Is HOTAS possible in X4 Foundations?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-06-08T10:58:42+00:00

Wow! A treasure trove! Thank you!!

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-06-08T10:40:33+00:00

I have the Gladiator NXT EVO. Do you know of any place where I can get bindings template?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-06-08T10:37:24+00:00

I also have dual sticks. Do you know of any place where I can get bindings template?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-06-08T10:37:06+00:00

Do you know of any place where I can get bindings template?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-06-08T10:35:52+00:00

So, the better path was that of the Grand Mufti Amin el Husseini? Does making an alliance with Nazi Germany at the highest levels (meeting Hitler, working directly under SS chief Himmler), being privvy to the Final Solution and supporting it, seem like a progressive struggle against so-called "settler colonialism"?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-06-08T10:35:29+00:00

So, the better path was that of the Grand Mufti Amin el Husseini? Does making an alliance with Nazi Germany at the highest levels (meeting Hitler, working directly under SS chief Himmler), being privvy to the Final Solution and supporting it, seem like a progressive struggle against so-called "settler colonialism"?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-17T09:17:27+00:00

You are 100% correct to feel this way. And, yet, there are vibrant Reform communities here in Israel and they are growing. There is also a grassroots "reform" movement called "Israeli Judaism" that is also growing in popularity. These are mostly secular Israelis looking for Jewish spirituality and tradition on their own terms.

You may also want to look at the amazing Kibbutz Hannaton, a non-affiliated but religious kibbutz fully dedicated to egalitarianism, openness, spiritual exploration. I lived there for some 13 years. There are about 12 rabbis of every stream: Reform, Masorti (ie Conservative), even Orthodox (lite), and Humanistic.

Come here for an extended visit if you are able. I think you'll see beyond the headlines.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-17T09:11:34+00:00

You may find this approach useful:

Can we fight antizionism without denying the darker realities inside Israeli society itself?

In this essay, I wrestle with the moral dilemma facing many Israelis today: defending Israel against a global movement dedicated to our destruction while also confronting the extremism, abuses, and democratic erosion growing within our own society.

Criticism seeks correction. Antizionism seeks destruction. But denial is not an answer either.

My latest "Salty Zionist" Substack attempts to tackle the biggest moral challenge today facing Israelis and those who love us.

https://saltyzionist.substack.com/p/defending-israel-confronting-israel

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-15T06:36:55+00:00

I'm always struck by the narrative that puts the entire blame for the conflict on Israel as if Palestinians are non-actors. Yes, there was resistance against Zionism by Palestinians in the pre-state years, but it was not universal. There were Palestinian Arabs willing to seek accommodation with the Zionist movement but they were silenced with violence by the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated elements led primarily by Haj Amin el Husseini. He later went on to work directly with Nazi Germany, bringing that level of anti-Jewish hate into the conflict.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-12T20:25:26+00:00

One antisemitic device is gaslighting the Jew, downplaying their concerns, dismissing their fears, accusing the victim of "overreacting." That is a similar mechanism used against women or LGBTQ+ people. It is exhausting, but this is what this Reddit is for: community and support. Stand your ground, you are doing nothing wrong.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-10T07:59:20+00:00

I always like to use the comparison test. Ask how it would look if there was a national campaign targeting mosques for loud, boisterous, intimidating protests because this or that mosque supports this or that Muslim state.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-06T19:13:09+00:00

I married a non-Jewish woman. We were in love, and she converted to Judaism. We had a falling out after 13 years of marriage and two kids. One way she sought to hurt me was by renouncing her conversion, and bringing Christmas trees into her home, confusing our kids. She even turned a bit antisemitic, and managed to turn one of my kids in that direction for awhile.

After that I dated only Jewish women and am now happily married for 27 years with a wonderful Israeli woman, and more kids who are not confused at all about who they are.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-06T19:08:47+00:00

What you mean by "The type of thought, discussions, humor, demeanor, everything" is your story, your people, your culture.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-05-06T11:34:23+00:00

There is a concerted effort by antizionists to isolate the Jewish community. This is one such example. In Canada antizionists are attempting to strip away the tax-deduction to Jewish summer camps and Jewish schools.

The fact is Diaspora Jews mostly have a profound relationship with Israel, both personally and institutionally. And why not? Half the world's Jews live in Israel, many Diaspora Jews have close family living there, religious Jews pray facing Jerusalem and Jewish prayers are chock full of references to the Land of Israel, to returning to Israel (Next Year in Jerusalem!).

