As a Jihadi tried to kill me, and as I've witnessed their violence, yes, I do fear them. Anyone who doesn't is foolhardy.
I've just glanced at what you've written.
You said,"But I don't believe your story about journalists being fired for not stating Israel is an apartheid state."
I didn't say that. I said the LA Times banned about 30 journalists from writing about the Israeli/Palestinian situation for three months.
You said: "What I don't understand is how this can really be about hatred of Jews when as you say Jews have been living in the area for a long time. But the Arabs didn't try to kill them off did they? The hatred didn't really start til the birth of Israel after WW 2. And the Nakba."
No, you don't understand.
Your view is based on misunderstanding and a lack of knowledge. Under Sharia law, Jews living in the Middle East for 1400 years had to pay excess taxes and had to obey Sharia Law.
QUOTE FROM WIKI:
Although Jewish life improved under Islamic rule, an interfaith utopia did not exist.[10]: 58 Jews still experienced persecution. Under Islamic Rule, the Pact of Umar was introduced, which protected the Jews but also established them as inferior.[10]: 59 Since the 11th century, there have been instances of pogroms against Jews. Examples include the 1066 Granada massacre, the razing of the entire Jewish quarter in the Andalucian city of Granada.[13] In North Africa, there were cases of violence against Jews in the Middle Ages, and in other Arab lands including Egypt, Syria and Yemen.[citation needed] Beginning in the 15th century, the Moroccan Jewish population was confined to segregated quarters known as mellahs. In cities, these were surrounded by walls and a fortified gateway. Rural mellahs, however, were separate villages inhabited solely by Jews.[14] The Almohads, who had taken control of much of Islamic Iberia by 1172, were far more fundamentalist in outlook than the Almoravides, and they treated the dhimmis harshly. Jews and Christians were expelled from Morocco and Islamic Spain.[15] Faced with the choice of either death or conversion, some Jews, such as the family of Maimonides, fled south and east to more tolerant Muslim lands, while others went northward to settle in the growing Christian kingdoms.[16] In 1465, a mob enraged by stories about the behavior of a Jewish vizier killed many of the Jews and the Sultan himself.[17] The community was temporarily converted but soon reverted to Judaism.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_under_Muslim_rule
When Ashkenazi Jews started moving from Eastern Europe to Palestine (Jordan), they bought land that was used by the Bedouin Arabs. The Bedouin was annoyed that they couldn't camp on the lands, so periodic violence broke out.
When the British Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations gave Jordan which was known as Palestine) to the British to Mandate. You would need to read the history, it's too long to tell here.
However, essentially, while you think the Jihadi are harmless, they are guilty of murder, torture, rape, and horrific crimes against humanity in every country where they live - in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mozambique, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Norway, China, etc. You need to google that and find out more about them.
I don't think Musk is some kind of hero. I think he's an idiot. However, unlike you, I can concede when someone is right about something even if they are wrong about other things. i don't assume, as you do, that if someone is wrong about some things, they must be wrong about everything. That is a tribal stance.
I used to be a progressive until I noticed some of their ideologies about 30 months ago. I will never call myself a progressive again.
This is my climate change site.
