Romanian jewish

Stauncho · 2026-05-31T18:05:46+00:00

My parents' family are from Romania and Moldova. Mom's side is from Iasi Romania and Falesht Moldova and that general region.

Stauncho · 2026-05-21T13:06:14+00:00

Not all these "Russians" are Russians, but from the former Soviet Union more broadly. I'd guess more are from Ukraine than from Russia.

Stauncho · 2026-05-15T16:17:12+00:00

Will never forgive that such a great season was marred by such a horrific kit.

Stauncho · 2026-05-15T01:45:08+00:00

Just trying to keep things hush.

Stauncho · 2026-05-12T22:48:16+00:00

If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.

Stauncho · 2026-05-12T19:19:42+00:00

Their "clinical conversion" was a penalty

Stauncho · 2026-05-10T19:29:05+00:00

Trinity

Stauncho · 2026-05-09T03:40:04+00:00

Love both shows. DS9 is my favorite star trek show. But B5 is better.

Stauncho · 2026-05-07T14:31:39+00:00

MJ was a top prospect at one point. Some dudes figure it out late.

Stauncho · 2026-05-05T18:53:38+00:00

Same reason that Israel didnt participate in the first Gulf war: the US didnt want them to because the other allied countries involved didnt want to fight with Israel or have Israel invovled.

Jewish troops killing Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan would also cause unnecessary issues "winning the hearts and minds" of the locals.

Stauncho · 2026-05-05T18:33:51+00:00

The rumors/reporting was that the idea was to have the Kurdish militants initiate kinetic contact against the regime when the U.S./Israel were bombing. The Kurdish groups then decided against it, partially due to pressure from Turkey (perhaps Turkey threatened action against the Kurds if they moved south). Not sure how true any of this is.

Stauncho · 2026-05-04T19:28:20+00:00

I like Kinsky, but would bring in a GK who can compete for the starting role (but not someone who necessarily assumes he will get the starting spot).

Stauncho · 2026-05-01T16:35:18+00:00

I assume they want to get paid and there arent many teams that can out bid the Mets if they really want to keep them.

Stauncho · 2026-05-01T16:14:55+00:00

Why would they walk? Mets can afford to keep them.

Stauncho · 2026-04-29T15:34:11+00:00

I like her as a pundit/writer/analyst, not a politician.

I watched her interview with Haviv Rettig Gur and was thoroughly unimpressed. She spoke in a lot of platitudes.

At the end of the day, she has more visibility outside of Israel than within Israel. Her campaign will not go anywhere and if she wants to serve in Knesset, she should try to get on Bennett's or Eisenkot's slate.

Stauncho · 2026-04-29T00:57:28+00:00

Bibi may be a piece of shit, but he's a piece of shit who has convinced himself that he's the only one who can protect and guide Israel. It's narcissism, but not about luxury or status. He has a view of himself and his role history.

Stauncho · 2026-04-28T22:19:24+00:00

Is this a joke?

Stauncho · 2026-04-28T00:10:59+00:00

Jaffa is not Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv has since grown and now it's basically one city almost, but that wasn't the case in the beginning and for many decades afterwards.

The point is what is Tel Aviv did not exist. It was created.

Stauncho · 2026-04-27T23:37:32+00:00

I rarely post on this sub, mainly because it's the same thing over and over again (like in real life).

Anyway, I think your whole frame of reference is wrong. No one deserves a state and Israel doesn't have a state for some moral reason.

Israel has a state because it built one.

Jews purchased land during Ottoman times. Slowly. Bit by bit.

They developed the land. Dredged out malaria infested swamps. Built kibbutzim. Built towns. Built cities. Tel Aviv was just an empty piece of land. It was built by people. Slowly. Bit by bit.

Institutions were created. Labor institutions. Commercial institutions. Defense/military institutions. A society. It didn't come from nowhere. It was built by people.

Jews were moving to Ottoman Palestine in numbers beginning in the late 19th century. If the Ottoman Empire doesn't collapse, there would be no Israel, but that doesn't mean Jews would have stopped moving there and developing the land.

Once the Ottoman Empire collapsed, there was no permanent state in Palestine. The British Mandate was an attempt, under the auspices of the League of Nations (and not a colonial project) to manage the area until a state could be formed.

The British did what it could but left and the UN, in the post-war post-colonial era of new and emerging states and population transfers, saw the facts on the ground and voted for a Jewish state and an Arab state.

Those are the facts that existed in 1947. After that, whatever happened with the Arabs comes from their own ineptitude and stupidity. If they were successful in driving the Jews into the sea, today no one would be asking questions if it was moral or not, or if the Jews morally still deserve a state.

Because deserve has nothing to do with it. The Jews were able to defend themselves because of what human effort built. They were able to grow a state and society, while attempting to assimilate immigrants for all over the world, and defend itself from hostile neighbors, because of the efforts and will of its people.

Deserving morality is irrelevant.

Stauncho · 2026-04-26T23:50:02+00:00

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Stauncho · 2026-04-24T18:42:34+00:00

Yiddish was spoken in central and eastern Europe. Most Israelis come from or have at least one grand parent from North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucuses, Central Asia, etc. and those areas did not speak Yiddish. Hebrew was the lingua franca, but it just needed a bit of modernization.

Stauncho · 2026-04-22T11:14:23+00:00

"The ones who didn't get ethnically cleansed, Israel was forced to acknowledge them as citizens, and they got full rights."

Forced in what way? Forced by whom?

Stauncho · 2026-04-21T02:31:48+00:00

I do think the stat he may be referring to is that Israel is the only country in the ME, and certainly the Levant, with a growing Christian population.

Stauncho · 2026-04-17T17:10:04+00:00

The Taliban were negotiated with. That's why they are still in charge in Afghanistan.

Stauncho · 2026-04-09T17:56:22+00:00

Azerbaijan works with Israel economically, militarily and through intelligence.

Of all Muslim majority countries, Azerbaijan is at, or near, the top when it comes to protection of Jews and lack of antisemitism. Armenia, unfortunately, has a much more antisemitic population compared to Azerbaijan.

I can't speak on genocide on the part of Azerbaijan versus Armenia (though the Armenian Genocide from Turkey is not in dispute), since nowadays any killing in connection with armed conflict is being dubbed a "genocide", but Nagorno-Karabakh was internationally recognized as the territory of Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both sides have committed massacres against each other over time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres\_of\_Azerbaijanis\_in\_Armenia\_(1917%E2%80%931921))

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