I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs . . . with a lot of local self determination.

The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.