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Den kurdiska paradoxen: att medborgarskap i Sverige gör en helsvensk, medan medborgarskap i Turkiet eller Iran inte gjorde ens föräldrar till turkar eller iranier. Svenskhet är då inget som kräver avkall på andra etniska tillhörigheter, alltså existerar ingen svensk etnicitet.

Netanyahu has decided to accept the Iranian deal. Security officials are despondent and see it as a disaster. Ynet brings some high level quotes from them: 1) A senior Israeli official said "Nobody is happy with this. We understand it is not good for us, and that it harms Israeli interests. What is troubling is that Israel cannot influence it. Its voice is not being heard." 2) The anger at Trump is palpable.: "Trump screwed us, we took the hit. We're no longer in the loop and can't really influence anything." 3) Israelis fear Iran will be economically revived: "They've blown money on the Iranians, who are getting everything they want. They'll build a missile corps, and we'll have to pour money into interceptors." Israel sees oil revenue flowing back into the exact capabilities the war was meant to degrade. 4) They don't believe a deal will adequately deal with the nuclear issue: "The real test of the deal is removing the uranium and destroying it. If that doesn't happen, the sense of a bad deal will turn into something more concrete." 5) They fear this will embolden Iran: "Iran has smelled that it can achieve things by force, and it will use that against its neighbors and against us." 6) The deepest worry is not military. It is perception. After months of direct fire, Iran is seen across the region as the side that took the pressure and did not fold: "the regional working assumption will be that it was signed under Iranian pressure and American capitulation, rather than the reverse." Israel is concerned that Iran will be stronger, the US will be weaker and that the future for it will be bleak in the region. This war has been a disaster for Israel.

Kära antisemit: Antingen finns det något inneboende hos alla judar som orsakar beteendet du ogillar. Då argumenterar du för en etnisk essens, alltså det man förr kallade rasism. Eller så gäller det bara vissa judar. Då är judiskhet inte den primära förklaringen, och fixeringen vid judar är missvisande eller i bästa fall analytiskt svag. Det finns inget tredje alternativ.