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Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Knowing what we know about how shameless their government is about killing unarmed civilians, why on earth would any ethical human being support them? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/israeli-forces-kill-3...

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Using aljazeera a source of "news" for anything Israel is doing is a dubious as linking to bertibart as a reliable insider in the US democratic party.

You don't really need aljazeera to know that Israel isn't such a nice country when it comes to mowing down human lives because their god told them that's their promised land

God and having actually lived there for 3,000 years.

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Recall when the Mossad assassinated someone in a Dubai hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9KDysPbZ0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Ma... The only reason I point this out is because many (most?) techies have a natural aversion to helping out this sort of thing. It's totally fine if you don't. But it's easy to forget the end result.

They killed the cofounder of the military wing of Hamas. Hardly an innocent. Making a statement like “assasinated a person in a hotel” makes it sound like they killed some tourist rather than a man responsible for countless violence. If they assasinated Osama Bin Laden, would that be ok? As a “techie,” I would be proud to have helped take out someone like Bin Laden but I would of course, not be happy if that tech wer…

Leibowitz was correct, wolves don't shoot wolves, they use them as fig leaves. Fuck them, and fuck you.

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Knowing what we know about how shameless their government is about killing unarmed civilians, why on earth would any ethical human being support them? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/israeli-forces-kill-3...

If you're Israeli, you probably have a different perspective on this. And they are probably after Israelis as potential recruits, right?

Wouldn't surprise me if there are some cultural shibboleths in the challenge as well.

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You don't really need aljazeera to know that Israel isn't such a nice country when it comes to mowing down human lives because their god told them that's their promised land

> because their god told them that's their promised land A substantial portion of the earliest Zionist settlers were atheists and a substantial portion of hawkish Israelis today are. The insistence on founding and maintaining a Jewish state in Israel is not overall theologically motivated.

Oh you're right, it's only a colonialist and racist motivation, god doesn't come into play

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Using aljazeera a source of "news" for anything Israel is doing is a dubious as linking to bertibart as a reliable insider in the US democratic party.

You don't really need aljazeera to know that Israel isn't such a nice country when it comes to mowing down human lives because their god told them that's their promised land

I have no pretention of saying that Israel is 'good' or 'bad' wether mossad is 'right' or 'wrong'. All I am saying is that if you want to convey facts to prove your point, please provide actual information as much as possible by avoiding clearly biased "news" site.

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This is the attitude that makes it hard for me to take Israel seriously. Like they have an inherent right to go after whoever wherever. It feels like a CIA / KGB learned trait. I think I'm most frustrated by the notion of other nations going to work in my country. You do you. But not in my yard, eh.

Ironically, that’s what makes it hard for me to take Hamas seriously — they feel like they can blow up a bus and yet if Israel responds, the “international” community has a conniption fit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Road_bus_bombings

I'm just one opinion but mine is that neither behaviour is better than the other.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using aljazeera a source of "news" for anything Israel is doing is a dubious as linking to bertibart as a reliable insider in the US democratic party.

You don't really need aljazeera to know that Israel isn't such a nice country when it comes to mowing down human lives because their god told them that's their promised land

> because their god told them that's their promised land

Can you please stop spewing antisemitic bullshit, especially on the 70th anniversary of Israel?

Israel was founded after thousands of years of antisemitism ranging from verbal abuse over pogroms up to the Holocaust so that Jews would have a safe haven from antisemitism.

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