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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2024, 3:57 pm
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| More importantly, do any of us have a right to judge them? The genocide of Palestinians has been going on for decades, it's reached a boiling point in the last four months, and after a certain point... well... At a certain point, you have to accept that the response to genocide is gonna look just a... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Secret Tunnel Under New York Synagogue Sparks Chaotic Scenes |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 9:59 pm
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| Unfortunately this story seems to have inspired a lot of wild imaginings on the part of anti-Jewish bigots. - Jewish man behind NYC synagogue tunnel viral video thread says content was flipped for antisemitic propaganda by Chris Eberhart, Fox News, January 18, 2024: Before a tunnel under a New York ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 10:01 am
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| Hamas are just schoolboys compared to Hezbollah when it comes to terrorism. It seems you are totally not aware of the internal terrorism they did to Lebanese since 2005. Indeed, I don't know much about Hezbollah's history. If there are any good online sources you can recommend on this, I would be i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "Racial" makeup of Israel |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 8:06 am
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| I agree the problem is not about skin color that is a western interpretation that Pro Palistinian activists from the region or have ties to region have found useful to employ. It is not about Jews and religion in general in an alternate universe. I remember reading a book by journalist Thomas Freed... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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: 1,676
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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
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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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