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It's well past time the Dems clean house. We cannot allow ghouls like this to define the party or hold any influence in our media and politics. There must be red lines. #Israel #Lebanon #Democrats

@solace_eternal @academic_la I don't need an AI to tell me this. I've read the papers your AI has not.

@solace_eternal @academic_la The earliest proto-Hebrew settlements are literally laid out like nomadic herding camps. The proto-Hebrews and proto-Aramaeans move into the interior highlands during the Bronze Age collapse, and then mix with existing Semitic-speaking urbanites.

Here is why the Passover story of Egyptian Exodus is completely made up. Not only is there no evidence for it, but it is chronologically impossible. Not on the scale mentioned in the bible or on any scale at all: 1) Decades of intensive archaeological surveys in the Sinai Peninsula have failed to uncover any remains, such as pottery, encampments, or human waste, that would indicate a population of over two million people spent 40 years wandering the desert. Not one piece of pottery, one hearth, or one Hebrew inscription from that era has been found in the Sinai. 2) Ancient Egypt was a highly literate society with meticulous administrative records. Despite this, no Egyptian text from the Bronze Age mentions a mass slave revolt, the devastating plagues, or the loss of an entire army in the sea. 3) Modern archaeology suggests that the ancient Israelites were actually indigenous to Canaan. They appear to have emerged from local Canaanite populations during the Bronze Age collapse, rather than arriving as a conquering force from outside. 4) The biblical figure of 603,550 men (totaling roughly 2.5 million people including families) is logistically impossible for the time. A line of that many people, walking eight abreast, would have been hundreds of miles long, meaning the front would reach the destination while the back was still in Egypt. 5) The Book of Exodus mentions places like the city of Rameses and the land of Goshen, as well as the use of camels, which were not in existence or common at the time the events were supposed to have occurred. This suggests the story was written centuries later. Archaeology shows that at the time the conquest was supposed to happen, Jericho had no walls and was either a tiny village or completely uninhabited. 6) If 2.5 million people entered a land from Egypt, you would expect to see a sudden, massive shift in technology, diet, or burial customs. Instead, we see a slow, internal evolution. The people who became "Israelites" were likely local Canaanite farmers and nomadic herders who moved into the highlands to escape the collapse of the coastal city-states. 7) The Exodus is said to have took place well before there is evidence of Israelites existing. The bible has it at 1446 BCE. The first mention of Israelites is in 1208 by the Pharaoh Merneptah. He mentions them as a foreign people with no ties to Egypt. 8) The biggest hole in the story is that during the 13th century BCE (the time of Ramesses II), Canaan was an Egyptian province. Egypt had forts, tax collectors, and governors all over the "Promised Land."If the Israelites fled Egypt to go to Canaan, they were essentially "fleeing Egypt to go to Egypt." 9) The story appears to have been made up during the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BCE. They needed a story to give them hope: a story where their God defeats a superpower Egypt) and leads them back to their homeland. By creating a shared "escape" story, they turned a collection of local Canaanite tribes into a single, unified nation. So this is a beautiful story, but a complete myth. Its greatest value is that it has inspired many to pursue freedom, most famously African Americans who identified deeply with the story.

@PushDemsLeft Every time the facts contradict them in that thread they fall back on racist whataboutism and emotional reasoning. "Israel was attacked" (ignoring that Israel commits mass violence via the illegal occupation) or "you just support Hamas". A fool with far too many followers.

Nope. You're not getting away with these lies anymore. Biden/Harris did not push for a ceasefire, they pushed against one. They lied. They never stopped sending bombs the entire time. Their officials admit this. Israel admits this. No one's falling for the revisionist history!

@JayNDonde @hedcannon @BeLong22811414 @dewb666 @Leahgreenb The death toll is irrelevant to the crime you disgusting stain on humanity. You are identical to some neo-Nazi Holocaust denier. May you rot.

