I’m a brown Arab, and I’m telling you, the so-called “Greater Israel project” is a hoax. Israel has never sought to expand beyond defensible borders. If it hadn’t been attacked in 1948, no Arabs would have been displaced. If it hadn’t been attacked again in 1967, Israel wouldn’t have taken control of the West Bank or Gaza, even though the West Bank is historically Jewish land, known for centuries as Judea and Samaria. If Yasser Arafat hadn’t walked away from Camp David II in 2000, there would already be a Palestinian state. If terrorists hadn’t targeted Israeli civilians, there wouldn’t be a single checkpoint. And if, after Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the Palestinian leadership had chosen to build a thriving, peaceful city instead of launching rockets, there would have been no wars from 2006 to 2023. Every war, every occupation, every checkpoint has been a response, not a pretext.

Search for the word 'revenge' here to find some telling recollections of a Kindertransport boy.

LLMs are trained to imitate patterns of language, not to discover or verify truth. So, when asked to speak as an expert in an area where perceived experts have a widespread misconception, the LLM will parrot that misconception, adopting the register and vocabulary of experts.

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot

TIL that Rome's IUDAEA CAPTA coins which depict a conquered Judea as a seated, weeping and despairing woman, were unique in using this symbolism. Other victory coins depict an enemy's strength subdued, or martial themes, not their emotions. Could they be expressing the Pattern?

Stockfish 18 (4045 Elo) v Magnus Carlsen (2882 Elo)

🧵1/ Hello world, my name is Gal, and I am an Israeli, Jewish, mother, and lawyer. It is 3 am in Israel and I can’t sleep after what I had to witness. I want to share a bit about my experience over the past (almost) two years. This is my ‘message in a bottle’ to you. >

My appearance on News Nation in the US this evening. Thanks to @AriellaNoveck for organising.

Joseph Priestley, 'pacifist' & Enlightenment hero, supported the French Revolution even after it murdered Lavoisier—his colleague, benefactor & scientific superior. “The Republic has no need of scientists”, said the judge. Priestley raised not the slightest protest. Disgusting.

Scandalous statement by Macron While speaking about the need to release the hostages, a man asked him "does that include the Palestinian hostages?" Macron answered: "yes, all the hostages. On both sides" Just to clarify things, Israel doesn’t hold a single Palestinian hostage