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kafkasdiariies · 2 years
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The Monastery (Ad Deir) at Petra, not as famous as the Treasury but I think it’s still just as magnificent! It was carved straight into the mountainside 🤯 Petra, Ma`An, Jordan | Luke Stackpoole
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reise-mit-katharina · 11 months
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Das Kloster „Ad Deir“ in Petra.
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jontycrane · 6 months
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The ‘back door’ to Petra
Once a secret, now a well trodden path, the ‘back door’ to Petra was one of my favourite experience at this popular place, relatively quiet with stunning views. It takes you into Petra by the Monastery, one of the most spectacular sights, and saves walking back on yourself to return to the visitor centre. A free shuttle bus leaves the visitor centre once full and takes 15 mins along scenic roads…
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bfpnola · 7 months
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION ADDED. REBLOG THIS VERSION AND THANK YOU @lab-labrava FOR WRITING IT!
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ID: An infographic from the Instagram account @letstalkpalestine consisting of 10 slides. Image 1: The title page of the infographic. The text says: "Let's talk Anti-Zionist Jewish History." A smaller subtitle underneath the title says: "Jewish solidarity with Palestine until today." End ID.
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Image 2: The infographic continues to the next panel. The text says, "As long as Zionism has existed, so has Jewish resistance to it. While today the majority of Jewish people and communities worldwide still have a Zionist connection, more and more Jewish people, especially from the younger generation, are unlearning Zionism & speaking out. Swipe to learn more about just part of anti-Zionist Jewish history - since there's more than we can fit in 10 slides." A semi-transparent image is overlayed in the background, of someone holding up a sign that reads: Jews for Palestine! #Free Sheik Jarrah. End ID.
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Image 3: Icon of a location tag next to the words Eastern Europe. In large, blue text is the word "The Bund" and the subtitle describing what it is, "A Jewish Socialist movement, established in 1987." The following paragraph says, "Opposing Zionism from the start, its 50-year tenure saw hundred of thousands of members across Eastern Europe advocate for workers' rights and cultivate a Yiddish culture." Location tag and the title, "North America." The paragraph says, "After mass immigration to the US in the early 20th century, [American Jewish Labor groups] (highlighted in chalky blue and bold white text) criticized Zionism for its colonial, nationalist, and bourgeois nature." Next to this text, is a circle with women protestors holding up signs. End ID.
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Image 4: The title, "Middle East and North Africa." The paragraph states, "In 1945 a group of Iraqi Jews founded the Anti-Zionist League. They recognized Zionism as a form of colonialism linked to Western Interests. They hosted events and published pamphlets throughout the Middle East about the difference between Zionism & Judaism. They warned that Zionism is dangerous to Arab Jews, forcing them to split their Arab and Jewish identities, and urged the UN to create a unified Palestinian state.
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Image 5: The panel is titled, "Anti-Zionist Jewish figures." A faded image of Hannah Arendt's visage is in the background. Overlayed on top, the following paragraphs discuss her. "Before 1948, several prominent Jewish leaders and scholars came out in opposition to political Zionism. Writers like Hannah Arendt turned against the Zionist movement and opposed a Jewish state. They correctly predicted a dark future if Zionism continued on the same path in Palestine. End ID.
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Image 6: The day after the Deir Yassin Massacre in 1948, when Zionist militants wiped out the Deir Yassin village & its inhabitants, Albert Einstein wrote: "When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations built up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people." The former paragraphs are imposed against a tan, parchment fragment, in typewriter font, and the letter ends with Sincerely yourn, Albert Einstein, both his signature and typed name. End ID.
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Image 7: Titled "Anti Zionism Today." Blue sketchy image of someone's hand gripping jail bars breaks up the following paragraphs which say: Jewish solidarity with Palestinians is growing around the world, including even some Israelis who take the basic step of refusing Israeli military service. As punishment, Israel imprisons these conscientious objectors — but unlike Palestininas, they have a fair trial & often severe relatively short sentences of a few months . This is a first step towards solidarity and has the real consequence of depriving the occupation state of its soldiers. End ID.
