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by racional 2y ago
Nice work - you've obviously completely demolished the objection to the translation by the user above. In fact one can verify the correct ("invalidate"/"nullify") translation directly, by looking at the origin
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by racional 2y ago
Should applicants for citizenship to Germany be required to sign a written statement "acknowledging the right of Russia to exist"? Or the People's Republic of China, say? That's what at least one version of the test (in
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by racional 2y ago
I think the idea of prior indigenous claim is counter productive, but since it has been introduced by Palestinians as a kind of volksgemeinschaft, blut und boden, Jews would have prior claim by that standard. The folks who first brought u
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by racional 2y ago
Jews were already well sick of Arabs' shit Funny you should mention. At least some of the new arrivals from Europe were apparently "already well sick of the Arabs' shit" from the minute they landed in their new homela
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by racional 2y ago
If we start at 1936 (when the conflict in Palestine began in earnest), bucket by country (consistent with the fact that Israel's myriad wars up until the current one have been lumped together in a single "conflict"); and divi
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by racional 2y ago
Does his being "clear" about his reasons for supporting the Gaza operation (or the fact that he's not primarily in it for the money) give him a pass?
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by racional 2y ago
Unfortunately if "that guy" is your customer then your real job is to make them happy. Which means, by definition, putting up with their crazy-ass formats, services, and data stores. Or they're some company / agency p
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by racional 2y ago
People who [disagree with my analysis] just don’t want to learn anything new. CSV is a well-discussed topic on HN. If you'd like to explore other points of view in regard to these issues, you could start with this fine recent thread
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by racional 2y ago
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You will no doubt be relieved to know that Israel is not the #1 killer of Muslims by any measure, neither now nor in the past. The IDF is unequivocally the agent behind of the largest number of non-combatant Muslim deaths in a single coun
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by racional 2y ago
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.md/FCGAg
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Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why(nytimes.com)
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by racional 2y ago
Blocking them from buildings doesn't seem to be happening. As I've acknowledged there's been a fair amount of verbal harassment (and obnoxious signage), some of it arguably antisemitic. Deplorable thought it is, it gets into
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by racional 2y ago
Why is it plain to you that people weren't blocked because they were Jewish? Because the encampments contained many Jewish organizers / participants (likely equal to or greater than their proportion across the student body as a
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by racional 2y ago
I assume the current Gaza war will be over soon - in that case we can all just forget about it (?). Not a chance. What's happening in Gaza now will be no more forgotten than all the other trenches filled with civilian bodies (adult
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by racional 2y ago
They know perfectly well. But they see the bigger picture also, and that there's clearly a lesser-of-evils situation involved.
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by racional 2y ago
While nothing of the sort exists on Joe Biden's page. Probably because there's really nothing in Biden's history of statements that compares with the kind of stuff Trump routinely says. Not even the "racial jungle&quo
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by racional 2y ago
Only Ben-Gvir can be accused of having neo-Kahanist tendencies, the rest are "merely" right wing. Though that certain other major cabinet figure you're not mentioning (Smotrich) avoids the explicit affiliation and more obvi
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by racional 2y ago
There have been numerous disturbing / idiotic / arguably antisemitic episodes originating from certain elements of the protestors' side, to be sure. Unfortunately the letter presents certain regrettable factual distortions.
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UN expert attacks 'exploitative' world economy in fight to save planet(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
No one should be surprised by what happened to those hostages. The soldiers were told they were fighting "human animals", and acted accordingly. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-ministe...
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by racional 2y ago
He denies Jewish history, erases the reality that Jews are undeniably linked to Israel and calls for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the ME. Can you provide substantiation for the last of these claims, at least? I haven't seen all
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by racional 2y ago
They do not believe Jews have any right to national sovereignty in their own land. No - they just don't happen agree with them on the question of whose land it is. You don't have to agree with their historical reading of the sit
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by racional 2y ago
Either way -- 'twould seem that if such a level of microstrategizing is what monopolizes one's attention on a day-to-day basis -- then one is definitely in the wrong place.
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by racional 2y ago
The horrendous civilian casualties we are seeing in Gaza are not collateral damage, or otherwise unintended byproducts of the operation. They are the coolly chosen effective means -- along with the destruction of housing, hospitals, school
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.is/sYILB
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by racional 2y ago
Aside from this being an unrealistic description of events -- it's also quite a change of subject. We weren't talking about the failure of the Oslo process (which had multiple factors apart from the cartoonish depiction above), o
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by racional 2y ago
[Examples of protests against the IDF's operations in Gaza right now] These are also described as "rare", and tend to get broken up by authorities for "harming the feelings of the public" and whatnot. The vast ma
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by racional 2y ago
No need to keep to the Roman convention of renaming Israel to Palestine. It's the historically accepted term for the region. The Zionists themselves used it in their literature. Quibbles about it are disingenuous and absolutely irr

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