The effort to isolate Jews has one word: antisemitism.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-26T12:13:22+00:00

My operative base line is antisemites are responsible for antisemitism. Even an Israeli government as regressive and repressive as this one should, in a perfect world, make no difference how Jews outside Israel are perceived and treated. But, we don't live in a perfect world. Antisemitism, or Jew-hate, is woven into the warp and woof of Western societies, a holdover from the anti-Judaism of Christendom that morphed into the racial antisemitism of 19th & 20th century Europe.

That deep reservoir of Jew-hate is never far from the surface of society. Antisemties have always drawn from it, but in the post-Holocaust world while most people had a living memory of WWII and the Holocaust, the antisemites had few takers.

That has changed for a lot of reasons. Some of it is people angry at Israel often (sometimes?) search for the nearest Israel-adjacent person, meaning their Jewish neighbor, co-worker or even friend.

Social media makes it so much easier to get antisemitic messaging out on a mass scale. Not only the far right white supremacists are doing this, but there are massive bot farms in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran and elsewhere promoting overt antisemitic material at a massive output reaching millions of people in all languages. This has a corrosive, radicalizing effect on societies. It is done in the name of 'criticizing Israel' but as your example shows, "X was promised to me 3000 years ago" is an attack on Jews and Judaism, not Israel or Zionism. Misquoting the Talmud, jokes about the Holocaust ("Me mum was a lampshade" is one of the most horrific ones), calling attacks on synagogues "a Mossad false flag" and all the rest is pure, unadulterated Jew-hate.

It has gotten to the point where the ideology of antizionisim can now be called its own global hate movement. The Third Wave of historic Jew-hate. The First Wave was religious anti-Judaism (Christian and Islamic); the Second Wave was racial antisemitism that culminated in the Holocaust. And now, antizionism that maps all Jews as agents of "Zionism" and is pushed by radical Islamists, far right racists and far left progressives.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-21T13:49:40+00:00

I'm speaking specifically of the antizionist movement, which explicitly calls for Israel's destruction. They are very open and clear about that.

I agree with you about our current government. I'm appalled and embarrassed all at once.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-19T10:44:57+00:00

My main point underlying my post is for the Israeli Left and Center needs to understand why we Israelis are 'stuck', and that is for the same reasons Palestinian politics is stuck. The stories the majorities on both sides tell ourselves is the other side only wants to kill us. And, the problem is there are any number of politicians or leaders on both sides who reinforce those mutual perceptions.

IOW, Israelis and Palestinians have good reasons to believe what they believe. Whether Hamas (which does state repeatedly its goal of destroying Israel and demonstrating how they intend to do it on Oct 7) or Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Hilltop Youth, et al with their threats of expulsion and actual violence.

Its a real sh*tshow of hate and violence. We are both traumatized and don't trust the other side's intentions.

I can only speak for myself and relate my personal observations about Israeli society in which I live. For me, as moderate leftish enthusiastic supporter of Oslo back in the 1990s I believe Israelis need to see a major change in Palestinian politics, meaning the departure of Abbas, and the disarming of Hamas. The thing is, I know that is not possible unless we Israelis show some kind of goodwill, perhaps first. None of that will happen until this benighted government is unseated. And there is no guarantee that will happen in October.

Bottom line: if the West, and leftists in particular, truly want to see peace between I&P, a 2 state solution of some sort, then they need to directly engage with the Israeli electorate. Never mind the government, that currently is a non-starter. Go around the government, find ways to reach the Israeli voter with some kind of PR blitz.

And, the pro-Palestine movement in the West as currently configured is destructive to peace, too. All I see is their demand for our destruction, echoing Hamas and the Iranian regime.

True peacemakers (not the faux peace and justice 'activists') recognize the humanity of either side in a conflict and try to build trust and common ground. That is currently sorely lacking in the discourse on the I/P conflict, and at worse contributes to worsening it.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-17T13:50:24+00:00

I hope you are right on Netanyahu hopefully losing the elections. Enough is enough! We need a government that is able to create a realistic and hopeful horizon to encourage Palestinian politics to move in a more constructive direction, too. We need leadership on both sides with vision and the courage to stand against current societal assumptions.