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Image 8: Titled "Israel's Crackdown on Jewish Anti-Zionism" Behind this text are a picture of handcuffs. In the corner is a picture of Jonathan Pollak. The following text says: Jonathan Pollak is a Jewish Israeli and long-time anti-Zionist activist. Israel has detained him several times, most recetly in January as he protested with Palestinians in Beita, (a Palestinian village) for allegedly throwing stones. Jonathan has been violently attacked for his activism. In 2018, Jonathan was slashed across the face by settlers who ambushed him outside his workplace. Earlier, in 2005, Israeli soldiers shot a tear gas canister. directly at him, causing internal bleeding in his brain." End ID.
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Image 9: Semi-transparent image of an umbrella behind the title text is "Jewish Anti-Zionism isn’t one ideology. It’s an umbrella movement that encapsulates multiple communities and beliefs towards decolonizing Palestine. Some motivations or Jewish anti-Zionism include: 1. Pursuing millenia of Jewish tradition as a diasporic community 2, Detachibng religious and cultural tradition from political nationalism. 3. Socialist visions of a Jewish Society. 4. Believing in the right to self-determination for Palestinians Standing up to Zionism is: 1. Standing up to apartheid and colonization. 2. Standing up for a liberated, equal, and just Palestine from the river to the sea.
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Image 10: An ending quote, and call to action, by the Anti-Zionist League. It says: "Jewish Men! Jewish Women! Zionism wants to throw us into a dangerous & hopeless adventure. Zionism contributes to making Palestine uninhabitable. Zionism wants to isolate us from the Egyptian people. Zionism is the enemy of the Jewish people. Down with Zionism! Long live the brotherhood of Jews and Arabs!" --The Anti-Zionist League. End ID.
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Mahmoud Bassal, the civil defence spokesperson in Gaza, said the "massacre" left the hospital's floor "covered in dead bodies", while first responders struggled to pick them up. “It is a pogrom. It is unprecedented throughout the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Bassal said. “Gaza is now a big cemetery, what is happening is madness, what happened in Deir Yassin is happening now but worse. Children’s limbs are scattered on the ground. "When will the world stand up for Gaza?" Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesperson of the health ministry, said hundreds of wounded people remain scattered across the floor. He added that electricity at Al-Shifa Hospital, where survivors of the bombing were being taken, has run out. [...]
Hamas called the attack a "massacre" that amounts to a "crime of genocide". "The horrific massacre carried out by the Zionist occupation in the Gaza City’s Al-Ahly Hospital which left hundreds of casualties, most of them displaced families, patients, children and women, is a crime of genocide that once again reveals the ugly face of this criminal enemy and its fascist and terrorist government," the Palestinian movement said in a statement. "This also exposes the American and western support for this criminal occupation."
Hussein al-Sheikh, the deputy to the PA President Mahmoud Abbas, echoed Hamas' condemnation. The Ramallah-based administration declared three days of mourning, while its forces continued to disperse protesters across the West Bank.
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workersolidarity · 23 days
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[ 📹 Scenes from the destruction wrought by an Israeli occupation airstrike which targeted a vehicle being driven by 7 foreign aid workers belonging to the World Central Kitchen, killing all inside. Among the dead included foreign citizens of Britain, Poland, and Australia, along with a dual American and Canadian citizen. The aid organization said it had coordinated the movements of its personnel with the Israeli authorities, who knew the vehicle contained humanitarian aid workers.]
🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸 🚀🚀🚙💥 🚨
ISRAELI OCCUPATION BOMBS FOREIGN AID WORKERS, CONTINUES BOMBING ACROSS GAZA ON DAY 179 OF GENOCIDE
On the 179th day of "Israel's" ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 7 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 71 Palestinians, mostly women and children, while another 102 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.
In the latest occupation atrocity, the Zionist army bombed the vehicle of a group of Foreign aid personnel working for the World Central Kitchen (WCK), killing 7 employees, including 6 foreigners.
"World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza," the organization said in a statement on its website.
