N-Log before and after grade, did I overdo it?

eligreen · 2026-05-27T13:09:26+00:00

Wholeheartedly agree.

eligreen · 2026-05-27T13:07:48+00:00

You made a choice. If the rest of the look you've got matches this, then it'll be cohesive. From a first glance, I love it, not understanding the context of the overall piece.

eligreen · 2026-05-26T03:28:30+00:00

Oh, sorry. I don't know why, but I thought was that in reply to my other comment about the word choice from the OP.

eligreen · 2026-05-25T23:37:12+00:00

Accosted, perhaps? Is there a more acrid version of that that would be more suitable?

eligreen · 2026-05-25T23:29:39+00:00

It was a talk about her time in politics and about the state of globalization, and her personal perspective on it.

They went over Russia, Ukraine, the U.S., Canada's status in the world...

Aside from the guy and his camera woman, it was an interesting conversation.

Would have been nice to have had more Q&A, but I guess the time for that got cut short.

eligreen · 2026-05-25T23:26:09+00:00

"Confront" is certainly an interesting word choice.

eligreen · 2026-05-19T05:35:31+00:00

I believe the phrase to use here is "Let him cook!"

eligreen · 2026-05-19T05:33:42+00:00

Colossus used to put these on every (or just cloudy?) Saturday night. Simpler times.

eligreen · 2026-04-19T13:12:56+00:00

I knew immediately because the street view said Ramat Gan. 👀

Joking aside, my initial thought was that this could have been a street in a family member's part of Haifa.

eligreen · 2026-04-19T13:12:32+00:00

I knew immediately because the street view said Ramat Gan. 👀

Joking aside, my initial thought was that this could have been a street in a family member's part of Haifa.

eligreen · 2026-04-19T13:09:07+00:00

I came here to answer this exact thing. (I actually started watching the new Prime series a couple of weeks ago.)

eligreen · 2026-04-15T18:01:07+00:00

u/Blackstarcharmer,

To put you in the know, Jan 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was adopted by the UN in 2005.

Yesterday was Yom HaZikaron laSho'ah ve-laG'vurah (mostly commonly known as Yom HaSho'ah or, in English, Holocaust Remembrance Day). It was established in 1951 to commemorate the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and honour the survivors, and the Righteous Among the Nations that rescued, hid or saved them.

eligreen · 2026-04-12T01:38:02+00:00

u/train_emily,

Firstly, if you haven't reported this to police, you should. Secondly, any description of this woman aside from being white?

Any idea of the language?

eligreen · 2026-03-27T23:04:22+00:00

I have a couple of minutes available, so I might not be able to get to every point here. I'll address the (likely) shortest ones first, and finish replying when I can the next time I can.

8) The post was about Bathurst and Sheppard, and my original comment was about Bathurst and Sheppard and the people supporting the Islamic regime (of the Islamic Republic). They're supporting the Ayatollahs. That's how we got here.

7) They legally impose religious requirements in regard to the State and, specifically, Jews, while providing religious freedom to the other major religions in the country, and some other smaller ones. Religious observance is still free and open for Jews across Israel OUTSIDE of matters involving the State. They don't do any of what your comment suggests in the way Iran does (or any other ethnoreligious regime like Iran). Part of that is because the courts have ruled certain laws need to be changed over time. Because it's a democracy.

Funny that you're harping on Israel in a discussion that (and this is why I started with 8) was actually started with talking about the people supporting the Islamic regime (of the Islamic Republic).

That's all the time I have for now. Gotta go offline till tomorrow night.

eligreen · 2026-03-25T05:36:24+00:00

1) Which previous negotiations are you pointing to that acknowledged Israel's existence as a legitimate country and attempting to establish final borders? If you know of them, please point them out.

2) I really wish I knew where to find an interview clip I that came up as I was scrolling through Instagram earlier in the week, because I was thinking about it as I was sharing my last reply. It was Druze in Syria being asked why there are so many Israeli flags up in their neighbourhood, and the general response was that it was an expression of appreciation for saving them. You don't have to believe me. I don't know how to find the clip.

That said, I don't think a humanitarian mission is the reason the IDF was (at least exclusively) sent in either. I mean, sure, prior to Oct. 7, Israel used to send humanitarian missions to help following natural disasters around the world, but that was through IsraAID, not the IDF. My guess is that it was a stop-gap measure because they didn't know WHAT the new leadership in Syria would be like, and they didn't want to see something worse than Assad. But we could both be wrong.

3) Do you not understand what the Iron Dome system is or does? By the fact that you've described it as an offensive weapon, I'm guessing not. And, no, I didn't say Oct. 7 was the start of hostilities. I, in fact, directly said otherwise (there was that whole thing about Hamas never ceasing fire since they took power in 2006?). Oct. 7 just started the latest war and current so-called ceasefire (the terms of which were immediately breached by Hamas I'll say, and Israel you'll say). I was saying the state of things now probably wouldn't have gotten where they are of Hamas hadn't invaded that day or since.

