I suspect that Israel knows that most Iranian citizens do not like the military adventurism of their government and aren't going to do anything to make the clerical regime more popular.
This is absolutely correct and something that a lot of people refuse to accept, especially a certain sort of liberal. The Golden Age of the Metropolitan Daily (TM) was fueled by what we would call the lifestyle sections todays. People didn't want worthy analysis but light entertainment.
Most people have a very pragmatic take on education and high humanities education does not appeal to them.
The dirty truth that nobody wants to admit is that most people don't like reading for pleasure. Never have and never will. To the extent that there was a Golden Age of Reading for Pleasure (TM), it was because other entertainment options did not exist and a lot of what was read was either received wisdom or trash.
Iran apparently warned Israel about the strike. They are ideologically bound to look like they are doing something even though much if not a majority of the Iranian population doesn't want them to do anything against Israel.
Nobody has any idea on what to do about Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iran Clerical Regime. I might be open to the idea that military force won't do anything. I remain unconvinced that a final peace deal will do anything either. Once groups like the Iranian clerical regime or Hezbollah or Hamas are in, they remained entrenched until they are removed. Even if a final deal or withdrawal from the West Bank is done, groups like Hamas and Hezbollah will remain defiant forever.
Ford almost managed to pull off a victory. He carried more states and the popular vote was very close. If Ford managed not to screw up with dumb comment about not knowing if Poland was under Soviet domination, he might have won the election.
This is the first example I am aware of the phenomenon. It is from before the Israel-Hamas War. Other examples that my algorithm gave me is trying to present Tel Aviv, one of the crown jewels of the Zionist movement, as a "Palestinian beach city" and finally presenting "Palestine Airways", again founded by a Zionist, as a way to "prove" a false history and steal Jewish work for themselves.
Pro-Palestinian propaganda expertly uses a combination of historical ignorance and laziness to confuse Mandate Palestine and what Palestine means today.
There seems to be a genre of Anti-Israel propaganda that I see on my facebook feed where they take photos from the British Mandate period and try to present it as "the Palestine that used to be." The propagandists, who may or may not be actual Palestinians, tend to use photos that come from the Jewish community in Eretz Israel/Palestine though. For instance, today I saw a post from one of these propaganda groups that was an old photo of a plane from Palestine Airways. This is how Wikipedia introduces Palestine Airways:
Palestine Airways (Hebrew: נתיבי אוויר ארץ ישראל, romanized: Netivéy Avír Éretz Yisraél, lit. 'Land of Israel Airways'; Arabic: شركة الطرق الجوية بفلسطين, romanized: Šarikat aṭ-Ṭuruq al-Jawwiyya bi-Filasṭīn, lit. 'Airline Company in Palestine') was an airline founded by Zionist Pinhas Rutenberg in British Palestine, in conjunction with the Histadrut and the Jewish Agency.[1][2][3] In 1937 the airline was taken over by British Government's Air Ministry, with the intention of it eventually being transferred back into private hands.[4]
In other words, Palestine Airways was part of the project to create a Jewish State and was founded by Jews. The propagandists are relying on people being too lazy to look up even this and accepting it at face value. Same with passing what is clearly Tel Avi, the jewell of the Jewish community/Yishuv as a "Palestinian beach city."
I am not exactly fond that Jewish-Muslim relationships seem to be a one way street where Jews have to be open to Islam and Muslims get to go to the bathroom on us behind our back. Like the world expects us to do the song and dance about how bad it was that Jewish self-determination hurt the Palestinians but the best we get in return is "well, we guess we can live with Israel." Not good enough. Not nearly good enough.
Unilateral withdrawal from the WB work but I don't think that the average Israeli is up for that anymore. Convincing them to be up for that is going to be tough work.
Dark Matter has provided evidence that the Right of Return into Greenline Israel seems to be something that the Palestinian leadership can't give up. This might not be an official Jews out policy but it is about as close as they can say publicly to it.
The ANC never took a whites out stance from what I am aware of. The PLO did take an official Jews out stance for most of it's existence. Many in the leadership probably still believe in Jews out. Hamas is explicitly Jews out and Palestine is Arab and Muslim.
