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The world would have made Israel stop if the fundamental reason for the war was removed.
Like the Ukraine situation, then? Where’s “the world” on that one? Are they going to make Putin stop?
No, nor will they make Bibi stop. As long as there’s a damn radical muzzy somewhere to blame for land grab-by-genocide, it’s business as usual.
Fear is a wonderful tool. Justifiable fear is downright nuclear. It makes people rationalize heinous acts.
 
The world would have made Israel stop if the fundamental reason for the war was removed.
Like the Ukraine situation, then? Where’s “the world” on that one? Are they going to make Putin stop?
No, nor will they make Bibi stop. As long as there’s a damn radical muzzy somewhere to blame for land grab-by-genocide, it’s business as usual.
Fear is a wonderful tool. Justifiable fear is downright nuclear. It makes people rationalize heinous acts.
Shit, I sometimes wish Canada would invade us just to get rid of Donnie and give us universal health care….
 
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It's been there from the very start.

Most of the time they have simply oppressed the non-Muslims, especially the Jews. Occasional pogroms have happened basically everywhere, though.

Just because the Nazis got in on the antisemitism game doesn't mean it's exclusive to them.

You appear to be implying that the Nazis got the idea to "kill all Jews" from Muslims. Are you? If so, that's a form of Holocaust denial. You are shifting the responsibility and the blame for the most horrific slaughter and crime against humanity from the white Christian Europeans who committed it to brown Muslim Arabs who never even attempted it.
Why does it have to be in either direction?

It doesn't "have to be" in either direction.

But lying about who got the idea to "kill all Jews" is lying, no matter which direction you are claiming it went.
Nazis got the idea to "kill all Jews". They pursued that course of action and succeeded in killing over 6 million Jews in less than a decade.
I don't see why you're going on about lying. I never said the Nazis got it from the Muslims, merely that both had it. Antisemitism has been popular for a long time, I see no reason to think either got it from the other. Jews were the biggest out-group in Europe and there is the historical legacy that they were bankers because the others were prohibited from doing so. Of course they were a target.

If you want to make the claim that a Muslim State got the same idea and pursued it, post the evidence that supports your position. Don't just say it happened, show that it happened.

And while you're at it, show us the evidence Palestinian Jews were enslaved by their Christian and Muslim Palestinian neighbors. if you actually found some. But if all you have is bullshit and blather, don't bother posting it. All that does is clutter up the thread with nonsense.
Jews in most of the world were like blacks between the Civil War and the civil rights era. Not enslaved, but definitely second class citizens.
Jews have been convenient bogeymen for a long time. Especially since the Christian proscription on "usury" meant that bankers were non-Christian, which generally meant Jewish.

Which is why Europe became the hotbed for virulent anti-Semitism, not Palestine.

Learn some history, Loren. Europe was where Jews were locked up at night. Europe is where they were targeted for abuse, torture, expulsion, and murder. Europe is where a State got the idea to "kill all Jews" and made one hell of an effort to do it.

I know you dislike criticizing white folks, but the white Christian Europeans are the ones who tried to "kill all Jews". Lying about that does a disservice to everyone.
I don't know what you're going on about because you're not presenting any refutation. Yes, Jews were treated badly in Europe. That is in no way an indication they weren't treated badly elsewhere.

Obviously minor, but one I stumbled on recently:


(In regard to Jewish purchase of some farmland)
translation said:
In the summer of 1876, a meeting was held in the town of Sakab, known as “Sakab Night,” at the guesthouse of Sheikh Raja Mustafa Al-Ayasra to discuss the issue of Jewish land acquisitions in eastern Jordan. The meeting included sheikhs and notables from the Bani Hassan tribe and some northern Jordanian tribes, chaired by Sheikh Muflih Ubeidat, “Abu Kaid,” the sheikh of Kfar Som. The attendees decided to attack the two Jewish settlements with whatever weapons they had, and indeed, the fighters burned the settlements of Rahil and Khirbet Aybta, expelling the Jews from the area. They then proceeded to Salt and burned the third settlement, Kfar Yehuda.

