Comments by "" (@ahmeda.3198) on "Israeli soldiers cheer as they blow up buildings in southern Lebanon" video.
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@chompythebeast I agree, and to build on the analogy to Frankenstein, that state they founded has now taken on a life of its own. Just like in the book, he created this thing and it drove him to madness (albeit it, he was chasing it, not worshipping it).
The people there are so far out of touch with reality due to their having created this echo chamber of a society, where anyone who resists, criticizes or fights back against their brutality is literally compared to Nazis. They created an ethno state, took some other peoples land to do it, and now believe the only reason those people fight back is because the follow the ideology of the Germans.
This ethno state was a bad idea in many ways, but even it has caused a corruption and rot among their society, but they don’t see it.
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@MartinaNugent-yt8ig It is a big part of our culture to ensure guests are comfortable, and we also have an emphasis on dignity and character.
I’m not saying there aren’t rotten people among us, just that these are some attributes that the culture values. Similar to how in the West (or at least the US), the culture values traits like individualism or maybe even defiance.
Do you not have any Arab restaurants near you? Here we have plenty of these places for kabob, falafel, etc. Some are hole in the walls, some are fancy. I go to one that’s maybe two steps above a hole in the wall, the food is really good, it’s a family run place, and the get both immigrant and non-immigrant types as customers (which is a sign of quality, in my opinion, to appeal to both crowds.
It was really inexpensive, but their prices went up last year with all this inflation we’ve had.
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@MartinaNugent-yt8ig I am proud also. I remember seeing a picture of a mural maybe 20 years ago, it may have been the famous one of two hands making contact, each one extent from a jail cell. I
don’t remember exactly which mural, but regardless, it was shocking to see. It’s just not the experience in America that people with a European background show sympathy, let alone solidarity with the Palestinians.
Here in the school system we learn about discrimination against Irish people in the US from earlier on, but the contemporary experience is that Irish people and Irish culture are viewed very favorably. We have sort of commercialized aspects of Irish culture, in that there are ‘Irish pub’ themed restaurants (I don’t know how authentic those are), an Irish oriented holiday where everybody wears green (St Patrick’s day), Irish line dancing, and so on. We even have a major university whose mascot is ‘the fighting Irish.’
I don’t think anybody here can claim Ireland ever invaded, colonized, or did anything else to them, and they are viewed as wholesome people. Again, that was not always the case, because I have seen in older news paper headlines or political cartoons in history class, that they were viewed very differently up until relatively recently.
As for Middle East food that’s vegan friendly, have you ever had hummus? It’s a dip that’s made with garbanzo beans, sesame tahini, olive oil and lemon juice. It’s very tasty. We also have items like ‘baba ganoush’ (another dip, but based on eggplant), dolma (rice and seasoning wrapped in grape leaves, but be careful, there’s vegetarian and non-vegetarian), and also falafel. The rice is also good, but make sure you ask if it’s not seasoned with chicken broth. There is also lentil soup.
Around here there are many vegans, and the place I go to, they server a vegetarian version of an okra stew that normally has meat. I once asked the owner how come he makes this stew without the meat, which it normally includes, and he said there’s a lot of vegetarians who come in, and so he changed the recipe to include something that appeals to them.
The hummus and baba ganoush are simple enough that you can make them at home. Basically you just need a blender and a good recipe from the internet. If you’ve never had hummus before, I recommend you try to make it at home. It’s really straight forward, and you can try a few different recipes, and then dial it in to suit your tastes.
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