Oddbean

#politics #middleeast I believe most humans are good decent people. I also believe that psychopaths are drawn to positions of power. And so good and decent people everywhere are led by psychopaths. No more stark and obvious is this than in modern day Israel. Israel is suffering as a target of terrorism from Hamas, from Hezbollah, from the Houthis, from Iran, but most of all from the ultranationalists. Yes, you heard right. The ultranationalists, the most psychopathic of them all, threaten to assassinate any leader who doesn't fulfil the prophesy by taking all of greater Israel by force, just as they assassinated Yitzhak Rabin once it was clear he supported the Oslo accords and was willing to walk the path of peace to a two-state solution. I believe Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated because he wanted a peace deal. Peace is not on the menu when Israel is driven by ultranationalists. Haniyeh was not a militant, he was a political leader, the lead negotiator. Does this mean I believe Benjamin Netanyahu is under duress? No. Not him. But others. And the people of Israel are mostly very unhappy with this path Israel is taking. Yet some 70% of them (if I understand correctly) approve of genociding the Palestinians. I believe this is because they have been consistently lied to and brainwashed since birth. I don't know what happened to Germans after WW2 but I'm sure it took them some time to come out of their brainwashing. Israel will also need time to reflect on what has been done. I think what needs to be done is that a coalition of world powers needs to enforce a 2-state solution, irrespective of any U.N. security council decision with it's vetoes. If the US insists of fighting it, they will have to fight it with their weaponry. They will have to fight Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, Hungary, Turkey, Indonesia, India, France!, Britain!, Australia! ... will the US turn on all it's former allies (all of which support enforcing a 2-state solution) just to defend Israel's genocide? I don't think so. As I have said before, I do not believe in a one-state solution "from the river to the sea". Israel is a fact of life that has existed as a state longer all but a very few human beings. For the same reason that American's shouldn't all move back to Europe and leave America to the natives, I think Israelis can't be expected to move back to Europe at this point. Maybe before, but it is too late now. Once Israel is controlled by force, and it's current war criminal leaders imprisoned, then the long process of deradicalization will begin. As you can see from my writings, I am not anti-semitic, nor am I even anti-Zionist. I am anti-psychopath, anti-genocide, pro-liberty and pro-enforcement of civility... it is those classical liberal beliefs that inform my views on this topic.

ok here comes the definitive analysis from the greatest intellectual on NOSTR ( me ) "I believe most humans are good decent people. I also believe that psychopaths are drawn to positions of power. And so good and decent people everywhere are led by psychopaths." right about psychopaths - wrong about people. the people aren't "good" - they are RETARDED. ( credit for this go OSHO ) https://image.nostr.build/c70c63652da0e37dc09188ff82c53fada5f038f16d194bef870b39a9e4e7eb15.png "I believe Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated because he wanted a peace deal." Israel doesn't want peace. It wants total victory. They make no secret of this at all. The only secret is the definition of total victory. Israel claims that "total victory" is the defeat of Hamas and Hezbollah but of course only a 100 IQ retard could believe that because you can't defeat an idea by killing people. The real meaning of Total Victory is for Israel to consume all the lands surrounding it turning the entire Middle East into a buffer zone in which they can build settlements. "And the people of Israel are mostly very unhappy with this path Israel is taking." as much as i love you Mike you are either a fool or a liar for saying this. the people of Israel are 100% as genocidal as Netanyahu. two thirds of Israelis have supported the soldiers who gang raped Palestinian prisoners to death ON VIDEO. as a result of mass demonstrations the rapists had to be released from prison and were paraded on Israeli TV as national heroes. there are many things Israelis disagree with Netanyahu on - but the need to mass murder as many arabs as possible is NOT one of those things. in fact it is the ONLY thing they agree on and is the ONLY reason Netanyahu is able to stay in power because for all his flaws ( like being a totalitarian dictator who spits at the idea of democracy ) he gives people what people crave - Arab blood. "Yet some 70% of them (if I understand correctly) approve of genociding the Palestinians." 70% is not "some of them" Mike, it's basically all of them. "I don't know what happened to Germans after WW2 but I'm sure it took them some time to come out of their brainwashing." Hitler did nothing wrong. "I think what needs to be done is that a coalition of world powers needs to enforce a 2-state solution, irrespective of any U.N. security council decision with it's vetoes. If the US insists of fighting it, they will have to fight it with their weaponry. They will have to fight Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, Hungary, Turkey, Indonesia, India, France!, Britain!, Australia! ... will the US turn on all it's former allies (all of which support enforcing a 2-state solution) just to defend Israel's genocide? I don't think so." there you go with your typical Autistic delusional stuff. i am reminded how when on October 7 you UNIRONICALLY said it was a Cyberattack by Space Aliens. mike you need to put down the crack pipe bro. I don't know who is worse - Lyn Alden for gobbling on Jewish Banker Dick 24/7 or you for living in some kind of a K-Hole. "As you can see from my writings, I am not anti-semitic, nor am I even anti-Zionist. I am anti-psychopath, anti-genocide, pro-liberty and pro-enforcement of civility... it is those classical liberal beliefs ..." wow that's a long-winded way of saying "hippie" the solution is to GAS THE KIKES ok, i'm joking. the solution is actually to BAN RELIGION. i DARE YOU to explain to me how this whole situation could exist in a world without religion. @A. Linder

