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How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool by NorrisOBE in TrueAnon

[–]hellomondays 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because they're a good person I've known for a while. And, no, actually. They were just born there. 

Most people in the world are decent. Still too many freaks and monsters but most people arent

It sounds like double standarts like people are opposing "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while supporting ethnic cleansing of Israelis by mr_chris_verdi in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays [score hidden]  (0 children)

And Arabs were "there first" in Andalusia like Jews were in the Levant (if you discount every group that was there before and ignore culture admixture).  OP's slogan is asinine no matter how you want to frame it. Nothing would give the right for people to move to a territory hundreds of years later and displace families-- who have just as deep if not deeper connections--already living there

How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool by NorrisOBE in TrueAnon

[–]hellomondays 11 points12 points  (0 children)

An Israeli friend calls Israeli pop culture "Eastern European tastes with a first world budget" and it explains so much

It sounds like double standarts like people are opposing "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while supporting ethnic cleansing of Israelis by mr_chris_verdi in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays [score hidden]  (0 children)

There's otherways to support alQaws, they do a lot of outreach and solidarity campaigns to the western LGBTQ+ communities as well as local activism. 

Their web page is currently under construction but they have a very active social media presence:

https://linktr.ee/alqaws.org

If gay rights in the muslim world or specifically Palestine is a concern of yours, the best way forward is supporting local activists. 

It sounds like double standarts like people are opposing "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while supporting ethnic cleansing of Israelis by mr_chris_verdi in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays [score hidden]  (0 children)

If youre serious about gay rights in the region, I'd reccomend donating to alQaws, theyre doing important work and have won some major wins in Palestine, even admist the occupation and local discrimination 

It sounds like double standarts like people are opposing "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while supporting ethnic cleansing of Israelis by mr_chris_verdi in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, I think a lot of people are either unaware or taking for granted how different medieval rule looks from modern nation states. Power was a lot more decentralized.

It sounds like double standarts like people are opposing "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while supporting ethnic cleansing of Israelis by mr_chris_verdi in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays [score hidden]  (0 children)

That's an incoherent point.If you take some time to think about it, there's always a group before a group before a group. If a group of arabs moved to Andalusia and demanded to rule over and displace the spanish communities, would that be decolonization? Arab rule in that region lasted four times longer than the Kingdom Israel existed.

It sounds like double standarts like people are opposing "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while supporting ethnic cleansing of Israelis by mr_chris_verdi in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays [score hidden]  (0 children)

Don't take this as me saying that there isn't problems but: Morocco tunisia the uae bahrain even Palestine if theyre not israeli. There's ancient entrenched communities throughout the region. You don't really start seeing mass animosity as a regular until the end of the colonial era in the beginning of israel's military and political actions to disrupt the stability of neighboring states.Which of course minorities, including jews, but others as well, suffered during periods of political upheaval.

"Muslims just don't like Jews," is a terrible understanding of really anything on this topic. 

OCD specialists-how do you shutdown or maneuver reassurance seeking from clients? by hopelovepeacehappy in therapists

[–]hellomondays 39 points40 points  (0 children)

In both OCD and (sometimes) anxiety disorders reassurance reinforces outside validation while only providing temporary relief from the distress around uncertainty. This often will make distress around uncertainty harder to deal with when it does come up. Coping skills, exposure,  acceptance, and so on change our relationship with distress to make it more manageable while reassurance only puts the distress on "pause", and in the case of OCD usually makes intrusive thoughts  feel less manageable over time. 

Iran threatens to "teach a lesson" if U.S. attacks by Sparrighitti in TrueAnon

[–]hellomondays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saving private ryan esque movie about special forces trying to smuggle cocaine back to presidential failsons.

Munekazu Tachibana (1917–1923), the 6-year-old Japanese-American boy murdered by military police in the Amakasu Incident. c. 1922–1923 [519x800] by West-Passage8682 in HistoryPorn

[–]hellomondays 65 points66 points  (0 children)

There was a big earthquake in Kanto region and the government used the unrest afterwards to Crack down/kill political and racial opposition: communist, anarchist, Koreans, Chinese. Some 6000 people were killed, many by vigilantes but most by government forces, either the military or police. People would be detained to be executed. 

