Misha 🇮🇪🇪🇺 ye olde immigrante

I don't feel like I can comment on the Iran war in any detail. I support the diaspora and internal opposition of Iran. But I don't see it as clear that Trump/Netanyahu's strategy is either able or designed to help them at all. Trump dumped the Kurds and the Afhghans.

Why do people insist on “Israel’s right to exist”? Because this is the politics they oppose. Note that he also wants to dismantle a city that predates Israel by decades. It’s not about political change but massive demographic change

@History__Speaks @JacobALinker I support the rights of all people, classified "indigenous" or not. This includes many claimed as "settlers" but in fact born in the area and often there for several generations, whether Ulster Protestants, Baltic Russians, Americans (!), Pieds Noirs (!!), or Israeli Jews.

@History__Speaks @JacobALinker (For the avoidance of doubt, the issue of war crimes is quite separate, those are much better defined in international law, and Israel clearly committed a lot of them recently. The "genocide" question turns on definition details that seem to have been shifted around Srebrenica)

This amounts to saying "Tel Aviv was not built on sand dunes because an area that wasn't Tel Aviv wasn't sand dunes." Or that a desert is not a desert because there is an oasis in one spot. An 1872 account of Jaffa by a European traveller notes that "Surrounding Jaffa are the orange gardens for which it is justly extolled, and which are a considerable source of wealth to the owners. The annual value of fruits grown in Jaffa was said to be 10,000 pounds." But that seems to be the only part of that general area (the coast) described as such. Jaffa was special. ... Consider an analogy. Today Shenzen in China is it the third largest city in the country and the world's fourth busiest port. But before 1980 it was a sleepy rural area compared to next door Hong Kong. Tel Aviv was Shenzen and Jaffa is Hong Kong. It sprung up in unused waste lands near something else. Its chosen site was picked *because* that something else was there. But what began as a suburb or satellite entity quickly outpaced the original city. ... Jaffa, meanwhile, wasn't quite a "Palestinian" City. And much of it was a fairly "new" city. First and foremost, it was an *Ottoman* City. Civic-minded persons tended to view themselves as Ottomans when the modernization campaigns began in the mid-19th century. Second, even within the Ottoman framework it wasn't a particularly Arab-Palestinian City when Tel Aviv was founded. Jews, European Citizens, Americans, Lebanese, Egyptians/Sudanese, etc. made up perhaps half the city and did a lot of the building and development. Jews were about 10 to 12% of Jaffa's population in 1900. Jews had already been moving to Jaffa for a century prior to Tel Aviv's Construction. This included Moroccan and Gibraltar Sephardim in the 1830s (a religious school was even established in 1838), a wave of Ashkenazim in 1839, and an Ashkenazi Torah Academy established in 1884. The Jaffa Railway was first proposed in by Montefiore in 1838, and constructed by Yosef Navon (a Jew from Jerusalem whose parents were part of the aforementioned Moroccan wave in the 1830s). Jaffa's lighthouse (built in 1865) was built by a French engineer at the request of Ottoman authorities. And it was tended to by an Armenian from Jerusalem. Various other groups were in and around Jaffa too. There were consuls and missionaries from a variety of foreign nations and many foreign citizens (perhaps a fifth of the population of Jaffa in 1900!). An American colony was established in 1866. A German Templar colony was established in 1868 (with "Jaffa Oranges" first being sold under that label by a German colony in 1870). And there were migrants from Lebanon, Egypt, and Sudan in and around the city too. Not to mention the Turkish officials. Jaffa's population over time meanwhile was 1850: 5,000 1887: 14,000 1900: 30,000 to 40,000 1913: 50,000 And the Jaffa Municipal Council was only established in 1871.

@pourmecoffee @atrupar wait he made anime porn jokes too?

@atrupar he knows like four things about Japan and he's not going to leave any of them on the table

Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

@_shiopan I can only hope he is not out of options yet. "Six Dinner Sid", after all, is an undying classic.

@ramendik No he has fleas so we kicked him out 💔

BREAKING NEWS!!! WE HAVE BEEN ADOPTED BY A CAT!!!!! also a reminder for those who forgot that I have a British accent

Tel Aviv was literally purchased. The fact that Israelis are not even allowed to maintain what their predecessors acquired through 100% legitimate means exposes this movement for what it really is. These same folks accuse others of genocide while fantasizing about it themselves

@nyaraVT @sleepy_devo @Glinner ...yes? I mean this sex segregaton thing is a failed approximation of actual case-aware security so maybe let's have actual case-aware security

@sleepy_devo @Glinner do you think that cîs women who are raping other cîs women in prison should be put into their own prisons

Yo @sleepy_devo stop trying to get into women's spaces and sports, stop trying to force us to use your made-up words, stop getting people fired for not playing along. Then we will indeed 'leave you alone'.

@mexillentJunior @_shiopan The actual good orange king you mean

@_shiopan Orange king

@ObserveByProxy7 @disclosetv My *suspicion* is he wanted to say Mohammed, but altered to Genghis because there are many Muslim Israelis but very few Mongol Israelis. And if he said Mohammed this would actually be an interesting discussion. What he said is not one. It's Just Wrong.

@ObserveByProxy7 @disclosetv So, unless he means being portrayed by Jim Caviezel is worse that being portrayed by Louis Potgiter (other names exist for both), it's simply wrong that "Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan", as Jesus' earhtly kingdom endured and Genghis' has not.

NOW - Netanyahu: "Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good."

@pl_european Maybe Netanyahu believes that Mohammed had the right idea, and that the Crusader States failed because Rome *failed to adapt Chtistianity sufficiently*? It's a far-out-there speculation but it would explain a few things.

@pl_european My own hypothesis is that Mohammed, an able and clever conqueror, studied the history of great conquerors before him. He learned that Alexander's empire failed but Caesar's endured, and worked out that the difference was religion. Genghis was not into that kind of deep study.

He is just a sick and evil individual. Those who support this man, and vote for him are as sick and as evil.