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Ooooh, that account's gonna get squashed fast. Not by X, mind you, but the press ain't gonna let that kind of actual reporting go unchallenged.
2023 Israel-Palestine Armed Conflict
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A drone strike in Kawthariyat Al Saiyad killed the deputy head of Hezbollah's smuggling unit:
A drone strike on a house in Houla killed one:
Four were killed and four wounded in Briqaa after munitions exploded while being transported the Lebanese army:
UPDATE - More airstrikes now in the Arnoun, Jbaa, and Iqlim Al Tuffah areas:
A drone strike on a house in Houla killed one:
Four were killed and four wounded in Briqaa after munitions exploded while being transported the Lebanese army:
UPDATE - More airstrikes now in the Arnoun, Jbaa, and Iqlim Al Tuffah areas:
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Are there any good resources (preferably videos) on the history of the Zionist movement and its conflicts? I've been doing some reading and it goes back all the way to Ottoman Palestine, which I didn't know.
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Are podcasts ok? Like serious history types not influencer types.
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If not him, I would be interested in podcasts for when I'm driving.
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This is a gold standard. As middle ground as possible. However it is VERY long.
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Sadly one of your best bets for accuracy and thoroughness would probably be a Benny Morris book. His writing puts me to sleep but he is a reputable historian. He has done plenty of video interviews as well, on various topics related to the conflict.
Thanks for sharing, I’m gonna check this out.
I love Einat Wilf, but I don’t know if she’s the best source for a newbie who’s truly looking for an unbiased historical narration of Zionist history. That being said, if anyone is interested in hearing a liberal Zionist’s perspective, she is a great source.
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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist by Yossi Klein HaLevi isn’t strictly a Zionist history book but it’s an interesting perspective from an American-born rebel and bleeding heart liberal who almost got caught up with the Kahanists while making his way to Israel. Yossi is a family friend and still a bit too much of a bleeding heart for my tastes, but he is a mensch and honest to the point of causing the reader discomfort.
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1948 by Benny Morris is a classic
As a former Kahanist, the ideology is so seductive because parts of it are so right. For example, Kahane was one of the first Ashkenazi voices that actively spoke out against the secular leftist Ashkenazim intentionally destroying the traditional culture of Mizrahim/Sephardim through forced integration schools.
The problem is that Kahanists are low IQ and thugs like Ben Gvir. I also am strongly against his expulsion of Arabs because it's invalid against Jewish law.
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Benny Morris is dry af but he knows his shit. I’ve seen him speak and do Q & As and he really is a walking encyclopedia.
Yeah, in part because they’ve long been the only ones willing to acknowledge certain realities on the ground. Jabotinsky was a breath of fresh air to me when I started studying this stuff as a child.
I also highly recommend Natan Sharansky’s memoir Fear No Evil for those interested in the Soviet Zionist movement in particular. I recently reread that one and it struck me how little has changed. People are still making up the most absurd lies about Jews and there are still retards and demons willing to murder innocent people over them. I suppose growing up in the USSR was great preparation for being a public Jewish activist and being lied about constantly by monstrous pieces of shit.
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I dunno if I'd call it a gold standard, since there is a good bit to criticize. However, it does lay down a good bit of groundwork there on some of the issues within the region.
For the criticism, here's a post that goes deep into it (though fair warning, it's a long one because this guy seems to love to speak):
So I'd suggest watching the series, then going through this to understand the counterpoints and shortcomings.
Other than that, the name I constantly seen thrown around is Benny Morris.
Sargon's wife's son
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National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism.
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
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The Jews only started having a problem with the USSR when in the 60s and 70s they lost all of those positions of power
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The left always liked to portray itself as being against anti semitism, but they just reframe scapegoating Jews as anti-capitalist/anti-colonialist/anti-American. It's always apperant when they ally themselves with countries that are infinitely worse yet they don't suffer the same treatment.
Plus the USSR had plenty of times when subjects of purges were disproportionately Jewish. Like removing a large chunk of doctors.
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You are either suffering severe cognitive impairment, have zero knowledge of history, or just think you’re being crafty. But you’re not even pretending to be familiar with realpolitik, so it just seems like you’re stupid.
