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Both the PLO and Hamas said they accept a Palestinian state on the 67 borders, Israel would still exist. the occupation is the blockade of Gaza and the apartheid and settlers in the West Bank.

The PLO controls the West Bank, not Gaza, they aren’t firing on Israel. They aren’t even defending themselves from settlers who have killed over 500 since oct 7 even though they didn’t do anything in the West Bank. Egypt hasn’t since the peace deal either. Hamas fires rockets because Israel keeps Gaza blockaded and in response to various slights such as when Israel assassinated some Hamas soldiers during a ceasefire, or when Israelis raided Al aqsa mosque.

But israel also killed them when they did peaceful protests, so of course they’ll resort to violence

Hamas offered to throw down their arms if Palestinians were given a state.

Why are you convinced they innately want to kill Jews rather than just doing it as resistance to occupation? The PLO used to attack Israel just like Hamas, but they gave up armed resistance years ago. Egypt invaded Israel many times but hasn’t in decades. The average Hamas member was born in an area Israel blockaded them inside with 40% unemployment and probably lost one or more family member to Israeli bombing or sniping, when they try to attack Israel to just say “I guess they innately hate Jews no matter what” makes no sense. Clearly if these motivating factors weren’t there, there would be less motivation to attack Israel. And those aren’t even all Palestinians, most did not join Hamas despite everything. Palestinians used to be the most secular group of Muslims in the Middle East, prior to the first intifada the population was extremely passive and just accepted constant abuse from Israel. Prior to the formation of Israel Palestinians had lived with Jews in peace for centuries, things only went haywire when zionists started taking over and pushing them out.

Steve has passed away but he named a successor who is active on YouTube

Shinzen Young and his wife have just published a new book https://www.amazon.com/When-Therapy-Doesnt-Work-Mindfulness/dp/1837963029 it discusses practical ways to use meditation techniques to deal with mental health issues

I prefer this one https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/rkxifs/how_bhagavan_ramana_maharshi_changed_my_life_gary/

Their actions haven’t been genocidal, you just assume they would do it if they could, but regardless so far they haven’t done such. Oct 7 was a brutal raid, but that’s not genocide. Hamas has taken action towards peace negotiations before and during this conflict, I don’t see why we shouldn’t trust that any less than wild statements. Its possible to trust, but verify. Work towards peace and diplomacy, while also keeping security tight. Israel has been doing the opposite, sabotage diplomacy and be lax on security.

In that same full statement he claimed they aren’t targeting civilians, should we all assume that’s true too?

That entire time he was also insisting Hamas is all genocidal and can never be negotiated with. But his actions simply isn’t the behavior of someone who thinks Hamas is some satanic force. Even people who don’t think Hamas is completely genocidal wouldn’t support what he did. Why should we suddenly believe him now when he says hamas can’t be negotiated with, they’re entirely genocidal?

So why prior to Oct 7 did Netanyahu transfer funds to Hamas, move IDF guarding Gaza to the West Bank, and ignore warnings about a possible Hamas operation? His actions conflict with his beliefs if this is what he really thinks. The thing is, what your saying is true for anything, if Israel could make all Palestinians disappear with 0 worldwide push back they would as it would solve all problems they have. The finance minister just said publicly he thinks they’d be morally right to let all of Gaza starve to death but they can’t because of worldwide pressure. Israel is currently mass killing Palestinians, so obviously many of them, not just Hamas would choose to end all Israelis if they could. If country was killing your family and kept you locked in a prison and you had the power somehow to make them all cease to exist, would you not consider doing it? it’s a moot point, you could say this about any two sides in a major conflict. That doesn’t mean you should refuse to take deals and do diplomacy because you assume they would kill you all if they could. If we agree with the demonization of Hamas, it allows Israel to continue the strategy of encouraging extremism to avoid entertaining a peaceful solution.

This study finds this https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/for-2021-0011/html?lang=en Analysis of RFK finds that he was taking roughly equal from Biden and Trump, but slightly leaning to taking more from Trump https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-candidacy-hurts-trump-biden-nbc-news-poll-finds-rcna148536 but now that Biden dropped out that will likely change as many of his voters who lean left will switch to Kamala who is more popular That’s not stooping to any level, that is smart politics. Democrats need to realize that rather than just whining about people spoiling the election for them. Democrats ruined Ralph Nader’s reputation by insisting he spoiled the election for them but never mention that Ralph offered to drop out and endorse the democratic candidate if they adopted just one of his proposals. ”spoilers” aren’t a real thing, legally other people are allowed to vote third party if they want to, the founders never intended for two parties to hog all the attention. If republicans or democrats don’t like it they can implement rank choice voting, but they won’t because they want voters to be forced to vote for one of them so certain issues the major donors to both parties don’t want addressed won’t be.

Gary was taking more votes from Trump, same with RFK. What should worry you is RFK drops out and most of his voters go to trump.

I don’t see the point of it. Where will it go if Leo just says he realized he is god from psychedelics, they’ll simply say how do you know it isn’t an illusion, and he will just say how do you know anything is not an illusion, etc.

Not gonna happen, Owen took Leo’s old PUA rant as a personal insult

But we don’t need to know how they fully work, we can just look at patterns. There are many genetic diseases we don’t entirely understand, but we still can tell they are genetic because they show up in patterns.

1) then why did Israel allow 700,000 settlers into the West Bank and Jeresulem? 2) why did the Knesset vote against two states just recently?

True, I meant genetic not biological, my bad.

That’s only assuming there must be a biological cause, the point is we do not currently know this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiUpztj2DkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohsik59B3Mc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNEtdHVUjM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o2LNZcFkck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg4WEYr4mRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcTqXAD7pvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI4seVg0xjk

Dr. Jeffery Martin studied people who had persistent mystical experiences and he said he couldn’t find any genetic correlates