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  1. A hearty LOL at this fucking dipshit. A junior at Cornell is by definition one of the most privileged people on this planet and he just learned the hard way that none of that post-9/11 CT infrastructure disappeared. Enjoy never having a normal adult life, asshole.
  2. I posted on the other thread that I could get behind a proposal to give Erdogan (neo-Ottoman) and the people who think they miss the ottomans exactly what they want.
  3. You’re a good poster. I think if we want to practice good info hygiene it’s worth looking at what this guy was posting literally at the moments the kibbutz massacre was unfolding (Hamas propaganda on the ground, in real time).
  4. Yeah, I don’t think sending Americans and Europeans to pacify a populace hopped up on fifty years of propaganda about “Crusaders” is going to work out for anyone. A third party isn’t an awful idea. There’s an argument for giving the neo-Ottomans (Erdogan) and the people who think they miss the Ottomans what they want just to see what happens.
  5. Well the average Palestinian doesn’t make these decisions, so it doesn’t really matter what figures they are. In between your personal insults you raise some interesting points without meaning to, mainly about how bad lots of regular people are at friend/foe identification. It’s almost like there are external actors and motivations beyond the people you’re mad at that are stoking this.
  6. Yeah, I don’t think the optics of deploying the Wehrmacht to fix this problem will work out as envisioned.
  7. I think the Houthis have technically been at war with Israel for years but Israel didn’t notice. Wild that they have so many fucking problems in Yemen, and Israel has fuckall to do with any of them. It was similar in Pakistan, where I’d also hear endless rants about Israel and the Jews and none of them had anything to do with Pakistan, a place that had plenty of real fucking enemies.
  8. This objectively untrue, as I posted the actual aid figures to Palestine and where they come from below. It’s also backwards logic as there is a huge constituency, in Europe especially, that badly wants the cover to increase aid to Palestine in a big way and they can’t— because of the existence of Hamas and in no small part because of Hamas’ alignment with pariahs like Iran and Russia. That choice almost certainly costs the Palestine people far more in aid than they get. It is rational in one sense, in that no Western nation will either arm a terrorist organization or will finance a life of luxury for leaders of said organization. Russia, Iran, and some petrostates are happy to do so. There’s rationality, in a sense of pure self-interest and advancement of ideological (destroy Israel, kill the Jews) but not so much rational if the goal is helping Palestinian people and advancing peace. You will see a great many of the things people want—- pressure for peace talks and a two state solution, less willingness to arm Israel, and a flow of aid “the likes of which have never been seen before,” if Hamas is removed and replaced by a PA that renounces violence and the aim of eliminating Israel. And the deep irony here is that Bibi has resisted doing this because of precisely what I wrote above for YEARS. And he’s now in a spot where he’s almost forced to do so, but the very visceral human cost of using violence at a level that would be required is going to result in a very unhappy medium indeed. This problem is not unfamiliar to conflicts like this, with an asymmetry of power where the weaker counter- party loses everything if they concede.
  9. We didn’t get Louverture in the United States because in Haiti, there were about 10-1 enslaved people to the rest of the population, and the demographics of the United States and American South were quite different. The U.S. for sure deserved it, but it would have ended in a terrible bloodbath going the other way. (And of course Louvertute was not part of the massacres in Haiti, which happened after his death). There’s some lessons in there on the wisdom and morality of starting a war you can’t win against a force that you can’t defeat, which will almost assuredly hurt your own people worse than the enemy. Even if (unlike Hamas/Israel/Palestine in general), there’s no gray area about who is “right” and who is “wrong.”
  10. Palestine* (not Hamas) gets most of its aid from the Western and democratic world with some petrodollars thrown in. Hamas is aligned with Iran and Russia because they are a violent, authoritarian movement that fundamentally share Iran and Russia’s views of the world and how it should work. Only nations like Russia and Iran will help them, they are awful and so they need awful regimes to help them launch terror attacks. This isn’t near as complicated or as morally grey as people would have you believe, and the resources that the Palestinian PEOPLE actually get and that are helpful are coming from sources that aren’t acknowledged because it upsets the big narrative.