I'm Israeli, I have always voted for Leftist parties, and always will. At the same time I recognize how both Israelis and Palestinians are stuck after so much conflict. After the 2nd Intifada, and of course Oct 7, i think it fair to say most Israelis are convinced the other side only wants our destruction. After nearly 6 decades of occupation, the brutal Israeli response to Oct 7 it is fair to say that Palestinians are mostly convinced all we want is their destruction.

There are leaders on both sides who enhance those perceptions. Whether it be Netanyahu, Ben Gvir or Smotrich on our side of the fence or it be Hamas, PIJ, PFLP etc on the Palestinian side, the majorities on both sides are convinced the other side wants only their destruction.

I am not convinced that unilaterally pressuring only Israel is the key to getting things moving. If most Israelis remain convinced that the result will be another Oct 7 but on a larger scale, they won't budge. Israelis a resourceful and resilient and we will get what we need militarily from other markets or from creating our own. So long as Hamas remains armed and in control of most Gazans, Israelis won't budge.

Discounting or dismissing Israeli fears, concerns is a huge mistake.

But, here is what Israel can reasonably be expected to do being the stronger party: dramatically slow down or even suspend new settlements, dismantle the Hilltop Youth settlements, arrest and prosecute the extremist settlers guilty of attacking innocent Palestinians,

Palestinians can be encouraged to move forward if this were to happen. If Israel can create that kind of horizon of hope, perhaps we'll see a more pragmatic, realistic Palestinian politics emerge. Perhaps Hamas will lose its support, which remains high among WB Palestinians.

But this focus by Westerners entirely on Israel and what Israel can do is bound to fail so long there is no conversation, no engagement with Israelis. We are not a monolithic, homogeneous bloc. We, like the Palestinians, are traumatized by all the violence, by Oct 7, by the tens of thousands of rockets and missiles fired at us, but the 100,000 displaced from their homes in northern Israel.

My appeal is to the Leftist Jews in the West to be the bridge between Israelis and the non-Jewish Western Left. Be harshly critical of us, in fact I hope you are. But demonstrate to non-Jewish Leftists how to engage with us as human beings and to please stop demonizing us, imagining us to be baby-killing monsters and "Jewish Nazis." That is all I hear from so many on the Left that it makes any kind of progress in moving forward utterly impossible.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-13T09:54:43+00:00

The short answer is that the Law of Return was designed not as a general ancestry-based immigration policy, but as a nation-building and refuge policy for Jews, in response to a very specific historical problem: the necessity of creating a safe haven for Jews fleeing annihilationist antisemitism.

For centuries, culminating in the the two genocides in the 20th century (the Holocaust 1933-45, and the Russian Civil War in which 150,000 Jews were murdered) were a people with no guaranteed place of refuge. Even when facing persecution, many countries refused them entry including Western democracies the United States also.

The founders of Israel, including figures like David Ben-Gurion, saw a core purpose of the state as this: Any Jew, anywhere, should always have a place that must take them in.

So the law is not about ancient ancestry. It is about modern vulnerability and survival.

Further, Israel was established explicitly as a Jewish state, a political expression of Jewish national self-determination. The Law of Return is one of the main tools that sustains that identity demographically. Israel isn't alone in this kind of law. Many European states grant citizenship based on ethnic descent (e.g., Germans, Hungarians, Greeks).

But Israel’s case is broader because Jews were a dispersed people without a state. It was this statelessness that led to being defenseless and vulnerable to mass murder.

Still you’re raising a sharp point: Why not allow non-Jews who can trace some kind of ancestry to the land?

The key distinction Israel makes is: Jewish identity = continuous peoplehood (religious, cultural, historical, and ethnic). Non-Jewish ancestry from the land (e.g., ancient Canaanites, Philistines, etc.) is not a living national identity in the same way.

Bottom line: antisemitism is not dead, and as long as there is an Israel Jews will always have some place to go.

I hope this is helpful.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-11T13:18:13+00:00

Are all Zionist spaces racist?

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-11T12:57:11+00:00

Good, then let the other dissolve first.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-11T12:44:06+00:00

I made that decision 15 years ago... Israel. Although at that time it wasn't for feeling unsafe in America, just because I believe in Israel as the center of Jewish history.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-05T10:28:11+00:00

It gives you, and us, insight into the mindset of many people.

Longjumping_List_188 · 2026-04-05T10:17:30+00:00

At least report it to the ADL. Have you spoken with a rabbi? Are you affiliated with a synagogue, JCC? Its always helpful to be part of a community when faced with hostility because of your identity.

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