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It's where people go for pre-Enlightenment savoir.

Tigers!, I am quoting myself here so I don't have to keep typing everything out over and over again. If there is anything in this post you want to discuss in more detail, let me know.

I accept the legitimacy of claims based on both ancestry and how recently families lived in the areas under discussion. I do not accept the legitimacy of claims based on religious woo, no matter how many people believe in that stuff or how ardently they believe it. IMO a person born and raised...

Interesting. I have been calling Hamas a terrorist organization for years. And I have denounced terrorists whenever we've discussed them. I have also criticized Fatah at times but I have clearly expressed my preference for them over Hamas due to their pursuing a diplomatic solution via the...

Oh ffs. Some Jews were enslaved and taken to Europe, others voluntarily migrated over the centuries since 120 AD. Some stayed in Palestine. Some Jews who stayed in Palestine converted to other faiths, so while they remained the indigenous people of Palestine, they and their families weren't...

I don't think you want all the persons in that area to kill each other. I think you are very uncomfortable criticizing Israel for anything, even when the policies of the Israeli government and actions of individual Israelis are awful. I posted a link to a report on the actions of violent...

History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire The Ottomans established the millet system which featured a lot of autonomy for each village to handle local affairs. Conflicts between communities were resolved at the province level, and problems that affected multiple provinces were handled at the...

True. In 1929 a riot and massacre occurred in Hebron in which more than 60 Jews were killed and many more wounded. The entire Jewish community was traumatized and then relocated by the British, effectively ending the long history of Jewish life in that city. It was an appalling outbreak of...

Lynch Mobs, Arson, Slaughter of Herds: West Bank Faces Unprecedented Israeli Violence

The Apprentice

Just a head's up here. If you hunt down that cartoon and re-post it, I will post links to all the good-faith non-derailing replies you have already received that will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you are bullshitting about the responses you got. And I will follow that up with links to...

My money's on Ayn Rand Objectivist Syndrome. Remember kids, if you haven't invented calculus by the time you're 12, you're a moocher. Unless you're a business administrator who runs a railroad or a shady real estate business. But not any other kind of executive or administrator because <reasons>.

How long do you suppose the freeway closure would have lasted if shrapnel hit cars as people drove under live artillery fire? Even if none of the cars were hit, just the shock of an artillery shell exploding overhead could have caused a multi car pile-up. That havoc of which you speak was...

It's worse than that. If someone is relying on propagandists for information then factual reporting, no matter how well sourced and documented, will appear to be propaganda for other viewpoints. If someone is making claims based on propaganda then those claims will be unsupported by actual...

I expect news outlets to report what people say, not what their readers and listeners prefer to read and hear.

The Food of the Gods

When you lie about people making excuses for it, you are lying.

More than 10,800 posts into this thread, not one of them in support of Muslim supremacists, and you can say ^this^ with a straight face?

He's more attractive to women because he doesn't look like Alex Jones anymore.