Israel

[Vēritās]

Can someone tell me why Jews don't walk around in Kevlar and carry firearms at all times? Are guns illegal in Israel?

I think Iran is trying to draw Israel into war.

Israel is one of the most armed countries in the world. And it is surrounded by a border wall. I guess this proves walls and guns don't work, but since when have Republicans ever been interested in learning.

[Vēritās]

You’re getting close!

You really would do well to read the Foundations of Geopolitics by Dugin.

- Doc

Maybe you'd do better to urge Biden to put a freeze on Iran funding. Perhaps he'll listen to his centrist flank rather than the squad. I was actually encouraged by Biden's speech on this. He sounded pretty good.

Iran's funding? You mean Iran's money that was frozen and then unfrozen and closely monitored as it sits in a bank because not a single cent has been spent? You people really do live in an alternate universe of your own making. Now you're trying to equate Iran with Hamas and then retroactively asserting a mission that was years in the making was only made possible because of recent funds that haven't even been spent. Facts and data never matter to you. All you care about is the next Brietbart headline that is designed to get you emotional.

[Morley]

Maybe she wouldn't have had to defend herself if Netanyahu wasn't an unhinged right-winger whose sole interest has been to undermine any limits to his personal authority in Trump fashion, siphon off public funds and campaign money for himself, and basically everything else Ajax's party stands for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... west-bank/

Do you think Jewish liberals will fall in line with the sqaud on this and thwart Netanyahu's efforts to put Hamas six feet under?

You misunderstand both Netanyahu and those that you call 'Jewish liberals.'

It was Netanyahu's tolerance of Hamas, so that he didn't have to countenance a two-state solution, that contributed to this horror.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years ... our-faces/

[Doctor Steuss]

Do you think Israelis are united on this issue Steuss?

Do I think Israelis are united on the issue of Hamas' terrorism being bad? Yes. Why on earth wouldn't they be?

I recognize that most American Jews are more like Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer than Ben Shapiro.

Yes, American Jews in general tend to be educated, and empathetic, and have an aversion to the antisemitism that goes unchecked within the Republican party.

Do you also blame your own people's Zionism for this attack?

No one is to blame for Hamas' attack, but those within Hamas that planned and/or carried out the attack.

You are a Democrat right?

I'm reticent to answer this, because like every other time I've told you it, it will be forgotten. I am a registered Republican. A life-long registered Republican. I have been a Republican for longer than Trump. That said, while in recent years I have voted for more Democrats than Republicans, I have only voted along party lines once (it was straight R's), when I was a teenager.

Or are you one of those still focused on locking up grade schoolers for ignorantly drawing a swatiska at school, while remaining moot on the current atrocities by some of the worst pos human beings alive because of Deomcrat party unity and fear of displeasing the sqaud?

Some medications are best taken WITH food.

It's possible to stand with the people living under apartheid in Gaza, and also standing with the Israeli people. It's possible to recognize the atrocities and oppression that Jews have been faced with (including the current antisemitism that pervades a certain American political party), while simultaneously recognizing that corralling millions of innocent people, with only one way in and one way out, into 140 square miles, denying them the most basic of human necessities, is wrong. It's possible to support the right of Jewish people to live without the fear of being eradicated by extremist Islamists or right-wing white Nazis, while also supporting the right of Palestinian women and children to not live in fear of being raped by Israeli soldiers.

Not everything needs to be a black-and-white tribal divider, where individuals lose their humanity because they are tangentially associated with a given tribe.

[Vēritās]

Do you think Jewish liberals will fall in line with the sqaud on this and thwart Netanyahu's efforts to put Hamas six feet under?

You misunderstand both Netanyahu and those that you call 'Jewish liberals.'

It was Netanyahu's tolerance of Hamas, so that he didn't have to countenance a two-state solution, that contributed to this horror.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years ... our-faces/

Great article that is very enlightening.

[Vēritās]

Do you think Israelis are united on this issue Steuss?

Do I think Israelis are united on the issue of Hamas' terrorism being bad? Yes. Why on earth wouldn't they be?

I recognize that most American Jews are more like Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer than Ben Shapiro.

Yes, American Jews in general tend to be educated, and empathetic, and have an aversion to the antisemitism that goes unchecked within the Republican party.

Do you also blame your own people's Zionism for this attack?

No one is to blame for Hamas' attack, but those within Hamas that planned and/or carried out the attack.

You are a Democrat right?

I'm reticent to answer this, because like every other time I've told you it, it will be forgotten. I am a registered Republican. A life-long registered Republican. I have been a Republican for longer than Trump. That said, while in recent years I have voted for more Democrats than Republicans, I have only voted along party lines once (it was straight R's), when I was a teenager.

Or are you one of those still focused on locking up grade schoolers for ignorantly drawing a swatiska at school, while remaining moot on the current atrocities by some of the worst pos human beings alive because of Deomcrat party unity and fear of displeasing the sqaud?

Some medications are best taken WITH food.

It's possible to stand with the people living under apartheid in Gaza, and also standing with the Israeli people. It's possible to recognize the atrocities and oppression that Jews have been faced with (including the current antisemitism that pervades a certain American political party), while simultaneously recognizing that corralling millions of innocent people, with only one way in and one way out, into 140 square miles, denying them the most basic of human necessities, is wrong. It's possible to support the right of Jewish people to live without the fear of being eradicated by extremist Islamists or right-wing white Nazis, while also supporting the right of Palestinian women and children to not live in fear of being raped by Israeli soldiers.

Not everything needs to be a black-and-white tribal divider, where individuals lose their humanity because they are tangentially associated with a given tribe.

