Why Bibi Paid Hamas

Why did Bibi pay Hamas over $1.8 billion using Qatari money? Why did the payments continue even though Israel clearly knew the money was going to Hamas' military arm? 

I can think of at least seven reasons. It allowed Israel to:

1. Genocide Gaza, the only area with higher TFR than Israel
2. Got Bibi out of corruption trials which threatened to bring down his government and put him in jail.
3. Gave Mossad the excuse to blow up Hezbollah pagers before Hezbollah traded the aging equipment out for newer equipment.
4. Permanently makes the Golan Heights part of Israel "for all eternity" after Israeli bombing campaign completely destroyed Syrian military (Operation Arrow of Bashan)
5. Invade Lebanon, razing Christian and Muslim villages on the border, and thus de facto annexing Lebanese territory.
6. Increase illegal settler activity in the West Bank, even though the West Bank had fuck all to do with any of this.
7. Kill Iranian leadership, whose activities Bibi had been actively lying about for 30 years just to get to this day.

Israel has long demonstrated its willingness to murder Jews as long as those Jewish corpses advanced Israeli national interests. This is the driving ideology behind the Hannibal Directive, a policy developed in 1986 and used on October 7. 

When invoking the Hannibal Directive, the Israeli government orders the IDF to kill Jews in order to reduce the problems the Israeli government might otherwise have to face. 

As Golda Meier would have said if she were capable of being honest, "We will not have peace until Jews love their children more than they love their politics."



For Further Reading
2021 Gaza TFR 3.44
2021 Israel TFR 2.98
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/pse/west-bank-and-gaza/fertility-rate

B'Tselem's Gaza Genocide Report
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide
Physicians for Human Rights Genocide Report
https://www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-in-gaza-eng/

Bibi's official residence becomes a fortress
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/middleeast/netanyahu-balfour-corruption.html

Naim Qassem says Lebanese terror group ‘didn’t know the supply chain had been exposed,’ suggests operatives’ growing suspicions about the beepers led Israel to detonate them

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-chief-admits-to-wildly-underestimating-israeli-capabilities-before-pager-blasts/

December 9, 2024 (Netanyahu press conference): He strongly reaffirmed Israeli sovereignty, stating that “the Golan Heights will be an inseparable part of the State of Israel forever” (also rendered as “for eternity”). https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-press091224 The Jerusalem Post (December 2024): “Israel taking action again [in] Syrian shows lesson learned from Oct. 7.” It argued that Israel would no longer “sit back and allow an enemy bent on destroying it to build up immediately on its border,” https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-833228

Israel plans to double its population in the occupied Golan Heights amid intensive airstrikes in Syria

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-syria-tartus-golan-heights-bombing-rcna184324

Times of Israel (March 23–24, 2026): Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (March 23, 2026): “The new Israeli border must be the Litani.” He said the campaign against Hezbollah “needs to end with a different reality entirely… with the change of Israel’s borders,” https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-litani-river-should-be-israels-new-border-with-lebanon/ 86 new outposts were established in 2025 alone (roughly 1–2 per week), according to EU and Peace Now data. The government approved plans for 54 new official settlements in 2025 (excluding East Jerusalem) — the highest number ever recorded in a single year. * https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-23/ty-article-static/.premium/erased-israeli-settlers-brutal-war-on-palestinian-communities-in-the-west-bank/00000199-4787-d6e0-a7fb-cfcfd0400000
* https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israeli-settler-outposts-now-control-nearly-fifth-of-west-bank-report-says/0000019f-3c51-d07c-af9f-fc5dd64c0000

Israel targets, may have killed dozens of Iranian leaders (February 28, 2026) https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888302

Christianity and Math as Religions

Mathematics originally started as a religion. Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean Brotherhood, a secretive, cult-like society where mathematics, music, and philosophy were treated as sacred religious doctrines aimed at purifying the soul.

When we remember this, we can also see that mathematics is the only religion that is experimentally demonstrated to be true. But the standard of "experimentalism" is itself a standard that is curiously bifurcated:

1. Math is not an experimental science, it is a formal science.
2. The truth of mathematics is demonstrated via experiment.
3. Christian theology is not an experimental science, it is a formal science.
4. Experimental science was created by Christian theologians, priests and bishops.

So, the (formerly religious) formal science of math, whose precepts are not demonstrated or determined by experiment, are the foundation for all the experimental sciences. The Christian religion, whose precepts are not demonstrated or determined by experiment, laid the foundations for all the experimental sciences. (1, 2, 3)

Huh.

Now, add this in: Medieval Catholic Europe strongly promoted the study of the trivium and the quadrivium. The trivium is grammar, logic and rhetoric, the quadrivium is arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. Every one of these seven disciplines are just different forms of math.

