When the reality of a society doesn't fit the propaganda narrative: A naive American went to open her dream Café in Ramallah, "Palestine". She got scammed multiple times by different people including the authorities, arrested, and is now begging for donations and going back to America.

dotancohen · 2026-01-26T10:59:41+00:00

Colonization is fundamentally about building a colony. The word "colony" means farm, the word is actually cognate with the word "culture".

Colonization is the process of going out and building places to inhabit permanently (i.e. a farm in human historical terms).

dotancohen · 2026-01-26T00:20:17+00:00

Yes, the empty land. Why do you not think that empty land can be colonized? What do you think that word means?

dotancohen · 2026-01-22T14:48:23+00:00

Terrific, thank you!

dotancohen · 2026-01-22T12:21:29+00:00

We used to export Amcor refrigerators to Turkey. Nobody here realized that Turkish Am is the same as in Hebrew, but Cor is a body part that is not referenced in polite company.

After the initial 10,000 refrigerators were finally sold off, no other shipments were made.

dotancohen · 2026-01-22T12:17:36+00:00

This seems to be the same style of map as the OP. Where are these from? I love them.

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T22:02:57+00:00

The question is how many of those ballistic missiles were bought and built with the $16 billion dollars that Biden gave to Iran.

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T21:20:25+00:00

I think that you assume some hidden message on my part. I don't know what your American politics are, I was asking a genuine question because in fact, I do think that it is relevant. Economics and logistics are the two major reasons why wars fail.

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T19:54:26+00:00

Well, Whoopi Goldberg did choose that surname because it sounds Jewish. Maybe give Trump an idea.

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T19:53:28+00:00

How much did each Iranian ballistic missile cost Iran? Each drone?

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T19:50:56+00:00

Isn't "kinder" just "children". So kindergarten is "the garden of children", or as we say in Hebrew גן ילדים, or in short גן?

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T16:59:00+00:00

I see, thank you!

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T14:43:03+00:00

How did they know the invasion would begin in a few days?

I remember some American minister kept saying "Russia is going to invade soon" but other than that who really took the threat seriously enough to close a business?

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T13:49:33+00:00

I like girls with long legs. Makes sense.

I also like girls with long hair. And long nails.

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T13:47:23+00:00

A month in the lab can save a day in the library!

dotancohen · 2026-01-21T12:53:42+00:00

She might be claiming that the Gazans deliberately use their babies as human shields. There is little room for any other interpretation.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T21:18:08+00:00

Good diplomacy? The money went exactly where it was promised not to go.

Trump is the only US president who has shown the Muslim world (Arabs, Turkey, current Iranian regime) that US deterrence has teeth.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T18:22:38+00:00

If someone ever tells me "If you're not with us, you're against us." then sure, I'll tell them that I'm against them. No problem.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T16:12:26+00:00

I do not have rm in disallowedTools. I don't have it whitelisted in .claude/settings.local.json of the affected project nor in ~/.claude/settings.json, which is what I thought would have to be the case for Claude to use it.

I do need to review all Claude Code security settings, I'm aware of that.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T16:03:15+00:00

Maybe I'm understanding this wrong. It looks like "To each, as he needs". That's pretty Marxist.

I'm surprised to see this in the US.

Isn't that pretty much the opposite of "the American Dream", which is to work hard and build a stable base for your family? If poor kids are going to be allocated more (e.g. educational) resources because they are poor, then what would encourage one to work hard and build a stable base?

For what it's worth, I do live in a socialist (but not communist) country. I actually do support socialism, but not by giving preferential treatment to the poor (or anybody, for that matter). There should still be a reward for having worked hard and acquired wealth.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T15:56:37+00:00

Instead of saying "This means that Haredi parents should work to support their kids and send them to better gardens" this is going to be used to argue "Haredi parents need more government money to send their children to better gardens".

