So that I understand clearly:
You have absolutely no idea about the history of Jews. You have absolutely no idea about the history of the Middle East. You have absolutely no idea about international laws. You have absolutely no idea about pretty much anything… yet you’d use Jews as human shields?
Well, my excruciatingly uneducated and mentally challenged friend, allow me.
European Jews aren’t in the Middle East. They’re home. You see, a long time ago, when the Earth was young, an Empire from Rome came to the land of Israel. The people from this land called Rome were called the Romans.
Let me know if you can’t keep up or I’m using words too large for your limited intellect to comprehend.
When they (the Romans) arrived, they found many many Jews, and a giant Jewish temple. The year was way before even Jesus was born. But when he was (and yep, he was a Jew - shocking huh?), the Romans were afraid, so they hung him on a cross as a warning to the Jews to never rise up against them.
In fact, they were so afraid that they went on a killing spree, so the Jews in the hope of not being dead fled to Europe. They would forever be called the diaspora. The time was not the 1st century. Yep, that’s a whole 600 years before Momo would form his death cult called Islam. But many Jews remained in Israel, but also, many fled to neighboring lands in the Levant ( do you know where that is? Look it up. You’ll find it somewhere on Goooooooogil).
But over the centuries since fleeing THEIR land of Israel, some Jews started coming back more and more. Then when Momo did start his cult, the Arabs started killing Jews for centuries. And I mean killing as in millions, but not just Jews. They killed hundreds of millions of people from the entire region, even all the way down in Africa. And you know why darling? Because all these people would not follow Momo. Yep, the Arabs are the colonizers, not the Jews. Crazy I know, but what can you do. That’s just history and facts.
Fast forward to the greatest genocide of Jews, like ever, in WW2, and those who survived all said “fuck it, never again” and went back home… to Israel. But the Arabs were sooooooo pissed off now. So they began to slaughter Jews from all over the Middle East, again (are you seeing the trend here?), and the Jews left to… yep, Israel. In fact more Jews in israel came from the Middle East, not from Europe (but don’t let facts get in the way of your stupidity, right?).
Now that the Jews were back home in Israel, the British and UN made it official and though the Jews were meant to have a far larger piece of land than they do, the Arabs quickly took two thirds of it to create Jordan (no fucking way… Jordan is new too😱), and what was left was Israel.
Now guess what happened? No, seriously, have a wild guess? Yes!!! That’s right. Israel became independent, and the Arabs (8 freaking countries) waged war on Israel just 1 day after they were independent. And they did it to slaughter every single Jew because they didn’t want any Jews back home. They just wanted it all. They wanted to commit GENOCIDE!!!
Woohoo 🥳. Now you know what genocide is.
Right, so Arabs attacked, Jews won, and yet Gaza and the other Palestinian territories were still not occupied by Israel. Nope, they were occupied by Egypt and Jordan… for 18 fucking years. Crazy 🤪. And not a single protest. Not one. Then the arbs decided to wage another genocidal war on Israel again in 1967, and lost, again!!! And so they did it yet again in 1973, and lost, again. Exhausting isn’t it. Israel wanted to be in peace and these Arabs just wanted to kill em all.
And now, in 2023 Oct 7, they started yet another war, by genociding 1200 innocent people. The difference? Israel have had enough. We now say NO MORE. NEVER AGAIN. And we still aren’t interested in wiping them all out even though the Arabs deserve it. Because we aren’t like them. We aren’t murdering psychopaths.
Hope that helps.
You’re welcome🤗
Okay, lady followers. I’m taking a cue from @NancyMace. I do not like discussing any of my past on a public forum, but I think it is important for people (men) to understand how prevalent it is that almost all of us have experienced some sort of harm at the hands of men in our lives so that the “be kind” brigade understand - and I am a woman, very happily married to a lovely man for the last 33 years.
But, THIS is why we are so adamant about keeping creepy, predatory men out of our spaces.
You don’t have to detail what happened to you, but simply hit the “like” button if you know what we are talking about.
Here are (just a few) of mine:
Junior High: Was called into the counselor’s office because, as a “high achiever,” I was just not “acting like myself.” When I explained that a boy had been “pushing” me to “do stuff” (I was very inexperienced) the counselor physically pulled me around his desk to “show” me what I “should” do. I freaked out and ran out of his office. He continued to try to pull me out of class, and stalked me for four years afterwards.
In HS, I was a cross country runner and taught high impact aerobics at night to make money for gas and lunch. I ended up with torn cartilage in my rib cage from “overwork”. Manger at my gym (employer) sent me to a physical therapist. The PT proceeded to sexually assault me, all while claiming it was “therapy.” I was 16. I was alone, in a “therapist’s” office. He was well over 6 feet, I was 5 foot, 100 pounds. I have felt guilty my whole life that I didn’t stop it.
I was an adult lawyer working for the legislature. Adult physician, head of a prominent medical school, sitting next to me on a private plane tells me he wished he was my “gynecologist,” so that he could “probe” me.
Point of this list, and there are more stories, is that EVERY woman has them.
Please stope minimizing our fears about men suddenly invading our safe spaces just because they have decided they “are women”.
Our. Fears. Are. Real. #HoldTheLine
@hellkitchengoth @nicolelampert Maybe all the people who have had relatives murdered by Islamic terrorist attacks in the last 2 decades should rise up in hate?
@Insideouts1012@nicolelampert What about innocent kids going to concerts and being blown up? People going to work and then having to choose between jumping to their death or burning alive? People having cars driven into them? Hmm there seems to be one religion that wants to kill everyone. It ain't Judaism!
@jen_x_turner@ExtremelyAvg Because I'm not the Queen Mother. It is not incumbent on me to be the world's favourite old lady. I'll go down fighting for women and girls, and screw being bland and cosy.
@jen_x_turner@ExtremelyAvg Because I'm not the Queen Mother. It is not incumbent on me to be the world's favourite old lady. I'll go down fighting for women and girls, and screw being bland and cosy.
You can keep telling yourself this, but you're simply wrong. I'm a left-leaning liberal who's fiercely anti-authoritarian, and if you couldn't deduce that from my work you haven't understood a word of it.
I'm not an ideologue. I mistrust ideologies. I've never met an ideologue who wasn't prepared to deny a bit of inconvenient truth to keep their world view intact and I include ideologies with which I find myself in broad sympathy. On the other hand, I am an idealist. I believe in human beings. We are undeniably capable of terrible acts, but the evidence is that we are astoundingly collaborative and mutually supportive, especially when times are hard.
My values haven't changed; what's changed is the political landscape. What was once my natural home (a pragmatic centre-left party focused on dealing with economic disparity, championing social liberalism and equal rights) is now dominated by an illiberal, identity-based strain of politics I consider elitist, harmful and out of touch with the day-to-day concerns of regular people, particularly women (and I've still lived more than half of my life as a non-wealthy woman, and some of that time was spent in poverty).
There are women with whom I make common cause in the TERF wars I disagree with on other things. Within obvious limits (sucking up to literal Nazis) I don't particularly care about their personal politics. The reality is that there's currently an assault on women's rights unparalleled in my lifetime, and it's coming from both left and right. If ever there was a time for women across the political spectrum to come together, it is now.