Israel Thread

[Montmorency]

Racism can't be real because white people don't exist.

[Fragony]

Racism can't be real because white people don't exist.

That would be nice but white people do, and we get blamed for everything, and like flaggalanties we take the blame. Not me, a very big fuck of de moi go matter if you please but please, please

[AE Bravo]

I asked a question about why the militaries suck and it's like I just necroed an old thread in a new thread.

These kinds of explanations are pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Humans are pretty similar, especially in large groups and in extreme situations. Organisation methods and technology are the parameters at play. Culture is a poor explanation.

Anyway, the main immediate reason for Arab military failure is the inability of their central governments to keep a military campaign grinding on in the face of multiple competing parties among their coalitions, public dissatisfaction at home, and international disapproval.

Iran-Iraq, for one, had quite a lot of external impetus as well as being more unilaterally-driven.

Quoted for relevance. I don't remember seeing any indictments of culture in all the studies done by US military personnel over the years, and there have been a lot. Some problems pointed out by these studies:

- Over-centralization
- Discouragement of leadership at the junior office level
- Education system

Also, the shit some superior officers stay ignorant about would prompt a bitchslap and a demotion from a subordinate if it were in the states (US).

[Husar]

Not me, a very big fuck of de moi go matter if you please but please, please

Can I print that and hang it on the wall in my abstract art section?

[Idaho]

Back on topic - the pogroms in the West Bank continue:

The footage shows what appears to be a modified military vehicle being used to spray sewage over houses belonging to Palestinians. Israeli soldiers can be seen standing on the rooftops of Palestinian homes, indicating that they stormed and temporarily took possession of these houses.

The raid came after hundreds of Palestinians began marching following Friday prayers in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who have started a mass hunger strike to protest Israeli prison conditions.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20...ampaign=buffer

[AE Bravo]

Don't bother, you'll get more responses to articles about crazy truck drivers running over European marketplaces.

Europe gonna Europe. Israel founded by Europeans do the math.

[Pannonian]

Don't bother, you'll get more responses to articles about crazy truck drivers running over European marketplaces.

Europe gonna Europe. Israel founded by Europeans do the math.

Europeans are supposed to feel guilty about what Israelis do?

BTW, the US was founded by Europeans too. If Europe is such anathema to your sensibilities, why don't you live somewhere where Europeans have no historical influence whatsoever, or where their miniscule influence is considerably outweighed by the glory that is Islam? That is your ancestral culture, isn't it?

[AE Bravo]

BTW, the US was founded by Europeans too. If Europe is such anathema to your sensibilities, why don't you live somewhere where Europeans have no historical influence whatsoever,

Off the face of the earth? No thanks I'm good.

Try not to kick me out.

[Idaho]

Don't bother, you'll get more responses to articles about crazy truck drivers running over European marketplaces.

Europe gonna Europe. Israel founded by Europeans do the math.

Not all battles are glorious victories. Not all warriors get become great heroes. Not everyone gets make the decisive charge that routs the enemy. Some of us trudge on wearily with the wagon train for long years. But we still fight the good fight.

[Pannonian]

Not all battles are glorious victories. Not all warriors get become great heroes. Not everyone gets make the decisive charge that routs the enemy. Some of us trudge on wearily with the wagon train for long years. But we still fight the good fight.

They've won the good fight. They kicked us out decades ago. We're not going back.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Don't bother, you'll get more responses to articles about crazy truck drivers running over European marketplaces.

Europe gonna Europe. Israel founded by Europeans do the math.

Some truth to this, for sure. Add in that some in the West view Israel as a sort of apology for failing to act against the Nazi pogroms against European Jews and you can see where some in the West view Israelis as an "us" to the Arab world "them."

Grossly oversimplifies the whole thing of course, but many of us like our cognitive efforts kept simple.

Most of my students view the actions of Israel in Gaza as a wrong, but they know little about it -- certainly far less then they know about the judging panel of the Voice or which acts are performing at which club.

[Pannonian]

Some truth to this, for sure. Add in that some in the West view Israel as a sort of apology for failing to act against the Nazi pogroms against European Jews and you can see where some in the West view Israelis as an "us" to the Arab world "them."

Grossly oversimplifies the whole thing of course, but many of us like our cognitive efforts kept simple.

Most of my students view the actions of Israel in Gaza as a wrong, but they know little about it -- certainly far less then they know about the judging panel of the Voice or which acts are performing at which club.

What isn't a simplification is that neither side wanted us to remain there. So we're gone, and good riddance to us, and good riddance to that hellhole that they call the holy land. Whoever wants it is welcome to it.