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This Tuesday's strategic engagement with industry stakeholders in the ICTPCS sector was a dialogue centred on our progress in 2025 and the path forward for Zimbabwe’s digital transformation under NDS2 (2026–2030) and Vision 2030 this 2026. 2025 Milestones presented included the completion of the National AI Strategy and National Cybersecurity Strategy, strengthening our digital governance framework. Significant expansion of digital inclusion initiatives: the Presidential Internet Scheme, Telemedicine Project, Digital Skills Ambassadors Programme, and Community Digital Centres. Notable sector growth, including 14.5% increase in ICT investment and high mobile and Internet penetration. A continued focus on digital skills development, inclusivity, and public-private partnerships as critical drivers towards a fully digital economy by 2030. Stakeholder feedback highlighted the following critical challenges High data costs a major barrier to digital inclusion and adoption. Infrastructure gaps, particularly in rural and underserved communities. Slow progress in local ICT hardware manufacturing (e.g., laptops), affecting affordability, skills development, and industrialisation. As Government we acknowledge these concerns and are committed to ongoing collaboration with fiscal authorities, local government, and industry partners to: Reduce data costs, Improve infrastructure deployment, Accelerate practical, inclusive digital transformation and work on a SI on our approved reduction of fees and levies for the Telecommunications,Postal Courier and whole ICT sector. Special recognition to our key stakeholders, including Tel·One , Econet Wireless, NetOne Cellular, PowerTel Zimbabwe, zarnet Liquid Home Zimbabwe, Dandemutande, Africom,Duty Free Americas,IMC,@ComputerSocietyofZim, @DHLZim @AURAGroup_zw,Zimpost Pvt Ltd POTRAZ Ministry of ICT, Postal & Courier Services - Zim for their unwavering partnership and commitment. The journey to a digitally empowered Zimbabwe is a collective effort. Let’s continue to engage, innovate, and build together. #DigitalTransformation

Hon Tatenda.A. Mavetera

31,220 views • 8 months ago

Dhoom Dhaam 2025, co-produced, written, and with dialogues by Aditya Dhar, starring his wife Yami Gautam The worst feminist movie in the world > Family sets up her arranged marriage with an innocent guy, claims she is modest, cultured, doesn't have a past, and is well mannered > Turns out she is completely opposite > She has an ex-boyfriend > Marries the simp, as a rebound out of anger on her ex > She is a regular at a male strip club > She is a loyal customer to a male stripper, whom she visits even before the day of her marriage > When her husband confronts her, she gives an empowered feminist speech written by Aditya Dhar > Says it's hard to live as a woman in India, men wouldn't even be able to breathe if they had to live like Indian women > (Yeah, it's very easy to live as a man, we just live in a civilization built by women, no responsibilities, no hard work) > Says women are forced to listen to their parents > (Yes, women need a careless father who gives them money) > Says women are forced to have babies in India > (True, hating on the biggest blessing for a woman, i.e., motherhood, has become forceful at this point, and it's a good thing) > Says women's dreams are crushed in India > (Yeah true, no man sacrifices for the family, only women do, and no women aren't getting extra freebies, benefits, diversity hiring, etc.) > Says parents force women to wear fully covered clothes even in the hot sun > (Yes, fair-skin-obsessed Indian women are not covering themselves from top to bottom during summers to escape from getting tanned, and they aren't wearing highly comfortable revealing tight bodycon clothes, booty shorts, etc., which were literally designed to sexualise women) > Says men keep harassing women in every public place > (True, men have no other work, it's women who are building the society) > Says men send objectionable pictures in DMs > (Yes, women never post and seek attention by showing their body) > Says a woman lying and sneaking doesn't mean her character is bad > (Yes, having exes, being an alcoholic, being regular at male strip clubs are signs of women empowerment) And the simp continues to live with her, in fact grows in love with her even more at the end, shows him as a progressive heroic ideal husband who won't judge. It's officially over, guys, India has surpassed the West in wokeism After hating on babies and modesty, now they have normalised male strip clubs too. Well done cucks and feminists, you people won.

