Dan Green

@mattyglesias @MaxNordau Palestinian state in post 67 territories, both countries record, in law, that the majority in each of the two countries determines who can immigrate into them. No right of return for refugees of 48, fate of Israeli settlers in WB subject to will of the PA electorate.

@MaxNordau Articulate a political endgame for Palestinians that is neither ethnic cleansing nor perpetual statelessness.

The belief that global perceptions of Israel are totally unrelated to Israeli conduct is extremely widespread, both in Israel and in American pro-Israel circles. It's also wildly implausible and helps explain a lot about both Israeli behavior and Israel's cratering reputation.

@wil_da_beast630 There is so much satire that SNL won't touch, like what a cold open this story could be, a tremendous squandering of very high yield comic material.

The "misconduct" seems to be that men had sex with left-wing women.

@vintagemapstore I just want to know all about that Celtic blob in Asia Minor

Spread of Celtic languages over time

@jessesingal He did say it "would just open up naturally, you'll see, if will just open up" like in a porn clip.

he did it he really did it he reopened the canal after whatever it was that caused it to be closed in the first place

If the Israeli government thinks Greta Thunberg is the second most dangerous antisemite in the world, why did they release her from custody twice? On the other hand, if activists think Israel is the most murderous rogue state in the world, why would they deliver themselves into its custody as an act of protest? Nobody would dare do that to protest Iran or North Korea or China or even countries like Türkiye, Saudi Arabia or Egypt.

A ceasefire that freezes the conflicts in Lebanon and Iran, just as it did in the Gaza Strip, without addressing the perpetual and catastrophic risk that Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and Hamas pose to their people, neighbors, and the entire world, is a tried-and-tested formula for more war, future destruction, and stagnation in the Middle East. Kicking the can down the road and failing to turn ceasefires into new and transformative beginnings cast serious doubt on claims of total victory or grand proclamations of success and achievement. Most are interested in sparing lives and preventing further uncalculated escalations that can destroy the global economy and cause serious harm to US interests and those of its allies. However, those who scream for ceasefires are the first to move on once conflicts are no longer in headlines or impacting them personally, allowing for conflicts to be frozen, transitions to be paralyzed, and for terror agents of chaos to continue posing a threat and preparing for the next round of fighting. Caring about Lebanese, Iranian, and Gazans means being concerned with Hezbollah, the regime, and Hamas, and how these three have caused unimaginable levels of harm and devastation to their populations and nations.

@SagiBarmak @boonydotan USSR supported Israeli recognition. Then it discovered more numerous anti imperial allies in Arab world.

@boonydotan למה פעילות ציונית נאסרה בברית המועצות? למה ציונים נרדפו ונעצרו בכל רחבי הגוש הקומוניסטי? ואולי תספר לנו מה עלה בגורל המפלגה של וילנר בישראל? עכשיו מק"י ורק"ח הן בעצם תנועות פרו-ציוניות? נו נו.

אם המפלגה השנייה בגודלה בארה"ב הייתה המפלגה הקומוניסטית, האם מישהו היה מתפלא על כך שישראל "איבדה" אותה? מובן שלא. לכולם ברור שבין הרעיון הציוני לאידיאה הקומוניסטית נמצאת תהום בלתי ניתנת לגישור. בכל מקום- קומוניסטים תמיד היו אוייבים גלויים ומרים של הציונות. ובכן, המפלגה השנייה בגודלה בארה"ב היא מפלגה קומוניסטית, או אם נדייק: מפלגה "ווקיסטית" (הגרסה המעודכנת לקומוניזם במאה ה-21 לילדי קולג' ומיעוטים). ובין הווקיזם לציונות שוררת אותה עויינות מרה ובלתי מתפשרת. נדגיש: אף אחד לא מופתע מכך שמדינת ישראל לא השיגה את תמיכתם של היורשים הרעיוניים של מרקס, לנין וטרוצקי. מדוע אם כן אנשים מפותעים מכך שהיורשים הרעיוניים של סעיד, באטלר ופאנון מפנים כתף קרה לריאקציונרים הציונים?

@adam_louis52328 No enemies to the left has repeatedly failed liberals- as per Spain in the 30s and Russia in the first two decades of the 20th century.

Antizionists committed a genocide, lied about a genocide supposedly committed by its victims, illegally discriminated against thousands of Jews in workplace and campuses, murdered Jews across the world, sacrificed the lives of Palestinian civilians, started wars across the Middle East, murdered tens of thousands of innocent protestors, and destroyed the entire humanities. According to @hasanthehun, this is a morally correct position. And according to @ezraklein, it’s worth entertaining.

@wil_da_beast630 Ah I see. On the upside it will be easier to prosecute these guys than if they kept their rapey doings private.

