Jacob Ben-David Linker 🪬🕎✡️🕎🪬
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Yiddishe kop, neshama, aun mensch. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. Rooted Cosmopolitan. American, and proudly so.
Joined January 2017
Baghdad was a 25% Jewish city in 1900. A version of the Talmud (Babylonian) is from Iraq.20% of World Jewry lived in Iraq in Roman times.A North Iraqi Queen became Jewish, and two Jewish brothers set up a principality near Baghdad .Jews had been in Iraq 2000 years before Islam.
@shlumpsters jews are not part of iraq cry we iraqis dont recognize jews of iraq.
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Killing an Olympic team and cutting one guy's testacles off on live international television in order to instill terror and draw attention to oneself is a pretty cut-and-dry case of terrorism.
Nearly 1,000 sign petition demanding Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse stop showing the film “Sept 5” about the 1972 Munich massacre because it’s “Zionist propaganda” and characters refer to Black September attackers as “terrorists”
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Ultimately, what is unique about the Nakba is not 1948 but 1949. The Israelis offered to accept back ~300,000 people conditioned on peace agreements with the Arab States. The US was willing to invest millions to build homes for 200,000 people in the Jordan Valley. And for.
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Before this, a Jewish girl was knocked out, other Jews were beaten up and barred from parts the campus, one Jew was stalked and tased, and a Jew was unlawfully detained by a mob for an hour. It was wrong for Jews to escalate, but don't gaslight us about peaceful protestors.
“Clashes” didn’t break out. Violence didn’t “erupt.” Pro Israel protesters at UCLA violently assaulted peaceful anti-war protesters while cops watched.
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WW2 Japan was run by a death cult that was willing to sacrifice massive numbers of people rather than surrender in a war they’d clearly lost because of a twisted sense of honor and destiny. So yes, Hamas’s regime in Gaza is a lot like Japan 80 years ago.
"In Gaza, children in blood are being held. It's like in Japan 80 years ago”-Toshiyuki Mimaki. Co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Congratulations to Judge Julia Sebutinde, the next President of the ICJ. The Judge who has consistently taken Israel’s arguments seriously will now be President of the ICJ.
Lebanese media report ICJ President Nawaf Salam has obtained the 65 votes needed from parliament members to designate him as Lebanon’s next Prime Minister. Once consultations officially conclude, President Joseph Aoun needs to formally appoint him to form the next government.
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This is the former Middle East Director for Human Rights Watch's response to Tucker Carlson bringing on a Holocaust Denier.
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Israeli Channel 12 got screenshots of Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine’s groupchat in October 7th. The little bastards were hoping Hamas reached Tel Aviv.
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An interesting thing about the Nakba is that it mainly affected communities that popped up at the same time as Zionist migration.
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Hey, what caused the 2006 Lebanon War?. Oh right, Hezbollah invaded Israel.
Gal Gadot participated in the 2006 Lebanon war, which killed more than 1300 Lebanese civilians. But according to Elica, I’m antisemitic if I choose to boycott her. Elica isn’t concerned about Jews-she wants total submission to a sanitized version of Zionism.
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It's kind of insane that upwards of 250,000 Jews got killed murdered in a three-year period (1918 to 1920) and we don't really talk about it. The 1985 Whitaker Report of the United Nations put the range between 100,000 and 250,000 and lists it as a genocide. Part of it's why
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The "40 beheaded babies" claim was really "40 dead children." . Broken-telephone-like stuff happening in the midst of a crisis is really normal dude. People were panicked in the midst of a bloody massacre. It's not lying to say the reality wasn't far off and wasn't much better.
This is such a pathetic, dishonest game. I can’t believe anyone sincerely falls for it. Make a blatantly false claim and then when someone corrects it with the truth, you accuse them of doing PR for Hamas.
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There was a Wikipedia page on Muslim Migrations to Ottoman Palestine which for some reason was deleted on December 28th. Asserted reason was that it was "taken straight from Zionist propaganda." .
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The man circled is Nasser. Nasser expelled 700,000 Jews, Greeks, Italians, Armenians, Maltese, & Christian Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians. He destroyed Egyptian parliamentarianism in favor of military rule. Third worldism is fascism with fancy words.
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Have you considered that the reason Palestinian Nationalism is associated with terrorism is because of stuff like killing the Israeli Olympic Team live on International Television?.
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With all due respect, can we not repeat the error of the crazy pro-Palestine people who constantly reach for the top of the shelf when describing things. Please be measured in your language when describing the antisemitism in the campus protests. Avoid hyperbole please. The.
