Even though Netanyahu is Jewish, he knows using (and in this case abusing) the Christian bible is a good way to keep support going among US evangelicals and the new Speaker of the House.

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Sounds like he’s culturally appropriating American behaviour.

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Even though Netanyahu is Jewish, he knows using (and in this case abusing) the Christian bible

He’s citing the Hebrew Bible.

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There’s truly no shortage of uninformed takes on the Isreal Palestine situation.

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Not only is he citing the Hebrew Bible, it SAYS IN THE LINK THAT HE POSTED THAT HE’S CITING THE HEBREW BIBLE.

Seriously, kids these days, it’s like nobody goes to Vacation Bible School anymore

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He can’t be held responsible for his failure to protect his people if they are in a constant state of war. How long before mideast instability drags us all back?

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If he pulls out some old testament shit he’s good to go. The Israelites were told to destroy Jericho completely in the story I remember. Just change the name to Gaza and it works out great for him.

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I was having a weird one today so I read through the book of Amos. It’s shockingly similar to the current situation.

Amos prophesied that Gaza would be destroyed, even genocided, as a reaction to crimes that included kidnapping entire communities. But that’s just an intro to a prophecy that Israel would be violently and mercilessly destroyed in response to a long list of their own crimes.

I’m not saying that Amos predicted the current situation, just that it’s sad how little we’ve improved in 2500 years.

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Prophecies require explicit parameters. Anything else is ad-hoc and you can fit nearly anything to be a prophecy after the fact.

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Funnily enough (not funny actually, considering the war crimes and all), the Old Testament says that the Jews/Isrealites will never get rid of other people living in the area due to not driving them out in their original conquest.

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I do love a good irony. Only atheists actually read religious texts though.

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Can anybody translate the video?

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There’s a voiceover.

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They’re asking for a translation.

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The poster before has a point. The translation in the video is pretty damning, but there is no real way to know if the translation is truthful if all you have is that video and not the ability to understand the original.

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