That's a Jordanian paper, it presents no reason for the action other than that they were Jews. That's what you say wasn't happening.
Ffs, Loren, did you not read your own article?

The very first paragraph says

In order to understand what Kayed al-Mufleh did, we have to go back in history for decades, as the movement of Sheikh Kayed al-Mufleh al-Obaidat came in defense of Palestine and Jordan against the ambitions of the Jews and Zionists in the Jordanian lands.

"[A]gainst the ambitions of Jews and Zionists in the Jordanian lands", not to "kill all Jews"
You failed to note the context. Their only "wrong" was daring to purchase some land and farm it. They triggered the attack by existing. You are blaming them for triggering the attack, thus you're in effect blaming them for existing.

And the second paragraph talks about the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, the secret treaty between France and the United Kingdom with the backing of other European powers on the division of the region between France and Britain, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that proposed dividing the region between European Zionist immigrants and the Palestinian population, and the call for the annexation of Transjordan to a proposed Jewish State. So, yeah, there was plenty of reason for the locals to work against the ambitions of Jews and Zionists on Jordanian lands.

And the third paragraph has this:

Tens of thousands of copies of Jabotinsky's poem were distributed, in which it is stated: "The Jordan River has two banks, one for us and the other for us; the religious feeling of the Jews was united, and the Zionists forgot their differences. This is what made Mufleh Al-Obeidat and his son Kayed Al-Mufleh Al-Obeidat and the patriots with him to confront these historical ambitions

No where in any of that is a call to "kill all Jews".

And nothing in that article is anything close to the bigotry, hate, and planning of mass murder the Nazis engaged in.
I didn't say that particular incident was about killing Jews. Rather, it was about burning them out for the crime of being there.
 
Of course there would have been retaliation. Which, in more normal times would have forced Hamas to release the hostages and things would have petered out over time. I’m not claiming that this would have resolved tensions in Israel. I am saying that the continued fighting has something behind it other than Israel extracting revenge.
Hamas has never been forced to release hostages except by being beaten in combat.
Why is this happening? Who is pulling the strings? This conflict has split the Democratic party and I believe crippled them so that they lost to Trump. Trump is neither smart enough or rich enough to have instigated this. Everyone knows that Trump does not keep his promises.
I see no reason to think it was about US politics. The terrorists can not tolerate too much peace, it weakens their grip. And Iran did not want Israel making up with Saudi Arabia. And Russia wanted a distraction.
 
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The hatred so many Americans have for Palestinians is just disgusting. Natanyahu's latest war has killed at least 100,000 Palestinians -- likely much more when indirect deaths are included -- yet apologists for the war criminals complain that Israeli captives are being fed the same starvation diets as their captors.
Hamas doesn't claim nearly that many

This has already been explained to you, with links. Hamas only counts identified bodies. They don't count all those buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Hamas has listed 10,000 buried in the rubble. Which strangely does not change.

And Wikipedia is not a remotely credible source on things like this
That figure doesn't come from wikipedia. It comes from the United Nations.
As I said, Wikipedia links to sources that say what they say it says. That doesn't make the UN right.
 
Of course there would have been retaliation. Which, in more normal times would have forced Hamas to release the hostages and things would have petered out over time. I’m not claiming that this would have resolved tensions in Israel. I am saying that the continued fighting has something behind it other than Israel extracting revenge.
Hamas has never been forced to release hostages except by being beaten in combat.
Why is this happening? Who is pulling the strings? This conflict has split the Democratic party and I believe crippled them so that they lost to Trump. Trump is neither smart enough or rich enough to have instigated this. Everyone knows that Trump does not keep his promises.
I see no reason to think it was about US politics. The terrorists can not tolerate too much peace, it weakens their grip. And Iran did not want Israel making up with Saudi Arabia. And Russia wanted a distraction.
In giving us Trump, they, whoever they is, had a useful idiot who is so idiotic it would be difficult to know how much of his fuck ups were being guided by malevolent powers and how much is simple incompetence and lack of any moral compass whatsoever.
 