For the record, dear liberal “friends”. A modern Kristallnacht is happening before your very eyes and you’re talking about anything else. Taylor Swift. The weather. Your selfies. It’s deranged. Stand with your Jewish friends now or never.
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Antizionists will look at you with a straight face and tell you this person is indigenous to the Middle East and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
Zionists will look at you with a straight face and tell you this person is indigenous to the Middle East
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An Israeli joked that Raisi was killed by a Mossad Agent named Eli Copter, and Iranians appear to not realize this was a joke and are spreading the idea as if it is a fact.
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Starmer's wife is Jewish, he observes Shabbos with her, his two kids are being raised Jewish, and he has in-laws in Israel. Neat.
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Not a single Lebanese flag to be seen in this picture….
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@ampallicious Israel donated the equivalent of $2.8 million. Arab states pledged almost $600,000. The United States pledged with $25 million. Schechtman, Joseph B. (1963). The Refugees in the World. New York: Barnes. pp. 219–222.
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This is obtuse and not what Clinton said at all. Clinton is saying “ffs, this would have been resolved 25 years ago if not for him walking away, and these kids don’t get how stupid Palestinian leadership has been.”. Arafat didn’t have to accept camp David, but he didn’t have to.
Arafat said no to a bad deal, so everything that is happening now is ok? . What about every time Israel said no? . What about the time Biden arrived in Israel to the announcement of new settlements? . To blame decades of faulty U.S. policy on well-meaning students is pathetic.
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@TMasudin It's weird to think that until 1989, there was an open border between Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank for 20 hours a day (5AM to 1AM).
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@HotSpotHotSpot Hamas literally put 11,000 Afro-Palestinians in a ghetto called Al-Abeed ("the slaves").
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This reminds me of how Gandhi said Jews should have just let Hitler kill them because it would arouse the consciousnesses of the rest of the world.
I'm just concerned that Israel has squandered the world's goodwill by not dying.
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@vali_nasr “European ethno-nationalist”. Most of the Israeli Jewish population is non-Ashkenazi, Ashkenazim themselves are of middle eastern ancestry, the country is a quarter not Jewish, has had a Druze Acting President, an Islamist governing party, and arab Supreme Court justices for.
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I didn't want to involve myself in the Coates debate when it was fresh because everybody was really mad. But I had a couple of thoughts. (1) The treatment of of Palestinians in Area C is really indefensible. I don't think anybody pro-Israel has really ever addressed this on the.
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No, that was the Irish.
This is crazy. What is going on?. Did we send condolences to Germany when Hitler died?.
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It looks like Mosul after ISIS was cleared out you dolt.
I suppose this is what precision targeting from the most moral army looks like
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Eventually the hope is the pressure will force Israel to stop. Israel gets no hostages back. Hamas reasserts control, and spends ensuing month scanning social media and torturing gazans to identify informants to Israel and public dissenters. Hamas will kill thousands. Then,.
🚨 Breaking: Mexico has joined the growing number of countries officially supporting South Africa in its ICJ case against Israel.
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@ProfDBernstein @Cornell Could a breach of contract claim be brought against the university based on the consistent refusal to enforce its own rules?.
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@MouinRabbani @cancelkultur If the Mizrahim are Arab, then te Mizrahim, Bedouin, Druze, and Palestinians combined result in Israel being a majority Arab country. It stands to reason that Israel ought to have been invited to the Arab League decades ago. And yet, there has been no such interest.
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LMAO. Nasser expelled 700,000+ people, killed parliamentarianism in Egypt, gassed the Yemenis, stole Gaza from the UN to keep as a military fief, forced Lebanon to cede 1/4 of its territory to the PLO, and started a war that led to Israeli control of Sinai, Gaza, WB, & Golan. He.
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There are some prominent pro-peace Palestinian figures who I think do more than meet us Zionists (Jews) halfway on here. But they're still Palestinian! Not Zionist! Fundamentally, they don't agree with our view of history and what's playing out 100%. That's inevitable!. All we.
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@HusseinAboubak It’s jarring how the whole Arab world largely erased the collective memory of the Jews in their countries.
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Here's a picture of Raqqa after we drove out ISIS. Looks pretty similar.
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John Adams was really into the idea of an army of 100,000 Jews conquering Eretz Yisrael and making it Judea again.
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@MouinRabbani @SKmacro @cancelkultur You either fail to recognize the nature of Jewish identity, or understand but do not care. There's a gross hypocrisy in that the Palestinian struggle is one of lack of recognition of identity, but you refuse to reciprocate a much desired recognition of identity.
