Because he writes like Israel just has some burning, reasonless hatred driving them to destroy Iran with any excuse they can get. That's childishly false.
Did you intend to rack up a +5, Funny moderation? That sounds exactly what like what I hear continually emanating from the Western "anti-war" (read: pro-Muslim-countries) lobbies.
You mean the settlements built on land that was Jewish-inhabited until the Jordanians pushed the Jews out in 1948? Or the ones like Hebron where Jews had lived for 2000 years before the Arabs threw them out for their "Zionist imperialism"?
Mind you, I'm actually against the occupation, for the two-state solution, and in favor of telling the settlers they can screw themselves, but knowing the historical facts I've got to admit they're neither the motiveless malignity the West likes to call them nor the cause of the conflict as Arab-aligned political movements like to claim.
Technically correct, in that Jews are a proper subset of Semites.
Anti-Israel != anti-Semitic
Only if you're not just regurgitating old anti-Semitic myths with the serial numbers scratched off. The same bullshit with a brand new "anti-Israel" or "anti-Zionist" brand-name remains the same exact bullshit.
No, you're not right. That's the other reason why I don't support interference in that conflict. Neither side are right.
So stop interfering! Right now, every battle, every war the world tries to interfere on behalf of the Arabs, and only the USA and a few small nations stop them going as far as they want. If you want to get your country out of the Arab-Israeli conflict, tell them that interfering for the Arabs is just as bad as interfering for the Jews.
If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Yeah, let's stick it to those poor people, children, students, and goddamned users of state infrastructure for the sake of Microsoft!
Dear God, what is with Slashdot today? Argue about software, and everyone will do anything to hurt MS. Start talking about taxes and suddenly you think Microsoft is the good guy for evading them? Why the libertarian hate-on for government?
I wonder when city people in the United States of America will stop calling themselves "world citizens" (an exercise in feel-good meaninglessness) and start reclaiming their sense of being Americans.
We had this whole compromise worked out a half-dozen times. We give up some territorial claims, and they let us exist in the remaining areas. This never works because the Arabs always reject it in favor of something that somehow eliminates Israel.
Or we could argue that the Arab countries and associated terrorist organizations declaring wars of extermination against Israel are acts of war against Israel, which has a right to be there whether or not the Arabs want it.
If the Iranian government wants to completely exterminate its' constituency, let it. If the Arabs and Jews want to mutually remove each other from human memory, let them.
Do you know why you hear so much more about the Arab-Israeli conflict than about every other petty ethnic conflict in an utterly unliked part of the world? Because this time if a definitive military victory happens it will go to the Jews.
You want to ignore this part of the world? Get off IDF's back and let them do as they please to the Arab threat. But nobody likes the idea of letting the strong conquer the weak, no matter that we're right.
Sadly, no. I was raised Jewish, but I was never let in on this supposed conspiracy.
You just need to write to Chief Bloomenbergansteinenthal of the Jewish Justice League in NYC. That or make aliyah to Israel. Everyone here just gets welfare checks from the proceeds of the Zionist media conspiracy (remember, it's "Zionist" now instead of "Jewish") to make a living! After all, what else can be done with nothing powering the economy but agriculture, tourism, and hi-tech?
Yes, very nice job pointing out the obvious. However, when conspiracy theories about banker elites, the media, and secret intelligence agencies controlling the Western world come out, don't expect me not to recognize Jew-hatred just because he whited out "Jews" and wrote "Zionists" or "Israelis".
Shit by another name still stinks, and I've never known a paranoid, raving anti-Zionist to actually distinguish between a not-explicitly-anti-Zionist Jew and a Zionist cabal member.
If you take away tenure you had better be prepared to start offering much higher salaries for professors, because at their current salaries tenure provides the only real incentive to go through the grueling work of undergrad research, grad school, post-doc research/teaching positions, associate/assistant professorial positions, and finally the review process. Remember the daunting levels of competition in academia, the lack of public respect, and the way that pay doesn't go high enough to raise a family at least until the associate/assistant professor level.
If you want the smartest, hardest-working, most enthusiastic people in the country and in the world to choose a research and teaching career, you have to make it something that at minimum can support a family without a second working spouse, if not offer downright enviable compensation. Otherwise it's just not worth the effort.
Actually, some people (such as myself) dislike the PR campaign because it makes committing acts of pointless lust sound like a good thing.
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It struck me that Both Lewis and Tolkien (as well as Herbert for you Sci-Fi fans) sat down and said, "What message do I want to send... okay.. now how about a good story to communicate that..."
Herbert was just trying to layer as many things into a single story as possible.
That being said, all hail the Tyrant, the Great Rav Leto II for freeing humanity!
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Because he writes like Israel just has some burning, reasonless hatred driving them to destroy Iran with any excuse they can get. That's childishly false.
Did you intend to rack up a +5, Funny moderation? That sounds exactly what like what I hear continually emanating from the Western "anti-war" (read: pro-Muslim-countries) lobbies.
You mean the settlements built on land that was Jewish-inhabited until the Jordanians pushed the Jews out in 1948? Or the ones like Hebron where Jews had lived for 2000 years before the Arabs threw them out for their "Zionist imperialism"?
