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It's more than the Netanyahu administration running this war. Israel has a unity government in place to run the war. If the strip is made unlivable du...

It does confront the issue. Hamas's modus operandi is to target Israeli civilians deliberately. Israel targets Hamas, but in doing so, inevitably kill...

I am also sad for the innocent Palestinians. I am sad for the innocent in all wars. Such is war.

If you check with the pro-Palestinian movement leaders like @NerdeenKiswani on X, the new death count is 700k with 400k babies dead. According to AI, ...

Wikipedia is biased and should not be used as a neutral source. I have a bone to pick. The term "West Bank" encompasses the historic territories of Ju...

Ok. Thanks for clarifying. Personally, despite having studied the history of the region, I've always wondered when the "Palestinians" arrived in Pales...

We can go by Merriam-Webster. Israel has complete air superiority over Gaza and is capable of inflicting much more damage. Israel possesses WMDs. Gaza...

I simply don't see it as a genocide. Historically, genocidal groups don't hold back. The population of Gaza has stayed the same or grown since the sta...

I like to read about the history of this region. 2000 years ago it was Jews living there occupied by Rome. Jewish kings would directly report to Roman...

You hit on an important point. I see these acts as quite different, even if the number killed is the same. Consider these two scenarios: A) A military...

What do you think would happen? Would Jews and Palestinian Muslims hold hands and sing Kumbaya under RoR? Hamas is a democratically elected Islamic fu...

Yes, that's what happens when people suddenly lose control of their political sovereignty/self-determination. Flood a nation of 5 million Muslims livi...

Regarding RoR: That's asking for the destruction of Israel. It would be adding roughly 6 million Arab Muslims to the population of Israel, and it woul...

There were armed Jewish resistance groups. They could have murdered, raped, and tortured many civilians because of their nationality, but they didn't....

Understandable, but a sign of a degenerate society. Even during WWII Jews didn't go around murdering or mass murdering German civilians.

Are you doubting that ~1200 Israelis were killed on 10/7, the majority of whom were innocent civilians? They went from house to house indiscriminately...

We're not going to agree on this. When I think "genocide," I think October 7th, when thousands of Palestinians went house to house murdering, raping, ...

Extremely dangerous. Kirk was influential; he could have run for office one day — if he's a "nazi/fascist," it becomes a moral responsibility to remov...

Depends on the nature of the support. If one supports, for example, the Gaza Health Foundation's efforts to give meals directly to Palestinians, that'...

I am opposed to any blanket fear-stoking of immigrants. If that appears in Trump's rhetoric, I oppose it. I do support the deportation of illegal alie...

I see Trump going after illegal aliens, but I don't see him going after lawful immigrants.

Just imagine the situation if the youth were being radicalized to the right and assassinating left-wing influencers. Would you still be chiding the fe...

There are plenty of times in history where 'fear of the other' is the proper, rational response.

Fear can be reasonable or unreasonable.

Their fear is legitimate. Charlie Kirk shared similar ideological views with Trump/the Trump administration. If one wants Charlie dead, then one likel...

Good. As a former service member, any member of the armed forces expressing glee or sympathy over Charlie's death is simply lacking in values. I would...

Qatar is a major funder of terrorism and promoter of worldwide Islamism. They have funneled billions of dollars into these goals. They are not America...

The racial element is unavoidable. If the killer and victim were the same race, the story wouldn't be getting the same response. The murder crossed bo...

I'm not even sure it's fair to say the West is uniquely obsessed with beauty compared with the non-West. Perhaps if we took, e.g., an African tribe fr...

It's seemingly impossible to find objective info on this matter. IMHO, Gaza was a humanitarian disaster even before the war. Any land that kidnaps and...

I'm fine with someone choosing to wear religious garb, but no one should ever be forced into it. In some countries, women face punishment for wearing ...

Which post of mine you were referring to? I'm not on board with any humanitarian crisis in Gaza either; the only people who should be getting punished...

I rewrote the post to say "valuing beauty isn't just a Western thing." Valuing beauty is a human universal. "Obsession" is really just a pejorative fo...

Valuing beauty isn't just a Western thing. In Islamic societies, women in burqas and niqabs enhance their eyes and eyebrows. In such societies, men (p...

Which version of the Bible are you claiming inerrancy? In modern biblical studies, many different versions are often compared with each other. In any ...

I would agree, although I would need to read Buber's case. If I'm not mistaken, the mainstream rabbinic Jewish view is that Samuel does receive legiti...

It has been fruitful. I've picked up quite a bit about the ancient Greeks from Christians on TPF.

I don't see what the big deal is here. There are plenty of wicked kings in Israel and Judea's history, and these accounts still make it into the Bible...

Buber thought Samuel was confusing his human impulses with God's will. Rashi, OTOH, does take it as a literal command to slaughter all of Amalek.

You mean the group that published footage today of an emaciated hostage forced to dig his own grave? It's fine — he's a Zionist. If we're listing head...

Yes. I suspect the former idea is earlier, the latter idea (seen in Chronicles) is later. Biblical authors struggle to deal with this. Each view has i...

@"Leontiskos" @"Bob Ross" I remember the writing in bSamuel as brilliant and capturing what can happen even when legitimate prophecy is granted to the...

IIRC, if we take the Book of Samuel literally, we understand that God's words/wishes/desires are all conveyed through the prophet Samuel. Samuel serve...

It seems a medical professional who engages in euthanasia would fit this definition.

Agree. I see Bob's point as an ordinary and natural theological hurdle. “Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be...

Fake news. It's actually Hamas killing their own. They want to get to the food first and kill civilians for stealing it.

Could you elaborate?

I don't see how Christianity can do this. Jesus frequently references the Old Testament, so the Christian exegetical approach to those passages would ...

Will antifa be demonstrating for the Druze anytime soon? Confront the Islamic fascists sent to butcher them? You should push that through, be the chan...

So Syrian jihadists are murdering Druze and on their way to murder more as I type this. This won't get it's own thread and it will receive scant media...