Thread by @nntaleb

1) You can't BS w/history.
Two Groups of refugees came to Lebanon. 1) Armenians & 2) Palestinians.
Armenians tried to give more than they took.
Palestinians tried to "liberate" their land by taking over Lebanon & exterminate Christians as "Crusaders/representatives of West".

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2) It was a declared objective for Arafat that "the road to Jerusalem goes through (Maronite stronghold) Jounieh".

3) In 100 years of Armenian presence in Lebanon, all you hear are reports of an industrious community that tried to help.
As to Palestinians' model: biting the hands that fed them HAS BEEN their modus operandi.
They did the same in Koweit, siding w/Saddam against their hosts.

4) I am a child of the Lebanese civil war.
Before the war I had been stopped by Palestinian at roadblocks & received gratuitous abuse by their "soldiers" simply because I was a 15 year old Lebanese (Christian). It was common. We were FED up

#Skininthegame not some pseudolib BS.

5) I am tired of people pointing to doctored-up Wikipedia pages of massacres AGAINST Palestinians, downplaying the trigger of first POGROMS (s.a. Damour) BY Palestininans?
Similar to the Syrian war propaganda making it look like Evil gov vs Jihadi Saints.

6) Let me reexplain.

I am a localist, a la Swiss, pro-subsidiarity; pple have the right to self-organize; be neighbors not roommates & let their municipality run its affairs; I am anti repressive top-down universalist system.

Left/Right classifications are for pol-sci idiots.

7a) This anti-abstract, anti-monoscale, and anti-power against citizens and groups, is the theme of the (finally discounted) next book.

amazon.com/Skin-Game-Hidd…

7b) This said I think nobody should get involved into other people's problems unless there is skin in the game.

The Palestinians were victims of overall bad governance.

medium.com/incerto/peace-…

8) The thread started with a "cool" remark.

So being on the "left" and "pro-Palestinian" means condoning ethnic cleansing/ extermination, even genocide of Christian minorities in the Levant (not counting the Allawites and Shiites).

These are typical "left" wing Arabist values

9) Meanwhile there has to be a minority rule harming the Palestinians by contagion. They displace independent Palestinians such as @saifedean (libertarian/localist) who, as libertarians, have for ethical mission to be model citizens.