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by aguaviva 2y ago
Jewish people lived in that region long before Islam was even invented. As did other dominant groups before and after them. In any case the Jewish population's size and influence peaked after a major catastrophe (the Bar Kokhba revo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The issue of concern at the moment is that the statement you led off with above ("They got along just fine during that time period") was plainly untenable -- and not only untenable, but basically an outright inversion of what was
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by aguaviva 2y ago
They can have it mean whatever they want it to mean. But the statement by itself is nonsense, historically speaking.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I simply stated two facts https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lying_by_omission
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In the Palestine Mandate, Jews and Palestinians got along just fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The Foreign Affairs investigation (probably the most detailed of any) suggested multiple reasons for the breakdown of the process. For the purpose of this thread, the main takeaway is that it squarely rejects the "sabotage" theor
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And then fully reversed itself on that decision just a few months later (May 7 2021): Following careful evaluation Amnesty International has decided to re-designate Alexei Navalny as a “Prisoner of Conscience”. https://ar
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'll have to slow down and listen more carefully, then.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Bush's invite of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO in 2007 (against the opinion of France and Germany) was probably a cause of Russian invasion into South Ossetia. Bush did not "invite" those countries to join NATO. Only NATO
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It was a government-organized, government-funded, government-chai-of-command-integrated experimental military force Whose members shoot down government helicopters and an airborne command center when its government-appointed director orde
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Sanctions aren’t affecting Russia in any capacity. Definitely false. They were never the slam dunk that they were supposed to be, and it's true to say their effect has been significantly blunted. But that's not the same as &qu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Right - the UP quote names "one of Zelenskyy's close associates", not Arakhmiya. Since Arakhmiya is explicitly quoted elsewhere in the article (and the different UP article it links to as a source for those quotes, in Ukrain
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I don't think it is possible to come up with a definition of "Zionism" which will please everybody. Except most of these other definitions don't really matter to the current situation, right? The one that does matter i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Noted, and thanks for clarifying. BTW when I get questions with typos/inversions (that are supposed to be logical or mathy questions), I tend to throw them back at the person asking, rather than simply ploughing forward. But I guess
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except that's not a direct quote from Arakhmiya - now is it? Rather, it's a characterization of what he said -- whose original provenance seems to be difficult to track down, and there are conflicting versions available, which of
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No need to worry about 20-50 years from now. It is very unlikely the conflict will continue much longer once Putin croaks or enters his diaper stage, in a few years.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You realize achieving a compromise is not simply "ignoring" or surrendering to Russia? Depends on the degree of compromise. What kind of compromises do you think Ukraine should make at this point in order to win "peace&quot
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Indeed, and the ability to make heads or tails of slightly-slippery problems of this sort is an extremely important real-world math skill. It's not extraneous at all. And their poor performance on these tasks highlights deficits in ex
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by aguaviva 2y ago
"way more so"
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Sounds like you don't really have an argument. Maybe I do, maybe I don't. But this we do know: per previous replies, if we can't agree on appropriate language to discuss the color of the sky on a given day -- that is, if I
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Your previous d̶o̶u̶b̶l̶e̶s̶p̶e̶a̶k̶ comment. Which was? No need for fancy optic effects here - just say what you mean.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I don't know if the Russians are just as jingoistic and corrupt, Short story: current regime in the Russian Federation quite definitely is, may more so in fact, and has fascist, revanchist, genocidal ideology to boot. You may want t
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I think the formation of EU was irrelevant for peace. Disagree. Going from a bombed-out, stone-age hellscape to conflict-free and essentially borderless in just 47 years was a very impressive achievement. Unfortunately for the past seve
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by aguaviva 2y ago
while Iran has them, Present tense, you say?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So Russian government figures, then. Agreed that comment above yours was out to lunch, of course.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Bulgaria was hugely important to the Turkish Empire geopolitically and so it should not have been a surprise that it would not want to let Bulgaria become independent. Turkey already had a mix of rivals both from Christian minority groups a
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I guess if you're a fan of carnage and mayhem like this, then that's the sort of thing you're a fan of. On Sept. 17, just before 3:30 p.m., the small waiting room of Dr. Nour’s three-room pediatrics clinic in southern Bei
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except it's just not going to happen. I don't believe in the stupid propaganda (that gets repeated here almost every week) that Ukraine was manipulated into this war, by Boris or anyone else. Ukraine is entirely independent and
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Thanks for swooping down to correct. It's the small touches that matter.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Right - and the fact that a lot of these accounts are fake should suggest that this whole milieu just isn't worth your time. It's just a wilderness of mirrors, basically. Its purpose is to drain your batteries and make you upset.

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