From what I've read, this seems to be changing. Many governments in the West don't seem to be that thrilled with the actions taken against Hezbollah. If enough of the citizenry wants Israel to soak it up than the pressure would be on the governments to take this as a position.
The demographic parity between Israeli Jews and Palestinians/Israeli Arabs is 50/50 and both groups also have the same birthrate. The Jewish birthrate might be higher because of the Haredi Jews. Plus many Israeli Arab groups like the Bedouin and Druze side with Israeli Jews.
Best summary of the reaction to Nasrallah's death seen on social media: "My entire feed is Middle Eastern people and commentators celebrating and rich westerners with humanities degrees crying."
The number of people sad or angry at Nasrallah's demise isn't that great. There might be a lot of public grumbling but also a lot of private thanking of Israel for decapitating Hezbollah and Hamas and spooking the Iranian clerical regime to it's core. Outside of the Islamists, only a select group of rather deluded Western activists are angry about this.
The West doesn't know what to do if there are tens or hundreds of millions of Muslims who really do see Israel as a theocratic blot on all of Islam. There is a complete unwillingness to deal with this despite many people saying this for decades and said sentiments existing before Israel was founded.
The West can deal with Jewish theocrats because they can put them into the same bad category as the Evangelicals without feeling too guilty. When it comes to Muslim theocratic arguments against Israel, a giant paralysis takes hold.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
I suspect that Israel knows that most Iranian citizens do not like the military adventurism of their government and aren't going to do anything to make the clerical regime more popular.
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This is absolutely correct and something that a lot of people refuse to accept, especially a certain sort of liberal. The Golden Age of the Metropolitan Daily (TM) was fueled by what we would call the lifestyle sections todays. People didn't want worthy analysis but light entertainment.
Most people have a very pragmatic take on education and high humanities education does not appeal to them.
"
The dirty truth that nobody wants to admit is that most people don't like reading for pleasure. Never have and never will. To the extent that there was a Golden Age of Reading for Pleasure (TM), it was because other entertainment options did not exist and a lot of what was read was either received wisdom or trash.
"
Iran apparently warned Israel about the strike. They are ideologically bound to look like they are doing something even though much if not a majority of the Iranian population doesn't want them to do anything against Israel.
"
Nobody has any idea on what to do about Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iran Clerical Regime. I might be open to the idea that military force won't do anything. I remain unconvinced that a final peace deal will do anything either. Once groups like the Iranian clerical regime or Hezbollah or Hamas are in, they remained entrenched until they are removed. Even if a final deal or withdrawal from the West Bank is done, groups like Hamas and Hezbollah will remain defiant forever.
"
Ford almost managed to pull off a victory. He carried more states and the popular vote was very close. If Ford managed not to screw up with dumb comment about not knowing if Poland was under Soviet domination, he might have won the election.
"
https://aish.com/palestine-soccer-team-and-other-appropriations-of-jewish-history/
This is the first example I am aware of the phenomenon. It is from before the Israel-Hamas War. Other examples that my algorithm gave me is trying to present Tel Aviv, one of the crown jewels of the Zionist movement, as a "Palestinian beach city" and finally presenting "Palestine Airways", again founded by a Zionist, as a way to "prove" a false history and steal Jewish work for themselves.
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Jimmy Carter was well to the right of the Democratic majority in Congress.
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Pro-Palestinian propaganda expertly uses a combination of historical ignorance and laziness to confuse Mandate Palestine and what Palestine means today.
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Mayor Pete has been selected to play J.D Vance in the practice for the VP debates for the Democratic side.
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I said it might work. I don't think it will work but he is basically throw everything at Harris and hope it works.
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Considering that even sapphire blue cities are souring on police reform, it might be a winning issue for him.
