These are five things

that anyone who cares about the well-being of the Jewish people -- and, thus, the well-being of Israel -- should know in their bones.

1 - The Jewish people, including those of us from the European diaspora, are indigenous to Israel.

See: Tony Masiuk & Dani Ishai Behan, No, Ashkenazi Jews are not ‘genetically European’ (2024)

2 - There is no genocide in Gaza.

It's not a genocide if you can end it at will simply by releasing the people that you are torturing.

3 - There is no reference to a Palestinian-Arab nation or ethnicity in all of human history until the mid-1960s.

This is because there was no such nation or ethnicity.

4 - Israel offers its Arab citizens greater civil liberties and access to economic opportunity than regular Arabs have anywhere else in the entire Muslim Middle East.

5 - Whatever the intention of the antizionist movement within the western-left, it manufactures hatred toward Jews with the intention of replacing the lone, sole Jewish state with a 23rd Arab dictatorship.

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If the Palestinian-Arabs can be considered a distinct ethnic group it is a result of Arab-Muslim imperialism and religious hostility toward Jewish self-determination and self-defense on historically Jewish land.

Were it not for the never-ending war against Jewish autonomy in Israel the "Palestinian" people would never have come into existence.

It seems pretty obvious

 

that, increasingly, the internet is less about people communicating with one another than it is about computers communicating with one another.

I no longer have certainty that any post, or even comment, that I may be responding to was actually written by a human being.

We know that a significant percentage of it is AI sludge, but we don't know exactly how much. Whatever that percentage is, it is increasing.

The Golden Age of Blogdom is dead and buried.

The small blogs, from back in the 00s and 10s, had an authenticity and sense of community which, to me at least, seems very much over with.

My own little journey into the world of the political blogs started with Daily Kos in the early-mid 00s. There was a real sense of community then and a feeling that regular people were taking back the conversation.

Daily Kos, even then, was quite big. My UID # was fifty-five thousand something, but people got to know one another pretty well.

But, hell, that was a long ago, now. It was when still when I favored Democrats.

I then joined Maryscott O'Connor's now defunct My Left Wing, which was considerably more left-leaning than was Daily Kos. If dKos was about promoting Democrats, MLW was more about promoting socialism or the progressive-left, although none of us were formal in our political allegiances.

She even got written up by the Washington Post in a 2006 article titled, The Left, Online and Outraged: Liberal Blogger Finds an Outlet and a Community

MLW was never more than 1/50th the size of dKos, but we had a pretty strong regular group for awhile. Eventually the tensions within the left tore MLW apart, particularly the tensions between the Jewish left and the antizionist left.

MSOC was stuck in the middle. Although I suspect that she is increasingly antizionist, she always avoided the topic and much like Markos Moulitsas recognizes that it's nothing but trouble for the left, in general.

Then I started up this joint in '09 and it did pretty well for awhile through the mid-late 10s, until I joined Facebook a few years ago and neglected this place.

Now, of course, there is almost nobody here and I am just using this as a space for reflection.

As someone with an obvious

interest in social media around the Never-Ending War against the Jews of the Middle East, I continue to look at the nature of various venues going all the way back to Daily Kos in the 2000s.

Recently I have been taking a gander at Reddit and compared to, say, X or Facebook I am pleasantly surprised.

From what I can tell, Facebook is pretty much the bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of gutter-level antizionism.

The hate towards Israel coming out of Facebook pages like "Artists for Palestinians" is very low rent... but that is part of what I found interesting about it.

I want to know what people think on the street and it doesn't get more street level than Facebook antizionism. Those guys absolutely despise Jews Zionists and they haven't the intelligence or sophistication to gild their hatred in the form of academic-sounding neo-socialism that you might find from, say, AOC or, much to my disgust, Bernie Sanders.

The "subreddits" that I am beginning to participate in include r/Isreal and r/IsraelPalestine.

To my taste, at least, the environment of Reddit is better than Facebook and X, mainly because it's a bit more homey, if you get me.

X, btw, is just awful and alienating and cold.

