Yeah....right.No it isn't. Just plain old rhertoric.
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Yeah....right.No it isn't. Just plain old rhertoric.
Wow. A forum post that gets people thinking. Now that is a great idea.But when you use language like “Hamas exists because of the oppression” it makes people start to wonder
Hardly the same as trying to eliminate all Palestinians though.Take no prisoners it appears.
Excerpted....Israeli Leaders Vow to Wipe Hamas ‘Off the Face of the Earth’
The comments signal Israel may be entering final preparations for what officials believe could be an invasion of Gaza.time.com
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hours after forming an emergency government and wartime cabinet, foreshadowed a major ground attack on Gaza by promising to destroy Hamas.
“Every Hamas terrorist is a dead man,” Netanyahu said at a late-night briefing, flanked by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Benny Gantz, the leader of an opposition party.
We won't be able to get them all but we can do great damage to their ability to carry out such a large-scale attack.To be clear, I'm making a distinction between Palestinian civilians, and members of Hamas. All members of Hamas must be dealt with, for example by imprisoning them for life. This terrorist organization must be utterly destroyed, even the leaders sitting in cushy hotels a thousand miles away from the war.
The world has left it to Israel to perform this task, and much of the world complains about how Israel is going about it.
Fine, the world needs to step up and finish the job for Israel. Easy Peasy.
Never claimed.Hardly the same as trying to eliminate all Palestinians though.
Me as well. That includes terrorism groups like ISIS , Boko Haram , and the Taliban.I'd like to see a world without Hamas in it.
And a solid reminder as to who had started the latest significant rounds of violence and killing.Context matters!
Was it Israel, who ramped up violenceAnd a solid reminder as to who had started the latest significant rounds of violence and killing.
So it seems.Well to be blunt I don't really try to remember too much history because it is water under the bridge gone by and can't affect the present .
Does the latest also include thousands of missiles fired into Israel?Was it Israel, who ramped up violence
against Palestinians in 2022 to the highest
level in 2 decades?
Its true that a lot of people don't understand or trust Israel, but it is about funding and keeping US money from flowing out, and its about evangelicals in USA.
Well, I sort of wonder if I am like lone citizen in America who generally seems to admire that country, with some exceptions, for actual secular reasons. The rest of the Left, (if I am on the left, who knows) obviously is not really on board with that. By this, I mean that is obvious, to me, that the Jews have an admirable reputation for being educated. Their population in Israel goes through the trouble of bothering to learn English, for example. They've probably written some of the better books that I have read. For how small a percentage of the world population they are, they seem to produce a lot of thinkers who spur on tangible progress in the worldConsider that its evangelicals overwhelmingly supporting Trump (who is extremely loathed). It is evangelicals who have caused Roe v. Wade to be reversed. Its evangelicals that vote red lately. This is about American politics. It is about reaching the US evangelical.
The history of Christians and Jews is hotly contested by many incorrect factions and schools and ignorantes. We have heard many propositions here on RF. The great Isaac Asimov traitor to God and to religion knew better than to claim an understanding of it but only went as far as creating a fictional analogy in his Foundation series. Its an idea he has but a complete fiction, yet it is one of the best propositions available. The actual history is unavailable though for the most surprising reason.The connection to the Evangelicals is what is elusive to me, and seems like that something that is sort of recent. I don't think that Christians historically really got along with Jews all that well. I can dig up some quotes by Justin Martyr if you like, who I had read, and point to the history of the Black Death. Large spans of history probably happened, without this sort more recent Evangelical concern. How did early Christians understand the destruction of the 2nd temple?
It's a series of events, each of whichDoes the latest also include thousands of missiles fired into Israel?
Like I said, I am skeptical about the use of the term oppression. I think different forces can oppress people, but I just don't know it can be simplified to 'group a oppresses group b,' unless you know, actual enslavement is occurring. It just is very, very simple - too simple of a way to think of it. The idea, on the other hand, that the individual / or group can incur the change they need, is theoretically possible because a) enslavement is absent and b), there is something about humans that is elusive and capable of ingenuity, in that they are not entirely the product of material conditions.I have no doubt. Those people by majority have been living under apartheid and oppression the majority of their lives. That is what makes the situation so dangerous. Abusing people for so long will turn human beings into monsters.
What is sick, is israel is ruining the integrity of Judaism and Jews because of the apartheid, oppression and illegal occupation.
I think that modern technology, from the printing press to the search engine, has arguably marked out the production of a seriously more tangible from of history, yes, if that it was you're driving at. We don't have any video footage of Genghis Khan or his armies, so in a sense, there is layer, or many layers, of imagination that irrevocably have to work as your epistemological elevator toward understanding such things.It is unavailable, because the actual history does not matter. The birthday of Jesus is unknown. There is no statue or portrait of him, nor of Moses, nor of Abraham. In truth only principles matter, and it is the mind which matters not the history. History does matter though.
I'm a landlord. I've had many tenants.
At times there have been disputes.
Oh, they can get nasty.
Alas, I can't exterminate them.
So I'm stuck trying to achieve peaceful coexistence.
How?
Understand their feelings, their complaints,
their wants, & their needs. From this I've
crafted optimum but imperfect solutions.
This approach is worth considering when
hostile parties will inevitably have to live
together, or at least in close proximity.
I like the idea of having a landlord for the middle east A secular one...