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I thought long and hard about sharing this. It's really hard to share this. Israel has cycled hundreds of thousands of troops through Gaza throughout the war, and it looks like there are dozens of scary bad apples among them. I don't think you can define a whole war by the.
The @nytimes published a piece in which dozens of foreign medical volunteers who went into Gaza recounted seeing and treating children who were deliberately shot in the head and neck by Israeli soldiers (you can tell from the x-ray they're 5.56 rounds used by the IDF). These
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You cheered when Sisi closed the gates of Gaza to Gazans fleeing what you call a genocide, and then set up a GoFundMe so you could bribe Egyptians into letting your own family leave.
You thought you were going to genocide them into liking you?.
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Dude he lies from the very first couple of pages while discussing Herzl’s diary. Khalidi is a PLO mouthpiece and always has been.
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To be frank, most decolonial politics is just blood and soil ultranationalist stuff with fancier words.
This lady’s account is hilarious. She’s a Somali ultranationalist but she dresses up her right wing Somali ultranationalist ideology with lefty decolonial language. Here she is furious that I mentioned an ongoing genocide in Ethiopia because she interprets this as an insult.
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Reading a history of the Eastern Galilee from about 1500 onwards boils down to “Jews came back, but then a plague/earthquake/Arab-assault happened and they left/died, but then more Jews tried to come back, but then….” on repeat for like 400 years.
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Managing director of AJ+ Dima Khatib. calls Judge Julia Sebutinde of Uganda an “Oreo” (meaning black on the outside, white on the inside). That’s pretty darned racist.
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It turns out that if you drive out the Jews in 1948 and kill ~600 Jews in the Old City, you don't have Jews in the Jewish Quarter. Who knew?. The Jordanians and Palestinians destroyed almost every synagogue in the old city and used Jewish headstones to make latrine floors.
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Antizionists are saying Gad Saad is Jesus
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@HusseinAboubak If somebody being antisemitic was a reason to write them off entirely, I'd have very few historic figures I could appreciate.
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The heck are you talking about? . AIPAC raised $1.6 million for George Latimer from 1,800 donors. That's an average of $888.88 per donor. AIPAC organizes large numbers of people to make individual contributions to candidates. It's not a millionaires-and-billionaires plot.
The problem with AIPAC isn't that it's 'foreign' (it is not, it's as American as apple pie), it's that it involves millionaires and billionaires pouring their money into electoral politics in a way that's not allowed in most democracies and shouldn't be allowed in the US either.
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Look, it’s @MustafaBarghou1 being an idiot trying to get more Jews and Palestinians killed. Also, notice how in Arabic he says Jews and not Zionists.
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I'm reminded of how Edward Said condoned PLO violence against Palestinians by saying that a right to resist occupation included a right to punish "collaborators." . The consequence of this has been to poison Palestinian politics for decades.
It's official: most "pro-Palestine activists" only care about Palestinian lives if Israel kills them; if you show an abundance of visual, clear evidence of Hamas's atrocities against Palestinians, you'll be called a "Zionist collaborator" and asked how much "you're getting paid.".
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@EinatWilf “Side note: Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, Antizionism in the Soviet World and Eastern Europe were always highly useful in clearing coveted academic positions of Jews).”. …yeah a lot of the DEI stuff for years targeting “white” and “Zionist” professors has been this.
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@shadihamid Shoddy Shadi, stop projecting and strawmanning. If the pro-Israel students were a bunch of Kahanists dehumanizing people, harassing people, and interfering with ordinary campus life while wantonly violating school rules - heck yeah we'd say call in the cops.
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Hey look, @4noura is sharing fake news. This is a fake poll. Shouldn't a law school instructor be better able to sift out garbage?
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This is false, and I don’t get why that’s hard to admit. A Jewish girl got knocked out. Jews were physically barred from parts of campus. A Jew was unlawfully detained for an hour by protestors. Some Jews then (wrongly) escalated. But why must you insult our intelligence?.
These were peaceful protests until thugs, claiming to represent pro-Israel sentiment, attacked the pro-Palestinian protests. This is on UCLA and their failure of basic safety precautions. I am solely focused now, then, on these students not getting hurt.
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Today I learned that Norman Finkelstein believes Russia had the right to invade Ukraine.
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1-Start a race war.2-Have your society burned to the ground because of it. 3-Play the victim after starting it.4-Refuse to admit you created your own problems even 100 years later.5-Have propagandists get jobs at Columbia University.6-Talk about the justness of your "cause"
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May his memory be a blessing. A fellow American.
