Very few of Israeli Jews are actually Arabs. They are largely of European descent. So it is misinformation to characterize this as Arabs murdering Arabs. What this is is Western settler-colonialism.

Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me apprised unbidden.

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Roko’s basilisk, if you run an online forum for “futurist” dumbasses.

• 1896 CE: Theodor Herzl writes “The Jewish State”

• 1897 CE: Theodor Herzl writes “Mauschel”

Herzl believed that there were two types of Jews, Jiden (Yids) and Juden (Jews), and considered any Jew who openly opposed his proposals for a Zionist solution to the Jewish question to be a Mauschel. The article has often been taken, since its publication, to be emblematic of an antisemitic strain of thinking in Zionism, and has been described as an antisemitic rant.

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

Due to his Zionist work, he is known in Hebrew as Chozeh HaMedinah (חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה), lit. ‘Visionary of the State’. He is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and is officially referred to as “the spiritual father of the Jewish State”.

bUt hOW ArE You gOInG to PaY fOR It?

conflation of state and people that Hamas’s ideology clearly makes

A Document of General Principles and Policies

by largely targeting and slaughtering civilians in their homes

That is not what happened. That is what Western media said happened.

• The Intercept:
  • Netanyahu’s War on Truth
  • The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
• Al Jazeera: Why did Israel deploy Hannibal Directive, allowing killing of own citizens?
• Electronic Intifada: How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

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If Hamas wants to dismantle Israeli oppression through activism, negotiations, and political reform great.

1. It has tried to do that for decades. The most recent significant attempt was Great March of Return, wherein the IDF slaughtered Gazans.
2. Palestinians have the legal right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle.
3. Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.

That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.

Please understand the distinction between the destruction of the state of Israel and the destruction of the people of Israel. The example you were just given was the destruction of the state of South Africa.

a two state solution is fair and striving for peace and understanding between the two parties is desirable.

That sounds nice, but Israel wants no such thing and never has, despite its past claims to the contrary.

Because you’re unable to distinguish between a state and a people, you’re unable to imagine anything but the eradication of a people, even though the example of the state of South Africa was just given to you.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out 👋

The good guys are the citizens

I’m going to have to stop you right there, because the Palestinians are not the citizens of any state: they are a people being occupied, apatheided, and genocided by the state of Israel. So there’s a “very, very simple truth” for you.

In the face of genocide, you chose to dodge the question.

This simplistic one size fits all argument falls flat when one side is being occupied and ethnically cleansed by the other side. It implies that Hamas is the “bad guy” and all other occupied Palestinians are the “good guy,” and it implies that non-military Israeli settlers are the “‘good guy.” But the truth is that the great majority of adult Israelis are militant settler-colonizers; and that Palestinians have the legal right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle; and that Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

Oh, you know what Yogthos is doing? He’s going for that “ I find this truth inconvenient downvote ” dollar; that’s a good market. He’s very smart.

We don’t always have the luxury of choosing our tools, and some tools are garbage.

Lesson learned: we use the working class of our vassal states to die for us now.

Oh my mistake. I took the article’s title to mean that this is about US restaurants in Israel itself. The website was down when I wrote it, so I couldn’t read the article and didn’t know any better.

Their site seems to be down at the moment, and that page hasn’t been cached by the archive sites yet :/ Never mind, it’s back.

How much of this is about boycotting and how much is it about Israelis suffering financial straits in this multi-front genocide & war?

Oh no, the Russian bots and trolls have gotten to the NYT, too. Now they’re just parroting Kremlin talking points.