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There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Beware those who promise one. Question Authority, but respect a good answer. Pronouns Oy/Vey 🌲

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@jeremyclancy It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide. It's a war, not a genocide Fixed it for you.
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@KonstantinKisin But she didn't mean it that way, just like Hamas doesn't mean it when they say they want to kill all the Jews. She was simply expressing her hope the venue would become a thriving democracy!
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@josephhirsch5 While she tries to appear reasonable and balanced, she is desperate for Hamas' actions to be defined as "resistance". This is the entirety of her argument. If Hamas is not resistence and is, in fact, Terrorists, she would have to unequivocally denounce them. But since they are
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@richimedhurst So at least 10,000 Hamas fighters have bewn killed?
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@julesterpak @coldxman Notice how the View is antagonistic but the audience loves his message.
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@HadiNasrallah So you support what the survivors of the Nova festival do? The survivors of Kibbutz Be'eri? Got it. Your moral compass isn't even broken, you don't have one.
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@JoeTruzman Gaza is supposedly leveled, occupied and everyone dead . . . 🤔
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@jordanbpeterson Love how responses simply prove his post true. Give me your bitter, your resentful, your vengeful. I will set them upon the happy, the grateful, the magnanimous, and Hell will prevail. And it will still be the fault of the happy, the grateful, and the magnanimous.
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@ninaturner Says the losing side every time . . .
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@PatBrennanIII Then why did he kill so many people?
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@mishtal For the same reason that second, third and fourth generation palestinians are considered refugees. For the same reason that everyone thinks that Israel "stole" palestinian land. For the same reason that the war of independence in 1948 is now called the nakba instead of the war of
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@OliLondonTV Reportedly, he said he was honored that he could have his children and grandchildren martyred for the cause, which is in line with his philosophy. Everyone else seems more concerned about his sons and grandchildren than he did.
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@aaronnarraph Then why do you have the flag of the proposed Palestinian ethnostate in your name?
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@caitoz Yes, Hamas started a war they are responsible for the consequences. They started it, they can stop it by surrendering. Not sure why this is so difficult. Wars end when one side realizes they can't win. The only reason this is difficult is because you don't think Hamas should
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@mhdksafa Gee, there ain't no one else there? No one at all? It's all just kids there??? What happened to all the adults? Where did they go? No, really - I'm concerned. All the adults left Rafah and didn't take any of the kids?!?!? Why would they abondon their kids like that? Why would
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@jacksonhinklle The common denominator is . . . ? Radical Islam! That is what Tel Aviv doesn't have! Lesson: don't permit Radical Islamist to gain power!
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@OwenJones84 Tunnels - legitimate targets of war - being destroyed. But don't mention who built them under the city. Or what tjey were built for.
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@orenbarsky You forgot the main difference betqeen the Western slave trade and the Muslim slave trade - in Muslim countries the slaves were castrated. That is why there are milliins of descendents of slaves in the west, and almost none is Muslim lands . . .
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@thrasherxy Students who could have peacefully obeyed lawful orders ro leave. But they wanted the conflict. You want to be able to moan and wail about poor students and violence inherent in the system! Spare us.
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@agelender The land was decolonized from the Arab colonizers and returned to the indiginous Jews. Thanks for playing!
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@briebriejoy Hamas needs to give the hostages back and surrender no exchange no continuation of Hamas. Stop pretending that this is a real offer and a way to end the situation.
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@JohnEkdahl I heard the entire street celebrated - the pedestrians parted on the sidewalks to let her through, throwing confetti and yelling "You go girl!". It drowned out the MAGA hat wearing old men muttering the N word under their breathe . . . A sight to behold!
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@Nancy_Kanwisher Gee, maybe they shouldn't have made the mistake of thinking a genocide is going on *checks notes* "without specific charges or evidence offered"? And the further mistake that their uninformed opinion about matters far away gave them license to violate laws and school policy?
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@davidkersten More accurately: Blamjng Hamass for firing rockets is like blaming a woman for punching random people on the street picking the pockets of European tourists all while claiming to being raped. And she's yelling Allahu Akbar the entire time.
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@libsoftiktok Correct question in title should have been "How Much Money Should I Start Saving For My Daighter's Therapy?"
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@JewishWarrior13 They won't be embarrassed, they lie with impunity and simply ognore it when they get caught, because they know no one in the west remembers the lies and debunks, but they do remember the accusations and claims.
