+1 for barefoot shoes for lifting and just chilling

Counterpoint: no single one of us is as stupid as all of us put together. :-)

I loved 3 and NV, and I tolerated 4. Now I’m having some fun with 76 and don’t quite get the hate.

Israeli jews are indigenous to the Middle East, many expelled from their homelands in places like Iraq, Egypt, and Yemen. Your claim of “colonialism” (the word you’re looking for here) may be a common view in the West, but it’s an outright misconception.

The wars you’re talking about: the big ones in 1948 and 1967 were started by groups of Arab states attacking Israel for declaring their independence. Israel defended itself.

Most importantly, October 7 of this year was an absolutely brutal bloodbath perpetrated against women, children, elderly people – civilians. Twenty-year-olds dancing for peace. Residents of left-leaning Kibbutzes, many of whom were outspoken supporters of Palestinian rights. Members of Hamas and other Palestinians streamed across the border and shot civilians, beheaded them, lit their houses on fire, killed their children with grenades, tied women and girls to trees and raped them.

The next day, before a single Israeli bomb had fallen in Gaza, there were demonstrations in the West against Israel.

Okay, but do you acknowledge that Hamas has a great deal of responsibility for the lack of infrastructure for civilians in the Gaza Strip, of which they are the government? That Hamas spends literally billions of aid money toward building a vast system of tunnels from which they fire rockets at Israel, attempting to kill jews, because it’s in their mission statement?

Can you see that it’s a little more nuanced of than simply “Hamas good, Israel bad”?

To your response, “no they are not lol”:

[Jews, Like Palestinians, Are ‘Indigenous’ to the Middle East

](https://reason.com/2023/10/18/jews-like-palestinians-are-indigenous-to-the-middle-east/)

I don’t agree with IDF’s plan. But nobody’s acknowledging that Israeli jews are a constant target.

I suggest you learn more

Referring to the murders by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7. That has everything to do with the current conflict, right?

Jews in the Middle East are indigenous people, too. So you’re saying it’s okay to massacre them?

…after jihadists go on killing spree and cut the heads off innocent civilians, throw grenades at children, dismember people while forcing their families to watch. All in the name of their supposed god,

Brilliant game

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