  11. If we’re expanding to beanies, the old Javelina logo is as kickass as they get.
  12. You should check out what Nick Fuentes and Jackson Hinkle are up to these days (Hinkle now the most engaged account on X). For that matter, it’s worth doing a search on “atrocity propaganda” about two week on this forum.
  13. “Help, I’ve being called anti-Semitic because I support Palestine and criticize Israel” ”Holy shit, you got called anti-Semitic for supporting a two state solution?” “Hahaha, no.” ”Oh, so you criticized the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.” ”No, not that criticism of Israel.” ”So what views are being called anti-Semitic?” ”Oh, you know the ones.”
  14. It shouldn’t be too hard for anyone to understand. So, along those lines, a few questions about this: 1. Why do you think the organizers selected the term “flood.” 2. Is there anything particularly “Israeli” in Brooklyn/Crown Heights? 3. If the answer to the above is “no,” what could be in Brooklyn Crown Heights that could be a focus of this protest? Anything that might be a proxy for “Israeli?” 4. Any historical context to protests or street actions in Brooklyn/Crown Heights that may be relevant? 5. Who is “they”? The dog whistles here aren’t at a particularly difficult frequency to hear unless you’re plugging your ears. And with a tip of the hat to @washparkhorn, there’s nothing at all “centrist” here.
  15. One of the thing that’s striking about the modern “cool” far left is the complete lack of any of the romance, revolution, and liberation of the old far left. There’s no Che. There’s no Ho Chi Minh. There’s no young Castro. There’s nothing but sour, surly, theocratic, fanatic, (and dare I say it…IMPERIALISTIC) causes for them to line up behind. Putin. Xi. Mullahs. And all of them a damn sight worse than the oppressors they see behind every corner. Really, when the purest cause you can line up behind is being led by a theocratic horror show like Hamas, it’s time to reassess. Being a tankie leftists in 2023 means lining up being the most oppressive visions of the world available.
  16. That’s a really interesting paper. I scanned all the way through it. One thing that jumped out to me was that overt, recognizable anti-Semitism did not display the “horseshoe theory,” things get a lot more muddled when the study designers asked questions designed to see whether or not people hold anti-Jewish double standards. I’m not super-surprised that the far-right is far more likely to just say “yes” to straight-up antisemitism as that’s kind of their whole thing.
  17. Long story short: a bunch of Ivy League students thought it was cute and decolonialistic to line up behind “from the river to the sea” and failed to get the memo that it was no longer cute after Hamas tried to actually operationalize that chant. And there’s probably a fair number of real, honest to goodness raving Jew haters. One thing that’s fascinating is that American academics rightfully take American right wing evangelicals at their word and study what that means. Very few extend that courtesy to Islamists.
  18. @Brisketexan, the caveat I’d make is that it’s pretty shitty to be a Palestinian outside of Palestine in neighboring countries, too.
  19. Russia is warcriming again. Well, they didn’t ever really take a break.
  20. Well, Dagestan is internal to Russian borders. I am suspect of Sushko’s argument here, though. Much of Russia’s state capacity in the North Caucuses is exercised via a devil’s bargain with local leaders— you keep a lid on terrorism directed at the Russian state, you get to run things as you like, and we won’t flatten you like we did Grozny. (Incidentally, the last Chechen campaign and subsequent anti-terror op shows that there is a level of state violence that can quash insurgencies although that’s a different discussion). The Rosgvardia units assigned to the airport would have been made up of locals and likely sympathetic to the rioters. It doesn’t need to have been directed by the FSB, Islamism is constantly bubbling beneath the surface as well as anger. Anyway, good to see the WaPo digital headline editor wake up.
  21. “Protest….” If only there existed some Russian loan word to describe an angry mob looking for Jews to kill.
  22. If you’re looking for exactly how far some are willing to dig their heels in not to see antisemitism, exhibit A is the way the AP framed a mob of enraged people in Dagestan who stormed an airport because they heard Jews were landing there as a “protest.” If only there were some Russian loanword to describe something like this…..
  23. There’s a a lot to criticize the government of Israel for, and also there’s a lot of anti-Semitism masquerading as said criticism. People have really dug their heels in on refusing to acknowledge the latter for fear it will discredit the former.
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