Pakistan
Pakistan is a country and, in contrast, Palestine is a group of ghettos. I know that Indians trained in classism are enthusiastic about the sheer Barbarism of "our colonial project" (Jabotinsky)
Peter Heather
Peter Heather, The Fall of The Roman Empire, a New history of Rome and the Barbarians
The Fall of The (West) Roman Empire, it was basically a military issue, or if you want to be more precise, a military-fiscal issue as the tax base was lost as more territory fell under the...
I don't think there is much real intellectual interest in this tragedy of the Ukrainian Gambit (1997-, 2008-, 2014-); but in the rare and odd case that anyone here was interested it is worth listening carefully to professor Jeffrey Sachs
"Troll" (!)
Why do you insult so easily, and you pretend to "moderate".
You are a spherical joke whichever way you look at it. Your position, your job title, should be held by an adult.
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So we're back to square one.
In the first century ... the fracture between the subjugated "people of the land" ("am ha'eretz") and "a people" (of dominant overlords) was the fracture between the city-Temple and the people of Idumea, Perea and Galilee.
This is the second time this movie...
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There is Civilization beyond Barbarism when a power recognizes as Citizenship the population of the territory it controls.
"Our colonial project" in the land of Canaan from the beginning was based on pure Barbarism.
And now Adolfo is 'kosher'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31171856-ten-myths-about-israel
Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths
Tomas Suárez, State of Terror
https://www.iberlibro.com/9781911072034/State-Terror-Thomas-Suarez-191107203X/plp
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The Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Polish Zionists would have wanted "the land of Canaan" to be an island off the coast of Norway;
but no
the land of Canaan was Phoenician in the north and Arab in the south, and "Yahweh" is an Arab deity and Moses' father-in-law is an Arab priest.
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In this history a lot of histories are mixed up
(A) TutMoses III, Pharaoh of Egypt and "Moses", i.e. the history of some Arab tribes that the scribes of the tributary palaces of the empire called "Hebrews".
(B) The history of an Aramean ruling class that came to the "land of Canaan" with...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement
Another way of looking at it: Zionism wanted to do away with the immediate past that was Judaism as it was lived in the settlement area and, in the end, it has been the other way round.
https://gilad.online/writings/2021/5/23/talking-to-zionists
Since its foundation
Since its foundation (1917-) "our colonial project" (Vladimir Jabotinsky) in the land of Canaan founded by Ukrainian and Polish emigrants, i.e. Zionism 2.0, was based on the Aramaic tradition of the first Zionism, Zionism 1.0, which establishes a brutal distinction between...
Yes
Yes, this is the tremendous thing
what has happened in the West in the last twenty years is mind-blowing
it's like something out of a science fiction movie
Nowadays if someone says in public something approximately reasonable and true the reaction will be a bunch of hysterical crazies...
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My great dream
My great dream is that someday there will be democracy in America and it will become a normal and civilized country.
Washington Permanent Establishment despises Americans or grudgingly tolerates them. And the Kitchen doesn't care who the waiters, salesmen and stage...
A
A generation of young hawks may emerge in the future; but currently China's ruling class does not want an empire for two reasons:
(1) empires are short-lived seen on a large scale and (2) empires are very expensive and tend to be financially disastrous.
It is certainly a fascinating...