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It was lucky to be done in that one case. Try it repeatedly for the past year. We'll never know how many innocent civilians died. All the Hamas killed...

Meh... I was hesitant about writing that last line. Anyway, if the Palestinian territories were actually like a Nazi ghetto then both the PA and Hamas...

Israel actually sent in special commando troops to al-shifa hospital. I don't believe any civilians were killed during the operation miraculously. I'm...

My impression of Marcion is pretty negative and I'm glad his ideas were declared heretical. Severing the God of the OT from Jesus seems to me both ant...

General Mikie, you still haven't answered my question. What to do about the rockets being fired from the hospital? Some like Geert or Trump will suppo...

So would you not attack a hospital that an enemy is firing out of? Is the hospital invulnerable then? What do you do? Guess we just can't go to war th...

Of which Jerome wrote "Desiring to be both Jews and Christians, they are neither the one nor the other."

Why do you think I'm mad?

I'm not angry. I maintain that Israel does not intentionally murder civilians. But if Israel insisted on zero civilian deaths ever, Hamas could just f...

In targeting Hamas, civilians may die. Hamas operates from within civilian areas. Gaza Ministry of Health makes zero distinction between civilians and...

It is wrong to intentionally kill civilians.

It is estimated 250,000 German children died in the Second World War. What's your excuse for that? How can you stomach that?

A bullet is a bullet whether it is fired by a 16 year old or a 30 year old.

How many of those are Hamas?

Hamas uses child soldiers.

Yes, like the Arabs who started the independence war by attacking Israel immediately after it declared statehood and then cry about nakhba day. Sorry ...

Oh please. From those towns they attacked Israel. So Israel goes in, Arabs flee, lose war, and then want it all back like the attempt at annihilation ...

It's not simple theft. It's land gained during war. A war in which the enemy tried to wipe us out. And the "Palestinians" are colonizers as well unles...

It's interesting to me that despite not believing in objective morality you clearly do believe in following certain "rights"/principles invented some ...

So the US goes back to the Natives then. And my own state of Texas would return to Mexico. But certainly there was an owner that predates Mexico. Not ...

I'm not entirely sure which post of mine you're referring to. My point is simple: Allowing ~6 million Palestinians full Israeli citizenship calls the ...

Would you rather see it a Muslim state? There are no millions of secularists pouring in to secularize the land. It is either Muslim or Jewish. But Isr...

Having 6 million Palestinians come to Israel brings "Israel as a Jewish state" into question. Now it is quite possibly a muslim state. And quite possi...

Sure, in every society there's people with different ideas. But inundating a community with another group with very different values is throwing gas o...

A few of the hadiths cite dogs as a source of ritual impurity. In any case, I can bring up the 3am adhan or attitudes towards dogs but the main thing ...

:up: There have been plenty of messianic claimants in Judaism, including some very colorful ones.

Hey Mikie, what do you think of the idea of a mosque being built next to your house? They'll blast calls to prayer 5x daily including at like 3am (don...

Yes, thank you. :lol: Currently reading "the misunderstood Jew." Yes, and this is a great post by the way. Agree that Psalm 82 is a polytheistic holdo...

If we were to implement this internationally it would result in mass chaos. Even just in Israel it would be mass chaos. Israel would be Islamicized by...

I was in Israel around 10 years ago and I don't remember the route but I did go to Jerusalem. Very beautiful country.

What about the Jewish right of return to Bethlehem? Jesus was born there. Or are you only concerned with "justice" for one side? Where do these rights...

Maybe ur right. Israel just needs to welcome the Palestinians with a giant hummus and falafel stand and everything will be gravy. /s On a more serious...

Right of return means millions of Palestinians coming to Israel. Israel can neither support such a thing nor does it bode well politically. There woul...

Indeed. Hellenism was influential on Jewish thought in antiquity and several canonical books (especially those written in the second temple period) do...

Don't you have a master's degree? Why do I need to explain this to you? Or maybe you're just messing with me.

The earliest Christian sources are maybe from the early 50s? Ehrman says that shortly after J's execution/resurrection discussions of his divinity occ...

Wikipedia on the 2017 Hamas Charter: In May 2017 Palestinian political and military organization Hamas unveiled A Document of General Principles and P...

I would love to erase Hamas and establish a Palestinian leadership that is more amenable to peace with Israel. Then we could consider a two state solu...

Bibi is not a religious extremist. There are secular Jews who are right-wing and devout Jews who are not right-wing. I don't believe Zionism is inhere...

I suppose the Muslim version of this claim might be "if anyone slaps on the right cheek, slap them back so hard that they don't dare ever slap you aga...

Your government openly postulates genocide and you live in a white supremacist nation so when the masked terrorist comes to your door remember to make...

I stopped reading here. You do not understand the historical aspect of this conflict. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization...

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't know evil if it knocked on your door. I'm serious. A masked terrorist with a machete could knock on your door ready to ki...

Martyrs also include e.g. those who die fighting Israel with a rifle in hand and (I believe?) any civilian who is killed by Israel. Thus Hamas is utte...

No, I call for the complete destruction of the oppressors and murderers - i.e. Hamas.

what are you referring to specifically? I would also disagree that every Palestinian wants that but it wouldn't be particularly reassuring to find tha...

It's not insanity. According to the Palestinian cultural narrative, the Jews stole their land in '48 and they simply want it all back. Make it all Mus...

I don't even think that it was Judaism per se that helped spark/encourage the Warsaw ghetto uprising. I just know that at that point the Jews were fin...

Some even relatively conservative Israelis do have sympathy for the Palestinian cause at certain points. IIRC Benny Morris was sympathetic to the firs...

That's not saying anything. We'd have all probably been teenage Nazis in Nazi Germany assuming the right conditions. That's personal psychology.