Kosh's Shadow 8/13/2022 9:00:04 AM

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The nonsensical nature of anti-Israel and anti-Jew protests:

'Zionists, go home!' chanted at anti-Israel protest in London

Occasional Reader 8/13/2022 11:42:44 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

That is infuriating, and hysterical.

Kosh's Shadow 8/13/2022 12:52:55 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

Way down in this article:

Two Israeli generals got to visit Vietnam in the 1990's and meet with General Vo Nguyen Giap:

Giap was one of the great strategic minds of the twentieth century, a former schoolteacher who played a central role in developing the strategic thinking and organizational capabilities that transformed ragtag rural provincials into a military force that would rout the most powerful nations in the world, from the Japanese occupation to the French and the Americans over three long decades of conflict culminating in the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

Giap was also a ruthless and often tyrannical leader, murdering opponents of Vietnam’s communist movement and overseeing a guerrilla war that sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his own fighters to the cause. He was no hero to the Israelis, but he nevertheless cut a fascinating figure in the annals of modern warfare.

At the end of the meeting:

When the Israelis rose to leave, Giap suddenly turned to the Palestinian issue. “Listen,” he said, “the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, ‘You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?’”

The generals were intrigued. “And what do you tell them?”

“I tell them,” Giap replied, “that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.”

Maybe apocryphal; maybe not.

Occasional Reader 8/13/2022 12:56:27 PM

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Weird day.  Just this morning I had some jackass posture as if he wanted to start a fight with me because my chair bumped into his table at Starbucks. I apologized; his tantrum continued. Typical bully/coward, he backed down immediately when I stood my ground, then spent the next several minutes sitting at his table and making sulky faces.  Then as he left, turned and made more te,arks; then drove away, stopped, and made stompy-foot faces at me from the safety of his car.   This was a middle-aged guy, acting like the high school cafeteria bully. Or trying to act that way, anyway. Oh, and I was with my seven year old son at the time.  What kind of putative grown-up engages in that behavior?

Also, little moments like that really make one feel the weight of one’s concealed carry pistol, and the responsibility that comes with it.

Occasional Reader 8/13/2022 12:57:43 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:

too good a story to check. Thanks for sharing it.

Kosh's Shadow 8/13/2022 2:02:12 PM

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Also, it was prophesized several times in the Torah and Prophets, that after the Jews were expelled from Israel, the land would be desolate until they returned.

And that is exactly what happened - only with the rise of Zionism and the return of a significant number of Jews, did the land of Israel become productive, not a desolate backwater.