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@WoLf_PaK_MeMbA @robbysoave thank you for your sentiments. As a Jewish person trying hard to snap (and who has definitely snapped a lot the past few days), it's comforting to see we're not alone in seeing how tone deaf people can be about this.
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What? The PLO has never recognized Israel's Status as a 'Jewish State' and Mahmoud Abbas has been quite stubborn about this. If you read PA/PLO Statements, you will never find any example of saying "two states for two peoples." . Oddly, Arafat said it in speeches, but only in.
Arabs have accepted Israel’s right to exist. It is up to Israel to define what it wants to be. Israel currently defines itself as Jewish and the following Arab countries have recognised it as such: Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Mauritania, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco.
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Omar complains that calling Arafat an antisemite is nazi-like. Meanwhile here's a picture of an UNRWA School in Arafat-controlled parts of Lebanon with a picture of Arafat above a swastika.
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The US went from "Lebanon War bad" to "Hezbollah getting wrecked is a huge opportunity." . This is basically what happened in 1967. The US tried super duper hard for a diplomatic resolution, and the Israelis were very very patient. Meanwhile the IDF was very confident in 1967.
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Saving Bosnian Muslims .Saving Albanian Muslims .Saving Kuwaiti Muslims.Protecting Somali Muslims. The US spent the 90s engaging in wars to protect Muslim populations.
What kills me about this is 9/11 happened when the most recent American intervention was…saving Bosnian Muslims from the Serbs. The “target on our back” exists no matter what we do. The paradox of hegemony/power is you lose it the more you believe you need buy in.
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Who the heck flexes surviving a genocide?. This is incredibly unserious.
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He's been treated very nastily, and that's wrong. It's especially wrong because this is a man of remarkable patience and empathy (and that's understating it).
The amount of hatred, attacks, vitriol, and threats that I've been receiving from hoards of "pro-Israel" folks online is unlike anything I've ever experienced. They got my LinkedIn account (@LinkedInHelp) removed because I shared the @nytimes op-ed about the targeting of children.
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Does Alonso actually read what he shares? . Because he shared an article which (1) was about soldiers' misconduct during the first Intifada forty years ago that (2) resulted in the IDF disciplining the bad actors in order to argue that Israel is genocidal today.
How are we even discussing whether this is genocide? Not only is it genocide, it’s up there with the big ones in terms of systematic cruelty. Report after report showing that when they said Palestinians were human animals who should get the Amalekite treatment, they meant it.
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When the French forced Jews to take surnames, they prohibited adopting surnames derived from the Old Testament and last names derived from a town. The point was to ensure Jews couldn't remain distinctive.
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Lol, one of the sources linked to in Vox's Article states what in 1920 was well-known: Palestinian identity was deemed a subset of Syrian identity. It also is dismissive of what had been some 2000 years of the area being Jewish majority or plurality.
Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded
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Dude the Israelis would have left most of the WB decades ago if they weren’t convinced leaving meant rockets would be fired at them from the high ground overlooking their major population centers. The main reason they stick around is the threat aspect. They’re convinced right.
The Israeli occupier, armed with nukes & F35s, must be coddled and made to feel safe from those they oppress. Only Palestinians are expected to beg their oppressor to develop a conscience. No, Israel like all oppressive regimes must be forced to relinquish power.
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@nairdasamek @ApostateProphet 1. There was back and forth skirmishing from 1949-1967. Israeli Jews were massacred, killed, and raped by Palestinians who came over from the WB and Gaza in that period. And also - that isn’t occupation. That’s birder warring. 2. America controls its border with Mexico - that’s.
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Ireland has asked that the definition of genocide be changed because they can tell that Israel's conduct in Gaza doesn't meet the definition of genocide. This is the same move Amnesty pulled in their recent report (changing the definition). This is ridiculous.
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I ended up no longer talking to a best friend of mine for years over this sort of stuff. He just refused to acknowledge stuff like this exists, and wrote it all off as Jews being whiny. But you've got folks like @RabbiatUCSB saying he repeatedly has Jewish students on campus.
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Scholasticide is a word invented by a pro-Hamas academic at Oxford in 2009 to cover for the fact that Hamas operates out of schools.
AHA here is the American History Association lmfao. Very famous and something I've heard of before yes
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Alex Lobnov from Ashkelon .May his memory be a blessing
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A weird thing is how both Zionists and Antizionists have come to agree that the Zionists always were 100% set on a Jewish State. But Autonomy within the Ottoman Empire and functional Binationalism were way bigger forces in the Zionist movement than either side admits now. It.
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On this day in 1982, Bachir Gemayel became President of Lebanon.