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There seems to be a genre of Anti-Israel propaganda that I see on my facebook feed where they take photos from the British Mandate period and try to present it as "the Palestine that used to be." The propagandists, who may or may not be actual Palestinians, tend to use photos that come from the Jewish community in Eretz Israel/Palestine though. For instance, today I saw a post from one of these propaganda groups that was an old photo of a plane from Palestine Airways. This is how Wikipedia introduces Palestine Airways:
Palestine Airways (Hebrew: נתיבי אוויר ארץ ישראל, romanized: Netivéy Avír Éretz Yisraél, lit. 'Land of Israel Airways'; Arabic: شركة الطرق الجوية بفلسطين, romanized: Šarikat aṭ-Ṭuruq al-Jawwiyya bi-Filasṭīn, lit. 'Airline Company in Palestine') was an airline founded by Zionist Pinhas Rutenberg in British Palestine, in conjunction with the Histadrut and the Jewish Agency.[1][2][3] In 1937 the airline was taken over by British Government's Air Ministry, with the intention of it eventually being transferred back into private hands.[4]
In other words, Palestine Airways was part of the project to create a Jewish State and was founded by Jews. The propagandists are relying on people being too lazy to look up even this and accepting it at face value. Same with passing what is clearly Tel Avi, the jewell of the Jewish community/Yishuv as a "Palestinian beach city."
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/23/2024”
I am not exactly fond that Jewish-Muslim relationships seem to be a one way street where Jews have to be open to Islam and Muslims get to go to the bathroom on us behind our back. Like the world expects us to do the song and dance about how bad it was that Jewish self-determination hurt the Palestinians but the best we get in return is "well, we guess we can live with Israel." Not good enough. Not nearly good enough.
Unilateral withdrawal from the WB work but I don't think that the average Israeli is up for that anymore. Convincing them to be up for that is going to be tough work.
"
Dark Matter has provided evidence that the Right of Return into Greenline Israel seems to be something that the Palestinian leadership can't give up. This might not be an official Jews out policy but it is about as close as they can say publicly to it.
"
The ANC never took a whites out stance from what I am aware of. The PLO did take an official Jews out stance for most of it's existence. Many in the leadership probably still believe in Jews out. Hamas is explicitly Jews out and Palestine is Arab and Muslim.
"
From what I've read, this seems to be changing. Many governments in the West don't seem to be that thrilled with the actions taken against Hezbollah. If enough of the citizenry wants Israel to soak it up than the pressure would be on the governments to take this as a position.
"
The demographic parity between Israeli Jews and Palestinians/Israeli Arabs is 50/50 and both groups also have the same birthrate. The Jewish birthrate might be higher because of the Haredi Jews. Plus many Israeli Arab groups like the Bedouin and Druze side with Israeli Jews.
"
The entire Hezbollah episode hasn't changed my conviction that there are many people that want these things to happen:
1. Israel agrees to the creation of a Palestinian state with maximum generosity.
2. Israel soaks up the terrorism from the dead enders with a stiff upper lip and rarely and ideally never responds.
3. Israel waits patiently for the Muslim world to get better and nobody points out all the anti-Semitism. Even if it takes decades or centuries.
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Best summary of the reaction to Nasrallah's death seen on social media: "My entire feed is Middle Eastern people and commentators celebrating and rich westerners with humanities degrees crying."
The number of people sad or angry at Nasrallah's demise isn't that great. There might be a lot of public grumbling but also a lot of private thanking of Israel for decapitating Hezbollah and Hamas and spooking the Iranian clerical regime to it's core. Outside of the Islamists, only a select group of rather deluded Western activists are angry about this.
"
The West doesn't know what to do if there are tens or hundreds of millions of Muslims who really do see Israel as a theocratic blot on all of Islam. There is a complete unwillingness to deal with this despite many people saying this for decades and said sentiments existing before Israel was founded.
The West can deal with Jewish theocrats because they can put them into the same bad category as the Evangelicals without feeling too guilty. When it comes to Muslim theocratic arguments against Israel, a giant paralysis takes hold.
"
This guy also departed this mortal coil:
https://x.com/FazelHawramy/status/1839996545002799395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1839996545002799395%7Ctwgr%5Eaec6df0d741461a3e5b08e1011d01eb9ace20ee7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dlawyersgunsmoneyblog-comt_i%3D14491020https3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F3Fp3D144910t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F20242F092Fnasrallah-deadt_e%3DNasrallah20Dead3Ft_d%3DNasrallah20Dead3F20-20Lawyers2C20Guns202620Moneyt_t%3DNasrallah20Dead3Fs_o%3Ddescversion%3Db040cc4fb9749f836fa39cae48953897
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M
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Let's just say that I am getting tired of the protest crew and International Caring Community.
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Pope Francis of course. They are part of the Roman Catholic Church.
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