Or some IPA swill.

Oh the irony:

She sent a very clear message to the customer that his shitty, entitled, and borderline threatening behavior will not be tolerated. Seems to me like she made the world a slightly better place.

I didn’t realize it was Dutch and just thought it was a really over the top parody of how Jar Jar Binks talks.

Maybe nobody wants to sign on to work alongside corrupt cops.

You fucking ghoul. You’re literally saying Palestinian lives are worth less than Jewish ones. You’re the worst kind of racist.

I’m educated, buddy. Just because you’re too emotionally invested in Israel being blameless to see the parallel doesn’t make it bullshit.

Are the fascists running Israel an ethnic group? No, they’re a bunch of war criminals who should be hanged for their actions so Israel can have some hope of transforming into a decent country whose people acknowledge its crimes.

In fact, you’ll recall that a world war was triggered because a country wanted to exterminate a specific ethnic / religious group not only within their borders but also in their neighbors’ country.

WWII was triggered by Nazi Germany’s attempt to take over the world. Ending the Holocaust was just a fortunate side-effect of beating back the Germans and removing the Nazis from power. Nobody in power have a shit about Jews until people started seeing images from the death camps after they were liberated.

Forgive me for going on the offensive, but since you’re American… How exactly is your govenment making up for the atrocities committed to the native Americans? A very quick search says it’s not all sunshine and roses either… Maybe USA is an apartheid state too?

The US was founded on a genocide that didn’t fully stop until the late 20th century. That much is true. We’re not an apartheid state because we don’t have a population of Native Americans who aren’t allowed to leave their designated areas. We do have areas called “Indian Reservations” where Native Americans have limited sovereignty (somewhat comparable to that of a US state), but the people who live there are free to leave and many of them do.

We might very well be an apartheid state if the native population hadn’t been genocided to the point that nobody sees them as a threat, so I’m not claiming any kind of historical moral superiority. And the US government still treats Native American groups badly in a lot of ways, but they’re at least not treated badly enough to inspire them to form terrorist groups, and it’s not because Native American cultures are inherently pacifistic—native attacks on white settlers were quite common in the 1700s and 1800s.

The lesson I take from it is that even people with the worst historical grievances are willing to set them aside if they’re given the same opportunities as everyone else.

When I hear Israel has a right to exist because Jewish people need a home, I immediately wonder whether the person saying so would agree that Nazi Germany had a right to exist because German people needed a home. Nazi Germany is gone now and ethnic Germans seem better off for it.

I have acquired a new word.

(Different commenter here.)

I’ve heard there are a few Jews living among the Arab population of the West Bank. I’ve heard nothing about Jews living in Gaza except for Israeli colonists who have since moved out. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me that non-colonist Jews would live in the occupied territories, because they are free to move to Israel by virtue of being Jews.

There is a small population of Arab Christians living in Gaza, and I would assume in the West Bank as well, though I can’t recall hearing about them specifically.

I can’t argue with their charter, but their actions don’t reflect their words.

“Hamas vs Israel” is a category error. It’s Hamas vs Likud or Palestine vs Israel. Nobody should support Hamas or Likud. Nobody should even tolerate them. They’re both terrorist groups whose goal is genocide.

People are killing each other over land and historical grievances, not whether to call God Allah or Yahweh.

Source? I tried searching and nothing relevant turned up.

Being sad is so uncool.