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Disabled Policy Wonk

@disabledwonk

History, political science, International relations, international law. I'm a chronically ill policy nerd with broad interests.

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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
It's well past time the Dems clean house. We cannot allow ghouls like this to define the party or hold any influence in our media and politics. There must be red lines. #Israel #Lebanon #Democrats
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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
@solace_eternal @lind25033 @academic_la Gemini is making up deranged bullshit to fuel your delusions. It's clearly scraping random unreliable sites. Read a bloody book. There's countless of them on things like the political and religious ideology of the Levant. Or wallow in your own excrement. Seems you prefer that.
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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim@academic_la·
Here is why the Passover story of Egyptian Exodus is completely made up. Not only is there no evidence for it, but it is chronologically impossible. Not on the scale mentioned in the bible or on any scale at all: 1) Decades of intensive archaeological surveys in the Sinai Peninsula have failed to uncover any remains, such as pottery, encampments, or human waste, that would indicate a population of over two million people spent 40 years wandering the desert. Not one piece of pottery, one hearth, or one Hebrew inscription from that era has been found in the Sinai. 2) Ancient Egypt was a highly literate society with meticulous administrative records. Despite this, no Egyptian text from the Bronze Age mentions a mass slave revolt, the devastating plagues, or the loss of an entire army in the sea. 3) Modern archaeology suggests that the ancient Israelites were actually indigenous to Canaan. They appear to have emerged from local Canaanite populations during the Bronze Age collapse, rather than arriving as a conquering force from outside. 4) The biblical figure of 603,550 men (totaling roughly 2.5 million people including families) is logistically impossible for the time. A line of that many people, walking eight abreast, would have been hundreds of miles long, meaning the front would reach the destination while the back was still in Egypt. 5) The Book of Exodus mentions places like the city of Rameses and the land of Goshen, as well as the use of camels, which were not in existence or common at the time the events were supposed to have occurred. This suggests the story was written centuries later. Archaeology shows that at the time the conquest was supposed to happen, Jericho had no walls and was either a tiny village or completely uninhabited. 6) If 2.5 million people entered a land from Egypt, you would expect to see a sudden, massive shift in technology, diet, or burial customs. Instead, we see a slow, internal evolution. The people who became "Israelites" were likely local Canaanite farmers and nomadic herders who moved into the highlands to escape the collapse of the coastal city-states. 7) The Exodus is said to have took place well before there is evidence of Israelites existing. The bible has it at 1446 BCE. The first mention of Israelites is in 1208 by the Pharaoh Merneptah. He mentions them as a foreign people with no ties to Egypt. 8) The biggest hole in the story is that during the 13th century BCE (the time of Ramesses II), Canaan was an Egyptian province. Egypt had forts, tax collectors, and governors all over the "Promised Land."If the Israelites fled Egypt to go to Canaan, they were essentially "fleeing Egypt to go to Egypt." 9) The story appears to have been made up during the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BCE. They needed a story to give them hope: a story where their God defeats a superpower Egypt) and leads them back to their homeland. By creating a shared "escape" story, they turned a collection of local Canaanite tribes into a single, unified nation. So this is a beautiful story, but a complete myth. Its greatest value is that it has inspired many to pursue freedom, most famously African Americans who identified deeply with the story.
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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
This level of partisan incompetence is truly impressive. The US is weaker than ever, the IRGC is entrenched, and #Iran can rebuild their capacity MUCH faster than the US. Iran was never a "serious threat" to the US. What a strawman achievement.
James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano

Fact is @realDonaldTrump has won the war against Iran and hobbled the regime’s capacity to threaten US vital interests. Deal or no deal-he is now setting conditions to ensure this regime if it survives at all is not a serous threat for a long, long time.

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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
@JJCarafano @realDonaldTrump Just today their AD Has made multiple hits, taking out an F-15 and an A-10. The price of those airframes is worth countless Shaheds. Reported damage to more.
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James Jay Carafano
James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano·
Fact is @realDonaldTrump has won the war against Iran and hobbled the regime’s capacity to threaten US vital interests. Deal or no deal-he is now setting conditions to ensure this regime if it survives at all is not a serous threat for a long, long time.
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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
@solace_eternal @academic_la The earliest proto-Hebrew settlements are literally laid out like nomadic herding camps. The proto-Hebrews and proto-Aramaeans move into the interior highlands during the Bronze Age collapse, and then mix with existing Semitic-speaking urbanites.
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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
@PushDemsLeft Every time the facts contradict them in that thread they fall back on racist whataboutism and emotional reasoning. "Israel was attacked" (ignoring that Israel commits mass violence via the illegal occupation) or "you just support Hamas". A fool with far too many followers.
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Nope. You're not getting away with these lies anymore. Biden/Harris did not push for a ceasefire, they pushed against one. They lied. They never stopped sending bombs the entire time. Their officials admit this. Israel admits this. No one's falling for the revisionist history!
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Blank Slate@blankslate2017

Ahem...Biden and Harris pushed for a ceasefire from early Jan 2024. It was delayed and sabotaged by both Israel and Hamas, with Bibi conspiring w/Trump to run out the clock on the '24 election cycle. Folks like you were easily played and Palestinians ended up much worse off.

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Jay Donde@JayNDonde·
The six percent decline is disputed, but I agree with your earlier point even if we take it at face value the actual death toll would come out to about 2%. I'm not aware of any previous conflict being called a genocide where the population decreased by anything at the *very very very least* an order of magnitude more than that.
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Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑
personally I am team #bigtent, but if we're gonna start kicking people out of the party on brand/moral grounds I would like to nominate 1) the foreign policy team behind the Gaza genocide, and 2) every Dem former elected/staffer who takes a cushy job with an overtly evil company
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Jay Donde@JayNDonde·
@Leahgreenb A modest proposal whereby European Jews trade their actual genocide, in which their population was reduced by 2/3, for the Palestinian’s make-believe one, in which their population increased.
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Disabled Policy Wonk@disabledwonk·
#Iran attacks the #GCC to impose a cost for the illegal strikes on infrastructure by #Trump and #Israel. They won't stop unless the latter to change behaviors, which seems highly unlikely to me. It's an escalation ladder led by extreme ideologues, hence no real off-ramp.
Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸@alexplitsas

Qatar mediators have told me that they will not engage in mediation efforts as long as Iran continues to attack GCC countries. Attacks on all GCC countries must cease before they would be willing to consider a role in mediation.

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Fırat Bağ
Fırat Bağ@solace_eternal·
@hob_liud @academic_la @grok Looks like far-right nationalist rulers of the 18th Dynasty carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing on the Hyksos to drive them back to Canaan and also besieged them there further.
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