The bar in Bart is cognate of bin/ben in Arabic/Hebrew. It features not just in Aramaic but also Nabatean Arabic which was heavily influenced by Aramaic.

They aren’t violently occupying yours and genociding your people . It is easy to be generous and forgiving with someone else’s.

With how racist and supremacist Israelis are, they will probably leave on their own terms like the Boers did after the end of apartheid in South Africa. The idea of coexistence and normalization has been killed many times over thanks to the genocide. I used to advocate for it, now I don’t, I personally want them gone from the region.

No it isn’t. The Frankish invaders were expelled after 200 years. The French in Algeria were expelled after 100 years. Similar problems have already been solved twice before.

Moroccan, Indian, Iranian, Syrian, Yemeni, Ethiopian and Iraqi Jews are still settlers and not indigenous to Palestine. They are invaders, you give them a part of your country and leave us out of it.

Whatever it may be, it should have never been made our problem and should have never been right in the middle of the Arab World. But there is a Christian Evangelical and European Colonial aspect to Zionism.

Zionism is based upon the myth that everyone hates Jews and that Jews can’t live among other people. I am awfully summarizing what I heard an antizionist rabbi say.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank have blocked elections since then. But you are right that half of Gazans weren’t even born when Hamas won the last elections.

Israel conflates them. Then again Zionism is antisemitic.

Not in many places in the US anymore, but in many other countries you still can.

Saudi Arabia for years wanted tech transfer from the US, and the US would pressure it to normalize with Israel as a prerequisite along with other “reforms” without guarantees. Now they have tech transfers with China.

One of the public reasons the UAE normalized with Israel was to get the F-35. They still don’t have it.

No, that’s nepotism. He wins elections and is popular.

If your criteria is failing to admit to genocides, then every Western “democracy” is a dictatorship, except perhaps Ireland.

He isn’t a dictator, he actually survived a military coup, and unlike his nationalist opponents he has welcomed refugees.

I just want cheap and reliable mass transit.

Patient zero of [email protected]

Stealing from corporations is the only good they done and by chance

Confirmed, 1 Healthcare CEO is worth more than at least 23 Walmart shoppers.

It may not be related but forest fires are raging in many US states and it isn’t even summer yet

The last administration proposed sanctioning the ICC

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/blinken-says-hell-work-with-us-congress-respond-icc-move-gaza-2024-05-21/

With Israel every accusation is an admission