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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Sup, new avatar buddy.

Think of all the money that could go towards Quassam rockets Palestinian charities.

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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So? Why do you accept as a given the statements in the quote you've linked - a quote in which he specifies such a position would differ from Hamas ideology and principles, but why bother reading your own links - and not in his speech a year later, explicitly stating that the liberation of the entirety of Palestine is still an ultimate goal, and any interim liberation is a mere stepping stone?

Oh, because you're

quote:

ignoring anything that adds even the slightest nuance or disagreement to your ideology.
Edit - what the gently caress do you even imagine my ideology is?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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team overhead smash posted:

"Hamas will respect the results (of a referendum) regardless of whether it differs with its ideology and principles,"

Because he is specifically stating that the adherence to the results of a Palestinian referendum would override the organisation'. This isn't you finding some amazing rebuttal, this is you missing the entire point and not being able to understand what is plainly written in the article.
What the living gently caress do you think is "plainly written in the article"? Because I'm pretty sure it's "Hamas' ideology and principles do not support peace with Israel, but......................"

Maybe you're thinking that the "but" overrides everything that came before it (ignoring the later statement I linked, which you utterly failed to address) but trying to omit the whole "yeah, our principles remain the same, even if our actions may momentarily differ from them" as inconsequential is an amazing intentional failure of reading comprehension.


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First of all, you implicitly admit your bias. You offer absolutely no defence of your refusal to look at the facts and only acknowledging any evidence which already meets your worldview, instead trying to present it as okay because you think I do it too but in the opposite direction.
The gently caress are you even talking about? We traded links in which the same organization - the head of the same organization, even - took two different positions on the same issues.

I believe that the stance he took trumps the earlier one - both by virtue of being more recent, and by virtue of outright stating on the occasion that "yeah, any temporary agreements and statements to the contrary are just that - temporary". You, on the other hand, completely ignored the later stance... only to accuse me of refusing to look at the facts.

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Virulent anti-palestinian racism. Unless you are really really stupid, there isn't any other reasonable explanation for your consistent misrepresent of even basic information which is presented to you, especially in that you always misrepresent it in such a way that you try to paint Palestinians and anti-zionists as wrong or evil.
So... you're just retarded. Fair enough.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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icantfindaname posted:

Look at my cherry-picked facts; they prove that Muslims need to be genocided in order to secure a future for Jewish children.

:downsbravo:

ISLAMAPHOBE
Ok, so just like it's impossible to reply to "U mad" without sound totally mad, it's probably impossible to go "this lame insult totally doesn't bother me" without looking someone who cares too much. But still, what's the internet for trying the impossible?

It's the lamest, tamest, most conveyor belt red title one could possibly get in an I/P slapfight. Even the Hitler avatar was (way) more effective - I didn't feel comfortable looking at it, and if someone passed by while I was browsing the forums I'd have to change tabs. You quoting that like some kind of :master: :iceburn::nattyburn: is really sad.

Edit - the payot are just an amazing touch though.

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Bennet declared that with Trump's election, the two-state solution is dead.

Meanwhile, Bibi fires back at a vast left-wing conspiracy.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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emanresu tnuocca posted:

So it's a little too early to say for sure but it appears as though Dear Leader is involved in the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Israel - http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.753626
Wasn't he already involved in a scandal during the Panama letters affair? That ended up being a blip on the radar as well.

Also, don't link to subscriber-only articles.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Some dude in some comments section posted:

Election is comeing...Good riddens to Hussein (Insane) Obama John (scary) Kerry and (Sillery) Hillary Clinton! BA BYE!
Don't sink to this level. The political discussion in... in anywhere, actually... is low enough already.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Main Paineframe posted:

Even the right-wing politicians are melting down. No less than four current cabinet ministers (Naftali Bennett, Miri Regev, Aryeh Deri, Yisrael Katz) have publicly called for him to be pardoned, with several of them claiming that the trial itself was unfair or tainted.
Ditto Shelly:
https://www.facebook.com/ShellyYachimovich/posts/10155123977109218:0

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Consider the perspective of the opposite side. It's theoretically possible that the vast majority of immigrants to Israel - from France, Russia, India, Ethiopia and the United States - are powered by a lust for Palestinian blood and land.

