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@stonesndtrees @shadihamid By the way, I do appreciate the discourse & believe all states probably were founded through injustice, so I do believe there is often bias involved when Israel is singled out for its injustices and not other countries that deserve scrutiny as well.

@stonesndtrees @shadihamid I didn’t claim Israel is a white state; I was using a hypothetical example (NY & NJ) as an analogy to challenge the ethics of imposing ethno-statehood on a non-consenting people. Also I don’t know if the Indian reservation system is a good example of a just system.

Does Israel have a "right" to exist? No. But that doesn't mean it should be dissolved. I’m surprised pro-Israel advocates haven’t made this argument. But it requires conceding things most of them would rather not concede. My new essay for @wcrowdslive 🧵 wisdomofcrowds.live/p/does-israel-…

@stonesndtrees @shadihamid In my NY example, regardless of whether a war broke out that expelled or caused non-white NYers to flee, I believe it would still be unjust to non-white NYers for the UN to declare NY as a white state.

@TiernanWTM @shadihamid No. Again, UN partition did not displace 700,000 people. The subsequent war did. Do you understand?

@stonesndtrees @shadihamid 700,000+ ppl weren’t living in that other land though. It’d be like if the US fell and the UN designated New York a white American state and New Jersey a non-white state. It would be an injustice to the non-white NYers to force them to live in NJ.

@TiernanWTM @shadihamid The UN set aside all the other land to become a Muslim state and they said no.

@stonesndtrees @shadihamid In the same way that if the UN had designated the area that became Israel to be a Muslim state (instead of a Jewish state), it would have precluded the Jewish people in that land from self-determination.

@TiernanWTM @shadihamid Precluded them from self determination how? They did not want any Jewish state at all so they attacked and lost.

@stonesndtrees @shadihamid I don’t think he opposes Israel’s existence. I think he argues the UN partition was unjust, bc it precluded Palestinians from self-determination. But now that Israel exists, it would also be unjust to force the same thing onto Israelis in return (eg 2 wrongs don’t make a right)

@shadihamid No.. it was founded by UN partition Then the Arabs attacked and lost a war resulting in 700,000 people leaving- israel's creation is not an injustice. In fact the only injustice is opposing it. What other countries do you oppose the existence of?

@KnicksFanTv All Knicks should be required to wear air command forces

Hart heads to the locker room after hurting his ankle stepping on a Wizards player’s foot. That makes two ankle injuries on the night, with Mo Diawara exiting early.

@broseph_stalin This doesn’t seem particularly high on the priority list to make NYC more affordable. The risk of political distractions could jeopardize implementation of his affordability agenda.

Mamdani could halt the sale of stolen Palestinian land in NYC tomorrow. As mayor, he could direct NYC Consumer Protection to prosecute brokers marketing West Bank settlement property for deceptive practices, misrepresentation of location, and failure to disclose material title risks. He could shut down sales events, fine promoters, revoke permits, enforce bans on unpermitted commercial use of non-commercial spaces, and refer brokers for state licence suspension or revocation. This is routine consumer and zoning law. He is choosing not to act.

@jakewoolf Proud of ur healthy decisions, my guy!… but damn, 6 beers had you looking like a guy who was shot in the face?

I don’t drink anymore but this is how I used to look 6 beers deep passed out on the metro north

@OmerThoughts @AsafRonel I don’t have the numbers so am genuinely curious. And my point is that “intent to destroy a group of people, in part or in whole,” does not mean intent to kill as many of them as is physically possible. That’s why “in part” is in the definition. Agree to disagree.

@TiernanWTM @AsafRonel I believe it has lowered by 3% with more births than deaths and over 100k people leaving Gaza included in that 3%. Fact check me if I'm wrong. I am not only saying "it could be worse". I'm saying if the intent was to kill civilians, it would have been worse.

I'm Israeli, Jewish and against antisemitism and our army kills children indiscriminately for sport

@OmerThoughts @AsafRonel I respect your opinion as well, but my understanding is that just because a genocide “could be worse” doesn’t mean it’s not a genocide. And re: population growth, has the Gazan population grown since 10/8/23?

@TiernanWTM @AsafRonel But at some point you have to look at the power disparity, the timelines and the population growth, the acts showing the opposite of intent to kill civilians and realize that the genocide claims don't match up. That's my opinion at least. Israel is making an effort to avoid>

@OmerThoughts @AsafRonel As an anology, a torture victim may be given water while still being tortured to death.

@OmerThoughts @AsafRonel The fact that a genocide could have been conducted faster or more efficiently does not preclude it from being a genocide. I also don’t believe the provision of aid in and of itself precludes genocide, insofar as the aid provided is insufficient in counteracting the genocide…

@NickFreiling @TOEwithCurt In order to remove the “neither”, “nor” and “no”, how about “absolute sameness”? (Something only exists if it is perceived in contrast to that which it isn’t, so absolute sameness would be nothingness.)

@TOEwithCurt Good question. How about this? A condition wherein neither differentiation nor relation can be found among any possible entities, such that the whole admits of no measure, distinction, or change.

Define “nothing” without using negation. (implicit or otherwise)

Before I go off, respect to the Knicks man. They 100% deserved this series, never backed down and made every opportunity count. Their players and fanbase treated Tatum amazingly and that means a lot to us Celtics fans. Good luck in the ECF 🫡

@danabeers Travis knight! Michael Doleac! Fred jones!

There’s going to be a monumental amount of Knicks fans coming out of nowhere the next few weeks. Make sure you ask them about their fondest memories of Renaldo Balkman or Wilson Chandler. Maybe even toss in a Ron Baker or Cleanthony Early

@Elsquidwardo95 @BigKnickEnergy_ This… Hartenstein and Brunson are indeed the only 2 players on record that this has occurred to in the playoffs… both with the Knicks… both with zero fouls at the half and 5 in the 3rd… in consecutive years… hmmm 🤔

@BigKnickEnergy_ Didn’t Hartenstein do it in a game vs the 76ers last year?

Real talk, is Jalen Brunson the only player in history to get 5 fouls in one quarter during the playoffs?

@statmuse Voters tend to get MVP fatigue… my money is on him not winning it, whether or not he deserves it.

Jokic this season: 30.2 PPG (More than Shaq ever did) 13.4 RPG (More than Duncan ever did) 10.1 APG (Most ever by a center) 1.9 SPG (More than DPOY Smart) 47.9 3P% (More than Steph ever has) Time for number 4?

@coldxman I feel using the moral standards of the 1800s to determine what an acceptable % of a population is OK to kill in the year 2024 also doesn’t seem like the best approach to contemporary ethical analysis.

Nobody tell Ta-Nehisi what percent of the Confederacy was wiped out in the American Civil War. His “2 percent” litmus test might lead to some awkward conclusions. Apologies for the snark, but this is a painfully simplistic way to analyze which side has the moral high ground in a war. That it can come from one of our most celebrated intellectuals shows how deep the rot has spread.