Mind you, I'm actually against the occupation, for the two-state solution, and in favor of telling the settlers they can screw themselves, but knowing the historical facts I've got to admit they're neither the motiveless malignity the West likes to call them nor the cause of the conflict as Arab-aligned political movements like to claim.
In that same country, the fundamentalist government lost the last election to reformists and now hold power solely by violent repression.
If I had mod points, you'd be getting a +1, Interesting. Thank you for stating just how badass we Jews really are.
Mal Reynolds should have been Jewish.
Well what was in all those amendments?
Semitic != Jewish
Technically correct, in that Jews are a proper subset of Semites.
Anti-Israel != anti-Semitic
Only if you're not just regurgitating old anti-Semitic myths with the serial numbers scratched off. The same bullshit with a brand new "anti-Israel" or "anti-Zionist" brand-name remains the same exact bullshit.
No, you're not right. That's the other reason why I don't support interference in that conflict. Neither side are right.
So stop interfering! Right now, every battle, every war the world tries to interfere on behalf of the Arabs, and only the USA and a few small nations stop them going as far as they want. If you want to get your country out of the Arab-Israeli conflict, tell them that interfering for the Arabs is just as bad as interfering for the Jews.
If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Disney is the Queen of the Elves.
Yeah, let's stick it to those poor people, children, students, and goddamned users of state infrastructure for the sake of Microsoft!
Dear God, what is with Slashdot today? Argue about software, and everyone will do anything to hurt MS. Start talking about taxes and suddenly you think Microsoft is the good guy for evading them? Why the libertarian hate-on for government?
Two word counterpoint: "The Boondocks".
Tell me, have you ever read Pratchett's "The Wee Free Men"?
I wonder when city people in the United States of America will stop calling themselves "world citizens" (an exercise in feel-good meaninglessness) and start reclaiming their sense of being Americans.
We had this whole compromise worked out a half-dozen times. We give up some territorial claims, and they let us exist in the remaining areas. This never works because the Arabs always reject it in favor of something that somehow eliminates Israel.
To more adamantly clear things up, because everyone in the West seems to get this wrong:
Middle-Eastern != Arab
Middle-Eastern != Muslim
Or we could argue that the Arab countries and associated terrorist organizations declaring wars of extermination against Israel are acts of war against Israel, which has a right to be there whether or not the Arabs want it.
If the Iranian government wants to completely exterminate its' constituency, let it. If the Arabs and Jews want to mutually remove each other from human memory, let them.
Do you know why you hear so much more about the Arab-Israeli conflict than about every other petty ethnic conflict in an utterly unliked part of the world? Because this time if a definitive military victory happens it will go to the Jews.
You want to ignore this part of the world? Get off IDF's back and let them do as they please to the Arab threat. But nobody likes the idea of letting the strong conquer the weak, no matter that we're right.
Sadly, no. I was raised Jewish, but I was never let in on this supposed conspiracy.
You just need to write to Chief Bloomenbergansteinenthal of the Jewish Justice League in NYC. That or make aliyah to Israel. Everyone here just gets welfare checks from the proceeds of the Zionist media conspiracy (remember, it's "Zionist" now instead of "Jewish") to make a living! After all, what else can be done with nothing powering the economy but agriculture, tourism, and hi-tech?
Yes, very nice job pointing out the obvious. However, when conspiracy theories about banker elites, the media, and secret intelligence agencies controlling the Western world come out, don't expect me not to recognize Jew-hatred just because he whited out "Jews" and wrote "Zionists" or "Israelis".
Shit by another name still stinks, and I've never known a paranoid, raving anti-Zionist to actually distinguish between a not-explicitly-anti-Zionist Jew and a Zionist cabal member.
If you take away tenure you had better be prepared to start offering much higher salaries for professors, because at their current salaries tenure provides the only real incentive to go through the grueling work of undergrad research, grad school, post-doc research/teaching positions, associate/assistant professorial positions, and finally the review process. Remember the daunting levels of competition in academia, the lack of public respect, and the way that pay doesn't go high enough to raise a family at least until the associate/assistant professor level.
If you want the smartest, hardest-working, most enthusiastic people in the country and in the world to choose a research and teaching career, you have to make it something that at minimum can support a family without a second working spouse, if not offer downright enviable compensation. Otherwise it's just not worth the effort.
I can't believe you actually used the word "mature" in a post that divides the world into "freethinkers" and "simple religious beasts".
OH MY GOD, you must be that dude from "Stuff White People Like"!
Aaaaand another guy who could have done something creative to help renew Western culture falls to conspiracy theory and Jew-blaming. Woops, try again.
Actually, some people (such as myself) dislike the PR campaign because it makes committing acts of pointless lust sound like a good thing.
It struck me that Both Lewis and Tolkien (as well as Herbert for you Sci-Fi fans) sat down and said, "What message do I want to send... okay.. now how about a good story to communicate that..."
Herbert was just trying to layer as many things into a single story as possible.
That being said, all hail the Tyrant, the Great Rav Leto II for freeing humanity!