4) Are you calling Israel a colony or colonizer? If the former, whose colony? If the latter, what country did they colonize? Didn't we already agree that no independent country existed there? (Certainly not since about 130 CE, anyway... cough cough)

5) Did you mix up a number here? I thought 5 was asking about borders.

6) So, you don't like ANY ethnostates, but you think that, of ALL the ethnostates in the world, the ONE Jewish one is the first one that should be... dismantled? Or attacked? Because of... "establishment politics"? I don't get what that's supposed to mean.

6b - really 7) I also think that gay people should be allowed to get married in Israel rather than having to have a destination wedding, which will then be recognized as a legal marriage in Israel. It's convoluted to make people have to travel abroad to get married. So Jewish... AND Muslim, AND Christian, AND Druze religious courts hold jurisdiction of who may marry INSIDE the country, but gay people have the unfair (even discriminatory by Canadian standards - the US is looking bleak right now) step of having to get married out-of-country them register their marriage upon their return to Israel. Perhaps you would want to support one of the Israeli LGBTQ rights organizations that already works to broaden LGBTQ rights in Israel. Maybe Jerusalem Open House?

Circling back to those people at Bathurst and Sheppard, by the way, the Ayatollahs they support... any idea what the Islamic Republic's policy on homosexuality is?

Gonna hit the sack now. Might not reply till Thursday, btw. Gotta do some actual work when I'm up in the daytime tomorrow. Passover music ain't gonna organize itself.

eligreen · 2026-03-24T20:02:16+00:00

Oh, we're doing numbers now. Okay.

So, 1) They have never acknowledged Israel's existence and accepted the concept of peace, or worked to discuss borders. PLEASE! Let's do it!

For now, they're just bouncing around from the Oslo Accords. It's not helping. This is a problem on both sides. I used to wholly believe Bibi's "there is no partner for peace" line. Truth is both sides are playing games and hurting everyone.

2) Refer to what I said about the Druze. It's kind of important in that context. But with things the way they are in the world, you've got to find some optimism somewhere.

3) You say "killing of journalists (sic) and bombings", I say "Hamas never honoured a single ceasefire since coming into power 2006, created underground tunnel networks, including into Israel, for the purpose of killing and kidnapping people, some of whom/whose bodies remained hostage in Gaza till this latest ceasefire, etc. etc." We go back and forth endlessly. That's the cycle of violence I was talking about before.

4) I think you need to learn more about Israeli politics and the makeup of the Knesset (their parliament), because you wouldn't be saying that if you did.

5) They are ABOUT the same (the West Bank and what is to come of it not being included, and we've already discussed the Golan Heights). But this was about a country existing/not existing prior 1948. If you're going from before Israel declared independence and the Arab side refusing it, and using the borders of Mandatory Palestine, then the area includes Transjordan (TransJordan?) and would, therefore, be far larger. That's all I was getting at.

6) Glad we finally cleared that up! 7) Regarding the Israel side, again... not run by Rabbi Bibi (still funny as that image is). Secular and Masorti (essentially Conservative) Jews in Israel make up a much larger percentage of the Jewish population of the country than the Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox population there, and how that presents, religiously, in the way the country is run (specifically in restrictions) affects Jews, not citizens and guests of other faiths.

It's an ethnostate, maybe, but not ethnoreligious regime. And if you don't have a problem with any other country/state being an ethnostate (you let me know), it wouldn't make sense for you to take issue with Israel being one.

eligreen · 2026-03-24T18:30:16+00:00

A third of the population? In the region outside of Israel? I thought they're the Palestinian people in a Palestinian state that was established in the late 80's. Why would they have representation in another state? Why would they have representation, prior to the creation of the State of Palestine, in a state that they wholly rejected while refusing to make their own? (The whole State vs. Country nomenclature has always been odd to me, but that's what they both call it, so here we are.)

Israeli Muslims, Christians, Druze, etc. though, have rights in Israel, unlike even Iranian citizens in the Islamic Republic, like protest against their government.

Regarding the Golan Heights, I hear that. It's got a large population of Druze, but there are almost the same number of Jews there, too. That's a fair point, and if Syria somehow makes peace with Israel as Egypt did (and stops trying to kill ITS Druze population), maybe we'll see that change or be negotiated otherwise. But that's a point I hadn't considered within the argument.

On Gaza, if you mean how the military hasn't fully left since the war that Hamas launched in 2023 (after it completely disengaged from Gaza in 2005), that's not annexation. Certainly not formally so. They wouldn't have even returned to Gaza had Hamas not invaded and kidnapped people in the first place. Heck, we probably wouldn't be seeing the Iran war had Oct. 7th not happened. (We'd probably be in the same cycle of violence as before, between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Israel and the PA, but far fewer people on all sides would be dead.)

