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    14 hours ago

    Spoken like a true bigot. Good luck with that 👍

    A predictive model is only as accurate as it’s underlying assumptions. Leftists are floundering on the Palestine issue because they don’t actually want to understand the opposing side. They’re just chasing the dopamine rush of feeling like they’re right, always - kind of like religious fundamentalists.



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    16 hours ago

    You’ve gone from “the Christian right only believes this because” to “quite a few weirdos I have met personally”, and I’m the one doing mental acrobatics?

    You’re painting with the same broad brush right wingers do when they say all leftists are gay furry terrorists.

    Do you want to understand your enemy, or just demonize them?











  • For the record, I think Bibi and most of his government belong in prison. Bibi is a fascist - but so are most Palestinians, for lack of a better word. I think Israel (as well as America, Europe and the Arab states) should pay reparations to all Palestinians who can demonstrate that they personally have been permanently displaced from land that Israelis have settled on, because it IS a humanitarian crisis - partly of their own creation.

    But I’m also realistic about arab/islamic nationalism, and how those states treat their ethnic and religious minorities. I support Kurdish independence for the same reason. I support the Christians in Lebanon - I went to school with some in the early 2000’s who were forced from their homes by the same “freedom fighters” who make common cause with Hamas today. Being a non-arab, non-muslim in the Muslim/Arab world is a mortal danger.

    There is no scenario where Israel doesn’t exist, and Jewish people in the middle east aren’t subjected to exactly the kind of genocide that you’re accusing Israelis of perpetrating and has been perpetrating against Jews and Christians in living memory, to say nothing of the last thousand years. Some might even call these accusations projection.

    If that makes me literally Hitler, then we really don’t have anything to discuss. My side keeps winning. Total Israeli capitulation isn’t ever going to happen. Israel is here to stay. When certain parties finally accept that reality, maybe we can start making moves towards a lasting peace, but that peace will never include simply throwing open the gates and letting the barbarians sack Israel as they did in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen, Sudan and elsewhere.