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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:34 pm :?:
Immanuel Can wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:38 pm "From the river to the sea," you mean?

Congratulations. You're an advocate of genocide. Well done. :roll:
AJ: …bring down that state.
Does not imply genocide though it likely implies or could imply military struggle. Changing a government ot causing a collapse is not ‘genocide’.
Oh. So you don't agree with the Palestinians on their rabid desire to kill the Jews. You just want the Jews moved out of the Middle East.

To where?
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:31 am
Immanuel Can wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:15 am
Gary Childress wrote: Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:08 pm

He has every right to chime in. If you read a few posts back, he lost someone he knew who was a journalist in the fighting.
I didn't.

Do you believe it? Why?
Well, I don't see why he would lie...
He/she is very much a posturer, if the past is any indicator. So do you have any proof of this, or are you just trusting the untrustworthy?
Gaza was in horrible shape before the attack.
Not so horrible, actually, except for being ruled brutally by Hamas. They had their territory and their independence, short of doing things like shooting rockets and slitting throats. Lots of people in the world have had it a lot worse.
Well not having adequate access to clean water is pretty bad.
Before they slaughtered the Jews, they had fresh water...supplied by Israel. Also their electricity...from the Jews.
...perhaps it is true that Hamas has played a large role in maintaining those conditions...
Not just that. Hamas assassinates dissenters of all kinds. As you can see, they're almost as brutal to their own people as they are to Jews. Life means nothing to them...that much should be abundantly clear.
One thing I am curious about is why the Netanyahu government supported Hamas.
Oh, that's easy. Israel has, for a long, long while now, wanted a two-state solution. Hamas was the "duly elected" choice of Palestinians in Gaza; and if democracy was to meaning anything in Gaza, that choice had to be respected, and the vote of the people had to be supported. But I'm quite sure that Israel let its longing for peace outstrip it good sense, in that. It's clear now that the Palestinians, and not just Hamas, but the great mass of them living there, were bent on a one-state "final solution to the Jewish problem."
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accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:08 am But what does any of this have to do with the burning alive of children? Raping and parading of young women? Beheading of babies?
WTF is wrong with you imbeciles? If you don't care then fuck off and have a political discussion on a political forum.
Many people seem to be in 'us' versus 'them' mode. That wouldn't be as scary if it weren't the case that we humans have gotten very clever at creating weapons of mass destruction. I suggest people try their best to reign in their hatred and animosity and think of the future of this planet that we all live on, along with other living beings. We humans cannot afford a third world war. An eye for an eye is not working very well. It's going to destroy us all.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:22 amOh. So you don't agree with the Palestinians on their rabid desire to kill the Jews. You just want the Jews moved out of the Middle East.

To where?
Wyoming?

Personally, I have no agenda and in that sense I have no desire. I don't think I have any power either to decide anything. My position is that of observer of a really strange enactment and rehearsal. One thing I have said, because I think it is true, is that Jewish history has not ended. And what I notice is that through those always tragic twists and turns of fate, which have never operated very favorably for the people of Israel, that on the cosmic chessboard Jewry put itself or was put in an untenable position. That is what we see playing out in front of us. Yet it has profound potential consequences for all of us. I would say that all Gentiles should take stock of this. That involves a deep and careful examination of the very innards of Judaic belief. Most will avoid it because it is such a hot and dangerous topic.

For all that it seemed that the reconquest of Judea would solve the Jewish historical problem, it has turned out (or is beginning to look like it might turn out) as a trap. Who did this? you might ask. Well, it seems to have been a combination of circumstances. I have noted, and you should be aware, that Christian Zionism predated the Jewish Zionist movement. And my assertion is that Christian Zionism can be examined and implicated in destructive actions that result in *bad fruit* ripening. That bad fruit is the military-political régime that runs Israel and has most strongly determined Israel's affairs for 70+ years.

It [CZ] can be seen as *heretical* insofar as its doctrines are all falsely linked to the Bible and to Bible prophecy. For this reason I suggest to readers here that they better understand Christian Zionism. However, jumping into all that requires entering as if you are a believer, which is a very strange thing to ask of people who do not believe (most who write on this forum). You have to participate to a degree in the system in order to be able to grasp how it operates.

So for example I continually *enter into* your bizarre and screwy belief-system just to be able to talk to you -- or at you as the case may be since you are incapable of listening & learning.

There are Evangelical Christians who oppose the tenets of Christian Zionism and they do so while remaining *committed Christians*. They are still within the belief system, but are opposing a sick and twisted perversion of Christian doctrines. (As you well know you are one of the sickest fucks I have ever come across and the root of your sickness is in your bizarre links to both Christian Zionism and Bible literalism, that in combination with various personality defects and a distorted intellectualism).

