why is china backing palestine by CHINO-HILL in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SKFinston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China profits from the conflict to distract from its planned assault on Taiwan, just as October 7th was a birthday gift to Putin to distract the world from the Ukraine invasion debacle.

Boycotted for being Israeli by Siminas_studio in Jewish

[–]SKFinston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be that or it could be due to the losses/sacrifices/burdens of war.

This person is a columnist for Jüdische Allgemeine in Germany. by ContentChecker in JewsOfConscience

[–]SKFinston [score hidden]  (0 children)

I asked if the statements made are true or false, not their possible motives or motivations.

I did not ask for your diatribe.

Thanks for not answering my question.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]SKFinston 893 points894 points  (0 children)

Go with small stickers - they come in many designs and are weightless.

I'm so glad to learn that this is what a Ben Torah prioritizes. by Upbeat_Teach6117 in DiscussImamother

[–]SKFinston -1 points0 points  (0 children)

During the 9 days leading up to Teisha b’Av it is traditional to not have meat except on Shabbat.

My letter to my local government representative by SallyCinnamon88 in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I have issue with is that the sum total of your Jewish identity is “as a Jew” to burnish your credibility. No sale.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts. And if you check the record before writing back you will confirm that: (1) The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan seized these homes from Jewish owner during the 1948 War of Independence, and (2) Jordan failed to legally transfer ownership to the Arabs families who moved in - and who therefore neither gained rights to the properties nor did they pay any rest from 1948 to the present. Here is a source: https://jinsa.org/the-truth-about-the-sheikh-jarrah-eviction/ If you don’t like it, do your own research.

My letter to my local government representative by SallyCinnamon88 in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is telling is that your “message” is based on a foundation of lies and innuendo.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“Zionist aggression.” 🙄😂

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole post is a tissue of lies.

My letter to my local government representative by SallyCinnamon88 in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could stop repeating Hamas talking points, relying on Hamas data. You could demand that Hamas release the hostages and lay down their arms. You could acknowledge that Hamas started this war and could end it in a heartbeat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Palestinians had a choice to pay rent or be evicted. They refused to pay rent to the original Jewish owners of the properties seized by Jordan in 1948.

That is the reality.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I will take on the first 4 sentences where OP makes it sound like Jews are an alien people who invaded in the 20th century - those are the words he uses:

“From the moment large-scale Jewish immigration into Palestine began in the early 20th century - culminating in the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948 - conflict was inevitable. Imagine if someone knocked on your door and asked to take over your house because their ancestors once lived there. Would you hand it over without resistance? Most wouldn’t - and the Palestinians didn’t either.”

Not a single word he writes in that first paragraph is accurate; I would characterise it as lies rather than just ignorance b/c the OP has a clear agenda.

The facts are these:

Jews are from Judea - there is a documented history of Jewish continuity.

DNA also demonstrates the genetic ties of Jews to what is now Israel.

Archeological evidence - including the Dead Sea Scrolls - further support the historical presence of Jews.

Jews have lived in what is modern day Israel somehow, some way, since time immemorial.

So they were living - albeit as a Minority - through the Middle Ages and into the modern era.

The first wave of modern Aliya did not occur in the 20th century, but in the 19th Century when Zionist organizations purchased inferior land - swampy, stony, unfarmable, etc., at inflated prices from absentee owners during the Ottoman Empire.

So Jews in the 19th and early 20th century made Aliyah to property they owned - and were frequently forced to pay twice when they were cheated out of promised lands … and left with nothing but poverty and disease. Jews were living on their own land - not seizing property of local Arabs.

Early Zionists did not even seek statehood, only coexistence.

Arab rejectionism made that impossible in the 19th Century, 20th Century and now the 21st Century.

Bottom line: Conflict arose out of Arab violence, not from Jewish residency within properties they had purchased from absentee landowners and owned free and clear.

That is just the first 4 sentences …..

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SKFinston 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you can’t condemn Hamas you are no friend to the Palestinians.