂȘtes prĂ©liminaires" avaient indiquĂ© que les attentats Ă  la bombe Ă©taient des reprĂ©sailles pour des attaques meurtriĂšres contre des mosquĂ©es Ă  Christchurch, en Nouvelle-ZĂ©lande , en mars.
NTJ n'a pas d'antécédents d'attaques à grande échelle, mais il est devenu célÚbre l'année derniÚre quand il a été accusé d'avoir endommagé des statues bouddhistes. Le groupe n'a pas déclaré avoir effectué les bombardements de dimanche.
Le gouvernement sri-lankais est sous contrÎle aprÚs avoir révélé que les autorités avaient été mises en garde contre une éventuelle attaque.
Les services de sécurité surveillaient la NTJ, mais le Premier ministre et le cabinet n'ont pas été prévenus, ont déclaré les ministres.
Mardi, le président Sirisena a promis "une action sévÚre" pour ne pas avoir transmis les avertissements et a annoncé qu'il restructurerait les services de police et de sécurité du pays.
Qui Ă©taient les victimes?
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Les premiÚres funérailles ont eu lieu mardi alors que le Sri Lanka marquait une journée officielle de deuil pour les victimes.
La plupart des personnes décédées étaient des ressortissants sri-lankais, y compris des dizaines de chrétiens assistant aux offices du dimanche de Pùques.
Quelque 38 ressortissants Ă©trangers figuraient parmi les morts et 14 autres disparus. Le nombre de morts inclut au moins huit citoyens britanniques et au moins onze ressortissants indiens.
Les obsÚques de masse pour une trentaine de victimes ont eu lieu à l'église Saint-Sébastien de Negombo, au nord de Colombo, l'un des lieux visés par l'explosion de dimanche. Un autre service funÚbre devait avoir lieu mardi.
Une minute de silence a également été observée à 08h30 mardi, indiquant l'heure à laquelle la premiÚre des six bombes a explosé.
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