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My apologies, Thomas. I realized that, too, as I scrolled through the thread this morning.
The only excuse I can offer is that there’s few I’d rather be confused with, and Hostage made a similar statement..
I am sorry, and I should’ve been more carefull.

“What’s more, the U.S. media is also covering up a much bigger story. Dr. Abu Safiya is being held without trial, in what Israel euphemistically sometimes calls “administrative detention.” “

Here’s another story that’s fallen down the Orwellian memory hole of the mainstream media: we know that on Oct 7 some Israelis were killed by ‘friendly fire’ from the IDF. How many? 10? 50? 300?

Do we have any idea? Is Israel’s government doing an investigation? If so, when will the investigation be completed?

Amy and team on it

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/7/dr_hussam_abu_safiya_update

jrg: “Thank you for the affirmation, Mr. Ellenberg, it was most gratifying. Whenever you trash me, I feel reassured that I’m on the right track.”

That’s why its called the trash track.

brent: “‘The future we want is one we build together'”, exept those we keep expelled, because we do not want equality, if there is not a signifcant Jewish majority and we will make sure that it stays this way. Sorry, some are more equal than others.

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“AOC’s proposal would politicize and publicize the process. While it wouldn’t absolutely stop the sales and grants, it would give advocates working to shut off the flow of arms to Israel the opening they need to counter them, through public discourse, and by working in the White House and on Capitol Hill. “

So one should naively assume Frankel will be open to the much needed discourse that AOC’s efforts should help manifest. That is based on what Frankel actually said “Lois Frankel, also a pro-Israel Democrat from Florida, said, “If you’re going to recalibrate our relationship with any foreign country, it shouldn’t be done just with an amendment in an appropriations bill. It has to be a very, I think, good, extensive conversation that would bring in a lot of different people.”

Let the “extensive conversation” begin….Frankl. Bring in the “different people” besides an endless parade of Israel firsters. Bring in former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, Phil Giraldi…Colonel MacGregor. Andrew Bacevich, Prof Mearsheimer and Prof Walt. Really grow some and bring in Prof Norman Finkelstein. Bring in UN Francesca Albanese to speak in the much needed out of the closets “extensive conversation’s”

Colonel Doug Macgregor ( I think this guy could have aspirations for running for P in 2028 as an Independent )skips all of the bs….gets down to brass tacks.

“All For What”

Listen up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgYdurDEmA

We know bought out Rachel Maddow, Ari Melber, Chris Hayes, Joe Scarborough etc will never touch this story. They love their pay checks more than facts, justice, truth.

UN Francesca Albanese on it.

UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese slams the BBC for airing unproven Israeli claims against detained Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, now critically ill.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/un-expert-blasts-bbc-over-coverage-of-detained-gaza-doctor

Have noticed BBC going a bit weak kneed on P/I, Gaza issue. In fact the other day during BBC coverage about the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral after the U.S./Israel assassinated him and many others. The BBC reporter only interviewed Iranians who hated the murdered leader. A bit biased one would say.

“ Is the West Bank part of Israel? ”

According to international law, agencies, UN, officials, billions of people around the world….NO!

Based on what right wing barbaric sadist who make up the apartheid, genocidal government of Israel and the completely hate filled, maniacal land thieves in the West Bank action…they think yes

Phil Giraldi brought up the “Jewish American Security Act” S4576/HR9211 on “Judging Freedom” some days ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giraldi

Judging Freedom/ Phil Giraldi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1yDPNv78PU

“The Jewish American Security Act is a bipartisan legislative package (H.R. 9211 in the House, S. 4576 in the Senate) introduced in Congress by Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) alongside Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK). The bill aims to combat a historic rise in antisemitism in the United States. [1, 2, 3, 4]”

https://moskowitz.house.gov/posts/moskowitz-helps-lead-bipartisan-jewish-american-security-act

https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-rosen-introduce-comprehensive-bipartisan-bill-to-fight-antisemitism-2/

So absurd, dangerous that AIPAC has never been required to register under FARA

https://www.military.com/massie-bill-targets-aipac-with-new-fara-standards-israel

“But what the Democrats were truly wringing their hands over was a stark reality: they didn’t want to have to vote on aid to Israel. Why? Because they are farther out of step with their constituents on policy toward Palestine than they are on any other issue. 
While they remain concerned about the reaction of donors to voting against aid to Israel, they know that their constituents are tired of seeing their tax dollars being sent to finance genocide, ethnic cleansing, military occupation, and other crimes of war. “

What we keep hearing and seeing. I have personally monitored the American public’s thinking and knowledge base about the Palestine/Israel conflict via phone calls into C-Span’s Washington Journal. So many phone calls coming in last couple of years about the clear and heinous genocide Israel has committed in mass since Oct 7th in an extremely disproportionate, barbaric way in response to the horrific Hamas killings of Israeli’s The American public has become far more aware and upset about Israel’s decades upon decades of crimes against Palestinians that fit the definitions of crimes against humanity and war crimes, however, U.S. POLICIES have not changed……YET!

Not much awareness or conversations taking place about the “Jewish American Security Act” clearly created, promoted to identify and criminalize pro Palestinian…pro Justice activist across the U.S.

S 4576…..HR 9211

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4576

This is nothing new to me, my introduction coming over a year ago from Cara Marianna’s “Winter Wheat” site https://winterwheat.substack.com/p/poisoning-the-holy-land, and even further back than that with the idiotic “Plant a Tree for Israel” scheme (also scam) to bring Eastern European pine trees to the arid conditions of Palestine, and yet still further back when Herzl and Ben-Gurion sought only the educated, professional Jews to settle in Palestine, who of course were wholly inept at tending the land, and had to depend on the indigenous Palestinians how to do so in order to survive. Hospitable and helpful by nature, the Palestinians were understandably unaware of what lay ahead, had they known they could have refused assisting them and told the Zionists to go back to where they came from, and subsequent history would have been very different.

Israel has become a toxic nation on all fronts. This is but one manifestation of Israel’s barbarity.
The world leaders need to act now to stop this insanity.

It’s impossible to understand the mentality behind this policy and Israeli behaviour. Do they think that if the Palestinians give up and move somewhere else, the land will suddenly become miraculously free of toxins, pollution and debris? Or do they believe that the settlers are immune to the diseases these toxins cause?

You refer to Josephus and R.Yohanan Ben Zakkai as collaborators with the Romans, as “non-revolutionaries”. So should we assume that you sympathize with the Zealots?
RYBZ and the other sages of Yavneh preserved the survival of the Jewish faith at a critical “to be or not to be” point in history. They found practical solutions and made adjustments which enabled Judaism to be practiced   in a post-Temple reality.

