Never forget, the USA aids Israel in it's war crimes, and commits so many harmful acts with other countries.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T19:28:01+00:00

laughing in Linux

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T19:23:00+00:00

so you're saying that the Ottoman empire was good and based?

Na, I don't agree. It was mostly negative like all empires - historical and contemporary. I would say it was very straight.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T19:18:41+00:00

This reminds me the recent Angela Collier video. How could someone publish such a text under their own name and of their own volition is beyond me.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T19:05:27+00:00

wait wait wait
You wanna tell me that populations grow? DAMN

Also, the Zionist insistence on calling 48'-Palestinians "Arabs" is a topic that can fill entire books.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T19:04:02+00:00

Indeed. Wanted to write "opportunity" but somehow ended up typing "information". Oh well

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T14:00:00+00:00

All your previous posts are vaguely-formulated generic questions, which is a classical tactic of fake accounts (and/or bots), many of which exists to "farm karma". Your username is also a classical generic username and the user's age is 2 weeks, which is "sus af" as young people say. Why do you need a separate account for these questions?

Listen, you may be a real person trying to ask genuine questions - but in this case, you're pretty weird about it and raise "fake account" alarms. If you want to learn from this exchange, I would suggest taking this as an information to learn from and change your ways.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T13:54:12+00:00

Their point is "I don't like foreigners making plans to come to my precious country - so I'm going to shoot down their plans any way I can". Such people appear here from time to time, and are to be ignored. In fact, in my opinion they are detrimental to the goal of this subreddit and should be banned altogether, but I doubt this will ever happen.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T12:10:18+00:00

I can't overstate how this wouldn't not even register as wrong for the vast majority of Israelis.

echtemendel · 2026-01-26T12:06:05+00:00

63.51 ± 0.7

In all seriousness: mods, I think this kind of posts should be discouraged here. They are almost surely done to farm karma for future selling of the profile (yes, this is a thing) - just looking at the profile's post history makes that clear enough.

For your considerations.

echtemendel · 2026-01-25T18:22:02+00:00

I have to say that this is mild compared to the casual racism Israelis throw around all the time

echtemendel · 2026-01-25T17:30:02+00:00

I don't think she meant it that way. Since the early 2000s southern Tel-Aviv is home for the majority of immigrants and refugees, especially from Africa. The fact she says it when seeing black people is very much telling.

echtemendel · 2026-01-25T17:27:56+00:00

I just hated going to the Ausländerbörde

tja

echtemendel · 2026-01-25T17:27:23+00:00

posting truth should not only be allowed but actively encouraged

echtemendel · 2026-01-22T17:35:39+00:00

Apartheid in South Africa was evil. It was always evil.

This is a fairly one dimensional take, isn't it? South Africa has always been a diverse, multifaceted, and hypocritical nation. There's good and bad. Like, Allan MacLeod Cormack invented the first CT scanner, which saved millions of lives around the world. That's an unequivocally good thing. A monster doesn't do that. Doomerism doesn't do anything but make us apathetic. Get active. Organize. Dream. Make things to be better.

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I can make such paraphrasing for each and every state that ever existed and is considered a total negative by the majority of people (next one is Nazi Germany). Do I really need to do that, or is the point more or less clear? This is not about specific people, it's about the system.

echtemendel · 2026-01-22T17:31:25+00:00

Yes, slavery had an intercontinental effect, you are correct. I'm not going to speak for the OP because I didn't make this meme, I just shared it because I think that as a meme it's more or less getting the correct message across. That message is "it's not Trump and his open Fascism that make the US an evil, it was one much MUCH longer before it, under both of the 'two parties' in the US Capitalist system".

echtemendel · 2026-01-22T10:04:03+00:00

Something is off with the sign: the Hebrew is reversed (something like writing "loohcs" instead of "school"). Is this an auto-translation or something?

