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Simon Baddeley's avatar

The comments here remind me of a day in my life when I cycle two miles from Handsworth - where I've lived 40+ years; an area of intense diversity, motley and polyglot chaos and eccentricity, product of the implosion of the British Empire and now global liberalism - into the city centre of Birmingham and wander the busy streets and markets. Being old I am usually viewed as a sort of non-combatant. Being old I'm less wary than a young man needs to be as well as being uninhibited about encounters with strangers, as well as meeting up with acquaintances and friends made over the years. I meet evangelists for armageddon who know their way around the holy texts, aided in discussion by smart phones. I nod and smile and listen. I meet medical experts who studied brain surgery in primary school who warns me about germs that can pass through five feet of concrete. I nod and smile and listen. I am tagged for a few minutes by wandering Black Jews of African provenance who warn me about the fake Jews - devils all - that come from Israel - proven by chapter and verse in their much leafed high-lightered texts. I nod and smile and listen. I have a friend who doesn't reason, being, as he says, autistic, but can remember every bone in the human hand, all the victims of Jack the Ripper and name everyone of Shakespeare's plays though he's unsure of their plots. In our chats over tea and coffee from Sukie's stand in the Rag Market, he, Bruce, serves as a human dictionary and concordance when a reference escapes me. A muslim woman, Gina, tells me of her work with abused women and the death threats she receives for wearing tight skirts with hems that stop just below her crotch and who always buys me a cup of tea and worries about my dog Pip who travels in a basket attached to the handlebars of my bicycle. I listen. I smile and laugh and she records me on her phone, as we are joined by an ex-soldier, John Strong, nearly as old as me (I am 83) who's just published his second book on the tension between faith and science, exploring near death experiences and voices of the dead summoned in seances. "I've sold ten copies in America and had 5 star reviews." Up comes Angel who brings from her Afro-Caribbean church, with a long name, a suitcase of food to give to the homeless "Soon God will come in his great glory to judge us. How's your week, Simon?"

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Turfseer's avatar

Simon,

Thank you for the travelogue through your Birmingham encounters—what a cast! I suspect many of my readers (myself included) find Wilders’ warning more sobering than surreal, but your calm presence in the circus has its own kind of wisdom. That said, not everyone has the luxury—or temperament—to simply nod and smile when real threats loom. Some of us still think discernment is the better part of listening.

Warm regards,

Turfseer

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Simon Baddeley's avatar

Thank you too. In E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, the character of Professor Narayan Godbole who amid profound clashes of culture and reciprocal animosity seems mystifyingly detached from the urgency of the moment. He's used by Forster to explore modernist experiences of fragmentation, ambiguity, and the elusiveness of meaning amid seismic change. I love life and am constantly astonished at the gifts of revelation that come from playing in that cast I tried to describe; the way friendship and the unexpected kindness of strangers trumps my pessimistic reasoning about the doleful state of the world - hence my embrace of Dickens' paragraph at the start of A Tale of Two Cities - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." I have a Shi'ah friend who now serves in the government of Iraq. While he was here finishing his Phd at my university I showed him much of what I loved about England. He, who knew so much English literature, spoke often to me about the long misery visited on the world as result of that calculatedly devilish deal made after WW2 by the Saudi kingdom to support and financially subsidise in Europe the spread of the worst and most puritanical version of Islam - Salafi-jihadism especially - in return for that strain of Islam staying out of Saudi-Arabian politics. What a plague this strand of Islam has been on ours and the Muslim diaspora! My friend D. (who was imprisoned under Saddam) in return has, over and over, begged me to be a guest in his country "Before you leave this world, Simon, I will welcome you to my beloved country. We will stand on the ruins of the ancient city of Ur" which, as you know, is the site - 24 centuries old - of man's first great civilisation, the Sumerian.

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Turfseer's avatar

Simon,

Your reply reads like a meditation—part literary reflection, part travelogue of the soul. I appreciate the way you thread together personal friendship, ancient history, and literary wisdom. And I share your dismay at the exported poison of Salafi-jihadism. Your friend’s testimony echoes what many of us suspect but are too often afraid to say aloud.

