Not Spiritual For Work?
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Housing which is shit and often unsuitable for habitation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
And to be clear, they've built a lot of infrastructure, but it's often underbuilt. Eg. they'll build huge projects or even residential districts, but save money by not ensuring there's sufficient drainage. Result: fancy stadium, looks better than many a western stadium, cost less to build, fancier, looks higher quality, what you see may even be better quality, built in record time, but when it rains everyone's walking in poo water.
That's normal.
IRC before Constantine there was still a bit of a religious taboo of portraying Jesus (a god), due to the whole bible being against idolatry thing. So it was mostly metaphorical images of a buff shephard, if there were pictures at all, because Jesus was a shephard to his followers, and buff because why wouldn't you make him buff?
After Constantine converted, Christianity was romanised. So the image of Jesus was partly inspired by images of Apollo and Dionysus (hence white, fit and feminine) then later Zeus (hence the authoritative beard). It's not actually inspired by actual Jesus, whose appearance was (perhaps deliberately) not described properly in the New Testament.
The Church is quite good at doing market research and adapting its product for local markets and tastes, basically. See also the whole Christmas tree and Saturnalia gift giving thing, which became Christian traditions.
In his hands, I saw a great golden spear, and at the iron tip there appeared to be a point of fire. This he plunged into my heart several times so that it penetrated to my entrails. When he pulled it out I felt that he took them with it, and left me utterly consumed by the great love of God. The pain was so severe that it made me utter several moans. The sweetness caused by this intense pain is so extreme that one cannot possibly wish it to cease, nor is one’s soul content with anything but God. This is not a physical but a spiritual pain, though the body has some share in it—even a considerable share.
Oh, it's you again.
am I imagining things here?
Oh, no. I assume you're just being ignorant (again) and think some of them just have a bit of a tan. If you actually google them, you'll find plenty are also of middle-eastern or North African origin. Here's a few of them, I've included a few ministers who were active till 2023:
Uriel Menachem Buso is an Israeli politician who serves as Minister of Health .... His mother Heftziba is the daughter of the Moroccan-born Mayor
Amichai Chikli ... serves as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and the Minister for Social Equality. ... Chikli was born in Jerusalem in 1981 to a Tunisian Jewish family.
May Golan ... is an Israeli politician and activist ... In 2023, a group of former Israeli ambassadors said they were “shocked” by the appointment of Golan as Israel's new women's advancement minister, saying that “Golan’s appointment is outrageous as she is a racist and divisive figure .... She is the child of a single Orthodox Jewish mother ... from Iraq
Shlomo Karhi ... is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government ... Karhi was born .... to mother Mazal and father Rabbi David Karhi, an Israeli-born Sabra of Tunisian Jewish heritage from Djerba
Makhlouf "Miki" Zohar ... currently serves as the Minister of Culture and Sports in the thirty-seventh government. ... His father Eli was an immigrant from Morocco and his mother Dina was from Tunisia.
David "Dudi" Amsalem ... previously held the posts of Minister of Communications ... His parents, Avraham and Sultana Amsalem, were immigrants from Morocco
Ofir Sofer ... is currently the Minister of Aliyah and Integration ... He is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.
Galit Distel-Atbaryan ... was formerly the Minister of Information. ... Distel-Atbaryan was born in Jerusalem to Iranian Jewish immigrants
Ya'akov Margi ... currently serves as the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services. ... Margi was born in Rabat in Morocco and brought to Israel during Operation Yachin
Itamar Ben-Gvir ... is an Israeli lawyer and far-right extremist... who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022 ... His father was born in Jerusalem to Iraqi Jewish immigrants. He worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing. His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant
Yifat Shasha-Biton ... was appointed Minister of Education in June 2021 ... Yifat Shasha-Biton was born ... to Rachel, a nurse born in Morocco and Moshe David ... born in Iraq.
Don't bother responding.
You've embarassed yourself enough.
I admire your confidence.
Nitpick, but a storage tank isn't the best target.
IRC it's the distillation tower. Those can take months to get running again, especially now that Russia is under sanctions and can't easily source some specialised parts.
A storage tank is relatively easy to manufacture and replace.
these people are white and European
More than half of Israelis have Middle Eastern or North African heritage.
If you're transposing relatively binary American notions of race (invariably based on skin colour) on a conflict half way around the world, you're entirely out of your depth when it comes to Israeli politics and the current conflict.
Eg. Netenyahu may be 'white' but Likud and right wing voters are overwhelmingly of middle-eastern or north african heritage. IRC Ben-Gvir, the far right minister of National security, is of Iraqi and Kurdish origin.
Given your comment was upvoted significantly, that's a damning indictment on how uneducated people are here too and how outdated their views on Israel are. Seriously people, go read about Israeli politics. Tiktok videos aren't enough. Hell, here's a website which has been previously accused of being pro-Hamas/Muslim brotherhood:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-why-right-wing-mizrahi-vote-misunderstood
Don't think Trump's chronically constipated. If anything, quite likely the opposite.
Reddit too, tbh. One of the main reasons I left.
I've provided further sources here:
https://kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/809321/-/comment/4963666
And another user has provided sources here:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/6965014
Please note that Biden not liking Netenyahu or his government, is different to Biden being supportive of the current war cabinet or Israel itself.
There are legitimate reasons to be critical of the US stance on that.
People like to complain about boomers, but let's be real here: are the zoomers that much better?