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This Black Friday seemed pretty tame when it came to Switch games. What did y’all end up getting? Are any really good deals you found still ongoing? On Amazon I got: Pocky and Rocky Switch for $10 Sonic Origins $20 Super Bomberman R2 $20 Best Buy: Mario Rabbids sparks of Hope $15 Got ‘some stuff’ from Strictly Limited for 20% off

Biden also said he witnessed babies being decapitated with his own eyes. Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, can’t be fooled again

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About those prisoners being released. In return for 50 Israeli hostages, Israel has agreed to release 150 Palestinian women and children that have been held in Israeli prisons since as early as 2021 that were being held on charges like throwing rocks and “harming regional security”. What exactly does “harming regional security” mean anyways? It sounds sufficiently vague enough that you could charge pretty much anyone with this for something as simple as loitering. Also, since when was it ok to hold children in prison for 2+ years without a trial? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/22/middleeast/palestinian-prisoners-potential-release-intl-cmd/index.html

Yea you’re basically ignoring everything I’ve already said. 1. Israel defended itself when the situation was neutralized. After the situation was neutralized they proceeded with an offensive, the goal being to cause as much damage and destruction to Palestinians as possible. Let’s put it this way, if someone attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself. After the attack is over though, you do not have the right to shoot them in the back as they are running away. And you also do not have the right to go to their house and kill their entire family for revenge. 2. 1200 innocent people is inaccurate. While it is always a tragedy when even 1 person is killed, innocent people is usually reserved to mean civilians. About half of those were IDF soldiers and police. Still a tragedy when they die. But if your calling this a war, then it is combatants versus combatants. So roughly half of the 1200 were Israeli combatants. And then you need to remember of the remainder that were innocent civilians, many of them were likely killed by IDF as friendly fire. I am holding Hamas accountable for killing anyone, not just Jews. And I have stated this several times before, but you disregard it. You are trying to paint me as a Jew hater, which I am absolutely not. I have tons of respect for the Jewish religious community. That is why most of the videos and sources I have been posting are from Jewish sources and Jewish perspectives. Because I know that if I were to post non-Jewish sources you would just claim my sources are antisemitic. There is nothing more Jewish than a well studied religious Jewish rabbi. Are you telling me that the Jewish rabbis are antisemites?

I said Hamas is a concentration camp and metaphorically related it Auschwitz. I am saying this on the authority of Norman Finkelstein who is a Jewish man who’s entire family was in Auschwitz and many of them were exterminated there. I said the IDF are the Nazis metaphorically, because they are the ones doing all of the destruction and killing of the Palestinians in Gaza. I did not refer to the state of Israel as Nazis. Again let’s recap: -The walled borders of Gaza prevent any movement out of the area. Anyone escaping into the Israeli side will be shot. -50% of the homes in Gaza have been destroyed. -The entire population has been displaced. -The people are being intentionally starved of food and water. -Palestinian were being indiscriminately bombed and half of the dead are children. -Officials in the Israeli government essentially referred to the Palestinians as “human animals” since Hamas are human animals and they make no distinction between the Palestinians and Hamas. -The Prime minister of Israel who claims to have total control of all military operations, has publicly stated that he relates the Palestinian operation to Amalek which biblically was a village of people that the Jews destroyed entirely. Not a single soul was spared including every man, woman, child, not even their animals. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/ Here is the Bible verse he was referring to: As others quickly pointed out, God commands King Saul in the first Book of Samuel to kill every person in Amalek, a rival nation to ancient Israel. “This is what the Lord Almighty says,” the prophet Samuel tells Saul. “‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

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Why is it that whenever a Jewish person calls out the atrocities of the state of Israel, a violent genocidal political entity, you guys claim they hate themselves or the Jewish religion? And why do you only try to slander them and their character but you never address any of the facts and arguments that they raise?

As a non-Jew, I would never speak about the Holocaust or Auschwitz of my own. Because I have no experience or firsthand knowledge. However, Norman Finkelstein does. He is a Jew. Both of his parents were in Auschwitz. All of his extended family were exterminated in Auschwitz. And he has been in Gaza and seen the conditions firsthand. And he says very bluntly that Gaza is a concentration camp. Regarding flattening Gaza into a tent city: whether they meant it literally or not, fact is that 50% of residential homes in Gaza are destroyed by Israeli bombs. So if they didn’t mean it, they sure are doing it.