Although I fully expect to get banned from Reddit shortly -- because I keep getting banned from various social media venues -- for the moment I can be found under the name u/Good_Low2461.

I didn't even choose that moniker.

They chose it for me and, for the time being, at least over there, I welcome the anonymity.

I think that Reddit tends to be more anonymous than either X or Facebook.

Ever since I left Daily Kos, somewhere early in the Obama administration, I have remained pretty much open about my identity.

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Just heard the term “AI Slop” to refer to internet content, like increasing numbers of youtube videos, that are created by AI and voiced by AI. 

Awful.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

wants to know if our universe is in a black hole.

I think that is an excellent question!

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On the Daily Show -- which I used to love back in the day -- Jon Stewart pointed out that Netanyahu has been screaming his bloody head off concerning Iranian nukes for decades.

The implication is that he was wrong then and is probably, therefore, wrong now. Iran is not necessarily on the verge of gaining nuclear weaponry and they deny that they even want nukes.

What I would ask is, what if he's wrong?

Those who think that Iran is not on the verge of gaining The Bomb may very well be correct. Fuck if I know. But is that honestly a risk that the West, in general, should want to take?

This is just flat-out stupid.

Of course, Israel and the West cannot allow a Jihadi-run state to have nuclear weapons. Does that statement even require justification? Is it not obvious on its face?

Could it be

 

that Trump is hesitating because Israel has brought him a different option toward the same end? - my paraphrase of Aaron Cohen, Israeli Special Ops veteran on Larry Kudlow (FOX).

In other words, could it be that Israel has another plan around special ops designed to take out the deeply buried nuclear facilities?

Could the delay also be to organize the incoming regime?

Or has Trump simply gotten cold feet out of fear of getting the US dragged into a prolonged military presence?

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It's an open question the extent to which Israel actually needs the US in order to deal effectively with Iranian nukes.

On J-TV I just saw an Israel intelligence officer, or someone along those lines, say that Israel has contingency plans in the event that Trump withholds the B-52 bomber and the Amazing American Cluster Fuck Bomb that could potentially take out the facility in Fordow.

The US is the best friend that Israel has in the world, but it needs to be as independent as it can possibly be.

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I almost hate to say it, but if Trump doesn't want the US to get militarily involved in Iran, Israel could very well use low-yield nuclear shells to eliminate the Fordow facility.

In any case, given the fact that Iran trained and financed Hamas prior to Oct 7, there is no way in hell that the Jews of the Middle East can possibly allow a Jihadi regime with nuclear weaponry.

We are on the verge

 

of God Knows What.

The big question at this moment is Trump.

Will he, or won't he, authorize the US to take out the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran?

My suspicion is that he will and my hope is that this represents the entirety of American involvement in the military aspect of whatever goes down.

My hope is that the Persians take this as an opportunity to remove the Jihadis from power and I honestly do not care if they bring in Reza Pahlavi (the "Crown Prince") to head up the government or not.

That being said, those of us who favor Western Liberalism over Jihadism must support the Pahlavi movement in Iran for the purpose of removing the ayatollahs. Whoever among them heads that government, whether it be Pahlavi or somebody else, is entirely up to them.

At the end of the day, I care about two things when it comes to Iran.

1) They must not be allowed to gain nuclear weaponry.

2) The government going forward cannot be Jihadi because that will mean ongoing war against the Jews in the Middle East.

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The Iranian movement to replace the Jihadi regime with Reza Pahlavi is going unnoticed in the US media.

I was just watching the "2-Way" morning show with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine and in their discussion of Iran they do not even reference the fact that a majority of Iranians want the ayatollahs to go away.

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Today is Juneteenth!

This a new American holiday that makes beautiful sense.

I am sick to death of "woke" neo-socialism, but a holiday celebrating the end of slavery is entirely appropriate.

Peace to you, please.

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Times of Israel - "White House: Trump will decide whether to join war on Iran ‘within next two weeks’"

Hmmm...

I don't know what to make of this.

It seems as if Trump is torn between two major priorities. One is to avoid war and the other is to eliminate the possibility of Jihadi nukes.

I very much hope that he can do both.