Minutes of a Monday #62
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Brain Food > One Man’s Terrorist…
“After the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, many leftists and Muslims took to the streets, to condemn not Hamas but Israel. Since then, the hostility toward Israel and Jewish people has grown, with many people ripping down posters of Israeli hostages, and some even taking to the streets to chant “Gas the Jews!” The general sentiment among such people is that Israel is an evil enterprise built on the oppression of innocent Palestinians, and therefore deserves no sympathy.
When I was a naïve young leftist I too believed Israel was the oppressor and Palestinians were the oppressed, because that’s what everyone around me was saying, and my empty mind was a vacuum that sucked it all up. Once I escaped my echo-chamber, and began to objectively assess the facts, I realized just how unfairly Israel has been demeaned — not just among leftists and Muslims, but also in media, academia, and on Wikipedia.
In particular, Israel tends to be accused of three things: that it stole Palestine from the Arabs, that it’s an apartheid state, and that its government is morally equivalent to — or worse than — the terrorists it fights.
Let’s see whether these accusations fit the facts.”
presents his take on the Israel-Palestine conflict.Soul Food
"Write your obituary and try to figure out how to live up to it."
Warren Buffet
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Ben Affleck on Batman tips from Christian Bale:
Appendix
"I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has difficulty in laying his hands."
Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlett
AOB
Thanks for reading this week - mind how you go out there.
Niall