Repost: Matti Friedman, "An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"
2013, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed 42 lives— roughly the monthly homicide rate in the city of Chicago. Jerusalem, internationally renowned as a city of conflict, had slightly fewer violent deaths per capita last year than Portland, Ore., one of America’s safer cities. In contrast, in three years the Syrian conflict has claimed an estimated 190,000 lives…
Repost: Stephen Pollard, "It's often the self-proclaimed anti-racists who are the foulest of the lot"
If a bigot says “I’m not antisemitic” three times to a bathroom mirror, with the lights off, then Roger Waters pops out to defend them as just being honest about {{{the Zionists}}}.
Zionists are not banned. Jews are.
In 1973, the Palestinian Authority imposed martial law, and banned non-Arabs from buying land, punishable by death or life imprisonment. From this point on, ~2M+ Arabs enjoyed full rights in Israel, while risking imprisonment and death for expressing those same rights under Palestinian leadership. There is no mention of the word “Zionist”…
Losers brought up the USS Liberty (1967)... again
The cries about USS Liberty is a pathetic grasping for some evidence. The USS Liberty obsessor looks for what I call “Exceptions that disprove the rule.” To a rational mind, they are ironically proving the rule.
Existentialist French are still French
Imagine a gameshow where three Jews are placed side-by-side. Maybe one has green hair and facial piercings, one has traditional black hat and robes on, and one is dressed just like you are right now. Can you identify which is a Zionist or Israel supporter?
Repost: Emily Schrader, "From Ramallah to Tehran: Palestinian ties to Iran throughout history"
This fanatical emphasis on Israel has not gone unnoticed by everyday Iranians. Mina, an Iranian from Tehran area, told Ynet that “despite the IRI trying to brainwash the population in Iran into hating Israel from a very young age, going as far as teaching kids in primary schools that Israel is our biggest enemy, Iranians remain aware that the IRI funds 'revolutionary fighters' (Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad) in Palestine…instead of caring for Iranians, the IRI uses its assets to fund Hamas.”
Dave Chappelle is a little bitch
Dave Chappelle wasn’t always a little bitch. He used to, you know, write his jokes before he went on stage. They were hilarious. More hilarious than Nick Cannon! But now he improvises a lame, race-baiting, stream of consciousness, then demands his audience laugh. He has become beyond entitled. Dave is truly, and I can’t emphasize this enough, a little bitch.
Repost: Silvan Shalom, "A fence built for peace"
The general assembly request recalls the famous observation of Abba Eban that "if Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions".
Repost: Emma Goldman, "On Zionism"
I have been taught that the land should belong to those who till the soil. With all of his deep-seated sympathies with the Arabs, our comrade cannot possibly deny that the Jews in Palestine have tilled the soil. Tens of thousands of them, young and deeply devout idealists, have flocked to Palestine, there to till the soil under the most trying pioneer conditions. They have reclaimed wastelands and have turned them into fertile fields and blooming gardens.