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Millions of refugees from a tremendous number of conflicts and crises did not do this, and that enabled them to emotionally and materially move on.
When Palestinians were forced out into exile during the Nakba, many kept the keys to their homes. They still have those keys to this day— passing it down with each generation— the belief is that strong in that they will return; that it's promised and only a matter of time.
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@HowidyHamza This is fine. It's based on agreement with the PLO/PA. Jews are allowed to have 10 exclusive access days a year to the Cave of the Patriarchs. This is being spread around to incite people.
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@NateSilver538 I’ve heard from plenty of folks in finance and law in NYC that the top 10% at Fordham/NYU/Baruch wasn’t all that different from the top 25% at Columbia in terms of intelligence. But they did often say the Columbia students were less humble and didn’t take orders as well.
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@NiranjanShan13 It's like arguing Ethiopia or Poland were "dragging" Britain and France into conflicts with Italy and Germany respectively.
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I’m pretty sure Israel would be very happy to see Gazans evacuate en masse. It’s not Israel that’s stopping them. In fact, Israel has gotten yelled at and been widely condemned whenever it’s brought up the idea.
Over 12,000 patients in Gaza, including thousands of children, need medical evacuation. As their conditions deteriorate, some die waiting for Israel to let them leave. Yet, yesterday, Israel allowed only 10 to leave—10 out of 12,000. This inhumanity cannot be ignored.
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Have you considered that inability to distinguish between the serious differences between collateral damage in war and straight-up targeted terrorism is why the Palestinian national movement isn't taken seriously? . Because everybody else recognizes this distinction.
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Arab Peace Initiative = Israel has to dissolve itself out of existence . 2006 "Hudna" "Offer" = Israel give up a whole bunch of irreversible strategic concessions in exchange for very temporary 10 years of not being shot at. Laughable. 2014 = Hussein Agha (Abu Mazen's right.
"Palestinians are like HOW DARE WE HAVE TO AGREE TO THINGS!?!?!?". Some examples:.2002 - The Arabs offered the Arab Peace Initiative, offering Israel full recognition, Arab cooperation and establishment of diplomatic ties in exchange for a withdrawal to 1967 borders and a.
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JVP (or some JVP chapter) shared a picture of a Kinara [for Kwanzaa] to acknowledge Chanukkah. JVP ain't very Jewish.
My daughter was doom scrolling and came across whatever the fûכk this is. If @jvplive is going to buווshוt everyone by claiming to represent actual Jews, the least they could do was get it right. Can anyone spot the problem?
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Even worse - Israel’s political trends have in considerable part been in response to Palestinian decisions. The second intifada being kicked off at the height of the peace process killed the Israeli left. Then the 2005-2009 wars from Hamas and (not Palestinian) Hezbollah killed.
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Arafat doing the coastal road massacre in 1978 - then the worst terror attack in Israel's history - in order to obstruct the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process was basically the same strategy as Hamas doing 10/7. Did Coastal Road mean the Egypt deal was a failure? Of course not. So.
Call me old fashioned, but I see no utility in peace that doesn’t prevent bloodshed or bring stability. The Abrahamic Accords did nothing to prevent the nightmare we are currently living. It was mire of a PR exercise than a peace agreement. And it made Iran and Hamas feel they.
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90% of American Jews supported the Revolution on July 4th 1776. Maybe ~40% of Americans did at first. An American Jew named Haym Solomon helped convert French loans into ready cash by selling bills of exchange when Congress ran out of money and credit. He also brokered large.
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Let me get this straight. The supposed open-air prison took in hundreds of refugees?.
Fun fact: Gaza welcomed hundreds of Syrian refugees since 2011. The most prominent Syrian in Gaza is Chef Warif Kasem from Aleppo, who had a restaurant & a TV show & married a Palestinian journalist (Israel bombed their home). Syrian revolution flags were abundant all over Gaza.
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@K_AminThaabet @aziz0nomics is a mensch and his humanity is singlehandedly keeping a lot of Jews sane these past two months.
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Nasser triggered both wars by blockading Israel. Both wars were also precipitated by upticks in fedayeen raids into Israel. Arab claims of Israeli aggression amount to Arabs being the kid in the car going “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you” before whining they got hit.
Zionists don't' even know their history: Israel started the 1967 war. That's why their apologists call it a "preemptive" war. They forget, of course, that Israel also began the 1956 war when it collaborated with Britain and France to invade Gaza and Sinai in an attempt to.
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This is jerk-speak for “NO”.
@JacobALinker @ProfDBernstein @afalkhatib I will not discuss that question with zionist degenerates.
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