Of course they fucking are. They've repeatedly forced their own entrance into Al Aqsa, and denied Muslim access to it, in the past. In fact, the last time I heard of Al Aqsa violations was during Sukkot last fall, when hundreds of Israeli settlers - [which I suppose we should really start calling "violent illegal immigrants"] repeatedly stormed the third-holiest site in Islam, during the week-long Jewish festival, and were protected by Israeli forces.
"No, you can't bring in those medical supplies, you could stab someone with that needle or strangle them with that bandage! Are you crazy - that canned food could be used as a projectile or broken open to make a shiv! What do you mean you want to bring in blankets, they could be used to hide someone!"
Of course. And Israel has already said that they need a one kilometer "security zone" between Israel and Gaza, and that they're not going to put the security zone on [current] Israeli territory.
Gaza's border with Israel is about 32 miles long. The amount of land taken for the demilitarized zone would be about 20 square miles. Gaza is about 6 miles wide; aside from the incredible disruption the "security road" will cause to Palestinian life, a demilitarized zone on either side of that road would be another land grab of about 6 square miles, meaning Israel is planning to steal (yet another) 26 square miles of Palestinian land. Considering that Gaza is only 141 square miles in the first place, they're planning on taking 18% of all Gazan land.
Israel itself is 8,550 square miles, and the demilitarized zone would be less than one-third of one percent of Israeli land, and the Israelis say they want it to feel "safe", so once again all the benefit is to Israel and all the detriment to Gaza.
As a final note, you know they're going to "hold up" [deny] traffic between the halves, just like they're holding up [denying] humanitarian aid trucks. Israel has also said that they expect the international community to do the rebuilding of Gaza, and that they won't allow shipments into Gaza from Israel. That means that everything going into Gaza will either be from Egypt's land border, or from a port. But it means that there will likely need to be two entirely separate supply lines, which will make logistics, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding supplies significantly more complex.
Which is the whole point, of course. Israel wants the Gazans miserable enough to leave voluntarily, and they certainly don't care how many die to make that happen -either way, they "win". And when some part of Gaza hasn't been rebuilt within a given amount of time, when Palestinians haven't been able to set up support and supply lines to every corner of Gaza (because Israel is deliberately kneecapping then), well then, Israel will have yet another excuse to justify taking even more "unused land" that doesn't belong to them.
In the short term, I'd stay in the cave, and I'd keep it for emergency backup accomodations like in a hurricane or something. In the long term, I'd live outside of the cave, once I got a decent shelter set up.
Why? Well, if the weather is nice, there's no reason not to live outside. And if it's not nice (but not a hurricane), or I'm cooking food, I'm likely to want a fire. And I remember enough from my high school geology classes that having repeated fires inside some kinds of caves can make rocks fall from the ceiling. And I don't remember enough from my high school geology classes to know whether that cave has fire-safe rocks or not.
I acknowledge that fuel for the fire is likely to be an issue, so I'd try to get some aluminum or something from the plane, or flatten out some tin cans if any have washed ashore, or something similar. Then use the metal to make a solar stove to cook with. The stove would need some monitoring, though, to adjust it to the angle of the sun and to do cook-tasks on - occasional stirring or turning over or taking it out before it burns - so even with a solar stove, I'd still be mostly outside.
So in short: if I'm making a fire or cooking, I'm outside. If the weather is pleasant, I'm outside. If there's a hurricane or something, I'll stay in the cave without a fire.
That fucker will cheerfully accept Russian, Saudi or Chinese money to carry a couple bags of diplomatic "cash" in and a diplomatic bag of US national secrets out - remember that Trump moved boxes before and after the FBI raid, had the boxes conveniently stored next to a copier, and the FBI didn't search two rooms they were supposed to.
“Our officers warned him to stop and when he did not, the man was removed from the House Galleries,” USCP said in a statement. He was arrested for crowding, obstructing or incommoding, said USCP, which added that “disrupting the Congress and demonstrating in the Congressional Buildings is illegal.”
insurrectionist, you effing cowards. Stop using the right's terminology, it only plays into their hands and helps minimize what they've already done and what they're planning to do.
They've started spamming my old accounts and emails with reminders that I only have until March 5 to get into their preferred redditor IPO thing. I'm guessing they're either desperate for investors, or they're desperate for numbers to show off at the IPO to say his incredibly much interest there is.
Still no word on what class stock they're offering to redditors, but I fully expect it'll be non-voting class C shares. Fuck spez.
That's very ... orange. Is it usually that color, or were there like, wildfires around somewhere? [Did the smoke from Canada reach Finland last summer?]
There's 1.2 million people sheltering in Rafah. They'd need to drop 4000 pallets of MREs every day to feed them. And re-feeding syndrome may be a problem.
The proposed airlift absolutely does nothing to address shortages of potable water. Or the medical supplies needed to treat victims of Israel's genocidal assault, the public health catastrophe from the lack of sanitation, or even just everyday medical needs like diabetes or pregnancies.
You might check with the college to see if it's possible to test (or re-test) out of remedial courses. If the answer is yes, buckle down with old textbooks, the local library, YouTube, free online courses, local tutors and whatever else you need.
The one caveat here is if you're taking more math courses later, you really need to get these basics down, because the later courses will build off of this content. So don't just "study for the test" and then forget it, try to really understand what you're doing and why.
A couple comments, from personal experience: first off, there are different ways to teach math. I've had teachers who explained something so beautifully and clearly that, if I happened to forget a formula, I could remember the explanation and recreate the formula. And I've had teachers that were teaching me stuff I already knew cold, who had me so confused on the stuff I definitely already knew, that I had to switch sections before they hit stuff I didn't know. Do you might need to look at a different book or course or something, if it doesn't make sense to you.
Second, when they assign a handful of problems out of the back of the chapter, don't do just those problems. Do every single exercise in the back of the chapter, and check yourself when you complete each one. If it's the wrong answer, do it again. If it's still the wrong answer, keep going until you get the right answer, but pay attention to what you're doing: you have some basic misunderstanding of what you're supposed to be doing, and you want to identify and correct that misunderstanding so it doesn't screw you over later. Math builds on math; if your foundation is shaky, you're going to collapse when you get to the upper levels.
Lmao, dude doesn't know redditors at all, do they?