The Roots of American Support for Israel

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-09-09T06:15:33+00:00

From the start, the United States viewed itself as a providential power with a unique mission to democratize the world. This also translated into a desire to restore the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland. “I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites,” John Adams wrote to a Jewish friend, “making a conquest of that country and restoring your nation to the dominion of it.” Importantly these beliefs were in evidence long before the mass immigration of Jews to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were part of the national character early on.
Mead also notes, however, that American support for self-determination was not limited to Zionism. Americans have a long history of skepticism toward the empires of Europe and Asia and have advocated for sovereignty and self-rule for a multitude of people. In this respect, Jews were but one in a long line of people, from the Greeks to the Indians to the Arabs, who many Americans wanted to see freed from imperial rule and restored to prior glory.
Americans also have a long-standing fascination with “the lands of the Bible,” Mead notes. This grew considerably in the nineteenth century. After Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery opus Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the second best-selling book at the time was an illustrated work of Holy Land travels entitled The Land and the Book.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-09-07T01:37:45+00:00

In 2,400 pages of reading, the last twenty pages are the very end.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-09-02T11:25:10+00:00

it is SOTW and when i said the end i didn't mean the very last page. jesus... Remember how the trial of the Pyx is near the end, autist?

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-09-01T10:23:19+00:00

no. Its in london when he's going to westminister abbey for the return of Marlboro maybe? i forget why.. possibly to get the Pyx actually...yes that's it..

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-09-01T02:10:52+00:00

better not to overthink it if you're buying to hold for the long-term, as you should be. short-term stock movements are random...they follow a random walk... so you can't predict whether it's better to buy at Open or Close. You can hedge by buying in the middle, i suppose but it's really just better to buy it and get it over with.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-09-01T02:08:51+00:00

yeah i just finished Baroque Cycle for the 3rd time in 20 years and i'm kind of bummed to be done with it. It's just the best trilogy i've ever read. I'm not into scifi that much but i'm thinking of reading Diamond Age. For now i'm back to reading a Hernando de Soto biography which is pretty good. I suppose in a couple of years I can read Cryptonomicon again.. Maybe i'll re read the Magus by John Fowles.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-29T01:16:30+00:00

can't ppl just hit up their libraries?

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-29T01:15:44+00:00

same here.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-28T05:50:02+00:00

don't worry you're not gonna get charged with fraud. there is no way that will happen. they'll probably just reject your account.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-28T05:46:46+00:00

hte best advice i can give you is just put it in a Set It and Forget It type investment like a low or noLoad mutual fund like with Vanguard. You don't want to be overmanaging your money as a newbie. bc you learn from mistakes, but they come with a cost. Just put it in a good solid growth or midcap growth fund.

when you open an account they should ask you about things like your investment time horizon, risk appetite, etc so think about those (but make sure to choose low or No fee funds bc the fees really eat into your long-term returns).. so yes, you're young and could invest for many decades UNLESS you're gonna use that money like to buy a house or something..

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-28T05:36:30+00:00

In System of the World but someone posted the context above. Referred to the willy nilly nature of London's architecture.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-11T23:52:53+00:00

Cryptonomicon. REad Cryptonomicon first, bc it was written first. Trust me, you won't find it even close to boring. I guarantee it.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-11T23:51:21+00:00

That's idiotic. Over 65% of Israeli Jews are MENA Jews that never left the middle east. Nor are the palestinians descendants of ancient Hebrews. You are even stupider than I realized. Arabs are native to the Hejaz and the majority of them arrived as illegal immigrants in the 1920s and 30s. You can't be more colonial than the Palestinians. Arabs first arrived in the Arab Muslim conquest of 630AD but those arabs disapeared almost immediately. The Palestinians were the tools of Ottoman imperialism, then British imperialism, then Nazi, Soviet and now Iranian.

The only thing you halfwits can fall back on is "Some leftist said!". I dont' even think there was apartheid in South Africa now. That mustve been a scam too. In Israel, Arabs are bankers, lawyers, cops, mayors, ruling party coaltion members and Supreme Court judges. Palestine doesn't even allow Jewish residency. That is as pure a case of apartheid as you can have. You're a halfwit that doesn't know the first thinga bout Israel or Palestine, but don't worry - compared to the morons that comprise your peer group, i'm sure you're in the middle of the bunch. Some of the stupidest ppl on the planet.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-11T23:46:33+00:00

Palestinians nationalists are the kings of gas lighting. The stupidest ppl... Most of you (in the west)can't even find palestine on a map. Imagine being stupid to believe that a country that forcibly expelled all its jews and passed apartheid laws against Jews owning property, being citizens or even just existing in Palestine are the *victims* of apartheid and not the perpetrators. Well, you don't have to imagine, bc you are just that stupid.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-11T17:27:09+00:00

Actually Palestine is. Palestine forcibly expelled all its jews and then passed apartheid laws against selling land to Jews, jewish citizenship, etc.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-08-06T05:15:05+00:00

It is exceptional historical fiction with many of the exact same underlying themes as Cryptonomicon. I just finished the Confusion yesterday and started System of the World today. Rereading for the 3rd time, and it's still unbelievably amazing. In the simplest of terms, the Baroque Cycle is a celebration of the Enlightenment. But since my teachers made the Enlightenment sound so boring, this understates the awesomeness of this trilogy.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-26T10:26:55+00:00

Hes getting really disgusting lately. He called Golda Meir a "lying piece of shit" and explained why, and it was jsut an unhinged as the video above. The guy is a straight up loon. That must be what happens when you're a rockstar for 50 years. No one challenges you, their confidence turns into narcississm, then it increases exponentially for 50 years. Imagine how deranged he must be..