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@TMasudin It was Mostly Peaceful Colonization . . .
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@realchrisrufo You are looking at it through the wrong lens. You are looking at it through a lens of accountability and reality. They are looking through the rifle sight of Equity and Inclusion.
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@HadiNasrallah Except that isn't whats happening - the World is showing love for Israel. Your lies and distortions aren't working. People understand the truth of what is going on. They see past the "demonstrations" by radicals. Maybe it's time to do some soul searching?
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@LuckyHeronSay People have a weird fascination with this idea of "Peaceful". If an Elephant Peacefully sits on you, do you simply get squashed? He is being Peaceful. If a rattleanake Peacefully approaches you, do you wait for it to get close enough to strike? It hasn't struck yet, it's
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@TheHarrisSultan You don't get it. The Red-Green Alliance is fully aware. The Reds (Communists, CRT, Queers) are against the West. The Green (Muslims) are against the West. Once the West is gone then they'll fight it out between themselves. But first things first.
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@richimedhurst Really? Where is that statement from Hamas? Is that an official Hamas position, that you can back up, or just your own made up wishful thinking position?
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@nimblenoor Now do how the Jordanians destroyed every synagogue in Jerusalem after 1948. Or what the Palestinians have done to the Tomb of Joseph? Ask the Indians (Hindu, India) what they think of "this kind of thing" when Muslims destroy their Temples and build Mosques on top of them?
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@AjAqrabawi If they were all murdered, then I would agree with you. But they weren't murdered. I know that will be hard for you to hear, and you'll probably lash out at me and call me all sorts of names. But murder has a specific meaning - the unlawful premeditated killing of a person. The
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@sandWITCHesssss Maybe you're the one who's wrong, not her? Sorry, silly me! That would require self-reflection, thinking, and realizing your feelings aren't what determine right and wrong.
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@KimIversenShow @jconricus Wow. Just wow. It's war. Should they be driven in limousines to five star hotels (ironically, like the so called leaders of Hamas)? Show me any conflict anywhere in the world in the last 40 years (or as long ago as you want) where civilians were given such opportunites? One?
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@jacksonhinklle Lies and distortions. Hamas made up a "ceasefire" & agreed to it - & told Palestinians they'd agreed to a "ceasefire". Where was everyone the 40X before when Hamas rejected proposal after proposal? Ceasefire has always been on the table, but Hamas always said NO!.
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@ShaykhSulaiman Wait, this guy who is the head of a country that committed a genocide against Armenians, is brutally suppressing Kurdish independence, and supports terrorists. This is the person you're quoting as a moral authority????
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox This is what Hamas and the Palestinians live (or die, or murder) for - optics. No one questions why every single photograph and video always has plenty of children, women, elderly, but no men . . . Nobody questions, or tries to go beyond what they're shown. It's all gut reaction
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@RaniaKhalek Israel has 2 objectives: 1 Release hostages 2 dismantle Hamas Neither are negotiable. Now tell me again when Hamas agreed to those requirements?
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@ShaykhSulaiman Made up. They aren't singing that. Just like claims of genocide, made up.
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@SameeraKhan What? A bunch if overweight guys vs. Israeli soldiers? I'll put my money on the Israelis.
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@CulturalCritiq1 And anyone would trust that it would be reviewed fairly after that? You've shown your true colors. You didn't repent nor see the error of your ways. You think you "mistakenly excluded" the author. There was no mistake.
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@ninaturner Peaceful doesn't equal lawful. Stop gaslighting people. These students are engaged in illegal activites and are not stopping when asked. So the next step is to call in the police. You don't care about the students, or even what they're ostensibly protesting. You want to yell
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@jacobin By "Peacefully" you mean "as long as the Jews knew their place as 2nd class Dhimmis everything was fine." Then the Jews got Uppity! How dare they?!?!?
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@RJacksonterror No, no it isn't genocide. Basing your activism on a lie is not a good look, nor a good strategy.
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@WalidMahmodRouk Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it hard to understand. It might be brilliantly clear to others. Truth is like that.