@KoMkrokus "Well under a thousand" or "less than a thousand," according to CNN. Still disturbing, but that's one reason I bothered to post this and argue - the size difference was SO striking.

This "rape academy with 62,000,000 male members" thing is about to become another completely-fake-but-unquestioned piece of feminist/leftist dogma, huh? The reality is that there were some tiny, very creepy "theme" groups on a porn site that had 62M annual...global...male and female...visitors searching for things like "doggy-style."

@ConceptualJames @wil_da_beast630 Nazis burned much hotter than communists in Europe which is why we allied with the other guys.

I have spent a lot of time studying and reading Communists. I have also now spent a lot of time studying and reading Nazis. The question "which is worse" always lurks in the background. Lately, I lean Nazi, but every time I pick either, I talk myself out of it pretty quickly. Generally, I think it's right, as it has been suggested, that beyond a certain level of human evil, it isn't exactly profitable to make ordered comparisons like "worse." That is, the hierarchy of sufficiently bad ideas is a partially ordered set, not a totally ordered set, and beyond a certain point it might not be ordered at all. I do feel qualified to talk about this argument I have with myself more or less continuously as I pore over their literature and history, though. I'm currently leaning Nazi because their brutality was willfully embraced as brutality. Their murder was done specifically as murder, not just as a necessity of their project but as a part of the fundamental reality of what it means to be human. The stronger must kill the weaker. The pure must murder the impure to prevent contamination and, in fact, to purify the race specifically to enable the advancement of humanity. All this was done openly in embracing the so-called Law of Nature, which is the "Aryan" Nazi playing God by deciding how humanity should progress in an explicitly evolutionary project. It's deliberate and psychotic. A reflection that hits at this point is that even though more people died at the hands of Communism -- far more, in fact -- the vast bulk of the deaths caused by Communists were not deliberate murders meant to purify the race in the name of advancing humanity. They were rank failures caused by forcing people to accept, embrace, and implement a broken system that cannot work. Most deaths under Communism were from starvation under famine and exposure. Millions were murdered, to be sure, though. So then I talk myself out of it. No, I reason. Communists are worse. They too specifically murdered by the millions, whether we look at Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine or Pol Pot's genocide of his own people (3 million of them, 25% of the Cambodian population). These are numbers that in some cases rival the Holocaust, and then there are the famines and the exposure and the catastrophe and the failure on top of it all. But then I turn to the motivations and talk myself back into it being the Nazis who are the greater evil. The Nazis intended the murders as a central part of their motivating mythology. Communists do not. Communists would gladly kill nobody except that it would require the willing submission and self-transformation (ideological remolding) to agree fully with them to avoid it. Communists, at the end of the day, want humanity to return to itself because they wrongly believe we are intrinsically socialists. The capitalists only have to be expropriated (often murdered) because they won't willingly go along with the socialist program that allegedly reflects their true nature. Nazis are different. Nazis wanted to kill Jews. All the Jews in Europe, and perhaps all the Jews everywhere if they could. From the very beginning of the Nazi Experiment, we have Hitler writing that the removal of all Jews from Europe is a necessary good, and in the end everyone knows there's only one way that could be accomplished, given they had no Israel to go to (a fact Hitler knew and expressed). He didn't plan their murder from the start, necessarily, but it must have been on the list of realistic possibilities, and it was the only realistic possibility for fulfilling his psychotic mission. And it wasn't just Jews, although Jews represented the most callous among the calculations and the most vicious of his views. All of the allegedly inferior races would be purged or destroyed. All of the physically or mentally unable would be purged, sterilized, or destroyed. But the Jews would be destroyed simply for being Jewish, representing not just a potential genetic contamination of the race but a full-blown contamination of the society itself in every possible dimension: racial, ethical, economic, social, military, cultural -- everything. It's a unique kind of malice. This is because the Nazis at the higher levels were possessed of an insane belief that their chief ideologist, Alfred Rosenberg, described as "the Myth of the Blood," which he also recognized as "the Myth of the 20th Century," taking "myth" as a positive force for a society. Their belief was that the human foundation itself is blood, and Nordic Aryan blood is highest and best, indeed representing not just a creative, powerful, and beautiful race but also a sinless one, above the good and evil of the lower races. And this race, allegedly, retained its highest concentration in Germany, where it was opposed by its absolute racial antithesis in the Jew. The Nazi Experiment, then, wasn't to forcibly change the minds of the people under its power, as with the Communists, who would destroy the intractable and inconvenient. The Nazi Experiment was to purify and advance this one particular racial strain (which doesn't actually exist) through any brutality necessary, including the Holocaust. And that returns me to thinking it's the Nazis who are the worse of the pair. But the Communists are just inhuman. Fanatical. Maniacal. Believing not that Man has to be remade for his own good but that Man has to be remade into his prelapsarian state, which is the socialist, uncontaminated by ideas of ownership, privacy, or self. And then I circle back around again because that's true for the Nazis as well. Aryan man is prelapsarian too. He descended into the lower world from Atlantis or wherever, says Rosenberg, fell away from the Myth of the Blood, and must be recovered through careful, deliberate, and murderous eugenics. Maybe the punt is right to begin with. Maybe the punt to incomparable evil because it's so far within the pits of hell that it's morally indistinguishable in that utter darkness is right. Maybe the profundities of evil are, in fact, an unordered set. I don't know, and the more I read, the less able I am to decide. And yet my soul screams that it's definitely, definitely the Nazis. ...and then I remember Pitesti, even as I spend waking moments trying never to remember it again.

