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@sfrantzman There's only been 1 Israeli death, hasn't there? Pretty obviously a more successful campaign

The IDF reached the Litani in several days in 1978 and 1982… The 2006 war was 34 days…this one in Lebanon is already almost a month old and in 2024 it was several months of intense fighting and never reached the level of 1978 or 1982… Learn history

@1he0pposite @fodeballertoure @s8mb They were white when they were built. The trees will get replanted as well. You should see the refaced streets in south Tel Aviv. It's positively idyllic.

@fodeballertoure @s8mb So why weren't yhe previous one white?

How they did it and how we can too: worksinprogress.co/issue/how-isra…

@DanTalks1 Finally, the issue with a nuclear Iran isn't even necessarily whether they would use it. It's the stupidity of corrupt, authoritarian regimes without redundancies and the risk of proliferation to Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

@DanTalks1 Also, if in retrospect, we had found in Iraq what we already know to be true in Iran, the Iraq war would have been considered a brilliant move of American statecraft.

So this guy asked an interesting question, and I think it warrants an honest answer as many say a variant of this and a valid request. So i'll explain. Security is a unique field different from almost any other simply because of how we have to approach things. The core mistake in the logic of the question is the expectation that we need certainty before action. In almost every other field, we operate to certainty. Is the bridge going to stand? Prove it to me in calculations the structural integrity to X weight. In security we operate very differently, because the stakes are so high, and we are dealing INTER tribally meaning outside of our group. The same rules and standards do not apply. You are applying INTRA or within the tribe standards, like a warrant for arrest for this to occur. In security the concept is do they have the means and the possible capacity to carry it out. If yes then we need to take action, because the risk reward is so high, we lose entire cities and countries if we are wrong. Iran has fulfilled all and more of these criteria. They have the nuclear facilities, rebuild them. They have the delivery mechanisms, and an expanded defensive bunker structure to protect it. And they have said repeatedly in their public statements they INTEND on using nuclear weapons when they get them. They rejected all proposals by us to try and have a diplomatic solution to this. No matter how good. We do not want to go to war, we would much prefer to do this diplomatically. But THEY refused. They have agency in this as well. We don't take risks with nukes in security, the downside risk is simply too high. They fulfilled all reasonable criteria to act and more.

@HotForMoot Plenty of dudes I know in Seattle available for shidduch, you know. I could hook you up. Can't promise abs, but I can promise weekly attendance for musaf and kiddush.

Missed connection: You: shirtless male beauty, walked by me and my friend on chestnut at around 1:15pm today. You were tan-ish, wearing shorts, and had perfect washboard abs. I saw you and went nonverbal as you passed by. My friend and I were both cute Jewish brunettes. I was wearing all black and walking a white dog. please hear me hashem 🙏

@WMelonees @phl43 And no, it's not a genocidal society. If it was, they'd just expel their 2 million Arabs. The point was the conflict is not racial and not similar to South Africa and such comparisons are borne of laziness.

@WMelonees @phl43 I didn't mention it because it's not relevant in a country that inherited the Ottoman millet system where Muslims, Christians and Druze have no mechanism to marry either. Many people avoid the rabbinate by registering with the Mormon church and then holding their own ceremony.

Once again, pro-Palestine people keep talking as if Israel were in the same position as South Africa toward the end of Apartheid, but that's very misleading and mostly wishful thinking. I don't say that because I think Israel treats Palestinians better than South Africa treated Blacks under Apartheid, which it doesn't, but because the demographic situation is very different and that makes the current power arrangement in Israel/Palestine viable in a way Apartheid wasn't. Whites in South Africa were a small minority and the economy and they were entirely dependent on Black labor, whereas Jews have achieved demographic parity in Palestine and their dependence on Palestinian labor is much smaller. Ultimately, it is this which forced them to end Apartheid, much more than international sanctions, which only worked insofar as they made an already untenable arrangement even harder to sustain. In a way, Apartheid failed because it rested on a separation between Whites and Blacks that, for economic reasons, wasn't possible. The Israelis on the other hand can absolutely maintain this separation.