Alternately, you might believe them - or, if you haven't talked to many Israeli Jews, believe in the me who believes in them - that since the vast majority of them know people who were on the wrong side of a terrorist attack (if not outright killed by one), the increased Jewish support for right-wing policies is a result of being sold on increased oppression as a legitimate and necessary tactic to ensure their safety, and the safety of their loved ones. As someone who lives here, I can't emphasize how fundamental "the peace process did not lead to peace, so war is our only recourse" is to right-wing justification.

Which in turn emphasizes just how facile the "Palestinians get oppressed regardless of whether or not they engage in terrorist attacks" argument is. Possibly even more facile than "it's just a series of suicide attacks by people driven to extremes, I've never heard of any official Fatah / Hamas support".

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Cat Mattress posted:

:smug: "If Palestinians wanted peace, they wouldn't vote for terrorists, like the Hamas."
*goes on to vote for a party created by members of the Irgun and the Lehi group*
Supporting terrorism in the present trumps historical antecedents. A Good Post.

It really should be "they wouldn't vote for groups established by terrorists, like the Fatah.
goes on to vote for a party supporting racial cleansing".

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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emanresu tnuocca posted:

One of the things that is often ignored itt is the fact that Israel has always been a borderline orwellian dystopia, the government censorship laws and the strong ties between the various governmental PR agencies and journalists have always meant that the information being disseminated to the Israeli population is tightly controlled and impregnated with newspeak.
Be specific in your comparisons to the United States or Europe, the bastions of free press.

corn in the bible posted:

The forcible construction of Israel on top of existing nations was a capitalist imperialist war crime hth
You forgot racist, chauvinistic and transphobic.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Cat Mattress posted:

Israel is a state created by terrorists. Real terrorists, who are actually using terror as a weapon to achieve their aims. Terrorists who coldly plan and execute the total slaughter of entire villages to "send a message" to the Palestinians that they should abandon their ancestral land. Unrepentant terrorists, who are proud of their terrorist acts. Who build commemorative statues and issue medals honoring their terrorists.


Are you talking about Lehi? The people who were literally shot at by the Jewish founders of Israel? The people who won 13 seats (out of 120) in the first national election? The people who were systematically ostracized from participation in the Israeli government and its benefits? The people who spent 30 years as a permanent opposition party before the socialists hosed up enough to let them into power?

Yup, those sure were the founders of Israel.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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So we switched from "the nations founders" to "weren't nobodies, and were relevant to the nations history"?

k

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Absurd Alhazred posted:


It's been more than a week, actually, but thanks for noticing! :mad:
Did something happen?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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People who pay attention to non-internet based Israeli media - what's the general reaction to Trump's Holocaust announcement?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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I still don't believe it. 2017 can't start that well. It hasn't, as point of fact.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Can someone explain why Shelly is running for the head of the Histadrut? I was genuinely hoping for a competent and charismatic Labor leader in a few years.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Torrannor posted:

A few years back, our government here in Germany made it harder for Jews to acquire citizenship. On behalf of the Israeli government, because they didn't like how many Jews chose to come to Germany instead of going to Israel :(
By a few years back, do you mean 1990? Because I'm not aware of any major exodus that would require efforts like that since.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Cat Mattress posted:

The international community is the only one who can force Israel to compromise. As long as they're blocked from doing so, a viable and lasting peace will be forever impossible.
Please give your examples of times when the international community forced a nation to stop oppressing minority populations? Without cooperation from the left-wing elements within the majority?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Zanzibar Ham posted:

Would the IDF even recruit Palestinians? I thought they already refuse to recruit Israeli Arabs.

Miftan posted:

This will never happen precisely because of this reason. They would bank on it never happening because the Palestinians hate Israel, but it's obviously a major security risk as well so they would never even legally give them the option.
Isn't at least one of you Israeli? The IDF does not conscript Israeli Arabs / Bedouins, but it does allow them to volunteer for military service.

Some time ago a rather remarkable article comparing the treatment of national minorities within and outside the IDF and within the British empire (fighting Irish, hot-blooded Sikh and Gurkas) was posted in an I/P thread, and I couldn't find it since. Shame, since it made some very good points.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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emanresu tnuocca posted:

We've been having our own Trump in charge since 2009.
1996 actually.

