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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "Racial" makeup of Israel |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 7:52 am
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Replies: 20
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| To me, an ironic take on the whole Middle East situation is that the Israelis won a war they were supposed to lose, and the world has dealt with the consequences ever since. Not just the mere fact that they "won a war they were supposed to lose," but the fact that they expelled the majori... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "Racial" makeup of Israel |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 12:01 am
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Replies: 20
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| The problem with Israel is not anyone's skin color. Nor it it the fact that Israel is Jewish. The problem with Israel is the manner in which it was founded. I can easily imagine an alternate universe in which the founding of Israel could have been A-OK. Had various groups of Jews gradually migrated ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 9:48 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,543
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| Is it really fair to call Hezbollah a "terrorist" group at this point? Seems to me that, lately at least, they've been aiming at military targets, with relatively little harm to civilians -- and certainly a LOT less harm to civilians than what Israel has been doing to Gaza lately. So, at t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "Racial" makeup of Israel |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 4:21 pm
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| people who live in countries where most Jews are Ashkenazi and who view the world primarily through the lens of intersectionality. Actually a truly "intersectional" view of Jews would acknowledge the different racial groups among Jews and their differing situations. See, for example: The ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Critiques of Zionism by Jews |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 3:20 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,670
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel/Palestine and settler-colonialism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 3:07 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 374
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| A fundamental difference between the US and Israel is that the US is not a "European" (or any other ethnicity) State. On the contrary it prides itself to be a melting pot where no ethnicity have any special legal rights. That's true currently , but only since the 1960's. The vast majority... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel/Palestine and settler-colonialism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 2:39 am
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Replies: 11
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| In this thread, here : Mona, correct me if I am wrong but your anti zionist beliefs do not seem to based on the idea that excluding West Bank settlers Israeli Jews are not colonists. You are an outlier among anti-Zionists in that regard, Israelis as colonizers is and has always been central to the ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: IDF withdrawals from West Bank City-Attacked by sect members |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 2:18 am
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Replies: 1
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| Wow ... anti-settler settlers? Very interesting! At some point I should read up on these folks! My immediate reaction is: Great to see them put their bodies on the line and resist the occupation in ways that they, as Israeli Jews, can get away with (at least for now) but West Bank Palestinians could... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 4 Reasons Why Israel is a Rogue State |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 11:43 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,740
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 11:39 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,543
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| Here, and in subsequent posts , ASPartOfMe and I had a discussion on the question of whether Hezbollah has WMD's, and, if it does, how likely it is to use them in Israel. Some relevant articles: - Hezbollah armed strength , Wikipedia - Lebanon's Hezbollah: What weapons does it have? , Reuters, Octo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel/Palestine and settler-colonialism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 10:41 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Here, ASPartOfMe wrote : I wanted to start a separate thread about this but since you brought it up. All non indigenous North Americans are living on land gained through racial cleansing. Besides the ‘Trail of Tears’ more recently you had the ‘Sixties Scoop’ in Canada and in 2024 Indians are living... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel/Palestine and settler-colonialism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 10:34 pm
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| Continuing this discussion from another thread: Here, I wrote : Organized Zionism is/was indeed a settler-colonial project, almost from the get-go. What makes it settler-colonialist is/was settler-colonialist behaviors , not the mere fact that many (though not all) Israeli Jews came from Europe, nor... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel/Palestine and settler-colonialism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 10:27 pm
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Replies: 11
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| In this thread, let's discuss the following questions: 1) What is settler-colonialism? 2) What are the differences (and similarities) between settler-colonialism and other kinds of colonialism? 3) Is "settler-colonialism" an accurate term to describe Israel's (and/or Zionism's) relationshi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: SATAN'S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Looking this up on YouTube (here is a direct link to the video ), I see that the description also says: Directed by documentary filmmaker Zeke Piestrup (APOCALYPSE LATER: HAROLD CAMPING VS THE END OF THE WORLD) and produced by animation filmmaker Tim Johnson (ANTZ, OVER THE HEDGE, HOME) There's also... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Critiques of Zionism by Jews |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 5:21 am
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Replies: 22
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| This Israeli Peace Activist Must Be Heard - w/ Dana Mills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EejBVsaPo80 On Owen Jones's YouTube channel. The description on YouTube says: We desperately need to elevate the voices of courageous Israeli peace activists - without them, there is little hope - and so it wa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 4 Reasons Why Israel is a Rogue State |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 2:30 am
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Replies: 23
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| I wrote “WMD”. That does not necessarily mean nuclear. It could mean chemical or biological weapons which would not destroy the holy sites unless they were directly hit. With now decades of Israeli warnings about Iran’s nuclear program perhaps the existential danger to Israel from non nuclear WMD’s... |
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