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.
Amazing how anti-Semitism of others can be twisted to be an argument for us not to act in our own self-interest. Amazing, but I suppose not surprising.
So here's a simple solution: Annex the land without giving citizenship to the residents.
Oh no! We do that, there might be massive protests against in Israel on the streets of London every week! Jews might be attacked on the streets of the diaspora! What shall we do?
Oh, too much for your sensitivities? Sorry. OK, we can start by annexing all the land that doesn't have any Arabs living on it. Like Area C. Or pretty much all of Gaza, heh heh.
Nonsense. No modern country since World War II has kept a population without citizenship. Israel would be seen and treated as a pariah state worse than South Africa by the entire western world, complete with sanctions and embargoes and travel restrictions, and would be lucky if it were left to make treaties and trade with Russia and North Korea.
The approach of holding land without giving its residents citizenship just doesn’t work in the modern era and, like I said, not a single country in the world has done it since World War II, which should tell you something.
And all of those examples are applicable here why? Europe? Countries with a common culture, a common religion, countries not out to murder each other? Countries with lots of space, lots of people? That applies here?
'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.
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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.
And this was necessary because.....?
…it was funny. 🤣
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 :)
It's irrelevant. There's a clear sequence that takes place over more than a few thousand years.
Dinosaurs were not concurrent with people.
Because they are found in different layers.
Amazing how anti-Semitism of others can be twisted to be an argument for us not to act in our own self-interest. Amazing, but I suppose not surprising.
So here's a simple solution: Annex the land without giving citizenship to the residents.
Oh no! We do that, there might be massive protests against in Israel on the streets of London every week! Jews might be attacked on the streets of the diaspora! What shall we do?
Oh, too much for your sensitivities? Sorry. OK, we can start by annexing all the land that doesn't have any Arabs living on it. Like Area C. Or pretty much all of Gaza, heh heh.
Nonsense. No modern country since World War II has kept a population without citizenship. Israel would be seen and treated as a pariah state worse than South Africa by the entire western world, complete with sanctions and embargoes and travel restrictions, and would be lucky if it were left to make treaties and trade with Russia and North Korea.
The approach of holding land without giving its residents citizenship just doesn’t work in the modern era and, like I said, not a single country in the world has done it since World War II, which should tell you something.
"No country since World War II" is a rather arbitrary cutoff, isn't it? Why not 1900? Why not 1000 BC? Who decides this?
And do you really want to bring up South Africa as an example?
"No modern country since World War II has kept a population without citizenship."
Communist Hungary.
And all of those examples are applicable here why? Europe? Countries with a common culture, a common religion, countries not out to murder each other? Countries with lots of space, lots of people? That applies here?
And the current situation is better?
The Muslims were conscripted? What about the Jews and Christians?
And that's not even touching the *actual* history, which you should look up.
And that's not even addressing the little point that, um, Israel isn't the Ottoman Empire.
Kosher pig? Israel allowing non-Jews to decide its fate is a kosher pig. Israel allowing a large hostile population within it is a kosher pig.
It's all well and good when you decide to apply foreign standards. We have our own. Have you ever heard of the Givonim?
Well, I guess if I "have to," I have to.