Rebecca Levin
@RebeccaZLevin
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MD/PhD student (G1). Here to write about Jewish stuff, science, neurodivergence, and life.
Joined August 2023
@DrewPavlou If I had classified information and wanted people to know about it, I would probably release the information instead of setting myself on fire and therefore destroying any ability I had to release the information.
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@HadiNasrallah Tel Aviv, 1909. There was nothing to cleanse except sand, but go off I guess?
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@DylanBurns1776 Stalin himself impregnated q 13 year old girl (Lidia Pereprygina). He promised to marry her to avoid arrest. He abandoned her and the baby died, then he came back and impregnated her again, then abandoned her for good. He was horrible in his personal and political life.
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@franskali People seem to forget basic science when Israel is involved. The bodies in question were taken from a morgue (to check DNA against hostages). You cannot transplant organs from weeks-old corpses and I can’t imagine what research a decomposed liver would be useful for.
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@TheColtonShow__ I think the idea is “if we stop people for petty crimes, it’ll stop them before they commit larger ones.” It’s the reasoning behind putting resources towards combatting fare evasion. Idk if it’s right but it’s definitely not saying people should die for not paying subway fares.
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@trouble_man90 I thought the lesson would be not to threaten murder on camera and in front of city officials and multiple police officers but I guess you can take what you want from it?.
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@DrewPavlou Regardless of how one might feel about Gaza, I cannot fathom how this person believes that potentially creating a new drug-resistant strain of HIV is helping anyone.
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@DrewPavlou Man, I don’t even know where that post started but everything else has had multiple people screenshotting, etc. There’s no evidence for that comment. Intellectual honesty is important in conversations like this. If we have no evidence, we shouldn’t post. It devalues everything.
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@AmiHorowitz Can you release any full conversations without breaks? I find this a bit hard to believe even as a Jew who recently graduated from college and editing can be deceptive and well, I’d really like for you to be a fraud vs this actually being real.
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@GoodVibePolitik This was on October 7th. Israel had barely retaliated if at all by this point and even if all supplies had been cut off, there is no reasonable way any hospital had run out of anesthetic at this point or that they were only able to summon a veterinarian. They just chose not to.
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@_SonOfCormac @DrewPavlou I’m referring to Aaron himself. He’s not a journalist. He’s a dude. If he has information, he can put it on Reddit or wherever he wants. I guarantee it’s both more effective and less painful than self-immolation.
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@ShoahUkraine @DrEliDavid @DrLoupis Do you know if she is practicing medicine? I remember looking her up and finding one paper and no medical practice, but I can’t say I looked very hard. I very much agree that there’s no place for anything like this in medicine!.
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@VerminusM @Omar_Gaza Unfortunately, it’s true. Hamas themselves has said that the tunnels are for the fighters and everyone else should be the responsibility of the UN.
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@Leptonmancer @neveragainlive1 According to his memoirs, he realized the Israeli guards were treating the Palestinians better than the Hamas leaders who were killing underlings for nothing. Turned spy for Israel. I don’t support everything he’s said/done but his story is remarkable.
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@capedjoosader @eljest_ This is Neturei Karta. They’re an extremist sect of the Satmar movement who believe destruction of Israel is the needed to bring about the messiah and they feign concern for Palestinians to make that happen. They openly work with Iran and deny the Holocaust. They should not be.
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@aziz0nomics That’s my big thing with all of this. I can understand (even if I disagree with) a variety of emotions concerning the current situation. But one that I don’t understand (after 10/7) is surprise. Like, what the absolute fuck did you expect? Did you think war was fun?.
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@afalkhatib I commend your empathy in the face of your enormous loss. May we all find peace and healing.
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@PAdvocateInfo @davethompsonMD Slightly less heartwarming and more humorous, but my grandmother once wandered away and a neighbor found her in the hallway and brought her back with the line (translated) “this belongs to you, take it away.” Amazing neighbors, honestly, and a lovely moment.
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@JachnunEmpire My family had been quite wealthy in the Soviet Union. My grandmother sold property that would be worth several million dollars today just to pay bribes to get exit visas out of the USSR and arrived in Israel with almost nothing in ‘74. It’s not nearly as awful as what Yemenite.
