My mother, brother and I got together this weekend and were talking about what it was like being a kid in the 70s and 80s, obsessed with post-apocalyptic nuclear war fiction, looking up in the sky every time you heard a jet and wondering if it was an ICBM. Obviously, those fears turned out to be false, but it made a lot of our childhood very scary.

These kids are literally facing the end of their world. They are literally in a post-apocalyptic world. Their friends and family are dying around them.

And much like in the nuclear war fiction we absorbed when we were kids, the ones who survive may wish they hadn’t.

I wish I could help them all.

And worse, the only reason to not make that clear in the headline is for clicks.

I had to already remove a comment for this.

No matter what you think of Israel today- Many Holocaust survivors went to Israel after it was formed.

They were not all terrorists.

Many of them didn’t know where else to go considering they saw a world that wanted them dead and almost succeeded (it was far from just the Nazis that were openly antisemitic before the war).

Was Israel the right place to go? No it wasn’t. Did Israel do good things afterward? No it did not.

But calling people who survived a genocide and went to the one place they could think where people wouldn’t try to put them back in a camp terrorists is fucking disgusting.

Edit: Hey you downvoting cowards, tell me about how these people were terrorists. I want specific details:

These authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Aran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Beck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt

This Nobel Prize winner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman

Oh, and also…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Westheimer

Do tell me about Dr. Ruth’s terrorist activities. What exactly did she do?

“Spain and Norway have steadfastly clung to their demand that the Israelis return to their 1977 borders.”

I literally provided a link to a Christian website talking about how atheists are heretics.

And “atheist” and “heretic” are literally the same word in Arabic, which means that, at minimum, 2 in 8 people believe that atheists are heretics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulhid

Yes, but that’s no excuse for you to stop and read articles about it when there’s packages due to be delivered in Ankh-Morpork.

Again, what definition am I coming up with here?

Atheism is contrary to theistic religious doctrine- namely, the doctrine that a god or gods exist. That’s literally the definition of heresy as I provided.

What did I invent?

It really is turtles all the way down!

What definition am I coming up with here?

Are you saying the existence of a god is not part of the doctrine of any theistic religion?

Yeah, those indigenous people should stop being confusing by having a flag and go back where they came from! Am I right?

You guys need to stop being divisive when that’s his job!

Like the doctrine that a god exists?

Stop what… breathing? I will in four years. And you and all the other people who hate me can get together and throw a big party.

Where is the contradiction? Do you think a belief contrary to religious doctrine has to be religious?

Believe me, I know from personal experience.

Thank you.

That might be it, thanks.

The temple in the town where I grew up was firebombed when I was a kid back in the 80s. No one was injured, but I imagine Jews in Melbourne are pretty terrified right now.

(And before you say that it’s their fault for supporting Israel, plenty of us do not and never have.)

The article doesn’t really make it clear what’s strategically important about having a security deal with Nauru.

I mean it looks like it’s kind of in the middle of nowhere and could easily just be avoided by the Chinese military or their expansionist plans.

That’s simply false.

There’s a reason why atheists are tarred with the ‘heretic’ label.

Eventually, if Netanyahu has his way, Israel is going to come into contact with Paraguay.