Isaac Choua
@ChouaIsaac
Board Member @SephardicBrothe | חָכָֿם הַדּוֹר | Opinions are my own
"I have no enemies, O God, but if I am to have an enemy, Let his strength be equal to mine, That truth alone may be the victor." - Gibran Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam.
I just took my sons - abroad - for a Moroccan dinner in a Moroccan restaurant bedecked in Moroccan flags designed in Moroccan style serving Moroccan food. Playing Moroccan music. Later - too late - my investigative eldest son revealed that it was in fact an Israeli restaurant.…
I just took my sons - abroad - for a Moroccan dinner in a Moroccan restaurant bedecked in Moroccan flags designed in Moroccan style serving Moroccan food. Playing Moroccan music. Later - too late - my investigative eldest son revealed that it was in fact an Israeli restaurant.…
🇵🇸 Why is Mahmoud Abbas still treated as the legitimate representative of the Palestinians when he hasn’t faced an election since before the first iPhone? In 2006, Hamas won 74 out of 132 seats in the legislative elections. Fatah won 45. The result triggered a crisis. Instead of…
I'll start from the "God aspect" since someone noted it elsewhere in the thread, and I might as well address that before everything else, as it's foundational. This isn't about a "divine right." Even in Jewish courts, a "Bath Qol" (Voice of God) wouldn't hold up. Why would the…
The Biblical one? Promised 4000 years ago?
It doesn't actually matter where you stand politically. So I guess it's just...
This is just the beginning of the backlash against Israel. The genocide and starvation have made Israel completely toxic. It’s going to get SO much worse. Oh well.
It's telling that it's more controversial for the Nelk Boys to host Netanyahu than Tucker Carlson to host Putin or the Iranian president.
We will be giving the other side the opportunity to speak on next episode
I'm so old I wrote that! That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it work on RISC, and so on. Success has…
Are you this old?
Today is Emma Lazarus's 176th birthday. I wrote a bit about her here and her poem.
When you strip a poem from its historical and cultural context, you end up saying things like this. Emma Lazarus wrote The New Colossus in 1883, not as an open-borders slogan, but as an affirmation of what America was at the time: a land of opportunity, not handouts. There was…
Mohannad Mobile apparently continues to sell new cellphones in Khan Younes Mawasi, South Gaza Strip. This is a compilation of posts from the last few days. Sales of 3 phones: Redmi 14c for 3400 shekels; Redmi 13 for 3100 shekels; Tecno 30 (no price given). Timestamps: 6 hours…
Abu Zeina buys a new Redmi Note 14 pro+, in the box, from Mohannad Mobile, Khan Younes Mawasi. He pays 5500 shekels ($1647) in cash. The box includes the sticker of the official Israeli importer. This phone model was released in January 2025. Timestamp: 13 hours ago…
Well I don't think they go to Synagogue. They switched up sanctuaries for protest rituals. Shema' for [Insert in Vogue Item]
Biggest suckers on the planet
Understanding “ʿAse Lekha Raḇ”: make for yourself a mentor (Mishna Aḇoth 1:6). יְהוֹשֻעַ בֶּן פְּרַחְיָה וְנִתַּאי הָאַרְבֵּלִי קִבְּלוּ מֵהֶם. יְהוֹשֻעַ בֶּן פְּרַחְיָה אוֹמֵר: עֲשֵׂה לְךָ רַב, וּקְנֵה לְךָ חָבֵר, וֶהֱוֵי דָן אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם לְכַף זְכוּת. 1. ʿAse lekha…
The most mysterious group of people. The Druze. I grew up around them. They were family friends. As a kid, I didn't fully understand what they believed in and who they were. And they wouldn't share. But I understood one thing: they were the most peaceful group of humans I…