Israel / Palestine

[BoldonLad]

I have never understood why we expect evil people to appear to be a different sort of person to the rest of us. We all have the capacity for good and bad acts to different extents, and luckily evil is not the norm, but one end of the normal distribution of human behavior.
The concept is perhaps made more complicated by the arguments over nature/nurture but that does not mean that evil is an unnatural phenomenon in humans.

Quite.

What we call “civilization” is a very thin veneer.

 

[multitool]

Quite.

What we call “civilization” is a very thin veneer.

Read Hannah Arendt's study of the Holocaust.

 

[BoldonLad]

Read Hannah Arendt's study of the Holocaust.

Is that an order?, or, even compulsion?

 

[multitool]

Is that an order?, or, even compulsion?

Jawohl

 

[multitool]

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFckbK5qhJl/?igsh=amI1enJoN2ZlcDky

 

[multitool]

Here's something that will give CXR a hard-on...


View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDXCKIquitq/?igsh=cXV4OHVvdHNlMm5m

 

[multitool]

Here you go CXR. Have some more.

This is what you've been cheering on...


View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDu05pRycza/?igsh=ZGI3bm05dmd5MDF4

 

[CXRAndy]

It's war,

You reap what you sow

 

[multitool]

Sounds like you are justifying the Oct 7th attack.

 

[CXRAndy]

As the Americans say FAFO

 

[multitool]

You're a simple creature, aren't you.

 

[C R]

Sounds like you are justifying the Oct 7th attack.

No, rich white people can do as much fücking around as they want, so long as the finding out only happens to poor or brown people.

 

[Ian H]

Israel has tended to fight the Hamas of its own creation rather than the Hamas known to serious scholarship, although for many years the landmark study of the movement was by two Israelis: Shaul Mishal and Avraham Sela’s The Palestinian Hamas, published in 2000. Mishal and Sela described a social movement with deep roots among ‘the common people’. Intellectually it borrowed from the leading political religious thinkers in the Islamic reformist tradition: Rachid Ghannouchi in Tunisia and Hassan al-Turabi in Sudan. Hamas wasn’t a band of criminals but a well-organised political and social force.
Extracted from a longer article - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/tom-stevenson/illusions-of-containment

 

[multitool]

Trump openly proposes ethnic cleansing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-plan-to-take-over-gaza-strip-netanyahu-visit

Nethanyahu can't believe his luck.

Here's an idea: why don't the invaders fûck off back to where they came from, and leave the Palestinians in peace, because not one of them can trace their ancestors back to Israel. The Palestinians, however, still have the keys to the houses stolen from them after '48.

 

[C R]

Trump openly proposes ethnic cleansing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-plan-to-take-over-gaza-strip-netanyahu-visit

Nethanyahu can't believe his luck.

Here's an idea: why don't the invaders fûck off back to where they came from, and leave the Palestinians in peace, because not one of them can trace their ancestors back to Israel. The Palestinians, however, still have the keys to the houses stolen from them after '48.

Will Vidkun Starmer finally say something?