S25E05 - The Benes Mammoth

thinking once more about when i sold patches on etsy and someone sent me a pic of their cat in a little denim vest wearing one of them.

i am searching SO desperately for the image rn

FOUND IT

ive never been naked and if you have you’re disgusting

Finally.

Important follow-up

more bread monday

It’s sadly true

Coming back from work I saw an Orthodox woman and her children waiting for the train. I could *feel* how nervous this woman was, having to protect her children by herself in a city where antisemetic hate crimes have soared in the past few days. I can choose not to wear my Hamza or my Chai necklace but Orthodox women do not have the choice to not wear a sheitel or a tichel. Their faith does not afford them the luxury of blending in - of looking less Jewish. Needless to say, even on a very crowded subway platform, she stood out. I was heading downtown and planned to take the express but I followed her onto the local instead. She sat and I stood near her. I smiled at her children and then introduced myself in Hebrew. It was a weird thing for the children and their mother to hear me. There was relief at hearing the familiar but also a bit of panic in the mother’s eyes. She responded in English. It was clear to me then that she just wanted to minimize her appearance as much as possible. I did not ask where she was going but I offered to go with her. I could only guess where she lived and I ended up being right. I asked her if it was okay if I called my mother. She said yes. My mother met us at the platform. The security of three adult women had this woman feeling more comfortable speaking in Hebrew. We walked her all the way to her home. My mother shared her address and phone number and the woman looked relieved. To be honest, my mother and I were relieved once she was safely inside. 

I’m sharing this because it is so important for non-Orthodox Jews to protect the Orthodox community right now. It is so important for all Jews to protect all Jews right now. History has shown us that we cannot expect gentiles to do the heavy lifting. They won’t so we must. 

I had a terrible shift today. All I wanted to do when I was off was go home and pass out. But the unexpected train ride to Brooklyn was honestly the best part of my day. I really love being a Jew. I’m just resentful that the thing I am proudest of is the same thing that makes me so easy to hate.

"jews stole arab culture" yes because jews were just dropped on the planet from space its not like they originate from Judea in the mid east or anything. its not like most of them are brown and not european or anything.

Despite the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza,[26] the United Nations, international human rights organisations, and the majority of governments and legal commentators consider the territory to be still occupied by Israel, supported by additional restrictions placed on Gaza by Egypt. Israel maintains direct external control over Gaza and indirect control over life within Gaza: it controls Gaza’s air and maritime space, as well as six of Gaza’s seven land crossings. It reserves the right to enter Gaza at will with its military and maintains a no-go buffer zone within the Gaza territory. Gaza is dependent on Israel for water, electricity, telecommunications, and other utilities.[26] The system of control imposed by Israel is described[by whom?] as an “indirect occupation”.[27] 

I addressed literally all of this in hundreds of posts before. I wish yall were smart enough to go beyond wikipedia or to use your common sense.

Oh sorry you’re right, common sense is what will determine if Israel controls the air and maritime space, 6 of 7 land crossings, and has Gaza’s dependency for necessities, my apologies….

Ugh, fine, Ill humor you.

Common sense would help you determine why Israel controls maritime and aerial space. Common sense would drive your fingers to look for when Israel started doing that, and why (hint - its the terrorism). Common sense would help you understand that “land crossings” are an absurd way of saying “border crossings”, much like the US has land crossings with Canada it controls, Israel has land crossings with Gaza it controls, as it is an area external to the country. Would you like to guess where that 1 land crossing that Israel does not control is located at, and who does control it? hint - it starts with an E and ends with a Gypt. 

Gaza is dependent on Israel for necessities purely because of Hamas. Hamas has the monetary means, the resources, the brain power and the manpower to construct additional power plants for electricity, desalination plants and deep earth reservoirs for more water, and plenty more infrastructure upgrades that would ease the life in Gaza. But it doesnt. Because investing the literal billions of $$$ it has received in the past 2 decades in heavy artillery, military grade missiles and warfare infrastructure is apparently a better idea. 

And lest we forget, that the Palestinian Authority itself starves Gaza on purpose, because it is politically profitable for them in their fight with Hamas over legitimacy and power, and it looks good on your foreign TV. 