Thank you for the affirmation, Mr. Ellenberg, it was most gratifying. Whenever you trash me, I feel reassured that I’m on the right track.

Knowing what I know of Emanuel from his mayorship in Chicago I suspect that none of what he says represents his real convictions, if he has any – he probably just sees which way the political winds are blowing.

But I’ll take it.

Respectfully, actions speak louder than words, brent.

He was also Barak Obama’s Chief-of-Staff during his 1st Term, and did a lot (along with VP Joe Biden) to undermine any efforts by President Obama to make things better for the Palestinians.
I guess his new bravery is better late than never.

The Palestinians aren’t blocking “building and standing together.” The Israeli government of war criminal Bibi Netanyahu is blocking those efforts.

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Re: For this reason, I consider David Reich to be a (probably dishonest) phenomenologist. 

David Reich is a scientist who develops hypotheses and tests them. He routinely announces a “discovery” by explaining his original hypothesis was mistaken. You on the other hand claim there are no connections to the peasantry of Judea and Samaria and Canaanite Phoenicians of Magna Graecia and Sicily. I have no idea how you could prove a negative (which can’t be done), but there is plenty of evidence that suggests you are more than likely mistaken. Ekron was a Canaanite city that was inhabited by the Punic people who engaged in sea trade during the entire era of Magna Graecia. There are a two dozen DNA studies in the article on Punic peoples and only one with a connection to David Reich.

There is an interactive map at Livius.org that shows the locations of Greek and Phoenician temples, settlements, and colonies from Iberian Europe, North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Persia, and as far east as Pakistan. Caere for example is a city in southern Etruria, modern Cerveteri. It notes the Pyrgi Tablets (dated c. 500 BC). Wikipedia explains are “three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They are the oldest historical source documents from Italy, predating Roman hegemony, and are rare examples of texts in these languages. They were discovered in 1964 during a series of excavations at the site of ancient Pyrgi, on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy in Latium (Lazio). The text records the foundation of a temple and its dedication to the Phoenician goddess Astarte, who is identified with the Etruscan supreme goddess Uni in the Etruscan text. The temple’s construction is attributed to Thefarie Velianas, ruler of the nearby city of Caere.” There are dozens of Phoenician temples on the Livius.org map of Sicily as well. After three Punic wars, the decline in trade led the bulk of the Phoenicians and the Greeks of Magna Graecia to migrate elsewhere.

See: “A New Perspective on the Arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean Genetic Influx in Central Italy Before the Onset of the Roman Empire” It notes Southern Italy where several Greek and Phoenician settlements were established during the 1st millennium BCE predated the Roman Empire.

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Re: In contrast, Slouschz honestly developed a theory on the basis of the data he had. 

No one can honestly claim that a scholar who studied Oriental languages and completed his doctorate at the University of Paris on the subject of the renaissance of Hebrew literature, had some “valid data” that the Phoenician and Punic texts he studied were derived from Hebrew as he claimed (and not vice versa). The Paris Universities were teaching everyone else the Phoenicians were the civilization represented in the ancient Hebrew and Greek written records as the Semitic civilization whose alphabetic script fundamentally shaped the modern world. But Slouschz wrote “My efforts to win acceptance for my theories in Paris had brought me much disappointment, but in Tunis, heir to Carthage, I had the satisfaction of seeing my theories accepted after three months of impassioned polemics.”

The American Colonists arrived here just 419 years ago. My 56 year-old daughter has volunteered with CeCe Moore and Search Angels for over a decade. She already has over 111,000 DNA matches to her own Ancestry.com DNA test in every state, and other country that offers testing. Jezebel, the biblical Phoenician princess and Queen of Israel, lived in the mid-9th century BCE. She died around 842 BCE. The polygamous royal families of both Israel and Judah were her descendants, had multiple wives and concubines, and twice as much time to produce offspring by the 1st century A.D. How do you know who they had connections to in Italy prior to the three Punic wars? There were dozens of Phoenician settlements and Temples in Magna Graecia and Sicily that predated the Roman Empire.

FYI, Y-chromosomes have no religion and stay very much the same, with only minor mutations, whether you convert or not. The 13 binary polymorphisms and six microsatellite loci that matched when investigated by Almut Nebel, et. al. in 2001 showed that Ashkenazim, Palestinians and Bedouins had overlapping lineages from the current era. So they did not originate in converts or earlier in the Magna Graecia era.

“Please answer me earnestly, without sarcasm and without a sneering, mocking, lecturing,supercilious attitude–if you’re capable of doing so. I’m trying to be constructive here,”

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“In fact, I’ve decided to change my thinking completely, and I’ve even ordered myself a kaffiyeh. Do you think this one would look good on me?”

BTW, how is your “kaffiyeh” purchase event coming along?

Adam Shapiro is a very fine man that my father met soon after the Rachel Corrie assassination. It is good to see him in such an important position.

“Hopefully moving forward, we can get more of this language added, but for right now, we just need to keep the conversation going…..”

Not to mention Jews growing rejection of Israel.

Rahm Emanuel**, the former mayor of my hometown Chicago, is Jewish. His father was born in Jerusalem and was a member of Irgun. ( So Emanuel is the son of a terrorist! )

Rahm Emanuel is in Israel this week to deliver a speech designed to be a thunderclap. The combination of message and messenger should produce a loud echo….The message is that the war in Gaza and shifts in American and world opinion have converged with seismic consequences. Decades in which U.S. policymakers would often fret about Israeli choices and behavior but regard support for its government as absolute and unshakable are at an end….Going forward, Emanuel plans to say, Israelis should regard U.S. support as expressly contingent: On reviving a serious commitment to Palestinian sovereignty; On rejecting dreams of asserting dominion beyond official borders in pursuit of “Greater Israel”; On abandoning a security strategy that emphasizes brutally effective military force with scant attention to diplomacy or credible what-next plans in Gaza and Iran. U.S. administrations of both parties have spent too long “averting our eyes” from Israeli misjudgments and strategic misadventures, Emanuel’s speech reads. The country, once lauded as being a prosperous, high-tech democracy, is now more commonly viewed as a “pariah.”

What Rahm Emanuel’s upcoming Israel speech reveals about Democrats

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Rahm Emanuel – Wikipedia

“Not the responsibility to persuade”, I agree.

Serving one’s interest makes sense.

From todays email from “Standing Together”…. For years, Standing Together has been organizing Jews and Palestinians to build a different future – one of peace, equality, and shared power. The future we want is one we build together. That’s why we’re organizing every day to make it a reality.

