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Before 2023 Israel mostly withdrew from territories. What is happening now wasn't pre planned.

Nice to see you back here. How are you doing with everything going on? Do you have safe room in your home or do you go to a shelter?

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Thank you 🙏🏻

I oppose comparisons such that he did here ("Nazis" etc) but still, his post seems quite important to me, if we take into account the details. The post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DfXcgBdwa/ " Why did Iran almost become the Third Reich of the 21st century? 👇🏿 Iran is not just another third-world country. " Iran is the most lethal combination modern history has known: the production capacity of an industrial-technological power fused with the ideology of a murderous cult. That is exactly what turned Nazi Germany into the monster that devastated Europe and destroyed half the world: not only fanaticism, but the ability of diligent engineers and scientists to harness technology to the Reich’s endless appetite for death. The numbers don’t lie 👇🏿 #1 Iran ranks among the top ten countries in the world in annual STEM graduates (engineering, science, technology, mathematics), surpassing powers like Japan and South Korea (World Economic Forum). #2 Nearly 35% of students in Iran study technological fields. That’s how they managed to produce centrifuges and ballistic missiles (CSET report). #3 Over 2,700 Iranian researchers are ranked in the top 2% of the most cited scientists worldwide (Stanford/Elsevier database). #4 Iran reached a production capacity of roughly 100 to 300 ballistic missiles per month. That means that had we not attacked them, they would have been producing thousands of missiles per year. Every year. #5 The Iranian regime has now slaughtered 30,000 of its own citizens without batting an eye. #6 For 47 years, this regime has tried to harm, exhaust, eliminate, destroy, and murder Israeli and American civilians. Since 1979, the Iranian regime and its proxies have killed at least 3,000 Israelis in Israel and abroad, and over 1,000 Americans over the years. #7 The regime’s annual budget for building and strengthening proxies across the Middle East stands at $2 billion (before the war). Hezbollah alone receives about $700 million per year. This is a regime that starves its own citizens in order to feed the monsters surrounding us. This is the main cause of instability in the Middle East. And I haven’t even started talking about the nuclear program — that’s already been discussed enough. The era is different, but in my view, there is a strong resemblance between the Iranian regime and the Nazi regime: Both were a deadly combination of an educated, industrious population (one that produces engineers and scientists in large numbers) and a murderous fanatic ideology. In short, the ultimate dream of any bloodthirsty dictator who wants to spread his ideology. If Hitler had risen to power in Brazil, no one would have cared (except perhaps the Argentinians). If the ayatollahs had taken power in Zimbabwe or Papua New Guinea, Israel’s defense budget would remain the same. But when ideologically driven dictators seize power in countries with exceptional human capital, advanced industry, and strong engineering capability — like Germany or Iran — it enables them to devastate half the world. If Sinwar had not attacked, and Iran had continued on the same trajectory, Iran would have been capable of 👇🏿 #1 Developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of traveling 10,000 km — a direct threat to the eastern coast of the United States. By 2035 (source: U.S. Congress, 2025). #2 Possessing dozens of nuclear warheads mounted on precision missiles aimed directly at Tel Aviv, Haifa, Riyadh, and Dubai. A nuclear umbrella would have given Iran nearly unlimited military freedom of action, along with the ability to intimidate and harm Israel and the Gulf states. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis would leave the country out of existential fear alone. Don’t believe me? Look at how North Korea holds South Korea in a chokehold. #3 Iran would have become the largest exporter of cheap, smart weapons for the modern axis of evil. Today, the drones destroying infrastructure in Ukraine are Iranian. Tomorrow? Every terrorist organization in Africa or South America. Just as the Russians turned the Kalashnikov into the standard weapon of global terror, the Iranians would have turned the “Shahed” into the aerial standard of modern warfare. And we haven’t even discussed control of the Strait of Hormuz, which would allow Iran to spike global fuel prices by 200% at the push of a button. Hitler, with German industrial capacity, was the nightmare of the 20th century. Khamenei, with Iran’s remarkable human capital, was on track to become the nightmare of the 21st century. By 2035, Iran could have transformed from a state sponsor of terror into a technological-fanatical-brutal terror empire capable of destroying entire countries, striking American cities, paralyzing the global oil pipeline, and crashing stock markets at the push of a button. All under nuclear immunity. Imagine waking up one morning to a barrage of 5,000 ballistic missiles raining down on us from Iran — a massive blitz overwhelming air defense systems and killing tens of thousands of Israelis in the time it took Hamas terrorists to massacre border communities. This is a threat Israel cannot tolerate. This is a threat the free world cannot tolerate under any circumstances. And Trump and Netanyahu, unlike the Europeans and the foolish Democrats in New York — understand this very well. Israel and the United States are eliminating one of the greatest threats to world peace. If you had the opportunity to bomb Nazi Germany in 1936, with reasonable risk to human life — wouldn’t you do it? I would. Be proud to be Israeli. And if you are American — be proud that you chose Trump over the other idiot. Hundreds of millions of Europeans envy you greatly. P.S. If you liked the content, like, comment, and share 🙏 We must understand the magnitude of the threat we are removing. "

Yeah the music of Rayman was really good

In the shelter right now

If I ignore the hours I spent on Picture City and its crazy boss, then maybe yeah 😅

hamas is found there too just weaker due to security cooperation between IDF and the Palestinian authority. This is true there is an abuse of power and corruption that often hurts civilians too.