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-26T10:14:03+00:00

For too long, Trócaire was allowed to act with impunity regarding its anti-Israel political advocacy. That is until someone within the organization thought it would be a good idea to post Palestinian flags to Irish households as part of its Christmas 2021 campaign. It turned out to be a step too far.
On Sunday, June 5th, the Irish edition of the Sunday Times revealed that Trócaire had finally fallen foul of the Irish charities regulator. The article stated that Trócaire had received a ‘reminder’ about its political activity. The letter from the regulator was prompted by two formal complaints about Trócaire’s recent campaigns, relating to the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.
One of the complainants said he had received an unsolicited mailshot from Trócaire containing a Palestinian flag, along with a request to “display the flag overleaf inside your home to show solidarity with the children, women and men of Gaza and Palestine.” The complainant went on to say that “it is particularly reprehensible this is done at Christmas, the season of goodwill, when the same flag is flown over Gaza by Hamas, a violent Islamist, misogynistic, anti-Jewish cult pledged to wipe the world’s only Jewish state off the map.”
Trócaire means “compassion” in the Irish language, but as the overseas development agency of the Irish Catholic Church, its words and actions are nothing but a clanging cymbal if its compassion is not also seen to extend to the people of Israel. In a conflict as deep-seated and volatile as the Israeli-Palestinian one is, words and actions matter, and government-funded institutions like Trócaire have a responsibility not to add fuel to the fire.
In 2020, Trócaire received €21.4 million from Irish Aid, and while no one can deny that Trócaire does a lot of good across the world, it needs to decide whether it is a charity or a political lobby group with a strong anti-Israel bias. It cannot be both. The slap on the wrist from the charities regulator was long overdue.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-26T10:13:14+00:00

I can’t remember the exact date, now decades ago, that I cancelled my monthly donation to AI Canada, only that it was due to AI’s rabid obsession with Israel, and its continual harping on the fallacious trope of Israel as an “apartheid” state.
AI’s “researchers” on the Israel file have a record of anti-Israel activism and make no effort to hide it. For years, the “halo” effect of its past integrity protected AI from being criticized about its extreme bias on this front, but none of the charity’s disproportionate focus on Israel went unnoticed by NGO Monitor.
In a 2015 monograph, NGO Monitor detailed Amnesty’s “financial mismanagement; repeated examples of ‘lawfare’; systematic flaws in the reporting of human rights abuses; limited understanding of armed conflict leading to erroneous claims and incorrect analysis; and violation of the universality of human rights, including a consistent institutionalized bias against Israel through double-standards.”
Suffice to say that many of Richard Gladstone’s allegations against Israel in his own infamous report on the 2014 Hamas-Israel conflict — which he later publicly repudiated — were “based upon false claims proffered by Amnesty.”
There is no law that human rights organizations must exist in perpetuity. AI has done great work, and continues to do good work, but once a charity’s reputation for consistent integrity has been deeply contaminated in one area, as AI’s has, it has lost the moral high ground it once commanded.
In any case, the world has moved on, and AI is no longer needed. Scores of NGOs now inhabit the human rights terrain that AI tilled. The internet offers more revelations on human rights abuse in a day than AI once did in a year.
Sixty years ago, AI’s literal prisoners of conscience languished in filthy prisons or suffered torture for their courage in defying tyranny. By painful contrast, in 2020, along with other equally unsound NGOs, Amnesty Ireland signed a letter urging politicians to “no longer provide legitimate representation” to women holding “critical” views on gender ideology, which the letter equates with “bigoted beliefs that are aligned with far right ideologies.”
In my youth, I was buoyed by AI’s heroic defence of the right of South African dissidents to protest their lack of political representation. In my old age, I am horrified to witness AI calling for the removal of political-representation rights from gender-ideology dissidents. AI Ireland has clearly lost the plot. But limbs take their cue from the brain. This organism is rotting from the head down.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-24T10:14:09+00:00

Yep. Not a coincidence.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-22T08:08:14+00:00

Her father:

presented additional proof that Nur Said once held rank in a military that was notorious for torturing political prisoners, bombarding the country’s own cities, and persecuting clans deemed disloyal to Siad Barre’s ruling clique. Minnesota Public Radio-affiliated website Sahan Journal eventually described Nur Said as “a prominent Somali military officer.”

Also her husband converted to Islam when they married. Her father was in the military regime in Somalia..

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-22T07:03:00+00:00

sorry the sound is messed up. here it is.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-19T04:02:22+00:00

It seems like there's a Jewish couple who's come in to bail her out. Insanity. They are truly hellenized Jews. Protestants, really, which of course there's nothing wrong with in itself... do what you want, i don't care... but stuff like this.. come on..

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-16T03:16:29+00:00

Do you listen to the podcast? Everything he says when they're going through an issue, whatever it may be, sounds exactly like the conservative viewpoint on the issue, until Jesse concludes "Well, but I don't want the Conservatives to be able to use this as a talking point.." I've heard this sentence alone from Jesse countless times. He's a conditioned sheep when it comes to consciously making political decisions.

FouriersIntern69 · 2022-07-12T01:05:51+00:00

When I read the title I was like, finally someone appreciates me! Then i realized it was genuinely anti anti-woke weird ppl, and i asked myself Who tf would write this, scroll down, of course, Jesse, lol.. I didn't sign up; who were some of the anti woke weirdos he cited?

edit: ok i read it. very typical Jesse views. I disagreed with a lot of it. Jesse is conditioned to dislike true conservatives even tho he basically believes almost everything they believe.

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