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1. about 3 hours ago on Rob Rogers

   “And there are Jews — likely Netanyahu himself — who want to completely obliterate Palestinians…”

   And there’s no “likely” about Bibi’s national security advisor Itmar Ben-Gvir, an admirer of both Meir Kahane and Baruch Goldstein.

2. about 3 hours ago on Jack Ohman

   Antisemitism has always been endemic in the West—the blood libel, the bankers’ plot, the Elders of Zion, the charges of “cosmopolitanism” or “divided loyalties,” and so on. And clearly that’s not going to go away soon. My fear is that there is a new source of antisemitism, affecting people (many of them on the left and generally those sympathetic to human rights) who see the terrible things that Israel has been doing to Palestinians since 1948, and who buy the (false) Israeli line that Israel represents, and is supported by, all Jews. IF someone buys that line and is properly appalled by those actions, then antisemitism unfortunately is the logical conclusion.

   After 9/11, it became common for Americans do demand that American Arabs and condemn Arab and/or Moslem extremism. I believe that it is incumbent on Western Jews to condemn Israel’s actions against Palestinians, and to assure the world that Israel does not represent all Jews.

3. about 3 hours ago on Jack Ohman

   “…the US and Canada refused to allow a ship with over 900 Jewish refugees to land…”

   https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

   https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.Ca/en/article/none-is-too-many

   Ample precedent for this: https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Komagata_Maru_incident

4. about 4 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   XL is acting sooo guilty that she must be a red herring.

5. 1 day ago on Ted Rall

   Thanks for the link. Note that Israeli national security minister Ben Gvir, mentioned in the article, has revered both Meir Kahane and Baruch Goldstein, whose plans for Palestinians are roughly the same as Hamas’s plans for Jews.

6. 1 day ago on Clay Bennett

   “A lot of big monet is now getting behind Haley.”

   My wife and I admired a really big Monet of water lilies at L’Orangerie in Paris.

   Https://Www.Musee-orangerie.Fr/en/node/197502

7. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   As I recall, Joanie and Lacey were impressed with each other during and after the election (Joanie was working for her roommate Ginny), and Lacey invited Joanie to work for her. I believe that it was afterward that Joanie moved from being Lacey’s staff to a job at DoJ. Something like that, anyway.

   Lacey was a conservative Republican, but also somewhat progressive, and not the rabid sort that we’ve seen recently. As I recall, Joanie didn’t have much of an ideological problem working with Lacey.

8. 4 days ago on Annie

   Do those guys plan to take The Asp on board as a prisoner? Unwise on their parts. (Have we seen Punjab lately?)

9. 4 days ago on Clay Jones

   “You guys would say I was lying about John Sullivan being an infiltrator, but that’s exactly what he got convicted of…”

   “For the past week, Sullivan’s presence in the Capitol and his previous record of anti-Donald Trump activism has been the focus of frenzied attention in the right-wing media, where the baseless conspiracy theory that pro-Trump rioters were led into violence by left-wing anti-fascist agitators lives on. At the same time, left-wing organizers have been keen to stress that they ejected Sullivan from their ranks months ago, accusing him of being either a right-wing infiltrator or a dangerously naive amateur.

   “…

   “Sullivan said later that his apparent joy in the riot as it unfolded was just him ‘blending in’ to evade detection, but it sounded genuine and would seem to fit with his broadly anti-government leanings and his stated desire to see the U.S. government destroyed and replaced. ‘I’m all for burning the system down and creating something better,’ he had said in a livestream commentary on the possibility of civil war two weeks before the November election. ‘I’m about it. I’m about creating something new, something that works better than what we have in place that gives us more freedom.’”

   — https://theintercept.Com/2021/01/14/capitol-riot-john-sullivan-ashli-babbitt/ (2021-01-14)

10. 8 days ago on Ted Rall

    “…according to former PM and IDF General Ehud Barak, the tunnel nets under the Gaza hospitals were built by the IDF itself…”

    This is news to me—thanks. We learn something new every day.Https://www.timesofisrael.Com/liveblog_entry/barak-causes-storm-by-telling-cnn-israel-helped-build-some-spaces-beneath-shifa/

    (Of course, building tunnels, and making the tunnels under a hospital a command centre, are not exactly equivalent.)