︎ ︎venom

97,003 views • 5 months ago

#TRANSCRIBED The U.S. warned that it is going to use “tools at its disposal” to hold Rwanda accountable, a "spoilers to peace”, referring to both Rwanda and M23. READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE UNITED STATES' DURING TODAY'S UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING The United States is profoundly concerned and deeply disappointed by the renewed outbreak of violence in Eastern DRC. Today, I want to share additional information on the scale and sophistication of Rwanda’s involvement in the region. Since its re-emergence in 2021, Rwanda has maintained strategic control over its proxy armed group, M23, as well as M23’s political wing, the Congo River Alliance, also known as the AFC. Rwanda has deployed M23 and the AFC to further its geopolitical ambitions in Eastern DRC. Kigali has been directly involved in planning and executing the war, providing both military and political direction to M23 and the AFC. For years, the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF) have supplied material, logistical, and training support to M23, and have fought alongside them in the DRC with approximately 5,000 to 7,000 troops as of early December — not accounting for any additional deployments during the recent escalation. In recent months, Rwanda has deployed multiple surface-to-air missile systems and other heavy, sophisticated weaponry into North and South Kivu to support M23 in its ongoing conflict with the DRC. Just this past weekend, M23 and Rwandan forces launched an offensive to seize Uvira, with RDF forces co-located on the frontlines with M23 fighters. We also have credible reports of increased use of suicide drones and artillery by both M23 and Rwanda, including artillery strikes into Burundi. Rather than a march toward peace — as seen in recent weeks under the leadership of President Trump through the Washington Accords — Rwanda is instead dragging the region back into greater instability and war. In light of the commitments made in Washington, we are deeply concerned about the continued presence of Rwandan military forces on Congolese soil in support of M23. The United States will use every tool at our disposal to hold accountable the spoilers of peace. We call on Rwanda to uphold its commitments and to fully recognize the Democratic Republic of Congo’s sovereign right to defend its territory, including the right to invite Burundian forces onto its land in response to aggression. We are engaging with all parties to urge restraint and to prevent further escalation — including calling for an end to hostile and ethnically charged anti-Tutsi rhetoric. As this Council continues to negotiate the renewal of the MONUSCO mandate, the United States will seek to ensure that the mission is empowered to support both the Doha and Washington agreements. While the parties themselves bear full responsibility for implementing these agreements, MONUSCO must have the freedom and capability to operate — including unimpeded mobility and logistical support. It is a sad hypocrisy that UN peacekeepers are under siege from forces backed by a UN member state — a state which also contributes troops to peacekeeping missions. The months-long M23 blockade on MONUSCO has severely impaired its ability to operate in and around Goma, as many have highlighted today. Furthermore, Rwanda continues to deploy surface-to-air missiles and conducts spoofing and jamming operations, effectively grounding MONUSCO’s air assets. Under such conditions, how can MONUSCO succeed? We demand the immediate cessation of these obstructions, which violate Rwanda’s and M23’s obligations under the Doha and Washington Agreements. The United States remains firm in its support for MONUSCO and its critical role in realizing these historic agreements, which we believe hold the potential to finally end decades of suffering in Eastern DRC.