I will submit here that despite the fact that you say and pretend that you are a great friend to Jewry, that as a Christian Zionist you cannot be. And I suggest that people reading here take into consideration that many non-Christian Zionist Evangelicals believe that Christian Zionism is an expression, though occulted, of an antisemitic posture. Because in those dread Final Days Jewry will be wiped out and only a remnant will become Christians and then ascend to Heaven with Jesus and the rest of the flock. These are nut-case level hallucinations, naturally, and obviously none of this is going to happen at any point, ever. But because you are a self-confessed Christian fanatic you believe a whole group of different hallucinated beliefs, and these are part of a movement that can only be compared to mass hysteria, and you-plural are extremely powerful and have been, especially in American government since Eisenhower's presidency. All following American presidents have been influenced by Christian Zionist ideology (and heresy if one remains a Christian believer but rejects CZ).

Therefore, I suggest that it is Christian Zionist support [mostly by the US] of Israel that has contributed mightily to the creation of the conditions that have now ripened into this horrifying and consequential situation that could blow up at any moment. But you, you sick asshole, you fraud, you don't really care. If you did care, and if your ilk actually cared, you'd have reined in your religious madness and seen into the projecting psychology that you are so deeply committed to.

Is this getting any clearer?

You are a Great Inadvertent Teacher! If one devotes time to dismantling the fallacies and self-deceptions that have you so powerfully in their grip, one can employ you as a tool to achieve greater understanding and clarity.

Before any proposal could be made about *what to do with Israel* or what to do *about Israel*, the first order of business must necessarily be that of getting as clear as possible about what Israel is and what the entire situation is. The advantage we of philosophical inclination have is that we can, technically, undertake such a careful examination and try to see into the essence of the issue.

In this project you are totally and completely useless. How proud you must feel!
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Oh dear, accelafine ... oh dearie dear!

In the context of the issue "does Israel have a right to exist?" and my response that institutions are not people , which was illustrated with a couple of examples of countries that have been justly and mercifully replaced, your "Go live there then." is astounding in its crass and jarring banality.

If that is indicative of your ability to follow an argument, it suggests you are way out of your depth here.

As for countries whose citizens are leaving in large numbers, it's worth noting that nowadays Israel is one of them:
Since November 2022, following the Israeli elections, there has been a significant increase in the number of applications submitted for citizenship of European Union countries. A European citizenship would give its holders the opportunity to live, work and study throughout the EU. In recent months, there has been a 10 per cent increase in new Israeli applications for German citizenship
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231 ... -the-rise/
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:52 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:22 amOh. So you don't agree with the Palestinians on their rabid desire to kill the Jews. You just want the Jews moved out of the Middle East.

To where?
Wyoming?
It's a serious question. If you're going to push the Jews out of their rightful homeland, and you specify nowhere for them to go, then I guess you want to "push them into the sea." I think that was the objective in '48, and it didn't work out well.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:47 pm
accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:08 am But what does any of this have to do with the burning alive of children? Raping and parading of young women? Beheading of babies?
WTF is wrong with you imbeciles? If you don't care then fuck off and have a political discussion on a political forum.
Many people seem to be in 'us' versus 'them' mode. That wouldn't be as scary if it weren't the case that we humans have gotten very clever at creating weapons of mass destruction. I suggest people try their best to reign in their hatred and animosity and think of the future of this planet that we all live on, along with other living beings. We humans cannot afford a third world war. An eye for an eye is not working very well. It's going to destroy us all.
That's all very well, but how is it relevant here, and how would you suggest applying it?
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mickthinks wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:50 pm Oh dear, accelafine ... oh dearie dear!

In the context of the issue "does Israel have a right to exist?" and my response that institutions are not people , which was illustrated with a couple of examples of countries that have been justly and mercifully replaced, your "Go live there then." is astounding in its crass and jarring banality.

If that is indicative of your ability to follow an argument, it suggests you are way out of your depth here.

As for countries whose citizens are leaving in large numbers, it's worth noting that nowadays Israel is one of them:
Since November 2022, following the Israeli elections, there has been a significant increase in the number of applications submitted for citizenship of European Union countries. A European citizenship would give its holders the opportunity to live, work and study throughout the EU. In recent months, there has been a 10 per cent increase in new Israeli applications for German citizenship
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231 ... -the-rise/
Perhaps it's 'indicative' of not being arsed to read your shallow, biased nothingness? You don't appear to have anything to offer in any respect, apart from arrogant, sneering smarminess. It was a perfectly valid suggestion. Why wouldn't you want to live in those countries? What a condescending nonentity you are. What on earth is your point here? Israeliis are applying to work in Europe? OMG. That's incredible.
Oh 'dearie dear' indeed.
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Why would it be necessary to understand the nitty gritties of Israeli politics or even any of its history whatsoever to know that beheading babies and burning families alive are evil acts?
Genuinely curious :?
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accelafine wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:14 am
Gary Childress wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:47 pm
accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:08 am But what does any of this have to do with the burning alive of children? Raping and parading of young women? Beheading of babies?
WTF is wrong with you imbeciles? If you don't care then fuck off and have a political discussion on a political forum.
Many people seem to be in 'us' versus 'them' mode. That wouldn't be as scary if it weren't the case that we humans have gotten very clever at creating weapons of mass destruction. I suggest people try their best to reign in their hatred and animosity and think of the future of this planet that we all live on, along with other living beings. We humans cannot afford a third world war. An eye for an eye is not working very well. It's going to destroy us all.
That's all very well, but how is it relevant here, and how would you suggest applying it?
Why do you suggest that other posters here "don't care" about children burning alive and young women being raped?
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accelafine wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:05 am Why would it be necessary to understand the nitty gritties of Israeli politics or even any of its history whatsoever to know that beheading babies and burning families alive are evil acts?
Genuinely curious :?
Yeah, cause there's no way possible to think those actions of Hamas were evil and be critical also of Israel's policies and actions. There's no way to think that. It...would like hurt something in the brain. Like the effort or maybe the lack of oversimplification....like having to think of dead Palestinian children and...even just see if another....wow it's like an ice pick. Whew I'm back. Pick a team, hate the other team, any criticism of my team, that is a nazi woke person. Oh, this is so gentle and nice.