The six percent decline is disputed, but I agree with your earlier point even if we take it at face value the actual death toll would come out to about 2%. I'm not aware of any previous conflict being called a genocide where the population decreased by anything at the *very very very least* an order of magnitude more than that.

personally I am team #bigtent, but if we're gonna start kicking people out of the party on brand/moral grounds I would like to nominate 1) the foreign policy team behind the Gaza genocide, and 2) every Dem former elected/staffer who takes a cushy job with an overtly evil company

@JayNDonde @BeLong22811414 @Leahgreenb There is no "population increase", so yes, you are the stupid and vile one. Further, that metric is completely irrelevant to the crime of genocide.

@BeLong22811414 @Leahgreenb I guess me and the CIA are stupid and “BeLong22811414” is the smart one.

@JayNDonde @Leahgreenb What a truly disgusting person. You are just like some sick Holocaust denier.

@Leahgreenb A modest proposal whereby European Jews trade their actual genocide, in which their population was reduced by 2/3, for the Palestinian’s make-believe one, in which their population increased.

BREAKING: A second Air Force combat plane, a A-10 Warthog, crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued. This happened around the same time a F-15E was shot down over Iran. By @EricSchmittNYT and @tylerpager. nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…

#Iran attacks the #GCC to impose a cost for the illegal strikes on infrastructure by #Trump and #Israel. They won't stop unless the latter to change behaviors, which seems highly unlikely to me. It's an escalation ladder led by extreme ideologues, hence no real off-ramp.

Everyone loves their children and would do anything to protect them. This is a universal value across all faiths and cultures and ethnicities and time. It is innate. It is survival hard wired in human DNA. So much about who Zionists are is that they think they are unique in this feeling.

@solace_eternal @hob_liud @academic_la @grok Please read an actual scholar instead of letting this worthless AI mislead you.

@hob_liud @academic_la @grok Looks like far-right nationalist rulers of the 18th Dynasty carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing on the Hyksos to drive them back to Canaan and also besieged them there further.

@solace_eternal @lind25033 @academic_la That post is just a collection of discredited fringe theories smacked together by an AI that is scraping unreliable sources. Please, read a bloody book. Try JSTOR and Google Scholar.

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@solace_eternal @lind25033 @academic_la But Gemini has no clue what it's talking about. What is this "covenant with God" bullshit? That's so utterly foreign to Mesopotamian religious and political ideas it's absurd.

@lind25033 @academic_la I like the Gemini version better 😄

@solace_eternal @academic_la The proto-Hebrews come from the Syro-Jordanian desert. Archaeologically there's no question about that.

@academic_la They were probably the proto-Israelites (and proto-Palestinians at the same time) and inherited their oral history.

@solace_eternal @academic_la We don't see traces of the Hyksos in Egyptian-ruled Canaan during the Late Bronze Age. You're relying on an implausible theory that is technically not impossible, but it so unlikely it's not worth considering. The proto-Hebrews came from the opposite direction.

@disabledwonk @academic_la Well Hyksos had to flee back to Canaan from Egypt and Jewish ethno-religious identity formed in that area some centuries later. So it might have transformed into some oral origin myth. x.com/solace_eternal…

@DHSgov @ICEgov Israeli military courts have an over 97% conviction rate. They are notorious for using torture to force confessions and relying on secret evidence. Such a conviction should hold no legal weight decades later. This is simple racism from this lawless agency.

Today, @ICEgov arrested a Jordanian national with a prior conviction for THROWING A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL at the homes of Israeli Forces. He lied on his immigration application and became a green card holder under President Clinton. This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

@jmj_brewcity @SarahforWI Israel's brutal military courts are not remotely fair and get most convictions through torture and "secret evidence".

@SarahforWI x.com/i/status/20398…

It is outrageous that ICE agents have detained Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour. He has been a legal resident of the Milwaukee community for 32 years. We know this wasn’t random, Mr. Sarsour was targeted for his advocacy and community organizing. He should be at home in Wisconsin with his 6 children and 9 grandchildren, not locked up in a detention center in Indiana.

Israel routinely dropped bombs twice that size on residential areas of Gaza. Glad you now agree that practice is wrong.

@RUSI_org This is deeply unprofessional. The RUSI article offers no actual references or verification. The accusation against the Pasteur Institute comes from the 'National Council of Resistance' aka the MEK.