• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    By that same logic, the Italians have a right to the entire middle east because the Roman Empire engulfed it. Then the Ottoman’s came and took it from them, so hey…I guess Turkey has a right to the entire middle east as well now.

    Fuck Zionism.

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    Entire Middle East Land.

    Fuck you NBC for continuing to sanewash your batshit headlines on actual, batshit people saying batshit stuff. Just editing out ONE word changes the tone of this article for the millions of people who will glance at it and shrug.

    They want ALL of the Middle East, Mike said they have a mandate or some such shit to be entitled to basically the entire nation of Egypt all the way across Iran and down across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. For those not proficient in geography, that’s a region of land over half the size of the US and occupied by hundreds of millions of people, who likely do not want to be converted into rubble so that Israel can expand indefinitely.

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      That’s not even biblical. Israel has never controlled fucking Tehran, and they were routinely in exile in Iraq and Syria, not as conquerors but as conquered. No fuccabee only believes this because he’s pro genocide, anti brown people, and hates Muslims more than jews.

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    Blows my mind that anyone can support this “God given right” to land for Israel while at the same time denying indigenous first Nations in America.

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    I think the channel is trying to downplay the comments to make them sound more normal and sane.

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    He’s not wrong from a BIBLICAL standpoint.

    The Bible also says disobedient children should be murdered. The Bible says that if you rape a child, you have to give her dad $50 and marry her. The Bible is OBSESSED with foreskin collection.

    It says a lot of very stupid tripe, that’s why nobody bothers following it.

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      The Bible is OBSESSED with foreskin collection.

      That makes sense tho…

      Like Old Testament was for the one group in the area who removed those as children. No adult spy would do that for cover, and it would take substantial time to heal to pass

      So it wasn’t “we love foreskins, gimmie them foreskins” as much as “give me the one thing that proved you killed an adult man who wasn’t part of us”.

      It was genocide, if you weren’t part of ‘the tribe’ you were an enemy and should be killed.

      So yeah, totally evil, but logical.

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        Just So stories about the logical reason for genital mutilation don’t hold water. Even in the Bible, there are accounts of how the Israelites could tell friend from foe: they did it by accent (search on “shibboleth” for more details), not by examining the guy’s schwantz. Much easier from a safe distance.

        Also, many other tribal societies also practiced circumcision and other forms of genital mutilation, some living adjacent to each other. And snipping is also practiced in Islam, which encompasses multiple nationalities.

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      I always laugh at this argument, because there’s a more amusing argument. Yeah, it’s Israel’s land and they’re G-d’s chosen people. But multiple times in the Bible G-d has taken that land from them and even had them enslaved by nearby nations! At this point in the mythos, G-d, the Messiah, has yet to reveal himself. He’s still in silence lol So, based on all that, it sounds like Israel needs to take some responsibility for what they do.

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    Well I have a God given right to punch Huckabee straight in the face.

    It’s in the Bible, somewhere…

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      Bullshit, yes. Irrelevant, no. Sometimes they lead to real-world consequences that harm or kill innocent people.

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    Excited to hear Mike Huckabee’s other theories on which ethnic groups enjoy sovereignty over which geographic regions

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      I’d like to see that progress rapidly to a natural conclusion, honestly. Thankfully he’s not in the news much anymore, but all things considered it would be harder to find a bigger gaping asshole even in this land of self-glorified assholes, which is currently enjoying its own golden age of assholery. He’s like asshole emeritus now.

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    By the logic of the old testament of the Bible, wouldn’t the Jews have a right to the entire earth?