For grammar and rhetoric, AI chatbots have demonstrated that every human language can be reduced to a mathematical construct or model. All the words and word classifications can be reduced to numbers, the numbers sent through statistical algorithms to produce a different string of numbers, which are then converted back into words.

That's why AI chat bots are so good at writing. They never create ungrammatical sentences, they never misspell, because every language can be reduced to math, each word becomes a number, all the numbers are sequenced according to mathematical rules, one sequence of numbers can be answered by another sequence of numbers which can be turned back into words to form the answer. Every question you give a chat bot, every response it produces, all of it is fundamentally just numbers, algorithms, math.

For all of history, all the English and history teachers thought they were teaching humanities, but they were actually teaching math, formulas dressed up as words, sentences, paragraphs, poems and essays.

Logic, of course, is modal math: modal in subject, mathematical in method.

In the same way, all four elements of the quadrivium are nothing but math. Arithmetic and geometry are obviously so, while astronomy plots heavenly bodies moving through space and music is auditory mathematics.

Thus, medieval Christianity's emphasis on trivium and quadrivium is substantially just the original religion of math dressed up pretty. For a millennia at least, Christianity was really teaching seven versions of applied math, while laying the claim that these seven maths constituted the sum of all human knowledge. Perhaps not coincidentally, Christianity has a better understanding of persons and interpersonal relationships than any other worldview. Theology, like math, does not rely on experiments for proof, instead, like math, it starts with accepted propositions, then uses logic to derive additional truths that are consequent to the original propositions. Math was originally a religion, the core foundation of medieval Catholic instruction was math, and the medieval Catholic Church was the only civilization on earth to build experimental science. No other worldview managed to produce this particular practice.

The religion of math undergirds Catholic teaching, grounding the formal science of theology into the formal science of math, which is, itself, experimentally demonstrated to be the language of the universe. This makes Catholic Christianity more firmly grounded in reality than any other theology, at least in the sense that it is more grounded in mathematics, then any other prior or contemporaneous worldview.

Literacy: The Bible Warns Against It

Literacy is magic - a series of arcane rituals used as necromancy that allows you to listen to dead people.

Literacy is a psychedelic drug - it allows you to stare at a slice of tree covered in ink and hallucinate vividly for minutes or hours.

Literacy puts human souls in storage - normally, when you die, your ideas and memories die with you. But this magic drugged ritual allows other people to access your mind forever.

Literacy is a crude form of soul cloning, mimicking your mind but without the consciousness.

Hunter-gatherers did not use it, but farmers did.

Thus, most modern civilizations are built primarily around farming, not hunt-gathering.

The Economics of Suffering

Christianity, along with all the other ancient religions, see the world as a zero-sum game because none of them understand economics. Thus, the rich man MUST impoverish himself to help the poor man.

Buddhism and Christianity are designed to help people absorb the "necessary suffering" and engage in the exchange anyway. In order to encourage the rich man to embrace this result, suffering has to be a positive good, suffering has to be BETTER than the money he is giving up. That's a hard sell, but that's the pitch made by the cross. In a subsistence-level society, where economics is only crudely understood, the cross makes a lot of sense.

But once a better understanding of economics has turned the culture into a surplus-goods society, once a large number of people understand that there is no necessary suffering in an economic exchange, once a large number of people understand that economic exchange actually makes BOTH parties better off, the entire ancient rationale for how to deal with suffering collapses.

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It is so hard for people to get out of the notion that life is a zero-sum game. They think if one man benefits, another must lose. But in a free market, both people can benefit.” ~ Milton Friedman

It's hard, because that notion of gain vs. loss is the basis for every ancient religion. That notion turns out not to be correct in economic terms for economic exchanges between relatively mature adult parties.
However, it is still correct (for the moment) in biological terms. So, a sexual exchange between a man and a woman can result in the woman getting pregnant. While we live in an economics-surplus society, we do NOT live in a biological-surplus society. Suffering in pregnancy and child-rearing is entirely necessary, entirely unavoidable, this biological exchange is both (a) still zero-sum and (b) necessary for the existence of mankind. It is literally subsistence-level living.

Whereas ancient societies were ENTIRELY subsistence level, modern society has split into two: the general economics and the reproductive economics. A confusion between the two results in absurdities.

In Christian conception of the market economy, the rich should give their wealth to the poor, participate in the suffering of the poor, "give until it hurts." But, in the market economy, that is completely wrong. In a well-designed, well-executed market transaction, nobody suffers at all. Everyone wins. That's the definition of a "free market" - no suffering in the exchange of goods. A free market is not about whether the government is involved (the government is really just another corporation) or whether there is a monopoly involved (one sign of a truly free market is the creation of monopolies), rather, a free market is one in which every exchange is a mutual win, everyone is better off afterwards. Christianity doesn't have a language for this. It is a completely foreign concept.

