Might as well get this over with. Today is the first year anniversary of 10/7 attack from Hamas that started the Israel-Hamas War and the Israel-Hezbollah War. My synagogue decided to split the difference between the differences of opinion on the Israel-Hamas War by having a Prayer for Israel and a Prayer for the people of Gaza. Many, not all, but many 10/7 memorial events in the Bay Area and probably throughout the United States have places for both remembering the Israeli and Palestinian victims that came from Hamas' 10/7 attack.
I am seeing nothing equivalent on the Pro-Palestinian side in the West. It is all pure and unwavering anger against big, bad Israel and Israelis versus the too true indigenous Palestinians and I guess the Lebanese. Students for Justice in Palestine are planning for a week of rage against Israel while academics and writers keep publishing books whose message is "Israel is all bad and must go and be punished. The Jews will be allowed to keep nothing." There is simply no indication of what Israel they can live with if any.
If the attitude of Pro-Palestinian Westerners is this militant and the beliefs in the Muslim world are even more strident because of the theocracy involved than I don't see how any movement forward is possible. There are too many people who have simply decided that true justice is the complete destruction of Israel and nothing else will do. They might not come out and say this directly, but many do, but it is easily implied in what they say.
We are hopefully on the last day of an epic heat wave in Northern California. Florida seems to be on track for a one-two punch of two massive hurricanes in a row. Republicans still say that climate change is a hoax and Mike Johnson won't commit to calling back the House to vote on hurricane relief:
I know that she is a nobody but I'd prefer if we could go back to a system where people like her and her Rightist equivalents had less broadcast power.
She looks younger than me, so born way after the colonial era ended but there are a lot of radicals and intellectuals that just want some sort of grand revenge against the West to suit their neat little theories and fantasies.
Justin Trudeau is going to face defeat because of gas prices and his administration basic Canadian liberalism on too online speak. There is this thing where everybody knows what a person is talking about but plays dumb about it because they know that speaking it out loud will make the cause they support looking really dumb at best.
I am being perfectly serious that many people both inside and outside the corridors of power want the three following things to happen:
1. Israel agrees to the creation of the Palestinian state with maximum generosity besides maybe the right of return.
2. Israel endures a certain amount, and by that we mean a lot of terrorism, from dead enders with a stiff upper lip and grace.
3. Things eventually, over decades or centuries, get better.
They just don't want to come out and say it because it sounds bad. Even Jews who are critical of Israel might realize that this is bad deal being offered to the Jewish people. It is sort of like how the anti-Zionists wanted the preferred timeline for "the Jews of Continental Europe and the MENA region take a big hit rather than go for a Jewish state but nobody acknowledges it."
It’s amazing how often the Further Left continues to shoot itself in the foot politically but refuse to recognize it. This person manages to combine Further Left shooting yourself in the foot with “the Palestinians, and their sympathizers, never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
The name seems vaguely familiar from other utterances I kind of remember but I don't feel like looking it up. I have a feeling that this isn't the first time this blog encountered Dr. Ghaffar-Siddiqui.
I also wonder whether people like Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui realize that most of her fellow American citizens of colonized origins, for lack of a better term, generally have bog standard politics and look at her like she is nuts. Hell, the Yemeni mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan endorsed Trump. This is just "there are something so dumb, only intellectuals believe them."
A lot of the Western Pro-Palestinian activists, especially if they more chattering class liberal rather Further Leftist, remind me of the well meaning dupes who feel for Stalin during the 1930s to 1950s. They assume the Western facing front people are the people who represent majority opinion and aren't mere front pieces to say one thing to another audience while Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims get another message.
I have no idea what anything in this statement means whether it is real or AI generated. It just seems like high academic further leftist verbiage. The thing that Tweeter/X does is take things that used to be only said in the secret corners of academia, activism, journals, and their Further Right counter points and blasts them to the public for the bewilderment of anything else. The Right generally does a better job of nut picking the Further Left and linking them to Center-Left parties in the popular imagination than liberals and center-leftists do for the Right nuts.
In short, and I know that plenty of people aren't going to believe Israel on this, Israel's post-war plans are bog standard for a victorious side. These plans probably won't work but they aren't objectionable on the face of it.
They are racist as heck but I don't think ignoring sincere nuttery is a good idea anymore. We have to deal with the fact that tens of millions of Americans have a deluded sense of reality whether we like it or not.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/7/2024”
Milton is expected to retain major hurricane status and expand in the size as it approaches Florida.
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Hurricane Milton looks like it is going to be even worse than Hurricane Helene. People still deny that climate change is happening
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The Iranian Clerical Regime has played a stupid game and they are winning stupid prizes:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-quds-force-chief-out-contact-since-beirut-strikes-two-iranian-officials-2024-10-06/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFw8CBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU09coGyAsidGWoYj9cYm9O9RQ1GfQtfdjmOlDeo1diwrhM8Yg_7xJzjbA_aem_rg0Cr9ml7XKwa6E6-Yh8QQ
On “The Joy Of Opening Time Capsules: The 2024 Presidential Election”
Basically, more and more educated people can't bring themselves to vote for the Republicans.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/7/2024”
Might as well get this over with. Today is the first year anniversary of 10/7 attack from Hamas that started the Israel-Hamas War and the Israel-Hezbollah War. My synagogue decided to split the difference between the differences of opinion on the Israel-Hamas War by having a Prayer for Israel and a Prayer for the people of Gaza. Many, not all, but many 10/7 memorial events in the Bay Area and probably throughout the United States have places for both remembering the Israeli and Palestinian victims that came from Hamas' 10/7 attack.