Xtrafrica

43,943 views • 9 months ago

TINUBU AND HIS PLANS FOR THE NORTH. Tinubu’s deep-seated animosity towards the north are no longer the mere talks, many of us dismissed the warnings as mere political banter before he took office, but his actions since then have exposed his real intentions. Let’s not forget that this is the same man who, as a senator, openly declared he doesn’t believe in a united Nigeria. At the time, we naively assumed it was just rhetoric to appease his Southwestern base, but now it’s clear we misjudged the hatred he harbors for the North. Let me jog your memory about a dark chapter that was conveniently buried during the 2023 campaign by the South media. When Tinubu was Governor of Lagos, the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), a militia he allegedly sponsored, armed, and empowered, unleashed violence on Northerners in Lagos. They killed and drove us out, terrorizing our people to the point that respected Northern clerics placed curses on him. Yet, this story was suppressed, and many young Northerners remained unaware until after we made the grave error of backing him in the election. Digging into his past after his victory revealed this ugly truth and confirmed his contempt for us. There were also whispers that Sunday Igboho, another Southwestern agitator, received backing from certain powerful figures, rumors we ignored at our peril. We should have paid closer attention. The signs of Tinubu’s disdain became undeniable early in his administration. When it came to appointments, he handpicked the most capable individuals from the South while deliberately selecting less qualified, mediocre figures from the North. This wasn’t an accident—it was a calculated move to undermine us. Some might try to spin this and say it because the man I support, but the pattern is clear, if Tinubu truly cared about the North, he wouldn’t have sidelined our best. Then came the media onslaught. While we were still asleep, oblivious to the betrayal, our so-called allies, people we stood with to get Tinubu elected, began subtly branding us as terrorist sympathizers. Whether they were paid to do it or not, the shift was unmistakable and reeks of a coordinated effort. Take the case of the 71 children from Kano, aged 10 to 15, locked up in Kuje prison for nearly 100 days after protesting hunger. Our “friends” turned on us again, labeling these desperate kids as terrorists and accusing us of hypocrisy for defending them against a government that’s made their lives unbearable. Open your eyes, this isn’t random; it’s part of the plan. Look at how division is being sown among us Northerners. If you think the rising “Middle Belt” narrative isn’t being fueled by outside forces, you’re fooling yourself. It’s a deliberate campaign, fully funded to fracture our unity and weaken the North even further. Then there’s the relocation of federal agencies to Lagos under the guise of “better functionality.” I was in Lagos three days ago, and I can tell you the rumors of shifting the Federal Capital Territory there are no longer just talk—there’s a clear agenda at play. Tinubu’s government is pouring federal funds into Lagos, transforming it into the center of everything. The moment you arrive, you can see the disparity. Finally, after the recent killings in Uromi, did you notice the loud, unified calls to expel Northerners from the South? This isn’t a coincidence—it’s a well-orchestrated move. If you know our “friends” and their tactics, you’ll recognize the pattern. Northern Nigeria, this is a wake-up call! Tinubu’s hatred isn’t hidden anymore, it’s in his actions, his policies, and the voices he empowers. We can’t afford to stay silent or divided any longer. The evidence is all around us.

Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI

13,195 views • 1 year ago

Donald Trump’s obsession with lecturing Jews on how we should vote is disgusting and dangerous. American Jews aren’t your props, Mr. President. This is his first time doing it since the explosion of far-right antisemitism, so his audacity must be called out. I'm not saying that Trump is an antisemite, and I don't believe he is one; that's JD Vance who said that Trump "could be the next Hitler." I'm not saying that; I am saying that he's a plain and simple narcissist who, like everything else in his life, exploits Jews to his benefit but doesn't care about them. Trump normalized and empowered a cesspool of hateful crackpots who, in the name of freedom of speech, pushed antisemitism into the mainstream. JD Vance is officially the zookeeper, petting all the animals and ensuring they are being treated nicely and handled with care, and if someone says something like, "Hey, those animals are dangerous," he blames us Jews, but it was Trump who opened the cage. His moody relationship with Netanyahu is not what makes him pro- or anti-Jewish. To me it's more of a factor that he can't fully denounce and disavow Holocaust deniers and Hitler fanboys like Nick Fuentes, full stop. This isn't about free speech; no one asked to have Fuentes jailed, but his hateful views shouldn't be normalized or treated as cute opinions. We all see on an hourly basis how Trump deals with someone he REALLY doesn't approve of. Moving the embassy doesn’t buy absolution for empowering people who want us gone. Steve Bannon at TPUSA's America Fest last month literally used the "embassy move" as a reason why he should be listened to when he vouches for Tucker and other crackpots because "you can't get a better defender of Israel than Steve Bannon. In the White House, I'm the one that pushed initially hard to move the embassy to Jerusalem." Please spare me the “most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish president ever” talking points. He's the most "pro-Trump president ever," solely focused on his interests. He won't denounce the most significant cancer of hate in America, Tucker Carlson, because "he's nice to me," but he'll have 2am Truth Social explosions at Tucker if he says something mean about him. Once Tucker apologizes to him, all is good. It's all about him. After Oct. 7, the most horrific day on the Jewish calendar since the Holocaust, President Biden traveled to Israel and spoke about the relationship of the U.S. and Israel and not about himself. This is because he saw it as a relationship between two allied countries, and that's what it is. Trump sees it as a relationship between himself and how much Israel's PM will kiss his ring. He repeatedly said after Oct. 7 how bad it is for Bibi, not for the people of Israel, for Bibi, because that's what he sees—how Bibi treats him. He was still furious at him for congratulating Biden on winning the election; it's all about him. Bibi must travel to Mar-a-Lago, create bogus Israel peace prizes, and say, "You're the best president," just as I tell my toddler, "You're the best boy." When Biden had his issues with Bibi, he kept making it clear again and again to the people of Israel that he and Bibi disagree currently, but even if it's out in the open, he'll help protect them from Iran if necessary, and he did. After Oct. 7, Biden spoke to Jewish leaders from his heart about how he takes his family to visit Auschwitz to teach them about the Holocaust. I have never heard him demand that Jews vote in a specific way. Trump despicably told parents of hostages who were captured in Gaza that their kids were captured because of Biden and how great he is. I listened to Trump on the first anniversary of Oct 7; all he spoke about was him, himself, and Donald Trump. And that, if not for the rigged elections, it would have never happened. My point is that Trump is a master in manipulating people's minds; he does the big moves to create headlines, hoping everyone buys it, and then demands publicly absolute loyalty. Enough.