I am outraged by both sides of this conflict. Hamas for kidnapping innocent Israeli civilians and Israel for kidnapping innocent Palestinian civilians. I am also outraged that Israel has forced half of the Palestinian population into a concentration camp called Gaza for the past 20 years. I am outraged at Hamas for firing missiles into Israel at random civilian locations. I am also outraged that a sophisticated country like Israel would think it is appropriate to use weapons with the most precision capabilities in the world to deliberately destroy civilian targets in Palestine. At least Hamas can argue that they can’t precisely hit military targets since they have crappy weapons. Israel has said they are not interested in precision, they want to do as much damage as possible. They want to “flatten Gaza into a tent city.” Netanyahu has made statements that infer it is now time to exterminate every man, woman and child in Gaza. How can people not see that Gaza is Auschwitz concentration camp and the IDF are the Nazis?

By the way, if I was you I’d avoid using CBN News as a source to back your claims. They are a looney religious news company from my hometown of Virginia Beach, founded by Pat Robertson who recently passed away. If you didn’t know, he was kind of like a Christian cult leader obsessed with trying to relate every single current event of the past several decades to end times prophecy. He was an extreme Muslim hater, so you can always expect anti Muslim bias from his network. He was also a huge Zionist and he was convinced that God worked miracles through him.

Ok I will agree with you that IDF military helicopter that fired upon and “hit” Israeli civilians may have possibly not killed them because the use of the word “hit” is ambiguous. But in my mind, getting hit by military helicopter ammo means certain death. Just for reference this is the size of military grade heavy weapons ammo compared conventional 22 bullets. And I can totally see Israelis friendly firing on their people because the terrorists may been wearing plain clothes and running just like the Israeli people attending the concert. Hostage situations happen all the time in the US. According to the logic of Israel, it is ok when Hamas uses a Palestinian hostage as a human shield to just bomb the entire Gaza city filled with 600k residents to hell. That is not what I call self defense. Thats like saying a wanted murderer in Chicago hides in a building and uses the residents of the building as a shield. So we’re just gonna blow up the entire city block and by the way it’s the murderers fault (not the governments) for using the residents of the building as a human shield. I agree that Israel has the right to defend itself. But you know the situation was under control once the IDF neutralized this attack. Once they went into Gaza Israel’s actions made them aggressors. You are right. I am not open minded about genocide. As I already stated before, but you seem to have missed, I acknowledge that Hamas killed Israeli military as well as innocent civilians. And I agree this is terrible. What I am arguing is the magnitude of the attack that Hamas did. The magnitude of Israel’s response should be proportional to the casualties Israel has suffered. If Hamas came in and only killed 1 Israeli, the world would have called Israel out a long time ago for destroying city. That is a disproportionate response. Israel has had support in the magnitude of their response based on the headline of 1400 innocent civilians plus 200+ hostages (edit: and 40 beheaded babies). If the actual casualties they suffered were 50% of that, the magnitude of their response should have been significantly reduced.

SOURCE 1: Haaretz - IDF military helicopter firing at terrorists also kills Israelis https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-11-18/ty-article/0000018b-e1a5-d168-a3ef-f5ff4d070000 SOURCE 2: Electronic Intifada - this is a pro-Palestinian source, but scroll down to the video. They archived this video from an Israeli network that has since been scrubbed from Israeli media. Israeli woman was a released hostage and says that IDF killed everyone in the compound, including the Israeli hostages. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861 SOURCE 3: Keren Neubach is an Israeli TV reporter. She details on her personal Twitter how the Israeli Defense forces brought a tank to a building known to contain hostages and shells the building, twice killing everyone inside except for 2 hostages: @avatar! I didn’t know Hamas writes stories in Hebrew for Haaretz There are also additional non-Israeli sources if you are interested

@avatar!just wanted to point out that on Tuesday, you said: That one line right there above just spokes volumes about your viewpoint -- Can you not accept facts? If Hamas harmed innocent people -- not even Hamas denies that they kill women and children! Every single news network across the world knows that on Oct 7th Hamas attacked Israel and killed over 1400 innocent people, including babies, children, and women. As well as kidnapping over 200 civilians of all nationalities. But, you still say "If" implying you refuse to accept facts. Since then facts have changed. 200 of the 1400 were not Israelis, they were actually Hamas. So that decreases the factual 1400 down a new factual 1200. Also the fact that Hamas killed 1200 innocent Israeli civilians has actually changed. 368 of those 1200 were actually IDF soldiers, 59 were police officers. So 773 were civilians. Also, the fact that 773 civilians were killed by Hamas has also changed. It is now known that many of the hostages were actually killed by IDF soldiers in the crossfire amid all of the chaos. https://www.timesofisrael.com/authorities-name-44-soldiers-30-police-officers-killed-in-hamas-attack/ So yeah. I still don’t excuse Hamas for killing even 1 innocent civilian. And I am sure they have killed innocent civilians. But you have accused me of being some kind of terrorist sympathizer for not immediately accepting the reporting as 100% factual while the situation is still hot. And now that things cooled down, the “facts” that you wanted me to accept have all changed.

