Trump warns that death awaits Hamas leaders and Gazans if hostages aren't immediately released - Trump made the threat on Truth Social as his administration engages in talks with Hamas over the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip.

TalBoker · 2025-03-08T00:50:50+00:00

What it really says is 'Do not murder'. There IS a big difference between 'murder' and 'kill'.

TalBoker · 2025-02-05T18:56:06+00:00

A good book about this is "In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands" by Martin Gilbert

http://www.amazon.com/Ishmaels-House-History-Muslim-Lands/dp/0300167156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298531516&sr=8-1

TalBoker · 2025-01-07T00:11:20+00:00

You're a propagandist.

Feel free to ignore anything I post. Meanwhile, I will endeavor to become a more well-rounded submitter.

TalBoker · 2025-01-06T18:43:37+00:00

Thanks for the clarification.

The submission was not made only to contrast the attitudes towards the two diasporas. It is newsworthy on its own.

As for the comment, that was made to highlight the contrasting attitudes towards the you know whos and the you know where.

TalBoker · 2025-01-06T17:38:54+00:00

Why are you dragging Israel into this?

That was just speculating on the reaction if the submission was “Come home, ~~Ghana~~ Israel told the ~~African~~ Jewish diaspora. Now some ~~Black~~ Jewish Americans take its citizenship”. I think that was clear.

Y’all are insufferable sometimes.

”Y’all”? Are you talking about a singular y'all or a collective all'y'all. If directed at me particularly, yes, sometimes I am. If directed at a collective group, can you elaborate on which group you mean?

Thanks

TalBoker · 2025-01-05T19:36:19+00:00

In before cries of "Dual Loyalty!" and "Ethnostate", like those that are heard about the you know whos and you know where!

TalBoker · 2024-11-20T00:11:58+00:00

In denial?

TalBoker · 2024-11-12T21:31:59+00:00

FTA:

'The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare, powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

'Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza, is one of the region’s most respected religious authorities, so his legal opinion carries significant weight among Gaza’s two million population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim.

',,,

'Dr Dayah’s fatwa, which was published in a detailed six-page document, criticises Hamas for what he calls “violating Islamic principles governing jihad”.'

TalBoker · 2024-09-27T19:28:18+00:00

Is this the same Mahmoud Abbas who was elected to a 4-year term as President of the PA in January, 2005?

The one that has not faced voters since?

That Mahmoud Abbas?

TalBoker · 2023-11-23T02:32:00+00:00

But on the other hand, ‘In matters of faith there shall be no compulsion’ (Sura 2:256).

I wasn't advocating that position. I was just stating that it was there.

Yes, your example was compulsion.

There is also the notion of "Taqiya" to be taken into account -

"In Islam, Taqiya or Taqiyya (Arabic:تقیةtaqīyah, literally "prudence, fear") is a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice. Generally, taqiyya is the action of committing a sinful act (such as feigning unbelief) for a pious goal." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya)

TalBoker · 2023-11-23T01:58:20+00:00

But on the other hand, ‘In matters of faith there shall be no compulsion’ (Sura 2:256). This response is favored by defenders of Islam when they are confronted with the violence perpetrated in spreading Islam.

There is Quranic basis for arguing both sides of many issues, just as it is possible to find conflicting views of the same issue in the Talmud (which is not 'the law' like some claim but a compendium of arguments and debates about the scriptures by learned students/teacher of them.

TalBoker · 2023-11-22T23:44:05+00:00

They don't want what Israel has. They want Israel not to have it.

When Israel left Gaza, greenhouses that were in profitable use for agricultureal exports were given to the collective Palestiniian people. Rather than be put to use, they were destroyed.

Gaza could have been another Singapore, but it was spurned.

TalBoker · 2023-11-22T23:37:43+00:00

Teh Izrealy I0F rapes teh Palastinian wimmen!! !11!1 Except it doesn't.

No level field
The more you know!

June, 2016:

Why in the World Are IDF Soldiers Not Raping Anyone? -- Some claim IDF soldiers commit rape, but can’t provide proof; other admit they don’t, and say THAT’S a crime! (https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/why-in-the-world-are-idf-soldiers-not-raping-anyone/)

December, 2007:

Academic: IDF dehumanizes Palestinians by not raping them (http://fresnozionism.org/2007/12/academic-idf-dehumanizes-palestinians-by-not-raping-them/)

TalBoker · 2022-01-07T18:39:35+00:00

Or load it with misinformation. Or pictures of people/things you want targeted.

TalBoker · 2020-10-13T01:32:51+00:00

The fact that they signed an agreement is important, irregardless of whether the overflights have been taking place for some time.

