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Ben Shapiro - “Israel’s War is a Just War”

Filed with Sources, Books & Media (MOC) · Related: 60.1 Israel-Palestine · Key Arguments (MOC)

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  • Israel Palestine MOC + Timeline

    • People’s reactions since they aren’t used to seeing war so closely due to social media
    • Causes countries to go faster because people don’t have the stomach for war in their faces
    • Gaza outcome: Israel military control and Palestinian civil control
    • Protests are about Israel, their about the evils of the West
      • The omni-cause
      • Coalition of people that feel oppressed by the evil West
    • Left-wing Anti-semitism
      • Anti-system argument
        • Everybody that preforms less well is a victim of that system
        • Failure is evidence of exploitation
        • Suffering = victimization at the hands of a higher power
    • Jews values education and therefore are successful

  • Right wing antisemitism

    • The War of the Worlds book
      • Genocidal feelings, attack on minorities happens during times of high economy uncertainly and empires on collapse and high populations of minorities

  • Fukayama vs Samual Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations

    • Fukayama: Liberal flowering
    • Huntington: West apologetic of its past that it receded from worlds stage

  • Isolationism

    • Not rooted in traditional
      • Rest of the world is really bad and we don’t want to get involved
    • Post-WWII left wing argument, backed by Soviet
      • America is force for bad in the world
        • Howard Zinn argument
    • Vietnam War
      • Better for US to stay but bad idea to go in initally
    • Iraq War
      • Same as Vietnam
    • South Korea
      • Example of America fight a war, having a dictatorship until the 1980s, and now its flourishing
    • Where ever American regressed from a region, it tends to get much worse
    • Bunch of places America isn’t involved and their terrible

  • What is a Man?

    • Perform virtuous acts in your community
    • Marketable skill to make a living
    • Learn to protect and defend yourself and family
    • Get married and commit to one woman
    • Have a family
    • Passing on eternal values to children
    • Build a community with accordance to your values

  • Overton Window

    • Left went so far closing it, Right wanted it completely open and to explode it
    • Whatever the left thinks is important, the right immediately hates it
    • The Left is deciding what the Right will love and hate if they do the opposite

  • Andrew Tate strategy

    • Saying one truth thing and one absurd thing
      • And if you say thats absurd, he’ll attack you on why you saying my truth thing is wrong
      • “Men are different from women…and thats why men should bone 1000 women”
        • “You don’t like boning 1000 women because you don’t think men are different from men”
    • Sales tactic: I’m standing up for you but I offer you no actual obligation
      • Validation without responsibility

  • Just asking question is a game from children

  • Hayek idea that institutions are build up over centuries and important

  • Transgressiveism

  • Religion

    • Many people going around
    • Rousseau’s Emile: Just go to the forest and free yourself
      • Bad set of values

  • Internet is a crowd in search of a purpose

  • Turn off your phone and get off social media

  • Breakdown of everything is due to not building communities centered around values

  • Go to church even before you believe in it

  • Do the act of virtue makes you virtuous

    • Aristotelian

  • You can’t walk around as a free radical and hope that the values are suddenly going to hit you in the head

  • What’s holding people together when nobody have anything in common anymore?