Absofruitly. Sounds like the perfect thing for your use case. Only downside is it’s another thing to carry around, but if that’s not an issue I vote yay.

one of us, one of us

I see what you’re saying, and perhaps you’re right. I am more hopeful, though. Plenty of Israelis support Palestine and in the early days the Palestinians welcomed the Jews. It’s not fair to simply dismiss vast groups of people as irrational or terrorists. At one point in time these people got along, and even though a lot has happened since then I don’t think it’s impossible to get back there.

I think Western support does play a large role, it’s the reason why the Israeli military is what it is and probably why Israel feels free to indiscriminately attack Palestine. If our support was more conditional and not so one sided it would encourage cooperation and more peaceful resolutions.

I think I may have misunderstood you, I thought you were saying that America was responsible for Israel.

You don’t have to kill all the Israeli’s to get rid of Israel. Nations are made by people accepting that they exist. Before Israel was Israel it was just a bunch of politically savvy zionists who started telling people to move there. With a lot of wealthy Jewish investors they just started buying land and refusing to let Palestinians work on it. Over time and with enough established countries recognising Israel as its own thing, that’s what it became.

If tomorrow the entire world just decided that Israel didn’t exist then it would cease to, they may object but they’d be invaders occupying land that doesn’t belong to them. It might sound silly but this is how Israel was created.

That’s not how it started at all, the Brits have a lot more to do with this one.

This is ridiculous, the first anti zionists were all Jewish. Some were even assassinated for their views. Zionism should not be conflated with Jewishness at all.

pissbulb

Ah, I didn’t realise that, thanks for the explanation.

He bought it so he’s the only shareholder. It’s not publicly traded anymore.

I don’t think either phrase is impolite. Good manners are a made up thing. If someone said ‘thanks’ to me and I said ‘tiddle dee dee’ I’m not being rude, just a bit weird, nobody’s honour has been questioned, I haven’t said anything that could be taken as an offence.

I know your initial question is just about finding a suitable community to talk to but I think people are giving you a hard time because there’s no elaboration, perhaps if you’d just started out with the questions you had this would have went smoother.

If I’ve got some I’m not opposed, but I never do usually.

I’ve been eating a bowl of overnight oats for breakfast with just soymilk and some sugar for like two years now and I can’t see it changing anytime soon. It just hits the spot for me.