Israel proposed peace on one or two occasions when it thought the other party would not accept it and when it was in its interest to consolidate its p...
An authority that depends on the authorization of a council of the great powers does not seem to me to be independent. Although the legislation it pro...
The list was published by the Israeli Embassy in the Dominican Republic. It didn't take me more than five minutes to find it. I didn't have time to tr...
The Cartesian cogito only establishes as evidence (without possible contradiction) the existence of the "I" as "something" (a substance) that thinks. ...
Unfortunately, universal authority is practically non-existent in international politics. The State of Israel was created with the permission of an ab...
The nation is a concept that summarizes a certain cultural unity of a group of individuals. It is relatively useful for defending the common rights of...
Pain is a subjective experience. We don't feel other people's pain in a literal sense. We observe some linguistic and bodily behaviours. These behavio...
First of all, nations do not have rights over individuals. Putting the nation above the people is the typical ideology of fascism. Even if the Jews li...
Rigorously false. In every negotiation, the Israeli spokesman (i.e., the United States government) offered conditions that were obviously unacceptable...
The problem does not lie in abstract concepts. It is mainly specific: the rights of specific people living in a place who are stolen, expelled and mas...
I think humans do horrible things and good things. You seem to recognize that the occupation of Palestine is one of the first. I agree. You mention Na...
In the mid-nineteenth century, the inhabitants of Palestine were about 300,000, and just over 500,000 in 1914. Of these, the Jewish community was a sm...
The intervention of Jewish armed groups led by Zeev Jabotinsky and the British army against the Palestinians are two elements that you will not find i...
Indeed, every colonial power justifies its policy of occupation by the fact that the settlers are attacked by the local population. This was the usual...
I have not denied that a massacre took place in Hebron. But to speak of a pogrom, one must assume that it is a massacre of a defenseless Jewish popula...
You are right. I should have included the period of the British mandate when the Zionist "national home" begins to be substantiated. Incidentally, you...
Flexible? The interpretation of a myth is practically subjective. Everyone finds in it what he has put in it. Scientific objectivity is something else...
This is the Wiki version. For the Greeks, Prometheus meant punishment for the excessive pride of those who think they are smarter than the gods. Well-...
May be it is a matter of language, but I wouldn't say that the Lysenko case was about myths or superstition. It was ideology mixed with pseudoscience ...
I recommend you to read the complete report. I think that AI is one of the most impartial sources of information about Human Rights. I don't say it is...
What would you think if a foreign power forced you to give up half your home to take in a Yemeni refugee family? How would you behave if your child wa...
Palestinian violence against the Jews minority (at the beginnings of the 20th century it was very minority) starts with the proclamation of the State ...
Some attempts (with more or less success) to annex land through war in the 20th century come to mind. Hitler and the Eastern territories, Morocco and ...
Every colonized people tries to drive out the colonizers. The Sioux did not want their land to be overrun by white settlers and the army. Who dug thei...
Israel applies discriminatory policies against the Palestinian minority in its territory and against the population it controls in the occupied territ...
The difference is that the "return home" cases you cite were not made to the detriment of the existing population there. Israel "went home" by expelli...
There are two things that confuse me in your comment: Analogy and metaphor are not synonym. Metaphor is a special kind of analogy. Therefore what kind...
I did a project on him when I was a student. At first I found it fascinating. Until I realized it was pseudo-science and mysticism in camuflage. Anywa...
It is interesting because we believed that we lived in a civilized world that respected the rights of individuals and saw violence as an illicit way o...
I'm not against metaphors. They impact and can suggest orientation for practice or knowledge. But they do not explain, define or clarify. They can be ...
You don't need to go to the far future. Contingency causes the anguish of the present and the next immediate moment. If everyone - including myself - ...
My choice is to seek clarity among the darkness, not to add more darkness to the darkness. There are optimistic and pessimistic myths. Cruel, submissi...
Explanation subsumes the contingent (individual) in the necessary (universal). Take these words in a relative sense if you like. Of course, explanatio...
This is my point. Believers may affirm that they know God, but when obliged to clarify what they understand by God they stray into a world of contradi...
I can, but it would take too much time for an obvious issue. For the moment, consider this: Galileo: the world is a book written in mathematical langu...
If such a maximalist concept of explanation is adopted, nothing is an explanation. In a less maximalist way, to explain is to include the unknown with...
From what I know of some scientists who write books the idea that they are describing the world of sensations is not universal. Some of them (many?) t...
It seems that "Anschauung" doesn't have an easy translation: In any case, the notions of sensible intuition and intellectual intuition share in Kant t...
From B34 onwards I have found more than fifty occurrences of the term "sensible intuition" in the English version of Cambridge University Press, 1998....
Scientific realism is not a single doctrine. There are several scientific realisms ranging from dogmatic realism to cautious realism. I would say that...
So, is invisibility a metaphysical idea? Or is it the result of applying a logical (non-x) category to things in general? I would say that "nothingnes...
Dewey's criticism of Kant is based on the fact that he does not take into account the pragmatic aspect of knowledge. I think it's relevant. It seems t...
In Kantian terminology I'm using now, intuitions are not templates (a priori), they are the content of our ideas. Space and time are the templates of ...
Aristotle criticizes Plato because his concept or idea/form implies an infinite regression. If the idea is what the various individuals have in common...
In plain English: there is no objective knowledge of subatomic particles -respect some relevant variables. Or there is an alternative theory to quantu...
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