For years I’ve thought of busting this famous meme, but I don’t think could do better than this video from ARI. It goes through each panel, noting that it’s either an outright lie or drops crucial context.
https://youtu.be/btVFgqkgkzw?si=YUIz503kVfv6lCdW
A few quick points:
▪️The first panel shows the bulk of the land green, despite much of it being unlivable at the time and not owned or settled. They just color it all green as some sort of collective rights claim for “Palestinians” which is invalid from an individual rights perspective and inaccurate from any sort of state control.
▪️The second panel never existed, but now the white and green switches from collective group claims to actual state control. It was the UN plan, but the day after Israel declared independence all the neighboring Arab states declared war and tried to obliterate Israel and send the Jews to the sea.
▪️Keep in mind, the invading Arab states were never trying to ensure a Palestinian state or any such freedom. They were trying to grab the land for themselves and send the Jews to the sea. If they had won, the land would be controlled by the autocratic states of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc.
▪️The 3rd panel is a lie. The green areas were controlled by Jordan and Egypt, they weren’t “Palestinian land” and those countries would have laughed at that claim back then.
▪️There’s no panel showing Israel taking Gaza from Egypt and and greatly expanding into the Sinai, which they used to strategically defend itself from Egypt trying to launch attacks in another attempt to send the Jews to the sea. But when Egypt stopped being a menace they gave back the Sinai.
▪️The last panel drops all the context that “Palestinian land” was just a series of warring factions with no ability to ever have a remotely functioning state. Because that wasn’t their goal. Their goal has never been to have a government that protects Palestinian rights and land, the primary goal and obsession (as always) is to throw the Jews to the sea.
A more accurate meme will be posted in the comments.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
