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Who makes that rule? Capitalism? Who says I can't hire you for any number of reasons? Maybe I just like you and want to offer you an awesome, easy job...

My priorities are just to have a functioning system where small businesses started by individuals can get off the ground and some number of them are s...

Ok, explain to me how businesses get started then. Give me a better model. I can't think of any organizations where total newcomers can join and be re...

I understand where you're coming from. Lets take an example and make things a little more concrete. Lets pretend you want to start a business, well in...

Yep, it's their responsibility and their money to either win or lose. If things go south ideally - under normal capitalism - they'd be losing the most...

We shouldn't treat this rigid line about ownership like an inevitable feature of capitalism. I've worked for start ups where I have equity in the proj...

Labor contracts are a feature of capitalism, but hardly the single defining one. In any case, a lot of work today is remote and online so this "place ...

They do have running water. There's a ton of misinformation out there. They're free to build their own facilities but the money gets mismanaged by the...

I'm sure if people were throwing rocks at your family you'd laugh it off too. Rocks can't hurt people lol. The reason its only rocks is because of the...

Sure, I'll sign the petition so that weapons can be imported into Gaza which can then be used against Israeli citizens. /s And this is the part where ...

This whole "victim blaming" charge when it comes to international affairs just doesn't mean anything to me. Aggressive, ruthless powers virtually alwa...

Israel withdrew from Gaza in '05 and they elected Hamas in '06. But yes, if you elect a government bent on the genocide of Jews within Israel then you...

Oh sorry, is Israel committing genocide towards its LGBTQ population? But by all means none of this matters.

If this were an option it would be great, but states always need to deal with the leaders of other states whether they're authoritarian or democratic....

I'll hear about criticism or prejudice towards Muslims, but I was asking about Arabs earlier. The difference is that Arab is an ethnicity and there ar...

In my experience very few anti-Semites are pro-Israel. Israel is such a perfect lightening rod that I don't see why anti-Semites would avoid that oppo...

Yeah, sure, or maybe the anti-Semites are the ones who are actually attacking Jews worldwide over Israel's actions. Or the ones who are extremely crit...

I'm convinced that there is some sort of grassroots Palestinian movement in Gaza that's actually interested in peace and may in fact not want to live ...

I tell you about how Hamas arrests citizens for attempting to make peace through establishing connections in Israel, and your response is that it was ...

For the purposes of our discussion we can start with the premise that what Israel did in '48 was wrong. I'm fine with entertaining that idea. Or that ...

I've never said it was fine. Everybody can be wrong. So what then? What's the upshot?

You make a fair point and I'll try to stop doing that with you. It was nothing personal I was thinking about other posters, but we have our own dialog...

Well, glad to know it was all done by the books. Thanks for setting me straight there. If only the Israeli government could learn such professionalism...

I would have thought so but others explicitly reject this "lets first and foremost help the Palestinians" approach. From an exchange yesterday: I was ...

I never said massacres are okay. Massacres are always bad. Israel has sentenced some of the war criminals in those years, although not in a way that o...

I think many people can agree that the circumstances in which Israel became a state were far from ideal. I think you do a good job at digging up the h...

I just gotta respond to this. This isn't me angry or bitter at the Romans. I am making a cultural observation here.

If we're going to frame the conflict as a zero-sum game, as other posters have, then I can play that game too. No, history does not begin in 1948 like...

What people don't understand about these discussions is that there's two Carlos'. You, @"ssu" and @"Ciceronianus the White" are getting the reasonable...

I couldn't help myself, Benkei started playing the victim game and I had jump right on in there.

Those principles are the luxury of the uninvolved outsider. It makes no difference to you if Israel collapses, and that's fine, it wouldn't matter to ...

Alright so if the Arabs overran the Jews and made Jews into second class citizens, as Jews have always been under Arab rule, you'd be on the Jews side...

Do you care about dead Jews in the 20th century? 19th century? When do you draw the line? Ethnic cleansing is par for the course in the Middle East.

Neither are dead Jews. But apparently dead Jews are a game to you because you've laughed at the ethnic cleansing of Jews. Just admit you don't care ab...

This isn't my usual line, but if people want to play the victim game we can play the victim game. @Benkai started the victim game, I'm just finishing ...

If you're unwilling to accept that ethnicity and religion play a role in this conflict then it's probably best we stop talking about this.

Why are you laughing at ethic cleansing? Are you a racist?

Nothing you've said justifies the Assyrians destroying the Kingdom of Judea in 750 BCE and ethnically cleansing the Jews there.

Yeah, me and the entire Middle East...so the people involved in the conflict as opposed to enlightened Europeans who have zero personal or cultural co...

And nothing you've said justifies the Arab world's 2700 year history of murdering, ethnically cleansing, and subjugating Jews to second class citizens...

I am speaking here as a Jew, not as an "objective" observer here. I don't think there is such a thing as a truly objective observer. Jews are still bi...

If you're really a white European who believes that the issue began in 1947 or '48 then you're really just playing your own game. Everybody else is pl...

No, they stole our land. We're just being nice enough to give some our land to them. It is not their land. You're just insanely biased in favor of the...

Yes, and we've already been there with the 2000 Camp David Accords. The Israelis offered that and Arafat rejected. Israel has offered insane concessio...

Are you more interested in helping the Palestinians or in making Israel pay? Pick a side.

You're allowed to speak, of course, but should you if you don't have a sufficient grasp of the cultural/historical backdrop? As a parallel when writin...

See, it's all in the framing. You only want to talk about Israel, but others take a broader view of the conflict and are actually interested in addres...

I haven't commented much on Andrew4Handel's statements. He has expressed a wide range of opinions some of which I would agree with and some of which I...

You're telling me @Andrew4Handlel is the only person in the discussion who is outside of the overton window and who I agree with? I almost never see E...

Ok, what's funny to me was that the Arabs supported the withdrawal as did the more moderate to left section of the Israeli population, so basically th...