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I think if they were exiled they would lose their culture fairly quickly. "Palestinian" as an ethnic identity is only around 60-70 years old and it wi...

The first one that comes to mind is that the practice is a way of preserving/testing the outer limits of free speech and free expression in a society....

If wishing for the destruction of a culture where e.g. powerful men routinely abuse young boys or human sacrifice is a constant make me a Nazi then so...

And that's not the only young Palestinian teenager dying in a manner like that. Not too long ago a 14 year old Palestinian boy was blown up when the e...

I've been mostly pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia, but I'm now quite relieved that Trump seems to be de-escalating and relations appear to be slightly warm...

Just because I'm uncomfortable with something doesn't mean that I oppose it. We ethnically cleansed Germans from territories like Alsace-Lorraine and ...

So you would be pro-Israel if all the dead were men who were involved in 10/7 or Hamas members? What of Hamas members who weren't involved in 10/7? Wo...

Literature can be propagandistic. Theology is one aspect of the Bible.

My conscience tells me to fight. If ~1200 of your people were tortured, raped, and murdered and your conscience didn't tell you to fight I would quest...

You need to learn to see Israeli civilians as human beings rather than just "Israel." You would never speak of the deaths of Palestinians as "resistan...

And deservedly so. Samuel is a rich text. It was originally one book. An unflinching look at David, for sure. If I had to pick a couple texts that cou...

But seriously, if you're expecting the Jews to have sympathy after Israelis were kept in concentration camp like conditions in Gaza and being paraded ...

They're a nasty little bunch, aren't they? Always causing trouble.

Famous Israeli Journalist @shlomieldar “I’ve been talking to people from Gaza since this morning, and most of them say the same thing: If ships docked...

Many Palestinians actually would like to leave and go to peaceful Palestinian communities abroad. Many Palestinians would like to raise their children...

If Moses is false then why did Jesus say: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fu...

Jesus is the very personification of slave morality, imho: "the greatest among you will be your servant." The man takes servitude to a whole other lev...

Very pernicious idea btw that has virulently anti-semitic repercussions. And wrong, of course. But when you're only reading some passages in the gospe...

Remember, Gaza is a prison and a concentration camp. But they must not leave! :lol:

FAFO Hamas. :fire: :party: It began with them going from house to house murdering, raping, and torturing their neighbors. It ended with them losing th...

Better start calling it the MAGA strip. :cheer: Sinwar would be rolling in his grave. :rofl:

Now that is a good one. :fire:

Jesus. Did you just liken me to a lowly disease...for my apparent Nietzsche hatred? :chin: :snicker: I don't resent Nietzsche. I don't think too much ...

I will read AC 33 and 39, and thanks for those references. This I do not agree with. Then Jesus said unto His disciples, “If any man will come after M...

I understood N more as favoring a more 'noble' morality over a 'slave' morality, which, in all fairness, is an apt description of christianity. But th...

Then N does understand that a focus on the 'other world' can lead to greatness and not nihilism.

Did the ancient Greeks not value brilliant architecture or artwork? The best of it was made for the divine.

Awfully rich of a man who lost his virginity to a hooker to talk of "cultural decay" and "decadence." The abbeys and cathedrals of the medieval world ...

Apathy about Zionism.

Judeo-apathy would be a good descriptor.

Anti-zionism = anti-semitism.

I am not a Christian. Midrash is a very vast genre. A satisfactory discussion of it would be beyond our purview. I would not dismiss all midrash as fi...

Ok. And what of a tradition which finds Justin Bieber referenced throughout the entire Bible? My question is: Are all interpretations equally valid/eq...

I get it; you don't want to believe that this is the case. It would be too ugly. Many of the 10/7 victims living on those kibbutzim on the border felt...

I suppose the Allies "final solutioned" Nazi Germany by making life unbearable for them. It's called losing a war that you started. What do you know a...

Just make the offer first. As long as the decision to move is seen as individual and not national, people will go. Gazans are tired of the fighting. H...

Frivolous wording. There is no "final solution" here. Exile is not genocide, and could improve the lives of the Palestinians considerably if they were...

Take a look at the PLO's draft constitution. Article 6 Islam shall be the official religion of the state. The monotheistic religions shall be respecte...

We should eliminate it because studies show DEI training makes people more racist. DEI doesn't work to promote colorblindness, it works to promote vic...

Yes, Palestinianism exists as a negation of Israel. It is also around 60 years old. The Jewish connection to the land goes back over 2000 years. It is...

The pogroms aren't a great example. If this exile were to happen, it's because the Palestinians were defeated by another civilization. But yes, exiles...

And in America they lynch negroes! You've got the playbook down.

IMHO racism is best fought by emphasizing commonality and common goals rather than repeatedly emphasizing difference and/or prior victimhood within gr...

Do you consider Hamas a terrorist organization?

In the military one needs to form a new identity, one based on group unity and emphasizing the achievements of one racial group works against that goa...

It's a ridiculous abuse of language to call the scattering of a people genocide. Otherwise Jews would be speaking about the Babylonian genocide or the...

Re: public weal -- disease prevention, crime prevention, cleanliness are a few that come to mind.

This passage is from before they were enslaved. I would agree with Cline. One of my favorites on this topic is Nahum Sarna who places these events aro...

Exodus 1:9-10 (NIV) Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become ...

I'd consider myself as someone who broadly supports individual rights, but in the presence of an existential threat the group must act decisively to e...