1/ Let's take this reply from @AbiWilks & discuss it. First: unless you acknowledge the fact that Hamas, the Army Of Islam & Islamic Jihad in Gaza are expressly anti-democratic, and run Gaza, then this stance is meaningless. Might have had relevance before 2007, no longer does.
2/ Second, unless you acknowledge the expulsion of Jews, along with the theft of their land & possessions, from Egypt & Arab countries from 1948 onwards, and from Poland, 1968, Ethiopia, 1985 & 1991, Yemen 2021, etc., then this is wishful thinking only.
3/ Unless you acknowledge the open racism of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo & Bataclan, how is this any different from, "Yeah I want unicorns & rainbow ponies for all, but rly my stance is only, mysteriously, going to play into the hands of Hamas"?
4/ To cut a v long story short into several tweets: there were Jews & Jewish-owned land in what's now Israel, pre-1948, enough to form a new mini-state. The Arab regimes & Palestinians refused to accept the 1948 deal. Yet I don't hear you acknowledge that.
5/ The world *proved* to Jews, 1900 onwards, & it's not just 1933-1945, it's the Soviet countries, the Arab countries, post-1948, etc., that the only people Jews could rely on to protect them from being extirpated were Jews. Tackle that.
6/ At every stage of possible peace-deals, Palestinians, Arab regimes, & then, later in the day, Islamists, rejected any deal, wanting the destruction of Israel & its Jews instead. Till very late, w/ Sadat in Egypt, then the rise of Iran as regional threat
7/ If Palestinians had genuinely wanted the same as you here espouse, then the problem would have been solved long before, it wasn't, guess why. So exactly why your mysteriously one-sided argument?
8/ Which brings us back, full-circle, to my original point re your damnation of the IHRA definition, & your misrepresentation of the UK debate, @AbiWilks. Be as rude about my thin, bony arse as you like, but unless you deal with the outlined facts, then...
1/n Time for me to afflict y'all with some of my photos of the occasional Römerfest in Xanten, Germany (an occasional big festival inside the old double-legion fort there). All my own photos.
1/n This is a good piece to read, but it rests on a conflation, only very briefly touched upon in @jehsmith's post. There are two completely different definitions of "ethnoscience" going on here, and they're in competition.
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2/n Yes, à la @jehsmith, from a scientific viewpoint, it only makes extremely good sense to research & understand how specialized guilds of Polynesian navigators mapped sea-swell patterns, see photo below, just for example.
3/n Ethnolinguistics, an extremely important field if you want to understand human grammar in the brain, also got pushed a lot in the 1990's as an aid to ethnobotany, in the search for sources of new antibiotics and meds (and the implicit plea was to save minority languages)
2/n Long time ago, Cyclades islands buildings were just grey. Stone, b/c not enough trees for lumber. A killer in a hot summer; grey rock absorbs heat from the sun quite well, making life impossible at night. So people started whitewashing.
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3/ Come 1347 A.D.. Y'all know to shout, "Black Death!". Yes. The Republic of Genoa, then controlling Provence, Corsica & much of Northern Italy, as measure mandated whitewashing houses w/ easily available lime (from crushing limestone or burning seashells) olivetreevalley.com/when-black-dea…
1/n There's an awful lot of conflations going on around the lab-leak COVID_19 claims, since they first emerged last year; I suspect some of the conflations are deliberate, to lend emo force (of implied claim A) to much milder claim B. So let's look at the competing options
Option 1: no lab leak. Virus came in from the wild, most likely through wild animals captured for the wet markets, mutated a little, had a couple of small super-spreader events in Wuhan & surrounds, took off from there.
Pro's of option 1.
This is what viruses do. This is what many viruses have done (e.g. measles, the flu)- They mutate, and jump, if they can, from species to species. No further explanation really necessary.
1/n huh. I actually know Grobi, this Steller's sea eagle (Riesenseeadler, Haliaeetus pelagicus), and the austringer woman, Carola Schossow, in question. I've photographed Grobi myself.
Report in German; summation in following tweets.
cc. @amyalkon : waz.de/region/rhein-u…
2/n Grobi, a Steller's sea eagle living around 8 miles from me, got nastily mobbed by crows and buzzards, and took to flight three weeks ago, ending up in a Hungarian national park at the moment. My own photo of Grobi below:
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3/n Grobi has done this before, taken flight, but last time, a year ago, Grobi only made it roughly 10 miles, close to where I live, before sticking around and eventually being taken back home by the austringer.
My own photo again:
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