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  • How does “maybe an external spy agency should stop spying” have 6 upvotes?

    Is your opinion that no government should spy on any other government?

    On the other hand you have a strongman-on-his-way-to-dictator telling you that some people are enemies of the state and you’re just believing it as a surface truth.

  • Or they just hire 5 people instead of 4. Or another part time/seasonal person.

    How does it benefit everyone?

    Don’t get me wrong, I would also love a 4 day work week. But I’d prefer 40 hours rather than getting 80% of my pay.

  • That it what he is about. If op-eds were government policy we’d all be super fucked.

    It’s troubling and no doubt he’s trying to push the Overton window in Israel much like our hard right fuckwits do.

    But that is not all of Israel - any more than Lauren Boebert speaks for me.

  • It requires an intent to destroy all Palestinians as a group. That’s the debatable part. It is not enough to just not just have a different weighting of military value vs civilian casualties - it requires systemic intent to destroy the whole or a significant part of the group.

    If that isn’t required, every battle ever conducted is genocide, every war was genocide. It really dilutes the meaning of genocide.

  • The difference between Hebrew and Latin was that only the Catholic clergy and intellectuals wrote in Latin.

    The average Jewish kid could read and write in hebrew. Even if it wasn’t spoken.

    Even in Morocco, the dialects spoken were often written with Hebrew characters - including a dialect of Arabic written with Hebrew characters.

    They also would have more than a passing knowledge of Hebrew, obviously.

  • More than a couple centuries - but dead isn’t quite right. While it wasn’t spoken in most Jewish enclaves, it was still used in all religion and quite a lot of commerce and literature. Most practicing Jews knew Hebrew, even if they did not use it in daily life. Jews from different countries often used Hebrew to communicate - mostly in writing because it was the common language they would both know.

    Books have been published in Hebrew more or less continuously, including the first printing press in in the Middle East (now in what is Israel) in 1577 printed books in Hebrew.

    Hebrew has never been dead - it just wasn’t used because most Jews lived in countries that spoke other languages that Jews learned and often created pidgin dialects like Yiddish (and others).

    It is not like a bunch of zionists taught all the worlds’ Jews Hebrew, but if you put a German Jew and a Russian Jew in the same room, the only language they would both know is Hebrew.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language

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  • A middle class family couldn’t afford this much McDonald’s. They’d also have more taste and class than to serve this.

    Agreed they could call many restaurants that offer catering. Or, he, his wife, or any of his adult children could have made a home cooked meal for stellar optics instead of this travesty.