Where we may differ is in the emotional posture we adopt in response. You find sustenance in ambiguity, kindness, and enduring culture. I don’t discount any of that. But I also see the urgent need to speak clearly and act decisively when destructive ideologies gain ground under the banner of multicultural tolerance. The Dickens quote is apt, but I’d argue that many today only want to quote the “best of times” half and pretend the rest is bigotry or paranoia.

You nod, smile, and listen. I listen, too—but sometimes I raise my voice.

Warm regards,

Turfseer

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Simon Baddeley's avatar

Yes. Having mentioned the detachment of Dr Godpole, your words make me realise that I contain something of that absurd Dr Pangloss who could always invent arguments to prove that we live 'in the best of all possible worlds'. I believe what Geert Wilders has to say. I know he and his family have had to have 24 hour security for years. I know that his compatriot, the film-maker Theo van Gogh, was gunned down 20 years ago while his Somalian writer colleague Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been effectively driven from the Netherland and turned to Christianity as the spiritual counter to militant and fundamentalist Islamists. Secular liberalism and deep hope in social pluralism have faltered - as most of us know. The atheist ascendancy, in which I was brought a privileged member - private education, Oxbridge, the finest US universities has failed. We live more and more in what David Mamet, once of the left, describes as 'open cities'. I know what's been done to Salman Rushdie by way of injury and threat over decades. I know about Drummer Lee Rigby, about Malala Yousafzai, about the Charlie Hebdo journalists and more and more and more of these disgusting things carried out - Oct 7th 2023 - by intoxicated individuals and en masse by loathsome pathetic losers - and I also know of the rich and excessive excuses that have been made for this spreading perfidy, the apologists' eloquence most succinctly laid out in Mohsin Hamid's novel 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' - a glimpse into the mind of a person who comes from enthusiasm for, and material success in, our messy way of enjoying liberty via increasing ambivalence about the West to the abyss of the murderous collective nihilism of which Wilder's speaks. So there I've told you! I'm not just swimming amid an old man's sylvan reveries - though I was partly brought up enjoying the most beautiful countryside while growing up to take part in the life of the great capitals of Europe and America. I will have to admit nonetheless that the period from 1942, when I was born on my grandmother's dairy farm in Essex, innocently oblivious of my parents' and grandparents' lives amid the butcher's bills of the first half of the 20th century, has been (I live even now in such comfort happily between town and country; between homes in England and Greece) for people like me the most secure, prosperous and happy era in human history. It wasn't like that before me. It wasn't like that for most of the world. It won't be like that after me for millions, including my poor beloved descendants.

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Turfseer's avatar

Simon,

You’ve now spoken with a clarity that cuts through reverie. And what a relief—to hear that beneath your observational calm lies a recognition of the grave truth: that secular liberalism’s optimistic gamble has failed, that the warnings of Wilders, Hirsi Ali, and others weren’t hysterical outliers but early signals, largely ignored, of something much deeper unraveling.

You write beautifully, and with an honesty that honors both the light you’ve known and the gathering dark you now acknowledge. Yes, for those of a certain vintage—educated, cultivated, protected—these postwar decades have felt like an oasis of civility. But we both know such peace is not self-sustaining. It requires vigilance, boundaries, and the courage to name threats for what they are, even when cloaked in the language of tolerance.

You’ve lived the dream of the open city, and your memories are no small thing. But perhaps it’s those of us who still raise alarms—not because we lack your perspective, but because we wish to preserve the best of it—for whom history will be less kind, though maybe more grateful.

Warm regards,

Turfseer

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Mark Carroll's avatar

This is line with information I have been seeing for several years. Everywhere Islam goes there is severe conflict, oppression, suffering, and poverty. To not see that is to have your head in the sand. Islam us now the number one threat to freedom, peace, stability, and prosperity in the world.

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The Standup Thinker's avatar

Thank you so much for posting this speech. Thank you!

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Marijke's avatar

Allereerst wat een slecht Engels, het is letterlijk vertaald Nederlands. Verder ontbreekt elke objectieve blik, zeker in het laatste deel. Even hoopte ik op een duidelijk en objectief stuk

over de Islam en de invloed daarvan op Nederland. Want dat er van een kwalijke invloed op

Nederland sprake is, is wel zeker. Jammer dit kon veel beter.

