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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 18:44:46 JST Aral Balkan

   I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.

   What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?

   What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?

   Zionists love to ask you if their genocidal project deserves to exist. They’re not asking a broad enough question. Does a system that cannot even prevent genocide deserve to exist? What is the purpose of us if we are to exist shackled to the bloody whims of the worst of humanity?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 05:58:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Alex Ștefănescu

     @catileptic 💕

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     Alex Ștefănescu (catileptic@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 05:58:53 JST Alex Ștefănescu

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     @aral thank you for writing, nonetheless

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     Lukas Kluge (lukaskluge@expressional.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:00:38 JST Lukas Kluge

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     @aral Hope dies, action begins my friend - this kind of shit only stops when people leave their desks, knock their neighbours doors, go to the streets together and stay there. Start here, your help is needed for organising: https://www.ipsc.ie/protest/emergency-protests-for-palestine-around-ireland
     Not as glamorous though

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:10:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Lukas Kluge

     @lukaskluge Not as glamorous as what, exactly?

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     Sabine Hiller 💔🍉💪 (sabinehiller@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:15:14 JST Sabine Hiller 💔🍉💪

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     • Lukas Kluge

     @lukaskluge @aral We have been doing this on a weekly basis in the small town of Westport for well over a year - yes it gives visibility, it's important, but I feel so discouraged, furious, devastated, heartbroken. I also tag governments/EU here and on shitty Bluesky, but looks like nobody cares enough to set aside their own little national interests to just #StopIsrael ...
     @EUCommission @Bundesregierung

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:19:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Solène de Montmarin 🇲🇲💚🇵🇸🫏

     @SolenedeM The Irish are one of the few white populations to have been colonised so they understand what it’s like. And you’re welcome anytime :) (PS. I’m a French citizen although I, sadly, don’t speak the language.)

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     Solène de Montmarin 🇲🇲💚🇵🇸🫏 (solenedem@piaille.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:19:36 JST Solène de Montmarin 🇲🇲💚🇵🇸🫏

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     @aral How is it at your place ? Can I come ? Are they concerned about Gaza ? Or only on their own shit ? I am fed up about french people big time !!!

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:25:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸

     @dennyhenke Yep.

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     Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸 (dennyhenke@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:25:15 JST Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸

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     @aral Agreed. Aren't you describing the long history of European>Now U.S. settler colonialism? It continues, now with Israel as the tip of the spear. But it's the same, long thread of genocide.

     Globally, it's the European North dominating and extracting from the South. A process of violence, extraction, enslavement and, when necessary, genocide.

     Most in the US couldn't be bothered to care because they benefited from that process. Now it's turned in on us so we'll suffer. Chickens roosting.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:27:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sabine Hiller 💔🍉💪

     @sabinehiller @lukaskluge @EUCommission @Bundesregierung Thank you 💕

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:38:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Duco

     @duco Do fuck off. Have you no shame both-sidesing a genocide. How devoid of humanity are you? Seriously, just fuck off.

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     Duco (duco@norden.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:38:08 JST Duco

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     @aral I have friends neither in Palestine nor in Israel, so locking from the outside I saw a hateful Hamas, openly saying they want all Jews to die, brutally attacking Israel, taking people hostage and killing many innocent people. I also saw Israel brutally striking back with the claimed target of freeing their people, a lot of people in Gaza dying in the process. But no matter how hard Israel is attacking, Hamas is not willing to let all kidnapped Israeli go home. What can we do?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:11:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Solène de Montmarin 🇲🇲💚🇵🇸🫏

     @SolenedeM It, too, has its issues. If living in different countries had taught me one thing, it’s that everywhere does (to one degree or other).

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     Solène de Montmarin 🇲🇲💚🇵🇸🫏 (solenedem@piaille.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:11:22 JST Solène de Montmarin 🇲🇲💚🇵🇸🫏

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     @aral Ireland is the place to be in Euope !!! ✊️❤️🇵🇸

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     Oyu F'ka (oyu_fka@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 19:53:19 JST Oyu F'ka

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     @aral Thank you for this - you've managed to express the frustration and rage that we all feel.....we, the ordinary people of the uk, whose voices are ignored by the very people we put in power.

     The government in this fucking country are NOT our representatives, and do not see themselves as such.....career politicians, one and all - what's in it for them, basically.

     Fuck starmer
     Fuck labour
     Fuck israel
     Fuck the idf
     Fuck all zionists....

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 19:53:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Oyu F'ka

     @Oyu_Fka 💕

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 20:13:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Lukas Kluge

     @lukaskluge Ah, we have a tiny not for profit. It’s not glamorous :)

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     Lukas Kluge (lukaskluge@expressional.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 20:13:31 JST Lukas Kluge

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     @aral as tech work 😌