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As my Jewish girlfriend said to me in 1959, next it will be the Catholics.

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Very sad that, as Karl Marx wrote, history repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce.

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This is why we need an Israel.

Why do these people act like animals? Are they born that way? We can't control other countries, but we do not, should not have to tolerate this crap here in the USA. How come the demonstrations that are pro-Israel are uniformly peaceful, but the pro-palestinian rallies are without exception violent and hateful, calling for death of their enemies. You don't see anybody at pro-Israel rallies calling for the death of anybody.

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Conservatives are the Jews of the US

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As an American Jew, one question keeps repeating in my mind: Why didn’t every Israeli who was slaughtered on October 7 have an AR-15?

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Well....well....well....isn't this interesting....

So, are we all dropping the #BanADL that we were all about a few months ago?

https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/adl-and-brandeis-center-letter-presidents-colleges-and-universities

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Is it reality though; or reality seen through massive media distortion and our own catastrophising bias a la mass shootings and right-wing extremism; both bigged up by nutters to a significance they haven't got? Litmus test: if your bags aren't packed and the El Al booking page isn't a permanently open tab I doubt you actually believe things are quite as catastrophic as you make out in your writing. The Islamo-Nazis want you scared of your own shadow; don't give them the benefit.

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I have to ask the ugly question here - at what point would it be desperate enough for Israel to launch her (supposed) nuclear weapons, and against whom would they be launched?

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Dunno exactly, Washington would probably be on my "To do" list though. /s

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Satire, so please no attack comments: These dumpy places that want to attack Jews but don’t have any, are really not thinking out of the box. Just like some hotels used to say, “No Jews Allowed”, why doesn’t Dagestan put up signs on their hotels, “Only Jews Allowed”? After a few years of marketing, travel promotions, the opening of some authentic Jewish delis, and an annual Jewish Film Festival, Dagestan will have lots of Jews for the locals to pick on. Anyway, just trying to help them.

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What it becoming more clear to me is that Putin has been stoking this particular fire for a looooong time. He's established a diplomatic relationship with Hamas from the very beginning, first inviting them as official state guests back in 2007, and most recently in the spring of this year. Russian war money is funneling through Iran, as they buy drones for use in Ukraine. Russian money, up to $93 million of it via crypto, transferred to Hamas just before the Oct 7th attack.

Russian propaganda and influence is almost certainly also fueling the anti-Semitism that is being stoked on college campuses, by the Che t-shirt wearing crowd.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/27/news/putin-accused-of-forming-axis-of-terror-with-hamas-iran/

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Sadly, the Jews have been the whipping boys of empires since at least the Assyrians. The Hebrew tribes started out as nomads in search of a promised land, and finding it in Canaan, they have been the target of hatred for millennia. Dispersed all over the planet by force, they nevertheless retained their culture and beliefs rooted on Mt. Zion and the promise of "Next year in Jerusalem." Hated and persecuted for merely surviving but used by kings and emperors for needed financial support and education that advanced society, the Jews returned home in the last century where they turned a barren wasteland into a garden of Eden and a liberal democracy amid neighboring tyrannies and a culture of sadistic rapists and murderers. The Jews are again the target of jealousy and hatred stirred up by failed empires which promise that the elimination of the Jews and their nation will solve the problems created by those same empires. God forbid that the Jews are wiped out. Who will become the next whipping boys?

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Enslaved multiple times throughout the millenia, and murdered by the millions. Yet, they are not part of the "oppressed" according to the regressives.

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Outside of Israel the US is a Jew's best hope for a peaceful fulfilled life. If we aren't careful about how select political representatives that may change. Choose wisely. The leftists aren't our friends.

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Bullshit, Jacinto. Biden is your best friend. Don’t be sucked in by the Trumpist lies.

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Will why assume I'm a trumpista?

Nice cast though. Try live bait next time.

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Jew-hatred actually does very well even in Judenrein lands. Just witness the entire Muslim world. Or Poland under post-WW 2 Communist rule.

Malaysia may be the worst, and apart from a few Bagdadi Jews who once lived in Penang, it has never even had Jews.

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Thank you for clarifying. It truly means so much .. There is a lot of misunderstanding when text is the main means of communication. Not only with language issues, but there is a complete lack of tone of voice, and spontaneity., and back and forth. I believe it is contributing to the extreme rise in hate on all sides .

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I was thinking when I heard about the riot at the airport nothing in Russia happens unless the government wants it to happen this article confirmed that.

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