I am seeing nothing equivalent on the Pro-Palestinian side in the West. It is all pure and unwavering anger against big, bad Israel and Israelis versus the too true indigenous Palestinians and I guess the Lebanese. Students for Justice in Palestine are planning for a week of rage against Israel while academics and writers keep publishing books whose message is "Israel is all bad and must go and be punished. The Jews will be allowed to keep nothing." There is simply no indication of what Israel they can live with if any.
If the attitude of Pro-Palestinian Westerners is this militant and the beliefs in the Muslim world are even more strident because of the theocracy involved than I don't see how any movement forward is possible. There are too many people who have simply decided that true justice is the complete destruction of Israel and nothing else will do. They might not come out and say this directly, but many do, but it is easily implied in what they say.
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We are hopefully on the last day of an epic heat wave in Northern California. Florida seems to be on track for a one-two punch of two massive hurricanes in a row. Republicans still say that climate change is a hoax and Mike Johnson won't commit to calling back the House to vote on hurricane relief:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mike-johnson-wont-commit-bringing-house-back-election-hurricane-relief-rcna174174
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
I know that she is a nobody but I'd prefer if we could go back to a system where people like her and her Rightist equivalents had less broadcast power.
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21 year old Yazidi women who was captured by ISIS ten years ago, when she was 11, was rescued by the IDF from Gaza. Even the BBC acknowledges it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo
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Here is here Web-Site:
https://drsabreena.com/
It's all graft.
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She looks younger than me, so born way after the colonial era ended but there are a lot of radicals and intellectuals that just want some sort of grand revenge against the West to suit their neat little theories and fantasies.
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Justin Trudeau is going to face defeat because of gas prices and his administration basic Canadian liberalism on too online speak. There is this thing where everybody knows what a person is talking about but plays dumb about it because they know that speaking it out loud will make the cause they support looking really dumb at best.
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That doesn't mean this is the general implication of her point.
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I am being perfectly serious that many people both inside and outside the corridors of power want the three following things to happen:
1. Israel agrees to the creation of the Palestinian state with maximum generosity besides maybe the right of return.
2. Israel endures a certain amount, and by that we mean a lot of terrorism, from dead enders with a stiff upper lip and grace.
3. Things eventually, over decades or centuries, get better.
They just don't want to come out and say it because it sounds bad. Even Jews who are critical of Israel might realize that this is bad deal being offered to the Jewish people. It is sort of like how the anti-Zionists wanted the preferred timeline for "the Jews of Continental Europe and the MENA region take a big hit rather than go for a Jewish state but nobody acknowledges it."
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It’s amazing how often the Further Left continues to shoot itself in the foot politically but refuse to recognize it. This person manages to combine Further Left shooting yourself in the foot with “the Palestinians, and their sympathizers, never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
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The name seems vaguely familiar from other utterances I kind of remember but I don't feel like looking it up. I have a feeling that this isn't the first time this blog encountered Dr. Ghaffar-Siddiqui.
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I also wonder whether people like Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui realize that most of her fellow American citizens of colonized origins, for lack of a better term, generally have bog standard politics and look at her like she is nuts. Hell, the Yemeni mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan endorsed Trump. This is just "there are something so dumb, only intellectuals believe them."
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A lot of the Western Pro-Palestinian activists, especially if they more chattering class liberal rather Further Leftist, remind me of the well meaning dupes who feel for Stalin during the 1930s to 1950s. They assume the Western facing front people are the people who represent majority opinion and aren't mere front pieces to say one thing to another audience while Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims get another message.
"
I have no idea what anything in this statement means whether it is real or AI generated. It just seems like high academic further leftist verbiage. The thing that Tweeter/X does is take things that used to be only said in the secret corners of academia, activism, journals, and their Further Right counter points and blasts them to the public for the bewilderment of anything else. The Right generally does a better job of nut picking the Further Left and linking them to Center-Left parties in the popular imagination than liberals and center-leftists do for the Right nuts.
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In short, and I know that plenty of people aren't going to believe Israel on this, Israel's post-war plans are bog standard for a victorious side. These plans probably won't work but they aren't objectionable on the face of it.
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They are racist as heck but I don't think ignoring sincere nuttery is a good idea anymore. We have to deal with the fact that tens of millions of Americans have a deluded sense of reality whether we like it or not.
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They seem to believe some rather out there stuff sincerely.
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Tina Peters gets nine years in prison and very righteous denunciation.
https://x.com/CoffinItUp/status/1841909132778942632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1841909132778942632%7Ctwgr%5E5ba3265c7a9f841a5532ad7bf311b612a85f7ce0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%2F2024%2F10%2Fnine-years-in-prison-for-supporting-donald-trump
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MTG is back with another anti-Semitism:
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1842047515450876221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1842047515450876221%7Ctwgr%5E6d98cc4e58445537b3bd48942578956ff95ce46e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%2F2024%2F10%2Fthe-party-of-ideas-2
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