Hook-up culture, contraception and abortion are all attempts to make biological economics mirror general market economics. Remember, in general economics every well-designed interaction between adults is a win-win, nobody has to suffer. But, given the reality of pregnancy and the reality of resource allocation for child-rearing, that result cannot be obtained in biology in any classically economic sense.  Pregnancy is unavoidable suffering. Child-rearing is unavoidable spending of resources to someone who simply will never repay you in like kind. In child-rearing, the fact that some of the parties are NOT adults means the adult parties in the transaction MUST experience some suffering for everyone in the transaction to win.

When Jesus said "the poor will always be with you", he could not have been talking about the adults. In a modern, surplus-good society, the only ones that still fit the description of "poor" are the infants. 

But, precisely because we now understand market economies, society is no longer oriented to accept suffering as a necessary price in every exchange. Precisely because we are now surplus-goods, and suffering is not always necessary (indeed, suffering is a sign of a badly-created market transaction), we no longer maintain a widespread acceptance for how to value suffering. That's why people aren't having children. The surplus-goods societies we created necessarily turned "suffering" from a univocal word with a univocal value into an equivocal word with an uncertain value. The value changes on the context. Given advances in biology, the context is also shifting.

Nobody knows how to properly value suffering. Christianity's definition doesn't seem accurate anymore because it isn't. It doesn't correctly reflect the market. Suffering isn't a necessary component of every exchange. But Hayek's and Milton Friedman's definition is also incorrect, because it only applies to market goods and a market economy, it doesn't apply to the biological exchanges that produce human life and allow human civilization to continue.

Quantum physics and relativity broke the classical physics model into two incommensurable pieces.  General economics and biological economics broke the classical Christian model into two incommensurable pieces. Just as physics now lacks a universal field equation, people now lack a universal theory of suffering. I don't know how to remedy this, but at least figuring out the problem is a beginning step. 

Should Children Be Executed?

One of the classic Catholic justifications for the death penalty is the state's duty to protect its own citizens from harm (CCC 2265, Aquinas,  ST IIa-IIae, q. 64, a. 3). Traditionally, the state is permitted to execute a citizen for the same reason a state is permitted to execute an invader - in both cases, the state is bound to protect its own citizens from danger.

But, traditionally, a person who cannot distinguish right from wrong was spared execution. 

This is objectively absurd. Someone who knows right from wrong but doesn't care is, from the POV of outcomes, no different from someone who cannot distinguish right from wrong. In both cases, the person will do evil. Sure, the first is morally culpable and the second is not, but in both cases, citizens will come to harm precisely because evil will not be distinguished from the good, nor will evil be avoided.

Thus, if the state truly has a duty to protect its own citizens from harm, the state has a duty to execute both the one who chooses evil instead of good AND the one who cannot distinguish evil from good. The child and the child-like must be executed not because they are guilty, but because they are mortally dangerous. 

And, indeed, since the death penalty is about protection, not about revenge, it would seem morally better to execute the child-like if only because it so clearly isn't about revenge for their evil-doing (for we know they are not guilty in any classical sense) but definitely about preventing future evil so as to protect the population from further harm. 

That is, we do not execute children, true, but we do not execute them ONLY because we are assuredly more powerful than children. We can, unquestionably, restrain children from doing ignorant evil. However, if the person in question is very powerful but child-like in his moral reasoning, that is, if he cannot certainly be restrained by more powerful and more morally good men, then the morally good men have a duty to remove the powerful, child-like ignorantly evil man from their midst. 

Thus, the legal defense non compos mentis has no bearing on whether or not the person should be executed. If we are truly executing a person to avoid having evil wreaked upon innocent citizens, then it isn't a question of mind and choice, but rather of power to do evil, and likelihood that evil will be done. 

What Vegetarians Don't Understand

The problem with vegetarians: they have no freaking idea how biology works. For instance, to take but one of innumerable examples, iron absorption.

Human beings need iron for, among other things, oxygen transport in the blood, via the heme molecule. 

If you gnaw on an iron bar, or take iron supplements, that probably isn't going to help much. Eating plants with iron is essentially no different than gnawing on an iron bar. Iron transport and absorption are much easier when the iron is bound inside a heme molecule. Heme iron is absorbed efficiently by the body (about 15% to 35%) compared to non-heme iron (2% to 20%).

But how do we get heme iron, that is, iron bound within a heme molecule, into our bodies? Simple. Eat animal meat.

Plants don't wrap iron in heme.

Animals do.