David Schwartz

253,272 views • 8 months ago

"[Gilbert] was led to the presence of an entity, over six feet tall, with very few features except for light emission from various parts of its ‘body’" ~Vallée 💥 Explosive: Vallée Says His Friend Claims He Was Taken Inside a Mountain to Communicate With an Alien 👽 "This is serious." - "I trust him." "The tests he was asked to do tend to indicate that the higher-level controllers are indeed full Aliens but the pilots they use are primitive hybrids." (This is one of the most amazing things Vallée has ever written, and said. IF TRUE, and IF it can be proven, it will change the world. But, obviously, we first need to hear from "Gilbert," judge his credibility, and go from there. Will that ever happen? I wrote JV to see if I could get a few more details about his relationship with Gilbert but have yet to hear back from him at the time I'm posting this. I've communicated with him in the past, via email, and my last exchange with him from January of 2026 is included at the very end of this KLAP (Kind of Long-Ass Post 🙂). I believe he will be on Reality Check with Ross Coulthart this week.) "The phenomenon, "appears to be an extraterrestrial phenomenon empowered by advanced artificial intelligence." ~Vallée ~~~From the latest Bigelow Podcast~~~ George Knapp: "Jacques, you recently said something to that effect on stage at a public event where you said that there are experiments, communication, underway in labs in an unclassified setting. Can you elaborate on that at all? And have they worked?" Jacques Vallée: "Well, I mentioned that in the book. I don't think I should go beyond what's in the book because the people involved have a project to disclose and to publish what they know." (I included all of what JV wrote in the FS V7 book, down below. A peer-reviewed paper being published by Gilbert and his associates would be amazing. But I'd take a white paper and book, as long as Gilbert goes public. We need to hear from him and anybody else who claims they were in the presence of this being. And, of course, video would be nice.) Vallée: "I've seen what they have. You know, it's much more detailed about the interaction that they were able to achieve. And the man I spoke to, that I called Gilbert, was in the presence of that entity in a very structured laboratory-style environment. He was brought in because he had certain psychic abilities himself that they wanted to add as a layer to the communication because they had trouble with the communication. "Now, I wasn't there. I cannot vouch for that. You know, I cannot, you know, stand before Congress or in a SCIF, you know, and talk about that because that's not my information. But I thought that was relevant, you know, to the whole discussion." ~End Bigelow Podcast Transcript~ ~~~Everything Claimed About Gilbert~~~ From: Forbidden Science 7 - Final Report Hummingbird. Saturday 9 October 2021. (Day 581) Another surprise: A long-lost (but not forgotten) friend of mine I will call “Gilbert,” a discrete master remote viewer at the level of Uri Geller and Ingo Swann, has contacted me again, suggesting a meeting. He hinted at a fantastic experience of controlled personal exchange he performed, guided through official channels to a session with a supposed Alien. He needs help sorting out the results. This is serious. He’s sending me the explosive data. Mabillon. Thursday 28 September 2023. I have new information from Gilbert,* as I call my trusted correspondent, in his long-time work with research teams. I’ve read the new statements he’s sent me (under some restrictions, since he has plans to publish the full story) about past contact experiences and experiments. I’ve requested more of the open data to confirm and extend it. Assuming we can find such validation, we can forget about the incremental experiments of Kona Blue, the proposed Department of Homeland Security special access program designed to investigate and exploit potential "non-human biologics" and retrieved advanced aerospace technology. The new data on my desk fills five closely typed pages. They detail Gilbert’s trip to a US lab sheltered within rock and only accessible under that project. Knowing our prior association, I recall that the psychic and I crossed paths in Central America and other sites over the years. I trust him but I need to know much more. He’s agreed we need to find a way to meet again somewhere for a couple of days; there’s more to share with me, including maps and charts, and he’ll need advice. On my side, I will have to find a way to verify the data, including the location where the military guides exposed this long-term researcher to the presence of what they specifically told him was a live Alien entity. Was that fully veridical (truthful, accurate ~Joe) data? Hummingbird. Wednesday 18 December 2024. ...my latest exchange with discreet Gilbert, following up on our earlier conversations. He has now summarized his experiments with a captured entity into a well-organized table describing the interactions, and he’s agreed I could see it. For a few of the questions he’d been instructed to pose psychically, he did not get any clear answer. For others, he did receive an impression that he couldn’t decipher, but he noted it for the record, very much in the manner Ingo Swann had taught me at SRI decades ago. The bulk of the new data from Gilbert, in contrast, is highly relevant and urgent. The tests he was