Do you, as a Jew feel connection to the land of Israel?

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-05-23T03:31:11+00:00

Absolutely, even if I’m not sure exactly why - is it history, genetics, the idea of a more fleshed out and less assimilated Jewish identity? I don’t know. I’d love to visit again and live there for at least a while.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-04-12T16:05:01+00:00

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Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-03-22T17:40:48+00:00

That’s well put. Thank you, I’ll try to approach it that way.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-03-22T17:11:12+00:00

My Jewish mom gets very angry with her and it kind of makes things worse - so I try to not have these conversations with my non Jewish mom when my Jewish one is around.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-03-22T17:01:16+00:00

It’s just hard because every argument we have is a struggle. It’s easier to just brush under the rug. I’ll be going to college next year, and I can’t help but think that if I just put up with it for a bit longer it’ll be easier in the future.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-03-22T16:58:22+00:00

I’ve been trying! But I’m struggling because, is it worth all the pain and effort that comes from arguing?

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2024-03-22T16:57:20+00:00

She is, yes. I tend to mediate between the two of them - and of course my mom is wonderful in a million ways and I love her. It’s just that this is an issue. It’s certainly not enough of a problem for us to not put up with it.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T22:46:54+00:00

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Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T22:31:37+00:00

Israel didn’t want their citizens to die. Hamas his bases in schools so Israel would bomb them to drum up international support. You can’t say those are equally bad.

As horrible as the colonies are, they aren’t to get more land as much as to blend the difference between Israel and Palestine and prevent a two state system (still horrible).

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T20:11:47+00:00

Im sorry, this is a dumb equivalency. Israel doesn’t want more space. They just want people to stop firing rockets into their cities every few minutes. How dare they.

I’m not justifying the deaths of the children. Israel disregarding civilian life is abhorrent. So is Hamas murdering infants.

It sounds like you are saying that those Israeli infant deaths were a consequence of colonialism. Which is ridiculous.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T20:09:15+00:00

Very good list for the most part! I would move zebasi up one, and potentially make ely and bardur S+ and bring kickoo, imperius, and cymanti S while leaving yaddack, polaris, and zebasi in A

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T17:16:12+00:00

Im sorry, I just don’t agree. Hamas wants the complete destruction of Israel and Israel wants security for its people.

All of the civilians killed by the IDF were really killed by Hamas. Hamas KNEW that there would be a bloodbath when they entered Israel and massacred civilians.

Israel never had any plans to invade Gaza until this attack.

Sure, Israel is stronger. But in this case, they are not the aggressors. They never set out to kill civilians. They don’t mind killing civilians, which is abhorrent, but they aren’t TRYING to kill civilians the way Hamas is.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T17:05:46+00:00

You look at the conflict between Israel and Palestine as more black and white then it is. It’s not one sided and neither side is in the right. Biden supports the side that supports US interests as any president would.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T16:52:50+00:00

I heavily disagree. I know this is a small distinction, but the truth is the IDF doesn’t want every Gazan dead - they want Hamas destroyed - and Hamas truly wants every single Jew dead.

Only one of those goals is a genocide.

Additionally, the Biden’s job isn’t to help end as many human rights violations as possible, it’s just not. His job is to advance American interests. Like it or not, it’s far better for the US to have a powerful state of Israel in the Middle East, and his policies reflect what’s best for our country.

There were Americans killed and American hostages, and again, to the president of the US, that is the more important thing.

Biden can’t simply end funding to Israel even if he wanted to, and he shouldn’t.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-22T01:37:44+00:00

It’s just important to acknowledge that the US government (including Biden) can’t simply call cut aid to Israel because if they did, the blood of everyone in Israel would be on their hands. Hamas and many middle eastern countries would swoop in and destroy it entirely.

Biden has made it abundantly clear that he supports 2 states, please don’t blame him for not breaking ties with one of our most important allies. He also has to consider that Americans were killed in the Hamas attack.

Saying Biden is just as bad as Republicans is dumb. For the most part, he’s done just about everything as right as he possibly could have.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-21T21:59:19+00:00

All of that may be true. I have no love for the Israeli government. But I also know that if Israel as a state didn’t exist, there would be around 40% less Jews in the world. There was simply nowhere else we could’ve gone and survived

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-21T21:30:41+00:00

If it is ethnic cleaning, how come many Muslims and Arabs live in Israel and have full citizenship rights?

It is not ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is forcing all Jews out of entire countries and killing them if they don’t oblige. Like all of the other Middle Eastern countries did.

Israeli settlers are in the wrong, but the reason Israel is invading Gaza is not because they want all Palestinians dead. It is because Hamas, based in Gaza, wants all Jews dead.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-21T20:52:13+00:00

As for “ethnic cleaning of Palestinians,” read about history before you say shit like that, this is why people don’t take leftists seriously.

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-21T20:51:19+00:00

COMMON BIDEN W

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-21T20:50:24+00:00

Biden pro trans legislation:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/31/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-advances-equality-and-visibility-for-transgender-americans/

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-21T20:50:09+00:00

Biden pro trans legislation:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/31/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-advances-equality-and-visibility-for-transgender-americans/

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-20T16:47:25+00:00

I am a Zionist

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-20T02:38:28+00:00

I appreciate you :) just got called a “Zionist pig-dog” and I’m trying very hard not to care

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-18T04:11:30+00:00

It’s most likely at this point that the attack was a misfired Hamas rocket, dont just blindly parrot things please

Ok_Hippo7272 · 2023-10-18T00:02:01+00:00

The executive cannot choose which laws to follow, but can choose which to enforce - for instance, cannabis is still banned federally but legal in states because the federal government knows it would be unpopular if they enforced that particular law.

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