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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • Aye, any Israeli who isn’t actively opposing the settlements in the West Bank is unambiguously in the wrong. And I wish that wasn’t a controversial statement.

    You’re right in that Rabin’s assassination wasn’t the change in itself (that such Israeli extremists had continued to exist shows that that violent current in Israel had continued and been bubbling away), but it makes a good mark of a turning point and the loss of really any chance for reconciliation in at least our lifetimes.


  • The Nakba was a tragedy, and Ben has his role in that along with all the other high ups in the various paramilitary forces. The IDF didn’t exist then, though it does trace its routes back to those paramilitary groups.

    That Ben G worked to limit their power once the nation was formed is a mark against him being a fascist to me, and he didn’t go as hard on violent struggle as the meaning of life as full fasc-fascism does.

    Violent, racist, and did bad things yes (and genocidal to boot!). I don’t think that auto-makes fascist.

    As for what was being done pre-Six Day War I’m going to guess pogroms, murders, and forced sterilisation. So I’ll go back up and add genocidal to it. Doesn’t make him fascist though, unless we’re making it a synonym for genocidist.



  • Which particular set of Israeli policies are you supporting here?

    The 10-15 civilian deaths per strike on a possible low level Hamas supporter?

    The continued “accidental” killing of medical staff, including Red Cross and Red Crescent workers, and journalists?

    The idea of turning off water and electricity from all of Gaza as a valid response?

    The escalation of illegal settlement and theft of Palestinian property and land in the West Bank, with IDF support no less?

    Or the use of the Hannibal Protocol against Israeli Civilians on October 8th by IDF forces?

    Or do you just not think it is incumbent on the one with greater power and strength to offer the olive branch first if peace is truly desires? And in fact would rather the Palestinian people are smeared across an enlarged Israel?


  • I’m sorry, I figured taking a train load of people hostage or repeated bombings of public transport would be equivalent enough.

    The Houthi, and other Zayidi Shia groups, have been discriminated against legally and culturally since the at least the 80s. (At least in part a response to Zaydi rule during the Ottoman Period).
    I can’t find straight ethnic group numbers, but most sources state them to be a minority, so I’d assume that that’s the largest single smaller than 50% group. And given the diversity of peoples in Yemen, makes the religious aspect more important.

    Not all good though, the Houthi movement could (should) be doing better on treatment of Bahaï and Jewish people, and the treatment of women could be better, but the Houthi forces are also engaged in combat with Al Qaeda, who would be much worse.