Porte Photos’ Daily Pic: Thursday, February 6th, 2025

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“All great change in America
begins at the dinner table”

~ Ronald Reagan
40th president of the USA
Born on: 6th February 1911

Porte Ponderings:

America loves their actors. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump and everything in between.

The latest madness from the orange skinned leader is the proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Move all the Palestinians out to neighbouring countries and re-build Gaza for the glory of the USA. The sad thing is that Israel and Egypt are agreeing to the plan. 2 million people to be moved and negotiations have begun.

But what have the Palestinians said? Do they want to leave their homes? Given the choice of leave or die they might decide to leave. What would you do if your children were starving?

Porte Photos’ Daily Quote: December 9th

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War is death.
If we are to engage in war,
then we should have to
stare it straight in the face
and call it by its rightful name.

~ Aaron Huey
American – Photographer Born: December 9, 1975

Porte Ponderings:

Tomorrow is the 2nd Sunday of Lent in the Christian Calendar: Peace

Today is the 3rd day of Hanukkah. As the third candle is being lit the bombing of Gaza continues. Hostages from Israel may be among the dead in Gaza as Israel threatens to flood all tunnels with sea water. When will the killing stop?

Genocide is Genocide.

“The Ministry of Health in Gaza has said that 17,177 people – including 7,112 children – have been killed and 46,000 wounded since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started on October 7.

In the occupied West Bank, the death toll stood at 266, with 3,365 wounded.

The Israeli army said that 1,147 people have died, including 418 soldiers.”

~ https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/8/photos-death-toll-continues-to-rise-in-gaza-amid-widening-israeli-attacks

Porte Photos’ Daily Quote: December 7th

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism,
not a war against terrorism.

~ Noam Chomsky
American – Activist Born: December 7, 1928

Porte Ponderings:

Genocide is genocide.

Killing people because of religion or saying they are all guilty because of location and need to be annihilated is wrong.

Whatever happened to: no more than an eye for an eye?

1,200 people killed and 200 kidnapped does not justify locking borders and shooting the life out of an entire country/area. It seems like they are shooting fish in a barrel to me. People of Gaza have no protection and no way out. Hospitals indiscriminately destroyed. Cities demolished. Men, women and children without a safe refuge. Told to go south to avoid the bombs, then when they get there the bombing starts in the south.

“Israel’s campaign has killed more than 16,200 people in Gaza – mostly women and children – and wounded more than 42,000 so far.” December 6, 2023

“Israel-Hamas war updates: UN chief invokes rare Article 99 over Gaza war“

“Most of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people have been made homeless by the war between Israel and Hamas, and the new phase of displacement since a week-long truce ended on Dec. 1 is worsening an already catastrophic humanitarian situation.” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-families-flee-again-shrinking-overcrowded-pocket-land-2023-12-05/

Hate crimes in Canada have increased against both Jews and Muslims. Even though these religions in Canada have no direct effect on what’s happening on the other side of the world. Hate spreads too easily and too fast.

This conflict is not new. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. In 1947, the United Nations adopted Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan, which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.”

All religions foster peace and forgiving.
How can all of this happen in the name of religion?
Is your god not my god?
She must be weeping about such hatred and destruction.