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“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

oh yeah the guys with the colonial settlements aren't religious at all huh?

lolwtf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

mojofrododojo, You should do some reading about how and why Hamas was formed. It was formed with Israeli and Russian help to fight the PLO and the two state solution mandated by the UN. It was initially formed to be nonreligious but Israel insisted it be religious.

"..Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)

“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”"

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

This was always about shattering Palestine, taking their land, and using the vagaries of religious conflict as an excuse no one would dig too hard on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol I've been reading about Palestinian history for decades. you schmucks bought the british bullshit about the land being yours. and instead of cohabitating in peace, each side chose to murder people. over and over again. you build a settlement, they blow something up, you burn down their farms, they assassinate somebody. it never ends because both sides are certain god is with them.

it will never end as long as both sides keep listening to their invisible friends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What religions do Ukrainians and Russians practice? I thought they were similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They also wear shoes maybe the shoes are to blame.

As it always was and always has been, religion is used as a tool and an excuse but it's not the root cause.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if shoes caused people to hate and murder each other that argument would make sense.

religion is the lever, put to the work of violence by amoral people, an easy task when they each assert theirs is the only way.

pfft. shoes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a simple explanation for a simple mind

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll take that as a compliment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

"The simplest explanation is usually the best one."

all the tiny brained downvoters, looking at the simplicity of life and saying "no, that needs jeebus!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol famously true of geopolitics

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I'm sure it's the most circuitous, vague explanation that works instead?

bwahahahaha.....

without a divine god, without monotheism how can we ever explain ANYTHING bwahahaha...

You guys are so self deluded I can't even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Bqhaahahahahahshshshshhdgshdhshs god dumb if people no god there no war