Colvinism

Reformed Episcopalian, Greek and Latin teacher at Wilson Hill Academy

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Even Arab leaders admit it.

Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see.

Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective.

Ok, so let us set that aside.

Now watch this.

In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada.

Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance.

He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises.

The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978.

This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel.

When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias.

The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices… generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return.

This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today.

If you value the truth, please share.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

Just had another surreal exchange with an LGBT and pro-abortion advocate, in which her brain short-circuited over the claim that “pedophilia and homosexuality are both abhorrent, but homosexuality is morally worse” because the only criterion she had in her toolbox was consent.

[Jason A. Staples @jasonstaples]

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[Matey @MateyYanakiev]

The usual reasons given for why Federal Vision (FV) is a heresy would make every known Christian for ~1500 years a damnable heretic.

In other words, they are not good reasons.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@drantbradley @megbasham @irishpresby Absolutely vile behavior by @drantbradley.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@gothicrose24 @delstonejr @megbasham They’re in public schools at twice the rate that they’re in the churches.

Yet the anti-Christian left loves to use sexual abuse as a club to beat Christians.

Your bias is showing, you hateful bigot.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@gothicrose24 @delstonejr @megbasham Of course, Christians are sinners too, and instances of clergy sexual abuse are grievous. But belonging to a religion that condemns sexual immorality actually helps lower your chances of experiencing sexual predation.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@gothicrose24 @Ashlsch @delstonejr @megbasham Even putting aside God and his commandments, the LGBT movement has never made any argument that their perverted sexual behaviors are good for children, for families, or for society. They aren’t.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@gothicrose24 @delstonejr @megbasham No, they are most assuredly not “born that way.” Scientists have tried in vain for years to establish a “gay gene,” but twin studies are stubborn things.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

"Intellectuals are naturally seduced by the idea of a planned society, because they think they will be in charge of it."

--Philosopher Roger Scruton

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@33_34Guy @AJWTheology And since all of Greek metaphysics was originally devised by observation of, and analogy with created reality that the Greeks could see, it is *a fortiori* even more inappropriate to take its verdicts as legislative for the being of God, which no one has seen.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@33_34Guy @AJWTheology Because Greek metaphysics is a bed of Procrustes. It doesn’t fit created reality, let alone God.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@jonthecatholic @AJWTheology Jesus and the God of Israel.

[Colvinism @MattColvin47]

@33_34Guy @AJWTheology That although the creeds were indeed the Fathers’ attempt to affirm the worship of Jesus as God (motivated by the Bible, not Gk philosophy), the effect of Greek philosophy on Christian theology remains a distorting and unfortunate one.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I was cursed to watch naive Millennials fall for Justin Trudeau, only for them to be slowly, systematically shown the error of their ways. And now I'm forced to watch the same process play out with Boomers and Carney.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH CLIP... Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer on USMCA

"They can have a weak economy that is underperforming and not doing well, and Carney can feel superior."

"Or they can have an economy that participates with as a partner of the U.S. economy."

"And Carney can do what a grownup should do, which is figure out."

"...It's my job as a person who's supposed to protect Canadian jobs and Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy to not let my ego and my feelings dictate what's best for my own economy."

Q "Do you think this will have implications for the USMCA?"

Switzer "Yeah, of course it is..."

"Look, was Ambassador Greer in Canada? Did he meet with Carney? No."

"...The grownups are in the room talking because there's a grown up in the presidency in leadership there, and I would argue there's not a grown up in Canada in charge there."

"You don't go out of your way to antagonize the leader of the country that you are absolutely existentially tied to."

"It's just political malpractice." @markjcarney

[Primal Mind @PrimalMind]

@KnightLegg Here is what will happen. When he gets a deal, it will be one that is almost 100% dictated by the Americans. Then he will do 👇...and the elbows up old hippies will buy it.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

I have to say, Mark Carney's address to Canadians is unbecoming, despicable fear mongering, and full of lies.

It is pure anti-America propaganda to stoke more TDS and bs for the uninformed to cover up for the fact that over the past year he has failed to deliver all but record deficits and MOUs.

Let's remember, Mark Carney:

> went to school in the US
> his kid/s went/go to school and live in the US
> his wife lives in the US
> moved Brookfield's HQ to the US
> majority of his investments are in the US

The US is good for him and his family but not for your's.

Mark Carney is another Liberal boomer that came back to Canada, after making all his money from the US, to tell us how bad America is and how wonderful Canada is which he will leave the first opportunity he has.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

It's pretty obvious at this point that the Carney plan is to try to keep this country in a perpetual state of hate and fear towards the US and use this to keep himself popular. His video today, with its long and gratuitous evocation of the 1812 war, makes this clearer than ever.