Except it is...? Jews were living peacefully in Palestine long before the establishment of a judeo-supremacist apartheid state, to the point you had entire refugee boats of Ashkenazis seeking safe harbor from the holocaust, who ironically became the cornerstone founding population of the Jewish state after the Nakba in 1948 killed and forcefully expelled hundreds of thousands of people (it's the ultimate cautionary tale on unchecked immigration lol).
You start to have a problem when you try to forcibly alter the demographics of a region to become majority Jewish, in a region where the majority were not Jews. This is quite literally Zionism 101. If you don't think this is the root cause, what pray tell do you believe it is?
There was a lot of inter-community conflict in the years (decades) preceding the formation of Israel, so it wasn't exactly peaceful. That there were some groups (on both sides, though the Jewish ones were far more effective, well-trained, and well-funded) that exploited those conflicts for escalation does not deny that the conflict already existed.
I would also argue that imposing the jizya/dhimmi status, creating "second class citizen status" for non-Muslims was, in and of itself, a form of Muslim-supremacist society in Palestine before Israel existed. Either convert to being a Muslim, or be stuck as a second-class citizen.
Zionist settlement started in the 1870’s on legally purchased land. Most of that land was uninhabited. Tel Aviv was founded on literal sand dunes in 1908 and is Israel’s most populated area. Jaffa was the closest Arab city which is still predominately Arab. Northern Israel become majority Jewish without military force under the Ottomans and then British empires.
However even then there were regular pogroms and killing of Jews by the Arabs as there had been for centuries before.
The British Mandate also turned away ships full of Ashkenazi Jews Holocaust survivors as well.
Don’t forget the nearly 850,000 MENA Jews expelled from across every Arab country after Israel was created.
Perhaps not, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who was vaguely favourable towards Israel before the invasion, and now, having watched what's been done in the name of "safety" with horror, considers the country a rogue far-right state run by corrupt criminals guilty of a very long list of crimes, just one of which was the creation of one of the most organised sex trafficking and sex abuse networks in recent history.
Quite the record.
But I don't see this as a specifically Jewish thing. There is clearly a cabal of extremely wealthy people who consider themselves above the law. The cabal includes factions of different ethnicities, and they seem to enjoy - and profit from - promoting nationalism and race hate and getting the peasants to wage war on each other.
We seem to be in one of the regular cycles where these crazies get out of control.
I'm sure it's all very entertaining. But no doubt modern PR and astroturfing techniques will make sure no one's opinion becomes so unfavourable that personal accountability becomes a real risk for these criminals.
Even so. It's really not a very satisfactory situation.
History teaches that genocide, ethnocide or ethnic cleansing is the only way ethnic conflicts truly end.
For Israel/Hamas conflict, genocide of either party is the only way. So hopefully, there will never be a solution and they will just continue kicking the can indefinitely, because it means slaughtering millions.
> CSS-in-JS promised simplicity but delivered performance issues.
IMO it delivered said simplicity, and the performance issues are there, but they've never been the lowest hanging, biggest fruit to optimize. Not even close in my experience, which for me indicates a resounding success. And as a result, more "native" CSS solutions like Tailwind improved the native CSS landscape. So, wins all around for everyone: you can stick with CSS-in-JS and take the almost always practically invisible performance hit, or use newer solutions for improved ergonomics and performance.
> This sounds unbearable. It doesn't sound like software development, it sounds like spending a thousand hours tinkering with your vim config
Before LLM programming, this was at least 30-50% of my time spent programming, fixing one config and build issue after another. Now I can spend way more time thinking about more interesting things.
whaaaat and this is the guy who coined "vibe-coding"? I am honestly pretty shocked reading this. I must be a fool or an idiot or both because I, for one, feel like suddenly I went from being a 1x developer to a 10x developer. Maybe 10x folks like Karpathy have it the opposite way?
Ventilation for accommodation in the UK is extremely poorly regulated, or not at all, from what I can tell. I've been given rooms with a hermetically sealed window and no A/C unit.
I stayed at a brand new Hyatt the other day and the A/C had no "fan" only option (ie to avoid dry throats), and when off, provided no passive ventilation as far as I could tell. No opening window. And this was an aparthotel with a cooker etc. Absolutely ridiculous.
Premier Inn's budget 'Hub' brand chain have sealed windows and just wall-mounted A/C (not fed fresh air from a central duct). Should be illegal
I think legally they're allowed to use the 1 inch space under the door as ventilation...
You actually need a lot of ventilation in hotels because they often use very harsh chemicals especially in the linen
The story clearly mentions people who have no such choice but have to go to the city because their work requires it, and wouldn't spend 250$ per night to meet such requirement.
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