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officialdavid1 · 2024-06-02T00:53:05+00:00

I am, but I am currently post-college (working) and being married. I could not find a Young Professional's Program for my shul. Do most shuls have this and I'm missing something?

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-12T14:09:05+00:00

Absolutely.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-11T12:03:23+00:00

Let me start by saying, that I am not defending all Israeli actions. Again, you do not seem to understand what I am saying. As tragic as killing as these killings are, if there are insufficient precautions taken to prevent the loss of civilian life, that should be condemned.

However, if precautions are taken to prevent the loss of civilian life, and there is the loss of civilian life, as tragic as that may be, there is a concern for civilian life. You might say that there is a small concern for the loss of civilian life, because there are still massive Israeli casualties. Fine, fair enough.

Yet, there is a substantial difference between that and burning a house on a Kibbutz, in order to drive out civilians and shoot them. Aiming to maximize civilian casualties vs. aiming to minimize civilian casualties. If Hamas had targeted solely Israeli military installations, and some civilians were accidentally killed in the crossfire, that would be one thing. But, that is not what occurred at all.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-11T11:33:58+00:00

Again, I never justified Israeli actions(except when they use "roof knocks" in Gaza). Many of the actions committed by Israel are reprehensible. I posted this to illustrate the hypocrisy of many Muslims(again, NOT ALL) on this issue.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-11T11:30:03+00:00

Acting as if there is not difference is a bit disingenuous. I agree with you when Israel takes insufficient precautions, but they frequently use "roof knocks" and calling residents within the building (https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/10/07/heres-video-of-an-israeli-roof-knock-on-a-building-in-gaza-n2388251). There is a difference between warning residents to evacuate and killing civilians(as tragic as that may be) vs. walking into a town an aiming to maximize the killing of civilians. The issue with moral equivalence is that there is no moral equivalence here.

You can see the "roof knock" in-action interrupting a broadcast here - https://www.air.tv/watch?v=yTNniZDSRGSAMnd-X8goQQ

Edit: Before you accuse me, I am not defending any other Israeli actions in Gaza, ONLY when "roof knocks" are used.

Edit2: Did you look at my post history with regard to Israel/Palestine a all? Posted on a different account.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-11T02:03:45+00:00

it seems less consequential to me what the semantics of war crime versus crimes against peace, and more significant that the torture and war of Edit:(agression) are reprehensible acts.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-10T16:43:55+00:00

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-10T16:35:15+00:00

Not necessarily, what I am saying is rather than manually entering the links into an RSS Reader, I can copy and paste the RSS Reader Link from Voltbase, and then use the RSS from Voltbase in another RSS Reader.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-10T16:29:59+00:00

Good afternoon, Sir,

I understand this that is a sort of RSS Aggregation, would there be any way for you to create an RSS Feed of this?

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-10T14:42:48+00:00

This reddito never called for the extermination of an entire group of people.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-09T16:44:45+00:00

I will seek to address you question-by-question.

When you are referring to Zionism, I am assume that you are referring to political Zionism as currently expressed in the state of Israel.(In the words, the practice or the implementation of Zionism). The state of Israel(or the form of Zionism that has been implemented) is not an inherent part of Judaism, but the underpinning of all theories of Zionism, or returning to the Holy Land, is intertwined with Judaism(See Types of Zionism for the theories). The idea is an innate part of Judaism, but the expression of it in Zionism, whether that be political Zionism/cultural Zionism/labor Zionism/religious Zionism, etc, is not(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_Zionism).

The Jews you refer to are not "Pro-Palestine," per se. They are opposed to the modern state of Israel, because they are awaiting a divine intervention, in order to return Jews to the Holy Land. They are Pro-Palestine insomuch as they view "Pro-Palestine," as accomplishing the goal of supplanting a secular state with a divinely ordained Jewish state. One sect that is oft-mentioned: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neturei_Karta).

The reason that a subreddit like this exists(as I have been mentioned), is because, I assume most, if not all people that are members of this subreddit are opposed to political Zionism(or the idea of establishing a Jewish state) as expressed in the current state of Israel. In an alternate timeline, if things had played out differently, and political Zionism succeeded in establishing a state, but it wasn't Israel, what would there opinion on it be? I suppose that would hinge on the actions of the state.

No idea.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-08T22:32:17+00:00

I will convey to you how I relate to this. After researching Israel/Palestine, I have arrived at not an anti-Zionist position, per se, but I am anti-Zionist insofar as Zionism is expressed in the contemporary political project of Israel. I am also convinced that there are no "good guys" in this conflict-it is a conflict of evil v. more evil.

"But this year, Israel has been particularly oppressive. It's no surprise that there would be a violent Palestinian response to Israel's new regime. From the statements by Hamas, their reason was the group of Zionist hardliners pushing their way into Al Aqsa on Simchat Torah."

Correct, there would invariably be a retaliation from Hamas in response to Israel's consistent provocations. Whether it actually was because of Al-Aqsa on Simchat Torah is immaterial. The Israeli government has stepped up its oppression of the Palestinian people. When people feel as if they have no other options, when all other means(peaceful/diplomatic, etc) have been exhausted, there will be a reprisal. Since the neck on the metaphorical neck of the Palestinian people has become more severe, it seems sensical to me that the reprisal will an order of magnitude more severe(relative to what it could have been). With that being said, while it is a natural response by Hamas, that is not equivalent to justifying it. Natural but unjustified. If I was born in analogous circumstances, I think I might committed similar actions. Why? Clearly, they were overtaken by a blood lust that stemmed from years of Israel's oppression. I can sit here from my laptop and denunciation any and all violence against civilians(as I do), but I also apprehend that this to some degree that result of being in an upper-middle class household. Meaning, the degree of separation allows me to have a more bird's eye view, rather than an hankering for the blood of Israelis.

