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Amy Alkon

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Jun 3, 2024

The West Bank is sovereign Israeli territory. It belongs to the UN-recognized state of Israel and is part of Israel under international law. It is a complete fiction that Israel is "occupying" the West Bank.

As @AviKaner puts it in a post: "It was only called 'West Bank' after Jordan forcibly annexed territory in 1948. It has never been a sovereign state. And of course Israel must maintain security to prevent Hamas Muslim Brotherhood & Islamic Jihad from taking it over like Gaza."

@afagerbakke: "Israel does not intend to 'annex' Judea & Samaria, territory to which it has legitimate claim and that never has been part of a “state of Palestine.” More accurate would be to say that Israel is 'extending Israeli sovereignty' to parts of Judea & Samaria.

@haivri: "#Israel should declare sovereignty in Judea and Samaria based on the fact that it is Israeli territory. All countries who have relations with Israel should honor that."

And here's Jerold Auerbach:
(1algemeiner.com/2020/06/25/ann…

Excellent @politicalelle piece here with brief review of the history: (2 thefederalist.com/2019/09/11/isr…

https://x.com/baum_p/status/1731638559763821013

@politicalelle Here's @baum_p: (3

https://x.com/baum_p/status/1731638559763821013

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Amy Alkon

@amyalkon

Nov 11, 2023

We Jews thought we were safe in America. I no longer feel that with so many mobs on the streets openly calling for the mass slaughter of Jews.

Here in Venice, we just had these terrorism-loving monsters shouting for the slaughter of all Jews -- and note the "from the river to the sea" signs. Marching through a residential neighborhood where many Jews live. It's terrifying and I'm guessing it was meant to terrify.

I went out and yelled, repeatedly, "I'm a Jew! I'm a Jew! I support the state of Israel!" and "Am Yisrael chai!"

This horrible bully -- the tall bearded male in the green vest-- kept advancing on me. Gotta show the Jew woman her place, right? Intimidate her into shutting up and going away.

Of course, as a man, he is taller and stronger than I am, and when I told him to back off, he didn't -- kept advancing, clearly to intimidate me -- a thin 59-year-old woman who writes books, out on the street in her slippers.

Well, I was afraid, but I held my ground as much as I could while backing away from him.

It's just what had to be done. I'm still shaking and I can't stop crying. This is America now? Really?

And, from the bottom of my heart, I thank every one of you Americans who stands against this -- like the many beautiful Christians here on Twitter who showed me the Jewish stars they'd just taken to wearing. And I thank the Muslims who express their horror at this, and especially those who do it publicly, like a number of the wise voices I've discovered here on Twitter.

Never again!

Am Yisrael fucking chai!

I was mentioning at the end how Israelis care for Palestinians in Israeli hospitals, giving them the same excellent care Israelis get and putting them before Israelis for treatment if they are sicker.

Israel has a hospital now near the border where they are giving medical care to Syrians.

And they take just extraordinary measures to avoid the death of civilians - which is just terrible, and I lament every one...yes, every Palestinian civilian kills is a tragedy to me - while they do what they must to stop the depraved Hamas terrorist savages from burning Israeli families alive and all the rest on, say, February 7 and May 7.

Hamas is source of terrible evil - not just for Israelis but for Palestinian civilians, as you'll see from the Palestinian social activist who had her eyes opened when she went to Gaza to try to improve the education and other things for Palestinian civilians.

@DavidSuissaJJ
@yudapearl - had you been here, we could have sung Hatikvah together.

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Amy Alkon

@amyalkon

Jun 3, 2023

@TaniaArline

When to treat interpersonal information (like past behavior…cheating, for example) as diagnostic. @TaniaArline @HumBehEvoSoc #HBES2023

Per the past tweet, I recall issues with Dweck — fixed/growth — and left it out of Unfuckology because of them (but don’t recall what they are). It sounds like they may not matter here, but I’ll ask Tania and should remember when I’ve had enough coffee.

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Amy Alkon

@amyalkon

Jun 3, 2023

@DavidPinsof

We need to seek status without appearing to seek status. @DavidPinsof @HumBehEvoSoc #HBES2023

In politics, one must conceal their underlying desire for dominance.

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Amy Alkon

@amyalkon

Jun 2, 2023

@HumBehEvoSoc

Miriam Lindner now up at @HumBehEvoSoc #HBES2023 post-doc research award finalist talks

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Amy Alkon

@amyalkon

Jun 2, 2023

Michael Rose on the diet that maximizes healthspan — and lifespan. As I see it, if you don’t have your health and you live long…it’s Hobbesian with a twist: Nasty, brutish, and endless.

First, he lays out the opposing viewpoints.

Important thing to remember to understand slides for this talk: “x” is chronological age.

In 1992, this Hamiltonian theory…and then the curveball it gets thrown, next slide.

In fruitfly data, aging stopped. Nobody believed this. But data turned out to be sound. The notion he has is that aging (decline we go thru) eventually stops. Plateaus. So we are no longer going to shit — we’re not exponentially worsening w/ age, as gerontologists have believed.

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