Again, Ajax can't distinguish. Everything to him is binary, black and white, you're either on Team A or Team B.

This isn't really that difficult to understand.

The Palestinians are overwhelmingly innocent civilian bystanders trapped in a highly condensed area with nowhere to go. They are not their own country. They have no real government, but they are beholden to Hamas which is a relatively small terrorist group that scurries back and forth using civilian facilities as cover while Israel plays a game of "whack-a-mole" trying to kill them before they launch another attack. It could be next week or it could be in another 5-10 years, but as sure as the sun will rise, the attacks are being planned.

This has been going back and forth for literally decades now, and it is at the point where I'd support an effort by the US and the UN to engage in a military effort to sweep the entire region of Gaza, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, the same way they were in Iraq with inspectors trying to find evidence of WMD production. Extinguish any and all signs of Hamas and then secure the area until they get a new government established. It would be in Israel's interest to offer their own military to secure the borders. The Palestinians need to have their own country. A two state solution is the only solution but Netanyahu doesn't want it. Both the Israeli government and the governments of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon want the Palestinians right where they are. They are victims of surrounding governments using them for political reasons and they just sit around wondering if the next bomb is going to kill them or one of their loved ones. What a depressing way to live.

[ajax18]

Can someone tell me why Jews don't walk around in Kevlar and carry firearms at all times? Are guns illegal in Israel?

I think Iran is trying to draw Israel into war.

Israel is one of the most armed countries in the world. And it is surrounded by a border wall. I guess this proves walls and guns don't work, but since when have Republicans ever been interested in learning.

Then why keep the barbed wire up around the capital if you think walls and guns don't work?

[ajax18]

Do you think Israelis are united on this issue Steuss?

Do I think Israelis are united on the issue of Hamas' terrorism being bad? Yes. Why on earth wouldn't they be?

I recognize that most American Jews are more like Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer than Ben Shapiro.

Yes, American Jews in general tend to be educated, and empathetic, and have an aversion to the antisemitism that goes unchecked within the Republican party.

Do you also blame your own people's Zionism for this attack?

No one is to blame for Hamas' attack, but those within Hamas that planned and/or carried out the attack.

You are a Democrat right?

I'm reticent to answer this, because like every other time I've told you it, it will be forgotten. I am a registered Republican. A life-long registered Republican. I have been a Republican for longer than Trump. That said, while in recent years I have voted for more Democrats than Republicans, I have only voted along party lines once (it was straight R's), when I was a teenager.

Or are you one of those still focused on locking up grade schoolers for ignorantly drawing a swatiska at school, while remaining moot on the current atrocities by some of the worst pos human beings alive because of Deomcrat party unity and fear of displeasing the sqaud?

Some medications are best taken WITH food.

It's possible to stand with the people living under apartheid in Gaza, and also standing with the Israeli people. It's possible to recognize the atrocities and oppression that Jews have been faced with (including the current antisemitism that pervades a certain American political party), while simultaneously recognizing that corralling millions of innocent people, with only one way in and one way out, into 140 square miles, denying them the most basic of human necessities, is wrong. It's possible to support the right of Jewish people to live without the fear of being eradicated by extremist Islamists or right-wing white Nazis, while also supporting the right of Palestinian women and children to not live in fear of being raped by Israeli soldiers.

Not everything needs to be a black-and-white tribal divider, where individuals lose their humanity because they are tangentially associated with a given tribe.

If I were you, I wouldn't go out without your pistol. While Merrick Garland has his focus on Catholics, parents who oppose critical race theory, white Republican terrorists, BLM has already sworn allegiance to Hamas.

[Doctor Steuss]

If I were you, I wouldn't go out with your pistol. While Merrick Garland has his focus on Catholics, parents who oppose critical race theory, white Republican terrorists, BLM has already sworn allegiance to Hamas.

I can only imagine what your cortisol levels must look like.

[Vēritās]

Do I think Israelis are united on the issue of Hamas' terrorism being bad? Yes. Why on earth wouldn't they be?


Yes, American Jews in general tend to be educated, and empathetic, and have an aversion to the antisemitism that goes unchecked within the Republican party.


No one is to blame for Hamas' attack, but those within Hamas that planned and/or carried out the attack.


I'm reticent to answer this, because like every other time I've told you it, it will be forgotten. I am a registered Republican. A life-long registered Republican. I have been a Republican for longer than Trump. That said, while in recent years I have voted for more Democrats than Republicans, I have only voted along party lines once (it was straight R's), when I was a teenager.


Some medications are best taken WITH food.

It's possible to stand with the people living under apartheid in Gaza, and also standing with the Israeli people. It's possible to recognize the atrocities and oppression that Jews have been faced with (including the current antisemitism that pervades a certain American political party), while simultaneously recognizing that corralling millions of innocent people, with only one way in and one way out, into 140 square miles, denying them the most basic of human necessities, is wrong. It's possible to support the right of Jewish people to live without the fear of being eradicated by extremist Islamists or right-wing white Nazis, while also supporting the right of Palestinian women and children to not live in fear of being raped by Israeli soldiers.

Not everything needs to be a black-and-white tribal divider, where individuals lose their humanity because they are tangentially associated with a given tribe.

If I were you, I wouldn't go out with your pistol. While Merrick Garland has his focus on Catholics, parents who oppose critical race theory, white Republican terrorists, BLM has already sworn allegiance to Hamas.

Why do you keep repeating this idiotic lie about Catholics being "focused" on? I doubt there is a single person on this board who believes that. It has been debunked too many times, but you keep plugging away at it because you have contempt for actual facts.