Of course. Then again, it's hard to think of a more repressive government and mentality than the Saudi one. Maybe something like ISIS. We can still be...
Sure, but who does Saudi Arabia use these weapons against? Yemen. Besides being a crime of the very worst calibre in global affairs, Saudi Arabia is n...
Yes. It would have been a total disaster. I'm not sure the US is clear of that if Trump runs again in 2024. I hope not. The problem for me is the spee...
Sure. But the real Israel lobby is the military industrial complex including the Pentagon. They have strategic interests in Israel, they can depend on...
I mostly agree. Nevertheless Israel defenders have to mention Hamas and to a less visible extent Muslims in general. Otherwise there is no possible re...
It goes even before that. The term "neoliberalism" was coined Walter Lippman Colloquium in Paris in 1938 by liberal (market based) minded intellectual...
Zionism even had anti-statist branches, based on mutual cooperation. It's what Chomsky's father was in to as was Chomsky himself. Then again, WWII did...
I think that makes sense. I'd only add that some of this left elite may be willing to "give back", in terms of paying slightly higher taxes and some m...
I have to laugh. I expected some pushback from these "defenders" of Israel, aside from actual Israelis. But some arguments here about "complexity" are...
Bomb shelters open in northern Israeli cities after rockets from Lebanon The northern Israeli cities of Acre, Nahariya and Haifa opened public bomb sh...
I'm not in the US anymore. But I have to ask, how the heck do you get people together for a long enough time to manage significant changes that would ...
We may not have much of it left. History that is. Nice quote. Never heard of it. :roll: Feel free to analyze the profound complexities of WMD's in Ira...
Sure. No one else cared. Fine. The point is most of the people living in Palestine were Palestinians. Why should they accept some other people coming ...
But that's the thing. We can talk of history for a long time. We can even go back to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand as a catalyst that would lea...
It's not clear to me what my views would be after WWII. It's not like many people in the US, including Roosevelt cared about the Holocaust. In fact, t...
Perhaps. Assuming the other hominin species were peaceful too. Knee jerk reaction? I'm speaking about settler colonialism. In any case, Netanyahu is l...
Well you point to something important. If we go back far enough, everybody's an invader or colonialist of some kind. Maybe not the Aborigines in Austr...
Would you consider yourself a metaphysical monist? Some other day I'd like to discuss the materialism I associate with, with your idealism. It may com...
Yes. All settler colonialism is like this. At least the Israeli's didn't kill them all when they created the state. Maybe they would've liked to, less...
I almost entirely agree with that statement. But isn't less confusing to just use the term "scientism"? Materialism is also used in Marxist thought or...
Exactly. It's not dissimilar from the US reaction in relation to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Afghanistan isn't even mentioned. BitconnectCarlos, for...
Like the US got rid of Al Qaeda and The Taliban? You won't get rid of Hamas by killing it. You could kill its leaders, new ones will come in, probably...
Freedom is an idea. We say that ideas are something that occur to people, usually through some obscure process in the brain. I don't take anything awa...
Also true. But you are asking what thoughts are. So we'd at least need to be able to speak about one thought, otherwise we are just left speaking of w...
It's not a new tactic. But it does get progressively worse since Gaza suffers from each "war". Such considerations should automatically impeach any pr...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-intercepts-drone-near-jordanian-border-as-gaza-fighting-continues-1.9818178 The IDF added that the...
180, as to be expected from your contributions, awesome tune. Fun lyrics. Pure style. :cool: Crazy - Gnarls Barkley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N...
Well, well. I may have cited too soon: The Israeli army said that a siren had sounded in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, and that they ...
You're right. We can't stop thinking outside very rare circumstances and even here it's questionable. But now you've introduced, correctly I think, th...
Yes. And it is normal to expect a response if provoked. However as other Israeli sources are saying, because of the potential Iran-US peace deal, they...
To be clear, I'm totally making it up here. But I think this "dirty work" has to be cleared up a bit somehow, maybe using a totally different framewor...
It's a bit lamentable that consciousness should cause so much controversy in philosophy. I mean, sure, it has many aspects and you may want to highlig...
You speak of Hamas as if it existed in a vaccum, it does not. You don't mention settler violence, which is not only savage but humiliating in the extr...
Yet I wonder if the Palestinians are furious with Hamas as opposed to Israel. Apparently not. You say that no country would willingly take attacks on ...
Live feed of Gaza from Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Now they are reporting shortage of medication. Also speaking of a man whose house was bo...
Yes. I very much agree with that. I especially agree with the neuroscience angle. There is very interesting work done in the field no doubt about that...
I suspect that this depends on how well we can articulate such a phenomenon of reflection. So perhaps you'd need some kind of phenomenology that may p...
I suppose we are aware to some degree that it "I" that is having thoughts, not thoughts arising out of no one. So I'd think we'd need to have a subjec...
Some weapons - I believe - used to get in via Rafah, but ever since the Muslim Brotherhood was kicked out, the military regime in Egypt has been quite...
It plays to the hardliners in the government, which is most of them, Hamas is a gift to them, because they have a "target" to go after. Yet this targe...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/16/netanyahu-says-gaza-bombing-to-continue-in-full-force "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the dea...
But if we agreed that prior to settlement expansion Israel was safer, why do you think ending the blockade means they'll destroy Israel? Yes they're f...
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