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Positive? I come off very robotic in text but I'm friendly in person! Realtime is much more effective for this kind of stuff.

- I assume you agree israel can't be physically displaced - I assume you agree that as britain's displacement of the ottomans was valid, so too is the jewish terrorist/renegade dis…

I guess github is kind of a shared garden. Interesting that, like in game theory, if everyone is using it too much, no one gets to use it.

Also, would you be interested to continue this conversation by phone or video call? We've been at this for more than a month now and I admire your respectfulness and tenacity and p…

Israel is a nuclear power; it can't really be displaced. It sounds like the terms "ingratitude" / "ingrate" are not relevant to your stance and are just emotive distractions; I sug…

Israel is physically immune to being displaced, and there is good reason to think it would be a fine western-style steward when not under duress. Even israeli jewish radicalism has…

I'm losing your overall point. You imply indifference when you say "it might as well be china". My followup would be, "you don't seem indifferent about israel" Then I would expect …

Justice (justification) and practical reality are fundamentally linked. If no previous state is interested, the land stateless - correct?

I am not an antiabortion crusader. I'm offering what I understand to be the antiabortion position here. By ":(" I wanted to imply "Unfortunately there are seemingly lots of people …

And if none of the previous legitimate sovereign authorities of that territory are interested to administer its present-day property rights claims? The people of that land are effe…

Some would argue there are too many harms that occur if antiabortion measures aren't taken :(

Outside of states there is no law - only survival. I would expect stateless people to use force to preserve and increase their resources, and I would of course do so myself in such…

(I'm canadian - not israeli.) "Would you disagree with shooting illegal settlers who are right now robbing others lands?" Who is doing the shooting?

That's a remarkable position, thanks for being honest about it. So israel is currently pursuing what is in your eyes the only possible route to legitimacy - i.e., maintaining owner…

So we just need to wait, and you'll reverse your stance on israel?

Would you argue that most states worldwide are false/invalid and should be relitigated? (As just about all of them were constructed in areas containing prior people, and against th…

If your objections are that parties are elected rather than leaders, and that non-israelis can't vote, it sounds like you are straining very hard to deny that israel is a democracy…

I don't understand how you can disagree that generally, "territory unencompassed by anything strongly resembling a state is a favourable place to construct a state". Surely you don…

You're branching off in a lot of directions. Is there a specific point you'd like to focus on? Do you agree "territory unencompassed by anything strongly resembling a state is a fa…

I think there are plenty of ethnostates that function well internally, and do little unjustifiable harm to others. So your question is "how to justify the movement of newcomers int…

Breadth-first discussion is not effective. Are citizens of israel able to vote for their leadership?

I'm interested in your very general stance ("seeds of harm") as I suspect it either classifies too many or too few states as undesirable, but I want to let you push your questions …

It sounds like you don't specifically oppose ethnostates, but rather more broadly, any state which contains "the seeds of harm". What test do you use to determine whether or not a …

What right/justification do you have to prevent people from organizing on any basis they determine is important to them (so long as they aren't unjustifiably harming others in the …

Any non-convert jew (the vast majority of jews are non-converts) will have a lineage going back to ancient israel / judea. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "don't believe in e…