Jim V

Trump’s Greenland threats echo dark moments of cold war alliances Soviet invasions of allies helped destroy the Warsaw Pact – Trump’s dangerous rhetoric risks repeating the mistake inside Nato

When you simply don’t trust anyone to be a friend, because you’d stab them in the back if it got you ahead…

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Maybe Ilhan Omar, but any “leaders” on the Left ought to be on the trash heap of history.

Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into Belarus Assertion comes after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of attacking Vladimir Putin’s palace in Novgorod

My suspicion is Trump’s Venezuela, Nigeria, Syria adventures are his way of compensating for his intimidation by Putin rather than “wag the dog”.

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Elected folk are the people who wait to see which way the parade is marching then run to the front. There are a lot of leaders and fighters, just don’t meet the glamor index.

Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela Move comes amid escalating campaign against Maduro as Venezuelan government condemns ‘grotesque threat’

Too afraid of Putin so why not beat up the little kid?

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U.S. pours more firepower into the Caribbean as Trump ramps up threats - The Wall Street Journal

Abandon an ally, Ukraine, a real Russian threat to Western security to threaten a small South American country posing no threats. Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO)—afraid of Putin, he just punches down.

If I had to bandy about my anthropology credentials as much as Daniel does, I’d start to wonder which junior college associate’s degree he has.

Daniel, you’re getting lazy. I didn’t write Israelis, I wrote Jews. Jews are murdering Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success New York’s financial elite compare the city to crime-riddled Gotham after democratic socialist bests Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary

OMG! Rich folks are nervous?
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Just think starting a war you can neither win nor lose is really stupid. The air arms of the military always tell the leaders you can collapse a country via air attacks and no dead kids on our side. Has never worked. Not Germany, absent nukes not Japan, not Hezbollah, not Ghaza.

This guy…
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Israel-Iran conflict at critical juncture as Trump demands Tehran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ US president triggers speculation about American military involvement after five days of Israeli bombing and retaliatory Iranian missile strikes

We had Iran at the table, allowing monitoring and inspections of its nuclear enrichment. All agreed they were complying. Trump pulled 100% to crush Obama’s success. This is Trump’s war. It’s his fault.

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The two-state solution is a delusion | Rabea Eghbariah Israel controls the lives of all Palestinians, without equal rights or equal representation: this is an entrenched one-state reality

Apartheid

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Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

More than tragic, it’s barbaric.
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If you are really an anthropologist, ie advanced or terminal degrees in the field, how does שואה = نكبة or even cultural appropriation? نكب far antecedes שואה linguistically. Go back to being a theistic Jew. At least the Sky King gives you footing.

Point still stands. Indigenous Palestinians protecting their lands are responsible for Jews shooting them and hating them because they say Jews shouldn’t steal their land or kill them. Jews have no agency, just reacting to Palestinians being mean to them.

National Guard troops in Los Angeles seen sleeping on floors — San Francisco Chronicle President Donald Trump’s rush to deploy California National Guard troops to Los Angeles has left dozens of soldiers without adequate sleeping arrangements, forced to pack together in one or more feder...

Trump and Hegseth planning…
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Daniel is so intellectually dishonest. He said to me that Palestinians are responsible for illegal Israeli settlements because they prohibit Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands. So Arabs responsible for Israeli expropriations and anti-Palestinian doctrine.

Daniel is just intellectually dishonest. If you trespass on my land (illegally) you’re the criminal. Israelis stealing WB and GS land, murdering indigenous people illegally are Israeli crimes. He’s a declared atheist so his only basis is indigenous co-existence. He can’t face that.

So Israel can then just sit back, expropriate land, shoot Palestinians because “they started it?” Nice compassion gap.

On purchased land, possibly. That doesn’t justify outright theft of land by West Bank settlers.

So end it. Israel makes the offer, full citizenship, equal rights, end movement restrictions. If Palestinians reject it, that’s on them.

TOWARD NAKBA AS A LEGAL CONCEPT - Columbia Law Review “This is a unique colonialism that we’ve been subjected to where they have no use for us. The best Palestinian for them is either dead or gone. It’s not that they want to exploit us, or that they need...

النكبة
was disastrous and a humanitarian blot on Israeli history. I’d love to see your reference to the Syrian Arab nationalist documenting their motive for the Arabic word for catastrophe.

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Yep with full citizenship for all living in the lands between the Jordan River and the sea. Freedom of movement, protection of private property
rights, equal protections by law enforcement. No more “illegal” settlements. They could purchase land from current owners if all agree to a fair price.

100% Israel with full citizenship for all from Jordan River to the sea. Free right of movement, employment, citizenship.

Create one state with equal rights for all rather than an oppress apartheid regime.

Well, returning Jews of various ethnicities perhaps sharing maternal mitochondrial DNA purchased land from impoverished Palestinians. What Palestinian state allowed by Israel is nonetheless a state. Racist exclusion of Palestinians is just racist.

Israel and Judea were destroyed as well, no? So Jews lost their claim to the land?

That’s just silly. Palestinians have lived there for hundreds of years, own their land, farm it, raise families there. Every bit as indigenous as Jews. Just acknowledge you’re expropriating land from indigenous folk. Claim you’re “more indigenous”, but still.

Still, as a self described atheist you know there’s no moral right to the land.