Mooser: “As Hostage points out:”

That was my post. ;)

jrg: “And what turned you against it?” (Zionism, that is)”

Yes, Mooser. What’s wrong with you? Don’t you like to shlep the Araber out, chazer their land, baklaun them, and shmad them on top? Are you too busy kvetching about human rights and how to be a mentsch?

jrg “I’m trying to be constructive here, but it’s no fun coming away feeling that I need to take a shower after reading each of your posts.”

A shower?! Luxury!

If I read your posts, I have to go through a full de-contamination chamber, get scrubbed with industrial steel wool, and soak in boiling bleach for seven hours – and that’s just after your first paragraph.

And you try and tell the Zionist of today that ….. they won’t believe you.

brent: “Is this the best you have?”

No, it’s the lowest I can get to adapt down to the best you have.

Hey Brent, I guess that means that you are not allowed to openly say it. Keep talking to your self.

McMorrow has been “persuaded” to leave the Michigan Senate race. It is now between Abdul El-Sayed and AIPAC’s chosen candidate Stevens. Sen. Chuck Schumer is in a state of panic. There is an important debate between the two Democratic candidates in the near future.
You can be certain the AIPAC dark money will be flooding this contest as long as Abdul El-Sayed is still in the race.

Now you’re really not answering my question, are you? You’re so entangled in your own sarcasm that I think that sometimes you don’t even know what you’re trying to say; regardless, it’s certainly hard for others.

What specific information came to your attention, e.g., what books or articles did you read, what news items or documentaries did you view and hear on TV, radio, or online that sent you away with an unfavorable view of Israel or Zionism? You indicated that you’ve never been there, so what stories or eyewitness accounts did you hear from people (relatives or others) who did? And how did you conclude that the foregoing was more credible, on the whole, than pro-Israeli books, articles, documentaries, eyewitness accounts etc.?

Please answer me earnestly, without sarcasm and without a sneering, mocking, lecturing,supercilious attitude–if you’re capable of doing so. I’m trying to be constructive here, but it’s no fun coming away feeling that I need to take a shower after reading each of your posts.

I don’t believe you are as obtuse as your comments portray you. But anyway, once again: it is not the responsibility of Palestinians – the victims of Jewish supremacists’ genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, rape… the most serious crimes against which there are laws – to persuade you, Americans, Israelis or anyone else of their good intentions to co-exist with Jewish supremacists who have always trumpeted their enthusiastic desire to eliminate them. It is entirely up to Jewish supremacists a.k.a. Zionists to abandon their ideology completely. There is no place in a morally just universe for Zionism any more than there is for fascism.

You repeatedly, if usually implicitly, claim that your support for the ‘respectable’ status quo in which Israel’s ultraviolent fanatics get an endless supply from the West of the most powerful weapons and surveillance tools to use against Palestinian children and their families is a moderate position based on calm logic and reason. In reality, yours is a thoroughly depraved morality of the kind that the Epstein files revealed. Just because the Washington Post and New York Times adopt exactly your moral stance does not make it any less degenerate.

Are you saying enough Americans now understand the Palestinian concept for co-existence?

From Plitnicks article, “…the path toward a different policy toward Palestine and Israel has never been so open.”

Doesn’t this deserve to be taken seriously by those wanting to advance self-determination…. those wanting to advance Palestine?

Why not?

[III] What is Yavneh?

Magna Graecia and Sicily were parts of the Mediterranean genetic continuum. These regions had no connection to the peasantry of Judea and Samaria but are documented to have had large Jewish populations, whose members were descendants of Greek-speaking converts to Hellenistic Judaism.

We can trace the migration of the Jews of Magna Graecia and Sicily into Central Europe. For this reason the Jews of Central Europe genetically look just like descendants of the Greco-Roman population of Magna Graecia and Sicily.

The above model is much more consistent with the data of David Reich than his conclusions.

The above model can be extended to explain the genetic structure of the Erfurt Jewish community. The above model also explains the difference in the Talmudization of Ashkenazim and of Sephardim.

For this reason, I consider David Reich to be a (probably dishonest) phenomenologist. In contrast, Slouschz honestly developed a theory on the basis of the data he had. I am unconcerned that Slouschz is a Zionist. In a litigation, parties commonly make adverse admission, and a good attorney is always careful to look for an adverse admission. We find almost innumerably many adverse admissions from Herzl, Weizmann, Jabotinsky, Benny Morris, Sternhell, and practically every Zionist.

[II] What is Yavneh?

Eventually such a Jewish elite collaborationist group became unneeded to Rome because the Judean and Samarian peasantries as well as later the Galilean peasantry were rejecting Judaism and becoming Christians. By the fifth century, the people of Galilee, Samaria, and Judea were demanding the abolition of the Galilean Patriarchate (Sanhedrin).

The Triple Province of Palestine had become the center of Christianity for the Roman Empire.

The Roman Expulsion is a fairy tale or metaphor for the transformation of Judaism from the religion of Judea into a religion of descendants of non-Judean converts to Judaism.

Jews of the Roman West (Europea and N. Africa) are descendants of non-Judean converts from populations of the Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum, which included numerous Greek, Phoenician, and Pontic populations but Jews from the inland peasantry of Palestine as Nahum Slouschz noted over a century. Nothing in David Reich’s genetic data suggests otherwise despite his possibly purposefully misleading presentation of data.

It’s possible that Ptolemy I Soter settled Judean and Samaria peasants in or around Alexandria, but they were a tiny part of the Alexandrian population and had no cultural influence.

There is no evidence for Pentateuchal Judaism before Ptolemy II Philadelphus created Hellenistic versions of Egyptian and Palestinian religion: the Serapis Cult and Pentateuchal Judaism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3xCLd8JH8

Purely monotheistic Pentateuchal Judaism seems to be the onlyJudaism practiced in Alexandria and was probably practiced almost entirely by descendants of Greek-speaking converts.

The Hebrew Book of Esther is probably an Achaemenid text of polytheist pre-Pentateuchal Yahwish, which is also found practiced in Elephantine. Hence monotheistic worship of Yahweh is absent from the Hebrew text even though the later Greek text evinces monotheist Judaism probably so that the text would be acceptable to Alexandrian Jews.

Just as the Serapis cult spread out from Alexandria likewise Pentateuchal Judaism spread out from Alexandria.

Just as in the Mediterranean genetic continuum the Serapis cult was practiced almost entirely by Greek-speaking non-Egyptians, likewise Hellenistic Pentateuchal Judaism almost entirely by descendants of Greek-speaking non-Judeans.

