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1. about 2 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Somewhat less related to the current strip (one hopes!) is Robert A. Heinlein’s famous time-travel story “All You Zombies”. Or the movie Predestination.

   (Other Heinlein time-travel works include the story “By His Bootstraps” and the novel The Door Into Summer.)

2. about 3 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   “What if you go back to kill your grandfather?”

   Check out Alfred Bester’s famous sf short story “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed”

3. about 3 hours ago on Rob Rogers

   “. . . it’s all about what’s good for him [Netanyahu].”

   And what would be good for him would be the election of many Republicans, including TFG.

4. about 3 hours ago on Rob Rogers

   I’d suggest “ethnic cleansing” in place of “genocide.” Israeli settlers, aided by the IDF, are doing “retail” in the West Bank what Israeli forces are doing in Gaza.

   However, Netanyahu has explicitly compared Hamas to the Amalekites, the traditional enemies of the Jewish people.

   1 Samuel 15 (KJV) says “2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a$$.”

   Now, that is genocide, and Israeli forces seem to following that model, including Hamas infants and sucklings.

   Not that there’s much new here. Check out (here in GoComics) Doonesbury for August 26, 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and shortly before the Israel-complicit massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

   (At first, GC’s nannybot said that my post contained “words on the banned list.” Turned out it wasn’t anything political—just the Biblical reference to Amalakite donkeys.)

5. about 3 hours ago on Rob Rogers

   I’d suggest “ethnic cleansing” in place of “geno0cide.” Israeli settlers, aided by the IDF, are doing “retail” in the West Bank what Israeli forces are doing in Gaza.

   However, Netanyahu has explicitly compared Hamas to the Amalekites, the traditional enemies of the Jewish people.

   GC’s nannybot says that my post contains “banned words.” Let’s see if I can omit the Biblical quotation from KJV 1 Samuel 15 2-3—you can look it up yourself.

   Now, that is gen0cide, and Israeli forces seem to following that model, including Hamas infants and sucklings.

   Not that there’s much new here. Check out (here in GoComics) Doonesbury for August 26, 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and shortly before the Israel-complicit mass acres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

6. about 3 hours ago on Matt Davies

   As I pointed out upthread, the term antisemitism was coined to mean “hatred of Jews.”

   “From the outset the term ‘anti-Semitism’ bore special racial connotations and meant specifically prejudice against Jews. The term has been described as confusing, for in modern usage ‘Semitic’ designates a language group, not a race. In this sense, the term is a misnomer, since there are many speakers of Semitic languages (e.g., Arabs, Ethiopians, and Arameans) who are not the objects of antisemitic prejudices, while there are many Jews who do not speak Hebrew, a Semitic language. Though ‘antisemitism’ could be construed as prejudice against people who speak other Semitic languages, this is not how the term is commonly used.” —Wikipedia article on Antisemitism, emphasis added

   Since there is no such thing as “Semitism,” bringing up the “both Semitic people” thing is a non sequitur and non-productive.

7. about 3 hours ago on Matt Davies

   “. . . the fact that Muslims and Jews are both Semitic.”

   The term “antisemitism” was coined to mean “hatred of Jews.” That’s one reason that, for instance, the Jewish newspaper The Forward prefers the term “antisemitism” to “Anti-Semitism,” because there’s no such thing as “Semitism.” Reverse etymology isn’t a definition, and trying to claim that Jews and Arabs are both “Semitic” is a non sequitur.

   A current definition of antisemitism includes “denying the right of the Jewish people to self-determination.” I am against any “self-determination” that makes some people in a country second-class citizens, like non-Jews in Israel. I am also against “Islamic Republics,” and, should anyone try to make Canada or the US a “white Protestant country,” I’m against that too.

8. about 4 hours ago on Clay Bennett

   “Every (and I mean EVERY) Republican worthy of the name . . .”

   I’m afraid that it’s like Christians—many, probably a majority, aren’t worth the name. . .

9. about 4 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Looks like the Maharishi’s Yogic Flying.

10. about 4 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Hmmm, shades of Repo Man or Kiss Me Deadly here?…