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Excellent post (and I was reluctant to say anything either). I think they want to make it as difficult as possible to disentangle the West Bank from Israel in future to ensure no two-state solution.

For me, the villains are the Israeli far right and those who have given them a measure of power in exchange for political self-interest. We know who they are. The far right extends from government to the guy in the street and also beyond, because I think the far right mindset is culturally...

I'm not a actually an infj but I think the 100- post minimum for the blogs just about does the trick, together with the expected etiquette for that section. And my blog has the added security feature of being pretty boring which keeps most people away anyway.

I found them out of curiosity. I don't want to subscribe to online magazines but would like to read the second article. If you have access, I wonder if you could copy paste it to my blog?? 🙂

https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/why-dostoevsky-loved-humanity-and-hated-the-jews https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/responses/anti-semitism-appeals-to-intellectuals-because-it-feels-like-an-idea

I get the joke, but there was nothing trash about Garbage!

The overturning of the Balogun red card definitely marked the end of the rules based post-1945 international world order.

This war will be over when Netanyahu, Gvir and co. say it's over. Rest of the world, sit tight and hang on.

It was just me trying to be funny. To lighten the apocalyptic mood. To envisage legions of survivalists, sitting in front of mountains of tins of baked beans that they couldn't open.

I keep having a recurring dream that the world is going to run out of tin openers.

I don't pay attention to anything coming out of the White House anymore. It's not worth listening to.

It was just a loose turn of phrase

This. And I'm perplexed that some of the most intelligent people I know are the most ideological, wearing their fanaticism like a badge of honour. Ideology substitutes for thinking and choosing, so why are the brightest also sucked in?

It's strange that a country that has just been laid waste in a preemptive strike is now more determined than ever not to give up it's nuke programme.