‘Thomas’, they are something, aren’t they? Well, I guess that’s what happens when you’ve got, like Israel, enough population and arms to conquer the world, you get a little boastful, when not whining.

As Hostage points out : “You are applying the logic of a bypassed, more brutal epoch to legitimize modern civilian suffering.”
But how can the Zionist help it, when that “bypassed, more brutal epoch”
was so ‘good for the Jews?’

,jrg,: “And what turned you against it?” (Zionism, that is)

LMAO And what, my friend, was supposed to turn me towards it? Was I supposed to find the nearly radio-frequency oscillations between threatening and whining attractive?  

“Your unstated Jewish supremacism…”

Unstated, my Jewish ass. It’s clear as a bell, except, of course when he’s whining ‘everybody wants to kill us. 

Under international law and United Nations principles, your premise is inapplicable: self-determination does not automatically grant a group the right to secede. Territorial integrity takes precedence, and secession is severely limited. Zionism was imposed during a foreign occupation on the Palestinian majority landowners by force in order to eject them and implement racial, theocratic minority apartheid rule and genocide. WTF has that ever had to do with self-determination? The New York Times editorial staff are college educated people. It is 2026 and repeating a bald faced lie in bad faith doesn’t work any more. They should know by now “The Emperor has no clothes”.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing explained that publicly in his 1921 memoir, The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative. In a widely cited diary entry from December 30, 1918, Lansing wrote that the phrase self-determination “is simply loaded with dynamite. It will raise hopes which can never be realized. It will, I fear, cost thousands of lives.” See: Self-Determination in Perspective: Palestinian Claims to Statehood and the Relativity of the Right to Self-Determination. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2014.

Lansing argued that self-determination simply meant the “consent of the governed”, it was a concept embedded in political philosophy for nearly three centuries (dating back to the Peace of Westphalia and early modern philosophers like John Locke). However, applying it for other ethnic or racial groups would destroy the racial stability of his preferred kind of supremacist global politics.

European Zionism vs. The Local Population: Lansing noted the impossibility of reconciling self-determination with Wilson’s endorsement of the Balfour Declaration and Zionism. He asked: “How can it be harmonized with Zionism, to which the President is practically committed? Will not the Mohammedans of Syria and Palestine… rely on it?” Lansing recognized that if the mostly Muslim and Arab populations of Palestine were granted self-determination, they would reject the creation of a Jewish national home. The Irish and Other Nationalities: Lansing noted that Wilson’s selective enforcement completely ignored the nationalist aspirations of the Irish, Egyptians, Indians, and Boers, warning that preaching a right that would be denied to them would only “breed discontent, disorder and rebellion.”

I agree with you!

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But jon s, all that it takes a Palestinan to get tortured and sodomized by your genocidal rapist “heroes” is that he knew someone that was a member of Hamas. You gotta be coherent in your morals.

So thanks for not answering anything, as usual.

HEy, brent. What was the reason why the political winds have allready shifted? Are you even allowed to openly say it?

jrg: “Do you think this one would look good on me?”

Unfortunately, you are not even close to being honorable enough to even try wearing it.

How about a brown shirt like Betar and others, who are more close to your most favourate supremacist ideology?

Part 3
Ronnie Reich has reported on “The Beginnings of the Israel Exploration Society and Its Activity vis-à-vis the Mandatory Department of Antiquities. It operated under the guise of the Zionist “Jewish Palestine Exploration Society and the Mandatory Department of Antiquities had the Christians on their own Advisory Board. The political in-fighting among the Zionist members for appointments and permission to excavate is covered in the article, as well as the fact they waited a year to appoint and Arab official to handle permits, but no one provided any translation of their paperwork.

Nahum Sloushtz was only known for “excavations” he was authorized to conduct in Cesarea, Tiberas, and at Absolom’s Tomb. He retrieved a stone Menorah from a Second century synagogue for the Society, and was the first person filmed by crews in Palestine sweeping up debris outside Absolom’s Tomb. There were discoveries made by others, years later, within footsteps of his soundings. The discoveries at Ugarit For example the Wheel of the Zodiac mosaic at Tiberias with the central sun god Helios and Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic inscriptions.

Modern academic critiques firmly categorize Nahum Slouschz’s early-20th-century work in North Africa as a deeply biased extension of both European colonialist discourse and early Zionist nationalist agendas. Recent scholarship examines how Slouschz (1872–1966) who trained primarily in literature and philosophy rather than formal, scientific field archaeology weaponized his travels to construct a problematic and false narrative of Jewish civilizational supremacy in Africa. See for example: Nahum Slouschz’s Travels in North Africaand Colonialist Discourse, Yongwon Woo, Master International Relations. The Tell el-Amarna Letters (1887-1900s), excavations at Gezer (1902-1909), and the discoveries of Ugarit / Ras Shamra (1928-1930s) transformed the understanding of Canaanite civilization, shifting the view of Canaanites from a purely biblical footnote to a highly sophisticated, literate, and culturally influential society.

I understand you may dislike the idea of being descended from Canaanites or being remotely related to Ashkenazim or Sephardim colonists from Europe. Nothing you’ve said so far changes the facts or historical consensus. None of your sources actually say David Reich is an ardent Zionist, propagandist, or nearly as unscientific and bigoted as Nahum Slouschz.

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European populations like the Maltese have assimilated and retained a Semitic language. Modern Syrians from the Palistin Kingdom of Hamath, Homs, and Aleppo regions serve as prime examples of profound genetic continuity shifting across a carousel of languages and religions.

DNA taken during several studies of Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Medieval era skeletons in the Levant, North Africa, Anatolia, and Europe have been compared to modern inhabitants. The results overturned historical and biblical claims that the populations of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan were “replaced” by Luwian, Aramean, Greek, Roman, or Arabian rulers. The majority of the populations certainly do show that waves of migration were assimilated with other groups. But the admixture still demonstrates that the modern inhabitants inherited a little more than half their Y-Chromosome, Mitochondrial, and Autosomal DNA from the ancient Canaanite skeletal remains. Those were very carefully extracted under protocols, listed, and identified by burial locations, grave goods, and plotted separately from one another on charts and graphs available in the studies.

The authors noted they intended to conduct future studies and multipal comparisons of proxy and control groups to fill in the additional gaps that remained unexplained in the results. They did not determine when exactly each of the increases in African, European, or Asian migrations had occurred that showed up as differences of admixture between the ancient samples and the modern ones. Some of those tests have been reported in studies done in Carthage, Iberia, Germany, and the UK.