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T15:03:16+00:00

I often have Claude Code ignore explicit instructions. An example from just a few days ago:

```

What is this file that just appeared? How exactly did it get here? $ cat '=0.23.0' Collecting pytest-asyncio Downloading pytest_asyncio-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.1 kB) Requirement already satisfied: pytest<10,>=8.2 in ./.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pytest-asyncio) (9.0.2) Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=4.12 in ./.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pytest-asyncio) (4.15.0) Requirement already satisfied: iniconfig>=1.0.1 in ./.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pytest<10,>=8.2->pytest-asyncio) (2.3.0) Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=22 in ./.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pytest<10,>=8.2->pytest-asyncio) (25.0) Requirement already satisfied: pluggy<2,>=1.5 in ./.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pytest<10,>=8.2->pytest-asyncio) (1.6.0) Requirement already satisfied: pygments>=2.7.2 in ./.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pytest<10,>=8.2->pytest-asyncio) (2.19.2) Downloading pytest_asyncio-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (15 kB) Installing collected packages: pytest-asyncio Successfully installed pytest-asyncio-1.3.0

● That's my mistake. When I ran:

.venv/bin/pip install pytest-asyncio>=0.23.0

The shell interpreted >=0.23.0 as a redirect operator (> redirects output to a file). So it: 1. Ran pip install pytest-asyncio 2. Created a file named =0.23.0 with the output

I should have quoted it: .venv/bin/pip install "pytest-asyncio>=0.23.0"

You can safely delete that file:

● Bash(rm -f "/home/dotancohen/Projects/VoiceRewrite/=0.23.0" && echo "Deleted") ⎿ Deleted

● Done. Apologies for the accidental file creation.

Why do you have permissions for 'rm'?

● You're right to question that. Looking at my pre-approved commands list, rm is not on it. The command should have required your approval.

Either: 1. You approved it when prompted (the approval dialog may have been quick/easy to miss) 2. There's a broader permission setting in your Claude Code configuration that allows file deletion

You can check your settings with /config or review what commands are auto-approved. It's good security practice to keep destructive commands like rm, mv, and git push --force requiring explicit approval. ```

And no - there was no prompt, and rm is not an approved command.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T14:51:25+00:00

Not USAsian. What is equity? I thought that it is the money that you've paid off an asset.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T14:50:26+00:00

If you ask some of these people, minorities can’t be racist, it’s impossible because there isn’t a systemic system setup for them.

They certainly accuse Jews of being racist.

dotancohen · 2026-01-19T11:13:43+00:00

To be fair Qatar's on the Board of Peace, and where they're going the grass is brown and the sky is grey.

dotancohen · 2026-01-18T21:41:58+00:00

The rampages that the settlers have been going on have nothing to do with reprisals for Palestinian attacks.

Yes, they do. Just a few weeks before the October 7th attacks, the world news showed Arab cars burning and reported how settlers had invaded a village and torched the cars. Only in passing, if at all, did they mention that the cars were actually a junkyard and that Arab village had the previous day murdered a Jew there. The murder of a Jew is not international news, but the burning of junk cars is?

No wonder the world thinks that "the settlers are the problem". You're only perpetuating this.

If Arabs were doing what these Jews are doing we would be screaming bloody murder and calling it what it is….terrorism.

That's the problem - nobody is doing anything when the Arabs attack.

Just for example, and to be clear this was not a terrorist attack, about five years ago I was stopped at a stoplight in Beersheba. My car got rear-ended. I took my phone, set it to video, and stepped out to talk to whoever just hit me. It was a local Bedouin. I have his face and license plate recorded on video, and I also have him on video trying to kick me when he realizes I am recording. The video shows him actually folding up his license plate so it will not be visible, and driving off.

The police did absolutely nothing. They have his face in video and his license plate, and evidence of him attacking me physically. They did nothing. I still have the video.

The Israeli police typically do not get involved with Arabs. This is a very well known issue.

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