But seriously, beyond "right wing rear end in a top hat" and "populist, for a very specific definition of populist", how are the two at all similar?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Ze Pollack posted:

It was an institutional enough problem, however, that, the way it was uncovered was someone asking the question "why, exactly, have ethiopian immigrants to Israel ceased having children. at all" instead of any Israeli medical professional asking why, exactly, sterilization treatments were suddenly part of Standard Immigration Procedure.~
I think "It was an institutional enough problem, however" may be the closest thing to "not an outright 100% fabrication" in that paragraph.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Piell posted:

Yes it is

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
People keep quoting this, getting the obvious "as quoted, this refers to every single act of warfare and many non-hostile acts" (which is why the actual convention is a touch longer than the quoted paragraph) then bugger off forever. Or at least ought to.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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emanresu tnuocca posted:

Not only is Israel evil, in fact it's the source of all evil, like it's populated by lizardmen who emit a corrupting radiation that poisons the very soil of the once peaceful levant. And I mean that in a totally non-antisemitic way, after all I wrote 'Israelis' and not 'Jews'.


Al-Saqr posted:

No, except a 100% literal rambling restatement of the post above.

Also, I have Jewish friends. Well, I don't actually have Jewish friends, but I could, in theory.
:bravo:

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Ytlaya posted:

Someone else will have to back me up on this, but I think you have to be Jewish through your mother's side to be considered Jewish in a religious sense. That being said, having useful skills might make up for that.
Being the grandson of a Jew, on either side, is enough to qualify for Right of Return, but it would have to be a bit more solid than "Ashkenazi name, but no documents".

Travelling to Israel as an expert worker and seeing what happens next might be more viable.

Lord_Adonis posted:

I have a question about the Israeli ''Law of Return''.
If you're actually serious about all of the above, contact me. Username at gmail.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Ytlaya posted:

I asked a friend of mine with Israeli citizenship, and he said he thinks you would need a letter from a rabbi stating your Jewish heritage and read about a situation in an article with a soccer player whose dad was Jewish and did this.
I also have an Israeli citizenship. And I'm familiar with the subject of immigration to Israel. :shrug:

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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qkkl posted:

I'm kind of surprised that to be "officially" Jewish your mom needs to be Jewish, considering that genetic tests have shown that the initial Ashkenazi population mostly grew from Jewish men marrying non-Jewish women.
You could listen to a person familiar with the subject (me) or google The Law of Return. For the "official" purposes discussed here, the child or grandchild of a Jew of either gender qualifies for the Right of Return.


emanresu tnuocca posted:

Just contact the jewish agency, if your ancestors have any documentation proving that they were jews (such as being listed in some synagogue a hundred years ago) they can probably find it and will look for it on your behest.

If your ancestors converted to christianity it might be an issue though, who knows.
Kinda.

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As others said, you can always convert to Judaism if coming here is that important to you, otherwise contact the ministry of immigration I guess.
Not really. I mean, more so for white people in Western-Europe / US, but still, not really.

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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qkkl posted:

If my only Jewish descendant is one grandparent, and I have a child with a non-Jew, will that child be considered Jewish? If so, this idea of "Jewishness" seems pointless since it would essentially be the one-drop rule where you could be 1/1024th Jewish, but still be "officially" Jewish because one of your past descendants was Jewish.
There's the traditional religious definition of a Jew (someone whose mother was Jewish, which I suppose could conceivably lead to generations of female descendants marrying non-Jews to the point that the latest generation is somehow indeed 1/whatever Jewish)

Conversely, there's the State of Israel's definition of a person eligible for the Right of Return - someone who had at least one Jewish ancestor (up to and limited to grandparents) and that someone's immediate family / dependents (so you can immigrate with your children, and you can join your parents who had immigrated to Israel, but you're not entitled to immigrate as the grand-grandchild of a Jew).

PS - Descendants - children.

Ancestors - parents.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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the old ceremony posted:

in my experience goons think that if they poke enough logical holes in judaism, israel and the diaspora will all embrace rational atheism and the world's problems will magically disappear.
And to reiterate, the people who established Israel were (for the most part) socialist atheists / vague theists who (at best) only tolerated overtly religious Jews.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Al-Saqr posted:

Jews jews jews jews jews jews

and while we're at it let's be a lynchpin in the fight against socialists and anti colonialists and fight leftism in general for he next few decades
Ok, you'll have to explain this one to me. Were there a lot of leftist / socialist / anti-colonialist governments that Israel undermined by its continued insistence to exit?

