“If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It’s a country based on theater. It’s a lunatic state - completely insane”.
Norman Finkelstein
Liberals didn’t even get a chance to oppose the genocide in Gaza -or mock Palestinians for suffering it- now that the war ended.
But it is the same English-colonial culture.
Why should the Chinese celebrate Halloween?
Soft landing?
I thought the economy was growing? https://www.npr.org/2024/07/27/nx-s1-5052073/treasury-sec-janet-yellen-says-the-u-s-economy-is-growing-within-the-ideal-range
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges”
You clearly fail to understand the White Man’s Burden.
Your statement should grab a seat
The US produces more oil than Saudi Arabia
We aren’t :) Maybe you had us confused with Qataris or Emiratis?
You can see for yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
Slavery is illegal in Saudi Arabia
I was wondering how fast before someone blames Arabs for this. I will let you know if Greenland ice tastes any different.
FYI: we Saudis aren’t rich but having zero income tax, free education, free healthcare and subsidized housing leaves us with disposable income to spend on imported ice :)
Still unprecedented. I don’t remember snow like this 5 or 10 years ago. Here’s some recent videos:
This is from two weeks ago: https://youtu.be/awXbrWpGEpU
another also from two weeks ago: https://youtube.com/shorts/T8febYR82yA
and this is from two days ago: https://youtu.be/4cOpCj34Oa8
So they legalized Oliver North?
The US is already the top producer according to multiple sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production
Yes, the plot that the FBI uncovered
“We have intercepted electronic communication indicating that al-Qaeda members are actively plotting to stay out of the way while America as we know it gradually crumbles under the weight of its own self-inflicted debt and disrepair,” FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano told the assembled press corps. “If this plan succeeds, it will leave behind a nation with a completely dysfunctional economy, collapsing infrastructure, and a catastrophic health crisis afflicting millions across the nation. We want to emphasize that this danger is very real.”
“Praise Allah, for soon every American city shall be plagued with disaster and hardship,” al-Zawahiri said in the video, which includes several minutes of footage of young, masked al-Qaeda militants casually sipping beverages as they thumb through the latest issues of Time and U.S. News And World Report. “The infidels have brought this pain and destruction upon themselves through their arrogance and callousness. Soon, the United States will watch in horror as its bridges crumble, its desperate citizens suffer in want of medicine and paying employment, and its once vast riches are reduced to naught. The righteous warriors among our ranks must now unite, get comfortable, and look on from afar at the calamity unfolding in the West.”
https://www.theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375
He didn’t facilitate anything.
Who are you lying to? Did you miss when the US vetoed the UN ceasefire and when the White House called it repugnant? https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142507
Muslim Egypt could have allowed all civilians to leave Gaza but they didn’t. Muslim Turkey could have evacuated Palestine’s civilians by sea but they didn’t.
Why? Palestinians are from Palestine. Why should Egypt or Turkey facilitate Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians? FYI Egypt is a secular state and 10% are Christian.
Muslim Gazans could have overthrown Hamas but they didn’t.
Do you think people in the US should be punished for whoever wins the elections? Should people in the US overthrow their government if it does something awful like bankroll a genocide? 50% of Gazans are children, they can’t overthrow anyone. FYI: resistance to occupation and apartheid is both legal by international laws and moral.
And did you not know that there are plenty of Christians and non Arabs in Palestine too?
Yes I know. Justin Amish Palestinian American Christian had relatives of him murdered by Israel who were sheltering in a church in Gaza. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinian-christians-accuse-western-church-of-complicity-in-gaza-deaths/ar-AA1iCrpk
No self respecting human being cares care only about 1 particular religion or 1 particular ethnic group.
I agreed. Maybe you should learn to care about Palestinians.
Do you know how ridiculous it is that Jews and Muslim are fighting each other because they have different imaginary friends? It will keep on happening forever until you rise above religion and value all of humanity.
It is not a religious war. David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister) phrased it well: “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121. [emphasis mine]
Hamas is a legitimate indigenous resistance to a brutal occupation and blockade. Most of the people who were killed by Hamas were adults and half were active military.
You should listen to Gideon Levy speaking here in 2015 to learn something about how fascist and racist Israel really is and why resistance will always be inevitable: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/israel-journalist-gideon-levys-old-video-calling-out-netanyahu-and-occupation-of-palestine-gaza-goes-viral/videoshow/105071938.cms
“Protecting freedom” by torturing and bombing people halfway across the world