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@afalkhatib @AnasAlSharif0 Do you have verification for this? I believe infants dying is believable bc they’re dependent on breast milk/formula so assuming there’s no formula and if mom has died or can’t breastfeed, they go downhill quick. But what looks like a teenager/adult is a very different story. I.
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@Kahlissee You can literally see the guy run in front of the bulldozer which is clearly not targeting him (like people do in New York traffic). There are enough real problems in the world without using fake ones to make a point.
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@AvivaKlompas From what I remember, it wasn’t led by their son! He wanted to be a part of the mission and wasn’t allowed to. He did draw the army a diagram of the home so they knew exactly where to go in. And was apparently completely unsurprised by his mother being this brilliant.
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@Kramerite_DK @DrewPavlou I’m not saying he’d be popular (or even right) but everyone knows the NSA information now and nobody knows the supposed classified Gaza information because the owner of the information is dead, so one strategy is more effective than the other in achieving the goal.
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@aminedev07_ @AdinHaykin1 @Flossyyyyyy @danbh99 Yes, my grandparents held a Soviet passport. It said “Jew” under nationality. They weren’t ethnic Russian/Ukranian, so I ask again— where are we from as a people?.
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@HilzFuld One Jew was in Israel on October 6th. Avera Mengitsu, an Ethiopian Jewish man with severe mental illness who crossed into Gaza and has been held hostage for a decade.
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@TumpoRuo @ShimonLevit Do you know the history of the area at all? It was common in the Ottoman Empire for a landlord to own land and administer it from other countries (not live in it) while it was farmed by workers who lived there. That’s most of the land the Zionists bought in the first aliyahs.
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@beermesportball @_SonOfCormac @DrewPavlou Sure, if he wanted a verified report. But he could also just say something without verification which would have a much better chance of getting actual information out there than, once again, self immolation.
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@aziz0nomics This is also a great way to minimize causalities, both for the IDF and for Gazan civilians who have no reason to be in the tunnels but could be harmed by aerial fire.
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@DrewPavlou I mean, if we are the ones killing TikTok, I’d say we’re doing the world a public service? Not even from a China standpoint, but just because it annoys me lmao.
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@JakeWSimons @AntisemitismEye “I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.” —Golda Meir.
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@VerminusM @CensoredNws @hoaxvstruths What’s more likely— a massive coverup or somebody forgot to type the number 1 (turning 12 into 2)?.
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@RealDanSadan Side note— it annoys me so much that black and white checkers are “in” right now independent of this. Every time somebody’s wearing it I have to do a double take trying to figure out if they’re an antisemite or just trendy!.**me being funny, not a “real problem”.
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@Chusidel A friend of mine said that when the Palestine protesters were going to block the GW, the police stopped them and said “we can’t prevent you from getting onto the bridge but if you stop your car, we’re impounding it and arresting you” and tbh that’s how it should be.
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@beermesportball @_SonOfCormac @DrewPavlou He said something with absolutely no details to his friend with no idea whether he’d repeat it. If he had clearance, he could say something along the lines of “Unit X with ABC people is currently engaged with [particular mission] and here are the important people who know about.
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@aziz0nomics @orenbarsky Annexing the West Bank and Gaza would make Jews less than half of the population and given the higher birth rate of Arabs (not long ago, the average woman in Gaza had 8 children!), Jews would soon become a minority. The Arabs would vote for a non-Jewish government and Israel.
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@EdStar96403376 @AvivaKlompas It’s not forbidden to write it, but it is forbidden to destroy it. So if “God” was written on a piece of paper, it couldn’t be torn/thrown away. And obviously you can’t guarantee it, so we typically don’t write it out. The custom has translated to online.
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@HadiNasrallah Also, what do you think basically all of America is, sunshine and rainbows? If I said I was from New York, would you yell at me for not considering Native Americans who were there first?.She’s from Tel Aviv. Where do you want her hometown to be? Or do Jews not get one? Bizarre.