I largely agree with you ( minus seeing a lot of Americans hating Palestinians— not sure I agree) but I take issue with you calling this Netanyahu’s war: Hamas started this and could have ended it by releasing the hostages. So it is imo, wrong to blame all of this on Netanyahu. He’s despicable, yes. But Hamas does not have even a millimeter of high ground here. Both sides are despicable. Both sides are responsible for thousands of deaths and the starvation of hundreds of thousands. Both Netanyahu and Hamas need to go.
Except that starvation of hundreds of thousands isn't happening. Every "victim" Hamas manages to find turns out to have medical causes. And to the extent it exists at all it's because 90% of the aid was being diverted.
You are conflating your conjectures with fact.

The effects of the 3 month blockade of food and medicine by Israel has been documented by numerous NGOs in threads in which you participate. Malnutrition exacerbates medical issues, especially in children and the old.

You have seen a report of a study by Isreali military officers saying the UN program of aid is effective. And a report by USAID there is little evidence that aid diversion by Hamas is systemic.

Your credibility diminishes further with each mendacious response.
It's been documented by nobody. You report out of Gaza, you say what Hamas wants you to say.

What I'm looking at is the dog that didn't bark. Hamas has still failed to produce images of anyone starving other than for medical reasons. I find it beyond credibility that they perfectly well can find the medical ones but are apparently utterly incapable of finding any others. The only way this makes any sense is if there are no others to be found.
 
It's been there from the very start.

Most of the time they have simply oppressed the non-Muslims, especially the Jews. Occasional pogroms have happened basically everywhere, though.

Just because the Nazis got in on the antisemitism game doesn't mean it's exclusive to them.

You appear to be implying that the Nazis got the idea to "kill all Jews" from Muslims. Are you? If so, that's a form of Holocaust denial. You are shifting the responsibility and the blame for the most horrific slaughter and crime against humanity from the white Christian Europeans who committed it to brown Muslim Arabs who never even attempted it.
Why does it have to be in either direction?

It doesn't "have to be" in either direction.

But lying about who got the idea to "kill all Jews" is lying, no matter which direction you are claiming it went.
Nazis got the idea to "kill all Jews". They pursued that course of action and succeeded in killing over 6 million Jews in less than a decade.
I don't see why you're going on about lying. I never said the Nazis got it from the Muslims, merely that both had it. Antisemitism has been popular for a long time, I see no reason to think either got it from the other. Jews were the biggest out-group in Europe and there is the historical legacy that they were bankers because the others were prohibited from doing so. Of course they were a target.

If you want to make the claim that a Muslim State got the same idea and pursued it, post the evidence that supports your position. Don't just say it happened, show that it happened.

And while you're at it, show us the evidence Palestinian Jews were enslaved by their Christian and Muslim Palestinian neighbors. if you actually found some. But if all you have is bullshit and blather, don't bother posting it. All that does is clutter up the thread with nonsense.
Jews in most of the world were like blacks between the Civil War and the civil rights era. Not enslaved, but definitely second class citizens.
Jews have been convenient bogeymen for a long time. Especially since the Christian proscription on "usury" meant that bankers were non-Christian, which generally meant Jewish.

Which is why Europe became the hotbed for virulent anti-Semitism, not Palestine.

Learn some history, Loren. Europe was where Jews were locked up at night. Europe is where they were targeted for abuse, torture, expulsion, and murder. Europe is where a State got the idea to "kill all Jews" and made one hell of an effort to do it.

I know you dislike criticizing white folks, but the white Christian Europeans are the ones who tried to "kill all Jews". Lying about that does a disservice to everyone.
I don't know what you're going on about because you're not presenting any refutation. Yes, Jews were treated badly in Europe. That is in no way an indication they weren't treated badly elsewhere.