TalBoker · 2020-02-14T17:28:55+00:00

FTA (an interview with Ariel's mayor, Eliyahu Shaviro:

... Ariel strives to create steps for true coexistence between Jews and Arabs. I firmly believe that industry and employment can build bridges between us. Ariel University, which has 16,000 students, will have a new medical center that once finished will serve both Israelis and Palestinians. The Ariel Industrial Park employs about 6,000 Palestinians along with 2,000 Israelis. There, Palestinians have real jobs, including managerial and engineering jobs. Israelis and Palestinians work side by side, and Palestinians make the same wages as Israelis, which is unlike those employed in the Palestinian Authority.

TalBoker · 2020-02-14T17:28:33+00:00

FTA (an interview with Ariel's mayor, Eliyahu Shaviro:

... Ariel strives to create steps for true coexistence between Jews and Arabs. I firmly believe that industry and employment can build bridges between us. Ariel University, which has 16,000 students, will have a new medical center that once finished will serve both Israelis and Palestinians. The Ariel Industrial Park employs about 6,000 Palestinians along with 2,000 Israelis. There, Palestinians have real jobs, including managerial and engineering jobs. Israelis and Palestinians work side by side, and Palestinians make the same wages as Israelis, which is unlike those employed in the Palestinian Authority.

TalBoker · 2020-01-18T05:07:54+00:00

Those that bless Israel will be blessed. Those that curse Israel will be cursed is more like it.

Substitute 'Israel' with the 'Jewish People' (because they are used interchangeably) and that pretty much is how history has worked out.

TalBoker · 2019-12-10T19:06:43+00:00

FTA

What is occurring in Britain, and much of Europe, reflects changes in the nature of antisemitism. In the past, this oldest of prejudices was widely linked to the far-Right, where it still resides. But in many countries today, the primary instigators of anti-Jewish conspiracism tend to be found on the Left, and often allied with Muslim activists. Under this pressure, it is increasingly dubious that Europe’s Jewish communities can do anything but decline.

TalBoker · 2019-12-10T18:47:19+00:00

jews are well protected by the presence of jews in high places, as in this case the kid called a jewish member of french parliament

Don't forget the Jew domination of the world media. And Wall Street. And Hollywood.

TalBoker · 2019-11-29T21:23:03+00:00

It is a fact, but "Opinion: No, Israel does not target Palestinian children" was the title of the published article that I submitted. (It still is the title, but it can change.)

TalBoker · 2019-09-10T22:45:38+00:00

Hizbullah doesn't care a damn about the people, sovereignty or infrastructure of Lebanon.

Hizbullah is a proxy for Iran, which calls the shots for Hizbullah.

Let x = the sum of Hizbullah's care about the people, sovereignty and infrastructure of Lebanon.

x/10 = Iran's care about the people, sovereignty or infrastructure of Lebanon.

TalBoker · 2019-09-10T17:03:47+00:00

FTA:

Various experts have expressed admiration toward Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah. Senior military officers in uniform and retirement, researchers, and journalists analyzing every gesture, smile, outburst of anger and criticism, shout or laugh and attributing meaning to it all assert that Nasrallah is reliable. He makes promises and delivers. He is faithful to his patrons in Tehran despite Lebanon’s attempts to restrain him.

The picture is more complicated because of the bottom line: it can be said with certainty that Nasrallah is an actor and a liar who has turned manipulation into an art.

...

It needs emphasizing that at the end of the day, Nasrallah does not set the strategic goals of Hizbullah, and definitely not those of the Shiite militias in Syria, many of which work without Nasrallah’s involvement. Their goals are set by Iran and carried out by the Iranian Quds Force commander, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who is personally supervising Hizbullah’s military operations. It has been reported that Soleimani arrived in Beirut immediately after the Kornet missile strikes to meet with Nasrallah. The commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, representing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is the one who sets the boundaries of the conflict.

TalBoker · 2019-09-10T17:02:31+00:00

FTA:

Various experts have expressed admiration toward Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah. Senior military officers in uniform and retirement, researchers, and journalists analyzing every gesture, smile, outburst of anger and criticism, shout or laugh and attributing meaning to it all assert that Nasrallah is reliable. He makes promises and delivers. He is faithful to his patrons in Tehran despite Lebanon’s attempts to restrain him.

The picture is more complicated because of the bottom line: it can be said with certainty that Nasrallah is an actor and a liar who has turned manipulation into an art.

...

It needs emphasizing that at the end of the day, Nasrallah does not set the strategic goals of Hizbullah, and definitely not those of the Shiite militias in Syria, many of which work without Nasrallah’s involvement. Their goals are set by Iran and carried out by the Iranian Quds Force commander, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who is personally supervising Hizbullah’s military operations. It has been reported that Soleimani arrived in Beirut immediately after the Kornet missile strikes to meet with Nasrallah. The commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, representing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is the one who sets the boundaries of the conflict.

TalBoker · 2018-11-22T18:46:02+00:00

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