BLOCKING THE ICC......

 

By Issy Ronald, Jennifer Hansler

As Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize, US takes unprecedented action to cripple the court she served on.

When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law.

As her colleagues in the human rights community applauded and congratulated the former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge on her win, her first reaction was simply: “Is it true? I thought it must be a joke.”

“If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with (US President Donald) Trump,” she quipped, a reference to how last year’s winner gave her medal to the US president, before adding “it’s very appropriate that I’m with friends, colleagues, all of whom support human rights.”

Hours after Pillay’s win, the Trump administration announced fresh sanctions on the ICC, the body established in 2002 to prosecute individuals accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

The work of the human rights community and the international legal order have increasingly come under attack in recent years – a fact the Nobel committee was eager to highlight in its decision to recognize Pillay, 85.

By spotlighting Pillay, who has served on several international courts and oversaw a 2025 UN report that concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, the committee said it wanted to “remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace.”

Justice is a ‘necessity’ for peace

That message was not explicitly directed at any one state. But implicitly, it rebuked those countries – most notably the US – whose actions have weakened international legal institutions.

As part of its efforts to “dismantle” the ICC “brick by brick,” in the words of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions on the ICC itself.

“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate,” Rubio said in a statement hours after the Nobel Peace Prize was announced.

The measure would cut off the court from US companies and financial services. The US Treasury has issued a six-month waiver for companies to wind down their operations with the court. The State Department said that the six-month window “is intended to provide time” for the court “to demonstrate meaningful progress on diplomatic and legal resolutions that address fundamental US concerns regarding the ICC,” and that it “can be adjusted in response to the success or failure of such efforts to address our concerns.”

The sweeping action faced immediate rebuke from the court and other nations.

The ICC condemned the move as an “assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order,” called on other states to support the court and emphasized that its work would continue.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom reaffirmed their “continued and unwavering support” for the court.

“As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the court by the United States,” the statement read.

Several of the court’s prosecutors have already been targeted by US sanctions after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant in 2024.

Rubio vowed in July to “dismantle” the ICC, accusing it of “waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles,” but with “the force of so-called international law.” Neither the US nor Israel are parties to the court, and Washington has challenged its jurisdiction to investigate either country.

The administration’s ire against the ICC goes back to Trump’s first term, when it targeted the court for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan. The second Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the US and Israel.

The Trump administration has targeted the ICC with sanctions.

The Trump administration has targeted the ICC with sanctions. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Without referencing these efforts, the Nobel committee warned that international law is “an absolute necessity” for peace, even if it has struggled to hold the world’s most powerful actors responsible for their actions.

“History has shown that a world operating without the rule of law is unjust, unwise and inhumane,” the committee continued. “The judges – those who guard the thin red line between order and chaos – are therefore highly deserving of our praise. But today, as these same judges are sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked.”

Copied from an article in CNN, by the two brilliant reporters, describing the situation between the US and the ICC, and the United Nations in general, regarding the international law order, I'm forwarding parts of the article through our blog to explain and enlighten our readers about this ongoing situation. 
As always, my deep gratitude to all    

A SICKENING SITUATION....

 

By Yuli Novak

Ms. Novak is the executive director of the human rights organization B’Tselem

About a year ago, at B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization I lead, we realized we were struggling to explain what was happening in the West Bank. The problem was not a lack of information. Quite the opposite: By then, for almost three years, day after day, we had documented homes being burned and demolished, communities being expelled, children being shot and killed, roads being blocked and humiliating assertions of Jewish supremacy by settlers and by the Israeli government alike. Forms of violence once relatively rare in the West Bank, including aerial bombardment, large-scale destruction of residential areas and mass displacement, had become routine.

The question we kept returning to was how to find words for a reality no single incident could capture. We eventually realized that describing the larger system required listening to two political languages at once. These are not parallel vocabularies. One is the language the Israeli system uses to explain and legitimize what it does; the other is the language of the Palestinian people living under Israeli rule, describing what that rule does to their lives. Political language does more than describe reality. It shapes what people can justify and what they can ignore. For Palestinians living under Israeli rule and for many observers around the world, blocked roads, demolished homes, expulsions and violence are elements of blatantly unjust domination. Israeli political language can make that same reality seem necessary, even natural.

