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Farming under fire: VICTIMS OF 1 YEAR OF CEASEFIRE - List of Palestini...: The funeral of martyr Mahmoud Jarghoun  Since November 22, 2012, 11 Palestinians have been killed and at least 122 Palestinians...

I don't know why the article again and again claims strong support for Israel among US population like an article of faith. Everybody knows that majority of US voters have little knowledge on the situation in Palestine, thanks to rabidly "pro-Israel" media, and their support for the Apartheid State is in many cases as shallow as their knowledge.

Ask whether they support Israel and you get big numbers in favour of the Apartheid State, but ask whether they are ready to spend another trillion dollars and 5000 US lives to fight Iran in behalf of Israel and the numbers will change.

It's easy to support evil when you are a)denied evidence that what you support is evil and b)there's no price to be paid for doing so. Add a price and support plummets.

Against the Law

In turning towards organizing practices designed to work in the American context and on nationalist terms, the Left often neglects these anticolonial principles and seeks out Jewish voices to validate Palestinian claims. In turn, it privileges Jewish discourse, anxieties, and histories in ways that marginalize Palestinians in their own struggle. At its least productive, the exclusion of Palestinian community voices from both popular narratives and organizing treats the question of Palestine as an intra-Jewish problem. In turn, this prods activists to organize for Palestinian rights under the Jewish state, towards multiculturalism and tolerance rather than justice, towards a better colonialism rather than the end of colonialism.

It should be allowed to questioned, like any events in history, but as an anti-Zionist and a trained historian I have to say that the gas chambers are a proven fact.

There are some questions about number of casualties. 6 million deaths is not set in stone, but it's proven that at least 5.1 million people identified by the Nazis or their own authorities in demographics as Jewish died in World War II.

We also know that the number is higher than 5.1 million, but because the information from Soviet Union - where Nazis would often just gather Jews up and kill them when they conquered a village or town, without bothering to make records of their victims - especially has large differences in estimates, an exact number can never be established.

The main problem that I see with the Nazi genocide of Jewish, Roma and other minorities is that the public gets their view of it from fiction - books, movies and TV - which tend to concentrate on aspects that often give a distorted view of what happened.

Instead of "industrialized genocide" it was especially in the Eastern Front "normal" genocide. Larger amount - at least 1.3 million - of Jewish victims were probably shot than died in gas chambers (at least 900 000).

People were burned, hanged and drowned and at least 1.5 million died of famine and disease in concentration camps, work camps and ghettos.

Time, when seen as a chain of events, is not an illusion. Physicists tend to forget other subjects than their own which put limits on what can actually happen.

Whether its a star or a human being, there is a deliberate chain of events that must happen for them to come into being and that chain of events goes back to the beginning of the universe. Paul Davies could not have come into existence before 3.5 billion years of evolution on Earth, his place in this chain of events that is time is set, not an illusion he holds.

The same is true for changing the direction of the flow of time. In very simple models of universes made of only elementary particles it could happen, but in more complicated universe like ours you can't put a star that exploded ten billion years ago back together or raise dead people from their graves.

Universe is not a video that can be just rewind. For that to happen, every bit of information from the history of the universe would have to be stored in the universe itself somehow and the more complex the universe, the more amount of information would be needed to be stored.

Macro-level events and objects in a universe also put constraints on the micro-level realm of particles. The micro-level of particles is not more "real" or the only one that matters when considering the nature of the universe and time. The universe is based on them, but the more complex universe they create, the more the micro-level is constrained by the macro-level.

Complex universe orders itself in a manner that severely constricts what is possible in it. That includes the concept of time.

Time arises from this necessary need for order in a complex universe, where events can't have random chain of events or there would be no complexity. Time and complexity are thus intertwined.