@HistoryBoomer @CathyYoung63 I can't remember but one of these writers (not one of those you named) cited studies on the Academy showing that policies on free discourse were more female- typical based on surveys broken down by sex in the same institutions.

The Great Feminization articles—Helen Andrews and Inez Stepman—annoy because they are so lacking in substance. The occasional stat is tossed out, but most of their work is based on vibes. It *feels* to them like this is happening, so it must be. I honestly think a serious article could be written on the changes in business styles and behaviors caused by many women entering the workforce (which might be a mix of good, bad, and neutral), but Andrews and Stepman just wanted to blame women in the workforce for stuff they don’t like.

@_ZachFoster You, like the Israeli far right, believe that pre 67 Israel is indistinguishable from the West Bank. That's the West Bank, not Israel.

If you ever wondered why the country is called apartheid Israel…

Lebanese TV Host Walid Abboud to Hezbollah: “Leave us. And take your weapons, your drones, your rockets, your mouthpieces, your flags, your Supreme Leader, your Iran and your Resistance with you.”

One of the annoying things about the low-IQ rightists who populate this site is they assume everyone else is as dumb as they are. I posted here that it would make more sense to idolize Denmark than Hungary, so various chuds are popping out of the woodwork to be like “hurrr durr you libs would hate Denmark’s immigration policies.” I know all about Denmark’s immigration policies — it was a deliberately well-chosen example to illustrate how bizarre, corrupt, and irrational the MAGA obsession with boosting Viktor Orbán is, this is an approach that is *not* justifiable in terms of belief in free markets or restrictive immigration policies, if it was you could idolize Trols Poulsen. You could talk about Mette Fredericksen moving to the middle on migration in a way that could be a model for other center-left leaders. But *my whole point* is precisely that Trump isn’t doing that, he’s repeatedly threatening to invade Danish sovereign territory while relentlessly focused on cheerleading for Fidesz. It doesn’t make sense, that’s my argument because I know what I’m talking about.

The best Palestinian response to the claim "Israel has a right to exist" is "yes, and so does Palestine". Not "no, you don't".

Gonna be unpopular, but the answer is no. As decolonization proceeded after WWII, new states emerged and it created a lot of new injustices on top of old colonial ones. But 75 years later , trying to undo those injustices is both unworkable and would simply create more conflict. Jews have a state and can't return to other Middle Eastern countries. Palestinians should be given a state but it would foreclose on the "right of return" fantasy into Israel proper. Yeah it's gross and messy but that's how these conflictsc get resolved.

@_ZachFoster @xMaccabix @daverich1 @owenjones This applies to the expelled Germans immediately after 1945, who now find themselves outside the EU, who want to repatriate to Poland, Slovakia, or Czechia. They face de facto obstacles to returning to Russia. Same for refugees of the 1948 South Asian Partition.

As a Jew, I can move to Israel tomorrow, and Israel will: Pay for my flight Give me free language instruction Give me free housing Give me free medical benefits Give me an Israeli passport If I was a Palestinian born in Israel & violently expeled from Israel because I had P-positive DNA rather than J-positive DNA — Israel wouldn’t even let me enter the country.

What's a Jewish State? It's a place where Owen Jones doesn't get to demand that Jews jump through hoops for his own amusement.

@alykatzz @jdforward Gaslighting 101 x.com/columbiafsi/st…

@avidseries the whole Arab Israeli conflict has been an off shoring of Europe's treatment of Jews, which lead to Israel, which lead to the hounding of Jews out of MENA. It's a geopolitical reenactment of the plot of The Departed.

Both America and the Middle East would have been better off if Israel had never been created — the country has been a drag on US foreign policy since the 50s — but what's done is done, it's nearly 80 years on, and as much as it sucks for the Palestinians, they lost, Israel exists, and the sooner the Palestinians resign themselves to these painful facts and move on, the better for everyone.