As a Jewish Israeli, I grew up inside that language. It turned violent domination into “security,” dispossession into “settlement” and large-scale violence into “self-defense.” That language draws much of its power from real fear. I know that fear. I grew up with it. That fear has many sources, including decades of armed attacks against Israelis. The Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023, has intensified it. Israeli political language manipulates it by dehumanizing Palestinians, collapsing them into a single category — namely, a threat. It uses violence by some to justify the control and oppression of an entire population. This is one way apartheid sustains itself.

The language I grew up with did not require me to deny Palestinian suffering. I could acknowledge it, even be horrified by it, while still regarding the system that produced it as fundamentally legitimate. Today, after years of deepening dehumanization, Palestinian suffering is simply ignored in much of Israeli public discourse. That is why the language of those who live under this system matters so much. The people who witness, endure and survive under that power can describe what their lives look like: unprotected, shaped by fear, vulnerability and uncertainty.

On Monday, B’Tselem is publishing a report on the process unfolding in the West Bank. It tells a story with deep roots. From the mass expulsion and displacement of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced or expelled and the subsequent refusal of refugees’ right to return, through occupation, settlements and apartheid, Israeli policy has repeatedly worked to entrench Jewish sovereignty while making Palestinian presence and political life more precarious.

Many Israelis recoil at the term “settler colonialism.” That reaction is not accidental. Israeli political language has taught us to hear the term as a denial of Jewish history and belonging. Jewish historical, religious and cultural ties to this land are real, as is the long history of persecution and violence against Jews in many parts of the world. None of that changes the fact that exclusive Jewish sovereignty was built through Palestinian dispossession. The politics have shifted over time, but the underlying logic has remained the same: Israel has preserved a political order that places Jews above Palestinians in rights, power and control over the land.

Over the past three years, this longstanding project in the West Bank has accelerated, grown more violent and moved further into the open. Israeli leaders increasingly state these aims outright: permanent Jewish sovereignty, the denial of Palestinian self-determination and the push for Palestinians to leave. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and a minister in the Defense Ministry who has sweeping powers over Israeli rule in the West Bank, laid out a plan in 2017 that gives Palestinians three options: abandon their national claims and accept life under Jewish supremacy, leave or face military force if they resist.

Mr. Smotrich did not invent this project, but his plan makes its logic unusually explicit and he now says he is using his powers to advance it. It is known in English as the Decisive Plan. In Hebrew, however, the word he uses — “hachra’ah” — carries a stronger political meaning than “decisive.” It means bringing a struggle to an irreversible end through the final defeat of the other side.

“Hachra’ah” is not an isolated example. A whole political and military vocabulary turns coercion into something that sounds technical and routine. “Initiating friction” means deliberately creating confrontations with Palestinian residents over their land, often through violence and intimidation, until communities are worn down and people leave. In current Israeli military usage, “shaping operations” describes physically remaking the landscape, including uprooting thousands of olive trees that sustain Palestinian livelihoods. “Encouraging emigration” casts fleeing intimidation and violence as a voluntary choice. Then there is “total victory,” a phrase that became central to Israeli political discourse during the assault on Gaza and was widely embraced as a national goal.

For Palestinians, the reality behind these phrases is concrete: Restrictions and attacks close in from every direction. The road to work can be blocked. An armed settler can enter your land. A family member can be arrested.

Political language is not made only of words. It is also written into the landscape. Over the past two years, organized settler campaigns have put up thousands of Israeli flags along roads, on hilltops and at the entrances to Palestinian villages. For many Jewish Israelis, these flags are a source of pride, presenting Israeli sovereignty over the land as already established. For Palestinians, the same flags assert a sovereignty imposed on them and backed by force they have no real power to challenge. Removing a flag could bring armed settlers or soldiers and end in arrest, assault or worse.