Nahum Sloushtz and his father were both ardent Zionists. When only nineteen years of age he was sent to Palestine by the Chovevei Zion Society of Odessa, to a colony in the Holy Land. The family had moved to Odessa and Nahum’s circle of friends included Zionists Hayim Bialik, Joseph Klausner, and Shaul Tchernichovsky. He was an ardent follower of Herzl when the latter inaugurated the Zionist movement; and branches were established by Slouschz in Odessa and other parts of southern Russia. He served as a delegate to the Zionist Congress, and championed the revival of the Hebrew language. Slouschz, Ruppin, Ben-Yehuda, Yellin, and Klausner attended meetings of the Advisory Board on behalf of the Jewish Yishuv or the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society. None of them were archeologists.

so you read the article.

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Let’s forget about Yavneh for now. I’ve discussed the Roman Emperor’s famiky estate and his employment of Josephus and being the landlord of Rabban Yohanan Ben-Zakki several times before.

“Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.” Genesis 10:15-18.

The inclusion of the patriarch Canaan in the list of 7 Nations includes all of the others as an integral set of parts of “all the Land of Canaan” that God promised to Abram. At the great trees (oaks) of Mamre in Hebron.in Genesis 17:8. God said “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.

That definition would apply to the Land of Canaan mentioned in Acts by Stephen and Paul, and the al-Ard al-Muqaddasah of the Quran. Let’s continue this discussion of the mythical promises and curses pronounced on the descendants of Noah’s grandson, Canaan as part of a land grab, or excuse to racially dominate, or enslave the children of Ham, Gibonites, etc. Genesis Chapter 10 states Canaan begot Sidon See The Jewish Encyclopedia: Phenicia. It does not matter what the Greeks named the region. Tyre was simply one of the cities of Sidon, first mentioned in the Bible during Hiram’s reign, see The Jewish Encyclopedia: Tyre. By the Iron Age Greek “historians” had adopted the Kings of Tyre and their princes and princesses as the Gods of mythology who founded Europe, the Greek city of Thebes, the Kingdom of Egypt, and the magical Canaanite alphabet Greeks employed, along with the Kabbalists. See: Ancient Tyrian rulers based on Hellenic mythology. But the northern borders of the Canaanites included Lebo-Hamath and the cities in Syria of the Kings of Hamath, which Genesis Chapter 10 also listed as descendants of Canaan. Those remain part of the preferred borders of the Promised Land. There was no mention of the kingdom of Hamath till the time of David, when, it is stated, Toi, King of Hamath, warred with Hadadezer, King of Zobah; and, on the defeat of the latter by David, Toi sent his son to congratulate the Jewish king (II Sam. viii. 10).” –Jewish Encyclopedia, Hamath

For Western allies of Jewish supremacism, those are mistakes, or justifiable responses to savage Arab attacks on blameless Jews within Israel. Brent’s ideology is racist to the core – he presents himself as a calm, moderate voice who just wants the best for everyone, but he is in reality an extremist supporting the status quo that supplies the State of Israel with endless weapons and encourages its ongoing atrocities in every possible way.

On the origins and nature of Zionism:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/zionism-jewish-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.kd60.lezZa3ydQ4zl&smid=em-share

“(There is nothing that) means one cannot criticize the policies and practices of an Israeli administration. Anti-Zionism, however, goes much further and rejects the idea of Jewish self-determination entirely. Those who would deny the Jews the right to a Jewish state, in a world that comfortably accepts Muslim and Christian states, are discriminating against Jews. It is here that anti-Zionism crosses over to antisemitism.”

From Plitnicks article, “Much more is needed. But the political winds have already shifted.…the path toward a different policy toward Palestine and Israel has never been so open.”

Americans are smarter than how they are portrayed by you and Bibi Netanyahu.
Arrogance is not a strength.

[I] What is Yavneh?

Hostage is hardy the only confused one.

Yavneh was not a council that:

• laid the groundwork for Mishnaic Judaism, which is a fabrication of the 3rd century CE,
• closed the Hebrew canon, or
• excommunicated Christians.

It was an early post-70 intellectual center where sages preserved and developed legal authority after the Temple’s destruction. Later rabbinic memory magnified Yavneh into a foundation story for rabbinic Judaism.

Yavneh/Jamnia was tied to Roman imperial property and Roman permission. The Yavnean sages operated in a framework of accommodation to Roman rule.

The sages were intellectual/legal figures, some from elite Jewish families, whose survival and authority depended partly on Roman toleration and possibly Roman recognition. Yavneh itself, however, had earlier been an imperial/royal estate, which makes the location politically significant.

The evidence breaks down this way.

1. Yavneh/Jamnia was indeed connected to Herodian and imperial property. Josephus says Herod left Jamnia, Ashdod, and Phasaelis to his sister Salome; later Salome left Jamnia and its toparchy to Julia/Livia, Augustus’s wife. That makes Jamnia part of an imperial-domestic estate network before 70 CE, not simply a neutral town for Jewish sages. 

2. After 70, the sages at Yavneh existed under Roman sufferance. The Talmudic story in Gittin 56b has Yohanan ben Zakkai ask Vespasian for “Yavneh and its sages,” the family of Rabban Gamaliel, and medical help for R. Zadok. Whether legendary or not, the story itself presents Yavneh as a Roman-permitted survival space, not an independent national institution. Yohanan ben Zakkai is like Josephus an obvious collaborator with the Romans.

3. Rabban Gamaliel II may have been useful to Rome as a Jewish intermediary. Lee Levine suggests Roman recognition of Gamaliel may reflect Rome’s ordinary policy of cultivating local aristocracy to stabilize conquered provinces; after Agrippa II’s death, Rome may have needed another link to the Jewish community. But Levine also stresses that the extent and nature of Gamaliel’s leadership are unclear. 

Yavneh was partly a collaborationist/aristocratic accommodationist institution because it functioned under Roman permission and was led by moderate, elite, non-revolutionary sages.

‘SPS 1946’ “You know Israel has slaughtered at least 100 Palestinian civilians for every Israeli Jew “

Oh, quit yer bitchin! Like I always say:
That’s just the way the matzah crumbles; into a half-baked cracker!

‘jrg’: “Jewish immunity??? If there’s such a thing as Jewish immunity, then there must be such a thing as universal human immunity to cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, COVID and a dozen other diseases.” 

Are you saying, yes, you are saying that being Jewish is a disease? You better cut that out, I won’t stand for it.
If that’s the way you think of your Judaism, a disease, you really should see a therapist.
And in case you don’t realize it, “that statement would be very gratifying to a number of neo-Nazi and white nationalist websites if they ever pick up on it.”

‘Hostage’: “You are applying the logic of a bypassed, more brutal epoch to legitimize modern civilian suffering.”

Wait a minute! I have to ask the only question which matters, which none of your Goyische science books can answer!

I thank and applaud ‘Hostage’, ‘SPS1946’, ‘LivvyCallipygian’ ‘Thomas Ellenberg’ ‘bcg’ and so many others!
I know the feelings and personal emotions of rejecting Zionism, but you all supply the cold facts!

And in the long run, maybe not so long, that’ll be ‘good for the Jews’.

Well, consider this : One of the kidnapped hostages was 68 year-old Yitzhak Elgarat . For some reason, the terrorists got it into their heads that he was a military man. An IAF pilot, no less. (His brother guesses that it may have been because he had a tattoo of an eagle. )
He was tortured to death.

“*Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim ‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’”

I mean, do we know how to make fiends, and give the world a certainty of our good intentions, or what? But given there are 7 million people (and dropping every day) and given that Israel is invulnerable (how are things in Tel Aviv these days?)
Not to mention the bond between Zionist colony and the US, getting stronger every day. Not that Israel needs the US, not at all.

Maimonides lived 1138 -1204.
,
The heyday of the Baylonian academies was before Maimonides’ time so he could not “grant permission to the Babylonians. “
 
The Yavneh Council , if it took place, was around 90 CE, and it also did not “grant permission to the Babylonians”.

Hostage is as confused as ever.

‘SPS 1946’ : “This path of aggression will not end well for Israel,…

How can you say that? Do you know that the Israel colony has 7 million residents, and dropping every day? And a lot of them (mostly Mizrahi, I would imagine) really can’t leave.
But that ought to be enough to create Greater Israel. And conquer Iran and Lebanon.
I mean, who are we? Are we Maccabees or weenies like Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai ?

‘jrg’:”Thanks for pointing that out, Mooser. I’m glad I have a friend like you to look out for me”

Oh, it’s nothing, a pleasure in fact. And as you can probably see, I judge all events by a single question…

“ROFL”

Thanks, I knew you would get it. ‘Jons’ and ‘jrg’, not so much.

“In the eye of the beholder.”

Does your “eye” even see the massive human crimes that your Apartheid Israel has committed over so many decades?

This is what a sick society looks like.

No Birthright Lasts 2000 Years — The Claim Only Israel Gets Away With | YouTube

You will likely continue to not understand it is about voter opinion…. politics.

“Are you saying enough Americans now understand the Palestinian concept for co-existence?”

In the eye of the beholder.

Is this the best you have?

“Here’s Brent again, blaming Israels genocide on anybody else but Israel.”

Thomas, you are exactly right! Ole Brent doesn’t want to even mention any Genocide, massacres, killing/murder, destruction of Palestinians/Arabs committed by his beloved Apartheid Israel.

He keeps posting the same ole SOS as a diversion tactic.

Re: David Reich, who is the son of the despicable first director of the USHMM Walter Reich (see HOLOCAUST MUSEUM OUSTS DIRECTOR)

Just clarify, I have no problem with Walter Reich refusing to conduct a VIP tour for Arafat. My complaint with him was when the Gaza ceasefire took effect and Gaza was already an unlivable moonscape with 76,000 dead, a hundred thousand wounded, and thousands still missing. He attacked anyone who stated the obvious, that genocide had happened. When two Netanyahu Foreign Ministry workers were murdered after presenting the patently illegal Trump and Netanyahu private “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) food distribution feeding station plan to replace legitimate humanitarian organizations in Gaza”, Walter claimed opposition to the Israel State plan was 2,000 year old antisemitism masquerading as anti-Zionism, that targeted both Jews and their state. Slaying Outside D.C. Jewish Museum Is Part of Global Surge in Antisemitism

Between Extreme Renditions, Bombing Aspirin factories in Sudan, the 1999 NATO bombing campaign of Kosovo refugees, and 1998 Afghanistan Airstrikes many experts still think Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Dennis Miller, and Aaron David Miller should have been in prison, not demanding VIP tours of the Holocaust Museum for Arafat. He spent decades planning, authorizing, or failing to prevent systematic terror attacks on civilians: airline hijackings, the 1976 Damour Massacre, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades suicide bombings, and reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that documented Palestinian Authority use of widespread arbitrary detentions, torture, and extrajudicial executions of political dissidents and suspected “collaborators” carried out by Arafat’s internal security apparatus..

The Holocaust Museum Advisory Council is about 60 government-paid appointees with portions picked by the President, Senate, House, and ex-officio State Department officials. The Executive Director, like Walter Reich, is only a private sector (non-government) employee. He had a perfect right to tell the Advisory Council no and resign. See: How Yasir Arafat Almost Hijacked the U.S. Holocaust Museum July 22, 2019; and BEHIND THE HEADLINES Ousted Holocaust museum leader says he feels vindicated by report, August 25, 1999

You are constantly twisting and turning like a snake with these dishonest arguments you float whenever the facts dismantle your last claim.
Israel is trying to become a settler-colonial empire. That is no longer acceptable in the post-WWII world. This path of aggression will not end well for Israel, and it has already killed and displaced millions of people.
When the American Government changes course, and it will soon, Israel will be a small country with no friends and no markets for trade.

Bibi Netanyahu ‘promotes’ from the river to the sea in frequent public settings. He wants to ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from the river to the sea. Americans are now understanding that message loud and clear.
Israel has lost the propaganda war, and Israel will destroy itself if continues down this path of endless wars.
Listen to what Egypt’s President said today.

Re: As jon s and I have pointed out, the ratio of casualties is not a guide to the justice of one’s cause

But maybe you two are just saying that to mislead everyone. The IDF was certainly signing Aharon Haliva’s paychecks as the Military Intelligence chief after the Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and he told a completely different story. See:

*Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim ‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’

*Former IDF intel chief: Oct. 7 was ‘much deeper’ than an intelligence failure. In leaked recordings, Aharon Haliva recounts night before Hamas attack, lambasts Netanyahu for not resigning and claims high Gaza death toll ‘required for future generations’

*’They Need a Nakba’ Former IDF General Calls Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza ‘Necessary’ in Recording Aharon Haliva, Military Intelligence chief during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, said in a recording aired by Israeli Channel 12 that mass deaths in Gaza were not revenge but ‘a message for future generations’

Mooser: “Hostage, ask him if he is bound for Pinsk, or Minsk.”