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@CSSW4Palestine Tack on "anti-imperialism" and you can justify the most horrific acts of violence imaginable against civilians. Or because it was against Jews? The Profession of Empathy is lost, reduced to ideologues counceling each other how to cope with a world that doesn't conform to their
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@jk_rowling The problem here is that while there was an institute that was studying homosexuality and alternative sexual practices, it was not what we now call LGBTQ+. So while the institute was attacked and the Nazis did burn all of its books it was not an attack on "trans" people or LGBTQ+
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@MarkKersten I mean, when it comes to contributions to passenger air travel the Palestinians did invent the tactic of Hijacking commercial airplanes full of innocent civilians. Maybe not the best place to be advertising your support for this . . .
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@ConceptualJames Why don't they do Critical Approaches to Eating? Food is control, hunger is an illusion, all to drive the capitalist big Farm industry (and make Government pay it huge subsidies)! We need to interrogate the percieved need for Food and free ourselves from the dynamics that make
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@coldxman @aaronjmate Wow. It's like every troll suddenly seeped out from under their rocks and started using Talmudic analysis of anything to do with 10.7 - but only for the Israeli side. 40 angels weren't decapitated on the head of a pin because Israel doesn't call them pins, and it was only 32,
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@KirkegaardEmil @MrGeorgeFrancis Great twerk! It's important to keep abreast of these trends and get to the bottom of what is going on in society. I derrier say this is seminal work!
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@TheMcKenziest That your narcissistic desires are not fully met is not dystopian. Dystopian would be not allowed to say anything or protest at all. But not being allowed to disrupt others lives or being told not to tresspass - thats simply good manners codified into law - i.e against the
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@Resist_05 If the enemy uses 80% of the homes, 100% of hospitals, schools and universities . . . If the enemy js in refugee camps, are also UN workers and claim to be "Journalists" . . . and 50% of the civilian population they hide behind and under is children. . . Then all of those
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Emet (truth). Perfectly analagous. Beware the forces you unleash, you do not control them. Which is also why Government should be as limited as possible. When you create laws against your enemies those same laws can be used against you.
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@mhdksafa It is war. It isn't genocide. So long as people continue to lie about Gaza we'll keep talking about Gaza - countering the lies and distortions.
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@nurdogandiyorki I don't understand - are the University students protesting Egypt for blockading Gaza?
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@GadSaad 23) smashing the Patriarchy - a guide to anticapitalism and anti white supremacy 24) epsitemic violence - how to turn any disagreement into transphobia
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@madisontayt_ So . . . Can one apply this logic to Gazan civilians? Would that then make your claims of genocide moot? I mean, if EVERY Israeli and EVERY Gazan aren't innocent civilians then all-out war is the only option . . . 🤷🏻‍♂️
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@MarinaMedvin When are we all recognizing the free and independent Basque country?
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@Phil_Lewis_ I remember when the New Yorker was an incredibly interesting magazine. Now it seems to be partisan hackery. All good things come to an end.
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@pdsutter Magic doesn't work. Special incantations don't create reality. Palestinains themselves have to create institutions that work, a functional society, before they can create a state. A true, free state can't be declared or wished into existence. It has to be built by the
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@gazanotice Not sure what is so alarming? The prisoners are alive, not being subject to abuse, the elder is being supported and slowly walked to where they are going. Is it because they aren't throwing a BBQ for the prisoners? What would be the "right" way to handle so many prisoners?
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@CynthiaNixon When you're as far Left as you and Bowman, EVERYONE is a Far-Right Republican. I bet you think AOC is too conservative at times . . .
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@AvivaKlompas So heartbreaking. Some reason I tear up more when it's a parent with children being released together. Maybe it's the hope they can recover together? That they had some comfort in each other through the ordeal?
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@OwenJones84 It's absolutely true. In 1948 Arab armies lost a war they started. And they've been milking it ever since.
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@EinatWilf It's almost as if the Palestinians are simply a pawn - against Jews, as a symbol of anti-Western sentiment, as virtue signaling. If the Palestinians built a civil society, functional institutions, and could work for the safety for their citizens and neighbors - all internally,
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@coldxman I'm curious as to why he has the qualifyer "systemic abuse" of civilians? Is it to minimize civilian deaths that would count against his argument? Or is it to imply Israel is engaged in "systemic abuse" of civilians? Either way it strikes me as a bad faith addition.
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@Transgendertrd We can't cure the common cold - but think we can meddle around with complex hormonal interactions with a few shots and moving tissue around in ways the body never intended it to grow? This trans surgery racket and hormone replacement truly is the modern lobotomy.
