Hi everybody this is God Sad Sunday evening two days after my birthday I had

hoped very much to be away from all of the craziness on social media. I was successful in doing it for the day of my

birthday, Friday, October 13th, but since I've been sucked in to all sorts of issues.

So today I thought I would just weigh in or summarize some of the positions that I took today on social media,

and maybe expand on some of these.

So first I had a exchange with Michael Reckonwald,

who is very much of an anti-walk professor. He's been on my show and I recently went on his.

And I was, I had put up a survey wherein I asked people, you know, if you had to choose between living in Gaza or living in Tel Aviv,

let's say, which would you prefer?

And of course what I meant by that is not today if you had to move. I meant it as a which of the two societies and the values that are enshrined

within those two societies would you prefer to be a part of. But Michael apparently chose to ignore what the obvious gist of my

question was and he answered in a rather aggressive manner given the fact that we know each other personally and I consider

him certainly a friend or friendly he said you know what is the sophistry? You know, the Palestinians are being eradicated in concentration

camps and it's a, you know, disproportionate force that Israel is using and so on.

And so I had responded to that,

and which got me to weigh in very briefly

on the issue of proportionality.

So just generally speaking, so let's suppose that someone attacks you with a you know a bunch of people

attacks you with knives or with a samurai and you have a gun and you shoot them,

then should people say,

well, that wasn't really fair because they came at you

with a machete with a Molotov cocktail,

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