All these core assumptions deserve to be investigated and questioned as applied also to the conflict we are discussing. They all are potential sources...
In the literature it's known as "the hard problem of calling the Jews". Yes, are we getting to the nub of the issue here? Are we dealing with a trauma...
And how does it happen that listening to both sides - or trying to - attending to the news, and thinking about it, is crap? We have to wade through pr...
I suspect that the Israeli government is looking to reduce the number of children in Gaza. By dropping mines that resemble cans of food on a starving ...
Yes, but if we refer to the diaspora of the Jews across the world, we are talking about the ethno-religious group, Yes this is the group I was referri...
Zionists No that doesn’t work. Because it refers to people involved in establishing the Jewish homeland in Israel. This leaves out the wider Jewish di...
And yet Netanyahu’s words and actions do impact the lives of everyone in the world who identifies as a Jew, or of Jewish heritage. When I speak of the...
What I think is important most of all, is to stop talking about "the Jews" as though it is some monolithic entity. Yes, I see this. How do you suggest...
I agree. There is a problem here though. Israel is in a hole and by default all Jews are in a compromised position. There is a peculiar feature of rac...
It gives lots of wriggle room and lets apologists etc off the hook. While shutting down any discussion of the predicament Israel and therefore the Jew...
Who is the leader of your race/religion? Who do I go to if I need to speak to, e.g., the leader of the black people? Take me to your leader so you can...
Then why the equivocation? When I said the Jewish people I was referring to the ethnic group. Which should have been obvious to you. This equivocation...
The difference here is that Judaism is an ideology, a lifestyle. The Jewish people are a genealogical group, a biological lineage. It’s not complicate...
You are equivocating a people with a religious movement. I said the Jewish people. This is a racial group, it just happens to correspond also to the m...
Then who does represent the Jewish people here? Ask someone in a neighbouring state who represents the Jewish people here? Or do we have a vacuum of l...
I would say that this part of the analogy fails. The war from the viewpoint of the Arab world is not lost, or over. Israel is bolstering support for H...
Interesting, but I assumed that Genocide was so grave a crime that nothing excused it, no excuse was sufficient to justify committing it. The Israeli’...
Only in that Qatar has conducted successful negotiations between the two sides. Regarding Hamas, there is always now going to be an attack force like ...
The fact that large scale humanitarian aid doesn’t seem to have got through is worrying. The international community has repeatedly offered aid, which...
Yes, they broke the rules the moment they withdrew food water and medicine from a captive population. Also I think the term genocide might need to inc...
Liberation if they survive as a people. Whether the Gazan’s as a people survive this offensive seems not to matter to the Israeli’s. The collective pu...
Yes, this would indicate though that ideas are both semantic, abstract etc and part of conscious and subconscious mental processes of life, as we see ...
My train of thought leads to the realisation that living beings “think” and to reduce these thoughts to chemical (and electrical) reactions in a physi...
Right, so thoughts are the product of mental activity. While experiences don’t necessarily involve mental activity for them to be experiences. Is ther...
Provided it is understood which of your 4 categories (assuming what you say about British empiricists is a separate category) of idea is being discuss...
Fingers crossed they won’t. I see Russia as a failed state now. I expect it would be Washington versus Beijing. In which case I don’t see it happening...
Yes, that sounds about right. I was thinking of three fortresses. North America, Europe and the region of China. The rest of the world would be cut lo...
I noticed that, they are talking about all the water on the planet boiling off into space. I didn’t mean to be that alarmist. What I was thinking of b...
It may be out of date terminology these days. Or climate scientists don’t mention it because it’s too scary and might be counterproductive to efforts ...
Civilisation collapse is an interesting topic. There is evidence of them imploding, over exploiting resources or succumbing to disease. In the case of...
The collapse you describe in the economy is not such a big threat. It will be painful and might required decades of authoritarianism and revolution. O...
Yes that would be great. For a while after WW2 it looked as though it could have gone that way. By mesh with western values I mean they didn’t conform...
I don’t want to be the party pooper, but if the hat fits… These failed states are spreading, along with extremism. The large power blocks really shoul...
Quite the Israel Palestine problem is the touch stone for movements in geopolitics. Quite literally at the wailing wall and the temple of the mount. A...
Yes, I know. That’s why I can’t see a solution which is acceptable to both sides. As we are all I can see is the Palestinians being entirely removed f...
Yes, there is no chance of a peaceful solution which both sides accept on the horizon*. For either side the other side would need to accept what they ...
I see Israel as the 51st state of the US. But it’s more than that, the Jewish diaspora from all Western nations see her as their homeland and many go ...
Al-Shifa hospital is in a catastrophic situation, the IDF is less than a kilometre away with intensive fighting, as I write. Many thousands of civilia...
The difference is that Israel is a small state surrounded by many unstable autocratic states. If they over react they will let the genie out of the bo...
I go back to that event because for most of that thousand years those Norman baron’s colonised and controlled British society. It did fade into the ar...
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