I enjoy your newsletter. I'm waiting for you to have that "ah-ha" moment. Put aside Hamas. Put aside antisemitism. Answer a very, very simple question. Should a U.S. bomb ever be dropped on someone's home without a clear threat from a terrorist inside? With over 221,000 units destroyed, can you argue that Israel has been punishing an entire population for the actions of smaller group? Look at the videos of all the destruction. It's worse than Dresden because at least in Dresden people could flee to other parts of Germany. Yes, 9 out of 10 of those kids have immature political ideas. But they know mass destruction and murder when they see it. They understand there is NO EXCUSE for it. Older people like us get cynical and believe there is. Is there?
We are complicit and funding the destruction of 1 million people's homes. Many have died and are continuing to die. For what? What possible thing could a child do to deserve that?
OK, I'll put aside Hamas and Antisemitism. And the rockets being fired by the thousands at Israeli homes with children. And Iran's role. And terrorism. And the fact that those children are being used as human shields by monsters who build tunnels under their homes. And war in all its incarnations. At which point, no, it would never make sense to drop a bomb anywhere.
Do you read your anger? All the emotion about Iran? You do realize how much has been spent by in the U.S. to make Iran out to be the Evil Empire? You do realize that the Holocaust has been weaponized by Zionists, which Norman Finkelstein identified long ago? My father was Jewish so this isn't some subject I picked up yesterday ;) It's not about sense, it's about blood on our hands. A bomb was made with my tax dollars and dropped on a building where children were hiding because...well...they're children and not able to decipher what some explosion nearby is supposed to mean.
I don't want to get in a fight with you. I once had your beliefs. No one could talk me out of them. And then one day the fog cleared and I saw the truth, the horror of it all. I could never imagine fellow Jews could be so evil. I just could not comprehend it. I would not look at it. I could not believe it.
I think both sides of the protesters have half a point. But, if these kids knew what was good for them they would have huge protests against the Trump candidacy and the Supreme Court. They have taken more of their rights away than Hamas or Israel ever will. The protesters should realize that if Trump gets elected they will be beaten and jailed within 15 minutes of opening their mouths. It won't be pretty, and the MAGA folks are itching to do it.
“Nuclear war, when sampling from an artificial normal distribution, results in an average human survival time of 60 years into the future starting from the present, before a civilization-ending disaster.”
I enjoy your newsletter. I'm waiting for you to have that "ah-ha" moment. Put aside Hamas. Put aside antisemitism. Answer a very, very simple question. Should a U.S. bomb ever be dropped on someone's home without a clear threat from a terrorist inside? With over 221,000 units destroyed, can you argue that Israel has been punishing an entire population for the actions of smaller group? Look at the videos of all the destruction. It's worse than Dresden because at least in Dresden people could flee to other parts of Germany. Yes, 9 out of 10 of those kids have immature political ideas. But they know mass destruction and murder when they see it. They understand there is NO EXCUSE for it. Older people like us get cynical and believe there is. Is there?
We are complicit and funding the destruction of 1 million people's homes. Many have died and are continuing to die. For what? What possible thing could a child do to deserve that?
OK, I'll put aside Hamas and Antisemitism. And the rockets being fired by the thousands at Israeli homes with children. And Iran's role. And terrorism. And the fact that those children are being used as human shields by monsters who build tunnels under their homes. And war in all its incarnations. At which point, no, it would never make sense to drop a bomb anywhere.
Do you read your anger? All the emotion about Iran? You do realize how much has been spent by in the U.S. to make Iran out to be the Evil Empire? You do realize that the Holocaust has been weaponized by Zionists, which Norman Finkelstein identified long ago? My father was Jewish so this isn't some subject I picked up yesterday ;) It's not about sense, it's about blood on our hands. A bomb was made with my tax dollars and dropped on a building where children were hiding because...well...they're children and not able to decipher what some explosion nearby is supposed to mean.
I don't want to get in a fight with you. I once had your beliefs. No one could talk me out of them. And then one day the fog cleared and I saw the truth, the horror of it all. I could never imagine fellow Jews could be so evil. I just could not comprehend it. I would not look at it. I could not believe it.
I think both sides of the protesters have half a point. But, if these kids knew what was good for them they would have huge protests against the Trump candidacy and the Supreme Court. They have taken more of their rights away than Hamas or Israel ever will. The protesters should realize that if Trump gets elected they will be beaten and jailed within 15 minutes of opening their mouths. It won't be pretty, and the MAGA folks are itching to do it.
Just read this today:
“Nuclear war, when sampling from an artificial normal distribution, results in an average human survival time of 60 years into the future starting from the present, before a civilization-ending disaster.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02396
All too plausible isn’t it?