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@hannahrossbooks @ask_aubry This guys got real issues. Can you imagine visiting someone’s grave every single day for a decade after they died? He doesn’t accept that she’s dead and basically thinks she moved to the cemetery. It’s not fair to his current wife but this guy needs a lot of help.
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@Boglog5 @DylanBurns1776 Yup. Well documented; described in @simonmontefiore’s “Young Stalin.” AFAIK DNA tests showed the surviving child was related to his “legitimate”/claimed children and others in the village confirmed they were “together.”.
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@misandresther My mother didn’t have menstrual products growing up until the 1990s in the Soviet Union because they’re a “consumer product.” Many places around the world still don’t. I’m not saying it’s good or safe, but this is not a unique problem.
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@MosabHasanYOSEF This child likely did die of starvation/dehydration but it’s likely due to lack of appropriate tube feed or specialized food for his disability. It’s tragic for this child and he should have been evacuated to Egypt because providing for specific medical needs during a war like.
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@Alexisization So…. The Arab countries don’t want the Jews back. The Jews don’t want to go back to the Arab countries. But somehow this is your take?.
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@aziz0nomics You know how they call them suicide bombs? Yeah. Nobody’s calling them martyr bombs.
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@blakeflayton I swear all the leftists would absolutely love kibbutzim if they didn’t hate Jews so much!.
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@honigmaydl My mother grew up in Kiev. She didn’t have access toilet paperuntil the 90s. My grandmother’s job was considered “privileged” because she worked at a printing plant and could get unprinted newspaper to use as toilet paper so the ink didn’t transfer to your skin.
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@DrewPavlou It’s not antisemitic necessarily (I mean, I guess if you take it literally, but there’s no reason to believe it) but it is spectacularly poor phrasing to the point of being funny.
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@AyaRaalte “Goyim” isn’t a word I use to refer to Palestinians. I use it to refer to the white people next door who are cheering on the Palestinians (more accurately cheering on Hamas, but the sentence is pithier this way).
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@Footbal98204140 @HadiNasrallah From who? The land was bought and paid for. That makes the Jews quite poor at stealing, doesn’t it?.
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@DarkViperAU Hey, I’m not a doctor yet but this is not typical presentation for diabetes. Nerve damage usually occurs after years of poor sugar control, not as a first symptom and not suddenly. There are other conditions that would explain this that you should explore with a doc (including.
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@lilbuddymax @eljest_ Anecdotal, but I’ve never seen anyone who thought they were Ashkenazi Jewish not get 90+% Ashkenazi. People didn’t really convert in much until this last generation
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@machineiv What is the goal of locking up a young woman who is no harm to the government? It’s extremely expensive for the government and certainly a “bad image,” and even if Israel did want to “get rid of” Palestinians, this is a messy and expensive way to do it.
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@afalkhatib Do you think Arafat actually believed that and would have— had he gotten a state he was happy with— stopped there and governed in peace? I’ve always been under the impression that he said peace on one hand and terror on the other but curious to hear your thoughts about him.
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@VerminusM And for the 831st time, Ukraine had makeshift bomb shelters (the subway, basements) for civilians and the people had somewhere else to go (ie. could leave Ukraine). Neither of these things are true in Gaza, so it makes logical sense that causalities would be higher.
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@TheMossadIL @imshin If they don’t want Jews to “exploit rape,” a good way to prevent that might be to not rape so there’s nothing to “exploit.”.
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@GadSaad I was born for this!.Israel’s system strengthens America’s economy which funds Chinese research which led to the lab leak/COVID which caused mask wearing aka fascism aka Israel which caused immunity debt.
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@mattyglesias This is bizarre to me. My parents are immigrants and they talk about growing up and there’s always the undertone of “I’m so glad we aren’t there anymore.” .Practically, most kids who grew up in America would be horribly out of place in Palestine. This person wouldn’t want to go.
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@TPP_MD @ciirarref I have a family member who worked with him. The guy already had a swimming pool inside his house and he chose to work like a madhorse (he didn’t have to). This was a choice for power and more money, not trying to get away from an unfair system.
