Israel general discussion

[Joe Republic]

Roseanne Barr scheduled to address the Knesset next month, because this timeline we’re in isn’t bizarre enough.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Roseanne Barr scheduled to address the Knesset next month, because this timeline we’re in isn’t bizarre enough.

She is an expert when it comes to racism.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Roseanne Barr scheduled to address the Knesset next month, because this timeline we’re in isn’t bizarre enough.

We should bring in anyone who hates homosexuals, black people etc as long as they like Jews to our parliament! I mean, LGBTQ and Ethiopian Israelis have no feelings.

[Intell]

Roseanne Barr scheduled to address the Knesset next month, because this timeline we’re in isn’t bizarre enough.

We should bring in anyone who hates homosexuals, black people etc as long as they like Jews to our parliament! I mean, LGBTQ and Ethiopian Israelis have no feelings.

I'm mean this at the very least is false. I'm pretty sure she doesn't "hate" black people either just has stupid and prejudiced views (which is definitely wrong).

[America Needs R'hllor]

Roseanne Barr scheduled to address the Knesset next month, because this timeline we’re in isn’t bizarre enough.

We should bring in anyone who hates homosexuals, black people etc as long as they like Jews to our parliament! I mean, LGBTQ and Ethiopian Israelis have no feelings.

I'm mean this at the very least is false. I'm pretty sure she doesn't "hate" black people either just has stupid and prejudiced views (which is definitely wrong).

I'm not just talking about her. I'm talking about Bolsanoro too, who got a visit from Bibi in his inauguration, and other repugnant leaders and figures my government loves flirting with.
And yeah, I know she doesn't hate anyone, it was a hyperbole

[Medal506]

42% of Israel supports an act that 81% believe will result in all out war in the region?

Such a peaceful nation we must pray for.

Anything they do as a nation will lead to war because they're surrounded by Muslim supremacists who just want another genocide against the Jewish people.

[parochial boy]

Thank you for quoting a 7 year old post so that you could enlighten us with that highly sophisticated take on the situation in the middle east.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Amos Oz has died.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-gantz/israeli-ex-general-polling-closest-to-netanyahu-joins-2019-election-race-idUSKCN1OQ14E

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So, if push comes to shove, who do you believe Gantz would be willing to join a coalition with?

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-gantz/israeli-ex-general-polling-closest-to-netanyahu-joins-2019-election-race-idUSKCN1OQ14E

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So, if push comes to shove, who do you believe Gantz would be willing to join a coalition with?

I imagine his ideal coalition would be with Lapid and Kachlon as a three-part "Third Way" leadership group. They would then probably bring over ZU to avoid having to deal with Netanyahu or any of the far-right parties, but beyond that it gets tricky. The Arabs are flat-out and the Ultra-Orthodox won't be willing to work in any way with Lapid.

[Velasco]

Amos Oz has died.

Sad news.

I would like to know if our Israeli posters have a word to say...

[Hnv1]

Amos Oz has died.

Sad news.

I would like to know if our Israeli posters have a word to say...

Met him on several occasions, was a great author and speaker. His brand of pragmatic progressivism just didn’t speak to growing number of illiberal Jews especially the immigrants from the ME and the former USSR

[Hnv1]

Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked and Shuli Maulem leaving Bayit Yehudi and start their own party: HaYamin HeHadash

because, you know, Israeli politics isn't already wild lol.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-shaked-expected-to-announce-break-from-jewish-home-form-new-party/

I have no doubt their future aim is merging with Likud.

[Velasco]

Amos Oz has died.

Sad news.

I would like to know if our Israeli posters have a word to say...

Met him on several occasions, was a great author and speaker. His brand of pragmatic progressivism just didn’t speak to growing number of illiberal Jews especially the immigrants from the ME and the former USSR

I suspect that  "progressive" and "pacifist" sound like insults to many ears in Israel. It's a terrible zeitgeist

The world needs more pragmatic progressives like him. You are lucky for having met Amos Oz

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcjesus-sculpture-ronald-mcdonald-crucifix-outrage-christians-israel/

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Oh, and here's a photo.



Would that offend you?

[DavidB.]

How difficult is it not to display this stupid nonsense and damage Israel's reputation in the process, seriously. People need to use their brains.

[DC Al Fine]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcjesus-sculpture-ronald-mcdonald-crucifix-outrage-christians-israel/

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Oh, and here's a photo.



Would that offend you?

Absolutely. Its blasphemous.

[DavidB.]

Absolutely. Its blasphemous.

If it's any consolation, these types do this sort of stuff with Judaism all the time as well. Museums that do this should lose their government subsidies.

[Hnv1]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcjesus-sculpture-ronald-mcdonald-crucifix-outrage-christians-israel/

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Oh, and here's a photo.



Would that offend you?

The question is should anyone's feeling be of interest here?

[danny]

How difficult is it not to display this stupid nonsense and damage Israel's reputation in the process, seriously. People need to use their brains.

The way all the other countries that had this display were harmed? any danger to reputation would be for being a country where free expression is censored because of religious fanatics. This display wasn't even trying to mock Christianity, but in any case I think you should be able to criticise and mock religion just like any other ideology.

[America Needs R'hllor]

How difficult is it not to display this stupid nonsense and damage Israel's reputation in the process, seriously. People need to use their brains.

The way all the other countries that had this display were harmed? any danger to reputation would be for being a country where free expression is censored because of religious fanatics. This display wasn't even trying to mock Christianity, but in any case I think you should be able to criticise and mock religion just like any other ideology.

Yep, no one should care if any Christian fundamentalist in America or Canada thinks it's blasphemous, because we're a free country. The only problem I see right now is that people are afraid to do to Islam what they do to Christianity and Judaism, but that's something else that shouldn't be fixing by catering to all religious extremists, but rather to none of them.

[Santander]

I agree with danny on this.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm surprised that even Netanyahu is so desperate and/or so stupid as to openly broker a merger between Jewish Home and Jewish Power (the Kahanust party that goes as close as it legally can to admitting it wants to ethnically cleanse the Occupied Territories of non-Jews).

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/otzma-yehudit-netanyahu.html

Even if it works in the short-term (which is doubtful), the long-term damage this will do just doesn't seem worth it. It is not in Israel's interests to make support of Israel even more of a partisan issue in the US than it currently is. Support of Israel will never be a defining issue that decides elections in this country, tho it may decide a the occasional race, especially in the primaries. Taking steps to make it more likely that the Democratic Party goes from being lukewarm on Israel to being antagonistic is not in Israel's interests.

[Hnv1]

Well today when I was doing some legal work on something else I found something interesting. It appears that the status of an Enemy State that Iraq had since 48 was knowingly abolished on 1.1.2019. I wonder what’s that about, but anyhow business in Iraq is now legal.

No I don’t think it has anything to do with Kurds