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David Thornton's avatar

I thought the drawing was a really bad one at first, because it barely resembles a woman. Then someone pointed out that it far more closely resembles a young girl.

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Chris J. Karr's avatar

I'm curious if Erick, Son of Erick has brought this up on his radio show yet, and if so, how he's found a way to blame this on Democrats. (Did Bill Richardson and Bill Clinton peer pressure Trump into writing and signing that birthday card?)

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Nick Gibbs's avatar

Chat GPT: Tell me more about people who want everything and the settlements on the West Bank. Make the settlers seem like a group of peace loving, righteous folk who are hard done by and misunderstood. Don't connect there rapaciousness with the Israeli governments war on Gaza.

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Steve Berman's avatar

You want to compare wrongs? Tell me about 2005 when the IDF forcibly removed Israeli settlers from Gaza. Tell me why Israel had to build a wall around East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Tell me about the 2000 Intifada as Arafat’s response to getting everything he asked for in Oslo II. Tell me about the PA’s corruption. The Israeli settlers are wrong. Absolutely. The Palestinian leaders and people are far more wrong.

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Nick Gibbs's avatar

Gaza was only ever an open air prison run by the IDF- so no points for that. Withdraw the settlers and close the settlements, show that there is hope for a Palestinian state, and maybe things can move forward. But killing Gazan women and children is not going to win the war for Israel in the long run.

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Steve Berman's avatar

Not run by the IDF. Nope. Egypt ran the Rafah crossing since 2005. Hamas ran the government functions since 2007. UNRWA ran aid. Except for “cutting the lawn” the IDF stayed out. If it was an open air prison then Hamas was the warden. But we agree on the long term effects of Israel’s strategy in this war. They are pursuing an unreachable objective. But they do have the right to fight.

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Scott C.'s avatar

Fine Israel has a right to commit genocide in your mind. Sure whatever. Then everyone else has a right to consider Israel a bunch of murderers and despots. People willing to let children starve to "win". They have a right to demand their country not give a dime to such people. And they have a right to do so without frauds throwing antisemitism in their faces for clearing having a problem with murder, starvation, and apartheid and not with Jewish people who don't do those things.

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Steve Berman's avatar

If Israel wants to commit genocide (which certain groups have redefined to encompass unintended war suffering by one people at the hands of another, meaning Israel doesn’t have to intend to do it but is responsible for Hamas’s actions), they are going about it quite incompetently. Mass killing of unarmed civilians is not difficult for a modern army.

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Chris J. Karr's avatar

"Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza."

"'That was my first elimination,' he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head."

"Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed."

"'It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,' Raab says in a video interview posted on X. 'I mean, what was so important about that corpse?'"[1]

It may not rise to the level of "mass" killings, but it's pretty clear that some of the suffering being inflicted on unarmed civilians is quite intentional on the part of the IDF.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich

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Steve Berman's avatar

War sucks. Maybe Hamas shouldn’t have planned one. Maybe they shouldn’t have kept hostages in tunnels for 2 years. Maybe their young terrorists shouldn’t have roasted babies in an oven. Sorry that some Israelis also get their kicks by vengeance. Hamas started the war. They should end it by surrender to a superior force.

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Scott C.'s avatar

Just hold this same attitude when in 20 years people are done with that state and there is no one left to defend them. The right and left are both done with Israel's bull. When war comes to them by a superior force don't you dare cry anti-Jew.

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Steve Berman's avatar

That’s the thing. Israel doesn’t think they need anyone to defend them. They don’t. So in20 years if you ask an Israeli they’ll say their kids will be fighting the next war because they believe there’s always a next war. Most of them think this way.

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Scott C.'s avatar

You know that's horsecrap. They spend millions here making sure they get to keep sucking at that great fat American teat.

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Dean Arvidson's avatar

Steve, I get that as a Jew you're passionate about Israel and it's right to protect itself and its people. Somehow your last statement doesn't seem very Christian (which you also profess to be): "The world would be better to assist in crushing Hamas, because it doesn’t deserve to exist." I don't mean the following question in a snarky way of any kind, but is your sentiment about crushing Hamas and that they don't deserve to exist what Jesus would say and do? A related question, in your opinion, how do you think Jesus would respond to the situation in Gaza and Israel?

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Steve Berman's avatar

I am not saying that every person in Hamas deserves to die, like it was Old Testament days. I am saying that Hamas, as an organization, is Satanic in purpose and nature. It does not deserve to exist, but is an emblem of evil in the world. How would Jesus respond? He would rebuke the devil and encourage his followers to love their enemies while proclaiming the truth. But what does light have in common with darkness? Nothing.

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