In the report B’Tselem has written, we tried to read these political languages together. The word we settled on to describe what these seemingly separate acts add up to is “elimination.” The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control. In Gaza, the logic of elimination has taken its most extreme form: genocide. In the West Bank, it dismantles the conditions that allow Palestinians to remain on their land and live as a society and a people.

And yet, even as Israel states its goals openly, international governments and institutions keep recasting those aims in conventional political language: a conflict to be managed, an occupation expected to end, an extremist government that needs to be restrained. That reframing lets governments condemn violence without confronting the system behind it. It lets them remain within a reassuring political story, rather than facing their obligations under international law and exerting the sustained pressure it would take to reverse it. It obscures the larger reality: a new phase of the political project to make Israeli Jewish control permanent while dismantling the conditions for Palestinian collective life.

We began this work because we could not find words adequate to describe a reality unfolding before us. Perhaps that difficulty is part of how a colonial order works: Over time, even a reality saturated with violence, fear and destruction can begin to look unchangeable and inevitable. Our task was to make it visible again as something made, not given. What appeared as separate events should be recognized for what they are: political choices in a project of supremacy, dispossession and elimination. To refuse the language that rationalizes the violence inflicted on Palestinians must also mean refusing the system that produces it and insisting that it be brought to an end.

Yuli Novak is the executive director of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. This article was published originally in the NY Times, and was forwarded to me from a friend as an email, I'm forwarding it myself to all our readers for a better understanding of this tragic situation in the occupied West Bank, more so, the article by this Israeli organization which I find factual and realistic is heroic, in light of how the Israeli government is behaving toward its own people, like the two Jewish Israeli film directors who recently exposed their documentary film about the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza, and who face now an expulsion of Israel and revoke their citizenship, incomprehensible behavior on all fronts for this fascist right-wing government and the fanaticism behind it, internally in Israel and internationally on all continents. 

As always, my many thanks to all.

GOOD GRIEF >>>>WHERE ARE WE HEADED.....

Rep. Randy Fine is a staunch Trump ally in a conservative-leaning Florida district who won his seat by 15 points — drastically underperforming in a district Trump won by 30. 

Fine is also one of the most bigoted members of Congress, a man who posted on X “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one." He has also said he is going to “stand strong against the Islamification of America” and frequently targets Muslims.

Randy Fine should be censured and expelled from the House of Representatives. But that will never happen, because MAGA celebrates and supports this kind of disgusting rhetoric. 

Now though, Randy Fine is facing a challenge of his own from the far Right, someone even more extreme and reckless than he is: Dan Bilzerian, a MAGA extremist with 30 million Instagram followers who brags about hanging out with alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate. Bilzerian has called Randy Fine a “fat Jew” who puts Israel’s interests before America’s.

We'll be stuck with endless rage-bait Holy war style headlines like this if we don't take action to defeat both these lunatics:

CONGRESSMAN RANDY FINE

BILZERIAN CALLED ME "FAT JEW" AS A SLUR.

BUT MY SLAMS ON MUSLIMS AREN'T RACIST

Political coverage shouldn’t properly belong to tabloids like TMZ. But MAGA is forcing us to live like this is normal. 

It isn’t normal. We’re all so used to the worst stuff coming from our politicians now, too many have forgotten (or are young enough to never know) that until Trump came along stuff like this would have been condemned and shamed. 

This midterm election is shaping up to be a HUGE opportunity to defeat MAGA up and down the ballot. 

The blue wave that is forming could have the power to defeat ultra-extremists like Randy Fine. This is the year we can turn things around for Democrats in Florida and flip control of the Senate and House in the process.

As received by email, from this site, called 

I have no idea what they represent or their ideas, but the scene they're talking about in Florida is frightening, as to what it represent on the ground, more so that some of these characters might be elected to represent everyone in Congress and be part of the official legislative body of the Untied States. Are we really going into an endless religious war stretching world wide, we are seeing it happening in certain parts now, lately always instigated by the same parties and serving the same political entities and ideologies, while the human race is still so naive, religious and vulnerable, a sad state of affairs indeed for humanity.