True. The responsibility of the other side is also quite significant. Years of brutal terror attacks instilled fear in Israelis and led many of them see the Palestinians as they were a single demonic entity that cannot be trusted.

This is why a big part of the protest in Europe lose credibility, pushing the majority away from it. Calling it 'completely predictable' reduces a century long conlifct to a simplistic unrealistic narrative. If we apply this logic everywhere, every act of violence becomes "predictable" and just a result of feeling of injustice or the need of venganase, but this doesn't solve anything.

If you practice it in natural and healthy ways and enjoy the process.

@Breathe I wrote 'probably' only because I can't decide if it was Netanyahu that wanted that or mostly political pressure from the far right that affected him. I am an Israeli and from knowing my country and its complexity for decades, the generalizations I read here are detached from reality.

Probably the deep right wing parties have pushed Netanyahu towards that purpose, what affected what we see in Gaza.

Netanyahu's far-right government caused terrible consequences in Gaza, though the definition of genocide is highly controversial, and that term is wrong here in my view.

Thanks Do you see this even on the same person who is totally closed to one topic within the holistic thinking but very open to another advanced topic?

Not in a simplistic manner though. My thinking went through three phases. Phase 1 - Mainly western approach, Until the end of 2019 I believed that the combination of a pill I took for anxiety, with the mindfulness practice is the best long term. Phase 2 - Natural approach At the beginning of 2020 I had an anxiety wave I have not had for years, what made me start experimenting with nutrition, start tapering the drug down very slowely (still to this day! that slow. never do this fast) and started to feel better in the following years, had cognitive breakthroughs about myself and about how to manage my thoughts, what made me believe in the intelligence of my brain and body to solve their problems. Phase 3 - From 2026 actually After a couple of years of a constant trend of improvement and feeling between OK to good most of the time, I had another anxiety wave which took couple of months, which at the end of it, this January, made me surrender many things, be more humble, less intelectualizing my thoughts (what I thought to work great for years turned out to be limited and not enough), more immersed mentally with nature, and also practically with returning to invest more in my nutrition, and seeing myself more as just part of nature, listen much more to premitive desires (which I am deficient in) and devote the following year mainly for them. So which is better, the Western approach or nature? So during last years I got triggered almost every time a family member talked about her training in psychiarty in her medicine degree, and basically each time I felt they are talking too much on western strategies of all kinds for physical and mental health. But this week, I learned something new about the problems with the human childbirth process. This was the first or at least the most significant moment in which I accepted the incompleteness of nature comes from natural selection, but at the same time I saw why this is precisely the reason for the genius of the human body and its ability to keep us alive in a way that no technology could do for even one single hour. So I feel things have kind of integrated better from this moment, and I feel now much more confident to talk about those topics when taking even more than before the side of nature and the natural approaches. In taking a side, I don't mean overlooking the intersections where western approaches are crucial and life saving, but just to put that in proportion, and hopefully no longer getting insecure and triggered in family conversations when I agreed to fall into that "complexity nihilism" of "Yeah both approaches are important" leaving the natural approach still not getting the respect it really deserves from family members, society and culture. So to sum it up, I feel I am coming out of this last wave with an even deeper connection to myself and seeing more sharply the gap between the intelligence of nature and the credit it gets in our time, and I am aiming to incorporate those insights into my therapy work with other people, which I started in the last year (of course after completing the appropriate courses) and to show the side I took in an ever clearer way.

An unpopular opinion these days but I think civil rights more than the most basic ones won't make you happier. More technology won't make you happier, and more opportunities is actually a stressful thing. Better medicine won't make you feel better mentally, but taking care of your body by yourself will.

The title has to be The Village That Survives THE Giant Spiders. I would leave the village just from hearing there are such spiders there.

@BlueOak Personally I am not that scared from missiles attacks but my mom gets stressed only from hearing the news studio talk... so I assume that yes fear here is significant in general especially in the last two years. Hezbollah is dangerous so I understand why Israel needed to act. I don't see this as coming from conquest aspirations. For me, I am not interested in conquest stuff, just to live normal life.

@BlueOak Again I don't know how much such people exist in my country because you are describing here a quite extreme point of view 🙂

@BlueOak How can one know how much those relatively extreme people, who want "war and conquest" as their worldview, are in Israel or the US?

Can you translate the word Zionism into simpler words?

Ok this is one of the videos I liked the most, because it is connected to how I feel all the time about that doctors and therapists think they can treat anxiety or ocd with strict protocols (which I tried on myself for years) which can never reach the depth of their patients problems, and I am thankful that I got to think differently from them. Sure this problem is one of the aspects that comes from logical thinking taken religiously, but for me personally this is perhaps the main aspect. I feel the video really sharpened things and made me feel even more comfortable with trusting my independent thinking. If I try to think about the reason for that logical ideology, I think this is always the fear of being groundless and to lose life meaning. If a doctor or a therapist will have to admit his method is very limited, it can collapse his or her psychological world. Maybe they generally don't feel that fear because there are more layers of protecting brain circuits standing between them and the amygdala, but they just don't know that if they will face their fear they will find out that their world won't collapse but just transform. It won't be without sacrifices, but they will come out calmer and better.