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MoreMore's avatar

And yet, he turned out to be a conman. A Mossad agent installed in The Netherlands after 9/11, deceiving his voters as he installed the former head of several secret service agencies to become the current PM. A PM who is personally responsible for the military operations headed by the US's DHS, called Covid.

He, Wilders, now being in power continues to betray his voters, by increasing mass migration, deceptively called "asylum seekers".

His friend, Rutte, became the head of Nato, which is an offshoot of the deep state military complex seated in the US. That head of Nato, who tried to bribe a plaintiff attorney, now that he's facing charges of corruption, fraud, betrayal and having ties to pedophilia networks.

While there's deafening MSM silence, nothing is what it seems it is.

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Marijke's avatar

More, more, I like to add less is much better. Where the hell have you been, hiding under a rock? What filth are you spilling about Rutte and other persons, you are an

asshole.

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matt from Vienna's avatar

Sad to see Geert Wilders, a Jewish propagandist of political Judaism aka Zionism if there ever was one, spreading his hatred on this substack.

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Susan Randall's avatar

Thank you…enlightening. Important to know what is happening in the countries of Europe. I always knew this would happen when the muslims of Syria fled to Europe. The president of Hungary would not let them into his country. I felt he was so right. They end up taking over.

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Victoria Jean Bingham's avatar

You had me until you tried to suggest that what is happening to Europe had anything to do with Israel defending itself against Palestinians.

So you are also a liar I see. No, most of us are finally understanding that the same forces that moved zionists into Israel and call them 'Israel' so that they can assume ownership of the land and the whole Middle East are those same forces that have moved the non assimilating criminally minded immigrants into Europe.. and allowed them to rampage.. that it may be used as another pretext to engage the violent Palestinian slaughter and expulsion catastrophe, using the false mantra trotted out ad infinitum of Jewish victimhood.

By the way, those same forces responsible for all the current invasions and carnage were also behind the Jewish holocaust that served as one of the earliest pretexts for hijacking the land.

... and, no, Israel is not a democracy..

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

You All have only yourselves to blame ! We went through the 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s and were labeled Racist Haters Nazis and all the rest of that boulabaise ! Simply for pointing out what a surprising Element was Doing to (Us) ! and You without a scintilla of a Clue did you ever glean ! The Chickens have come Home to Roast !

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Neil Rivalland's avatar

Geert Wilders is either controlled opposition or fast asleep. It's the globalists, who are Zionists, that are permitting Muslim migration to the West that has been going on since WWII, and has intensified since the Arab Spring in 2011. The same migration scenario is happening at the US southern border, and was itensified under the Biden administration. You may ask how that is possible. Its possible because Zionists control the politicians of European countries as well as US politicians. Its time to stop illegal immigration into the US otherwise it's going the same way as Europe.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

You’ve put it in ‘Plain Language’ kimosabe

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Steven Goldsmith MD's avatar

I agree and disagree with Mr. Wilders. Yes, the unrestricted immigration of Muslims into culturally incompatible Western European societies is a stupid, seemingly suicidal policy abetted by globalist scum in order to destroy Western nation-states and their cultures and thereby reshape the world. But to focus on Muslims as the villains is to miss the bigger picture. The globalists who pull the strings are manipulating us so that we hate, fight with, and destroy each other (Muslims vs. Jews, red states vs blue states, blacks vs. whites, etc.), creating chaos and anarchy, which are like mother's milk to globalists who want to "Build Back Better" to achieve totalitarian world gov't. Don't be sucked into being their pawns.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

We won’t argue with That ! The self-styled elite have always aimed for an ewetopia as long as history accords in their script’oral accounts

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Roger Beal's avatar

The jihadis will eventually come for the globalists, too. The globalists are too arrogant to grasp this truth.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

jihadis” ? That has been one hades of a Twisted [Verb]

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Martin - Vetenskapliga partiet's avatar

Yes. Indeed, and some call the ones who pull the strings "Jews", but they are not.

"9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%203%3A9&version=NKJV

Also beware, that all calling themselves Christians or Muslims, are not, but are psychopaths working for the bank mafia, in order to create chaos and conflict!