As always, my deep gratitude to all. 

  

THE ONGOING SLOW AND SURE ANEXATION PLAN

By Al Jazeera Staff and Reuters

Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026

A group of lawmakers in the United States Senate are seeking sanctions against facilitators of Israel’s controversial “E1” settlement programme.

The legislation introduced on Wednesday calls for punitive actions against individuals and groups that support the settlement project, which would link the Ma’ale Adumim and other illegal Israeli settlements to occupied East Jerusalem.

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The plan would completely sever East Jerusalem, long seen as the capital of a future Palestinian state, from the West Bank, while effectively cleaving the overall territory in two. The project, if completed, has been seen by supporters and detractors alike as a death blow to future Palestinian statehood.

19 Democrats co-sponsored the bill, which was spearheaded by Chris Coons of ‌Delaware, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Ruben Gallego of Arizona.

“As Palestinian civilians face a campaign of devastation and fear from violent extremist settlers, the United States must send a strong message that this behaviour is unacceptable and that it remains committed to freedom, security, prosperity and self-determination for all Israelis and Palestinians,” Coons said in a statement.

The bill will impose sanctions “on any foreign person that the Secretary of the Treasury determines to have been responsible for or complicit in the construction of any Israeli settlements or related structures in the E1 area of the West Bank, including by submitting a bid for E1 tenders”, according to a statement from the lawmakers.

“It would also impose sanctions on those who attempt to organise, direct, finance, or facilitate the transfer of Israeli civilians into E1 settlements,” the statement said.

The move is yet another indication of growing discontent among some US lawmakers over Israel’s policies towards the occupied Palestinian territory, including its genocidal war in Gaza and the state-backed expansion of illegal settlements across the West Bank, where settler pogroms, often under the protection of Israeli forces, has surged in recent years.

The criticism has been particularly acute among Democrats, who are seeking to take control of both the US House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections in November. A handful of Republicans have also increasingly questioned the close ties between the US and Israel and the unconditional military aid provided by Washington.

Beyond Wednesday’s bill, a growing number of Democrats have voted to block arms transfers to Israel in recent months. More than 20 Democrats in the 100-member Senate also recently introduced a resolution calling for an investigation into surging West Bank violence, in which at least nine US citizens have been killed.

‘Unacceptable and destructive act’

Criticism of the E1 settlement project, short for “East 1”, the Israeli administrative name for the area, escalated last month when the Israeli government invited bids for building 1,200 new units.

The move has come shortly before Israel is set to hold elections in October and is considered by some analysts to be an effort to mobilize the right-wing base of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by provoking an international response. The project has been spearheaded by far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich, himself from an illegal settlement.

Among those condemning the plan was UK Foreign Minister Ed Miliband, who has called the project an “unacceptable and destructive act”. Countries across the Middle East, North America and Europe have also voiced strong objections.

The United Nations Human Rights Office has described the E1 project as a “grave and unlawful step to consolidate annexation”.

The administration of US President Donald Trump, for its part, has not directly addressed the plan, instead reiterating opposition to Israeli annexation of the West Bank. 

A brave move from few legislators in America and the world, late and shy, but courageous non the less, whether it might lead to any real stoppage of this diabolical plan, I doubt it, practically the entire world is watching silently, and turning a blind eye, even the UN is totally helpless, a real tragedy of the 21st century, history will confirm and register it.

Copied from Al Jazeera news, sent by email to my account.  As always, my many thanks to all. 

BIG PHARMA.....

 

It's true, and I believe it.

 An inspiring article - indispensable for everyone (not just doctors)

Prior to 1979, medicines did not have expiry dates printed on their packaging.

This practice began in the United States in 1979.

Dr. Mohan Sridhar (Florida, USA) shared the following thoughts.

Do medicines really expire?  Or are we being misled by pharmaceutical companies?

By Richard Altschuler
Imagine this:
The Tylenol (Paracetamol) bottle has "Do not use after June 1998" written on it.

