This is so frustrating. I want to recommend a couple of interviews I just listened to on You Tube but both eyes and ears are defeating me. I may yet try again to copy the URL for them but my eyes are particularly bad today so I probably won't be able to.
All I can do is describe them and not very satisfactoritytly. One is an Arab woman named Sophia who is being interviewed by a blond woman and the word Prager U shows up on the first screen before the interview. That's really all I kow. The arab woman is young, early thirties I think. The blond woman is interviewing her about having grown up in Israel and her opinions about the conflict between Jews and Arabs.
She gives a very positive view of her life in Israel, says she had many opportunities wshe wouldn't have had an a purely Arab setting, encouraged to go to school for instance where she ended up with an engineering degree. She denies the accusation of Israel as an apartheid state and says it is in the Arab towns where the most separation is the case between the Arabs and the Jews while in the Jewish towns Arabs are not segregated out.
The other intereview is by a young man at a podcast called J TV or something like that. The first name of the interviewee I couldn't make out but his last name is something like Achmad. he's an Arab who grew up learning to hate Jews and all infidels and eventually followed his own conscience out of that hatred and now opposes the Islamic jihad he once embraced and supports the Israeli poing of view. I didn't catch the name of the interviewer.
After posting this I put J TV Achmad into the search line at You tube and the interview I am talking about came up. Hooray for that much.
And another hooray. Also on the search line at You Tube I put in Prager U Sophia Arab Israeli and got that interview as well.
Ah well, I do have a complaint about the Arab man who explains hatred of the Jews in terms of envy by Islamists and the Left and the Right. The exammple of hatred of the Jews by the Right that he gives is our objection ... and I am on the Right so I do say "our" objection ... is to the liberal Jews for their commmunist influence and I do share that objection . I t has nothing to do with envy, it's a complainjt about liberal Jews, not about jews as such. conservative Jews, especially religionus Jews are on our side. There is no complaint there. In any case objections to the liberals who were a strong influence in the sixties in particular for Cultural Marxism whichch no w dominates our politics have nothing whatever to do with envy and the idea is absurd. Cultural Marxism has been a massive destructive force in Amerca and the west and the Left hnow embraces it. And yes it did come from the liberal Jews. But that is by no means all Jews and the idea is absurd and the idea that it's envy is absurd.Ironically, you could say, it's this liberal influecne in the culture, or should I say Leftist, that is behind the preo Hamas protests on the college campuses.
Well, now I'm into responding to this guy. Ir t wasn't envy for the politlcal left either although as applied to the supposed Oppressed class of the poor and disadvantaged it is likely envy that fuels it.
Next point is that he says something absurd about how religion can change biology, givin gthe example of p[riests and monks who are celibate thus defying their beiology, but boy is that a problematic stew of an issue since it is most likely that enforced celbacy on the part of Romanist priests that powered the rampant sexual misconduct over the centuries with mistresses and even monks and nuns having liasons, but also the growth in gay priests and their own sexual misbehavior which is now the huge controversy we're been hearing about for the last few decades.
I do think he's right to point out that Nietsche was not saying that God is dead in a triumphant sort of way but perhaps even lamnting it. I think he was objeserving it as the reason for the development of vatrious ills in society and he trumpeted the coming Antichrist in an ironic way. And I'm glad Achma poijnted that out.