Psychopaths beware! You have no idea what you are doing! Satan will throw you, and your children too, under the bus! https://odysee.com/@DollarVigilante:b/KARMA-Evil-YouTube-VIDEO-1080p:a

The truth is that Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in peace in Palestine, before Satan's Nazi Zionist arrived. There are Nazi Zionist coins celebrating the Nazi swastika. Probably no coincidence.

Nazi Zionists probably murdered Jews together with Hitler, as well, and they are probably doing it again: https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/meanwhile-in-israel-8-year-old-vaccine

The wars are both money laundering rackets and diversions away from the democide:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

No one Today would recognise those who were and [were] !!

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Martin - Vetenskapliga partiet's avatar

Do we even recognize ourselves at this moment?

A message from Mrs. Wallace:

https://rumble.com/v5b11vf-a-message-from-mrs.-wallace.html

Be strong, Mr Thomas!

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Amy Harlib's avatar

Please get it through your thick skulls - ZIONISM AND THE GOV'T OF ISRAEL ARE ENTIRELY SEPARATE FROM BEING JEWISH! ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTI-SEMITISM! I AM SO SICK OF THIS CRAP! I am Jewish and I loathe that convicted criminal Netanyahu, the corrupt gov't of Israel and the Zionist settler-colonialist imperial project of genociding the Palestinians.

The wretched equating of Israel/Zionism with Jewishness makes non-Jews hate real Jews like me even more, which is cutting off your nose to spite your face!

WE ARE ALL GAZANS NOW! Peggy Hall's commonsensical reasonable and logical ONE STATE solution is the only thing that can actually work! https://peggyhall.substack.com/p/a-radical-remedy-to-the-israeli-conflict

Can't say this often enough! STOP BEING PLAYED - TARGET THE PUPPETMASTERS WHO WANT US AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS - ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS AS THEY PROFIT FROM DEATH AND DESTRUCTION! What is happening in Gaza is the globalist WEFFERS plan for the entire world!

THEY want you dead or a slave every which way from Sunday and actual kinetic warfare ops are major components in THEIR arsenal.

ISRAEL: A pox on both their houses! Recommend Scott Ritter's detailed and incisive essay: https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel

THIS STINKS OF PSYCHO GLOBALIST PARASITE FALSE FLAG OPS TO KEEP THE PROLES KILLING EACH OTHER WHILE THEY (THE RULING SCUM) PLOT TOTAL SLAVERY. AND THEIR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GROWS RICHER AND RICHER!

Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant parasites are perpetrating!

Try checking out THE GRAYZONE; THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA; IF AMERICANS KNEW; GARLAND NIXON for starters and STOP believing the lies of the Zionist/corporate/technocrat controlled media!

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

Admit ! The majority of those you know as those who freely admit among those who say they Are.. Admit to Zionism if only [privy!!]

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Pieter Bootsman's avatar

How wrong a Zionistische lover can be!!

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Porkpie's avatar

This is simply Zionist supremacist propaganda. Obviously Israel is not a protection of Europe against Muslims. Israel isd a dependent state on USA and NATO military and economic support. It is a violent military apartheid supremacist regime

illegally occupying the land of indigenous people.

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Marie-Claude Joly's avatar

If you speak French, this is the most thorough, brilliant yet frightening analysis. Alexis Cossette-Trudel was censored during his live last Sunday. He had to do his webjournal again on Monday. He is a brilliant PhD in religion science and semiology. He’s the Robert Langdon of Quebec. On his Telegram channel, you can also find his recent analysis on the Olympic Games. Brilliant!!!

https://t.me/radio_quebec/2992

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Antonia Lhamo's avatar

Excuse me, but please note that Palestinians are NOT the aggressors, it appears that if there is a "jihad" then it is Israel who fired those shots, it is Israel whose people--European Jews-- began life 76 years ago by brutally forcing Palestinians out of their homes and off the land of their ancestors and it is Israeli "settlers" today who are with guns in hand continue killing and forcing Palestinians off their land and burning their ancient olive orchards.