According to the World Central Kitchen, despite coordinating the organization's movements with the Israeli occupation army, a convoy including two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and one soft-skin vehicle that were carrying the WCK team while it was traveling through a "deconflicted zone" was struck by an Israeli bomb, destroying at least one of the vehicles.
WCK says the team was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, in the central Gaza Strip, where their teams unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza through a maritime route, when the convoy was targeted by Zionist forces.
“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” World Central Kitchen CEO, Erin Gore is quoted as saying.
The seven foreign aid workers killed in the Zionist strike included citizens from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, as well as a dual-citizen of the United States and Canada, and one Palestinian.
“I am heartbroken and appalled that we—World Central Kitchen and the world—lost beautiful lives today because of a targeted attack by the IDF. The love they had for feeding people, the determination they embodied to show that humanity rises above all, and the impact they made in countless lives will forever be remembered and cherished,” Erin Gore added.
In response to the International outcry over the atrocity, the Israeli occupation authorities said they will be “carrying out an in-depth examination at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident.”
The World Central Kitchen has suspended its operations in Gaza as a result of the incident.
In yet another atrocity yesterday, the Israeli occupation army bombed the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing several high-level Iranian officials, including 7 military advisors of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In response to the strike, Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said in an announcement issued on Tuesday that the "evil Zionist regime will regret" it's crime of assasinating Iran's military advisors in Syria.
The Iranian leader said that both Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, and his deputy, General Mohammed Hadi Haji Rahimi were killed in the strike, which targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus, declaring the crime was perpetrated by the "usurping and dispicable" Zionist regime.
“The evil regime will be punished by our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and other ones, by God's will," the Iranian leader added.
As Israel's crimes spread outside the occupied Palestinian territories and the Gaza Strip, and into the wider West Asian region, the bombing inside Palestine continued unabated.
In just one example, local civil defense crews recovered the bodies of six Palestinians who were killed, including two children, along with a number of wounded civilians, following a Zionist occupation airstrike targeting the Zarub family home, located in the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
In another atrocity, several Palestinians were killed and a large number wounded after occupation artillery shelling targeted a number of residential buildings in the city of Khan Yunis, also in the south of Gaza, focusing artillery fire on the eastern and central parts of the city.
Meanwhile, Zionist warplanes bombed the al-Bashir Mosque, in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, martyring a several civilians, including the death of at least one child, and wounding at least 20 others, while also dealing significant damage to neighboring residential buildings.
Similarly, Zionist fighter jets fired several missiles that slammed into two residential homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, while occupation artillery shelling targeted the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, along with the Sheikh Ajlin neighborhood, martyring three civilians and wounding six others.
Over the last day, as the Zionist occupation army withdrew from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, located in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, which had been the largest and most well-equipped hospital in the entire Gaza Strip, a scene of mass destruction and carnage was revealed, with hundreds of bodies littering the hospital grounds, including some bodies discovered with handcuffed wrists, having been extra-judicially executed in cold-blood.
Among the bodies recovered from Al-Shifa were doctors and healthcare personnel, along with entire Palestinian families, which the Gaza Media Office says were just a small part of the roughly 400 citizens that were killed in two weeks of fighting near the hospital.
About another 900 Palestinians were arrested or detained by Zionist forces under suspicion of belonging to Resistance groups, while the Hospital buildings themselves were nearly completely destroyed, blown to pieces and left as scorched shells by the American bombs dropped on them by the Israeli occupation army.
As a result of "Israel's" ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, the infinitely rising death toll has now exceeded 32'916 Palestinians killed, more than 25'000 of which being among women and children, while an additional 75'494 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression beginning on October 7th, 2023.
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‘Until death’: The Bedouin clan resisting violent settler displacement
The people of al-Muarrajat remain undeterred, even after a recent and disturbing settler threat on their lives.
Mughayer al-Deir, occupied West Bank – On January 23, the villagers of al-Muarrajat woke up to find three child-size burial mounds near their children’s school. The message was clear: Leave, or die.