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@AdamAlbilya I’m genuinely fascinated by this. People/media portray somebody as an innocent civilian, the American left eats it up, and then Hamas or Hezbollah ruin it by going “yeah haha he was one of ours.”.
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@AdinHaykin1 Hey, by the UN’s definition, I qualify! My father left the USSR due to antisemitism and I can’t return due to a well-founded fear of persecution for my Jewish identity. Almost all Jews/Israelis qualify under that definition but none of us ID with the term precisely because of the.
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@aziz0nomics Yeah, this is awful. I will also say that Hamas operatives have appeared to be surrendering and then attacked. And this would all be avoided if Hamas wore uniforms. But I think everyone agrees that the IDF screwed up big time here.
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@KNerdvana No. The Jewish community at large would say something to the effect of “oh my god please do not do this, you aren’t helping anyone and you’re literally on fire.”.It may be noble to die for a cause, but he died for nothing.
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@arash_tehran I… what? Even if you want to something, how do you decide on boycotting Starbucks when it isn’t useful? Just go yell at the sky for the same effect and you get to have your PSL?.
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@wil_da_beast630 I don’t support right of return, but I do support compensation, provided the 900,000 Jews forced out of MENA countries get the same. I would also, on the subject, like to have back the bribes that my grandmother paid to get exit visas from the Soviet Union, to the tune of several.
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@angeloinchina First of all, zooming in on the guys arm, that’s clearly not the same symbol. Second, there are Ukrainian Jews. My family is from Ukraine. Third, no self-respecting Ukrainian would be a Nazi or support Hitler, no matter how antisemitic. Ukraine was absolutely decimated in WW2.
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@AshleyGWinter My husband and I met as EMTs during COVID! The pandemic meant my shift got moved to be with a friend of his (wingman) and we overlapped and talked about science. Said I love you a week later. Our first patient together was hammered and called him the n-word (he’s not black).
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@MaxCulbertson @capedjoosader @eljest_ Buddy, I’m Jewish, if you can’t tell. Saying I’m antisemitic for opposing Neturei Karta is like saying it’s against Christianity to lock up Warren Jeffs.
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@AviBittMD @amumu_lessthan3 There are also no settlers in the Gaza Strip. All Israeli settlements were withdrawn in 2005, as were IDF soldiers. Neither a settler nor a soldier could be there.
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@IBelizeit @afalkhatib @AnasAlSharif0 Thank you. It does look like there’s an underlying issue here. It could be dependence on tube feed, type 1 diabetes (insulin), etc. which is obviously horrible for her but also doesn’t imply a level of food scarcity that immediately endangers everyone to this extent. Not that.
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@AshleyGWinter I think the only answer is a nanny tbh (or paid backup care, but no daycare at all means less germs), but from what I’ve seen as a non-parent it goes from absolute hell to reasonable amount of illness around the 18 month mark so you’re almost there!.
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@ninaturner This operates under the assumption that all war is bad, and that no war is necessary to prevent further war and violence, which is a lovely but hopelessly optimistic way to look at the world. (The other option is antisemitism, which is less lovely but more often true).
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@hannahrossbooks @ask_aubry Definitely. But in his head, his first wife is still alive and this woman is trying to take her son away. It’s his responsibility to recognize that he’s the problem and his behavior makes no sense, but he’s not being a dick for fun.
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@ArrryyBarry @oliaklein Hey! I don’t think most of us “hate” Christians as a concept (I don’t know any Jews that do!) . I think a lot of us have negative experiences with Christians either being horribly antisemitic (saying we killed Jesus) or being nice with the intention of converting us, which makes.
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@hannahrossbooks @Daniel_Sugarman This was straight up made to solve two.problems. The Chinese would invade but slaughtering the Jews would presumably slow them down. The Jews didn’t volunteer for deportation to Siberia for the same reason nobody does and Stalin was just about to force it when he croaked.
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@aziz0nomics @orenbarsky The very right-wing solution is that Israel takes the land and the 5 million Arabs in it go to Jordan/Egypt. Ignoring the fact that this is horrible ethically, if we just air-dropped 5 million people into Jordan/Egypt, those countries would declare war. Unless Israeli women want.
