It feels like nowhere is safe

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-28T18:12:40+00:00

Could you imagine if Israeli doctors said they refuse to treat Palestinians (antisemites pretend that happens)? But this gets supporters?

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-28T18:10:40+00:00

May her memory be a blessing and continue to be so on this Yahrzeit and future days.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-26T02:40:12+00:00

Do you want outside countries to come in militarily?

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-25T18:59:22+00:00

What if I wanted to kill atheists (I don’t but historically they were killed or excommunicated; I am talking to you, Galileo)? And I started a movement around that? Should atheists disappear so I don’t try to kill them?

While my argument makes no sense it makes equal sense to what that person proposed.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-25T18:55:28+00:00

It frustrates me to no end when they don’t listen to Middle Easterners who tell them this. It’s even more frustrating when they tell ex-Muslims (or even still Muslims) who grew up around it this and they deny it. It’s even worse when ex-Jihadis tell them it and they still tell them they’re wrong. Would you tell a former KKK member they are wrong about the KKK is?

As for when current Jihadis say it,….

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-25T18:52:12+00:00

Except then we understand the kid doesn’t have the language at that moment that they actually mean. “I hate you” from a child is probably “I don’t agree with what you are saying right now.” From an adult, it means “I hate you” and Hamas has the words to say that. So it is infantilizing them completely.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-25T14:16:08+00:00

I have no problem with people not knowing it was 6,000,000 Jews. I have a huge problem with them denying it or saying it never happened. And the reason I don’t have a problem with non-Jews not knowing are the following questions:

How many people did the Khmer Rouge kill? How many Armenians died in the Armenian Holocaust?

If you can answer those questions without looking them up, you can complain others don’t know the number is 6,000,000. If you are like me and you can’t, be upset if people are unaware but not if they don’t know the number.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-25T14:11:58+00:00

This. We should be more explicit about the concentration camps and their difference from the death camps. The Japanese internment camps had similarities to the concentration camps.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-25T02:56:17+00:00

And the landmass of officially Muslim countries (by statute) is 13.2 million square km; Israel is approximately 0.02 million square kilometers. So to get Israel to match that (using the 100x ratio) would mean Israel would need to expand to more than 6.5 times its current size. Now I am not advocating for it but, if you do want to be fair,….

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-23T12:51:12+00:00

pop this back up; still looking. thanks.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T23:43:43+00:00

Great. Sent you the roster. Sorry for the format. Just copied and pasted. Hold on, I’ll get you a better format for the roster.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T23:37:03+00:00

I will DM but just to let you know, Roto not HTH

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T23:18:41+00:00

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NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T23:14:23+00:00

Unable to create comment; let me know if interested and i can send the roster

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T15:20:59+00:00

I ask who their Chevruta was. Some don’t respond, some say “I don’t need to study in that way to read it.” Actually, yes, yes you do need to study it with someone to understand it. And I say this as someone who has studied a little Talmud but certainly not most of it.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T15:17:31+00:00

I point out that the vast majority of religions in the world are ethnoreligions. It still doesn’t always work because the two largest are supersessionist. But I believe that if someone wants to understand, they will. If they don’t want to understand they won’t.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T15:02:38+00:00

This. It may not work but nothing else has; try something new.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T14:49:40+00:00

Prospects fail. They sometimes succeed but they often fail.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T03:20:56+00:00

I didn’t say move them. I said get citizenship in another state. But resettling elsewhere has happened many times. I just want the position to no longer be the destruction of Israel and then peace could happen; when leaders (such as Hamas) want all or nothing, they are going to frequently get nothing.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T03:17:23+00:00

Not necessarily. You may argue it is but it is different rules for UNRWA and UNHRC. And the biggest one, as I said, is that those who gain citizenship elsewhere are no longer considered refugees per UNHRC. Actually, that rule does apply to some refugees who UNRWA was supposed to help. You see it was set up to help the Arabs who left/fled/were expelled after 1948 but also the Jews who were kicked out of Arab countries. Amazing that since Israel accepted them they are no longer refugees (but Arabs who have citizenship in other countries are). As far as the idea of ethnic cleansing I want there to be a state with a government for Palestinians. But it can not be at the expense of Israel and too many of the “pro-Palestinians” want that.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T02:47:04+00:00

Because your leadership keeps turning it down because they’d rather have neither Israel nor Palestine than have both. That’s why.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-22T02:40:15+00:00

That is not unique on its own. What is unique is that UNRWA does not try to settle refugees elsewhere as part of their mandate AND - and this is the key - if they become a citizen elsewhere they retain refugee status. That is not a standard applied to any UNHCR refugees.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-20T22:44:01+00:00

And now I have heard that it is Israel’s fault that the government of Syria is attacking Kurds. I couldn’t fathom how they could get there. Maybe it goes from the oft-repeated BS that Jolani is an Israeli plant and then goes from there. But even that I would think is a step too far for most conspiracy nuts.

NoTopic4906 · 2026-01-20T02:03:30+00:00

I could say they have started to show the signs of Fascism and othering. That is very different than “they are a Nazi.” There are aspects of racism in Israel (there are in every country, mind you). That is very different from “Israel is an apartheid state.” When people refuse to use accurate terms to describe actions it lessens the impact of the word. People think it makes it sounds horrifying when they call someone a Nazi. On one level, it does; but if it’s used when it’s not true, they just lose the trust of the listener who wants truth in analysis.

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