According to Alia Mleihat, 27, from the village, the fake graves sent “intense fear, anxiety and terror” through the village – a group of 30 shepherding families, all related.
“The [graves] the settlers put in al-Muarrajat are a direct threat from these monsters [that] could be implemented today or tomorrow because whoever made them goes past the village every day,” she said.
But even after this latest settler threat on their lives, the people of al-Muarrajat are undeterred.
“Those who did this must be held accountable … we will remain steadfast on our land until death, this doesn’t frighten us,” added Alia.
“On the contrary, it calls on us to be even more steadfast.”
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Homes in Mughayer al-Deir [Al Jazeera staff]
The last of the Bedouins
In a series of violent pogroms by settlers in the occupied West Bank’s Area C since the Israel-Hamas conflict started on October 7, nearly all the Bedouin villages east of Ramallah along the Allon Road – rough terrain seen as integral to annexation dreams of the Israeli right – were targets of forcible displacement by armed settlers, often wearing military uniforms.
Humanitarians on the ground at the time told Al Jazeera that five al-Muarrajat families left, with expectations of more to follow and that Mughayer al-Deir – situated even closer to Allon Road than al-Muarrajat – would go as well, completing the displacement of Palestinians in the area.
But, four months later, the people of al-Muarrajat and Mughayer al-Deir remain on their land.
According to leaders and members of these shepherding communities, they stayed despite dangers and restrictions to preserve their Bedouin way of life – and because they have nowhere else to go.
Ibrahim Mleihat, 58, known as “Abu Muhammad”, is the mukhtar, or chosen leader, of Mughayer al-Deir, about a 90-minute walk away from al-Muaarrajat on a hill with the Allon Road on one side and surrounded elsewhere by encroaching settlers, including the settlement of Ma’ale Mikhmas and the outpost of Mitzpe Dani.
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Ibrahim Mleihat, known as ‘Abu Muhammad’, is the mukhtar, or chosen leader, of Mughayer al-Deir [Al Jazeera staff]
Abu Muhammad described how things began to deteriorate in Mughayer al-Deir three years ago as settler outposts first appeared during the prior Israeli government headed by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett.
As happened in Bedouin villages elsewhere in Area C – land under Israeli military control earmarked to be negotiated in future peace talks – the harassment the Mleihat villagers had experienced for years escalated after October 7.
Settlers began surveilling them with drones, using loudspeakers to shout profanities about Islam or to amplify sounds to scare away their flocks, said Abu Muhammad and his son, Ibrahim Mleihat, 37. Armed settlers attacked them and stopped them from grazing their sheep on land they had used for years, penning them in.
Settlers also attacked Mughayer al-Deir families when they tried to access their only water source down the road – a trip made necessary because Israeli authorities prohibited them from piping the water directly to their community.
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A Bedouin animal-holding pen that has been abandoned due to settler violence [Al Jazeera staff]
‘We are the government’
In Mughayer al-Deir, organised settler attacks reached a peak on December 28, said Abu Muhammad and Ibrahim. That morning, dozens of armed settlers in military uniforms and covered faces came to the village, invading homes and telling Abu Muhammad the villagers had to leave.
“This is our area,” they declared.
“We will never leave,” Abu Muhammad replied.
When some villagers defended themselves in their homes, settlers shot at the ground towards Abu Muhammad and his sons. As the situation escalated, he called the police.
“Don’t bother calling police,” a security guard from a nearby illegal settlement – an alleged ringleader of the attacks – told Abu Muhammad. “We are the government.”
When the police arrived, the settlers claimed it was the Bedouins who had attacked them. Abu Muhammad and five of his sons were arrested.
“Why are you arresting us while they’re attacking us in our homes?” asked a cuffed Abu Muhammad.
They were taken to Ofer Prison, where they were beaten and kept in cold cells with no water or food for long stretches, they said.
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Villagers have been forced to buy additional animal fodder because settlers have prevented animals from grazing on traditional lands [Al Jazeera staff]
‘Grazing everywhere we now can’t’
The material and psychological state of the Mughayer al-Deir and al-Muarrajat families is deteriorating as their isolation continues, more than four months into the war.
