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Posts are 50% serious opinion, 50% parody/satire/humor. You figure out which is which!

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@WMSBG Wedding of גיורות in Satmarland I'm so happy to see my Ungarishe brüder supporting Lesbian rights, b"h b"h
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Last night there was a Wedding of a Geyoiros in Lantzet Shul in Williamsburg.
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Iran is going to attempt a war of political attrition on a global scale. If you understand how Hamas and Hezbollah accomplished their aims (w/o giving a moral judgment), Iran/IRGC plans to do the same. They want to make it costly to support the US and its allies. They are willing to pay the price (in lives), with the implicit understanding that their direct targets will eventually acquiesce. For this reason, much of Iran's response has been 1) Against its neighbors 2) Limited in lethality Both of these are by design -- it's easier logistically and materially to attack close targets, and the reduction of lethality helps eliminate any potential future ill will.
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Very ironic that those Jews who pro-Palestine activists tokenize and consider as 'Palestinian' were precisely the ones massacred by Arab mobs in 1929, leading to the formation of armed Jewish groups. It's also ironic that those armed groups view that community with contempt.
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They were a mixed bunch, but none of them had the mindset that they would numerically displace the Arabs or retain territorial integrity. But things only became problematic after the Hebron Massacre (the people they killed were Ultra Orthodox who settled there in the 18thC btw)

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They were a mixed bunch, but none of them had the mindset that they would numerically displace the Arabs or retain territorial integrity. But things only became problematic after the Hebron Massacre (the people they killed were Ultra Orthodox who settled there in the 18thC btw)
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@hachessk @BaalJolani @elerrantenomad Right, but I think there could be a centre-left ideologically similar to Yugoslavia state instead of far-right current one. The leading Zionists initially were all leftists or sympathetic to left.

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@hachessk @BaalJolani @elerrantenomad The Jewish population would have remained, but the dynamics would've been different. Holocaust refugees gave the Jews the manpower they needed in order to win the war of independence -- and still, 1% of the Jewish population at the time was killed in that war.
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@BaalJolani @elerrantenomad Indeed, the Zionists were already well established and organised in Palestine before the Holocaust. A Jewish state would have been created in any case during the decolonisation of the region.
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@BaalJolani @existentialwhy @elerrantenomad Maghrebi Jews always appear in the top 10-15 matches for closeness w/Ashkenazim. The title 'Mizrahi' is greatly exaggerated, and really just refers to Iraqis, Persians (heavily admixed btw), and some other exotic communities. The moroccans and sephardim are close to ashk
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@elerrantenomad That's not true. Most Israelis in 1948 did not descend from holocaust refugees. They came during the Ottomans, and pre 1939, Jewish immigration was banned after the Palestinian revolt. The country that most influenced Israel's creation was by far, the Soviet Union
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Trump told Jake Paul we’re saving the gays in Iran. The Strait of Hormuz will be renamed the Queens of Hormuz. Every warship will be required to fly a pride flag. Scott Bessent is already rehearsing his runway walk
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Somehow stumbled on Latinx music again on Spotify Their music is beautiful, poetic - I've never seen a culture so perfectly able to portray womanizing and fornication in such beauty and artful exquisiteness. I'm in tears from its awe.
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Satmar have their 5th of Iyyar Americans have their 17th of March Let the reader understand!
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@more_amalek This really opens up a can of worms within Jewish tradition and hermeneutics more generally speaking: What do the Jewish ethnicity, culture, and religion mean in an era of sustained increases in both soft and hard power? We haven't seen a time like this since Christ himself.
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NeedMoreAmalek@more_amalek·
In this clip, they’re discussing Satmar, a major anti-Zionist Hasidic sect founded by Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, which argues that jews returned to the land too early and that Zionism violates religious law. Teitelbaum pointed to early danger and suffering as proof that God was not with the project. Tovia Singer pushes back and says that logic makes no sense once Israel starts winning. In the Torah framework (Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28), military success signals divine favor. So Israel’s victories flip the argument. If anything, they suggest God is backing the state. Aron Skol then brings up Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, referencing his son Rabbi Simcha Wasserman, who said his father was speaking from the reality of his time. If he had seen Israel’s later success, he likely would not have held the same anti-Zionist position. They briefly reference the “Three Oaths” (Talmud, Ketubot 111a), which anti-Zionists use to argue Jews are forbidden to return by force, rebel against the nations, or “force the end.” But here it’s brushed aside as a weaker argument compared to outcomes. If Israel succeeds and defeats its enemies, that is taken as stronger evidence than earlier interpretations of the oaths. So the pro-Zionist jews obviously have the stronger arguments here which is why they dominate. The original argument relied on failure as proof of divine disapproval. But as Israel continues to succeed, that cope becomes harder to maintain.
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Don't call yourself a basil-enjoyer unless you're posting about me the way Donald Trump posts about Mark Levin.
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