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@oliaklein My parents have a very similar story and I 100% agree. The idea that I— given that I live comfortably and am a US citizen!— would be able to claim refugee status is an insult to actual refugees and the purpose of refugee status.
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@noodlekugelstan Converts are the most badass people in the world. Like, the process could not be longer and more complicated/expensive and y’all do it whereas I just got born and know almost nothing about Judaism. Not a huge fan of insincere “marriage converts” but real converts are a blessing.
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@HDE_Sheraby Girl, you are doing awesome. Weight loss is most sustainable at less than a pound a week which seems to be about where you are. It’s always really fast in the beginning bc of water, glycogen, etc but slowing down is 100% normal. You have plenty of time!.
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@hayxtt @nvojacek5 ….yes, the world was horrible. The world has been horrible to Jews and ignored our plight for about two thousand years. That’s much of why we need a state whose government is expressly committed to ensuring the safety of Jews including those of us in the diaspora.
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@ComradeChris01 @natalieisabutt @Wawi33180 @AdinHaykin1 What would have happened in the absence of such an agreement? Would Hitler have gone “oh okay, no Holocaust then?” Or would the death toll just be 6 million + 60 thousand?.
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@raz_sauber I don’t know that it hugely matters. There are children being killed in Gaza and Hamas exploits and encourages this for political gain, and it is not inconceivable that they would use fake babies. Speculating on whether one particular baby is fake is gauche at best.
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@Yampeleg This is medically impossible. It’s been too long since death, no surgeon to remove the organs, donor medical history unknown and likely no time to test, bullets/shrapnel in the body cavity, no OR to remove organs cleanly, no way to transport back to Israel quickly, etc etc.
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@adammaanit @AmiHorowitz Please God somebody either tell me this is a deepfake or show me unedited videos. This is so bananas it’s hard to believe even for me.
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@runliftrunlift I mean, they’re both hard things. I agree that marathon running is not going to make you look like the guy on the right, but I don’t think anyone is trying to get buff arms by running 100+ mile weeks, either. Presumably both men are happy with their bodies and training style.
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@Blooplup @AdinHaykin1 @AviBittMD Not Dr Avi but yeah there’s no way this was two weeks. Theoretically the corpse could have been eaten by animals but animals don’t keep the skeleton together like that.
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@etanadeeIL @afalkhatib @IDF I don’t think that’s fair to put on civilians. It’s like asking why Russians didn’t overthrow Stalin, and the answer is that people tried and were killed. Even if Gazans wanted to overthrow Hamas, there’s very little an ordinary person could do. Add to that very few people.
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@Pal_action I really don’t think Lord Balfour cares, and everyone else is getting a very different message than the one you’re trying to put out there.
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@Ron4California @SiaKordestani @benshapiro @VENTURASHERIFF @VenturaCountyDA You can see Paul and his wife about 20sec in. He’s wearing jeans and a button up and she’s wearing a brown backpack. My guess is that the areas roped off for the protest?.
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@DrEliDavid @afalkhatib “Why haven’t Gazans revolted” is a silly question. Even if they wanted to, they don’t exactly have the means. Why didn’t the people revolt against Stalin or Kim Jong Un or any other dictator? Because they can’t. People who would are terrified, starving, and misinformed.
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@juliaonatroika @Stanford Pretty sure they’re allowed to discriminate against your political affiliation if it’s with a recognized terrorist group but okay.
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@RomanoDeals @GoodVibePolitik Right? And even if this is all true, your responsibility as a hostage-keeper (other than not being a hostage-keeper🙄) is to take care of your hostages and release them if you can no longer do so!.
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@MrsPA_C Girl you are growing a whole ass human being, do not expect yourself to be sprinting.
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@MosabHasanYOSEF I don’t understand the question. Hamas members are and should be arrested (or killed). People not involved should not be deported. I suppose there /could/ be a conversation about Hamas POWs being deported, but where would they be sent to?.
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@avygal @Silmarils28 @AngryLevantine This is Yasser Arafat and his wife, both of whom claim(ed) to be Palestinian (except he was actually Egyptian, but whatever). In what universe is she not white but a Yemenite Jew is?
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