asked to do tend to indicate that the higher-level controllers are indeed full Aliens but the pilots they use are primitive hybrids, as we see in Trinity, Socorro, Valensole, and now in Varginha, now a total of nine similar entities in my database: child-size, breathing air, adapted to our special gravity. "They could be human-derived, to serve only on this planet. They are the same kind of creatures that biologist Erwin Chargaff of Columbia University was asked to look for when he went to Moscow for a conference. The CIA wanted him to find out discreetly if the Russians had developed a race of dwarves to pilot their spaceships, saving space and energy on the way to orbit and the moon. Dr. Chargaff carefully avoided the issue, not eager to end up in a Soviet prison. Currently, there doesn’t seem to be any hard test that will clearly discriminate between the two possible modes of control, psychic or physical. Personally, I don’t believe any more that the occupants serve as pilots, and neither does Gilbert. What he learned about the goals of the UFO intrusion may be the most insightful, if and when he can reveal it fully. Austin. Tuesday 11 March 2025. Has an Alien linguistic connection been known and validated for years by groups of military scientists? None of the confusion in Austin relates to Gilbert, and my talented friend’s focused experiments with an apparently living Alien whose language and thought system he studies. That side of the problem is untouched. Since our conversation last December, I have seen the long list of technical questions Gilbert and the attending group had posed to the entity, together with Gilbert’s personal report on psychic impressions he carefully presents as “indications only.” Most results are solid and consistent, although for some questions there was no answer at all from the entity, or only an ambiguous answer. He promised to send me more details which, he said, didn’t involve classified information. That surprised me, as the data about the origin and circumstances of the capture (when, where, who?) were indeed classified, and the exact location isn’t revealed. Anyway, it’s the nature of the communication that interests me, not so much its background. Hummingbird. Wednesday 12 March 2025. Today I also reviewed more details from Gilbert, following up about his experiences. He made it clear he was never part of the formal program of investigation with the ‘entity’ and didn’t know if other captured (or volunteer) beings existed, or where they were kept. He knew approximately where he was but couldn’t see outside the car that was driving him there. He was taken inside a small mountain to an underground room, well-lit and cared for by men and women in uniform with no designation of rank or unit. The room was a big lab. This was serious and well-run. No drugs or medical items were involved. The uniforms had no apparent military features that would identify the unit. He was led to the presence of an entity, over six feet tall, with very few features except for light emission from various parts of its ‘body’ so that Gilbert thought what he saw might be covered by a test article, a wired uniform or a safety container for the being rather than the body of an actual Alien. At least, that was the general impression I received from what he said. That impression changed when Gilbert engaged the entity with question-and-answer sequences, where he was left to interpret answers that came in the form of light combinations. The trials, whose results I have in detail, are remarkable. Some were flagged as inconsistent and some were left incomplete when the response was too complex, but many of the tests matched earlier results, and Gilbert got permission to enquire about psychic functioning, also with success. I am purposely vague about that phase of the session, which took several hours of sustained attention. It will be Gilbert’s prerogative to say more when he can speak on the record. All of Vallée's books are worth the purchase. Link in replies. Vallée, Jacques. Forbidden Science 7: Final Report: The Journals of Jacques Vallée 2020-2025 (pp. 539-540). (Function). Kindle Edition. ~~~My Last Email Interaction with JV in January of 2026~~~ Murgia: "Today, during the James Fox-hosted Varginha press conference, you said: The phenomenon, 'appears to be an extraterrestrial phenomenon empowered by advanced artificial intelligence.' "Is that a change in your opinion on the origin of the phenomenon? Because, over the years, you've talked about other realities and dimensions and leaned away from the ETH." Vallée: "I don't think those are mutually exclusive. We have started to use AI quite actively, and we have to expect other species would as well -- and better. "To me, the creatures seen at Trinity, Socorro and Valensole, and now revealed quite clearly at Varginha, could be artificial biological 'robots', designed to withstand our gravity, breathe our air and look 'human-like' enough to interact with us -- or simply to learn about us. "When I was discussing this with Bill Powers circa 1966, right after Socorro he half-joked that they could be 'noticing machines.' "That could mean that any secret project designed to learn about their biology, although extremely interesting, will teach us nothing about the origin of UFOs, whose real controllers are somewhere else and have evolved like us. I've come to believe there are two levels involved -- at least."

