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It’s maddening to find out that the scholar who first developed the idea that “Zionism is Settler Colonialism”, Fayez Sayegh, was a member of the Syrian Nazi Party during and immediately after the Holocaust, was an active participant in the Red Scare, using it to demonize Israel as a manifestation of a Global Communist Threat™️ through the height of the Cold War (true to his Nazi roots, accusing Israel of Judeo-Bolshevism) before switching to a Colonialism narrative when Post-Colonialism came in vogue in the 60s. And yet, the people I hear parroting the talking points of this anti-Communist, Ultranationalist Fascist-turned-scholar are the people who are constantly talking about how Liberal Progressives aren’t Communist enough and actually enemies because “Liberals will always side with Fascists”. Maddening.

If you’ve ever noticed how the “Zionism = Settler Colonialism” narrative eerily shares the core components of the far right’s Replacement Theory (that there are 1. Jews 2. conspiring to invade a given place and 3. replace the population with Jews), this is why; it’s because the idea that Zionism is Settler Colonialism came from a literal Nazi.

It is very literally Nazi propaganda.

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Shavua Tov and Moadim L'Simcha everyone.

Wishing everyone a safe and successful week, our soldiers safety and victory, a speedy and healthy return of our hostages, and a really bad week for our enemies.

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After the "success" of the previous video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the military wing of Hamas published a short time ago another video in which Keith Siegel and

are filmed calling for the continuation of the demonstrations for their release in order to influence the negotiations.

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Hamas feels that it is benefiting from the videos in the negotiations and therefore publishes the additional video today.

This is the text in Hebrew (the errors in the original - AA) published this evening by the military wing of Hamas together with the video of the abductees:

الضغط العسكري أدى إلى مقتل عشرات الأسرى الذين بأيدينا وحرم البقية من الاحتفال بعيد الفصح مع أعزائهم

הלחץ הצבאי הוביל להרג עשרות השביויים שביידנו ומנע משאר השבויים לחגוג הפסח עם יקריהם

The military pressure led to the killing of dozens of prisoners by our hands and deprived the rest of them from celebrating Passover with their loved ones

# الوقت_ينفد

# הזמן_אוזל

# حكومتكم_تكذب 

# ממשלתים_שקרנית

# time_is_running_out

# government_of_liars

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Hamas is trying to stop the military pressure on it

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I don’t know how this isn’t common sense, but:

If your movement has managed to put an already oppressed minority group in danger to the point where they don’t even feel safe to leave their home to go to school, your movement is heavily flawed.

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This is a video showing the terrorist attack on Friday in Ramle.

The terrorist chased an 18 year old girl and stabbed her 

Her condition has improved. B"H.

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Ilhan Omar, foreign terrorist agent, and daughter of a jew hating person who committed actual genocide in ethiopia, says american jews who arent out supporting hamas are "pro genocide" but still dont "deserve antisemitism".

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do you think irans attack this past weekend was a test? a dip of the toe, if you will, to assess potential future plan viability?

can’t shake the thought unfortunately

Hi lovely, sorry it's taken me a moment to reply! I think you're justified in thinking this way, because when the top military experts all did not foresee Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel coming, we all have to take their threats very seriously.

That said, I personally find it hard to believe that Iran will make its "big move" before it has a nuclear weapon. Israel (supposedly) has nuclear weapons, and also has (again, supposedly) some of them loaded unto nuclear submarines. Why the submarines? Because those are hard to locate, which means that even if an enemy thinks they can somehow exterminate Israel with one decisive strike, they'll still pay the price of Israel's retaliation, launched from those submarines. And THAT is a serious deterrent. So if Iran wants to destroy Israel and live to tell the tale, it needs at the very least its own nuclear weapon, and a plan on how to stop Israel's nuclear submarines from striking back.