i24news was not “misled”… I don’t even know what that means. There is a survey. They are a news agency. If they report what a survey says, they have to read the survey. If they report it says something vile, which in fact the survey does not say, that means they are lying. Ok - we have cleared that up. They lied. And you have also acknowledged there is always misinformation especially during atrocities. Therefore, knowing there is tons of misinformation in circulation, it should not be a problem for me to want to see some better evidence of the Israeli deaths before accepting the official story. I am not saying it didn’t happen. I just want to confirm the primary evidence, like the actual dead people. What I have seen in video so far is a lot of zipped up body bags. The reason I am willing to believe that Palestinians are being killed is because I am seeing tons of gruesome images of dead Palestinians. I am willing to believe that the Holocaust happened because I see gruesome images of piles of bodies of Holocaust victims. I will also believe that 1200+ Israeli civilians were killed when I see some better evidence. I understand the Israelis wanting to show respect for the dead. But what’s more important right now? Respecting the dead by not photographing them, or dispelling any doubts that the public has about the conflict? And no this is not just a ‘me’ issue.. there are tons of people that are asking the same questions. So please dispel our doubts. Regarding the hospital that was blown up.. maybe it was blown up by Hamas, maybe it was Israel. The video footage in my opinion and in the opinion of others is inconclusive. Yes - the mainstream media says it Hamas.. woohoo. That’s the default position for everything. To me the amount of damage doesn’t look consistent with the little tiny rockets Hamas has. But this one incident doesn’t give the full picture. Because even if we assign this hospital bombing to Hamas, Israel has still deliberately cut off all food, water, electricity, medical supplies and generator fuel deliveries to the other hospitals. These hospitals have had to shut down their ICU’s and allow all the critically injured Palestinian people and premature Palestinian babies in intensive care die. Whether dropping a bomb on a hospital or choking off supplies to a hospital, both result in disabling the hospital operations and causing civilian deaths. According to the Torah (and by the way I am not claiming to be a Torah scholar, but I am referencing the claim of a religious Jewish rabbi who IS referencing a Jewish Scholar) the prophecy is that: 1. First the Jewish messiah returns and 2. Then he re-opens Israel for the Jewish people. Why does this matter? Because: 1. if you are going to make a religious claim to something, then you aught to at least believe in the religion that the claim is attached to.. and 2. the claim you are making should be in agreement with your religious beliefs. Here is what Wikipedia says about religious polling of Israelis: Concerning the existence of a deity, the results of four major polls, conducted between 2009 and 2019, imply that some 20% of Jewish Israelis do not believe in God: 11% "sometimes think God exists" and 9% are convinced atheists.[13]Regarding other supernatural notions, 28% of respondents to the Guttman 2009 survey denied efficacy to prayer, 33% did not believe that the Jews are a chosen people, 35% did not affirm that the Law and the precepts are God-given, 44% rejected the notions of a World to Comeand afterlife, and 49% did not believe in a future coming of a Messiah. These findings largely commensurate with the 1991 and 1999 surveys. So : -20% of Israelis are atheist and don’t believe in a God. -49% of Israelis don’t believe in a Jewish Messiah. If you are going to make a religious argument that the current state of Israel is the Jewish homeland, you should at least believe in God and the Messiah… And even if you do believe in God and the Messiah, who do we identify as the Messiah that opened up Israel for the Jewish people? According to religious Jews, he has not come yet. So this leaves a question mark on the religious claim to the state of Israel. Ok… let’s say you don’t care about the religious argument. Fair enough. I am only saying the way Israel came to be was wrong. I am not in support of Hamas or in support of Israel. I just want the injustice to stop. Stop killing innocent people on both sides. Stop lying about who did what or who killed who. Stop stealing peoples land or wanting to steal land back. Create a functional and peaceful government for the Palestinian people. Take all that military budget and develop massive new housing on the empty land for all the people who lost their homes. Destroy the wall surrounding Gaza. Create a functional economy for Palestinians so they can have something to do other than contemplate how awful their situation is.

