jakelafort

@ Jake

Someone who does not hate Jews is not an antisemite. I don’t hate Jews. The punch line of that syllogism is obvious.

If you are sure I’m an antisemite, say so.

Reminder, though, from this forum’s guidelines:

6. Defamation. You may say anything you like, no matter how offensive or unflattering, provided you demonstrate the charge is…[Read more]

Some more of the history around the Oslo Accord.

Netanyahu’s government is hiding behind Hamas human shields to protect their pogrom against average Palestinian human beings from humanitarian criticism.

Israel cops aid attackers derailing aid for trapped Palestinians.

jakelafort wrote:
Is there any school that will experiment with critical thinking as a primary component of education?

I would hope that any truly critical thinker would not want Israel to respond to Hamas’s barbarism with even more extreme barbarism, as they seem to be doing now.

Netanyahu, currently facing a potential war crimes tribunal along…[Read more]

@ Enco

So, do Iranians hate and want to murder every last Jew or not? Your depiction is of a country that wants to join the civilized nations, it would seem.

_Robert_ wrote:
Sorry, but the Hamas government didn’t sign-up for or abide by any international conventions or treaties.

If the other side is unethical, that gives you permission to be just a bad or hit them back ten times harder (Trump). That’s a prescription for a world with NO standards of behavior.

So, I think I can summarize your p…[Read more]

Interesting analysis of the song Error which opens with a series of ones and zeroes. Turns out, they actually mean something. Find out what:

Say it. Say that Israel is justified in engaging in war crimes.

BTW, the ICC is looking into issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leader Sinwar:

@ Jake

Jeez, if you think war crimes are justified in this particular case, just say so or stop yer fricken whining. You can’t turn a turd into tiramisu through sheer quantity of verbiage, though that seems to be your strategy: an attempted proof by word count. “See, I wrote a lot so that proves I must be right!”

Withholding water: War crime or…[Read more]

@ Reg

I was not referring specifically to you. An undercurrent in the discussion of the others seems to be that I’m just ignorant of the long history of the persecution of Jews. I grew up with Jews. Have had many a Jewish friend along the way. Eaten at Jewish dinner tables, attended services in a local synagogue, had many Jewish doctors, and on…[Read more]

Why does everyone think that if you point out something bad about Israel that you are totally ignorant of the history of Jewish persecution?

No, I was not implying that pointing out any heavy-handed military behavior by the IDF implied an ignorance of the history of Jewish persecution. What I said was that much of the rhetoric that inflames…[Read more]

Why have so many of you lost your senses and abandoned logic and empathy when it comes to this conflict? I’ve been called antisemitic (which should be contrary to our guidelines, moderators) whereas, while my points are based on logic and evidence, most of the contrary posts draw from a deep well of hatred for Muslims.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Let’s see how long it takes before Israel is blamed for the helicopter crash in Iran today.

So far, it’s being blamed on fog and flying in mountainous terrain. But even if Iran fabricates a lie and blames Israel, to the extent that it’s believable that would be due to past Israeli actions against highly-placed I…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
So…are you pointing out that the creation of Israel has caused and/or inflamed a lot of the antisemitism we see today? Jews were persecuted long before the creation of Israel. Political Islam inflamed much of the antisemitism of the last few decades. Political Islam is better known by its regular name, Islam. Much o…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, Did any of this talk about Israeli torture include links to the tortures committed by Hamas on October 7th, not to mention standard operating procedure in all of Israel’s neighbors? After October 7th, a lot of the #MeToo and #BelieveAllWomen crowd suddenly switched hashtags to #IsraelWoreTheSkirtTooTight.

Enco, y…[Read more]

Let’s see how long it takes before Israel is blamed for the helicopter crash in Iran today.

So…are you pointing out that the creation of Israel has caused and/or inflamed a lot of the antisemitism we see today?

Jews were persecuted long before the creation of Israel.  Political Islam inflamed much of the antisemitism of the last few decades. Political Islam is better known by its regular name, Islam. Much of the rhetoric that in…[Read more]

Here is the link…..

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-18/ty-article-static/.premium/what-happened-on-oct-7/0000018e-c1b7-dc93-adce-eff753020000

I don’t think the “Middle East” has had much of a say in the creation of its own borders.