Now, August 2002.

Should you continue taking it or get rid of it?

Will it harm you?

Or will it reduce its effectiveness slightly?

This question raises a bigger question -

When manufacturers print expiration dates, are they really protecting us?
Or is it just another clever marketing ploy to push us to buy more medicine unnecessarily?

Driven by curiosity to find out the truth, I began searching through medical databases and research.
Here's what I discovered 

 The truth about expiration dates

1. The expiration date - legally required in the United States since 1979 - simply means that the manufacturer guarantees complete safety and effectiveness until that date.

This does not mean that the drug becomes unsafe or useless afterwards.

2. Experts agree that most medicines remain safe and effective for a long time after their expiry date - even after several years.

3. Studies indicate that although drugs may lose some of their effectiveness over time, they rarely lose their effectiveness completely.

4. In many cases, medicines remain up to 90% effective even 10 years after their expiry date.

 Largest study - conducted by the US Army

According to the Wall Street Journal (March 29, 2000):
The US military had a stockpile of medicines worth more than $1 billion.

Under the regulations, these drugs should have been disposed of every two to three years - which is a huge waste.

Therefore, the military, in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, began a large-scale testing program to determine the true shelf life of these drugs.

They tested over 100 types of drugs -
They found that about 90% of them remained safe and effective for up to 15 years after the printed expiry date!

Francis Flaherty, the project manager, stated:

"The expiration date does not mean that the medicine becomes unstable or dangerous after that time."

"Manufacturers use expiration dates more for marketing purposes than for scientific purposes."

Joel Davis, a former official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, added: "With a few exceptions - such as nitroglycerin, insulin, and some liquid antibiotics - most drugs last surprisingly long."

 Aspirin condition

Bayer tested its own aspirin 4 years after it expired - and it was still 100% effective!

According to Dr. Jens Carstensen, a leading expert in drug stability:

"Even after 5 years, Bayer Aspirin was found to be in excellent condition."

 The Hidden Truth

After reading all of this, it becomes clear how the pharmaceutical industry earns billions of dollars annually -
Simply because people are throwing away "expired" medicines that are still perfectly usable.

 Share the truth

1. major multinational pharmaceutical companies collectively as a sector of industry.

   "big pharma remains the most profitable industry in America". 
2. As always, my many thanks to all. 

OBVIOUS AND CLEAR INTENTIONS....

There seems to be no limit to the evil Israel inflicts on it’s neighbors.

Michael A Wells

Why would a nation intentionally spray the herbicide glyphosate in concentrations of 30 to 50 times what is normal on crops of neighboring countries? This is what Israel has been doing.

In February of 2016 B’Tselem reported that Gaza farmers had lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters inside the territory’s borders. Such actions undermine Gaza’s ability to feed itself as well as permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods.

Because of the prevailing winds at the time of spraying, extensive damage was also caused to crops and farmland a further significantly further away. Crops impacted include wheat, barley, zucchini, aubergine, fava beans, peas, green pepper, parsley, watermelon, cabbage, spinach and bitter vetch, grown as fodder for sheep. An area of some 187 hectares of crops was reported as being destroyed or damaged. The actions by Israel had a devastating effect on the farmers.

In 2014, the military informed Palestinians that they could farmland up to 100 meters from the fence. But two years later these crops where intentionally sprayed. In the three previous years there had been other targeted spraying.

The crop spraying could also be considered a violation of Article 54 of the 1977…

 

This is part of the column by the brilliant Michael A Wells, I receive regularly by email through the site Medium Daily Digest. I'm not a paying member, so I couldn't read the entire article nor forwarding it. But the message is clear, as it is nowadays repeating itself in south Lebanon big time, and at an alarming large scale, it seems it is a fixed part of the policies the Israeli government follows to destroy all possibility of life through these unfortunate lands and totally starve or kick out their populations. And yes these acts are a clear violation of any international law and is considered a war crime. 

As always, my many thanks to all.

 

A PHAZING OUT GENERATION.....