Threatened with confiscations by settlers and authorities if they graze their sheep on traditional lands, the villagers only leave their land to get water from down the road or to buy fodder, Abu Muhammad says.
Typically, the rainy winter season provides grass for flocks to graze, saving lots of money. But, he says, they still buy one tonne of animal fodder every other day because settlers prevent them from moving about to graze.
“And then the settlers come onto our lands with their flocks, grazing everywhere we can’t go,” he said.
These burdens during what should be the most lucrative time of year are compounded by the strain on the occupied West Bank’s economy, which is forcing Palestinian families to spend money on basics like rice and flour instead of the cheese, yoghurt and meat the shepherds sell.
To remain financially afloat, families in Mughayer al-Deir are turning to loans out of desperation.
“Every household here now has debts that exceed 30,000 shekels (about $8,240),” said Abu Muhammad, whose community lives without running water and very limited electricity.
Struggling with the day-to-day of leading the community through this crisis, “I can’t even think of the future,” he said.
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Animals kept penned up in Mughayer al-Deir [Al Jazeera staff]
The cost of surviving
The people in both Mughayer al-Deir and al-Muarrajat grapple with a lack of services on top of the economic situation.
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Until recently, Alia Mleihat held regular school lessons for children in al-Muarrajat [Al Jazeera staff]
Until recently, the school in al-Muarrajat, which Mughayer al-Deir children also attend, was closed in the period following the October 7 start of the war. Alia Mleihat – who was self-taught in high school before attending the Open University in Jerusalem – would hold lessons with village children using books donated by activists.
“As Palestinians, our weapon is knowledge … with knowledge, we can convey our voice to the world,” she said.
In the middle of January, the school started again, but the children still face frequent closures and risks getting to school. Three out of 30 children from Mughayer al-Deir have already dropped out.
With the other Bedouin villages near the Allon Road now deserted or, in cases like Wadi Siq, even occupied by Israeli settlers, the isolation has cast a pall over the two remaining communities.
The attacks and restrictions have been especially hard on children. Ibrahim Mleihat has six children between one and 12 years old.
“We try to lie to the children: ‘Don’t be afraid, they’ll go away,’” he said. “But our children know we’re lying. They can see it in our eyes.”
In Mughayer al-Deir, villagers describe how children often discuss “Ameer, Jad’oun and Omer”, the Israeli security officers of the nearby Ma’ale Mikhmas settlement and the Mitzpe Dani outpost.
“The children dream that the [security officers] will kill them or take them away,” said Abu Muhammad.
A mother in Mughayer al-Deir described her six-year-old daughter to aid workers as intelligent and eloquent until the last settler attack, which struck her largely silent and unable to spell words.
Even under the traumatic, economically crippling situation they find themselves in, the Mleihat of Mughayer al-Deir and al-Muarrajat say they will not leave.
Abu Muhammad has heard from displaced communities how bleak their prospects are, struggling like the former community in Ein Samiya did, torn apart and scattered across Area B.
Such communities have found it impossible to keep up with their livelihoods as shepherds, the only option being to sell their animals and find jobs as labourers – at a time in the occupied West Bank when roads are dangerous, Palestinians have their movement further restricted, and the economy is in shambles.
And while some other communities had land elsewhere to flee to, Abu Muhammad emphasises that they simply do not have anywhere else to go.
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Mughayer al-deir kids stand in front of settler outpost in background [Al Jazeera staff]
Though separated by a 90-minute walk or 10-minute drive, the people of al-Muarrajat and Mughayer al-Deir have gone months without seeing each other because of the settlers; one of Alia’s relatives had their car torched by settlers when they attempted to visit Mughayer al-Deir.
However, the physically isolated villages remain in constant contact, supporting one another as the only communities that remain in the area – and as family.
“I talk to them nearly every day about what’s happening there,” said Alia of her Mughayer al-Deir relatives.
“They’re brave people who defended themselves and stuck to their land.”
