HaLinkvah
("Hatikvah is the Israeli national anthem.)
Palestinians should try to emulate the Israelis (Jews, Druze, and Christians) rather than being focused on annihilating the Jews. Non-Jews who live in peace in Israel do very well. https://t.co/QtfiPQpqjM
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) December 13, 2021








How dare they keep that precious unicorn meat for themselves!
Gee, there's a culture in the USA which acts this way: "You are successful. Give that to me!"
Radwaste at December 15, 2021 4:07 AM
7 deadly sins are the lefts virtues.
Pride: Parades
Gluttony: Body Positivity
Lust: MAP acceptance movement (Epstine coverup)
Greed: Make them pay your "Fair share"
Envy: You didn't build that
Wrath: Mostly Peaceful protests
Vanity: How may likes and followers
Joe j at December 15, 2021 5:45 AM
MAP acceptance movement
Hang on, I gotta go warm up the wood chipper.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 15, 2021 7:30 AM
Before the lefties brought Arafat and his thugs back from exile,the imams in West Bank mosques were saying the same thing - "look at these Jewish settlers, they are religious and idealistic yet educated and industrious."
In another generation it would have been possible for Israel to coexist with/absorb those Palis.
Then the lefties "helped" and "championed" the Palis like they did to American blacks...
Ben David at December 15, 2021 10:40 AM
The argument often made against urging the Palestinians to adopt facets of the Israeli culture is that telling one culture to emulate another to achieve success in a world based on the other culture's values is to devalue the "less successful" culture. Remember, every culture is equal under progressive rules and so criticizing one as lesser is racism.
The Palestinian culture is based on tribal and clan affiliations - i.e., collectivism - while modern Israeli culture is based individualism. So, telling the Palestinians to simply adopt the individualism of the Israelis is, in their minds, to denigrate the collectivism that undergirds the Palestinian culture, and that culture as a whole.
For centuries, that tribalism was how their ancestors survived the harsh desert environment. Israel is populated largely by refugees from more modern and individualist economies. As such, Israel is well marinated in modernity.
We see the same culture clash with Native Americans who fear leaving the reservation will separate them from their culture and tribe, but staying will condemn them to a life of poverty.
Asking people marinated for centuries in a less-modern and tribal culture to strike out on their own in the modern world is to ask them to leave a part of themselves behind. It's scary for them. Cultural changes have to start with the extant culture and not simply demand a wholesale and immediate change.
So, while the Palestinians, and the Arabs in general, do need to emulate the Israelis and fully embrace modernity, simply saying that they need to will not move the needle. Any modernization approach needs to start with Palestinian culture as it is, not as we'd like it to be.
Trump's Abraham Accords were actually a step in the right direction. By bypassing the Palestinians and building a relationship between Arab countries and Israel, the Accords took away the veto power the Palestinians had always had over any Arab-Israeli agreement and allowed modernizing Arab economies to work with a modernized economy in the immediate vicinity. Being left behind would force the Palestinians to assess their own position and initiate reforms. Biden's embrace of, and return to, the Palestinian veto is a step backwards.
Conan the Grammarian at December 15, 2021 10:51 AM
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