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As angry as reading this makes me against the antisemites of Michigan, it’s important and helpful to hear the other side. Not to see it from their point of view, F that! But it’s important to know what we’re up against. It pains me, but we could use more articles like this.

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If you are voting for Jill Stein, you might as well throw your ballot into the trash. It's the eqvivalent of not voting.

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Everywhere there are large concentrations of Arabs in the US, they have learned how to assert political power. They use this political power to further their antisemitism, whether it be blatant, or lamely distinguishing it from anti-Zionist.

For all their reminiscent feelings of Lebanon, etc, they refuse to acknowledge that were they ‘home’ their behavior could get them incarcerated, tortured and or killed.

That saying about taking the boy out of the neighborhood but not being able to remove the neighborhood from the boy is especially true of the Arab citizens. They might have sworn allegiance to the Constitution, but they still only understand hatred and using force to get what they want.

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25 miles, please! You all know that the distance between the Israeli city of Sderot and Gaza is less than one mile. "Good Fences make good neighbors".

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Reading Haaretz is great if you are interested in Israeli far-left agitprop. The fact that someone like Hammoud, who believes that Israel is committing genocide reads it and likes it speaks volumes about the newspaper.

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use england, canada, France as a canary in the coal mine. heck use all of the middle east as a reference. It wasn't always 1 religion exclusively. How'd that happen? where's all the Jews and Christians that used to be all throughout. say it plainly and honestly, Islam is an Intolerant religion to its CORE. that is literally written in to their practice. its always what happens in the end. has been that way for 1000 years but now its changed?

abusive partners anyone?

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Perhaps the real issue in Michigan is not the war in Gaza but rather the status of auto workers if as the Democrats dream, there will be no jobs left for building cars if the only cars allowed are EVs.

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I live halfway between the People's Republic of Ann Arbor and Detroit. Fifteen minutes to Dearborn and twenty to Detroit. I grew up in Redford Township, literally on the Detroit Border and five minutes from Dearborn. The Arabs in my neighborhood were mostly Syrian. The Arabic girls were unapproachable in school. The Arabic guys partied with us even till their early twenties. Then it was as if a switch was triggered. No more chasing American girls and drinking. Phone calls were not returned. Things were still sociable but now distant. I noticed their party stores sold magazines like Hustler which were displayed behind the counter for all to see but no Arabic girls were allowed to work in the store. There were at times some skirmishes with the Syrian boys. They pestered the girls a bit. We had a saying, “You never fight one Syrian”. In conclusion, living close to Muslims has been more positive than unfavorable but I believe they are a blood (nationality) before country tribe.

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I think you've brought up the most important point about immigrants coming to America. They need to become fully American, not simply enjoying the freedoms and opportunities here, but identifying primarily with their country of origin.

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Ann Arbor is the third leg of this unbalanced stool. It is where both communities dump their politically illiterate young adults to practice pretending they’re intelligent and ethical. Where UMich grad students organize under the banner of union organization to promote support for “Palestinian” ethics. Where activists encamp and march with flags and slogans as if any of them had the knowledge or courage to enlist their hides in the war in either Israel, Gaza or Lebanon. All the while ignoring willfully the root cause, IRAN.

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I support Israel and want America to sell (not give) her the means for self-defense. I am voting for Trump based entirely on his policies for the USA, not who he will support overseas. That all the people interviewed in this article mainly base their presidential vote on the stance on Israel/Palestine tells me they should not be citizens of this country, much less voting.

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Anyone who reads or relies on what Haaretz which is the Israeli representative of the self hating mainstream media will get a very skewered view of any and all issues in Israel

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Look at any western country with an influx of Islamist’s’. What’s the result? Anything desirable? The West made a HUGE mistake. It’s time we correct for this. Let’s take Sweden as just one example. A nation which once had shared values, low crime, harmony. Today - the highest violent crime rate in Europe and massive gun crime, proliferation of gangs, and rampant inner city drug use. The single determining variable of these conditions - IMMIGRATION OF ISLAMISTS’! There’s nothing complicated here. First they preach Jew-Hatred, then they seek to dismantle western values. But here’s what perplexes me - why immigrate to the west? Why didn’t they go to Saudi? To Indonesia? Or many other majority Islam nations? Hmmmmm….are we ready for the answer to this question?

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Sweden is offer them $34k to leave the country. That is each person. That says it all.

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I hope this new scheme works! It will be well worth it if these undesirables leave!

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We could not do that here because they would just return for more money.

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in Sweden a person joked about mus. word for mice. and lim. word for glue. about mice glue. and was arrested

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Similar in UK! Children have been arrested for rather benign online postings. It’s bananas!

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If KH wins, the policy of the US toward Iran will remain as it is now and had been under Obama. Support for Israel will be, at best, lukewarm and Israel will be forced to remain vulnerable and unable to effectively defend itself to suit American political direction, the one started by Obama. Iran will get nuclear weapons. Hamas, Hizballah, the Houthi terrorists etc. will remain as they are, with the same ambition. That unfortunate scenario gives credence to Trump's warning that should KH win, Israel will cease to exist. By the same token Trump is also right to wonder about Jews willing to vote for KH. If things were perfect... but they are not and never will be. Those concerned for the wellbeing of the world - and stability in the Middle East - those believing that the people of Iran and other countries languishing under Islamist regimes deserve to be free, those concerned for the wellbeing of Israel and its survival have one choice only. Vote Trump.

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“two different Dearborn mosques held services honoring the “martyrs” killed in the attack. At the University of Michigan, two people allegedly attacked a 19-year-old student after asking him if he was Jewish. When Dana Nessel, the state’s first Jewish attorney general, charged 11 University of Michigan anti-Israel demonstrators for refusing to leave their encampment in the spring, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents Dearborn, questioned Nessel’s “possible biases”—a critique Nessel criticized as “antisemitic and wrong.” Governor Gretchen Whitmer initially refused to back Nessel, only to reverse course a day later, issuing a statement calling out Tlaib’s implication that religion impacted Nessel’s decision as “antisemitic.”

Sorry, these people hate Israel, hate the Jews, and are supporting the Islamic terrorists. Their ideology is not compatible with Western civilization. When people tell you their intentions you should believe them.

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Very interesting!

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Good piece, captures a lot of different perspectives.

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