i can accept this. i am against all organized religion - if you want to throw organized atheism in there - i am OK with that. people should be able to believe what they want. but they have to keep it to themselves. if they try to brainwash their children into their beliefs they get the electric chair.

it is not belief itself that is the problem. beliefs only begin to manifest themselves when people are allowed to express them. for example everybody hates niggers but nobody is allowed to say it, so this hatred has no real effect. likewise you should be able to believe in any G-d of your choosing but you should not be able to talk about it.

I only disagree with that critique a little bit. I shouldn't have said most people are good (I'm not even sure what good means) what I should have said is that most people are "mostly harmless" (as opposed to psychopathic power seekers). Hat tip to the late Douglas Adams. Most Israelis are not happy with Netanyahu and some 2 million are leaving or in the process of leaving because he has escalated which makes them less safe. I'm not saying they don't want Arab blood, but they don't want to live in fear of counterattacks... which is why I had to make the next paragraph to explain that. I don't know who you are referring to when you talk about a "Cyberattack by Space Aliens" that certainly was not me. I agree that religion, which seems harmless at first, ends up making some people very dangerous either due to radical us-vs-them beliefs (as in this case) or radical "God forgives me so I can rape this choir boy" beliefs, or other similar unhinged things. I instinctively don't trust religious people very much... I see it as proof of a brain malfunction.

religion is dangerous because it disconnects morality from reality https://image.nostr.build/b33c7c24185519640c7e76f78f759b5039f000d69bda46f4cefd8770d9c7595d.png fools believe we need religion because without fear of G-d there will be no incentive for anybody to do good what they fail to realize is only the powerless victims of religion actually believe in G-d. https://image.nostr.build/ad2e73f92598a0efcae00ace2c3e37cea1ca74c23ec179b75bca50b740e46281.png belief in G-d ( right-wing ) is ultimately as misguided as belief in government ( left-wing ). it is a pathetic belief based purely on fear and feeling tiny and powerless yet still needing to cling to hope that "we are all going to make it" retards on Fediverse literally and unironically tell each other " we are all going to make it " and " Jesus loves you " and " It's all part of G-d's plan " and so on EVERY SINGLE DAY because of how small and weak they are. as for leftists Government is their G-d, along with its various branches such as "education" and "health care" and so on. leftists believe Government is solution to everything and right-wingers believe G-d is the solution. NEWSFLASH BITCHNES: neither G-d nor Government ever solved any problems and never will. nobody is coming to save you. but the average person can't handle that truth.