SwampYankee

I believe the author is, in fact, a Jewish nationalist. See my comment elsewhere in the thread and here.

Here’s a pamphlet on the subject:

https://archive.org/details/rfj_20190624/page/n3/mode/2up

This appears to be an attempt at a non-Zionist, Jewish nationalist movement. This Joseph Hefter lists himself as the national leader in the pamphlet, so despite the reference to “the explosive abnormality of the nameless, homeless, roaming Jewish nation” that “will aggrevate theNew Peace even more than it aggrevated the outbreak of the present catastrophic war” I have to assume that Hefter himself was Jewish. Unsurprisingly, the nationalist is the “self-hating” Jew, and not, despite frequent accusations, the leftist, diasporic Jew, such as myself.

Interesting history, nonetheless.

It largely was uninhabited.

It very definitely was not. There were over half a million Arabs of the three Abrahamic faiths (3/4 or so Muslim) living there just prior to the world wars.

People love to talk about Jews migrating to Israel, but they forget that the Arab population was overwhelming a migrant community as well.

Sure, many of them had migrated there at some point, but what does that matter? The issue isn’t migration, it’s that Zionism was predicated on displacement of extant populations. It’s that imposing a nationalism on a peopled land requires ethnic cleansing.

“I hadn’t had the conversation with him yet, or talked to him about situations like that yet,” she told the network. “It absolutely disgusts me and breaks my heart that our children are subject to this, especially in this day and age.”

Well, at least the game was teaching him to avoid pedophiles, you know, since you weren’t.

This is probably the best comment here so far. To emphasize the interceptor missile point, the US yesterday pulled interceptor systems from South Korea. You know, the place next to the nuclear-armed country that likes to lob missiles into the ocean just to show off. It should go without saying how dire the situation is if the US is redeploying interceptors from South Korea. Once interceptor stocks are depleted, Iran will be able to consistently, successfully strike targets inside US allied territory. There are some rumblings that Iran’s success rate is already increasing. Once this happens, Iran has the US & Israel backed into a corner even more than they already do.

I forgot to switch to “draw something…”

That or all out war between Israel and Lebanon.

I saved this one of a CNN team getting arrested during the George Floyd protests. Don’t know why shit gets so wild in Minneapolis every time…

We don’t, so fair 'nuff.

Postmark is the date of automated processing. It was probably bagged up in NY, shipped by truck to a processing center in VA, and that’s when it got postmarked. Postmarks are routinely days later than the mailman picked the letter up.

Did people start cheering and weeping tears of joy when they heard your accent?

I’m sure there’s good Italian food in the North End, but no local would go there to find it. You pay a premium because it’s the North End and you and every other tourist had the same idea.

You may have better luck in Cambridge, Allston or Brookline for food in general. Easier to park and get a table, too.

Yes, have fun. Worcester’s great. Check out Kelly Square.

As a Masshole, yes, please don’t drive when you come here. You will be in someone’s way and catch a glimpse of the state bird:

Well, I know more about Morocco than the rest of North Africa, and I can tell you that the Berber language & culture were actively repressed and Berbers were excluded from various aspects of public life there through the 20th century, even after Morocco’s independence from France. Berbers still have a lower socioeconomic status and a lack of political representation. Moroccans are fairly mixed, racially speaking, so it’s a less extreme version of the racialized class divide you see in the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, South Africa, etc.

Really I’d take the original comment as a joke, but taking it seriously you have to consider that this is a story that happens over and over again in our history, and really the only thing that heals these wounds is just centuries and centuries of time. Should we go all “land back” for the Amazigh? I dunno. I’m just a dumb American.

Maybe in Egypt there were Arabs among (and interbreeding with) the local Copts and Nubians for much longer, but the Arab Caliphates were foreign occupiers across North Africa after the Romans and before the French/British. I know the Amazigh/Berbers were not too enthusiastic about their presence.

Yeah, my dad is from there originally and moved back with my mom when they retired. A 15 point gap in the governor’s race is crazy. Democrats really expanded their map in the southeast around Norfolk and the lower peninsula. Some of those areas are rapidly developing, so I wonder how much it has to do with demographic shifts. Judging by the huge swings, I can’t see how Republican insanity isn’t driving some significant portion of this.

Commenting because I think the judgement here may have been a little hasty. It’s hard to find any information about these guys.

What I will say is that this symbol is clearly not the black sun - it has 6 arms whereas the black sun has 12, the black sun has a ring somewhere outside the middle, and it also has that lightning bolt look to each of the arms whereas these ones have one right angle and then terminate. Edit - as someone else noted, it’s a symbol for speed metal.

They also have a song called “National Front” from one of their earlier albums. Suspicious on its own, but I wanted to find some lyrics to confirm one way or the other. No luck. I listened to the song and couldn’t really understand most of the words, however they repeat “national front [blah blah blah]” several times. The last time they repeat it, they say “national front kills you and me” so on the plus side, that doesn’t sound like an endorsement of far-right politics.

In this video, you can see an anarchist symbol on the vocalist’s vest. Also, not for nothing, there’s a black guy on bass.