Obviously minor, but one I stumbled on recently:


(In regard to Jewish purchase of some farmland)
translation said:
In the summer of 1876, a meeting was held in the town of Sakab, known as “Sakab Night,” at the guesthouse of Sheikh Raja Mustafa Al-Ayasra to discuss the issue of Jewish land acquisitions in eastern Jordan. The meeting included sheikhs and notables from the Bani Hassan tribe and some northern Jordanian tribes, chaired by Sheikh Muflih Ubeidat, “Abu Kaid,” the sheikh of Kfar Som. The attendees decided to attack the two Jewish settlements with whatever weapons they had, and indeed, the fighters burned the settlements of Rahil and Khirbet Aybta, expelling the Jews from the area. They then proceeded to Salt and burned the third settlement, Kfar Yehuda.

That's a Jordanian paper, it presents no reason for the action other than that they were Jews. That's what you say wasn't happening.
Ffs, Loren, did you not read your own article?

The very first paragraph says

In order to understand what Kayed al-Mufleh did, we have to go back in history for decades, as the movement of Sheikh Kayed al-Mufleh al-Obaidat came in defense of Palestine and Jordan against the ambitions of the Jews and Zionists in the Jordanian lands.

"[A]gainst the ambitions of Jews and Zionists in the Jordanian lands", not to "kill all Jews"
You failed to note the context. Their only "wrong" was daring to purchase some land and farm it. They triggered the attack by existing. You are blaming them for triggering the attack, thus you're in effect blaming them for existing.

And the second paragraph talks about the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, the secret treaty between France and the United Kingdom with the backing of other European powers on the division of the region between France and Britain, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that proposed dividing the region between European Zionist immigrants and the Palestinian population, and the call for the annexation of Transjordan to a proposed Jewish State. So, yeah, there was plenty of reason for the locals to work against the ambitions of Jews and Zionists on Jordanian lands.

And the third paragraph has this:

Tens of thousands of copies of Jabotinsky's poem were distributed, in which it is stated: "The Jordan River has two banks, one for us and the other for us; the religious feeling of the Jews was united, and the Zionists forgot their differences. This is what made Mufleh Al-Obeidat and his son Kayed Al-Mufleh Al-Obeidat and the patriots with him to confront these historical ambitions

No where in any of that is a call to "kill all Jews".

And nothing in that article is anything close to the bigotry, hate, and planning of mass murder the Nazis engaged in.
I didn't say that particular incident was about killing Jews. Rather, it was about burning them out for the crime of being there.
Well, in that case, it's obvious you didn't read the article.

It is also obvious you are straining to shift the goalposts. Don't hurt yourself, they're not going to move.

DrZiodberg made an unsupported assertion about Muslims getting over "anti-Israel tribalism" and said it was "an improvement over the old idea, i.e. "kill all Jews"

I asked when was "kill all Jews" the idea of Muslim states, reminded folks the Nazis were Christians and Nazi Germany was in Europe, pointed out the Palestinians weren't interested in killing all Jews and neither were the Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, etc.

You jumped in to support DrZoidberg's posts but have utterly failed to provide any evidence that "kill all Jews" was an idea held by a Muslim state at any time.

Do you have evidence anyone besides the Nazis had the idea to "kill all Jews"? If so, then post it.
 
Here's a good video for No Holy Cows. It's a military academic talking about this war.



To sum it up in short.

This war is unique. Never before has a side in a war intentionally put it's own civilians in harms way. The Palestinian civilians are trapped in Gaza. That is also, almost unique. When there's a war in an urban area, civilians always get the fuck out. There was a siege in the Philipines in 1945 that was similar. Another unique factor. Never before has a defender had 20 years to prepare for a modern urban seige. And never before has that preparation, intentionally, locked out civilians in order to put them at risk. When defensive measures are taken, it's specifically to protect civilians first. That's, in every other case in history, the top priority. Not in this war. The objective of any war is to present overwhelming force and neutralise the enemies fighting capabilities. According to all rules of war, Israel is doing great.