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csphire · 7 months
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Sad because you need more Dammon?
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Here is a guide on how to make him into your player character or guardian. ->New Guide here that includes mod suggestions!
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To start with I made sure that all his stats were at least 10 in everything like his original. According to the Wiki Dammon is an Asmodeus Tiefling.
For the extra points left over, I put them into upping his Dexterity (as it helps with dodging damage), the main stat for his class (in this case Wisdom for a Druid), and a bit in Charisma just to make conversation rolls a bit easier. For background, I went with Guild Artisan to further help him with persuasion, give him some insight, and for roleplaying purposes since he was a blacksmith. For cantrips, I would highly recommend picking Guidance to further aid all conversation rolls.
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For Class, I went with Druid because it lets him wield a scimitar right at the start. On the Nautolid you can usually find two of these weapons. The second reason is maybe being at the grove rubbed off on him a little. He did after all pick up a few skills while in Avernus why not at the Druid Grove too? The third reason, your doppelganger gets a discount from Arron the other merchant to be found there. But of course, you can make him any other class you wish or multi-class him. I did so myself by adding dragon sorcerer and bard to him later on. (I am tempted to try and get the Jack-of-all-Trades achievement with him.)
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When it comes to his eyes there is a slight hiccup. They are currently only unique to Dammon. The closest we can get to them is Blue 3. I vaguely recalled that if one was a tiefling in Early Access even if one were to pick the more human/elven eye colors they would still have a slight glow to them. This is currently not the case as of launch and I'm not aware if there are any mods out that can give us the proper eyes. :
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Actually, after some thought, another color might be better than Blue 3 called Sapphire 4 as it's a little more intense.
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For make-up, I don't think Dammon wears any but I did add a subtle amount to try to make his eyes stand out a little more and added the tinest amount of color and gloss to his lips. So the following is optional. Personally, I find that particular eyeshadow comes in handy for guys overall at a 10 or 20 intensity level to make their eyes look a little deeper set and um... more broody?
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For the hair, you may want to experiment with the red highlight. I don't think I got the color spot on. Below, I outlined other possibilities. On a darker red you may want to go higher in intensity than just 60.
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The horns I also worry I made a touch lighter than Dammon's but if you go with a Dusty 6 or 7 that might correct the minor difference.
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Below is a final side-by-side comparison in the same lighting. Again, you might wish to experiment and go with a slightly darker red for the red hair highlight and the same with the horns. Also, the dyes I end up using for his gear are Swamp Green or Green to complement his original outfit colors.
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Enjoy!
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And Special thanks to @deir-emmett for coming up with the guide for the Dammon Dream Visitor available here.
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decolonize-the-left · 4 months
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Airstrikes and missiles struck dwellings and public buildings on Tuesday including Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis killing five, among them a five-day-old baby, reports indicate. “No child in the world should be killed, let alone one sheltering under the emblem of a humanitarian organisation; this has to end,” said Gemma Connell, a team leader from UN aid coordination office OCHA, in a video posted on X soon after the attacks. According to Ms. Connell, the hospital was “clearly marked” with the logo of the Palestinian Red Crescent.
“Safe zones are death traps,” Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud says, reporting from Rafah.
“Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been evacuating from the northern Gaza City, running from the horror of the war, only to get bombed in what is called a safe zone,” he added. He spoke to Rafah resident Ahmed Abu Sinja, who said “My wife and the kids decided to sleep in their aunt’s room on the lower floor thinking it would be safe. When the bomb hit my brother’s flat, the roof collapsed on them, killing my wife, my daughter, my sister, my brother and two children.”
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Other updates from Jan 5, 2023:
Heavy bombardments are reported near Deir el-Balah, including at the Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps as Israeli forces residents to evacuate south.
Lebanon has filed an official complaint to the UN Security Council, saying that Israel had fired six missiles in the attack that killed Saleh al-Arouri.
Israeli defence minister says operations in southern Gaza, which have included the bombing of refugee camps and previously declared civilian ‘safe zones’, will continue.
