That's what has prompted my ruminating about this whole situation. My husband is ethnically Jewish, by 3rd Reich standards so is my son. We have had strained family and friend relationships as a result of the whole ordeal. I have nothing to do with any of this. I could tolerate a situation where I am a political prisoner, but anything with my child I just can't fathom.

And of course, I can't talk to any of my in laws or estranged Jewish friends because they are just conditioned to be like "yeah that's why we need Israel at all costs" while they just further dissociate and double down and contribute to fomenting a situation that affects me and mine. It's maddening.

I agree it's naive, but calling it a "sell out" deal entails a compromise in integrity. And the fact that it necessarily included a ceasefire demonstrates the opposite, that they are actually committed to the Palestinian cause, at least to a point. I don't really fault them for at least trying for the best case scenario. We'll see in coming days and weeks how many contingencies they planned for.

Exhausting all possible diplomatic routes is still the most rational options for them. They just keep forgetting they aren't dealing with rational actors.

They will retell and retraumatize themselves the consequences of this genocide for generations without respect to what they perpetrated and the survivors of the genocide will have moved on and healed by then.

I was just talking to my husband about this. Like, I don't believe there is some essential quality to any group of people or anything but it feels like Everytime a Jewish state in that place loses the religion just gets more ethnocentric and messianic and insane. Like the Talmud was spawned after Babylon, and the whole "one day we'll have 3000 slaves" fan fiction started with the Romans.

I'm inclined to agree. At the very least, these particular devices must have been tampered with, because I'm sure they know of plenty of resistance fighters cell phones any haven't exploded those yet.

The psychological implication they want to convey is that they can explode and personal device but that's clearly not true.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in an online echo chamber thinking the American empire is in accelerating decline. Then I watch mainstream shit like this debate and there's no doubt.

I feel like there is a sort of cycle in European history like this. European Jewry often had a sort of separate status under the ruling circles when the closest thing that most people had to "citizenship" was through the church. On that guest pass they often did a lot of the dirty work for the oligarchy through mutually beneficial schemes, like the arenda system, and as unrest rose periodically were often scapegoated and separated from their cut.

Cynically, there is a sort of equilibrium to this for the upper class. This is shaping up to be a prime time to scapegoat the inevitable crash as a result of geopolitical blunder. But you're not supposed to hate Jews until they tell you to.

Not to do a whataburger (that autocorrected but I like it) but there are lobbies fucking up our lives in all sorts of ways, and the defense lobbies are bigger than AIPAC, which is basically just a tertiary to defense. And that's just contributions. These people's stock portfolios jump by leaps and bounds as they deregulate everything that's the biggest corruption of all.

I hope he lives another 20 years and learns every day his first wife, favorite son, and daughter are dead. I hope between every REM cycle he has night terrors like a toddler. I hope he feels the constant humiliation and frustration of a pathological personality rendered impotent and childlike. I hope he lives in the promethean hell he does now for as long as is physically possible.

The string bikini that was popular in the 80s through the 00s usually isn't flattering on most body types or on a body in motion. Even when I had a BMI of like 18 those things would flatten my breasts downward, give me back rolls from the tiny straps that need to be pulled tight to keep the thing on, and for whatever reason never covered my actual vulva, looking like I had two sets of labia majora. Even a standard "bikini" depilation routine isn't sufficient... You would need to remove basically all the hair for none of it to be visible.

Since I had a kid I wear one pieces with trunks and I don't even have stretch marks or ab separation. I can't even imagine herding a toddler in what I wore 10 years ago. I'm grateful to qualifyfor the "mom" uniform.

Jordan is another made up country to keep the region in a Balkanized state. If things return to how they usually are greater Damascus and Baghdad would be more or less jointly administered, and this would often include the Persian steppe, lower Egypt, and even Asia Minor. Even an EU or trade agreement type of arrangement would be devastating to US hegemony. This is the most critical part of the Ummah to keep severed because of trade routes and Russia. I could see this region having a defense agreement with Russian in the next 30-50 years.

One quibble - there was no goal or effort to expel the population of the Near East wholesale.

What was perpetrated there was a series of grotesque collective punishments and the population dropped dramatically from the slaughter and the breakdown of civil society. But liebenraum wasn't really the MO. Expulsions were typically political in nature. Circulating conscripts and slaves isn't exactly a favor but it's not a full ethic cleansing as described.

The majority of the population of the Roman Levant remained in that region, if further from Jerusalem, and that population became the Jews, Christians, and Muslims that lived there up until the 19th century. Some influx occured from surrounding regions, but the genetics are much more stable than the narrative would have you believe.

I'm trying to recall where I read this, but my understanding is the narrative of wholesale Jewish expulsion is somewhat recent. Writings refer to the Jews of Jerusalem throughout history, and well after this allegedly mass expulsion occured.