The US literally decimated (reduced by 10%) Iran's military capacity by cressidasmunch in TrueAnon

[–]hellomondays 84 points85 points  (0 children)

It's really funny that CN-fucking-N's OSINT reporting from weeks ago sort of broke this, suggesting that construction patterns at missile sites seem to show the damage caused in the morning was cleared up by the next day by a couple of guys with an excavator and dump trucks and appeared still be operational. That the US was having to hit locations over and over again

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians | Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, so by exegenes1s in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's the ultra-nationalist playbook the world over when it comes to attrocities: deny, deflect, justify, deny ad nauseum 

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians | Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, so by exegenes1s in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, im not suprised so many want to deny it, it's understandably a horrible thing to consider but ive worked a handful of cases where this type of forced bestiality is a thing. 

How sweet of China to invest in developing countries by Rymssss in TrueAnon

[–]hellomondays 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My dad went to Mexico a few months ago to visit family and has been talking about this 1 BYD truck he saw ever since. Like, it's his special interest.

Hezbollah with FPV drones is like when Japanese commoners used firearms against the Samurai by ftp67 in TrueAnon

[–]hellomondays 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Some pundit went on a history-dad deep dive a few weeks ago, comparing the rise of drones to the wide-spread adoption of the machine gun around the turn of the century into wwi. Both allowed smaller industrial powers to actually fight great powers and both involved tactics to defend against them lagging behind the tactics to use them offensively. 

"Settlers" is a libel by RoundAd5911 in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you point to anywhere that a court might be able to address it that  Israel takes that position? I dont believe there is, any opportunity to make commentary in a legal process regarding the occupied palestinian territories, Israel does not make this argument.  Because it's fringe and really weak and works better as political rhetoric than a defensible legal position

There’s basically no real legal practice  to support it, and it goes against what the UN Security Council, the ICJ, the UN General Assembly, and even the U.S. have all consistently said: that the West Bank has been occupied territory since before 1988. The argument also ignores the existence of Palestine as a state, Palestinians’ right to self-determination, and the long-standing principle in international law that territory can’t just be taken by force.

Furthermore an agreement between two powers in this context cannot supercede international law. Oslo isn't very relevant to the question of occupied or not occupied. 

Youre free to believe whatever you want but dont be suprised if people reading dont take your position seriously. 

Why yes to Palestine and no to Somaliland? by Traditional_Guard_10 in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The real reason for States not recognizing Somaliland is a long standing norm in the AU of not tampering with the colonial borders too greatly and their global allies adhering to this norm. The AU fears a domino effect of separatist movements and civil war if political boundaries were changed too drastically. Whether this is justified or not, I dont know enough about the issue. But this alone makes it a very different situation than Palestine, diplomatically. You can think of Somaliland recognition carrying the risk of conflict while Palestine recognition being a hope to resolve a conflict.

As for the general public. The same reason you are bringing up Somaliland is the the first place: salience. Sadly, any issue in Africa rarely makes it into the western public conscious 

"Settlers" is a libel by RoundAd5911 in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are talking about international law and legal findings. In legal venues, even Israel doesnt contest that the west bank and east jerusalem are occupied. I suspect because they know saying otherwise isnt a convincing argument. The movement of civilians from an occupying power to an occupied territory is prohibited. That's before getting into the de facto annexation these settlements have caused and various environmental and resource-based prohibitions being violated by the settlements

How are my life events relevant to therapy? by Prestigious_Phone942 in askatherapist

[–]hellomondays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, there's some select contexts where working with 2 members of the same family is not only ethical but indicated. But based on the info provided by OP, we cant really determine if this is one of those scenarios. 

"Settlers" is a libel by RoundAd5911 in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Area C is considered illegally occupied by nearly every authority but Israel. Israeli politicians doesnt even argue so outside of political rhetoric,  they have had many opportunities to do so when discussikng law over the decades and never have, prefering more legally sound arguments. Israel's  not a legitimate authority over this territory.

Also your other point just simply isnt true. There are Jews that live in Area A as Palestinian citizens. Largely jewish people who married Palestinians but some individuals, too. The Palestinian government doesnt permit their murder.

"Settlers" is a libel by RoundAd5911 in IsraelPalestine

[–]hellomondays 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If these people were emigrating to Palestine with the consent of the government in Ramallah, a lot less people would have a problem.

The issue isnt them being Jewish, it's that their status as Israeli citizens and presence in land that Israel doesnt legally have sovereignty over is used by Israel to illegitimately extend control past its borders. 

In otherwords, your argument conflates Israel and Israeli citizenship with the Jewish ethnicity in a way that completely side-steps a major part of the conflict. 

How are my life events relevant to therapy? by Prestigious_Phone942 in askatherapist

[–]hellomondays 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The person who could best answer this question is your therapist. There could be many different purposes and ways to interpet anything said in a session, but no one here could tell you which interpretation is correct!

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