Haviv Rettig Gur

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@GlobeStrobe אשמח מאוד לכל הערה על טיעון שפוספס או טעות מצדי. כל דבר שיכול לתרום לפעם הבאה. גם אם לא אסכים ולא אאמץ את ההצעה, זה תמיד עוזר לשמוע ביקורת עניינית. מבטיח לא לחסום. גם את המגיבים לעיל לא חסמתי. אני חוסם בעיקר מקללים ואנטישמים.

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@RaifYtinav @breakfastclubam I mean, the centrists did actually agree to a coalition. Netanyahu promised a rotation, and literally vowed on national television that he definitely wasn’t lying. And then he lied and broke the deal.

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@popdizz I teach the Palestinian experience in Hebrew to Israelis. How they understood what was happening from the start, why their fears as early as the 1890s were reasonable, how costly Jewish immigration was to them, how Arab states betrayed them at every turn. I tell Israelis they’re

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@MZYouhana The question, Michael, was what it meant to Israelis. The Jewish story. How it mobilized millions. Why do Jews of the eastern hemisphere defend it so assiduously when in America it’s so easy to let it go? To extrapolate from that answer to that question that I hide or ignore the

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@MZYouhana He didn’t criticize me on any substance at all. I’ve talked endlessly on the costs Palestinians paid for Zionism. Just not in the 3-minute clip he shared. That speaks to his character.

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Mehdi once wrote a book about how to win an argument even when you know you’re wrong. The trick is to be manipulative and dishonest. Mehdi has never to my knowledge talked seriously about the Israeli historical experience as he demands of me for Palestinians. And Mehdi is x.com/mehdirhasan/st…

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@keylimepotato @noam_dworman @normfinkelstein I didn’t hear anything in this clip that’s fundamentally evil. Although I do think he misrepresents a bit how Zionists dealt with assimilation. But there’s nothing illegitimate here. He has said a few vicious and ahistorical things elsewhere.

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@prometheusX10D Hamas killed more Palestinians than the Israeli terrorists you're trying to compare Hamas to -- you betcha. By a couple of orders of magnitude. It is not "simply a resistance group." It has big and deep ideas, a particular Islamic tradition rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood. Do

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@prometheusX10D Palestinians are absolutely suffering. And absolutely victims here. And I have never, not for a minute of my life, not lived in a world in which some leaders of Middle Eastern nations didn't publicly call for my extermination. In fact, that's true of my dad's life as well. I

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@prometheusX10D Those Israelis attacking those villages are terrorists. I've been saying that for years. Not sure what you mean about Hamas not being like them...Hamas has killed waaaaay more Palestinians than Israeli extremists ever did. Ask Hamas what it plans for the Israelis -- because

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@SilencedByJs Proportionally you mean 2,000 across three years? That figure tells you that the entire UK Jewish community are traitors? Even that figure is a lie. It's the total number of UK citizens in the IDF, including officers. Not all of them are actually British Jews, many are Jews

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@SilencedByJs A minuscule group of British Jews make aliyah and serve in the IDF. A tinier group still serve in the British military. Neither are representative of anything. You started the whataboutism by taking a conversation about very high rates of bigotry in the Muslim community and

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@prometheusX10D When have I ever refused to call Palestinians Palestinian? The current government is the most right-wing we've ever had. It absolutely refuses to rein in the violent Israeli terrorists. And even at their worst, they're nothing compared to what Hamas wants and plans to do to us

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@prometheusX10D And all of the above is true even if you really truly believe Israelis are just inherently evil.

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@prometheusX10D No. I'm trying to sell the idea that there's a legitimate Palestinian cause and a crazy-stupid-illegitimate one. And Palestinians keep confusing the two. This is, believe it or not, the mainstream Israeli view. There's always been that bifurcation in Palestinian politics over

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@prometheusX10D *Palestinians* don't say that (I mean, quite a few do behind closed doors. But most don't). But Hamas say it. They sometimes pride themselves on their humanity -- and then justify every atrocity and every murder of every child. They absolutely believe that Israel must be totally

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@prometheusX10D I think a specific Salafist line of the Muslim Brotherhood tradition views the establishment of Israel as not just some geopolitical foe, but as a war against God's plan for Islam and for history itself -- and Hamas embodies that view in Palestinian politics. I think, in other

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@OliverCash9 @bethanyshondark Not really, no. Definitely not the role that Hamas’s defenders pretend. These ideas were spreading through Palestinian society all on their own. Hamas’s schools and charities spread them, not some Israeli conspiracy. Some stupid Israeli officials argued that Israel shouldn’t

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@prometheusX10D We’re constantly discussing problems in Jewish society. But this isn’t a random problem, like crime. This is specifically about the theocratic ethos and Islamism of Hamas. The same ideology that marginalizes women in Gazan society also drives the forever war. I and my children