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@asmerasafi Harvard graduates shouldn't be taken in by falsehoods so easily disproven. Actually makes Harvards brand shine slightly more. There is no genocide.
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@wil_da_beast630 War is the last resort when civilized means to solve a problem aren't available. Hamas crossed a line. Only the willfully blind don't see that. They left reason & civilization behind. The answer is, for the sake of reason & civilzation, to remove them by any means necessary.
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@Phil_Kelly_ And built the Gilag Archipeligo. Superficial analysis always misleads.
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@ShaykhSulaiman Truth is not a popularity contest. Usually following the mob is an indication you're wrong.
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@EmilyDievendorf I think you have it backwards - it's used when people of privelage decide their pet project (aka guilt) isn't getting them the attention they feel they deserve. You see, in a world filled with violations of civil rights your choice of which violations are worth disrupting others
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@AnnieLennox #releaseourhostages ? No? #Hamassurrender ? No? Then no ceasefire And there is no genocide. It's war, for the two reasons I asked you about.
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@SouthernMarxist Because it isn't a concentration camp. Educate yourself. Stop believing every slogan you hear.
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@inejmydarling And "Palestinian state" isn't, by definition, an "Ethnostate"???
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@0xAlaric Our EMT instructor, not a lightweight man, when explaining Scene Safety demonstrated how a knifewielding person 10-15 feet away can suddenly be right next to you before you have time to really react. That is one of the few things I remember quite clearly.
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@jaybeware Very simple: Never was a Palestinian state or country. Area self governed 2x in history - 1st by Jews, 2nd by Christains. Otherwise the area was a province, or parts of differents provinces, in Empires or Dynasties. Last sovereign was British Empire. They relenquished their
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@hayxtt Yes, I'm sure all you quibbling over the distinction between Zionism & Judaism have spent time engaged in deep Talmudic study & can explain the Machlokes between Satmar & the Rav easily. Only once you've mastered that can you opine on the beauty of Judaism & the evil of Zionism.
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@faisalkutty Typical Lawyer response - distort the facts to fot your case, use emotional language to persuade the "jury" and engage in hyperbole (based on those distorted facts and emotional language) to drive your point home. Unfortunately for you supporting Israel in the war does not mean
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@deysytacza Oooh, you went full taboo there! True, but still taboo.
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@DrEliDavid I hope they have a recording on it:
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@RitchieTorres Extremist groups redefine normal groups as extremist and then pretend they are normal. Upside-down world. And dangerous. Because people believe them.
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@Project_Veritas What are the parents of the students saying?
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@HeidiBachram Musicians. He's talking about musicians. Right?
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@WOLPalestine It's sad how futile these demonstrations are. Just frustrated people who don't have a valid argument letting off steam.
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@kittypurrzog Their whole philosophy is based on the idea that life for everyone except them is indistinguishable from a 1950s sitcom. Marginalized = my life isn't "Leave it to Beaver"
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@TheMossadIL Eyudians, of course! Which in ancient Greek sounded more like "Eye-ooh-dee-an". Over time the Eye-ooh part became Anglisized to Pal-ooh, or plural Pal-oos, added to the ending you get Pal-oos-dee-an, which became todays Palestinian!
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@mattyglesias Jewish apparently works too . . .
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@KashifMD @piersmorgan What is the reasoning, in Islam, for the Hijab, Burqua or any of the covering of hair/head/face? Don't complain about @piersmorgan . Explain the reasons clearly and concisely so we can all make up our own minds if it is oppressive or not? I eagerly await your response.
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@realrabbilinda Are you still able to hold services in the tunnels?
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@jvplive You are depraved antisemites. Kapos. It won't save you when they come after the Jews.
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@martinelli_jim @Ranting4Canada There is no Genocide. The IJC simply ruled Gaza cpuld be represented by South Africa in any potential charge of genocide. They explicitly did not rule on anything else related to the false accusation of genocide.
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@ModernTalmud "Hold on, I think someone's at the door . . ."
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@mrlee6 Cousin Barbera is a treasure! Congratulations and you are blessed to have such a wonderful supportive family!
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@jk_rowling Aeschylus' and Sophocles' lost plays were all about Trans people! We lost thousands of years of Trans and non-binary pathos due to, uh, something . . .
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@ImtiazMadmood They beat themselves up, they blow themselves up - but who's fault is it? The evil joooz!!! Always . . .
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