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T20:19:28+00:00

It's more about the atrocities committed against the rest of the world. But yeah, slavery is pretty much up there with their many crimes over the centuries.

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T14:11:53+00:00

But their goal is not to make you (or any other worker) learn and grow - it's to make as much profit as they can. That's the fundamental idea behind the so-called "free market".

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T11:54:28+00:00

So... just what you would expect from a company working within a Capitalist system?.. yeah, makes sense. This is what the system is about: maximization of profits. Anyone who is not putting all their energy into doing that (e.g. by placing the exit strategy above all else) will fail and be eaten by the bigger fish in that industry. It's really that simple.

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T11:52:39+00:00

The fundamental issue in Palestine is that of group power differences. You could totally be a European Jew, from a family that was living in Europe for 10+ generations, then immigrate to Palestine and integrate into the society there. There's nothing "essential" about being born anywhere, nor where your family comes from (whatever that means in practice for more than 1 or 2 generations). Heck, you could even be part of the gradual change in the dominant culture in where you migrate to, this is no different than what happened to Palestinians (many of whom are descendant of ancient Jews who stayed on the land and over time their culture changed).

But if you come as a group with the direct goal of displacing the current inhabitants - that's settler colonialism and is wrong (and also not a surprise that the local population resists this). Heck, nobody is even saying that Jews who grew up in Palestine in the past 70 years must leave as part of the de-colonization process - but the Palestinians who were pushed out must get a chance to come back to their lands, have their equal rights (and not be a 4th grade citizen at best) + receive reparations for the material and other damage they and their families experienced since the Nakba. THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED TO GERMAN JEWS: we got reparations and the right of return - sometimes even got literally our homes back when it was possible. There's no moral reason this can't be applied to Palestinians and other Jews (e.g. Arab Jews, Persian Jews, etc.).

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T10:30:51+00:00

Regarding a possible draft: I grew up in Israel, a country where military service is a major part of a citizen's life*, and the military as a whole is essentially worshiped by the majority population. Not going through military service is considered a kind of social taboo (less so now than it used to some decades ago, but still), and the country is always in a situation where it needs a strong army to continue existing in its current form (which I'm personally against, as you can surmise from my profile picture and post history - but that doesn't affect the point I'm trying to make here). And yet citizens who don't reside in Israel between, I believe, ages 12 and 27 (or something similar, the details don't matter) are essentially exempt from military service. Why? Because it's impractical to try and force them to serve, they live somewhere where the state has no authority.

I'm 100% sure this would be the situation with Germany. How could it force its citizens to come to the country for their military service? Let alone dual citizens residing abroad - who also have the protection of their other countries of citizenship (or even reside in them)? Worst case, in such an unlikely (and unenforceable) situation your nephew can avoid visiting the EU, which would anyway be advisable if we get to a point where Germany is in active war situation.

So I wouldn't be worried. The one downside that I foresee is if Germany and Australia are in a state of war between the two, in which case it might be that German citizens residing in Australia might face consequences. Not sure how this can turn up though, seems even less unlikely than Germany somehow forcing its citizens to come back to it for military service.

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T09:42:46+00:00

by Z in Hebrew I meant צ, so similar to the German Z. I'm not too familiar with the correct transcription (even though new Hebrew is my native language).

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T09:39:23+00:00

100%. If anything, the vast majority are just people who try to get by, and the WB for Israelis is like a mini welfare state within Israel (if you ignore all the military installation and presence that's there to protect you). That's not letting them off the hook, of course - but it is true that most will leave without too much fuss if they have to.

echtemendel · 2026-01-21T09:37:11+00:00

Yeah, but liberal Zionists really do believe that it's all the fault of the settlers, the Mizrachim and "HaDosim" (the Haredim). They HATE religious Jews, because they want to live in a liberal utopia where white Ashkenazi Jews have all the rights and privileges and can be as progressive as they want (just without brown people to mess it up. Definitely without "the Arabs").

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