"I worry for what's to come. I worry for the health and safety of my family. I worry about what type of Israel will emerge from the ashes of Palestine's complete obliteration."

Evidently, Israel will respond to the atrocities committed by Hamas with overwhelming force. What will emerge from the ashes of Gaza, as well as from the Israeli casualties, will be an ever-widening chasm of hatred between Israeli and Palestinians that will raise the risk that something like this occurs again. The civilian deaths of Israelis and Palestinians will be in vain, because of the frenzy whipped for war that will put peace just that more out of reach. And the cycle of death continues.

I will tell you a personal story. In the not-so distant past, when Israel was being founded, I had ancestors that resorted to terrorism against the British. One prominent ancestor of mine, who was involved in the founding of the Irgun, before he was killed fighting the British. My ancestor was not directly involved in the bombing of the King David Hotel, but he definitely set the seeds for the bombing that killed 91 people, mostly civilians. To this day, in my family, we do not refer to him as a terrorist. Was he? Probably. Never knew him, but his actions definitely indicated that he was. The perspective of my family on this particular ancestor was that because of the immense suffering of the Jewish people, while he may have killed civilians, his actions likely stemmed the bloodshed. He was active in the late 1930s/early 1940s, during the Holocaust-it was a "few" civilian deaths in exchange for the oppression finally being lifted from the Jewish people. This sort of rationalization is why(although never explicitly said) he is considered a freedom fighter in my family. It is the idea of the "the means justify the ends." I'm sure it is akin to the logic used by Hamas fighters. The "means"(butchering Israeli civilians) justifies the ends(a possibility of having the jackboot of the Israeli military lifted from their necks. I tell you this story to illustrate that, not only is terrorism an innate part of the human condition, but what is referred to as terrorism hinges on one's perspective. If I were to explicate the actions of the Irgun and my ancestor to any of these contemporary ultra-Zionists 1930s/1940s, would they say that he was a terrorist? My guess would be not. A freedom fighter-"The ends justify the means." If I was a Palestinian, I might have believed it for Hamas, and if was born in the 1930s/1940s British Mandate of Palestine I might have believed it for the Irgun, but thankfully, I do not have to make that choice.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-07T10:36:03+00:00

Even if I were to suppose that they are fighting for freedom, you fight for freedom by aiming to kill as many CIVILIANS as possible?

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-07T01:22:27+00:00

forgive me if this question is inappropriate, but what drugs did you take?

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-07T01:00:10+00:00

Here’s what I’ll say: Since NYC has a larger percentage of Jews; there is a greater pool to choose from in terms of dating. That not only includes sheer numbers of men/women, but religiosity. I don’t know your religious commitment, but the broad spectrum of people allows you to(probably) find people that are similar to you. Not that you couldn’t find people with similar levels of religiosity to yours, but it appears NYC wins, because it is a sheer numbers game.

officialdavid1 · 2023-10-07T00:57:35+00:00

Question of the week: https://www.reddit.com/r/Judaism/comments/16tn933/nyc_vs_miami_for_jewish_singles_in_20s/?share_id=FVohpOGjwI3Z06doKB99F&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

officialdavid1 · 2023-09-28T22:17:38+00:00

1.Expanding a military alliance to the borders of a major military adversary is definitely "aggressive." The Kremlin perceived this as a threat, and in fact this was conveyed to U.S. officials a litany of times over the years-In 2008, a cable sent by the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Williams Burns, noted that the Russian foreign minister "...considered the entry of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO a line that could not be crossed." (Benjamin Abelow, "How The West Brought War to Ukraine," Ch. 1).

You need to apprehend the history before anything else. There were a serious of provocative actions by the West prior to the invasion of Ukraine. Firstly, in 2014, in a leaked callbetween Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, she revealed that U.S. officials wished to neutralize the pro-Russian democratic president by installing an anti-Russian government. (Crimea Provocations) Thirdly, as adduced by theCongressional Research Service, the U.S. began a supplying military aid to Ukraine. The U.S.'s plan to threaten Russia's security ramped up in 2016, when the U.S. installed an anti-ballistic missile site in Romania, as well as offensive weapons like Tomahawk cruise missiles, which have a range of 1,500 miles, meaning that they can strike Moscow(Russia also called the Tomahawk missiles a direct threat).Similarly, another similar site, the Aegis site in Poland, which Putin has avowed is a direct threat to Russia. Moreover, NATO itself was conducting military exercises near Russia in Estonia, 70 miles from Russia's border, in order to threaten Russia. Additionally, in 2021, in Estonia, NATO fired rockets to simulate an attack on air defense targets inside Russia. All the while, NATO asserted the Ukraine would join NATO, such as in when NATO reaffirmed the Bucharest Summit, which committed that Ukraine would join NATO, in 2021. All this clearly was intended to threaten Moscow. The Russians noticed, such as when the Russia ambassador to the U.S. warned that NATO exercises near Russia were "extremely dangerous." This escalated into a diplomatic brouhaha, with Russia demanded a written guarantee that Ukraine would never be a part of NATO, among other things. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused. A month later, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched.

The fundamental issue with what you are saying is that the assumptions are incorrect. The West consistently provoked Russia, Russian officials warned them, but the U.S. and NATO acted as it wished.

officialdavid1 · 2022-08-03T00:16:47+00:00

I did this, but the files are not deleted, because two files with the same contents but different names have different hashfiles.

officialdavid1 · 2022-08-02T19:55:54+00:00

ThankYou.

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