He also mentions a bunch of stuff that we've already mentioned. Like that calculating the number of dead in the middle of a war zone is impossible. And that Hamas uses child soldiers. Making it a bit weird to count the child then as a child victim. If someone is shooting at a soldier, that soldier will shoot back. Regardless of age. And that lying about number is a standard military psychological warfare method. And that Israel isn't doing interviews, to explain their side of the story, because people are too caught up in their hatred for Jews to care. They're not wrong.

He also mentions something that I hadn't heard. But that's that Hamas was using the UN aid, and to distribute it in a way, to force Palestinian civilians to have to stay in places that were strategically valuable. To act as human shields in Northern Gaza. While Israel wanted to move Palestinians to southern Gaza... out of harms way. The only way to do that was to shut off UN aid and set up their own aid distribution. Which they then did. Hamas then did everything they could to disrupt the USAID distribution system. Including forbidding Gazans to take the aid. Any Gazan who takes USAID has been threatened with stiff penalties after the war if they take it. He repeated that there was a 11 week period when Gazans didn't get food and other aid. After that Gazans have been flooded with food. There's no shortage of food in Gaza now. Anywhere in Gaza.

If you just want a good summary of how wars work, and should work and how the Gaza war fits into that it's a good video.
 
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Another thing he mentioned is that Israel has kept safe havens, where civilians are safe, in Gaza. But Hamas has then systematically used those safe havens as military bases. Sound military strategy would of course for Israel to stop having these safe havens. But they haven't.

Another unique factor is the lack of uniforms for the Hamas fighters. It's unique. Fighters usually want to keep civilians safe. So they identify them, to make it easy for the enemy to avoid accidentally shooting civilians. Hamas is doing the exact opposite. Unique.

Israel is fighting under a long list of unique difficulties, and doing great. It's just absolutely bizarre that anyone can manage to criticise Israel for their conduct. They're doing extremely well. Anyway... antisemitism is so weird.
 
Another unique factor is the lack of uniforms for the Hamas fighters. It's unique. Fighters usually want to keep civilians safe. So they identify them, to make it easy for the enemy to avoid accidentally shooting civilians. Hamas is doing the exact opposite. Unique.
This word, "unique". Do you know what it means?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francs-tireurs

I could give plenty more examples; But one is enough to refute "unique".
 
Another unique factor is the lack of uniforms for the Hamas fighters. It's unique. Fighters usually want to keep civilians safe. So they identify them, to make it easy for the enemy to avoid accidentally shooting civilians. Hamas is doing the exact opposite. Unique.
This word, "unique". Do you know what it means?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francs-tireurs

I could give plenty more examples; But one is enough to refute "unique".

Yes, unique. I'm not going to waste time explaining to you what a soldier is. Feel free to join back in the conversation when you have done enough research to say something intelligent.

Like I was saying... regular soldiers acting as partisans like this is unique.

At the start of the war Hamas had five divisions of regular army soldiers. All had uniforms. Well organised with ranks and everything. When the fighting started, they all got out of their uniforms and put on civilian dress. This is unique.

The fact that they did this in a densely populated urban area is as remarkable, as it is horrific and as it is unique.

Not only that... Gaza has tunnels under it where all of the civilians could have been placed. While Hamas soldiers were on the top fighting. Nope. The fighters used the tunnels. The civilians were kept on top to protect the tunnels. Also unique. And horrific. The only thing remotely similar was an American seige on Japanese in the Philipines. But they weren't in civilian clothing. So not the same.

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Fun fact. A regular soldier who removes their uniform and keeps fighting is not protected under the Geneva convention. During a war. They can just be shot. Israel doesn't. Israel still treats Hamas fighters as regular soldiers and treats them like prisoners of war. Which is nice of them.
 
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We like to hold up the Nazis and imperial Japanese as examples of terrible warring nations. As if they're the worst and most devoid of morals.

But the fact is that Hamas is way worse than the Nazis ever were.

They've set a new standard of how godawful an army can be
 
We like to hold up the Nazis and imperial Japanese as examples of terrible warring nations. As if they're the worst and most devoid of morals.

But the fact is that Hamas is way worse than the Nazis ever were.

They've set a new standard of how godawful an army can be
And ^there^ it is folks.

