@efine49@ELeibman51543 Yes, why? My niece has 8, my nephew has 9, my friend is one of 12. Many people are family oriented and believe, strongly, in big families. I have 6.
@yung_cozy@EYakoby@mehdirhasan@marclamonthill You're an idiot. Antisemitism is a term coined to mean anti-jewish, not every semite ever.
"“Antisemitism” came about (in its Germanic form) in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1860, an Austrian Jewish scholar, Moritz Steinschneider, introduced the term antisemitische vorurteile"
@antonioguterres Why is returning the hostages last on your list? You want to end this now? Really? Force Hamas to return hostages. That's it. There's nothing to discuss until that's done. Until then, let hellfire rain down on the Hamas terrorists.
Consider that Hamas chose to execute an American hostage with a bullet to the back of his head during the last two or three days (along with five other hostages) whose parents just spoke at the DNC less than two weeks ago, while hostage negotiations were underway.
Consider that the U.S. strategy over the last 330 days has been to pressure Israel to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, including through the withholding of weapons from @Israel, and by periodically leaking our failure to support our ally to the media in the midst of hostage negotiations.
Consider what pressure if any the U.S. has brought to bear on Hamas and our friends in the region who harbor Hamas’ leadership?
Why? Why has our leadership adopted this failed strategy?
Because @POTUS Biden (who has been on vacation for 16 days) and @KamalaHarris, who also just skipped a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery to honor 13 fallen soldiers from the failed Afghanistan withdrawal, along with their advisers in the DNC, believe they will lose important votes in certain key swing states and from Hamas supporters on campuses.
It has been proven time and time again that the only thing that terrorists understand is brute force. Rather than pressure Israel, the United States should have put more pressure on our other allies in the region to help, and done everything we can to help Israel defeat Hamas and recover the hostages, but unfortunately this was not good politics for Biden/Harris and some of their supporters.
By being weak and lacking resolve, we failed our captured, now dead citizens, and the other hostages and their families while emboldening terrorists around the world.
The result:
It has become much less safe to be an American since October 7th because of our failed leadership.
It has become much less safe to be a member of the free world since October 7th because of our failed leadership.
We are in desperate need for a change in leadership so our enemies once again fear the United States and think twice before they act against us and/or our allies.
The time has come.
@theamyalbertson Don't like this take. We never "gave it up". It was taken from us through force and we were evicted. It would read better as "This is Zionism in action and why we need to ensure that Jewish sovereignty and our homeland are never stolen from us again"
@KamalaHQ @KamalaHQ serious question. How do I get off your mailing list. I've unsubscribed every day, for a week, from your emails and the Harris campaign continues to email me. Not appropriate. Who do I need to contact?
@ElizabethB52407 @SkeeWee2013@DLipartito@HenMazzig SteveK is right. So many of these Jews are from Europe. What he's missing is that due to colonization, they were born in Europe instead of Israel. Had the Jews not been kicked out of Israel, they would have been born in Israel.
@SenWarren So, go after the victim, resume the status quo, allow the conflict to rage on forever or make it worse, blame Israel for the current situation, etc etc. Your opinion stinks. You should, instead, stand by your allies, who were just viciously attacked by 7th century barbarians.
@John_Reston_II@AvivaKlompas The more I read your comments, the more incorrect I know you to be.
1. At what number would Hamas have stopped, if not repelled?
2. What is the capability of the IDF vs what actually happened?
@John_Reston_II@AvivaKlompas Yeah, complaining. My challenging you isn't complaining. Makes no sense. Regardless, an unwillingness to kill your own don't make genocide. Please post the definition of genocide.
@John_Reston_II@AvivaKlompas Of course the answer is no, because it's a stupid question. Now you have to answer mine. You also use "kvetching" incorrectly.
@John_Reston_II@AvivaKlompas 2. I would hope not, but Israel would be in better control of the territory and, therefore, with more options. They have limited options. Your yes/no question fails any depth of options.
@John_Reston_II@AvivaKlompas 1. Your question is ridiculous. You're forcing a yes/no on stupid theory. First, killing 12,000 isn't genocide. Right now, Israel has killed 60+ of its own soldiers trying to wipe out Hamas. Would Israel allow 12,000 civilians to die in the process of killing Hamas?
@John_Reston_II @DecimatedNzl @HillelNeuer@DavidM_Friedman Israel has an obligation to protect innocent civilians and its own soldiers as well. It also has an obligation to protect its own people more than others, especially when they're attacked
@John_Reston_II @DecimatedNzl @HillelNeuer@DavidM_Friedman Your comment that Israel should go in and hunt tens of thousands of guerrilla fighters on their turf and their terms is ridiculous. That's asking for massive losses of Israeli soldiers. Maybe equal to civilian loss. Why are Pally civilians more valuable than Israeli soldiers?
@John_Reston_II @DecimatedNzl @HillelNeuer@DavidM_Friedman You keep saying that war between state actors is not analogous. First, why do you think that's correct? Based on what facts makes a war between two groups different if one is a state and one is the terrorist representative government of another pseudo-state?