If you want to participate in the discussion over this, I suggest first to pick up a book about the history of the mid-east (no, not just Israel or the limited southern Levant, the whole place), then pick a book about regional geopolitics, and then several books about the secular national and islamic factions in the area, how they relate to eachother, and how their identity and efforts of pan-arabism culminates in relation to the existence of Israel and the presence of Jews in the region. 

Until then, sit down. Youre only making yourself look like an uneducated ass.

So you went from; Israel doesn’t control Gaza, to Israel has to control Gaza because of HAMAS. Glad I got you to concede the point. 

It’s not a border crossing if they never let people in and out. That makes it an open air prison. Yeah, the 7th is controlled by Egypt. I know that because it’s literally stated in what I sent you. It’s also the only one blockade that’s opened up over the past 15 years.

I have no issue with blaming HAMAS for many things, including lining their pockets to fuel their terrorism efforts, my problem is with people like you who pretend like HAMAS is the only issue here, or that “HAMAS stop being terrorists pwzz” is a legitimate political prescription. And let’s be real, the billions Israel gets a year from the U.S isn’t going to build schools either.

Why is HAMAS in power? Partly because Israel hunted down leftist/secularists in Gaza. They wanted Islamists to grow to counter securalist groups so they would fight amongst eachother. As well, Israel’s occupation in the first place was a huge radicalizing force that pushed people to vote HAMAS in. Also, you think bombing key infrastructure every few years (which would make building up pointless anyways) and killing/wounding thousands of civilians in the past 15 years after HAMAS got in is going to make people less favourable to a militarized government? Absolutely not.

The PA is helping Israel starve out Gaza, at the expense of millions of civilians, because it’s viewed as beneficial to both governments. It’s not like Israel is against starving Gaza of necessities. It’s not going to stop HAMAS, it’s just to causing undue human suffering. I’m not exactly a PA stan.

The problem is I want Palestinians and Israeli’s to have good lives, and that cannot happen if zionists like you go HAMAS this and PA that, but are incapable of acknowledging the biggest power with the most control in the situation, Israel, as a driving force for the suffering. I can be critical of HAMAS (which is pretty much universally accepted btw) and the PA, while still criticizing everything Israel is doing, but you are incapable of seeing Israel as anything but an innocent victim, despite it being a nuclear power with an advanced military, backed by the biggest super power on the planet, partaking in apartheid, settler colonialism, and endless lopsided warfare. 

How is controlling your own borders = controlling another country?

its pretty disingenuous calling restrictions on aerial and maritime space “controlling”. Hamas controls the movements of southern Israelis citizens by bombarding their roads and keeping them confined to their shelters for days at a time, does that count as “hamas controls Israel”? the PA restricts the movement of Jews within Area B which is supposed to be shared by both Israelis and Palestinians, does that count as “controlling Israel”? No it does not.

everything you wrote is either historically incorrect, politically misinformed, or a half truth. Read the books and get back to me, then we can have a discussion. Getting your info from Vice, Aljazeera and Instagram infomercials is Not It. 

When you’re a vastly superior country that almost completely surrounds a territory the same size as Detroit by land, sea and air, and never let those people out, then it actually would be disingenuous to say that Israel is “just controlling it’s borders just like any other country”

Glad you conceded that you can’t refute anything I just said.

u won! good job! 

I know my maps are all old, but did Jordan wink out of existence at some point prior to this discussion?  Or did we just witness it being David Copperfielded off the face of the Earth?  Is it being held by Earthly Truth, under a dropcloth in his garage?  Give it back, E.T.!  Give Jordan back!  Rude!  People were using that! Jordan, which also inhabits land of the historical region of Palestine.

Over 95% of Jordans population today is Palestinian, yet it is still not considered a Palestinian state. Big hmmm moment for the historically illiterate my dude. And dont you dare remind them of the partition plans of the 20s! they cant handle it!

Jennifer surprised the cast and crew during filming of the famous parade sequence by secretly showing up to the location dressed as a tourist, which is what she’s wearing here. This photo also became public for the first time when Jennifer shared it on her Instagram back in June 2020.