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I would venture to say that if you sampled both populations side by side a much larger percent of Palestinians would want to genocide the Jews than the other way around. All your statistics regarding this are anecdotes and polls sourced from a left leaning Israeli publication. There is no such publication on the Palestinian side. There is no such thing as internal criticism. When you look at the Palestinian school curriculum, a large part of it is the most blatant and violent antisemitic propaganda imaginable. This isn't something veiled. They teach them from day one to annihilate Jews. Nazi Germany was defeated in a world war where they were trying to conquer all of Europe. It had nothing to even do with Jews.

I am in the US. They are terrified.

Good one. I'm not one who feels personally threatened but I can tell you from my interactions they are scared shitless.

I can't really speak for Israelis but in my view trying to rationally understand Trump's actions are an exercise in futility. He has the emotional stability of a toddler and his inclinations change like the wind. Add to that all the warring sub factions within his administration vying for his attention and influence. All you can really say is that he's less concerned with upsetting Bibi than Biden was. If something benefits Trump in the short term, be it monetarily or a quick ego boost for bringing back an American - he will pursue. He does not actually have a cohesive vision or plan.

Very funny. Do you truly believe this? if so, you are precisely the delusional lefty Leo was referring to. You also literally did exactly what I pointed out, which is to demonize all of Israeli society and paint them as "rotten." You conveniently didn't answer my follow up questions. If you even prove this is true, what purpose does it serve you? What do you hope to achieve? Let's say everyone agrees Israelis are inherently morally corrupt and "rotten." What then?

I guess I just disagree with your conclusions over what effects these levers will have. By the time your plan has enough of a theoretical effect the damage will be done. There will be nothing left to fight for.

Yes but that is the point, the restriction on Israel's actions are a result of internal pressures. Whether it is a slowdown or cessation of action. In Israel there are internal criticisms from prominent figures. Raze downplays that, but it is important. We don't really have an equivalent on the other side. The idea was never to scapegoat everything on Bibi, but to demonstrate there are meaningful factions within Israeli society which can influence outcomes. Do you believe that Israelis or Palestinians are inherently morally corrupt? Probably not. And even if you did, what purpose would proving that serve? The intentions behind my previous posts were to shift the discussions into more practical terms. I don't believe endlessly pontificating on who is more evil between the IDF / Hamas serves any purpose whatsoever. It was cute in the initial months after the war to revisit all the history and gain some context. Now we have done that, and where I once saw a more black / white situation I now see shades of gray. I was wrong. I believe there are some of you who still hold these black / white childish characterizations. It feels like your primary purpose is to promote a broad demonization narrative and not much else. I don't see any substance aside from Israel bad / West bad. I think you believe this is the main lever to pull because if enough people believe it, pressure will be put on the US to halt weapons and ammunitions? You think this will end the war? 1. Public opinion isn't even close to influencing the US government's actions regarding Israel as the US government is just as motivated. 2. Halting weapons / ammunitions from Israel will not change the outcome, it will only slow it down. Israel will find another way and already has enough resources. In fact, the less tethered they are to the US the less restrained they will be. 3. Further international isolation will not influence anything. They are just about as isolated as can be already. 4. The most sensible direction towards anything positive is to focus on realistic positive change. If we want Palestinian sovereignty, let's find actors from each side who are both in favor of a two state solution and bring them to the forefront. We can do better.

Please see my other response to @Karmadhi... majority doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. The majority of Americans now voted for Trump. If you look up clips of Americans externally now we probably seem preposterous.

You realize there are sectors of Israeli society who aren't making it onto viral online clips right? Even if it were true that the majority are rabid with anger now and behaving unhinged, that doesn't mean they can do whatever they want. The Haaretz paper that is constantly cited here is a good example of why. This is one such example of Israeli society which does not adopt those views. That is a very prominent and popular publication. Where is the Palestinian equivalent of such a publication that internally criticizes their leadership?

I did not justify or defend anything. You didn't really comprehend what I wrote. I only wrote what I felt was an accurate description of the situation and how best to move forward. For the record I don't believe religious claims are relevant, only that Jews as a whole do and that fact IS relevant.

You're still doing this childish Palestinians / Hamas are good guys. Israelis bad guys black / white shtick?

You are blind. The reason America is behind us is because we are fighting to the death for it. And if America left, we would still fight to the death and find another way. You vastly underestimate the Jews and their connection to Israel. This is your greatest misunderstanding. I never claimed the holocaust was the biggest cause, in fact I said otherwise. Perhaps we will have to acknowledge everything, but you can't put the cart before the horse. First there needs to be peace and healing. Not the other way around.

You can't convince us there won't be another Holocaust and as Leo said, we want our land. The entire religion is about the land of Israel. It isn't just about the Holocaust. You will never shake Jews off the land of Israel and they will literally fight to the death over it. Just being honest. I'm not even religious. I'm still pro Israel and even if I'm ashamed of things we've done I believe in the nation of Israel. Now, if you want to actually make progress you can focus on productive improvements. If you want to play the blame and demonization game, Jews and Israelis will fight back and turn further away from you. At that point, you can choose to bet against us and hope the international community excludes us and what... results in the elimination of the Jewish state? Good luck with that. On the other hand, you can work with the more reasonable Jews and Israelis, remove Bibi and the far right, start looking towards ways to bring about a 2 state solution and help the Palestinians. I think you will find tons of us who are onboard. We don't want the war.

