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LahnaMan

@LTSNik

A history geek

Helsinki, Finland Katılım Aralık 2015
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LahnaMan@LTSNik·
My 5 favorite war films i can think of at the time of writing (in no particular order):
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Rimantas ‡@DarRamesnis·
10 out of 10 game
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Lies Or Liars
Lies Or Liars@Liesorliars·
@FightStorage Not an american troop, this is recycled footage from Russia Ukraine conflict. This is meant to be a russian soldier (hasnt been confirmed) pleading to a Ukraine drone.
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Wild Videos@FightStorage·
American soldier begs for mercy from a Iran drone
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Road to Vostok
Road to Vostok@roadtovostok·
Exciting times ahead :)
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Moshe Emilio Lavi
Moshe Emilio Lavi@MosheELavi·
There is a genre of October 7 commentary that works by constructing a historical arc so compressed and so selective that the conclusion becomes inevitable. A people wronged, hemmed in, their world dismantled across generations. Rage follows. What else would you expect? The history offered in support of this arc is not really history. It begins where it needs to begin, omits what complicates it, and arrives at a destination that was chosen before the argument started. The Arab population of Mandatory Palestine never held sovereignty that was taken from them. There was no state. A significant portion immigrated to the land only in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The land passed from Ottoman to British control, and two national movements competed within that framework. One of them, the Jewish national movement, was not a colonial project arriving from outside. Jewish communities had existed without interruption in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Gaza, Tiberias, the Galilee and elsewhere, through centuries of pre-modern colonial empires, Roman, Byzantine, several Arab Caliphates, the Crusaders, and Ottoman, and long before any of them emerged. The Zionist movement was a national liberation movement of a people with three thousand years of documented connection to that land, rejecting the exile that was imposed on many of them, and building upon a presence that had never left. The other national movement, the Arab Palestinian one, crystallised largely in reaction to Zionism rather than predating it, which is why the sovereign state being projected backwards into history as ancient and continuous is itself part of the inversion, not a foundation for it. Arab leaders, who rarely called themselves Palestinians then and most of whom saw themselves as part of greater Syria, rejected partition in 1937 and again in 1947. That rejection, and the violence that accompanied it across the three decades of the Mandate period, is precisely what this genre of argument leaves out. What does the enforcing are films like "Palestine 36," marketed as historical drama about the bloody Arab Revolt, but functioning as something closer to historical replacement. They strip Jewish indigeneity and continuity from the record, recast a people with millennia of connection to that land as recent colonial arrivals, and present the conflict as a simple story of indigenous resistance to foreign imposition. The purpose is not to inform Western audiences about a complex national conflict. It is to recruit them to a conclusion: that Jews and Israel are an illegitimate implant in the region, that the appropriate remedy is dismantlement, and that what would follow, the imagined state from the river to the sea, would be a tolerant, secular, democratic alternative, where Jews can live in peace under their Arab Palestinian Muslim rulers, not as a national group but as a religious minority. That last part is perhaps the most dishonest element of the entire narrative. The movements driving that agenda in the Middle East are neither democratic nor secular, and whatever secular veneer some of them maintain is precisely that, a veneer. The model being implicitly promised has no precedent among Muslim-majority states in the region, and sits in direct and unacknowledged tension with the political and religious character of the organisations whose cause these films are made to serve, like Hamas. Without all of this, October 7 cannot be made to look like the inevitable product of accumulated injustice. It looks instead like what it was: a brutal, sadistic rampage by Arab Palestinian Islamist terrorist organisations, and the civilians who joined them, to murder, rape, and kidnap Israeli citizens, residents, and foreign nationals. No historical narrative, however artfully constructed, changes what happened that morning. It only changes who the audience is willing to hold responsible for it. This is the genre James represents, and he is far from alone in it. It is not engagement with history. It is the use of a selective version of it to launder a conclusion that was held before the argument began.
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville

I’ve just watched Palestine 36: So many people need a history lesson. October 7th wasn’t the start. It goes back a long long way. Imagine being a citizen to a place that lost status, sovereignty, human rights, freedom and land. And then for decades got hemmed in, encroached, destroyed and an appropriation of the land unchecked. Destinies of people who have lived there for generations completely torn up. Grief turns into rage. It would anywhere. But apparently it’s “antisemitic” to raise any concerns about this.

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LahnaMan@LTSNik·
@visionergeo ”For our freedom and yours” remains true to this day.
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Visioner@visionergeo·
🇵🇱🇺🇦 Now Poles can officially serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. President Nawrocki signed a law according to which every Polish citizen fighting on the side of Ukraine is exempt from legal liability.
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@nexta_tv He said all that while he’s denying Ukrainians the right to speak their own native language.
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NEXTA@nexta_tv·
🤡 Putin on the invasion of Ukraine: “This is a righteous battle for a peaceful, free, and secure life for our children and grandchildren on our land. For the sacred, historical right of our people to speak their native language.” No comment needed. An old retard, four years into the war, still couldn’t come up with a coherent justification.
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Szabolcs Panyi
Szabolcs Panyi@panyiszabolcs·
💥Viktor Orbán angrily responded to protesters who booed him at a rally in opposition-led Győr. He accused them of promoting Ukrainian interests and wanting to send “Hungarians’ money to Ukraine,” as his campaign follows a path-dependent strategy blaming everything on Ukraine.
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