Never discuss politics at family gatherings, never discuss politics in video game chats, in fact if you wanna be really smart, never discuss politics at all. Maybe you have learned a lesson
I just ruined my grandfather's 80th bitrthday by arguing about Israel and Palestine and Ukraine and Russia and stuff with everyone on the table.
I almost feel like a redditard, which I usually despise, but they are completely retarded, why is the working class in Eastern Urop so reactionary-brained? They are racist as fuck towards Arabs normally, but God forbid anyone takes the side of Jews in any context, it's like siding with muthafucking Satan with them. I fucking hate this shithole.
WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . .*
*The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.
*The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.
*The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.
*The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
*The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.
*The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
*The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.
Wednesday night I went to a synagogue meeting with a rabbi. He sits women and men in a table, buy food for us and propose some discussions. This time he asked if Israel should release the palestinian prisoners in exchange of peace, or enter in a long protracted war in Gaza to rescue the hostages (whoever is alive).
I said that Israel shoudl release all of the prisoners, this "war" is exactly what Hamas wants, it's a trap with no objective, human life is more important, Hamas is like an hydra and holding the prisoners who are not even citizens of Israel is retarded anyway.
All the religious right wing people at the table got buttmad at me. They think Israel is like a superhero able to do anything.
i think israel probably could exterminate hamas, but it would entail all the hostages dying along with 10s of thousands of palestinians ans many more than that being expelled into egypt, who would then move for europe
so maybe a ceasefire is best. idk, part of me really resents the palestinians for the way they seem to monopolise the status of an oppressed people while cheering on the azeris and saying nothing against china in east turkestan
public opinion is bipolar on this issue. the ukraine war also generated a bit of bipolarity that curdled into apathy and confusion, such circumstances tend to favour the one with the high hand in the war itself and state interests at home. works out favourably for israel as far as i can tell.
i just hope that more al jazeera journalists get obliterated before things cool down
I love you too m8 (no homo)
Funny thing is, I used to be nonstop shitfaced too until a decade ago and since then I managed to slow it down to two-three times a year at most, but with the international clusterfuck those past two years I'm starting to lose my shit and it finaly resulted in a massive chimpout.
I have to touch the grass finally, I guess.
Well, I didn't have siding with Bibi on my list either, yet here we are.
See, this is why Finland is a class of its own. I've rarely ever seen a Finn passing the blame for anything to everyone under the sun.
The funny thing is we ourselves used to have no tradition of antisemitism whatsoever prior to WWII, but the Axis years and especially the gommies changed that.
Do you live in Tel Aviv? How's the general mood these days?
It's terrible, the city became a ghost town, everything is closed, everyone is either mobilized to the reserves or unemployed, and if you are unemployed, you are a second class citizen not getting paid by the government like the reservists.
Prices of food are going up because 50 of the 200 Hamas hostages were thai agriculture workers and all the rest of the agriculture workers left the country from fear/as a protest against the Israeli government inaction. It was the period of harvest...
People talk a lot about solidarity, union, but it is hypocrisy. I'm almost 2 months without work, I went to ask about this in the internet and I was called insensitive, someone said to me that I should volunteer.
The country seems to be heading to an economic crisis, a lot of people are leaving, I'm the only person still living in my apartment floor, all my neighbors went to stay with their families.
Every time I go to the bomb shelter in my street there are indian temporary workers there, all the israelis disappeared.
If I didn't save money for 4 years with the intention to do a master degree, I don't know how I would be living now, there is no support from anyone, it's insane, it's a cockroach society showing its face.
Shit, sorry to hear, I didn't realise it was that bad in Tel Aviv of all places. I've seen some tension between Israelis on social media in regards to the economic situation, but have no clear idea how does it look on the ground.
>I'm the only person still living in my apartment floor, all my neighbors went to stay with their families.
I assume you have no option of doing that as well?
Yes, there is a lot of tension, because Jerusalem is working normally, all the "fire" is concentrated in Tel Aviv or in the South, at least this is how it feels to me, I may be wrong. And the north has the risk of Hezbollah, with some drones entering the israeli airspace, evacuation of border towns and settlements. So there is an attitude among Jerusalem people- all of them religious, as you can imagine- of "what war? Nothing is happening, lol".
I for example was coming back from a job interview, I was in Bnei Brak, there was a missile and I had to leave the bus and enter a building with other 30 religious people there.
Another day, I was going to work out in the park, there was a missile and a woman invited me to her house, she took me to her shelter, and there she had a computer with 2 screens, and one screen was tracking stocks, the other screen had the tab on several investment and pension fund companies.
This is everyday.
And no, I don't have a family here. In fact I'm paying 800 euros as rent to live in this empty building without any work or any income. I found some sublets in Germany and I think I'm going there, dismantle my life here and try to look for a work there. At least economically the situation is fucked. Like I said, if I didn't save money for 4 years, I have no idea of what would be happening with me.
I don't know, here landlords demand the payment in written checks, so you write checks for all the months of the year before hand. I thought about blocking the checks at my bank in case I leave. Anyway, there is a rent contract, if you stop paying, they can simply take you to justice for contract breach and you are fined (in general) 20 thousand nis.
The region where I live is very strange, it is a very good location, a very wealthy location, with good public transport, services and healthcare, yet when I go out I just see these chinese and indian temporary workers who live (by what I understand) 10 each in an apartment. Now with the war this became even stronger, my two neighbors were israeli girls who left their shitty suburbs to live in Tel Aviv, and now they are not here anymore. I guess they are still renting, they are just with their families and they are going to come back once everything calms again.
I walk in the street and I see indians sitting in the square, drinking and smoking.
>Prices of food are going up because 50 of the 200 Hamas hostages were thai agriculture workers and all the rest of the agriculture workers left the country from fear/as a protest against the Israeli government inaction. It was the period of harvest...
Peak managerial retardation here is not actively taking unemployeds whom are not mogilized to do this job now.