I applaud you for understanding the injustices done to the Palestinian people. Unfortunately it is not that simple. Maybe you could undo the land grab shortly after it had happened. But now some of the lands stolen from Palestinian people have been occupied for multiple generations. So the original thief settler stole the land and forced the Palestinian person out and raised his family on it. His kids were born on stolen land. They grew up, got married and raised their families on the stolen land. Their kids were born on the land etc.. The point I am making is that even though the land is stolen, you now have “innocent” multigenerational Israeli families living on them. The Israeli families living on the land today did not do the stealing, they were just born on it and are trying to live life. So even though the land is stolen, it would still be an injustice to force them off of it. Even if someone stole the land more recently, for example let’s say a settler kicked a Palestinian out of their home 5 years ago, what can you do? If you do justice for this person, everyone will want you to do the same against every single settler. The legal resources to investigate every case simply don’t exist. They would be holding trials for the next 100 years. So that’s not a practical solution. That is why this conflict is so complicated. It is already too late to undo a lot of the wrong. But you can still clearly see the wrong that was done. So many of the people that were forced out of their homes are still alive today and they still have their eyes set on taking their original home back. For those people, I think they reparations must be made. Israel should build them a new home in a nice setting. Or they should see if maybe the settlers would be willing to move to a new home in order to give the home back to the original owners. Even though the Palestinians are fighting back against an occupation, their fight is not always directed at the right people. I would say that if someone is forcing you out of your home, you are in the right to fight them. But it is not right when Palestinians direct their fight against random Israelis just because they are on the other side.

So sorry for your loss

I will reply to you after you acknowledge that i24news lied about what it says in the survey.

By the way, France24 just confirmed this video of a “Palestinian nurse in Shifa hospital” is fake. Not before doing its job though. Shifa hospital is now evacuated and shut down

No - I get what you maybe thought I was saying about the antisemitic trope about Jews controlling the media. That’s not what I was saying at all. What I was saying is that the Israeli authorities are controlling all of the reporting on the ground in Gaza. All you need to do is watch the news to see complaints from news organizations about how Israel is not allowing press organizations do their job in Gaza. They are not allowed to collect the facts on the ground, instead they are being given “the facts” by the Israelis. This is not the standard. In past wars, press was allowed at their own risk to enter the danger zone to report. I am not ignoring anything you say. It’s just that you are making so many different things and it’s actually not always super coherent, so sometimes I may miss one of your points. I’m pretty well versed on this topic, so I’m not afraid to back up anything that I’ve said. I’m also not afraid to admit when I am wrong or make a mistake.. by the way did you acknowledge that i24news lied yet? We’ve already looked at a bunch of this historical stuff about Muslims and Jews. If you read my sources and watched my videos, you would at least know where I am coming from. You don’t have to agree, but you would at least know that I’m not just making shit up. By the way, many of my sources were Jewish sources. You should go back and look at them, because they have address the things you are disputing. I am not refusing to acknowledge that Hamas killed a whole lot of people. What I am questioning is the accuracy of the claims, because Israel has been on a lying rampage the entire duration of this conflict. So I want people to verify the things they are claiming before agreeing to the leveling an entire city full of innocent civilians. I think that you think that anyone that does not 100% agree with everything that Israel does is an anti-Semite. That actually hurts your cause. Because you are diluting the meaning of the word anti-Semite. Just like if you call someone a Nazi just because they got mad at you over something trivial, the word Nazi stops meaning such a bad thing. It is ok to respectfully disagree with someone. I hope you don’t think that I was angry while writing this, because I’m not. I am hoping you will actually think about it instead of snapping back.

Yes of course the Holocaust happened. Unfortunately it’s happening a second time now in Gaza. You are too emotionally invested in this conflict to think through it rationally. I gave you the sources for every claim I have made. I respect @ThePhleo for acknowledging the false reporting of i24news even though we don’t agree with many other things. Can you not look at the survey and tell me that the i24news deliberately lied about what it says. I gave you the link. Here I’ll make it easy:

If those numbers from Statista are accurate, then I made an honest mistake. I was not intentionally misleading anyone, Google actually says that the number was 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers. One thing you need to know is that when wars happen, there will be dozens of independent organizations counting deaths and they will all come up with different numbers. For example in the Iraq war, some estimates of Iraqi death count were as low as 250k and some were as high as 2 million. Most people agree the number may have been around 1 million