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[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@sentdefender Syria will not support acts of international terrorism anymore. As for act of terrorism within its borders, well, that's different.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@Not_the_Bee "Hey stewardess, I speak Jive"

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@pamelakarnbach @RonDeSantis Is the chicken half fried, or is it half a chicken fully fried?

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

If the rationally sought goal is gaining power for an economic and social agenda, you might ask why the huge focus on Israel and Jews, who are a tiny % of US population and even tinier of the world's, and aren't even generally opposed to their agenda?
The same question exactly could be asked of the Spanish Inquisition, Nazis, Stalinists, and today's Woke-right, Woke-left, and global Islamists.
The answer is that Jews have historically been on the side of learning, critical thinking, and fact based actions -- all antithetical to power-hungry movements that requires suspending reality whenever ordered by the leadership. Demonizing the Jews is thus a required path to power.
History has shown that the Jews outlast all those antisemitic movements and that history's judgement of them is scathing. Unfortunately, that judgement is often at great cost.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

"Jews" (from the Latin Jude) means "from Judea", the historic name of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.
"Arabs" means "from Arabia", the large peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What about "Palestinian"? Is there a place that historically had the name "Palestine" or similar?
The answer is no, but.
After the Jews rebelled one time too many, around 100AD, the Romans expelled them and renamed Judea "Romano Palestina". They chose the namesake of the Philistines to troll and punish the Jews by selecting their already-long-extinct nemesis (the Philistines became extinct around 600BC).
The Philistines, who were Greek ("Sea People"), didn't refer to themselves by that name; that was the name used by their Jewish neighbors. It's a Hebrew word that means "invaders".
When the Arabs invaded, around 600AD, they kept the Roman name.
The Arabs also, perhaps unwittingly, adopted the Hebrew word for the great Jewish Temple ("Beit Hamikdash") as the name for Jerusalem ("Bayt al-Maqdis", now simplified as "Al-Quds").

The irony couldn't be richer than today's descendants of Arab invaders in historic Judea use the Hebrew word for "Invader" to describe themselves as they claim that it is actually the Jews (the people actually named after the province where they are from) who are invading.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@RSBillingsleyJr @sentdefender Military personnel are allowed to voice their own political opinions, just not in uniform; because that implies the opinion is official military position.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

First they called Israel 'racist' then the word lost it's sting since Israel was still a moral leader. Then they said 'Apartheid'. Again, instead of Israel being shamed, the word lost it's punch. Now it's 'genocide'. No matter what terminology inflation is applied, the reality of Israel being the world leader in morality under the most inhumane assualts hasn't changed, and it's just the language of its detractors that's being devalued.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@MorEdge_Insight Not only are the patio umbrellas, but they also took a vow of silence.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@alex_v_friman @visegrad24 Story said it was intercepted, so it ended up landing somewhere random.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@libsoftiktok The funniest part is that the specific event they are celebrating -- the unification of Somalia and Somaliland -- has since been adversarially reversed, with Somaliland pulling out and declaring independence (to Somalia's chagrin).

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@DefiyantlyFree Even the afterlife is not a huge difference. Christian denominations believe in various heaven/hell configurations, whereas Jews believe there is an afterlife, but the details haven't been revealed to us -- which does not preclude any of the Christian interpretation.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@thomas_quinlan @DefiyantlyFree It's not a functional difference. The morality system and how one should live their lives is the same whether one believes Jesus is God or not.
Jesus didn't add or remove any of the Ten Commandments (or other laws), just reminded all their supremacy over corrupt state rule.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@mcraig84 @DefiyantlyFree Jewish faith disapproves of abortion, but stays away from legislating how others should live.
As for Liberal Jews, they are hardly keepers of the faith.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

Israel never required anyone to convert and isn't now. Arabs who live in Areas A and B can form an autonomy that focuses on improving their own lives rather than destroying the Jewish state, while those in Israel are already full citizens. This is basically the signed Oslo agreement that both sides and the global community agreed on ~30 years ago.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@GloNewsFeed @IsraelWarRoom There was one 3500 years ago, another one 2000 years ago, and another one now. At all other times since, the land was ruled by various distant empires (which, by definition, makes them occupiers). There has never been any non-Jewish locally-ruling state in that land.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@RandPaul You subpoena him to testify. He refuses (or evades, or lies). Contempt of Congress. New crime. Pardon only applies to old crimes.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@libsoftiktok Death should count as detransitioning with extreme prejudice.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@Rothmus If by "rape" you mean the criminalizing of previously ubiquitous forced sex, then, yes, it was White people who made this universal.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@Bunneechan A tax is a tax is a tax, no matter what it's called or how you justify. If tourists misbehave, make targeted rules and enforce them.

[dan shoham @ColoradoShoham]

@JewishWarrior13 Voted R all my life. Will vote R in the midterm because Congressional R are not complicit in the Iran deal, and some are openly opposed. However, in 2028, JD better not be on the ticket or im voting straight D.