The redemption of the Nazis, made possible by the need to exaggerate the threat of a Palestinian terrorist organization.

The Nazis persecuted and enslaved Jews, confined them in concentration camps, built death camps so they could slaughter Jews by the millions, conducted horrific experiments on them, castrated and sterilized them without anesthesia, suffocated them in the backs of specially built trucks or simply shot or drowned them, built "showers" so they could herd Jews into gas chambers and then move the bodies to incinerators like a factory moves widgets, and so much more, but at least they weren't as bad as Hamas.

:rolleyes:
 
I largely agree with you ( minus seeing a lot of Americans hating Palestinians— not sure I agree) but I take issue with you calling this Netanyahu’s war: Hamas started this and could have ended it by releasing the hostages. So it is imo, wrong to blame all of this on Netanyahu. He’s despicable, yes. But Hamas does not have even a millimeter of high ground here. Both sides are despicable. Both sides are responsible for thousands of deaths and the starvation of hundreds of thousands. Both Netanyahu and Hamas need to go.
Except that starvation of hundreds of thousands isn't happening. Every "victim" Hamas manages to find turns out to have medical causes. And to the extent it exists at all it's because 90% of the aid was being diverted.
You are conflating your conjectures with fact.

The effects of the 3 month blockade of food and medicine by Israel has been documented by numerous NGOs in threads in which you participate. Malnutrition exacerbates medical issues, especially in children and the old.

You have seen a report of a study by Isreali military officers saying the UN program of aid is effective. And a report by USAID there is little evidence that aid diversion by Hamas is systemic.

Your credibility diminishes further with each mendacious response.
It's been documented by nobody. You report out of Gaza, you say what Hamas wants you to say.
Israeli military officers are now a propaganda arm of Hamas???

It's like you didn't even read what you responded to and just automatically repeated your same old bullshit.

There are many NGO members that come back and tell what they've seen and experienced. They are not reporting out of Gaza. They report atrocities and starvation.
 
This war is unique. Never before has a side in a war intentionally put it's own civilians in harms way. The Palestinian civilians are trapped in Gaza. That is also, almost unique. When there's a war in an urban area, civilians always get the fuck out.
Which side has had them locked in, for decades?
 
I largely agree with you ( minus seeing a lot of Americans hating Palestinians— not sure I agree) but I take issue with you calling this Netanyahu’s war: Hamas started this and could have ended it by releasing the hostages. So it is imo, wrong to blame all of this on Netanyahu. He’s despicable, yes. But Hamas does not have even a millimeter of high ground here. Both sides are despicable. Both sides are responsible for thousands of deaths and the starvation of hundreds of thousands. Both Netanyahu and Hamas need to go.
Except that starvation of hundreds of thousands isn't happening. Every "victim" Hamas manages to find turns out to have medical causes. And to the extent it exists at all it's because 90% of the aid was being diverted.
You are conflating your conjectures with fact.

The effects of the 3 month blockade of food and medicine by Israel has been documented by numerous NGOs in threads in which you participate. Malnutrition exacerbates medical issues, especially in children and the old.

You have seen a report of a study by Isreali military officers saying the UN program of aid is effective. And a report by USAID there is little evidence that aid diversion by Hamas is systemic.

Your credibility diminishes further with each mendacious response.
It's been documented by nobody. You report out of Gaza, you say what Hamas wants you to say.
You have said that we need to divide Gaza claims by 10 to get to the truth. So aren't we still 5 or 6 times above the death toll from the 10/7 massacre? Isn't the number of children killed about the same as the massacre?

Certainly, the intents were different, but if you think the toll and consequences aren't, not much I can help you with that.

22 months man. Israel was given their chance to respond strongly and without question. It wasn't a blank check.
 
I have merged the "Ethnic Cleansing" thread into this one. It was originally just a whataboutism of this thread anyway.
 
It's been there from the very start.

Most of the time they have simply oppressed the non-Muslims, especially the Jews. Occasional pogroms have happened basically everywhere, though.