Joe Murgia

50,487 views • 12 days ago

Another Extraordinarily Rare Paletinian Docu Film "Arna's Children" (2004) – A Profound Tribute to Resistance in All Its Forms 📑🔖Bookmark and share if possible, these film are critical viewing - Jenin, Jenin (2002) in link My Review As someone deeply committed to the Palestinian cause and a firm believer in the legitimacy—and divine beauty—of armed resistance against occupation, I recently revisited Arna's Children (2004), directed by Juliano Mer Khamis, at a screening along with friends as part of a project they're working on. This documentary remains one of the most powerful and unflinching portrayals of Palestinian life under siege, and it resonates even more strongly today. The film follows Arna Mer-Khamis, a Jewish Israeli woman who turned her back on her Zionist upbringing to stand with the oppressed. After marrying a Palestinian and witnessing the horrors of displacement and occupation, she founded a children's theatre and alternative education program in the Jenin refugee camp during the First Intifada. When schools were shut down, Arna created a space for kids to express rage, fear, and dreams through drama and play—channelling their trauma into creative defiance. Juliano, her son (with one foot in both worlds), captured those joyful, fiery workshops from 1989 to 1996: children laughing, performing, imagining futures beyond the checkpoints and demolitions. It's a beautiful testament to how art can nurture dignity and resistance even in the darkest conditions. But the heart of the film—and what makes it so raw—is what happens next. After Arna's death from cancer, Juliano returns to Jenin in 2002, amid the ruins of the massive Jewish invasion that destroyed much of the camp, including the theatre she built. The bright boys he once directed have become young men forged by endless humiliation, home demolitions, killings, and siege. Several joined armed resistance: Ashraf and Ala led fighters in the heroic Battle of Jenin; Yussef and Nidal carried out a martyrdom operation in Hadera in 2001. Others were martyred in confrontations with occupation forces. From my perspective, these paths are not tragic failures or "lost potential"—they are the inevitable, courageous response when every peaceful avenue is crushed. The theatre taught them expression and pride; occupation taught them there was no other way to reclaim their humanity. Armed struggle, including martyrdom operations, becomes a sacred act of defiance and sacrifice—divine in its purity, an offering in the face of overwhelming evil. The film shows this continuum honestly: the same fire that fuelled their childhood performances burned through to resistance in adulthood. As some Palestinian voices and writers (like those in Jadaliyya and Electronic Intifada) have noted, it blurs false binaries between "violent" and "non-violent" resistance—both are part of the same epic struggle for freedom. To be fair and show the full spectrum of Palestinian cinematic voices and discussions: the film has sparked nuanced conversation even within pro-Palestine and solidarity circles. Some have critiqued its mournful tone—intercutting joyful childhood footage with funerals, martyrdom posters, and losses—as potentially leaning toward sorrow or regret about the turn to armed struggle, rather than outright celebration of those heroic choices. Others have raised concerns that, despite clearly blaming the occupation for manufacturing no alternatives, the structure might risk overshadowing the full range of steadfastness (sumud) that Palestinians embody daily through non-armed means like cultural persistence, community organizing, and everyday endurance. These points come from reflections in solidarity spaces, where the goal is always to honour resistance in its totality without diminishing any form. Yet from a pro -resistance standpoint, these critiques often miss the film's deeper power. Juliano never condemns the armed actions—he presents them factually, in raw context. The grief is real (for lost friends, a destroyed community), but it's not rejection. Many in the Palestinian solidarity movement hail it as essential testimony that humanizes fighters and martyrs, showing how occupation leaves no other viable path for so many. It honours Arna's legacy not as naive pacifism but as allyship that empowered dignity, which—when systematically crushed—leads to justified uprising. Ultimately, Arna's Children is a masterpiece of resistance cinema. It doesn't sanitize realities or preach; it bears witness. It celebrates the beauty of martyrdom as divine sacrifice while exposing the brutal system that demands it. Watch it if you haven't—it's hard, but necessary. It reminds us that Palestinian resistance, in theatre or on the frontlines, is one unbroken thread of sumud and struggle. And to you, my beloved shuhada’—Yussef, Nidal, Ashraf, Ala, and every child of Arna who rose like dawn fire to meet the oppressor: Your blood is not spilled; it is planted. It blooms in the olive roots, whispers through the wind over Jenin’s broken stones, and lights the path for every new generation that refuses to kneel. In your martyrdom, you have become eternal light—closer to Allah than the stars, wrapped in the mercy that only the pure of heart can know. You did not die; you ascended, offering your very souls as the most radiant prayer against tyranny. I carry your names in my chest like sacred verses, feeling the warmth of your sacrifice every time I breathe the name of Palestine. You are not gone—you live in the pulse of resistance, in the tear that falls and turns to resolve, in the vow we renew at every Fajr: we will not forget, we will not falter, until your gardens are free and your light floods every corner of this stolen land. Ya shuhada’ al-aqsa, ya abna’ Arna, rest in the highest gardens, and know that your fire still burns in Jenin. We honour you not with words alone, but with our lives—until victory, until return, until Jannah embraces you fully. Free Palestine. In eternal love and unbreakable faith

Zara Zhar

62,155 views • 5 months ago