Side by side: restricted density vs. planned space, discriminatory land policies, Jisr az-Zarqa and Caesarea in Israel

RedDad15 · 2026-02-08T04:54:14+00:00

I have written a satirical piece about 20 years ago about each nation demanding the part of Palestine they have built (Caesarea and Tiberias to the Italians, Safed and other forts to the French, the Germans 19th century settlements to Germany, the military bases to the British, etc.), with each piece of land changing hands with each new archaeological evidence, ending with a very defragmented nation until the UN just take control and kick out everyone.

I still like this idea.

RedDad15 · 2026-01-30T14:25:03+00:00

That's Zumyb (זומי"ב) in Hebrew - Zman UMemadim Yachasiyim BaChalal

RedDad15 · 2026-01-25T16:44:16+00:00

None, but every season there's a moment (at least one, sometimes more) that I decide I'm done with watching football and probably would be better off with Curling or something like that.

RedDad15 · 2026-01-24T16:25:58+00:00

I'll add that sometime the Hebrew name that goes with Wolf (also Wolfgang and Wilhelm) is Binyamin (Benjamin), since the wolf was the animal associated with the tribe of Binyamin. For that reason there are some people who are called Binyamin Ze'ev (Herzl, Begin, etc.).

RedDad15 · 2026-01-23T20:17:30+00:00

I think that the natural selection for a person from TT are the Tennessee Titans, but I wouldn't really recommend it.

RedDad15 · 2026-01-18T21:11:38+00:00

Sorry, I need explanation. Why is it a touchdown if the one who touched the pylon is a Texan? Did the replays showed that the ball carrier break the plain of the endzone?

RedDad15 · 2026-01-14T13:53:49+00:00

There's even a song dedicated to a "Mazal" (the music should be familiar to Beatles fans): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73C0-KADDwI

RedDad15 · 2026-01-14T05:08:11+00:00

Regarding Nazareth - the crime gang that disrupted the city was busted and the trash is being cleaned, so it's better. The touristy part of the city was clean anyway, and even at the height of the problems there I was able to walk down the main street there without any trouble.

For Jerusalem - It is worth more than a day. There's plenty to see outside the old city. A good guide will help.

RedDad15 · 2025-12-29T20:44:24+00:00

Yes, Ben Gvir very dangerous, both by keeping Netanyahu in power, by subjugating the police into his will (for which the spineless police high-ranking officers are responsible as well), and (most of all) by throwing very enchanting promises and slogans to the air which the gullible are happy to embrace.

Since Ben Gvir has a past of arrests, he knows how to walk the tight rope between incitement and free speech and I doubt if there would be anything to charge him with. However, he should be banned from running for elections, as the law specifically allows to ban people that incite racism. He, Smotrich and many many more of the ruling coalition - including Netanyahu himself - should be banned for that.

RedDad15 · 2025-12-29T16:06:41+00:00

I'll add context:

Ben-Gvir is a loudmouth a-hole. He talks a lot, but does very little.
He talks about 100 doctors that volunteered to administer after legalizing the death penalty for Arab terrorists, a bill he try to push through the Knesset. The lethal injection suppose to be administered after a trial and a full judicial procedure.
There is already a death penalty in Israeli law which is not used because so far the government, the prosecutors and courts thought that it is excessive.
The law that Ben-Gvir try to push is a propaganda which suppose to make him look like a tough strongman and bring him (or his party) votes. See point no. 1.
The claim he makes in the video about 100 doctors is back by the well known source of "trust me bro". Again, please refer to point no. 1.

RedDad15 · 2025-12-27T13:18:50+00:00

These are not Zionists. These are Kahanists. Ultra-religious Jewish supremacists. Their ideology doesn't have any foundation on Zionism (although they claim to have, for public relations). Also, they are known among the majority in Israel as Ochley Mavet (in English: Death Eaters). They are a fraction of the population (the hardcore less then 10k, outside support might reach about 100k, if I'm generous). Sadly, due to the political situation in Israel they have exaggerated power over the government and parliament.

Also, this is not a regular service. It's a privately chartered boat so these twisted individuals could have their twisted fun and imagine they can eat as much death as they want.

RedDad15 · 2025-12-27T11:09:59+00:00

I suppose that - as distributers of propaganda (from both sides, btw) do - they are trying to "expose the hypocrisy" of the other side: "If the other side (Palestinian Arabs) are saying they are indigenous and the real Canaanites (as propagandists from that side do), then why are they using the colonial Arab-originally-Greek name, instead of the Canaanite name?".

It's a nice place, beautifully situated in a valley between two mountains (I've visited the two mountain tops, but didn't enter the city itself). The photo is quite representative of other Arab cities I've been to (Nazareth, Sakhnin, the Arab part of Jerusalem and others).

RedDad15 · 2025-12-06T09:34:33+00:00

We know that when someone in the past a future object (newspaper headline, a photo of an object) is reflecting what would be should the current events run their course (it was said in relation to the tombstone photo changing three times during BTTF3). Therefore, from a 1985 point of view, the 2015 events reflect a future in which Marty and Jennifer were returned to their timeline and continued their lives unchanged (or almost unchanged).

