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It means I drove to the gas station and bought some weed bc of this post

I do apply that same logic to the US, all of the Americas really. I just don't see it being as feasible as decolonizing Israel would be. Regardless yes, those people do exist in Israel. There are many people in Israel who were born there with no where to flee too. Should this group be doing everything they can to leave or prevent the genocide then I do not have any qualms with them. There are even some people who moved there without knowledge of its history and its always prevelant oppression but these people should have left once they saw it. And they did see it, you can't not see it.

These Israelis in the video were in europe, they could flee if they wanted to. They could abandon their genocidal country but they clearly haven't. They celebrate it even. They do not belong to the previously mentioned groups.

I'm sure there are plenty of Israelis who oppose the war but so far I've only seen 8-12 anarchists use their bodies as shields. This, so far, has been the only Israeli material resistance to the genocide that I have seen. It is safe by now to say that Israelis are fascist. Have you seen the news on Israel recently? They passed a bill that allows them to deport "family members of terrorists" to Gaza or wherever they see fit. They are going to start moving arabs from the west bank into the concentration camp. Atleast in Germany the good people mostly couldn't leave, some did what they could to help the jewish victims. Palestinians won't have this luxury to the extent that the Jews did.

Would you have been as hesitant to judge a German in 1938 as you would be to judge an Israeli now?

Edit: futher context to the linked video

These people were being very racist

Honestly it was a natural progression. I got into marxism which means I got into history. So I binged a lot of history youtube and found I really enjoyed pre-colonial American history, especially the Maya. For a time I scratched that itch with youtube videos, podcast episodes, and documentaries but eventually I came to a point where videos were repeating themselves and I wasn't learning much new. Now, I am a physics major so I read a lot of textbooks and a lot of research papers so I am used to sites like JSTOR and have access to them through my school. So now I spend some of my free time reading about these cultures.

Plenty of alternative sites if you don't have access though ;)

Would you live in Israel knowing what you know? Would you move there? Would you stay if you had ever ability to leave? How would you feel about someone who did?

Me too! The unfamiliarity is exactly why I find pre-colonial history so fascinating.

Just a hobby really but I am taking an art history class and thats why I wrote the essay. Wish I could get paid a decent living to write about it though

I'd love a story about a supervillain who was around so long and was so successful that when he eventually stopped his villainy everyone keeps blaming him for everything that goes wrong even when there is basically no evidence

SERIOUSLY! I'm in Ninevah and I get these! Is there no escape?

Jasmine is top tier imo but I also enjoy chai

Thanks! I will look into this

Every settler is guilty. If you moved to Israel you are guilty. Living in Israel means living on land soaked in palestinian blood. It means choosing to become part of a system that kills kids daily. Being in Israel right now, being an Israeli citizen right now means knowingly continuing to do exactly that. You cannot compare citizens of the Israeli oppressor who live in palestinian homes to the many non-combatant palestinians who no longer even have a home.

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I've been really interested in pre-colonial american history recently amongst other ancient societies. I even wrote an essay recently on the origins and meaning of the cave motif in Olmec altar thrones. In short, I believe it materially comes from the fact that the Olmecs had only relatively recently left cave dwellings and temporary housings to form the first cities in the Americas. However it also served the purpose of legitimizing the power of the Olmec rulers as caves were very religiously significant. Other mesoamerican mythologies viewed caves as a place that is close to Xibalba, the Mayan form of underworld. Xibalba was viewed as a place like earth that resided within the primordial sea through which the middle world (viewed as a creature drifting in the primordial sea) floats. Xibalba was full of people and creatures which could be communicated with and even bargained with. The shaman-rulers of Olmec society would likely consume hallucinogens and/or deliriants like Datura and then either enter or sit at the entrance of the cave to communicate with Xibalba. Knowing the effects of Datura and plants like it, this had to have been an incredibly unpleasant and probably terrifying experience. I am doubtless that the feat was considered brave. Anywho, the Olmec rulers would have a cave carved at the front and center of their throne, often with someone standing in front of it or exiting it. Fun fact: Sometimes, likely after or slightly before the death of that ruler, their throne would be turned on its side so that it is vertical and carved into what may be the face of that ruler. You can still see the scar of the cave carving on the side of the head for some of them. Here's some pictures!

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I also love the Incans but I know less about them. Their textiles are wonderful though.

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