[JumpCrisscross]

The fact that I was seeing Sliwa favourably speaks to the candidate quality in this race.

> No dirt. Other that some stupid stuff he said while he was young

Stupid stuff he credibly disavowed.

I’m still blown away that after De Blasio he was the only one, when asked a foreign policy question, who said he’d put city priorities first.

[yahoozoo]

It was pretty pathetic when, during one of the mayoral debates this year, most of the candidates including Cuomo said the first country they would visit as mayor would be Israel. Thankfully, younger generations aren’t falling for it anymore.

[chasil]

It is unfortunate that, after the Spanish Inquisition, Jewish refugees were welcome in Istanbul, but the current receptivity is so much colder.

This is exactly the point where the historic tolerance of the middle east is most direly needed, but common ground in so many contexts is absent.

I hope that we can put ourselves back together. We've seen the consequences this year of its lack.

[JumpCrisscross]

> where the historic tolerance of the middle east is most direly needed

Sure. Broadly. But there is one correct answer a mayoral candidate could give on such an issue, and it’s the one Mamdani gave.

[chasil]

This is from Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" speech:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies—in the final sense—a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities.

It is: two electric power plants, each serving a town of sixty thousand population.

It is: two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is: some fifty miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than eight thousand people.

This—I repeat—is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/humanity-hanging...

[JumpCrisscross]

President Eisenhower. Not mayor. President Eisenhower’s portfolio properly contains these things. Mayors should not be travelling to foreign countries on official business outside a very narrow remit. Humanitarian activism isn’t one of them.

[chasil]

So let's take a look...

Eric Adams: Lebanon 2024, Israel 2023, Quatar 2022

Bill de Blasio: Israel 2015

What should not happen obviously does.

[aeternum]

China found a way around this by manufacturing all their civilian ships to military standards.

Maybe guns or butter is a false dichotomy. Or perhaps the even tougher lesson: a country with an information economy ends up with neither.

[aprilthird2021]

> Jewish refugees were welcome in Istanbul, but the current receptivity is so much colder.

We are all receptive of Jewish people. We are not receptive of our country, who cut off food benefits, cut people's flights, cut people's medical insurance subsidies, funding and enabling a state where of the native born population, only Jewish people get to vote and have autonomy, and other non-Jewish ethnicities live under the control of a state they have no rights in purely because of their ethnicity. No one supports that part

[csomar]

Jewish or not Jewish, receptivity was always joint about circumstances and interest. Based on that, refugees or people in special circumstances will be either accepted or rejected. Also, any group of entities can get into these special circumstances depending on what is happening in that time.