sndman

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by sndman 3y ago
This is not correct. You have to look at the historical context and the fact that this is an anti-colonial liberation resistance struggle since about 1929. If you don't understand the root cause of the Palestinian Israeli conflict, yo
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by sndman 3y ago
It's not a religious war. It's an anti-colonial struggle. An understanding of events of October 7 starts with an understanding of the historical context of Palestine and Israel: most of the coverage of the events of October 7 dea
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by sndman 3y ago
An understanding of events of October 7 starts with an understanding of the historical context of Palestine and Israel: most of the coverage of the events of October 7 deal with the symptoms of the violence and not the source. An understand
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by sndman 3y ago
Chappelle is a genius. And he's not even Jewish ;-) What bothers me about articles like this is (regardless of its veracity) that when other claims of ethic supremacy (since they often have nothing to do with Judaism) is that there&#x
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by sndman 3y ago
>“We’re here because we want this to be a normal state, you understand?” she said, “just like the United States or France or Germany. We don’t want this country to be taken over by those fanatics with their beards and their religion.” I
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by sndman 4y ago
> In 1948, Palestinian irregulars led by Amin al-Husseini, who had been The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who spied for he Nazis and was a guest of Hitler's in Berlin during WWII and who organized SS troops for he Nazis from Bosnia, as
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by sndman 4y ago
When there is an article about Israeli researchers delving into the history of the land they have stolen, I pay attention because my family was ethnically cleansed from this land in 1948 because we were not Jewish. We were part of over 750,
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by sndman 4y ago
Oy Ye! Which comment was antisemitic? Is any criticism of Israel now antisemitism? "A nation that doesn't know its past, has a dull present and a future shrouded in fog" --Yigal Alon
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by sndman 4y ago
This is a great idea. I've often written small chunks of code in my favorite other language (scheme). I find this very satisfying. Of course, I only do this after finishing the original task. Sometimes, it's possible to work up
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by sndman 4y ago
> susceptible to dogmatically motivated biases. Indeed. And it's not just biblical archaeology. The Israeli government influence and corruption extends to most academics. When the Israeli academy is under control, a government can c
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by sndman 4y ago
It's not clear to me why human rights abuses by Israel or their practice of apartheid on non-Jews in the West Bank and Gaza should bother anyone at google. Morality or ethics was never in the equation. Only immense political and consum
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by sndman 4y ago
Interesting interview today with Ariel Koren, a former Google employee who says she was pushed out for her activism, as well as Gabriel Schubiner at https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/1/google_project_nimbus_
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by sndman 4y ago
Let's not confuse Zionist ideology with Judaism. One is a peaceful religion whose followers understand commandment #8 (no stealing (e.g. land, property, etc.)). And the other is a Fascist (even Einstein called the Irgun massacre 240 pe
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by sndman 5y ago
> I am not Jewish but the logic here is sound. Jews need their own country so they can take control of their destiny. Why exactly? I'm genuinely curious. >Israel is not an apartheid state. South Africa was. We now have 3 major h
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by sndman 5y ago
>the search for a Jewish homeland was led by Jewish religious fundamentalists Not initially. This myth of the Jewish homeland only took hold after the turn of the century. The early Zionist movement was primarily ideological and not rel
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by sndman 5y ago
I think this law will only hurt the Israeli image abroad a little bit. The 3 recent human rights reports (calling Israel out for practicing apartheid) are much more damaging. This is really about the (internationally recognized) right of re
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by sndman 5y ago
I did a lot of taping of movies that were broadcast locally. Lots of documentaries on PBS were many hours long and broadcast over the span of several days, or once a week over the span of several weeks. The only way to see them, for me, was
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by sndman 5y ago
I lobbied heavily to crawl my company's intranet since our official IT folks would not include the ~10k "grey" (as in unofficial) web servers set up by technical people over the years. So I tried this myself and quickly reali
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by sndman 5y ago
This is a really good article. I've enjoyed freebsd on older hardware for since 4.x days. One of the most satisfyung aspects of FreeBSD (really all the BSDs) is the ability to rebuild the "world". Rebuild as in recompile the
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by sndman 5y ago
It's not just Amnesty calling out apartheid Israel: Amnesty's report came out after Israeli human rights advocacy organizations published their reports: 1. 18 months after Yesh Din's "The Occupation of the West Bank and
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by sndman 5y ago
This is not surprising. Amnesty released a damning report (the third from major human rights groups) on Israeli apartheid and there was not a single word written about it in the venerable New York Times. It's been 17 days.
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by sndman 5y ago
I believe the major "earthquake" occurred already. The Amnesty International report on Israeli apartheid was released February 1, 2022.
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by sndman 5y ago
Found some nice charts here: https://singlepairethernet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SP...
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by sndman 5y ago
I'd be interested in connecting two computers over existing unused POTS wiring. Would this even work on the existing wiring? I believe it's simply 22 gauge wire. I can't seem to find any charts (BW vs length) for SPE.
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by sndman 5y ago
Time Immemorial? You must mean the book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters. While that's perhaps the single most common narrative people believe, it's full of myths that most historians have dispelled back in the 1990s. The auth
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by sndman 5y ago
Today, only about 7 percent of Israel land is privately owned, about half of it by Arabs. Israel is the only “democracy” in the world that nationalized almost all if its land and prohibited even the leasing of most of agricultural lands to
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by sndman 5y ago
To understand how academic institutions in Israel deal with "embarrassing" professors, one need only look at the experiences of Ilan Pappe. He was exiled from Haifa University simply because he came to the defense of a master&#x27
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by sndman 5y ago
Indeed, a "newer" democracy. New and shiny. Please do not pay attention to the Arabs in the Occupied Territories. Israeli academia is one of the most important mouthpieces of the establishment and is used to enable Israel to prese
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by sndman 5y ago
"Therefore it would be necessary to carry on colonization against the will of the Palestinian Arabs,...Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native popul
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by sndman 5y ago
You're correct. It is much more then I implied. My point was that for people outside Israel, it's difficult to boycott a governmental body. Also, it's important to mention that the academic boycott if Israeli institutions is

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