We hear this statement all the time, often spammed throughout subs under an anti-Israel video, or during debates. It is accompanied with the notion that calling critics of Israel antisemitic is a silencing tactic meant to hide Israel's crimes against humanity and serve as a diversion from the plight of the Palestinians. The idea that Jews are "invoking the Holocaust" to justify persecution and have a "victim complex" comes up very frequently. I just wanted to make a post summarizing my thoughts about just how misguided this sentiment is, as an armament to those of you who frequently encounter it. Feel free to criticize or add to it.

1: The level of criticism leveraged against Israel is completely disproportionate to the wrongdoings of Israel. This will often be countered with claims of "whataboutism." The reality is, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the lowest-scale conflicts on Earth. The amount of people who die in the conflict pales in comparison to almost all other modern conflicts, including many that few have ever heard of, and pretty much all the ones that people have heard of. The level of humanitarian crisis and oppressive policy caused by the Israeli government, doesnt match that ongoing in many parts of the world, that again gets very little attention. There are hundreds of "ethnostates" in the world and the Palestinians demand one of their own, yet the only ethnostate in the world worth attacking as an ethnostate is Israel.

The problem with the "whataboutism" retort is that the invocation and critique of Israel, both online, in the real world, in student governments, by actual governments, on any single piece of content made by a Jew anywhere on the internet or in a scholarly setting, and down to what people say when they first meet a Jew, is extremely disproportionate, to a level way beyond people who aren't Jewish can imagine without living our experience. Yes, "this post is about Israel, stop with the whataboutism" is a good argument in a vacuum. When every 2 days a heavily upvoted top reddit post is a video specifically designed to portray Israelis as evil, and you have entire news networks, websites, and organizations devoted to diverting all conversation about war/racism/healthcare/financial inequality/trans rights/feminism/video games/artwork to attacks and boycotts on Israel, that argument becomes weaker and weaker.

2: The nature of criticism leveraged at Israel is completely out of proportion to that done on other cou

I was trying to make a list of all Georgian monarchs ever, under monarchs I mean everyone, including kings of separated and divided Georgian territories and their self-proclaimed kings, and including tribal leaders of the early period.

Also, in case this gets reposted, I don't want to share just names and what they did, I want people to understand the timeline and what were these states where these people ruled, so we start from there, with a small overview of general proto-Georgian states that were settled by Georgians for many thousands of years and even beyond that, tribal settlements already existed 200 000 years ago, exactly in the surroundings of where are major Georgian cities today, early proto-Georgian states were first mentioned in 1200 BC by the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I, it seems that Diauehi - დიაოხი (1200 BC - 750 BC), was counter-attacking the king. There is the Kingdom of Colchis - კოლხიდა / ეგრისი (1300 BC - 164 BC) which eventually absorbed Diauehi as the union of proto-Georgian tribes. Meanwhile, in the East of Georgia, the Kingdom of Iberia (302 BC - 580 AD) is taking shape under the first Georgian dynasty of Kings. Under Roman rule, Colchis transformed into Lazica - ლაზიკა / ეგრისი (131 AD - 697 AD). After Lazica and Iberia, Georgians were seeking ways to unite the dynasty, Tao-Klarjeti, Abkhazia, Kartli, all were taking part in the game of thrones. Finally, the second major dynasty of Kings was able to unite all Georgian tribes within the Kingdom of Georgia (1008 - 1490), after devastating attacks Kingdom was divided into small duchies who all claimed to be kings of Georgia, such as the Kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti, and Imereti. Until 1810, when Russian Empire abolished the Georgian monarchy.

To be honest, I didn't check the limit that actually exists for a Reddit post, it's 40000 characters, and I did over 80000 so had to trim it a bit, but I think I have provided information for anyone who had an impact and actually did something beneficial or had an impact but did something awful, you can find all the game of thrones here. I will post both parts at the same time and will link both parts to each other.

Diauehi

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

PART 2: THE LONG AND TUMULTUOUS SHARED HISTORY OF ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS

This is Part 2-D-ε, the direct continuation of 2-D-δ, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AttackOnRetards/comments/rfoxhb/continuation_of_my_previous_posts_about_the/

2-D: THE OTHER ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

2-D-ε: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ROMANIA

ANTIQUITY (Wikipedia expands on this)

Greek colonies established on the Black Sea coast in the 7th century BC became important centres of commerce with the local tribes. Among the native peoples, Herodotus listed the Getae of the Lower Danube region, the Agathyrsi of Transylvania and the Syginnae of the plains along the river Tisza at the beginning of the 5th century BC. Centuries later, Strabo associated the Getae with the Dacians who dominated the lands along the southern Carpathian Mountains in the 1st century BC. Burebista was the first Dacian ruler to unite the local tribes. He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring peoples as far as the Middle Danube and the Balkan Mountains between around 55 and 44 BC. After Burebista was murdered in 44 BC, his kingdom collapsed.