@aweII219II @Autoapologistbr @neuroticjewgay Sounds like he's being introspective about the horrors of war for a side he supports, not that he literally thinks the Zionists were like the SS. Considering he was a Zionist, that would imply he supported the SS.

@karnoa @Autoapologistbr @neuroticjewgay @Autoapologistbr Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, pg 29-30. the character speaking here is a Zionist militant in Mandatory Palestine in 1947.

This is an actual quote from a Jewish antizionist’s substack.

@aweII219II @Autoapologistbr @neuroticjewgay Wtf are you talking about? He was a very vocal supporter of Israel and Netanyahu.

@Autoapologistbr @neuroticjewgay would you like a quote? it will take me some time to find as i no longer have a physical copy of the book, but i'm happy to get it for you, if you'll listen when i do.

@BronkReks @Unitedtilldie00 @selfie_monkey @neuroticjewgay Yeah it's our arrogance that's the problem here and not your disordered brain.

@Unitedtilldie00 @selfie_monkey @neuroticjewgay 😂 Your arrogance will be your downfall. It's coming, the inevitable.

I’m blocked but how is this NOT what you are doing here???

@selfie_monkey @neuroticjewgay Talmudic Judaism is just Judaism and the wisdom of our sages cannot be surmised by a few fake or out of context quotes by morons on this website.

Criticizing a religious organization with a pun is not the same as demeaning the entire religion with an unnecessarily offensive display. Talmudic Judaism may not be everyone’s cup of tea but it’s not the problem per se. The problem is the people who choose to interpret it in bad faith for evil ends.

@Molly85224872 @SKmacro @phl43 Jews are a joinable tribe of people with shared history, culture, religion, and values. In English that's a sentence, in Hebrew it's the word עם. But for what it's worth, you're talking about political Zionism. As an idea, Jewish sovereignty is as old as Jews.

@SKmacro @phl43 Yes, it is racialist - the whole Jews being a “people” or a “nation” is basically an ethnic/race claim, not a religious one. The Zionists weren’t religious and didn’t even like religious Jews.

@Crown_n_Clover @ArminNavabi The Islamists also opposed Mossadegh and supported him being deposed after he tried to nationalize foreign investments and dissolved the parliament but gullible westerners still try to retcon the history into him being some liberal democrat.

@ArminNavabi You're wrong too. Iran’s refusal to bend is not just ideology, it is HISTORY. 1953, the U.S. and U.K. helped overthrow Mossadegh and restore the Shah. Shah’s rule became identified with repression and dependence on U.S. To them surrender means foreign domination all over again.

Everyone gets it wrong when analyzing why the Islamic Republic of Iran refuses to surrender. It is not about military strategy or some master plan. It is about survival against their own brainwashed followers. For 47 years, the regime has sold a delusion of absolute victory and divine invincibility. If they show a single ounce of weakness to the United States or Israel, that illusion shatters. They are trapped in a cult of their own making, where admitting defeat means instant collapse from within. They fear the wake-up call of their radical base far more than any missile strike. 🎖️ Come to talk to me in our discussion group: skool.com/libertypolitic…

@ReubenR80027912 The correction started in October. All the geopolitical stuff is noise when it comes to the market. October is when momentum started to turn bearish.

Obvi NOT some 4D chess but net effect is the AI bubble pop was averted by 8-15% of the air let out of S&P Feels like one of those lucky things Trump falls into all the time (in spite of himself); if a correction was coming, somehow now it’s Iran’s fault & more easily corrected

@NotWoofers Missile launches are asymptotic.

Every day I look for a significant deviation in missile launches from Iran and every day it seems roughly consistent.

@boom_tentpeg @HeTows They will never not do this.

@hoff92096 @Sargon_of_Akkad The US does want to pull back from the middle east. Every US administration since Obama has been saying they want to pivot to Asia to focus on China. Trump wanted to leave Israel as a regional hegemon.

@hoff92096 @Sargon_of_Akkad How is it Jewish supremacism to say that Israel is not a colony of a foreign empire but a nation because the Jews of the eastern hemisphere had nowhere else to go? That makes no sense at all and it's a fact that's true of all nations.

@Sargon_of_Akkad Zionism is Jewish nationalism. The right to self-determination is guaranteed by the UN, so anti-Zionism is anti-semitism.