Just because the Nazis got in on the antisemitism game doesn't mean it's exclusive to them.

You appear to be implying that the Nazis got the idea to "kill all Jews" from Muslims. Are you? If so, that's a form of Holocaust denial. You are shifting the responsibility and the blame for the most horrific slaughter and crime against humanity from the white Christian Europeans who committed it to brown Muslim Arabs who never even attempted it.
Why does it have to be in either direction?

It doesn't "have to be" in either direction.

But lying about who got the idea to "kill all Jews" is lying, no matter which direction you are claiming it went.
Nazis got the idea to "kill all Jews". They pursued that course of action and succeeded in killing over 6 million Jews in less than a decade.
I don't see why you're going on about lying. I never said the Nazis got it from the Muslims, merely that both had it. Antisemitism has been popular for a long time, I see no reason to think either got it from the other. Jews were the biggest out-group in Europe and there is the historical legacy that they were bankers because the others were prohibited from doing so. Of course they were a target.

If you want to make the claim that a Muslim State got the same idea and pursued it, post the evidence that supports your position. Don't just say it happened, show that it happened.

And while you're at it, show us the evidence Palestinian Jews were enslaved by their Christian and Muslim Palestinian neighbors. if you actually found some. But if all you have is bullshit and blather, don't bother posting it. All that does is clutter up the thread with nonsense.
Jews in most of the world were like blacks between the Civil War and the civil rights era. Not enslaved, but definitely second class citizens.
Jews have been convenient bogeymen for a long time. Especially since the Christian proscription on "usury" meant that bankers were non-Christian, which generally meant Jewish.

Which is why Europe became the hotbed for virulent anti-Semitism, not Palestine.

Learn some history, Loren. Europe was where Jews were locked up at night. Europe is where they were targeted for abuse, torture, expulsion, and murder. Europe is where a State got the idea to "kill all Jews" and made one hell of an effort to do it.

I know you dislike criticizing white folks, but the white Christian Europeans are the ones who tried to "kill all Jews". Lying about that does a disservice to everyone.
I don't know what you're going on about because you're not presenting any refutation. Yes, Jews were treated badly in Europe. That is in no way an indication they weren't treated badly elsewhere.

Obviously minor, but one I stumbled on recently:


(In regard to Jewish purchase of some farmland)
translation said:
In the summer of 1876, a meeting was held in the town of Sakab, known as “Sakab Night,” at the guesthouse of Sheikh Raja Mustafa Al-Ayasra to discuss the issue of Jewish land acquisitions in eastern Jordan. The meeting included sheikhs and notables from the Bani Hassan tribe and some northern Jordanian tribes, chaired by Sheikh Muflih Ubeidat, “Abu Kaid,” the sheikh of Kfar Som. The attendees decided to attack the two Jewish settlements with whatever weapons they had, and indeed, the fighters burned the settlements of Rahil and Khirbet Aybta, expelling the Jews from the area. They then proceeded to Salt and burned the third settlement, Kfar Yehuda.

That's a Jordanian paper, it presents no reason for the action other than that they were Jews. That's what you say wasn't happening.
Ffs, Loren, did you not read your own article?

The very first paragraph says

In order to understand what Kayed al-Mufleh did, we have to go back in history for decades, as the movement of Sheikh Kayed al-Mufleh al-Obaidat came in defense of Palestine and Jordan against the ambitions of the Jews and Zionists in the Jordanian lands.

"[A]gainst the ambitions of Jews and Zionists in the Jordanian lands", not to "kill all Jews"
You failed to note the context. Their only "wrong" was daring to purchase some land and farm it. They triggered the attack by existing. You are blaming them for triggering the attack, thus you're in effect blaming them for existing.

And the second paragraph talks about the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, the secret treaty between France and the United Kingdom with the backing of other European powers on the division of the region between France and Britain, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that proposed dividing the region between European Zionist immigrants and the Palestinian population, and the call for the annexation of Transjordan to a proposed Jewish State. So, yeah, there was plenty of reason for the locals to work against the ambitions of Jews and Zionists on Jordanian lands.