You already know - and accept - that our gut biota, the organisms in our gut, either produce vitamins we can't (e.g., B vitamins) or help us absorb vitamins we otherwise couldn't. That's what gut bacteria do. That's why we have them. They are symbiotes that we cannot survive without because they digest food for us. 

Animals are simply macro-versions of our gut biota. They are really, really big bacteria with fur, legs and motility that walk around pre-digesting things for us. In the case of iron, animals pre-digest iron, wrap it in a heme molecule for us, and allow us to absorb iron much more easily. Since animals act as pre-processors for our food, a lot of the vitamins and minerals that are not normally available to us through the raw mineral or plant venues become available because the animals have pre-chewed, pre-digested, and pre-packaged the necessary vitamins and minerals for us. 

That's why we eat animals. Animals are food processing factories.

In fact, animal meat is really the original skin-foil bag of ultra-processed nutrients. Animals not only serve as food processing factories for us, they even wrap the resulting food in a sterile skin/fur package, often making the food permanently safe for consumption as long as the waste processing lines (the guts) are first removed (yes, I know, there are parasites which inhabit muscle tissue, but in general, the skin serves as a crude form of sterile plastic wrap). 

Every domesticated animal is an independent, mobile food processing plant, an external gut, a walking massive biota for our small intestines. Eating vegetarian is equivalent to surgically removing several feet of your small intestines or nuking the biota in your gut. Can you survive? Yes. Maybe. But it won't be nearly as easy. You've just voluntarily crippled yourself.

For us, meat animals are external symbiotes. We deliberately cultivate them, by feeding them appropriate pro-biotics, so we can consume what they produce - partially pre-digested, pre-metabolized vitamins, minerals and enzymes we need to live.

Hindus are famously vegetarian, revering cows as signs of divinity. India's bus lines used to carry ads on the sides of each bus that said "Killing germs is not murder! Use Lysol!" That is the logical end of Hindu philosophy, which lies at the root of vegetarianism. Jainism, the idea that we should wear masks so as not to accidentally inhale and kill insects, and sweep the ground before us as we walk, so as not to accidentally step on and crush a worm, is part of the Eastern nonsense that values all life equally.

Christianity recognizes this as absurd. Just as killing germs is not murder, so killing cows is not murder. Use not only Lysol, but your barbecue and stove. Eat beef, chicken, pork and lamb, dog and cat, fish and clam, or any other meat-bearing animal. Let Nature pre-chew your food. That's what Nature is for. 

Education is a Scam

Education is NOT about teaching.

Most colleges employ most professors as adjuncts (i.e., part-time). Up to 40% of profs are adjunct, part-time positions. Up to 70% are non-tenure track or adjunct.

No business in the world makes their core employees part-time. Since profs ARE part-time, teaching cannot possibly be the core business of a college.

Administration has to be the core business, because administrators are NEVER part-time. What do administrators do?

They make sure the college stays in legal compliance to be the recipient of government grants, loans, and other funding. Thus, the core business of a college is to harvest tax dollars and distribute those tax dollars to employees.

There is no other conclusion that can be drawn.

As innumerable financial analysts have pointed out, McDonalds is actually a real-estate business. They just have the renters sell hamburgers to pay the rent on the real estate. Similarly, the entire education industry is actually in the tax-harvesting business. They just have classrooms as the excuse to harvest the tax money. The quality of the hamburger or the education is very much a secondary concern.

Flock Cameras

A lot of people are upset about Flock cameras. I must confess, I don't like them, but I can't see any way to stop them from what they are doing. It is perfectly legal. 

Consider, police can conduct warrantless tails of individuals for days at a time, as long as those tails remain in public areas, public thoroughfares and do not infringe on curtilage, that is, the home and the area immediately surrounding it. 

Flock cameras that are not trained on curtilage are viewing public thoroughfares. It is not a crime to publicly observe individuals who are traversing public areas. That's simple observation, and there is no law against it, nor can there be. If it were a crime, cops could not do warrantless tails, but they can do warrantless tails. 

Heck, game wardens can walk onto private property, install secret cameras and use the evidence derived in court without bothering to get a warrant. It is not considered trespass and the surveillance is completely legal. As long as the cameras are of woods and open fields, not curtilage, there is zero problem. This has been upheld countless times. Flock cameras are just public highway versions of this "Open Fields" doctrine. The Open Fields doctrine is relatively new, having been established during Prohibition, but it has never been overturned. In fact, SCOTUS was the court that created it (Hester v. United States, 1924). It has been reaffirmed, by SCOTUS, as recently as 1984  (Oliver v. United States).  Unfortunately, that's great precedent for Flock.

As I said, I don't like Flock cameras and I have no problem with people who knock them down (which is logically inconsistent of me, I grant), but Flock isn't violating the law.