Iran is def not in a place where it thinks it can avoid Israel's retaliation (at least not yet). How do I know? Because of the money they invest in Hezbollah. More than any of the other terrorist organizations it funds, the Iranian regime arms, trains and prepares Hezbollah to be its main extension during an all out war with Israel. Hezbollah is believed to be at least ten times stronger than Hamas, at least in terms of manpower and number of rockets, and Iran was still reluctant to add its power to that of Hamas on Oct 7. They're reserving that terrorist organization and its power for the day they'll need it. The reluctance to use it during the current war tells me Iran is still not ready for the ultimate showdown with Israel. It's also supported by the fact that Iran was quick to announce after its attack on Israel, that they're done if Israel doesn't further attacks, and then the Iranian regime pretended like it couldn't determine who launched the (counter)strike on Isfahan, and also did all it could to hide the damage that we now know was caused to Iran's aerial defense systems, protecting its nuclear program...

Iran is not ready yet. Does that mean they're not learning from this little exchange of blows? They are. Just like Hamas used every time they fired rockets at Israel to study Iron Dome, and make their next attacks more efficient. But what did the Iranian regime learn? That even when it looks like Israel is more diplomatically isolated than ever, that doesn't mean that the world's leaders will stand by when unjustified aggression is launched at it. They DO understand that what Iran gets away with when it comes to Israel can come for their own countries next. That its air defense systems are still no match for Israel's attack capabilities, since the Iranians failed to even detect them coming in. That there is a coalition in place, which even includes identified and unidentified moderate Arab countries, back by western ones, and this constellation will be much harder to fight than Israel on its own, even with Iran's proxies. That 99% success at defending Israel means Iran is not even close to where it needs to be, if it wants to launch its ultimate attack.

We do have to be wary, and I'm sure the heads of Israel's security forces are. But I also think we still have time before Iran makes its "big move" to destroy Israel, because honestly, I do believe they know they won't get more than one shot. So... I have that's a bit of comfort. I'm not saying Iran won't attack, but I am saying I don't think we're there yet. And just like Iran can use this little exchange to study Israel, we can do the same right back. Remember, Israel has a laser defense system that's meant to go operational in the near future, and it's meant to be even better (in more than one way) than Iron Dome. So we have a few tricks up our sleeves, too... ;)

Sending you a big hug, I hope you're okay, and if you celebrate it, then have a happy Passover! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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I get the camera ready to record an ASMR video. The viewers see the soaps all lined up. They’re excited to see me cut them up. I lift up a soap. But I’m not holding a knife. They assume it’s the kind you crush up, instead. To every viewers horror, I begin eating the soaps.

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I need a good, fluffy romance Webtoon to binge. Any recommendations?

For context on the kind of romance I like, here are my favorite romance Webtoons:

Float

Castle Swimmer

Our Walk Home

Morgana and Oz

The D!ckheads

Villain With A Crush

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Reminder: Jewish indigeneity is not a threat to any other ethnic group. It’s just a fact. Acknowledging Jews as indigenous to the levant doesn’t actually harm any Palestinians. Palestinian indigeneity does not actually rely on Jews NOT being indigenous. Multiple peoples can be indigenous to the same place.

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“No one came to Google to work on offensive military technology” 

- Vidana Abdel Khalek wrote in her mail resigning from Google on March 25 addressing to company leaders, including CEO Sundar Pichai, announcing her decision to quit in protest over Project Nimbus.

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Reminder: Jewish indigeneity is not a threat to any other ethnic group. It’s just a fact. Acknowledging Jews as indigenous to the levant doesn’t actually harm any Palestinians. Palestinian indigeneity does not actually rely on Jews NOT being indigenous. Multiple peoples can be indigenous to the same place.

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israel wants people to think that the amount of innocent people who have been killed in gaza is normal, is just what happens in war, but every other article that comes out says that the deaths of civilians, journalists, aid workers, children... theyr all the highest theyv been around the world in decades. you cant just wave it away with a "shit happens in war", only apologize when other countries' citizens get killed, and still claim youre doing everything you can to not kill civilians

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A Zionist Jew and and Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve Jews."

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A Jewish woman posts a sweet but deep video about Shabbat and how Jews have continued to live through everything, the replies,