Israel/Hamas War Superthread

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(04-25-2024, 01:02 PM)Millhouse Wrote: This is on Youtube shorts. His name is Mosab Yousef, a son of a Hamas founder who later then defected to Israel helping them thwart terrorist acts by Hamas Palestinians, and then eventually received asylum in the U.S. in 2010 after it was shown he had no ties to Hamas and instead was helping to thwart them. (I hope that's all correct) Anyway this is an excerpt with him on the Dr. Phil show less than a month ago, and there were two-Pro Palestinian/Hamas supporters there as well.

He is a fascinating person to say the least, and I would say quite complex in his evolution as a person. Anyways thoughts on his takes on his former native homeland where he apparently has some insight on, at least I am guessing way more than most out there. 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tBKqT58X6Fg?feature=share

My first thought is that the Green Prince's "insight" aligns rather closely with the ideology of right wing Israelis,
and not so much with facts on the ground.

E.g., the notion that there is no Palestinian people, and it is only "religion" that motivates their hatred. No need to discuss the occupation.

On Dr. Phil he described Israel as the "most amazing, most successful, and most productive country in the world 
that don't harm anyone else." 

On the same show, Dr. Phil showed a message he posted on social media about the college protests currently underway,
asserting that the job of universities is to teach students to think and to "test reality." To this was added some pretty
careless vetting of student protestors.

"Thinking" doesn't seem to be what Phil was doing though, as he says he doesn't need to understand the background
to Oct. 7, to know it is wrong to go into someone's home and burn a baby alive. But that's an "emotional test,"
not a reality test, and a standard applied to only one side. You can't ever "test reality" in social conflicts without "background."