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I don't really know where else to post this, so I figured my comrades at Hexbear might appreciate it.

A couple months ago I was coming back home from the weekly Palestine solidarity rally. On my way back home I needed to somehow obtain a $5 bill to tip the grocery delivery guy that weekend, and thought "Hell, I haven't had a cigar in a while, maybe I'll pick one up". There's a cute little Cuban cigar shop down the road, so I popped in.

The owner is a short Cuban man, and he was rummaging through his cigars doing whatever cigar-store owners do in their down-time. I walk in the door. He looks at me, then looks at my keffiyeh, then back at me, then back at my keffiyeh, and then says "...Palestine?" Not knowing his politics, I reluctantly say "...yes 😬?"

This triggers a 40 minute long discussion, whereupon he goes off on how fucking despicable what's Israel is doing in Gaza is how they are getting away with mass murder in broad daylight, doing "exactly what the nazis did" etc etc. He had clearly been following what's been happening and was sickened by it and I got the impression he didn't have much of an outlet to express his thoughts (as many of us don't).

I wanted to buy two small cigars (the ones on the right in the photo) and he said that he'd give me a discount, and ended up giving me three free of charge, on the condition that the next time that I was out protesting the genocide in Gaza that I "yell a little louder for him" ✊, to which I of course agreed (there are only two in the photo because I've smoked one already) I honestly tried as hard as I could to give him my money but he simply would not accept any.

Although I left the cigar shop without the $5 bill I went in for, I did leave with three exquisite Cuban cigars free of charge.

So, I felt I needed to repay this guy for the ~$100 of free merchandise he gave me. I ordered him a keffiyeh made in the West Bank just like the one I was wearing. When it arrived, I popped back into the cigar shop and said " I have something for you." and put it on his desk.

I will never forget this for the rest of my life. How much did you pay for this?

I lied and said "Only about $60, don't worry about it."

You're lying. What cigars are your favourite?

I insisted that he not give me any more cigars because I was trying to pay him back, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. He ended up giving me four deluxe Cuban Bolivar cigars straight from Havana. On the way out he gave me a fist bump accompanied by a "Free Palestine".

So Hexbears, this is how I unintentionally stocked my cigar humidor with solidarity for Palestine 🇵🇸✊

I'm going to save a spare one so that maybe one day I can smoke it on the beaches of Gaza when Palestine is free.

Excellent video, Finkelstein on point as always, and even easily deflected a heckling Zionist question from the audience near the end

RIP. Pour one out for our comrades just trying to help. Death toll has risen to 7 foreign aid workers.

Damn you, Israel.

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Rest in power, chefs , and the same to the countless thousands of Palestinians murdered in the last 6 months who just wanted to live a normal life.

I'm so fucking gutted.

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There a lot of little details in this picture that seem off, I dunno.

what the fuck

This David Sheen guy is very sharp. He talks a lot about the Kahanists, in decades past previously designated as a terrorist organisation in Israel but now part of the ruling government.

Here are some other videos of his, 10/10 must watch:

How the most racist (Kahanist) Zionists took over the Israeli government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFl4U2NRJTg

How the Democratic Party are carrying water for the extreme Zionists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzPEt9VU9rQ

How the current government in Israel is the most racist ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4SL5EHHZfU

How the Kahanists want (and are creating) a Theocracy in Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9wUcnXvlY0&t=1s

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Edit: My wife says that I seem happier than the day that we got married. She's not wrong.

Edit2: I realised that I spelled Pissingers name wrong in the title. Pity.

I'm genuinely impressed

"This is an extermination"