And the third paragraph has this:

Tens of thousands of copies of Jabotinsky's poem were distributed, in which it is stated: "The Jordan River has two banks, one for us and the other for us; the religious feeling of the Jews was united, and the Zionists forgot their differences. This is what made Mufleh Al-Obeidat and his son Kayed Al-Mufleh Al-Obeidat and the patriots with him to confront these historical ambitions

No where in any of that is a call to "kill all Jews".

And nothing in that article is anything close to the bigotry, hate, and planning of mass murder the Nazis engaged in.
I didn't say that particular incident was about killing Jews. Rather, it was about burning them out for the crime of being there.
Well, in that case, it's obvious you didn't read the article.

It is also obvious you are straining to shift the goalposts. Don't hurt yourself, they're not going to move.

DrZiodberg made an unsupported assertion about Muslims getting over "anti-Israel tribalism" and said it was "an improvement over the old idea, i.e. "kill all Jews"

I asked when was "kill all Jews" the idea of Muslim states, reminded folks the Nazis were Christians and Nazi Germany was in Europe, pointed out the Palestinians weren't interested in killing all Jews and neither were the Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, etc.

You jumped in to support DrZoidberg's posts but have utterly failed to provide any evidence that "kill all Jews" was an idea held by a Muslim state at any time.

Do you have evidence anyone besides the Nazis had the idea to "kill all Jews"? If so, then post it.
Hamas has stated its goal was to kill all the Jews world wide. My understanding is that they have backed off that but I still believe that is the goal. Of course, Hamas is not a state/government. The KKK was also not a state or government but they ran things in certain parts of the country and had not dissimilar ideals.
 
I largely agree with you ( minus seeing a lot of Americans hating Palestinians— not sure I agree) but I take issue with you calling this Netanyahu’s war: Hamas started this and could have ended it by releasing the hostages. So it is imo, wrong to blame all of this on Netanyahu. He’s despicable, yes. But Hamas does not have even a millimeter of high ground here. Both sides are despicable. Both sides are responsible for thousands of deaths and the starvation of hundreds of thousands. Both Netanyahu and Hamas need to go.
Except that starvation of hundreds of thousands isn't happening. Every "victim" Hamas manages to find turns out to have medical causes. And to the extent it exists at all it's because 90% of the aid was being diverted.
You are conflating your conjectures with fact.

The effects of the 3 month blockade of food and medicine by Israel has been documented by numerous NGOs in threads in which you participate. Malnutrition exacerbates medical issues, especially in children and the old.

You have seen a report of a study by Isreali military officers saying the UN program of aid is effective. And a report by USAID there is little evidence that aid diversion by Hamas is systemic.

Your credibility diminishes further with each mendacious response.
It's been documented by nobody. You report out of Gaza, you say what Hamas wants you to say.
Israeli military officers say what Hamas wants them to say? The US gov’t says what Hamas wants them to say? Do you even read the insanity you post?
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What I'm looking at is the dog that didn't bark. Hamas has still failed to produce images of anyone starving other than for medical reasons. I find it beyond credibility that they perfectly well can find the medical ones but are apparently utterly incapable of finding any others. The only way this makes any sense is if there are no others to be found.
No, what you are looking at is what comes out of the dog’s ass.

There are pictures of malnourished people. Both the UN and MSF report a large increase in malnutrition rates in children based on large samples.

With those reports along with a quarter of a year blockade of food and medicine followed by a resumption of 1/3 as much aid allowed in (IDF numbers), it only makes sense to rational thinkers that malnutrition substantially increased.

Denial that the gov’t of Israel’s blockade caused malnutrition is unbelievable. Such denials reduce credibility to less than zero.
One can sanely argue that malnutrition is the cost of such a legitimate tactic of war. It may not convince some, but it is honest and grounded firmly in reality.

Your denial is neither. It is incredibly insulting that any person with even a shred of integrity and rationality would expect any sane thinking person to accept such denials as valid.

Which makes me worried for you.
 
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