Thread by @SlavaMalamud

That is patently not true. Israel was founded by secular, mostly atheistic socialists who had a radical idea that maybe it's better for them, as Jews, to live somewhere where folks don't want to slaughter them all the time.
Then, they had the temerity to defend themselves...

https://twitter.com/DrumLuck87/status/1392191051465641991

What has happened since is, of course, another story. They were assaulted on all sides by religious fanatics who would not tolerate non-Muslims living alongside them, then became corrupted from within by their own zealots.
Eliminating religion once and for all would help.

Like, honestly, the entire two-state solution idea was scrapped because the two sides couldn't agree about what to do with the "holy city" of Jerusalem. Here is a fucking proposal: knock down the old shit, build some housing and businesses and soccer arenas.
Then, split it up.

I love history. I appreciate old ruins. But at some point worshipping rocks just ain't worth it. There are plenty of ruins around the world. Pave this fucking viper pit over already. I would not shed a single tear for the graveyard of horrors that is "the holiest city." Not one.

I have been to Jerusalem. It's an incredibly uplifting fucking experience to be subjected to all but a strip search on your way past the checkpoint. You soul simply soars, fam. The mosque is just a fucking house. The wall is just a shitty wall. I was at the Sepulcher thing...

The thing that impressed me the most was not the non-cave where the non-person wasn't buried and not the non-hill where he was not crucified prior to not being buried. What impressed me the most was a peasant Russian woman screaming and wailing on the floor of that shitty room...

A peasant woman from Shittovsk-upon-Fuckholigorsk, wearing a threadbare dress. I have no idea how much she had to sacrifice to leave her unpaved town with semi-collapsed outhouses and come to goddamn Jerusalem to scream and wail at a place where an imaginary person never was.

Around her well-fed con men with beards were moving the queue along expertly (they had obviously served in the Russian paratrooper forces before) and directing everyone to only buy candles from their approved stalls. Back home, corrupt officials and church men were rolling in fat

And she was wailing and screaming in ecstasy because she got to be at a place where the only Jew she could possibly like (a dead one) had once not been killed.
Fuck this entire place forever. And ever. Comprehensively. Entirely. Ruthlessly. Pork barbecue for all.