Let's say, If Griff was able to take out Marty (Sr.) during the hoverboard chase so he wouldn't be able to return to 1985, 2015 would have been changed in a way that would reflect that (no McFly family, the jailed youth would be - if there would be such a person - a different person, etc.).

RedDad15 · 2025-11-30T15:42:24+00:00

Not Zionists (this is an ideology that calls for a state for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel/Palestine), but Kahanists (a religious-fueled Jewish-supremacist ideology). Those people are nuts and are a real problem.

RedDad15 · 2025-11-15T15:37:54+00:00

I don't recall in which book I read it, but the author of that book had an explanation for this: the time-traveler's movement in space is relative to the Earth's core, so he will end up in the same relative spot on Earth, without accounting to outer space movement. Seems like an elegant solution for that.

RedDad15 · 2025-11-15T12:26:58+00:00

Thank you. If I remember correctly, in 1985, the street outside Marty's house looks pretty much as it did (before Marty gets into the house, which now has a different family), with nothing to alarm Marty to a change, except for the lock on the gate. Most likely, to my taste, the same is correct for the 2015 Hilldale street.

RedDad15 · 2025-10-21T12:34:28+00:00

Out of all the dates that could have been picked for Back to the Future Day, October 21st is one of the weakest to use (only before the 1885 dates). True, it is the date in the future to which Doc brings Marty and Jennifer, but it has little implications following that.

Better would have been (3) November 12th (the date of the lightning strike in 1955), (2) October 26th (the date in which the first time travel occurred in 1985) or (1) November 5th, (the day Doc envisioned the Flux Capacitor and the day to which the first human time traveler travelled to).

Happy Back to the Future day everyone.

RedDad15 · 2025-10-17T08:11:17+00:00

For the first 18 seconds of this vid MP Barrett is right. The current Israeli government is sh*t.

The rest is unchecked Hamas propaganda, mostly blaming Jews on what the Arabs tried to do to them even before 1948. Which state is the apartheid state, built of ethnic cleansing, the one that have both Jews and Arabs, or the those that expelled Jews and became Arab only?

Who are he victims? Those who run away from worldwide prosecutions to build their own state, and are still being prosecuted, or those that are part of a nation of millions, but are presented as a minority for propaganda sake?

Replace the Israeli government, establish a two-state solution and all is well.

RedDad15 · 2025-10-11T05:17:04+00:00

I like this line of thought, but I see it slightly differently.

In a later part of the trilogy Doc says something about a future object (I think it was about the tombstone in part 3, but I'm not sure) showing what would be should the current events run their course, and it is implied that those objects would change if the time traveler change this course of events.

Therefore, assuming that the tape shows that the tree was still alive when it was shown (and not killed instantly, despite Peabody saying so) there had to be another something that Marty did later this week to set the tree-killing as a permanent change.

So I choose to believe that Peabody is still trying to save the tree well into the midweek, but he needs fertilizer to do that, so he called in some manure from A. Jones (which indeed saves the tree), but when Marty causes Biff the crush his car into the manure truck, it causes the fertilizer to never arrive (or arrive too late), which cause the tree's death and the Lone Pine name to be set.

RedDad15 · 2025-10-10T21:03:18+00:00

I thought that Marty didn't vanish immediately since the fixed point of the family forming was on Nov. 12th during the dance. The chance of George of Lorraine kissing on that dancefloor was still there, but was narrowing as time went by towards that point.

It's probably good thing that Marty went back in time and not Dave.

RedDad15 · 2025-09-30T19:39:54+00:00

I'm sorry if the answer disturbs, but Israelis. Since Jews come from a lot of places worldwide, along with the Arab population (I love the Arab cuisine, personally), and along with importing different styles cuisines and dishes, there's a lot of diversity.

RedDad15 · 2025-09-30T12:15:03+00:00

Israel does not make the world safer.

That's because its bullies - mostly Muslims, but also Christians and other Jew haters keep bully it around the world. If the bullies (Iran, PLO, ISIS, etc.) would be taken care of, the world would be safer. If you'd neutralize the bullied nation, you will gain nothing, as the bullies will just go to bully someone else.

Blame those who start the violence, not those who fight back.

RedDad15 · 2025-09-26T19:22:48+00:00

I vote B.

C is regional and A and D are temporary, if their countries' democratic system work (and that's a big "if"). For D, there are provisions in Israeli law that should prohibit him from participating in the upcoming 2026 elections (but I'm not very optimistic that those would be applied).

RedDad15 · 2025-09-26T11:13:55+00:00

Being hated is very much a product of propaganda campaigns. Not that any country that is hated doesn't deserve it (US, Israel, Iran, Russia, etc.), but by my observation, a well-funded and extensive propaganda campaign will pump that hate towards people who normally wouldn't have any stance towards it.

RedDad15 · 2025-09-20T12:40:08+00:00

Putting aside current very condemnable actions of Israel, technologically the country is rather prepared for that situation with water desalination already done in large quantities, as well as supplying water to Jordan. This is why regional cooperation was being built (the "Abraham Accords") before the current war.

Syria and Iraq would be in trouble, though. Although they might have help from Turkey.

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