ROFL

jon s “After the kidnapped hostages were released it was reported that a few of them successfully deceived their captors regarding their military service. For example: Emily Damari concealed the fact that she was serving in the Border Police (also concealed that she’s gay…) ; Maxim Herkin was an IDF officer , on leave at the Nova festival. Before being taken to Gaza he managed to get rid of his military papers and his cellphone and the terrorists listed him as a civilian. Of course, the IDF cooperated by expunging the relevant social media.”

Makes me wonder how many Israeli “civlians” were actually civilians. To be put to a racist death sentence by the only “democracy in the middle east” it only takes affiliation or support of Hamas.

jrg: “The casualties incurred by the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War and by the Axis during WWII relative to those of their enemies are powerful illustrations of that…”

It is quite telling that your and jon s’ understanding of humanitarian law are non existent and your war time morals are stuck in the Nazi era.

And even worse, you fail to explain why the world had to move past it and created the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide convention. By using pre-1946 standards to justify 21st-century warfare, you are treating the greatest moral and legal progress of the 20th century as if it never happened. You are applying the logic of a bypassed, more brutal epoch to legitimize modern civilian suffering.

“Your willingness to dismiss extreme civilian casualties by invoking WWII logic, alongside your outright dismissal of fundamental legal principles like proportionality and the prohibition of indiscriminate fire aligns dangerously with recent trends in Israeli public opinion. A chilling poll published by Haaretz in 2025 showed that 47% of Jewish Israelis agreed that the IDF should act like the biblical Joshua in Jericho and kill all inhabitants when conquering a city.

Since your argument completely decouples a ‘just cause’ from the scale of civilian destruction, it provides the exact intellectual scaffolding for this kind of mindset. So, let’s be direct: Do you count yourself among that 47%?

You are comparing apples to oranges. The “recent publications”
such as Reich’s “programmatic monograph on archaeogenetics” Riede described was just Reich’s book “Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past”.

The archeologists were not “colleagues”. Linderholm, Horsburgh, Vander Linden, Klein, Bandelt, and Kirch, were reviewers featured in the University of Chicago Press Book Review Forum: writing about “Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here” book. Several of the reviewers approved of the book and Reich’s work. Those that argued for a more even-handed integration of genomic and archaeological datasets were ignoring the composition of the massive teams Reich Lab always works with. The 2020 Cell study on the Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant was a collaborative effort. It involved over 40 archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and lab scientists to perform radiocarbon dating, & etc. They analyzed DNA from 73 ancient individuals across five archaeological sites, with 32 contributing as authors and discussed over 60 reference works from every discipline. After listing the reviews of the book Riede concluded: “These responses, however, offer little in the way of concrete advice on how such an integration may be achieved Methodologically.”

Only one reviewer, Vander Linden, made outlandish claims: “This bestselling monograph, which is aimed at a nonspecialist audience, makes a full-throated call for the displacement of humanistic study by the “hard sciences”; along the way, it makes troubling overtures toward prewar racialism.” … Ancient DNA studies, thanks to Reich and others, may have enjoyed a “golden age,” but it is now time to grow up: aggressive and unethical sampling, blind empiricism, and admixture must make room for collaborative research design, hypothesis testing, and population history.”

He cited studies that praised Reich or ones Reich’s lab wrote to standardize sample collection and open source the ancient DNA archive for everyone. Reich’s book argued that genomics is now a fundamental tool that should be integrated alongside traditional humanities and archaeology to study the human past. A Kindle word-search of Reich’s book turns up nothing like Vander Linden claims. But he and a co-author wrote an Introduction to a Chapter on prehistoric archaeology in the Bronze Age in Britain and North West Europe, that does what he falsely claimed Reich was doing,

Here’s Brent again, blaming Israels genocide on anybody else but Israel.

Israel has always been the settler movement.

There are many thousands of workers in Western weapons factories, many of them here in the UK. Every working day they turn up to help the US and Israel to violently abuse the bodies of children in Palestine and elsewhere. Ask those workers if they approve of child abuse and of course they will say they do not. Their actions tell us that, when it comes to their well-paid careers and so long as the victims are not their own kids, those workers are entirely content to assist in child abuse. This has been the case since the 19th century but only in recent times has it become impossible for such workers to say they didn’t know what the weapons they produce were being used to do against children.

whether Palestine and supporters will be able to persuade public opinion they are looking for co-existing peacefully

… with a racist society bent on the complete destruction of the Palestinian people and, in the West, increasingly anti-democratic political repression of every supporter of Palestine. Your unstated assumption, as ever, is that Israel & the US government are moderates whom violent Arab savages must persuade of their rejection of armed resistance. You are the violent savage, Brent, along with the entire State of Israel and all in the West who supply it. Reject those, and you will become more human.

“Netanyahu and his narrative”? This is about the ‘Israel’ project, not one politician. Almost every Israeli Jew, and still most Western Jews, utterly reject Jewish co-existence with Palestinians.

Your unstated Jewish supremacism leads you to demand Mondoweiss and the Palestinian people constantly explain themselves, as if they are extremists. Meanwhile, US imperialism and Israel’s ultraviolent Zionism – which cost the lives of vast numbers and destroy entire societies – are taken by you as the normal, moderate status quo. It is you, Brent, who represent the violent extreme, and you need to keep explaining why you tacitly support US imperialism and its attack dog in the Middle East called Israel.

Re: Susan Hakenbeck has criticized equating migration with cultural change.

Dr. Hakenbeck has never made any such allegation concerning David Reich. In fact, the only time she has ever mentioned him, was in her 2019 paper “Genetics, archaeology and the far right: an unholy Trinity,” Hakenbeck quoted one of David Reich comments from a public forum complaining about the racist Stormfront website. She subsequently used a black bar to obscure his name at his request. The original comment on the unrelated original website remains visible. This was done to protect privacy. Both she and Reich were commenting about the extremists on the white supremacist Stormfront website who were using valid data completely out of context. Hakenbeck and David Reich are explicitly on the same side of this issue.

In his own writing, Reich heavily denounces nationalism and racism, arguing that ancient DNA proves human history is a story of continuous, complex mixing. Rather than working in a vacuum, the David Reich Lab at Harvard routinely operates as a massive collaborative machine. His landmark papers features massive multi-disciplinary teams—frequently consisting of dozens of archaeologists, anthropologists, and linguists from global institutions—to ensure the genetic data is contextually integrated with physical archaeology. The narrative that Hakenbeck “criticized Reich for equating migration with cultural change” is nonsense. She uses the very same approach as Reich in measuring migration size and cultural change in dozens of her own Cambridge University Department online “Research” and “Key Publications” sections.