And I’m sure you’re completely unaware that Stalin had literally hundreds of thousands of Jews imprisoned and/or murdered for practicing Judaism (including merely observing the Sabbath or kosher laws), teaching Torah or Hebrew, circumcising their sons, or even making use of a mikvah (ritual immersion pool).
For those who are similarly unfamiliar with reality, let me help. Stalin and the Communist Party officially (and dishonestly) decried antisemitism for several reasons. First is the most obvious: Communist ideology rejected racism and nationalism as tools of the bourgeoisie used to divide the working class. The tsars openly hated and persecuted Jews, including the instigation of widespread pogroms, so this stance also helped the Communists to mount their revolution by (in part) framing Jew hatred as a relic of tsarist oppression that the revolutionaries would eradicate. Unfortunately, far too many people (Jewish and otherwise) believed them and supported them on this basis. So you’re not the first person stupid enough to trust in Stalin’s word, but you also have over 100 years of superior data that they didn’t.
Declaring opposition to antisemitism also helped the Communists gain support domestically and internationally, especially in the 1920s and 1930s when the USSR wanted to present itself as progressive compared to fascist regimes. Propaganda-wise, this deceptive framing made the Soviets seem much more enlightened than the Nazis and even contrasted favorably with racial segregation in America. Positioning the USSR as a state free of ethnic hatred helped reinforce the image of a new, egalitarian society.
It takes hard work to be this ignorant. Ever heard of The Great Purge of the 1930s? The Yevsektsiya’s activities of the 1920s and 1930s? The Doctors’ Plot of the 1950s, which only fell apart because Stalin died? The campaign against “rootless cosmopolitans” of the 1940s and 1950s? The Night of the Murdered Poets in 1952? The closure of the JAFC and the murders of its members?
TL;DR You’re retarded.
The women in my family’s town had to travel 300 miles by train and on foot to reach the nearest underground (as in illegal) mikvah, where there would be ice on the surface of the water and they would still immerse despite it being fucking Russian winter. My great-grandfather was imprisoned multiple times and was sent to the Arctic Circle to function as a human ox, pulling mining equipment for every hour of daylight without breaks or meals. Why? Because he was caught teaching Torah to young Jews. There were thousands of others just like him. Ample books are available on this topic, but I highly recommend In the Shadow of the Kremlin if you can afford a copy.
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Communists pretended to be all right with Jews provided they didn't do anything, you know, Jewish.
The purpose of being Jewish is to do Jewish stuff so that you make more Jews who also do Jewish things and sustain Judaism.
The purpose of being Jewish is to do Jewish stuff so that you make more Jews who also do Jewish things and sustain Judaism.
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As with the dingbat Jews who today oppose Israel’s right to defend itself or exist, there were also a lot of Soviet Jews who believed the Commie hype (and/or helped spread it) that the workers’ revolution would unite all people and end all forms of racism and cohort hatred via assimilation. Just as today’s progressive Jews display far more virulent hatred for their own people, the Jews of the Yevsektsiya in the 1920s and 1930s were renowned for being even harsher toward their fellow Jews than many of the gentile Communists were. From In the Shadow of the Kremlin:
That said, I don’t think most of the Jews opposing Israel today are driven by ideology. They’re simply not critical thinkers and desire very much to be seen as “one of the good ones.” And they deserve everything they get.
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Do you think the US going bankrupt is bad? Because that's a part of it.
This type of clanhood that forms around military occupations over non-citizens has always been a selfish construct.
There was once a time every american congressmen had a prussian over his shoulder, the US used to have congressmen that identified themselves as "Prussian-Americans" and the Prussians were all over the place.
The Prussians, the Boers, and now the Israelis, this type of military occupation clanhood is always defined for being pervasive lobbyists who'll rot the world for their own benefit. I think the Boers were probably the least pervasive of the three. But I don't think there's another term people get other than "apartheid", and this word seems to fit any occupation that rules over non-citizen zones.
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This shit is somewhere between dumb and schizo. But sure. Unless Israel turns itself into the next current-year-South-Africa by enfranchising people who don't live in territorial Israel, then the US will go bankrupt. That tracks. Sure.