It's pretty much #2. We never really get past #1 and it creates a never ending cycle. If you believe that the Jews and Israelis are responsible for the plight of the Palestinians, then the Jews and Israelis are also the ones who can end it. If all the discourse is about how terrible Israel and the Jews are, nothing is going to change. When Jews hear all of this demonization, they don't feel the plight of the Palestinians. They themselves feel threatened and fight back. We hear "from the river to the sea", "one-state" solution and all of that. The discourse never reaches any other direction. You don't see many conversations actually discussing two state solution possibilities in the year 2025. It's all discussions about who is more at fault, Israel is the devil, Palestinians are terrorists, human shields, yada yada. If you want those who can actually change things to change things, start with "ok, Israel is here to stay. Let's try to end the plight of the Palestinians, what can we do to enact a two state solution and take Bibi out of power?" If you started there, you'd probably have a lot more support and you may see tides shift. I'm a believer that when the quote on quote "more developed" side goes to extremes, the majority falls back to shadow ideologies. This is how leaders like Trump get elected. The "woke left" who always cries victim about minorities etc but leaves out the middle class and regular white people. Who demonizes them, etc. It doesn't matter if they make good points. They aren't meeting people where they are and losing them.

The question is what do you guys want? You want a "one-state" solution - the eradication of Israel as a Jewish state. That is never going to happen. They will fight for that as if their existence depends on it. (It might.) So to that end, make up your minds. Either you want a two-state solution, some other configuration - or you want war / the continuation of removing Palestinians. It's that simple.

What's the bias? I'm also not following what you mean about the observer effect and consciousness. The flaw of what? Science? Leo did say that psychic abilities exist. Very plainly actually.

There is no resistance to the validity of the experience, more-so the conclusions drawn from it. I do this myself, I swear I've influenced the outcome of the Knicks game by saying the wrong thing. You seem like you have good intentions behind your words. The thing is, the observer effect has been hijacked by every woo peddler on the planet to make it mean whatever they want it to mean. Most of them don't even understand it. The other part is that of course you're right that science isn't pro or anti anything, with enough data it adapts. The problem is that we dismiss all the data that does exist when it doesn't suit our narrative. There is tons and tons of data and studies which have already been done. Can they 100% disprove something, no - you never can. But you can make some reasonable inferences from the existing data. The same thing happens when you have people like RFK Jr. initiating studies around the origins of autism. We've already had tons of studies over the years, but no - they are all trash because they don't give the answer they like. They must now do new studies to find the answer RFK is looking for. Why? Because some parents had a valid experience of witnessing their children develop autism symptoms shortly after taking vaccines. But that one individual experience doesn't tell the whole story. This is the epistemic issue Leo warned you about, but he happens to be on the other side of it - today.

Ad hominems - Leo's first and last appeal.

AI. I specifically asked for James Randi because I was already familiar with his work but that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to controlled testing around paranormal phenomena. Not surprisingly, the results are similar.

I never claimed I was smarter than you, but you're using very basic run-of-the-mill arguments to prop up your fortune teller. There's nothing new about what you're proposing here. These are the arguments I hear the babushka on the corner of 108th st make. They always fail.

This is absurd reasoning. Fortune tellers and how they work have been discussed ad nauseam and the topic has been beaten to death. The answer is confirmation bias. You don't remember all the other things she said that didn't come true, nor do you care. They are also extremely skilled at cold reading. For thousands and thousands of years people believed all kinds of outlandish things. That doesn't make them true. It doesn't make those people idiots either, it's just a natural way for us to process the world. We take intuitive shortcuts to find answers because the totality of knowledge and understanding is completely overwhelming and outside our grasp.

These are same types of issues plaguing RFK as our head of HHS. Academics and scientists use the same rigor to dismiss bogus claims about the root causes of autism. In this scenario, you're for it. Yet, when the shoe is on the other foot and the same problems exist you've allowed your biases to guide you.

Oh those evil academics and scientists at it again, always ruining a good time. Yeah, we could throw away all skepticism and concern regarding these studies and believe whatever we want - or we could use Occam's razor and see that in the context of all controlled paranormal experimentation there are no verifiable results. They tried to replicate the results independently, they could not.

I dunno man, the implication from your blog posts is that if the US government had a remote viewing program, then there's credibility to remote viewing. I don't see it that way. The "only works on genetic freaks" is another cop out in a long line of excuses for why paranormal phenomena always fails under controlled environments. No one has ever won James Randi's paranormal prize despite tons of attempts. No one has ever proven paranormal or psychic abilities in a controlled environment. Ever. Now that doesn't mean the materialist paradigm is correct, or that there's no magic in the universe, etc. All it points to is that most likely our fixed context of existence has a very rigid set of boundaries. That so far, no one is able to surpass them on a physical level when examined in an unbiased manner. Nothing more, nothing less.

This thread might not fit here, as it's not specifically a video request but I couldn't find a more appropriate place for it. I can't really watch Leo's videos any longer. They're too long to be digestible or enjoyable. I understand Leo's perspective that deeper topics require more nuance, information and time to learn - such as in academics. I have no issue with that. But even in an academic setting, lectures are limited to an hour or so. If you had a professor lecturing on for 3 hours straight non stop, it wouldn't be especially effective. There is a phenomena known as information overload. It is very real. To make matters worse, it doesn't seem like Leo plans his videos as an academic lecturer would. They have become more stream of consciousness rants. Often, they are repetitive and meander. This is really meant to be constructive criticism and I hope it is received as much, as I believe Leo has valuable insights. My suggestions would be: Keep videos shorter (less than 1 hr, ideally even 30-40 minutes) If topics require more in depth coverage, split them up into parts or sub-topics Have more of a structured outline for what you want to cover Here is an example of a video which adheres to some of these principles and does a good job. Ignore the cheesy thumbnail. It is in a completely different domain, but the creator is going over a very advanced topic and consolidating a lot of information into digestible bits. Sprinkled in with humor and visualizations of bullet points to help process. When there is a rabbit hole to dive deeper into, he references another video or resource. It's just easy to digest. Anyways, take care.