What’s the point of being the big boss if you can’t set your salary? You guys are so unreasonable. /s

I don’t think that the official story was that they would turn it over to the Taliban.

I think that it was that they would leave the local government to maintain their own security (knowing full well that they wouldn’t be able to).

Yeah. Previously it would have been seen as banning an extremist party. Now it would be seen as election tampering.

Palestinian journalists in Israel covering the conflict with Iran that began June 12 have been accused of “working for the enemy,” barred from reporting sites, physically assaulted, and subjected to racial slurs.

So they probably didn’t notice anything different then.

That’s easy to fix… new rules where the king and queen swap roles. Although that would mean protecting a woman above the men so maybe not.

Well, they’re at least ready to let their population die.

Fuck off.

I’m sorry that I offended you. I was genuinely trying to be helpful in pointing out how what you said could be misconstrued.

But the ones that I have met expressed very overtly racist positions that were logically inconsistent in any other scenario: special pleading all the way.

I wasn't, at the time, back around a decade ago now, telling my white liberal friends 'all Israelis are racist because I met a few'.

I’m not saying that you were being racist. I’m saying that it’s very easy to come across as racist when pointing out things that you don’t like about a few people off the same race.

You are here doing the thing my former friends did: You are assuming I did and said things I did not do nor say, and are pearl clutching... because you've head canon'd in your own missing context and additional details.

I’m doing no such thing. I wasn’t judging you for your observations and I made no statement about whether I thought you were racist or not because I don’t have the information required to suggest that you are.

But did you read the entire article that is this post?

No, I didn’t need to because I was only making the comment that it’s very easy to be seen as racist when you talk about a race of people.

Meanwhile, I've been anti Zionist my whole life, and every single actual Israeli I've ever met has been a racist, anti-Islamic Zionist... and when I point this out, almost every white liberal or self described lefty has called me an antisemite.

The problem is that there is a fine line between stating your observations of a few people and racism.

I’d guess that you haven’t met many actual Israelis….. certainly not enough to be a statistically significant sample. If that’s the case then assuming that your observations apply to the whole population becomes racism.

I think that the ability to become stupidly rich and being an arsehole are linked.