 

 A generation that time could not break:
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We are a generation that time has not broken. We are not just people who have grown old, and we are not a number added to the list of “elderly people.” We are a generation that has transcended time, and time has not passed over us without leaving unforgettable stories in our souls.
We are the children of the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies and before, a generation that was born in a time when life was less crowded with technology, and more crowded with people, warmth, meetings and memories.
We grew up in homes where parents had prestige, teachers had status, neighbors were respected, and friends were loyal. We learned that words are a responsibility, that apologizing is courage, that respecting elders is not weakness, and that helping the needy is not a favor but a human duty.
We went to our schools on foot, carrying our bags in our hands, facing the cold of winter and the heat of summer, and we learned from our books, notebooks, and the chalk of our teachers.
We made mistakes and learned, we were punished and disciplined, and we succeeded without each student having someone to take over his duties.
We used to play in the alleys until our mother's voice called to us from afar: "Come home!" That sentence alone was enough to end the most beautiful game in the world!
We didn’t have smartphones, social media, or screens stealing our hours.
We had real friends, faces we knew, doors we knocked on, and houses we entered without an appointment.
We are the generation that witnessed the world changing its skin before our very eyes. We knew the landline telephone before the mobile phone, the paper letter before the email, the radio before satellite channels, the black and white television before smart screens, cassette tapes before digital music, and the photos that we used to wait days to develop before the photo became captured and sent in an instant. We saw the computer start small and heavy, then we saw it turn into a device that a person carries in his pocket, until almost the whole world became on a small screen in our hands.
We were not merely witnesses to this transformation; we learned how to live in two worlds: a world where things required time and effort, and a world where speed became the defining characteristic of everything.
But the greatest thing we carry from the past is not the memories of old devices, nor the details of life that have changed, but the values ​​we were raised on.
We knew the meaning of contentment, we were happy with little, and we appreciated blessings. Bread was lifted off the ground out of respect for sustenance, the elderly were honored, the neighbor was inquired about, the sick were visited, the sad were comforted, and the guest was honored.
The houses were less luxurious, but warmer, and the tables were simpler, but they brought hearts together before bodies.
We grew up, got married, worked, raised our children, buried loved ones, said goodbye to friends, achieved some of our dreams, and lost others, then we discovered that life was not in the things we pursued for so long, but in the moments we lived with those we loved.
Today, when we look back, we discover that life was not as long as we thought. The years passed like pages from a childhood book, then youth, then children who grew up, and grandchildren who came to bring back to our hearts something of our childhood.
Therefore, do not be sad that the years have passed... rather, be thankful that you have lived what many others have not.
Don't postpone a visit, a word of love, an apology, or a time with those you love. Time waits for no one, the people we love aren't here forever, and the moment we have now may become a memory we wish we could relive.
We are not "old" in the sense that numbers suggest.
We are the generation of experience, the generation of patience, the generation of transformations, the generation of memory, and the generation of values.
A generation that knew how to live without many things, and therefore knew the value of things when they came.
A generation that life did not give everything it wanted, but learned to make joy from little, strength from fatigue, wisdom from experience, and a lesson from loss.
Let age be a badge of honor, not a burden, and let wrinkles be pages from a book called “Life”.
Greetings to everyone who belongs to this generation…
For those who still carry in their hearts the scent of old homes, the voice of mothers, the dignity of fathers, memories of school, the laughter of friends, and days that did not have much technology… but had a lot of humanity.
We are a generation that has passed through a lot, but has not lost the most beautiful thing about it: its heart.
And if time has taken our youth from us, it has given us something more precious in return…
It gave us wisdom, memories, and the ability to appreciate life.
So praise be to the life we ​​lived, the people we loved, the days that shaped us, and the good legacy we hope will remain after us.
A salute of respect and pride to a generation that lived simply… and learned the meaning of life.
I liked it, admired it, and loved it, so I forward it because it deserves it.

Few simple words depicting a simpler life in all appearances, but richer in meanings and deeper in feelings. 

As always, my many thanks to all.