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Baruch Hasofer's avatar

Oh, come on, think bigger. Imagine the possibilities. One million Gazans are under age 18. All we need to do is for the Israeli Ministry of Education to produce 33,000 illiterate freha teachers and assign one to every 30 Gazan children, with combat enablers standing by to provide Ritalin. In 10 years, the Gazans will be incapable of fighting or doing anything else useful.

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The Opium Merchant's avatar

Truly an inspired solution.

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Matthew Varnovitski's avatar

This was the best piece I’ve ever read on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Thank you so much for sharing.

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Dani ben Golani's avatar

Excellent essay.

Regarding the Nazis and their pseudo religions and pseudo everything else they also cooked up their own Mekka called the Wewelsburg.

This castle was going to be a pilgrimage site for every Nazi and German to which one should make a pilgrimage . The castle was dedicated to the SS and detailed plans had been drawn to build a city around this random rural castle with roads radiating out into the Third Reich.

Today it is a fascinating museum with an exhibition of top notch SS branded daily objects. These objects had the SS runes on them, such as napkin rings, a telephone, cutlery , porcelain for eating, finger rings etc.

The castle also has a large vaulted hall with more Nazi symbolism and it was going to be the center piece where SS knights would be worshipped. Like a temple.

The site was brought up to then modern standards by the prisoners of a close by concentration camp.

The pseudo scientific research the Nazis came up with , like measuring people’s noses and heads to prove what ever, so do many of the Arab elite believe that Jews are satan.

Shiites also believe in their own Armageddon , like the Christians. Sam Harris has a great podcast on this aspect of Islam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewelsburg?wprov=sfti1

https://www.wewelsburg.de/en/gedenkstaette-1933-1945/

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The Opium Merchant's avatar

Send the link to the podcast. Curious to hear it.

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Dani ben Golani's avatar

Sam Harris does have some excellent podcasts critical of Islam. Especially around the time of the Bataclan massacre and there after.

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Dani ben Golani's avatar

Sam Harris has set up a paywall, and his podcasts are no longer on iTunes.

The podcast I mean is about nine years old. If I find a transcript , I will let you know.

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Joshua Shalet's avatar

The only solution is cruel but efficient. Flatten Gaza. Hostages are not bargaining chips. If I was captured I'd want a strong leader to say "give us back the hostages or we kill all of you. We don't care about the hostages." I'd want our enemies to call our bluff and suffer the devastating consequences.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Concise and succinct

I can now point to one phony phallustinian achievement.

The painted donkey as an analogy for the contrived ethnicity and specificity of the Arabs of the Levant

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The painted donkeys of the Levant 🤔

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Jenifer O’Connor's avatar

Great article, eloquently explained, thank you!

Jihad must be destroyed, and even then it will rise again, but it might take a generation. Then it must be destroyed again.

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