BitconnectCarlos

It is the ancestral homeland of the Jews making the Jews indigenous to it. It might not matter to you, but it matters to them.

Yes they can go to Africa and be ruled by Africans. Muslims can go to ~50 countries and be ruled by Muslims. Jews are lucky to have one. Israel has al...

Yes they were expelled from their ancestral homeland in 135 AD. They lost possession of their ancestral homeland. Yet if they do have an ancestral hom...

Question: Let's say a group of Jews are expelled by the Romans from Judea in 135 AD. The community goes to Alexandria and continues to preserve those ...

Is this a good comparison for, say, a 7 year old Israeli child who happened to be born and raised near the Gaza border or anywhere in Israel? For this...

I don't think we're going to get anywhere if you have zero sympathy for the victims on the Israeli side. Dead Israelis might just be faceless oppresso...

When you cite stats it would be nice if you had a source.

I'm quite concerned that President Biden is now attempting to imprison his main political rival and doesn't even seem to deny such a thing. A very dan...

These stats from the Gaza Health ministry? Or does violence towards zionists just not count as "violence"? I've just accepted the double standards as ...

Anyone notice the lack of rioting and looting after the Trump verdict? No shops smashed; just a cool $50m raised for Trump. I can't help but notice th...

The fatality ratio is about 1:1 combatant:civilian so historically quite good and not at all unreasonable.

Is Israel not allowed to bomb them? Is that the main atrocity? Or is shooting them also an atrocity?

It's not tu quoque Hamas is stealing the aid and preventing its distribution.

Being oppressed does not make one good or right. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians have also been displaced by rockets so they are also refugees.

Is this a psychology forum or a philosophy one? Weasel words by a biased organization. :yawn:

What do you make of the fact that Hamas steals most of the aid and keeps it for themselves? Or sells it at a much higher price? The problem with the a...

It absolutely has and I've seen Israel avoid conducting strikes because there were civilians around. I've seen them ship in boatloads of aid. I've see...

Anyone who takes hostages to place them in rape (and torture) dungeons qualifies as an enemy to me -- an enemy of humanity.

If Israel is committing war crimes so has everyone and maybe war just is war crimes; you do shoot at the enemy, after all.

No. Modern civilized armies strive to avoid civilian casualties. But they still are inevitable in any war. And their deaths are on the hands of the en...

I want your house, Benkei. I'll be open to negotiations once you grant me your living room. Will you negotiate with me? BTW I have several of your cou...

Israel's targets are terrorists, the targets of terror are very often civilians. Their governments reward them for this. What is Israel supposed to do...

This is an interesting point that should be followed up on. My question would then be what % of Israelis in the public and in the Israeli government s...

No, not at all. Hamas horribly oppresses their own and teaches them to hate.

They're already able to import that. Palestinians receive billions in aid yearly. Much of it just goes to the Hamas leadership who are themselves bill...

It's not a matter of weakness. If Gaza became a state Hamas would be able to import whatever it liked.

The Israelis currently see a two state solution as infeasible because of the current palestinian gazan government/populace which are committed to the ...

According to the Arab/Palestinian narrative, the tragedy begins with the Nakba. The occupation, according to Hamas at least, begins then. Jerusalem & ...

Before this current war on 10/7. Palestinian children shows and schools have been inculcating hate for decades. I don't ever recall Israeli television...

Well, I took a class on Wittgenstein years ago in undergrad from very much a Wittgensteinian asshole. Early Wittgenstein (Tractatus-era) is very diffe...

You keep using this word "oppression" but oppression, from the Arab-Muslim perspective, is any Jewish self-determination on that land when it ought to...

I was talking before the war. You will see Palestinian kindergarten students decked out in terrorist gear murdering Israeli hostages openly for kinder...

You don't get what it's like because nobody hates you. No one hates the Dutch. No one raises their children to hate the Dutch. Be thankful you don't h...

Maybe all Palestinian maladies can be blamed on the Jews. Surely the Jews had a role in this one too. I was satirizing a position. Some users will ess...

And when a Palestinian man beats his wife it is surely the Jews' fault as well. It's because of the occupation.

Had this plan been agreed to, what exactly does Israel get? A promise of peace and a renunciation of violence from the current Palestinian administrat...

Would I say that the Palestinians have a wicked culture? Well, I don't know what else to call a culture which openly and proudly teaches its children ...

The Geneva convention do prohibit causing environmental damage. Given the political nature of international organizations, it would clearly be no matt...

I don't damn him, but his interpretation, like the serpent's, is power-centric. He sees that God is the one in charge and he doesn't like that. He doe...

In the 8th century BC Assyria attacked Israel and the biblical account has Israel destroying vegetation and wells to deprive the Assyrian army of reso...

You define freedom as defiance to God. You are the serpent. :grimace:

Sure, different types of enemies are dealt with in different ways. I had difficulty extracting any universal principles re: war from the text in the w...

Thou shalt not murder.

"as soon as you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God..." (3:5) The serpent entices eve by associating godliness with defiance ...

:100: A case could be made that Christianity, specifically branches like evangelical Christianity, are a bit like "inverse Judaism." I'm inclined to a...

Where?

Philosophers invented the philosophy game so they could play philosophy. ¯\_(?)_/¯

Yes. But now we're playing the "human behavior game" and not the "philosophy game." In the "philosophy game" one strives for rationality at all times.

So we can act in any number of ways. Maybe we're mad at our child that day and choose to save the other. Reasonable action is action in accordance wit...

I was commenting on an idea brought up by Benkei that filial relationship is not morally relevant (ought not to be viewed as morally relevant) - thus,...