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The Romans reached Dacia during Burebista's reign and conquered Dobruja in 46 AD. Dacia was again united under Decebalus around 85 AD. He resisted the Romans for decades, but the Roman army defeated his troops in 106 AD. Emperor Trajan transformed Banat, [Oltenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Since "Liturgy" is not synonymous to "Genetics", a thing that the Jews today sadly do not know, and because the Ashkenazi rite had took over Europe as a whole in the 16th Century (Yiddish replaced many smaller local Jewish languages) while Sephardic rites took over the Oriental World (sans Yemen, mostly); I find myself write this post for any Jews interested. I will mention each diasporal group by their demographic weight:

1. Eastern European Jews - The Jews who sat from Russia in the East to the realms of the Polish Border are not stemmed mostly/only of the Ashkenazim who settled in Medieval Northern France and Germany. These Jews are recorded to have set all over these lands all along since the 2nd Century AD and have been around and kicking while Ashkenaz was still a functioning Jewish Culture. They are estimated by Cecil Roth in 1969 to be twice (if not more, by others) in size than the Ashkenazim by the year 1500. It may be that they're mostly descendants of Jews who fled from Turkey in the 7th Century and later from Iraq and Persia, where half of the Jews had settled in exile and were mostly found at till the 12th Century AD. There is a reason to suspect some may be of Khazar descent, as well as descendants of locals who married into the Jewish communities throughout the region (as in any Jewish diaspora). The reason why people today have German sounding surnames is that their ancestors have lived under the Austro-Hungarian Empire that forced all it's surnames-lacking residents to adopt names in the German language which the rulership used (the higher you paid, the better name you have got from the clerks; "Stine" and "Berg" were among the cheapest as far as I know, while flowers cost more..) between 1787 to 1831. These folks eventually migrated during the 17th Century and onwards westwards to the other part of Europe and their descendants became part of the newly established Jewish communities in Austria, Germany, France and beyond (Dutch Jews, for instance, were found to be genetically distant as heck from German Jews but closer to both EEJ and Dutch Non-Jews). There are 2 recorded clusters amongst European Jews, one is probably what was the one which stemmed from the historic Ashkenazic (sadly no Archaeogenetic study was conducted that I'm aware of..) and the other is from the Eastern European Jews who adopted the name "Ashkenazim" later on.
2. Sephardim - The descendant of the Iberian Jews. They were estimated to have been at above 400,000 by

Do your worst!

I do some googling for fun sometimes.

It never ceases to amaze me how study after study confirms that Ashkenazim are generally a mix of paternal Levantine and maternal South Mediterranean, but the most common results will literally go from ‘new research sheds light on mysterious Turko-Slavic origins of the Ashkenazim’ to straight up segwaying into the Khazar theory. (Why is that? Are they getting the most attention from the ‘anti-Zionist-not-antisemitic’ crowd and the algorithm does the rest?) No wonder so many people are susceptible to insane conspiracies about our origins if this is the top result.

I’m trying to make sense of it - and I suppose I understand that many people have a vested stake in such theories, and that for others, it’s an opportunity to put out an academic theory that’s a bit different and will make them stand out - but I’ve never understood how and why large groups of European/miscellaneous people would adopt the Hebrew alphabet and religion just because, unless they already had a deep link to it. People bringing up such brazen theories would really need to look at nations like, say, the Irish, who are struggling to take their own language back into common use - but some linguists out there are arguing that some Turkic people took on Hebrew just cause?

Or, people trying to discredit shared Ashkenazi ancestry, how does that not embarrass their common sense on a public stage? I mean, if virtually all Ashkenazim are distant cousins, it’s impossible for us not to have common ancestry, and that’s simple enough that even a non-academic would be seriously lacking in basic logic to not understand.

I guess it matters to me because my worst experience of anti semitism was from someone whom I’d considered a friend (no longer), who one night just started spewing Louis Farrakhan style rants about ‘European’ Jews not being real Jews, and Jews not having the same rights as other ethnic groups (cause not an ethnic group, or something). Do people not get alarm bells going off in their heads when non-Jews engage in research that is solely and deeply invested in discrediting Jewish people hood? To end on a Mariah Carey note, ‘why are you so obsessed with me?’

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

I won't be doing that today!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap