He sounds like a deadbeat who never made anything of himself and now he coasts by mooching off of you, and if he had any self-respect he’d shred your checks instead of cashing them
They have their own money. Why would they need mine?
The purpose of wealth and legacy is to pass to the people who are the future, not the past. You will outlive your parents and your children will outlive you. That’s the direction it should flow - it’s evil of your parents to take your money.
Yeah let’s just allow roving gangs of brownshirts to run around attacking and terrorizing minorities
There are mechanisms to stop, apprehend, and punish those who attack and terrorize communities already, without regard to ideology, and without violating the state’s monopoly on civil violence. There’s even recourse when those mechanisms don’t get a fair result.
If it comes to war, you should kill them with guns because they’ll certainly use guns against you. Otherwise we’re all just talking.
Either we settle these disagreements as a civil society, or we settle them with civil war. Talking, or guns. It’s never punching, so you never punch Nazis.
Which people are tolerant and which people are intolerant is less obvious than it looks.
Like if you say “the Jews should be eliminated” then most everyone will recognize you as a Nazi unless you say it in Arabic and have a brown face, at which point punching you is a hate crime.
attacking that person is as much self defense as if they were commiting the act themselves.
With what level of force are you going to attack them? Surely a bloody nose isn’t going to be enough to dissuade them. So are we talking broken bones? Loss of an eye? Or force to the extent that they die from it? After all nothing’s safer than a dead attacker.
Ok but now you’re the one talking about extermination… so what do we do with you? The problem with the Paradox of Tolerance is that there’s a Paradox of Intolerance, too.
Illegal annexation of the west bank ruled by the UN to be illegal under international law.
Not ruled; advised. ICJ advisories are non-binding. Israel’s annexation of the West Bank, which was ceded to them through negotiated agreement with Jordan, is legal under both Jordanian and Israeli law and no other law applies because no other sovereignty applies.
The ICJ ruling that the United States “unlawfully” annexed Alaska or Hawaii would have similar import: literally none whatsoever. The simple fact is that borders move and land changes hand and the ICJ doesn’t have the authority to say what’s what.
We do not live in a pre world war 2 political order anymore
Israel’s claim to the lands of Judea and Samaria is based on agreements that predate WWII. Israel as a nation is older than several of the countries that make up the European Union, but nobody says that Germany unlawfully “annexed” West Berlin.
Under international law, a people under occupation by a foreign government have the right to armed resistance
Rape and murder of children aren’t “resistance”, hope that helps
Apartheid has been going on for years and years now.
Yes, in fact it’s been going on for quite a bit fewer years than the Arabs of Palestine have been trying to commit genocide against the Jews. If you don’t think Oct 7 is somehow a brutal act of terrorism by a people who deserve apartheid (at least) as a response, then you can look to the one before that, the one before that, the one before that, and so on and so forth all the way back to the first Arabs invading Judea.
The Jews of Israel have lived with the Palestinian desire to mass-murder them a lot longer than I would. No more merciful a people than Israelis; no more ungrateful a people than Palestinians.
The reasoning of “yeah but look what they did” was the reason nazi Germany justified deporting jews to Auschwitz.
If Jews had, en masse, instituted a pogrom of Germans then the camps would have been justified. But it was the reverse that was true. But the Arabs have been torturing, enslaving, and killing Jews since the first day they colonized Judea.
Must be sharing the feelings of average Germans at the end of the war when they had to face up to what they had allowed to go on.
The ones who hadn’t died in the war, you mean. Or do you also think “German” is a word that can’t mean “soldier”?
Famine is present in some areas of Gaza and is imminent in other areas. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned more than two months ago, “1.1 million people in Gaza are facing catastrophic hunger
What does this statement mean? It certainly can’t mean 1.1 million people have been unable to acquire food and eat it, because they have and have continued to.
This occurred through the imposition of a total siege over Gaza that involved completely closing the three border crossing points, Rafah, Kerem Shalom and Erez, from 8 October 2023 for extended periods
It is not a crime of war to besiege an enemy city, nor to deny an enemy people access to a nation they wish to attack.
What’s the source for your claim that 52,000 civilians died in Gaza?
To Oct 7, when thousands of Palestinians streamed over the border to rape, murder, and steal from the Jews?
How could apartheid be an overreaction to that? How could anything short of the complete extinction of Gaza and all living there be anything but an underreaction? If Mexicans did the same thing to Arizona we’d deploy nuclear weapons on Mexico City. Israel, to its immense credit, is more merciful than any other nation on Earth. And Gazans remain the least grateful people alive.
I accept the 42,000 casualty figure, but there’s no source for how many are civilians. Certainly some are! But the mistake you’re making is that you’re reading “42,000 Palestinians” and some brainworm is causing you to interpret that to mean “42,000 civilians.” But that’s not what that means - Hamas fighters and unassociated militants are Palestinians, too.
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He sounds like a deadbeat who never made anything of himself and now he coasts by mooching off of you, and if he had any self-respect he’d shred your checks instead of cashing them