After today's terrible #Israeli bombing of #refugees camp, #jadaliyya, I just heard from a #palestinian - American, #musician friend this horrific #news: #israel #IsraelPalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #palestine #palestinians #palestina #Gaza #gazagenocide #gazaunderattack #War #warcrimes #IDF #Netanyahu

Breaking news: Israel strike on Jabalia Gaza refugee camp, targeting civilians #BreakingNews #news #gaza #news #palestine #israel #war #warcrimes #Jabaliarefugeecamp #Jabalia #halloween

Maybe, crises are self-induced, a last-ditch effort we gift ourselves to, finally, transform. https://youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi?si=Xic6HoMScmUrCdic #meditation #transformation

Thank you, London, #Paris, #Berlin, #NYC & all people of conscience for calling for a #ceasefirenow #Gaza #Palestine #israel

No (more) words…

30 Year Old #Palestinian #Poet, Mosab Abu Toha, Will Break Your Heart: #poetry #palestine #writing #writingcommunity #Gaza #news

Meantime, as the #MiddleEast is on fire & America is fanning the flames by providing military aid to #Israel, the worst #massshooting in the violent #USA in 2023:

NBC News

Police identify 40-year-old man as person of interest in mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine

He “should be considered armed and dangerous,” the Lewiston, Maine, police department said.

#palestine #IsraelPalestineconflict #news

Editors at #channel4news #skynews and #bbc omitted large passages from the statement made by #Israeli captive Yocheved Lifshitz, who was freed by #Hamas last night in which she humanized #Palestinian people. Instead, they lead with headlines claiming only that “they went through hell", contradicting the publicly released statements by the Israeli captive that she was treated humanely #israel #IsraelPalestineconflict #media #news #Hamas #hostages

Pity that the peacemakers are assassinated 🕊️ Yitzhak Rabin: #Israeli prime minister who was assassinated in 1995 by a gunman during a government rally. Rabin was a peacemaker who worked to promote #peace between #Israel and #Palestine 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 #IsraelPalestineconflict #love #inspiration #history #news #war #warcrimes #hate #Gaza #palestinians

It's always been a multi-ethnic area. Here is a coin from the British Mandate era. Both languages are on it. Both groups wanted a state on the land. #palestine #israel #history #war #peace #culture #ceasefirenow

Radical love understands #freethehostages means #Palestinians living under #occupation 2 million innocent souls in #gaza 1/2 of whom are children under the age of 18 collectively punished — denied water, electricity, medicines & mercy — in one of the most densely populated places on earth widely known as an open air prison. #standwithisrael means denouncing 700,000 #israeli #settlers #bringthemhome refers to the right of return of Palestinians, scattered throughout an indifferent world.

‬New #painting, by Safia Latif‬⁩ , a source of Hope & Inspiration: ‎“If the hour comes upon you when you are planting a tree, finish planting it.” 🌱 ‎— Prophet Mohammed ﷺ #art #artist #tree #hope #gaza #hope #palestine #israel #news #inspiration

Thank you, friends, for joining me on #YouTube — it’s been a big week! https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi #videogames #video #Mastodon #Fediverse #blog #palestine #news #WritingCommunity #poetry #wisdom #food #politics #Gaza #israel #usa

Any man – any artist, as Nietzsche would say – climbs the stairway in the tower of his perfection at the cost of a struggle with a duende – not with an angel, as some have maintained, or with his muse. — Lorca #life #art #spirituality #quote #motivation #literature

“Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.” — Thomas Raymond Kelly #quaker #christian #spirituality #books #quotes #inspiration #God

12 years ago, #today, I took the oath & became a US citizen… #usa #history #memories

Melancholy, 1874, Edgar Degas #art #artist #artwork #painting #mentalhealth #selfcare

‘There are two cardinal sins from which all the others derive: impatience and laziness. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of laziness that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.’ — Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks #ethics #quotes #literature

‘It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’ — Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass #books #quotes

Our metaphysical eyes are expert at collapsing distances, seeing through the apparent to the infinite.

Quarantine Notes

#book #philosophy #spirituality #quotes #CreativeToots