Thanks for pointing that out, Mooser. I’m glad I have a friend like you to look out for me. In fact, I’ve decided to change my thinking completely, and I’ve even ordered myself a kaffiyeh. Do you think this one would look good on me?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08T1THS7V/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_plhdr=t&aaxitk=51f677c2d03f3142b28034874f963c28&hsa_cr_id=9217058170801&qid=1783221019&sr=1-1-9e67e56a-6f64-441f-a281-df67fc737124&ref_=sbx_s_sparkle_sbtcd_asin_0_title&pd_rd_w=yq1e0&content-id=amzn1.sym.2fb72bc8-96ef-420d-b08f-c04b69f36507%3Aamzn1.sym.2fb72bc8-96ef-420d-b08f-c04b69f36507&pf_rd_p=2fb72bc8-96ef-420d-b08f-c04b69f36507&pf_rd_r=WGZX3EAR1ZHGJ1584KNG&pd_rd_wg=jwi8S&pd_rd_r=37808261-5929-4f6c-b152-2ab173d806a3&th=1

“You know Israel has slaughtered at least 100 Palestinian civilians for every Israeli Jew who has died at the hands of a Palestinian ‘terrorist’ since the Nakba catastrophe of 1948.” As jon s and I have pointed out, the ratio of casualties is not a guide to the justice of one’s cause. The casualties incurred by the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War and by the Axis during WWII relative to those of their enemies are powerful illustrations of that, as are those of Hamas during the late war in Gaza.

Are you saying enough Americans now understand the Palestinian concept for co-existence?

Mondoweiss promotes “from the river to the sea” without clarifying what they intend to convey…. a gift toNetanyahu and his narrative.

No, Reich explained It’s not a dichotomy. It’s undeniable that there are nontrivial average genetic differences across populations in multiple traits, and the race vocabulary is too ill-defined and too loaded with historical baggage to be helpful. If we continue to use it we will not be able to escape the current debate, which is mired in an argument between two [false and] indefensible positions. 

In 2015 I had colon cancer and survived because I was aware my risk was hundreds of times higher than the general US population due to a Jewish Mendelian disease. Rachel J. Crellin & Oliver J. T. Harris are merely archeologists. No one needs advice about the existence of Mendelian diseases or inherited biological differences originating from Neanderthal or Denisovan genetic mutations from either of them. I also don’t need Colombia University professors writing letters to the editor falsely claiming my population group does not exist in nature. There is nothing a “political scientist” or “archeologist” can say that will convert a medical diagnosis and treatment by my physicians into “racism”.

Tibetans thrive at high altitudes due to a unique variant of the EPAS1 gene, which regulates the body’s response to low oxygen. Unlike lowlanders, whose bodies overproduce red blood cells to compensate for thin air (causing fatal blood thickening), the Tibetan mutation prevents this overproduction, ensuring efficient oxygen use without heart strain. Reich noted on page 110 of his book this mutation originated in Denisovans.

Homozygous carriers of CCR5-Δ32, a gene variant of CC-type chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5), are highly resistant to infections with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and therefore preferred stem cell donors for HIV-infected patients.

Genetic studies on Iranian patients confirm that a specific gene variant inherited from Neanderthals significantly increases susceptibility to severe SARS-CoV-2. Research shows individuals carrying the Neanderthal-derived rs17713054 risk allele at the 3p21.31 chromosome locus face a significantly heightened risk of lethal COVID-19 complications.

Ashkenazi Jewish descent includes an inherited BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation rate of 1 in 40 (about 2.5%), which is roughly 10 times higher than the general population. By contrast, the mutation rate for Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews is approximately 1 in 140 (about 0.7%), significantly higher than the general population rate which averages about 1 in 400.

‘jrg’, you are not doing yourself any good.

jrg “It appears to me that you are being deceitful. “

Hostage, ask him if he is bound for Pinsk, or Minsk.

Re. “I’m going to make an exception to my policy of not engaging with you, Hostage”

Lmao! Because he tears you into little pieces every time.

Does it ever occur to you, ‘jrg’ that anybody reading your posts can see the prejudice, and your expectation that everybody should share it? It’s nasty!

BTW, it answers the Rabbi’s astronomy book question, but very much in the negative.

“What led you to believe that the sources of that information were more trustworthy than the Zionist or pro-Israel ones?” ‘jrg’

Haven’t you heard the classic Jewish joke about Minsk, Pinsk, and the railroad?

Of course, the answer couldn’t be that I, all on my own, know what Zionism is all about.
And I guess I’ll never be forgiven for not giving Zionist propaganda more validity than 74 years of experience and reading. (Hey, jrg, now’s the time for you to say “But have you been there. to see the land of your people”)

 “Was it that you had a falling out with someone in your family, so you spitefully rejected their opinions on the subject?”

Yeah, that question is asked in good faith, I’m sure of it. Oh, and my family has been to Israel, and come home disgusted. Hey but if you want, you can say ‘you’re no Jew!’ and write to Bibi and get me excommunicated.
I mean, only Jews which respect the kokutai should be allowed!

I asked you earlier. How many innocent Palestinians should die for every innocent Israeli Jew who is killed? You didn’t reply because you know the answer defeats your hollow argument.
You know Israel has slaughtered at least 100 Palestinian civilians for every Israeli Jew who has died at the hands of a Palestinian ‘terrorist’ since the Nakba catastrophe of 1948.
The ‘scorecard’ is not in Israel’s favor.

brent,
You seem to think the American voters are clueless about the issues in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. They are not clueless.
Look at the polls. Look at the latest Primary elections. Your endless repetition …’from the river to the sea…’ makes you sound like Bibi Netanyahu’s speechwriter rather than someone seeking a fair and just Peace in the Middle East.

“My Bill of Rights values all people of all faiths equally.” Now who’s showing a “false sense of righteous superiority”? You claim to value people of all faiths equally, but you seem to offer a pass to people who want to murder, rape and kidnap Jews, even very old ones and infants. If that’s valuing everyone equally, I’ll take another dollop of righteous superiority.

“The antisemitism card is played so often by the ‘Jons’ ilk.”



Former Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni on Anti-Semitism: “It’s a trick, we always use it…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZvkY7mIKtw

This article, together with the one on the theft of Orthodox Church land, indicates that the settler movement is now in charge in Israel. Because they are lawless bandits, the entire state – never much concerned at the best of times with the legality of its actions – is starting to crumble.