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OT: Paul Grahm founder of YC was placed on some kind of a blacklist by SV Israeli supporters after the twitter spat he had during Gaza bombing a few years ago.
by anon007 8y ago
OT: Paul Grahm founder of YC was placed on some kind of a blacklist by SV Israeli supporters after the twitter spat he had during Gaza bombing a few years ago. I believe the spat was between PG and Mark Suster, if I remember correctly.
- gadders 8y agoThis was the only link I could find about this:https://pando.com/2014/08/05/graham-and-suster-square-off-over-israel-and-gaza-as-tech-industry-increasingly-pays-attention-to-the-real-world/ https://pando.com/2014/08/05/graham-and-suster-square-off-ov...
- rbanffy 8y agoI can do nothing but commend pg for his commitment to stop what I personally think is close to shooting fish in a barrel. Except it's people and the barrel is mostly dry.
- davidf18 8y agoThere is context which neither you nor pg presumably understand. Gaza is closed off not only by Israel but by Egypt in the latter case it is because terrorists from Gaza have killed many Egyptian soldiers in Sinai. Israel is in fact using its technology to save the lives of Egyptian soldiers. Israel pulled out of Gaza and the Palestinians elected to lead them Hamas, a terrorist organization according to the EU, US, and Israel that also brags about blowing up family restaurants such as Sbarro in Jerusalem where a pregnant American woman died among many others. They chose terrorists to lead them over Fatah. Instead of improving Gaza, Hamas used funding to shoot missiles into Israel and to dig tunnels into Israel attempting to kill civilians. Israel ended up developing the Iron Dome missile system that protected Israeli civilians from rockets from Hamas. Israel now has a joint venture with Raytheon building and selling these weapons systems. Three countries besides Israel have thus far purchased them. It was when Iron Dome made Hamas missiles ineffective that Hamas began building tunnels into Israel to attack civilians. The 2014 conflict was the third conflict (2008, 2012, 2014) and in that conflict Saudi Arabia and Egypt both backed Israel over Hamas. GAZA KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION CEREMONY: KIDS STAGE MOCK MILITARY ATTACK AND HOSTAGE-TAKING https://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-kindergarten-ceremony-stage-military-attack-hostagetaking https://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-kindergarten-ceremony-stage-mi...
- gadders 8y agoI think PG is entirely wrong and Mark Suster was entirely right on that subject.
- atomical 8y agoProof?
- atomical 8y agodang, this violates HN guidelines.