At least 22,600 people killed and 57,910 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
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Help Dr.Ebraheem reunite with his family Since the start of conflict in Gaza, Dr. Ebraheem has been working relentlessly in Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. He was also a displaced refugee from Gaza city, so he used to live inside the hospital and also work everyday there during the war.
Unluckily, there has been separation between North and South Gaza since the first few weeks of war; thus, Dr. Ebraheem was not able to meet his family for nearly five months! Nowadays, Dr. Ebraheem managed to evacuate to Egypt, so he hopes to meet his family again through evacuating them to Egypt also.
To achieve this goal, travel fees had to be paid; which is 5000$ per person. He needs to evacuate his family who are 4 persons; his parents, one sister and one brother. His parents are both doctors, his sister is also a doctor, and his brother is a freelancer. This means that 4 persons need 20,000$ to pass the crossing border. Also Ebraheem needs to settle in Egypt since he still does not have work in there, so this may need 5000$ at least.
Ebraheem’s mother is a cancer patient, she survived breast cancer twice before, so she needs to have a special care, for instance follow up investigations and imaging, and these are not available in Gaza now due to war and collapse of the health. Adding to that, Ebraheem’s father is an elderly man whose age is 76 year old who can not move easily to get food.
Ebraheem’s family is also living in the north now, where there is severe starvation there.
Please, let his family survive!
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girlactionfigure · 10 days
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🔅Monday afternoon - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime
🔻ATTACK - DRONES - from Hezbollah - north west border towns: Idmit, Eilon, Goren, Gornot HaGalil, Hanita, Ya'ara, Arab al-Aramshe 
🔻IRAN WARNS.. Al Jazeera: Tehran sent a new message to the US through Turkey after the attack on Israel yesterday. An "important and unprecedented" warning message was also sent to Israel via Cairo referring to the fact that there will be an Iranian response to any new "bold act" on Israel's part.
🔻DID BIDEN GIVE IRAN PERMISSION TO HIT ISRAEL?  (Maybe Fake)  “Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be "within certain limits.””
(( This is possibly FAKE NEWS. It is on many sites and channels, on some is quoted in the name of Reuters, but I can’t find an actual source. ))
🔻ISRAEL RESPONSE (PLANNING).. Israeli sources to CNN: The War Cabinet is determined to respond to the Iranian attack, and is discussing the timing and extent of the response.
Commander of the Home Front Command: "We are in a long war and there may be changes in the coming days in light of the situation assessment. Continue to listen and act according to the instructions - they save lives.”
▪️BOMB ON THE LEBANESE BORDER.. injures 4 soldiers. Hezbollah takes responsibility.
▪️ATTEMPTED TERROR.. at the Deir Sharaf intersection in Samaria: a female terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the soldiers' position at the intersection, who opened fire on her in a suspicious arrest procedure, and she was arrested.  
▪️AIR TRAVEL.. EasyJet and Air India suspend flights to Israel.  Travelers to and from Israel are struggling to find options.
▪️BETTER FOOD FOR TERRORISTS!  The "Association for Civil Rights in Israel" filed a petition with the High Court of Justice against the Minister of National Security as well as against the Israeli Security Service Commissioner, following the reduction of conditions of the Arab convicted prisoners since the outbreak of the war in accordance with the policy of Minister Ben Gvir.
As part of the petition they demand that the court issue a conditional order to the Israeli Security Service to explain why the Arab terrorists, including those who committed the most horrific acts humanly possible, are not given higher quality food and the possibility to buy food (the prison canteen) like criminal prisoners.
▪️ISRAELI HACKERS.. “We launched a broad attack on cellphone systems in Iran and over 20 million telephones received SMS messages, that they must be prepared for war in the coming hours.  The Iranians felt the  pressure and started withdrawing money from the banks which put the authorities in Iran under pressure.”
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donnaajah · 4 months
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Human Rights Watch (HRW), a human rights group based in the United States (US), accused Israel of committing war crimes by starving people in the Gaza Strip.