Indeed, you might keep in mind that Palestinians were NOT responsible for the holocaust. FACTS.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

Don’t Rankle Us with the reprehensible..

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Kiera's avatar

"Israel" is ESAU not Jacob-Israel. Europeans are Jacob, "jews" are Esau. The term "european jew" is a conundrum.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

British izraelie’ism

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Kiera's avatar

The Israelites are scattered, what God has scattered, He will gather.

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Lookout's avatar

That's not really relevant to the issue Geert is addressing, nor to the reality the West will face.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

Is the White Man facing some imminent something or other ? are you suggesting something fearfully negatory for all the Good folks i know and grew up with . .

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Lookout's avatar

You have to keep in mind, with everything going on, that the underlying globalist plot of culling the population down to 0.5 billion remains the driver of all policies. Massive immigration of neanderthal Muslims into the West is meant to destroy Christianity & moral values in order to further their objective. This is what visionaries like Geert have seen for years. It also explains the actions of Starmer in the UK, who is a WEF puppet & satanist fulfilling the globalist agenda.

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Antonia Lhamo's avatar

extraordinary but these days ORDINARY

actions create results, LOOK at what we are supporting, LOOK at all those arms we have pointed and who we have targeted. ALL CONNECTED

division weakens us all. take a stand for life.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

Consider just Who Orchestrates these Blood-Letting Rituals we’ve experienced over these Many many Decades . .Wars of Attrition to Any One who even seems to obscure their pathway to acquiesce . .

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Ralph DeVane's avatar

First, you need to separate the Muslim people from the Islamic ideology. All one has to do is read the over 100 verses in the Qur'an dictating how Muslims living in Muslim controlled areas are to treat non Muslims. Non Muslims first are given the option to convert to Islam. If they refuse to do so, they are then given the option to pay a protection tax, If they refuse to do so, then they are killed. What has Israel to gain by starting riots in Gaza? A good percentage of their Knesset is Muslim. It makes no sense. Islamists have done a good job in portraying Muslims as victims when it just the opposite.

It's important to have a basic understanding of Islam itself that has tried to brand itself as the Religion of Peace, when it is actually the opposite. History is replete with examples of Islamic aggression, dating back almost to its beginning.

The New World was discovered because European countries that had used the Silk Road to trade with Asian countries was taken over by Muslim pirates, so an alternate route was sought.

During Thomas Jefferson's term the U.S. Marines had to go rescue U.S. hostages in Libya, which was memorialized in the Marine battle hymn. Jefferson read the Qur'an and warned about it's policy towards non Muslims. In determining how tolerant a society is, all one has to do is look at Muslim controlled countries to see how non Muslims are treated.

There is a saying "The problem with Christianity is Christians" (not following the Golden Rule). Based on Islamic ideology, towards non Muslims one could conclude that the problem with Islam is not Muslims, but Islam itself. There is no Golden Rule in Islam in any of their three holy books. According to them. Al Quaida and ISIS would be observant Muslims.

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thomas mac./john a.'s avatar

Which brand are you even dissecting here? Perhaps you are mixing up the sayings/gossip if you Will with the correct comprehension of an ancient yet still Holy Ouran !

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Kiera's avatar

Esau said he would use Ishmael as his iron broom to "sweep" out the children of Jacob-Israel from Europe, which incidentally means Hebrew. (Eber/Hebrew/Europe)

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Athena's avatar

Some additional information incl. from "Jewish" sources (the term itself is misleading).

https://vigilante.tv/w/ihN5rY4ustxT92Nzsvyut4

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Kiera's avatar

The truth is that ESAU set up the "world wars" in order to genocide the children of Jacob-Israel and steal the land. Ezekiel 25.12-14, Ezekiel 33.24-39, Ezekiel 35.10, Ezekiel 36, John 8.44, Matthew 21.

Esau is going to fool the whole world with his "moshiach". Rev 13.3

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Dog's avatar

Congratulations losers - you have fallen for iranian propaganda. You deserve you muslim overlords.

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Athena's avatar

You are one to accuse others of falling for propaganda, truly... Did you actually look at Jeff's podcast where he cites mostly Jewish sources?

By the way, I have a degree in media and propaganda.

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