Damn, those moments were so frustrating.

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Israel hasn't committed the deliberate, targeted, premeditated, slow torture of children and entire families. It has paraded raped women through the streets. Many children died in WW11, but the horror that stands out for most normal people is the extermination camps. The deliberate, hateful, targeted cruelty at the hands of an insane cult. Why would this need to be explained to you? The fact that you say 'Palestinian' children says it all. 'Palestinian' is a political term only. Where is 'Palestine'? Why not 'Ottomans'? Gazans? Or just Arabs?
Your 'faux concern' is so transparent it's embarrassing. The woke really don't have a clue how obvious they are to others. You are like those people who say 'Meh. Children die in car accidents every day. What's the difference?' How does anyone answer 'that'? In other words 'I don't actually give a shit about anyone'. Just be honest.
You do realise that the horrors of Oct 7 were committed the day AFTER a ceasefire that Hamas agreed to don't you? Every single one of those 'Palestinian' children you 'faux care' about have died at the hands of Hamas--NOT Israel.
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Sometimes humans do something that's so depraved and evil that pschopaths have to make up stories that claim it never happened. They do this as a way to hide their own complete absence of humanity. The thought of actual humans being united in a shared pain and empathy is abhorrent and disturbing to them.
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Iwannaplato wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:09 am
accelafine wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:05 am Why would it be necessary to understand the nitty gritties of Israeli politics or even any of its history whatsoever to know that beheading babies and burning families alive are evil acts?
Genuinely curious :?
Yeah, cause there's no way possible to think those actions of Hamas were evil and be critical also of Israel's policies and actions.
There would be. But it wouldn't be easy to say how you'd do it with any equity, or with any chance of success.

Hamas killed 1400 innocent civilians...men, women, children, babies, grandmothers...with rape, torture, disembowling, burning, shooting...and still has 240 innocent civilian hostages -- or maybe only 238, since two more were found dead today. And they're still shooting rockets, and trying to kill the Israelis. Meanwhile, they throw their own people into harm's way in order to protect themselves, and shoot their own civilians when they heed Israeli warnings and try to leave the danger areas.

So if you can tell Israel how to deal with these people, who have sworn to die killing Jews and will kill themselves and all their own people in a heartbeat, so that Israel can deal with them in a more humane way, I'm sure Israel will listen. For it does not serve Israeli interests to be involved in civilian deaths of either side, and Israel would gladly solve their problem with no further loss of civilian life.

So what do you want them to do, that Hamas will allow them to do?
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Immanuel Can wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:56 pm
Iwannaplato wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:09 am
accelafine wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:05 am Why would it be necessary to understand the nitty gritties of Israeli politics or even any of its history whatsoever to know that beheading babies and burning families alive are evil acts?
Genuinely curious :?
Yeah, cause there's no way possible to think those actions of Hamas were evil and be critical also of Israel's policies and actions.
There would be. But it wouldn't be easy to say how you'd do it with any equity, or with any chance of success.

Hamas killed 1400 innocent civilians...men, women, children, babies, grandmothers...with rape, torture, disembowling, burning, shooting...and still has 240 innocent civilian hostages -- or maybe only 238, since two more were found dead today. And they're still shooting rockets, and trying to kill the Israelis. Meanwhile, they throw their own people into harm's way in order to protect themselves, and shoot their own civilians when they heed Israeli warnings and try to leave the danger areas.

So if you can tell Israel how to deal with these people, who have sworn to die killing Jews and will kill themselves and all their own people in a heartbeat, so that Israel can deal with them in a more humane way, I'm sure Israel will listen. For it does not serve Israeli interests to be involved in civilian deaths of either side, and Israel would gladly solve their problem with no further loss of civilian life.

So what do you want them to do, that Hamas will allow them to do?
Okay, there are any number of evangelical Christians who are rooting for the Jews here because it fits into their understanding of the Second Coming...."End Times".

But then the part where these Jews on Judgment Day are then tossed into Hell because they refuse to accept Jesus Christ as their own personal savior? Same with Hamas of course. They all worship the same God, but only the True Christians will be saved.

Jesus Christ is a Jew. Jesus Christ is God. But come Judgment Day IC is saved and the Bibi is damned?

A little help here, please.

Then this part: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleea ... index.html

Then the fanatical extremists from both sides: "They started it!", "Praise the God of Abraham!!", "The Christians are next!!!"
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