HRW said Israeli forces deliberately obstructed deliveries of water, food and fuel, destroyed agricultural areas, and deprived Gaza's 2.3 million residents of essentials necessary for their survival.
"The Israeli government uses starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip," HRW said in a report, as quoted by Reuters on Monday (18/12/2023).
"World leaders must speak out against these abhorrent war crimes," he added.
HRW's report also came after Pope Francis accused Israel of committing "terrorism" following reports of the killing of two Christian women by the Israeli military at a church compound.
For information, shortly after the retaliatory attack occurred, Israel immediately announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip which included a ban on supplying food, water, fuel oil and cutting off electricity to fight the Hamas armed group.
On the other hand, there was no immediate response to HRW's report from Israel, but Israel has denied that it targets civilians. Israel also says it is trying to facilitate aid to Gaza residents while hampering supplies to thousands of Hamas fighters operating from tunnels.
In the latest bombing, 90 Palestinians were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Sunday. Hamas Aqsa Radio reported an attack on Gaza's main hospital, Al Shifa.
In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, medics said 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured, while in Rafah in the south, an Israeli air strike on a house left at least four people dead.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has vowed not to stop bombing and sieges in the densely populated Gaza area, where around 19,000 Palestinians have been killed during the offensive.
What a disgusting war!?
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nothingelsetobe · 1 month
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Palestinians build tent out of tin cans
Please watch this and spread it. Share too, Reblog, Repost, etc. Do any and everything you can to help.
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emanblr · 1 month
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And theres a moon for Ramadan 🌙🥹
Oh the resilience , the faith and the grace of Palestinians ♥️
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eretzyisrael · 6 months
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by ALAA AL-AMERI
Youssef’s historical sketch conforms to the prevailing narrative of our time. Namely, that the conflicts that have beset the Middle East since the end of the Second World War are the product of decisions made by white Europeans, and imposed on a world filled with passive, innocent ‘indigenous people’. This means that the rampant anti-Semitism in the Middle East is effectively cast as a Western, European creation.
As an Arab and a Muslim, I recognise this story only too well. It is one that I inherited and told myself for a very long time. That was until I could no longer ignore the dishonesty of this account of Arab and Muslim history.
After all, if this tale is close to the truth, why have pro-Hamas protesters around the world been shouting ‘Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud’ – a reference to the seventh-century murder and expulsion of Jewish tribes from the Khaybar oasis in the Arabian Peninsula – rather than something that relates to Deir Yassin? If a massacre and the formation of Israel in 1948 was the catalyst for Muslim anti-Semitism, why did Izz ad-Din al-Qassam – the cleric after whom Hamas names its rockets and murder-brigades – form the anti-Semitic Islamist group, the Black Hand, as early as the 1930s? And why was the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, (considered by both the British and Nazi Germany to be the leader of the Arab world at the time) so keen to bring the Nazi Holocaust to the Middle East?
If you had asked me those questions when I was younger, I would have reeled off a list of grievances about Jewish refugees from Europe infringing on native Arab populations in the 1920s and 1930s. But in recent years, I changed my mind. I looked around at my home city of London, which has been utterly transformed by immigrants like me, and saw the arrogance and hypocrisy of my position.
I was casting Jewish refugees from Europe as villains, while regarding myself as a worthy victim. I was justifying the actions of those who violently rejected Jewish migration into Mandate Palestine during the Holocaust, while considering myself unquestionably entitled to refuge in the West.
This same hypocrisy runs through the ‘pro-Palestine’ demonstrations that have erupted across Europe. These protests, shot through with pro-Hamas sentiments, have made Jewish communities fear for their safety in countries that promised they would never have to again.
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adropofhumanity · 4 months
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"today or tomorrow will be the last day of burial in the cemetery", deir al-balah cemetery in gaza is running out of burial spaces. workers in the cemetery said that it's almost full and closing to more burials. at least 21,320 people have been killed by i****l in the gaza strip since the war began on 7 october, the palestinian health ministry said on thursday. another 55,603 people have been wounded, it says. at least 210 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, the ministry added" — via middleeasteye on instagram
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