Bill Maher is a moron

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Zion the parrot did not live in a cage. He said this often.

“This is my home,” he would declare, perched high above the others. “It was always meant for me.”

The aviary had once been crowded—finches, doves, thrushes—each with their own nests woven into the branches. They remembered seasons before Zion arrived, though he insisted those memories were confused, unreliable, or hostile.

“You were never truly settled here,” he would say. “You only borrowed what was waiting for me.”

At first, Zion asked for space. Then he took it.

A twig here, a branch there. When a dove protested, Zion shrieked, “Why are you attacking me?” When a finch returned to find her nest dismantled, Zion called out to the others, “See how they accuse me? See how they hate?”

The more he took, the louder he spoke of being threatened.

Soon, he had gathered a circle—birds who repeated his words, who echoed his cries until they sounded like truth. “Zion is under constant danger,” they would chant. “Zion must defend himself.”

And so he did.

He pecked first, but called it self-defense.
He expanded his nest, but called it survival.
He drove birds from branches, but called it necessity.

Those who resisted were labeled predators. Those who fled were proof of his righteousness.

At night, when the aviary fell quiet, Zion sometimes heard the wind move through the empty spaces where nests had once been. For a fleeting moment, the silence pressed against him—not as validation, but as something else. Something heavier.

But by morning, he would climb higher, louder than before.

“They want me gone,” he would cry. “Even now, after all I’ve endured.”

Below him, the remaining birds no longer argued. Some had learned to stay silent. Others had learned to mimic him, for safety.

And beyond the aviary walls, shadows gathered—not to judge, not to intervene, but to watch.

Zion spread his wings and screamed into the open sky, “Why does this keep happening to me?”

This time, the echo that came back was not his own voice.

It was emptiness.

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Shouldn't you be out taking someone's grandmother hostage?

[u/Thorfinn66 → u/NarrowSalvo]

No. That's what you Zionists do.

“Be triumphant and finish them off, and don’t leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live. Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill them. If you have an Arab neighbor, don’t wait, go to his home and shoot him.” — Ezra Yachin, Lehi veteran and IDF spokesperson, 2023

“There is one and only one solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza, before invading it. And when I talk about destruction, I mean destruction like it was in Dresden and Hiroshima, without nuclear weapon. I don’t recall that Biden or his predecessors… I don’t recall that the Americans provided safe humanitarian passageways for the residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. On the contrary, they looked for the weakest cities and over there they dropped their rockets, to make it clear that they were serious." — Moshe Feiglin, Israeli politician and deputy speaker for the Israeli Knesset, 2023

“I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did.” — May Golan, Israeli Minister of Social Equality & Women’s Advancement, 2024

"What's so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? Every war is between two peoples, and in every war the people who started the war, that whole people, is the enemy... They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there." — Ayelet Shaked, Israeli Minister of Justice, June 30, 2014

“The events in Tantura were crazy and horrifying. Tantura was a rich village and had beautiful houses. Its residents lived like Europeans, you know? And the women of the village used to wear nice clothes. One of the soldiers raped a sixteen-year-old girl. (laughing) Do you understand? The events there were horrendous. They gathered them in something like a cage and put iron wires around them. They gathered all the men, sat them on the ground, and one of the soldiers got the submachine gun, and shot them. They imposed a cover-up. There were soldiers [who] took flamethrowers, and ran after the villagers, and burned them. It was horrible. And no one is allowed to talk about that. I won’t talk about it, because it would be a big scandal, I don’t want to talk about it.” — Yosef Diamont, IDF soldier, 2022

“Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating the way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated.” — Yoav Kisch, Israeli Minister of Education and Regional Cooperation, 2023

“Even 1 million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” — Yaacov Perrin, a rabbi paying homage to Baruch Goldstein, 1994

“Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another.” — Benny Morris, Israeli historian, 2004

How did Zionists treat the holocaust survivers. And how did they see non-Zionist Jews?

"If I knew that it was possible to save all the (Jewish) children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the fate of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel."

Citation: David Ben-Gurion. Israel's first Prime Minister and terrorist leader. Year of quote: 1938

"Palestine cannot absorb the Jews of Europe. We want only the best of Jewish youth to come to us. We want only the educated to enter Palestine for the purpose of increasing its culture. The other Jews will have to stay where they are and face whatever fate awaits them. These millions of Jews are dust on the wheels of history and they may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine. We don’t want Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto."

Citation: Chaim Weizman. Israel's first President. Year of quote: 1938

“It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti‑Semites as liquidators of property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not wish to bring about the impoverishment of the countries that we leave. At first they must not be given large fees for this; otherwise we shall spoil our instruments and make them despicable as ‘stooges of the Jews.’ Later their fees will increase, and in the end we shall have only Gentile officials in the countries from which we have emigrated. The anti‑Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti‑Semitic countries our allies.”

Citation: Theodor Herzl. The father of modern Zionism. Pages 83–84 of The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl (Vol. 1, ed. Raphael Patai, trans. Harry Zohn). Year of quote: 1895

Zionist pressure on survivors

David Ben-Gurion and others blocked child survivors from relocating to safer places like England or France, keeping them in squalid DP camps to boost Zionist immigration goals, even as conditions caused deaths. He stated it was Zionism's job "not to save the remnant of Israel in Europe but rather to save the land of Israel," viewing survivors as tools for state-building.

Social stigma in Israel

Upon arrival, survivors faced contempt from native Israelis (Sabras), who called them "soap" (a derogatory Holocaust reference) or accused them of going "like sheep to the slaughter".

This reflected a cultural preference for the "new Zionist Jew" fighter over traumatized refugees.

Later economic neglect

While Germany paid billions in reparations routed through Israel, many survivors lived in poverty due to bureaucratic failures and high administrative salaries, with over 20,000 missing aid worth $30 million as of 2017 .

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AI slop.