Ancestors

Written by Laxystem on 2025-01-01 at 06:20

To the new year in Jerusalem rebuilt.

Though funnily enough I've been in Jerusalem this year, six times, more than my entire life (just twice or thrice...)

But I haven't been to the Muslim quarter. Well, not above ground. The city of peace is now a city of walls.

As a wise guy on YouTube once said, my country is now a shadow of its former self, under a coat of normalcy.

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Written by Laxystem on 2025-01-01 at 06:36

I have a lot of thoughts regarding Jerusalem. The city is an archaeological treasure trove. The entire Muslim quarter is built on top of another city—Israelite Jerusalem.

Al-aqza (the silver "kipa", i.e. a 3D arch) and the Golden "kipa" (sorry, blame my country's MoE; I only know the Hebrew names for those) are built quite literally on top of the actual Temple, with the Golden arch on top of the most holiest.

I hope we will one day be able to reach mutual agreement, to not destroy Al Aqza—as beyond religion, you just don't destroy ancient, important buildings, that'd be against everything the State of Israel stands for—and yet still have the Temple, with some miracle of architecture and diplomacy (there shall be no church on top of the home mountain though; on my dead body).

Tolkien has made his dwarves into his world's Jews. Would be ironic if the third Jewish Temple would then be mostly underground, no?

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Written by Jackie on 2025-01-01 at 06:40

@laxla

you just don't destroy ancient, important buildings, that'd be against everything the State of Israel

"On 19 October, an Israeli air strike destroyed a building in the compound of the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in the heart of Gaza’s old city, where an estimated 450 internally displaced members of Gaza’s small Christian community were sheltering. The strike killed 18 civilians and injured at least 12 others.

Ramez al-Sury, who lost his three children and 10 other relatives in the attack, told Amnesty International: 'My heart died with my children that evening. All my children were killed: Majid, 11, Julie, 12, and Suhail, 14. I have nothing left. I should have died with my children.'"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-nowhere-safe-in-gaza-unlawful-israeli-strikes-illustrate-callous-disregard-for-palestinian-lives/

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Written by Jackie on 2025-01-01 at 06:44

@laxla I understand where you are coming from, and I do think that wanting to preserve ancient buildings is noble.

I just think that maybe the state of Israel doesn't quite stand for what you think it does. Just as the United States doesn't stand for what I was originally taught it stood for.

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Written by Laxystem on 2025-01-01 at 06:51

@burnoutqueen "Maybe the state of Israel doesn't stand for what you think it does?"

It fucking does. The State of Israel stands for rebuilding, not destruction. This is not what my country stands for.

How rude of you to suggest the entire essence of my culture, people, and country is war, and killing.

Is your country's essence ecocide, and capitalism for the sake of capitalism, and xenophobia to no end? No, it's not, it's that of freedom, of equality, and of one's ability to succeed based purely on their skill.

This is incredibly rude, especially of an American, of a westerner.

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Written by Jackie on 2025-01-01 at 06:54

@laxla

Is your country's essence ecocide, and capitalism for the sake of capitalism, and xenophobia to no end?

Yes, actually. Ngl

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Toot

Written by Jackie on 2025-01-01 at 06:56

@laxla

The essence of the United States is that it was founded on genocide and profit seeking, and the best aspects of this country are directly rooted in the resistance against these things.

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Descendants

Written by Laxystem on 2025-01-01 at 06:59

@burnoutqueen that's your country, and if that's what you think it is, that's your choice.

But I prefer a better legacy. You'd call it denial, I call it ending a cycle of violence.

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Written by Jackie on 2025-01-01 at 07:01

@laxla

I think there is an important distinction between your preferred version of your country and the country as it currently exists.

I was making a commentary about how it actually exists.

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