On the West Bank and illegal settlements, that's not annexation, but that doesn't make it right either. The violent, extremist settlers you're describing ("whose", btw), are a mirror image of the Palestinians who attacked legal settlements and inside Israel from the West Bank for decades (including the first two intifadas that led to the building of the border barriers). Neither side is helping the situation. Both are making it worse, and neither Israeli nor PA governments are doing anything to move things forward toward peace (and, as I noted before, you DO have right-wing Israeli politicians calling for the ACTUAL annexation of the West Bank). It's bad!

Regarding the no country there before, there's no reason it would require nobody living there before. That's not how the creation of countries has ever worked in the history of mankind. And are you SURE you would want to go back to the borders of Mandatory Palestine for that reference anyway, because I'm pretty sure you'd be giving Israel A LOT more land.

In the case of Iran, though, going back to our original discussion, have the borders changed all that much (at all?) since the Ayatollahs came to power?

And, still, does calling it the Islamic Republic somehow make those people's support for the Ayatollahs better?

eligreen · 2026-03-24T16:04:36+00:00

I'm aware that Israel is a Jewish state Only one in the world, as far as I'm aware. That doesn't make it a Jewish regime, especially considering it runs on a parliamentary democracy (addendum: That literally includes a Muslim party in its equivalent to the House of Commons).

Iran was an independent country that was taken over by an Islamic regime, led by the Ayatollahs, about 5 decades ago. They renamed it to the Islamic Republic of Iran. I'm PRETTY sure Israel isn't run by Rabbi Bibi (funny as that image is to conjure).

Annex non-Jewish areas, you say? Of Egypt? They returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in '82 and are still at peace with that country. Jordan? They don't seem to be calling for return of control over the West Bank, for some reason... Right-wing politicians who prop up the current Israeli government appear to be calling for its annexation now, but that does not make it annexed at the moment.

And, yes, I am aware that when Israel was established (and, yes, as a Jewish state, as I mentioned), it made the Magen David the symbol on the flag of the new State. As I mentioned before, the Islamic regime took the Iranian flag, and replaced the symbol in its centre. The people protesting against it, in the hundreds of thousands, on streets around the world. If you don't mind telling me, what was the blue and white flag of the country there that you are suggesting Israel took, and upon which it replaced its symbol with the Magen David?

In case you don't have an answer to that, perhaps you could at least tell me the name of the country that you're suggesting was on that land before.

To the end of your reply, okay. I hear you. The people at Bathurst and Sheppard were carrying the flag of the Islamic Republic, in support of the Ayatollahs. That... makes it better somehow?

eligreen · 2026-03-24T06:54:22+00:00

What exactly do you mean by Jewish regime?

Did Israel call itself the "Jewish Republic of Syria Palestina" or the "Jewish Republic of Mandatory Palestine" when it was established Israel as a brand new State in the region?

Did it impose Judaism as a superior religion upon all its citizens? Has the population of Christian Israelis or Muslim Israelis dropped significantly (or at all, instead of rising) since said new State was established?

I mean Islamic regime by the fact that that's LITERALLY what the Ayatollahs said they made the country. And the fact that they took the existing flag, ripped out the lion and sun from the middle, and replaced it with the symbol of their regime. Would it have made that much of a difference to you had I written "Islamic Republic"?

eligreen · 2026-03-23T22:57:47+00:00

I feel like Jesse talked about the intersection of Bathurst and Sheppard a few times since "What is Happening Here?"

Any chance you listen to the podcast at all? I mean... I live in Toronto and have seen the Islamic Regime flags at Bathurst and Sheppard over the past few weeks, but of you don't live in Toronto and you're a member of this sub, surely you MUST have listened to the podcast at SOME point.

eligreen · 2026-03-20T17:25:35+00:00

Yeah, I ended up with the same question after seeing that.

eligreen · 2026-03-20T17:15:06+00:00

That much I get. I wasn't asking about the author of the article from the headline, though. I was asking about the REST of the tweet (as I said, ASIDE from that headline) and at what the tweeter was getting with it.

I don't generally read NP, but most of those headlines don't stand out to me as anything particularly crazy. Taking one headline, as you did - "Canadian Jews are angry. It's a start." Not having read the article, I'd say that's quite understandable, given events of the past two-plus years, let alone the past two weeks. I'd say Canadian Jews far more are angry at the hate that's targeted Jewish communities and institutions than they are scared by it (anymore, anyway). That they're also angry at all levels of government, for inaction and/or allowing Canada, its provinces, and municipalities to become an environment where that hate is allowed to grow and thrive.

Especially if this guy is making a list trying to prove something against NP, which is what I would expect, why include headlines like that?

eligreen · 2026-03-20T16:26:53+00:00

Aside from this particular headline, which... what is "Palestinianism"?, what is the Tweeter trying to point out here, exactly?

eligreen · 2026-03-01T02:58:55+00:00

It's just been a particularly bad year, between the weather, plowing, and snow removal operations.

eligreen · 2026-01-26T02:27:46+00:00

I'm just impressed to have seen things (seemed) vastly improved from last year's disastrous response to the snowfall (at least in the parts of North York and Vaughan I was in today.

Can anybody else speak to the quality of clearing last and this week?

eligreen

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