...

Oh, we're talking about the brave lads in Fatah / Revolutionary Cells / The Japanese Red Army. Yeah, Israel will forever bear a mark of bitter shame - international terrorism could have triggered a world-wide revolution by now, if it wasn't for its role as a linchpin in the fight.

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Disinterested posted:

The idea that Israel is subservient to the United States is frankly so absurd on its face it doesn't really require an adult response.

Orange Devil posted:

Somehow it's more the other way around.
Sadly, the Israeli lobby controls both major parties in US politics, and the United States is subservient to the Zionist government.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Kim Jong Il posted:

the fact that Zionist Jews were and remain at the forefront of civil rights movements and fights against racism.
Ah? Do tell about the noble Israeli Zionist involvement in progressive battles?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Al-Saqr posted:

Yitzhak Rubitzov,
There's nothing weird about being obsessed with Jews changing their names. Nothing to look at here.

quote:

died 50 years later than he should've.
?

Oh yeah. If only a certain total and convincing victory in October actually solved the Middle East's Jew problem. What a shame.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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Al-Saqr posted:

Actually I was saying that he should've died the moment he decided to pick up a gun to kill and cleanse and enslave the Palestinians in 1948.

Funny you mentioned the October war, since it wasn't about any 'Jew problem', the specific military and political goals of that war, was to liberate Egyptian and Syrian lands conquered by Rabin in the first place, maybe he shouldn't have been a piece of poo poo and shouldn't have started an illegal war to enslave other people? Just a thought.

Al-Saqr posted:

What the gently caress did you say to me, you little bitch?
Come to think of it, I can't really improve upon the original quote:

Al-Saqr posted:

LOL ok sweetie pie seeing as how you're so intellectually dishonest that I point out the clear hypocrisy of racist right wing reactionary zealots who founded israel and point out that calling themselves socialists is a load of poo poo you automatically move to the tired tropes of painting me as an anti-semite, I'm not even going to bother giving you any kind of halfway answer if you're already going to approach what I say with this type of garbage, like try for once in your life to not to be a complete idiot child when you respond to people smarter and better read than you. Either quote me honestly in full or dont expect a response.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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You can in fact be a Saudi Arabian AND a walking pile of poo poo shaped vaguely like a human being. The two are not mutually exclusive.

It's almost like growing up in a country where the textbooks cite the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historic fact has some sort of correlation to being an Anti-Semitic piece of dogshit.

But that can't be, because we already established Al-Saqr could totally have Jewish friends... you know, if he had any Jewish friends. Which he absolutely could have. But doesn't, actually.

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Xander77
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Deceitful Penguin posted:

Ahahahaha oh my god it's an Israeli accusing another national of having a biased and nationalistic history education

help im choking on my dates from laughing too hard
Do tell. What do you actually know about "biased and nationalistic history education" in Israel?

(Which... is definitely on way to describe teaching The Protocols of Zion)

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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"Palestinians are not shown in Israeli text books. Ok, they're shown, but they're depicted as terrorists. Ok, they're shown as something other than terrorists, but they're stereotypical, with no resemblance to real life (showing a Bedouin in traditional garb - I can literally walk down to the center of my town and take a picture of a Bedouin who looks like that). Ok, all / none of the above, and they're described as a 'problem'".

"Israeli maps show blank spaces where Palestinians live (show a map with a blurry 'white space = Palestinian authority territory' label)"

"The natural colors of the country are desert-like. Anything green in Israel was imported by European settlers (and that's a BAD thing)"

That's... a point of view really designed to appeal to people who don't know actually know a lot. Like you.

...

It's been a while since I've read Israeli history books, but I guess it's entirely plausible that their perspective is "we always sought peace with our neighbors, and any wars that took place were due to aggressive actions on their part".

Xander77
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Cat Mattress posted:

That's factually true; anything green and not imported by settlers has been bulldozed by Israel.


Also, it is indeed a bad thing because growing stuff in the desert means depleting aquifers, so you can get two or three decades of agriculture out of it, tops. Then the whole thing comes tumbling down.
Most of Israel is not a desert. hth.

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Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

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emanresu tnuocca posted:

2/3rds of Israel are the Negev, a desert I'm pretty sure.
55%, but that would exclude the Golan and include the northern and coastal areas of the Negev, which are also pretty goddamned green.

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