Why you were worried about the driving? Your kollel friend must have taken to heart your article about believing that hishtadlus is an illusion and just like Hashem provided him with a car Hashem would also make sure his Torah learning protected him while the car was driving.
"most Palestinians are basically aligned with Hamas."
This was basically proven on the 2006 Palestinian election. There were six party lists. The two that had no connection to terrorist groups finished fifth and sixth, conbining for three percent of the vote. One can argue based on those results that not all Palestinians support an Islamic extremist state, as Hamas won only a plurality of votes, but you cannot argue that the majority of Palestinians don't want to destroy Israel by violence. An overwhelming majority. And no, sentiment has not changed since then.
This is also why Israel should not annex the occupied territories. Not because it will be bad for world opinion, but because a valid annexation means making all the residents of the annexed area into full citizens of the annexing power. The Knesset would have dozens of Hamas and Farah members. And that is a best case outcome.
'The Americans here will probably laugh at me. I had no idea that self-driving cars are a real thing!'
We laught at you because the first thing that came to your mind was to blame charedim.
Just want to say, I like this post.
Why you were worried about the driving? Your kollel friend must have taken to heart your article about believing that hishtadlus is an illusion and just like Hashem provided him with a car Hashem would also make sure his Torah learning protected him while the car was driving.
"most Palestinians are basically aligned with Hamas."
This was basically proven on the 2006 Palestinian election. There were six party lists. The two that had no connection to terrorist groups finished fifth and sixth, conbining for three percent of the vote. One can argue based on those results that not all Palestinians support an Islamic extremist state, as Hamas won only a plurality of votes, but you cannot argue that the majority of Palestinians don't want to destroy Israel by violence. An overwhelming majority. And no, sentiment has not changed since then.
This is also why Israel should not annex the occupied territories. Not because it will be bad for world opinion, but because a valid annexation means making all the residents of the annexed area into full citizens of the annexing power. The Knesset would have dozens of Hamas and Farah members. And that is a best case outcome.
Finally someone spells "toe the line" correctly.
And maybe finally you'll be persuaded of the power of audio over a vast swathe of the population ...
Self driving cars? Days of Flash Gordon are here. What’s next.
October 7 wasn't "nu nu".
Who would get upset at seeing a photo with you and Ben Shapiro?
Nice to see you have a friend in kollel :)