East Unobtainistan

Scifi authors, most of whom are presumably atheist or agonistic, have often suggested that alien life would be a big challenge for religion, particularly Christianity. I don't see why. The potential theological issues were already dealt with hundred of years ago when Europeans discovered the Americas. There you had…

My family are Israeli-Arabs. Thanks for the laugh about living in peace. I'm guessing you've never been to an Arab village in Israel before. They are treated like third class citizens. But, that is nothing compared to what is happening in Gaza. These racist morons are joining the army too? I pray for Palestine.

Um, are you unaware of how Twitter works? If you reread the article, you'll realize that the comparison is between the jarring nature of the "selfies" with violent rhetoric in the text. It's like me posting a photo of my adorable puppy next to a post saying "death to all so and sos." It's not what you expect. It's all…

It is so hard to come up against your biases and change them. I went from uncritically pro Israel to being pro-palestinian rights (I'm an American Jew) after becoming good friends with several exchange students from the Middle East and having thoughtful discussions with them about the conflict and culture. I was for…

I'm not going to pretend I know a lot about this issue but is this really shocking? Jezebel likes to pick isolated incidents of teens posting dumb stuff on social media and then declare that all or most teens are hateful douches. I'm sure you can find examples of teens saying all kinds of dumb stuff on the internet,…

To be fair, I have spoken to Arabs who say the same things about Jews. And these are well-educated Arabs who went to top universities in Germany, France, the UK. Yet, they still told me with a straight face that AIDS was brought into Egypt by Jews, that 9/11 was an inside job of the MOSAD, etc etc. It just boggles the…

I have a good friend who is Palestinian-Jordanian. His grandfather was of the generation of people who were ousted from their homelands and lost their possessions and industries, forced to struggle economically and culturally elsewhere essentially as refugees. My friend was virulently anti-Semitic when he first came…

thank you. I keep wondering when someone will say "Teens are ALL like this"
Teens, however, are not in the position of making policy. And, at this time, those making policy, at least in Israel, are willing to stop. Hamas, on the other hand, are not.

I understand the point you are making, but just saying that "tweets from the other side of the aisle aren't much less violent" and a link to just one example is blatantly ridiculous. You're post is biased and I think its irresponsible of you to post these types of twitter posts without spending a modicum of energy on…

This is the dumbest post in the history of Jezebel. Teens are idiots. They do idiotic things. To highlight the bullshit ramblings a few fucking morons posted only creates a more vitriolic situation. You know people are going to read this as "Israelis hate Arabs" when that is a lie. Israelis do not hate Arabs. In fact,…

Riiiiiight

go back to Reddit, goon.

but i think most people know this is just too fucking extreme. Like all the Palestinians tweeting "#HitlerWasRight" had some support, but many Palestinians condemned them. rational adults know genocide is not a solution.

Nicholas Cage and Earthlings.

I hate the term "sharing economy." It's not a sharing economy. It's a locust economy. Uber, Lyft, airbnb are sad signs of the times. Middle class people didn't used to have to drive around strangers or rent out rooms in their homes to make ends meet. This isn't innovation that's creating a bigger pie (or even a whole…

You know, everybody gets worked up about parents violating the First Amendment. When I was a kid nobody cared about the 3rd Amendment, to keep those soldiers from sleeping in my room at night.

Yep, he said in the video that it's made for this use.

Quickly!!! Before they notice!

Actually, they did inform the Russians. It got lost in the bureaucracy.