Palestinian banks could be cut off from the Israeli banking system starting next week following a decision by Israel’s finance minister to cease dealings between the two financial institutions, according to a report on Thursday by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has two days to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss reversing plans by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to isolate Palestinian banks from both the Israeli and international banking systems. The Palestinian economy is based on the Israeli currency, the shekel, making it reliant on ties to Israel and its financial dealings with the rest of the world must go through the Bank of Israel and Israeli banks.
We call this Apartheid.
Leia killing Jabba and ending the cycle of abuse that got her grandmother and father abused directly paralleling Anakin killing Palatine at the end of the movie, thus ending the cycle of abuse there too, with Luke not doing anything violent like either of them and instead ending the cycle by putting down his blade and trusting in the good of his father (just like Padme did).
SAD SANGIHUN THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Do yall think that when the guards approached Gihun to take Sangwoo’s body away that his fire burning instinct was to snap at them and yell something like “DONT FUCKING TOUCH HIM” so they had to pry him off of his body before he let them take him away??
Im about to admit myself into the psych ward bc of these two i swear-
HWANG IN-HO & HWANG JUN-HO
— The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with"
-- Refaat Alareer, from Gaza Writes Back
Absolutely no one is ready for this conversation but tbh I think the reason people (particularly film bros on YouTube) devalue Gihun’s character and call him stupid etc is bc he has emotional intelligence and internal strength and those are stereotypically feminine attributes
Said film bros will often go to bat for Sangwoo and say he ‘did nothing wrong’ and was the most ‘realistic’ character and that speaks volumes to me lol. To ppl and society in general emotional intelligence + kindness = feminine = weak, while harsh logic + physical strength = masculine = strong. So naturally that bleeds into our media analysis as well.
This attitude is everywhere but it strikes me as particularly funny wrt Squid Game S1 bc Gihun FUCKING WINS. Sangwoo LOSES. Gihun wins almost every game simply by being a good fucking person lol (I just reblogged a post discussing that not too long ago) and these same idiots just say it’s ‘plot armor’ LIKE DO U MEDIA LITERACY AT ALL. Not only that but Gihun wins against Ilnam too at the end like the series goes out of its way to show us that Sangwoo’s approach was WRONG. Also the series is not over yet u guys s2 was only half a season so we have no idea if Gihun’s rebellion will be ultimately futile or if it’ll end up actually changing things in the end.
Also P.S. Gihun is a regular fucking jackoff. He is not a superhero or a warrior or a fighter in any capacity whatsoever he is a regular jackoff who has spent over half of his entire projected lifespan being a regular jackoff. He doesn’t have any special training, at least not when it comes to armed combat or espionage. I’m gonna need ppl to give him a break and instead give him his goddamn flowers for having the ovaries of fucking steel required to launch a full scale rebellion while being a regular fucking jackoff.
TL;DR at this point whenever I see ‘lol Gihun dumb’ posts it’s actually just ‘tell me you completely missed the point of Squid Game without telling me you completely missed the point of Squid Game’
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Alaa Hathleen, a Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank who exposes IOF and settler violence on his instagram, had his home raided, his 17 year old brother kidnapped, and his car and phone stolen by the IOF this morning (2 Dec 23)
The day is close. Palestine will be free.