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Emma Emmhoff daughter of the second husband would no doubt dismiss your essay as "false narrative" when there is so much authoritative info that she and the squad can rely upon....Ilan Pappe's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Khalidi's 100 years war against palestine, early Benny Morris on the refugees, and many more tomes that are part of Mid East studies and I think some Jewish Studies departments.....the myths of the Hebrew Bible as an insane and racist Jewish supremacist template for ethnic cleansing and genocide. Of course the Palestinians existed....Herodotus!...why even the Romans recognized palestine.....as I learned from a History of Palestine, the Jews were there only one hundred years and were of no consequence. You see Jews contribute nothing to world civilization as Jews.....we live on myths and gefilte fish. we have nothing and we certainly cannot legitimize colonial settlerism of European WHITE Ashkenazis who descend from Turks ....unless you're Erdogan than we descend from dog and pigs and apes certianly not Turks. So Emma .....she won't read this....it's a false narrative. Right Emma? REFUND UNRWA...End the Occupation...CEASEFIRE NOW! Boycott Netanyahu's address.

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Outstanding analysis. Should be broadly distributed.

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Emma Emmhoff daughter of the second husband would no doubt dismiss your essay as "false narrative" when there is so much authoritative info that she and the squad can rely upon....Ilan Pappe's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Khalidi's 100 years war against palestine, early Benny Morris on the refugees, and many more tomes that are part of Mid East studies and I think some Jewish Studies departments.....the myths of the Hebrew Bible as an insane and racist Jewish supremacist template for ethnic cleansing and genocide. Of course the Palestinians existed....Herodotus!...why even the Romans recognized palestine.....as I learned from a History of Palestine, the Jews were there only one hundred years and were of no consequence. You see Jews contribute nothing to world civilization as Jews.....we live on myths and gefilte fish. we have nothing and we certainly cannot legitimize colonial settlerism of European WHITE Ashkenazis who descend from Turks ....unless you're Erdogan than we descend from dog and pigs and apes certianly not Turks. So Emma .....she won't read this....it's a false narrative. Right Emma? REFUND UNRWA...End the Occupation...CEASEFIRE NOW! Boycott Netanyahu's address.

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Emma Emmhoff daughter of the second husband would no doubt dismiss your essay as "false narrative" when there is so much authoritative info that she and the squad can rely upon....Ilan Pappe's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Khalidi's 100 years war against palestine, early Benny Morris on the refugees, and many more tomes that are part of Mid East studies and I think some Jewish Studies departments.....the myths of the Hebrew Bible as an insane and racist Jewish supremacist template for ethnic cleansing and genocide. Of course the Palestinians existed....Herodotus!...why even the Romans recognized palestine.....as I learned from a History of Palestine, the Jews were there only one hundred years and were of no consequence. You see Jews contribute nothing to world civilization as Jews.....we live on myths and gefilte fish. we have nothing and we certainly cannot legitimize colonial settlerism of European WHITE Ashkenazis who descend from Turks ....unless you're Erdogan than we descend from dog and pigs and apes certianly not Turks. So Emma .....she won't read this....it's a false narrative. Right Emma? REFUND UNRWA...End the Occupation...CEASEFIRE NOW! Boycott Netanyahu's address.

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Thank you Ryan for speaking out against the blatant lies the Zionist and genocicidal lunatics keep repeating. Did you watch the fact-checking by Richard Medhurst on Netanyahus "speech" to the US congress today? Hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Md5onMPyi8k?si=Nf_giljHfi-vWYaq

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Hey Shelley, you seem not to get my sarcasm. Hamas....lies, lies, lies and more lies.

including and and the.

"Takbir burn that shit"

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When making your casualty comparison with other recent conflicts, I noticed that the percentage of Gazans killed and the time frame in which they were killed was higher & shorter than in most of the other conflicts. I don't think any of the others managed to kill 1.5% of the population of the losing side in less than a year of war. I don't imagine many people have noticed this, since most, including most public intellectuals, are innumerate. The percentage of physical infrastructure destroyed also outmatches the other conflicts. You blame this intensity of death & destruction on Hamas, since it seeks a long ugly war for its own strategic reasons: international PR benefits, demoralization of Israelis, coordination with its regional allies. Your enemies blame it on Israel, for other reasons...

One other distinction: the Left always reacts viscerally against a military action that involves a great disparity of power. An additional irritant arises when there is also a great disparity in casualties. Here, around 38,000 dead Gazans versus around 1,500 dead Israelis, a 25:1 ratio. The power differential is one of the reasons the Left almost always, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, opposes American military action. Obviously, Israeli power vastly over-matches Gazan power. This mentality is a corruption of the Christian ethic of siding with the weak. Of course, the American Left is full of post-Christians and those who have been propagandized into the currently reigning post-Christian ideology, so the corruption is unsurprising.

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Did you post about The Big Lie #2?

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Wow, good close reading! I skipped #2 here, but it will be in the longer piece when it comes out..... thx

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Ok thanks! I'm gathering quotes about antisemitism to make into a series of comics for IG and maybe elsewhere. I don't know what I'll call it but in my head it's "notes from people who are smarter than me" LOL

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