I’ve dropped the word ‘racism’ to describe what I see in Israel. I don’t think it’s really about the ‘race’ (an artificial concept, we’re one species not a collection of races or breeds), it’s more to do with the religion.
It’s just old fashioned religious bigotry. They’re not members of ‘our’ group, so ‘they’ don’t matter.
In the end, there’s not much difference in the underlying concept. So really, my comment is pointless.
Just going to point out that the ironclad was one of the earlier steam powered warships. A very obsolete thing, in this day and age.
You know what else DNA tells us? It implies that all humans evolved in Africa, that we left that part of the world and almost all of our ancestors traveled thru modern day Israel on their way to the rest of the world.
It even shows that ‘we’ separated from our simian cousins about 10 million years ago.
The study of religion argues that the concept of god (as a demonstrable concept) is only about 10 thousand years old.
So, really, we all have the right to return to Israel. :)
Good thing there’s no such thing as blasphemy anymore. Amirite?
Gott mit uns. Hmmm, no. That doesn’t really sound better in the ‘original’ German. (yes, I know it’s not the original source of that…)
If you didn’t like refugees before, you’re going to hate them in a future with a business as usual Climate Change policy.
Any part of the world that can sustain life, will be a place to which billions of people will try to move.
If you can’t see how that will affect the survival odds of the nations that are small and somewhat dry already…
At least we’ll be spared the predictions of the imminent return/arrival of saviours, after everyone has left the region.
Comparing the massacre in Gaza to the slaughter of WWII is delusional.
The “barrage of rockets” from Gaza killed few people, and did little damage. The “retaliation” for that killed thousands and made thousands more homeless.
In WWII the Axis and the Allies slaughtered each other in comparable numbers.
The only comparison that exists between Gaza and WWII is what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto. And you really don’t want to remind people of that when talking about Israel and Gaza. It doesn’t make the Israeli government look very good. Well, I suppose the good thing is that Israel hasn’t launched a true “final solution to the Palestinian problem”, yet anyhow…
I really dislike the idea of Hell. If there is an afterlife, it would be better for those who were harmed in this life to decide on what kind of punishment should be inflicted on those who did them wrong.
Relying on demons or devils to do the dirty work is a nasty form of outsourcing. IMO.
And Trump has accomplished what?
Before the election in 2016 I argued that Hillary was the lesser of two evils. I have been proven right.
Yes. They should support Beto, and every other Democrat.
The alternative is more power to Mr. Trump, which he will use in a way that will harm not only the USA, but also everyone else on the planet.
Kick the Republicans out of power, as much as possible. Then kick the establishment Democrats out of power…
“One of the central lessons of Jewish existence is that powerlessness leads to catastrophe. A people can never put itself at the mercy of the marauding beast. It can never depend on outside protectors, they won’t come. They won’t come to save you. ”
The idea that a nation state can, or will, protect the people who live in their lands is laughable. The nation state exists to protect itself, nothingmore. Ask the Germans how well their nation protected them. Or the Soviets. Or the French. Or the Spanish. And that’s just the Europeans!
It seems to me, apostate that I am, that the Rabbi in this case is placing his faith in a nation state, rather than the divinity that I’d expect him to have faith in. Has Israel become his golden calf?