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I never pretended this situation is simple, or that Hamas aren't terrorists.
The real point is, who is trying to shut who up, who can't tolerate criticism.
Bottom line : how many dead Palestinain civilians will suffice before the IDF can 'declare victory' and leave off the bombing and starving. They are capable of targeted attacks - but bombing the crap out of everyone in the area is so much easier and, apparently, satisfying.
That's a very privileged take. It sounds insulting to me, and I am one of the folks encompassed by the term (the large majority of the human population). Every 'non-breeder' is, as it happens, the offspring of two such individuals.
Who gets to decide what is a slur and what is not ?
Jake Paul is training too, a pretty good low-experience fighter, good right hand.
I think MT deconstructs him in a round or two. But with boxing, sometimes one is surprised. If JP can stretch it out into later rounds, he's got a chance.
If you don't think bombing thousands of women & children to smithereens in Gaza to 'eradicate' Hamas is a wonderful idea, Boromir considers you an anti-semite. C'est la vie, ignore me.
fwiw, Israel is, in the process, blowing up their reputation.
My remarks, btw, were in the politics section, where they belong. HE comes barging into GD brandishing his censorship list. This is how he, the AIPAC folks and the Israeli propaganda mainstream operates - they're bullies. Any opposition is declared beyond the pale - meanwhile, THEYRE the ones bombing the crap out of women & children - there is a word for that - chutzpah.
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The implication, given the revealed (catastrophic) vulnerability is that these container ships, and transport vessels, in general, are going to require retro-fitting w/ auxiliary/back-up power systems for navigational control.
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and its not even close (but I am a huge Lindsey Buck fan)
Do you even understand the issues, why NBC announcers thought she was not an appropriate contributor ?
She just spent the last 3+ years forwarding the false narratives concerning the last election. She's hardly a credible person. When challenged, she disingenuously attempts to walk away from long-held public statements with a remark about 'taking one for the team'.
NBC announcers evidently consider they have a reputation to maintain.
They're saying that the power failed at a key point prior to the ship reaching the bridge, leaving the ship with no navigational control. The bridge's code was for an era before these super-loaded container ships would be plying the course through.
So you are whining in advance. Uh, ok...
5/10 seems right
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hundred bucks says he's back, with a new profile, in a week. He couldn't quit this place.
Very melodramatic.
I know that Israel has been stealing Palestinian land since 1967, up to the present day, that Palestinians have no rights to speak of, that 32K are now dead over the last 100 days, that MILLIONS are starving/deprived of water in the here and now.
Anyone who holds Israel up to LEGITIMATE criticism gets smeared - have you noticed ?
What surprised me about the the Gaza incursion was how inept Israel has been about it, how brutal, how bereft of any actual plan, other than wholesale destruction, massive indiscriminate civilian death.
I knew it would be bad, I didn't think it would be this bad.
What seems indisputable is that a solid majority of Israelis now feel that Palestinians have no innate human or legal rights that need be respected. Hard to view that as other than virulent racism, or ethnic chauvinism, pick a word to suit.
The evaluation seems to be that the terrorism (but not the reprisals) have removed Palestinians beyond the moral pale. Which is, under the circumstances of the last century, beyond ironic.
30k+ dead, mainly women & children, but hey - we do science. Give us a break.
There was & is another destiny available to Israel, that doesn't entail inciting & enduring terror attacks.
Its up to the Israeli eggheads to catch on to what everyone is telling them - make a Palestinian state, empower it to manage its affairs, work with it to combat terror and.... stop stealing, give back the settlement lands, forget the maximalist drive to ethnically cleanse MILLIONS of Palestinians.
Its a fools errand.
imo this is a large evaluation that Israel is missing. They consider that everyone, like them, draws a large distinction between Israeli & Palestinian lives, that a 30:1 kill ratio doesn't impugn their moral compass in the eyes of the larger world.
imo, again, they are wrong about that. One of the hazards of living inside an ideological hot house of unquestioned superiority & authority.
Thanks everyone, especially those who reported that the Gaza incursion (and previous atrocities by Hamas) had made some impression beyond previously held notions.
I personally was surprised at the lengths the Israelis are taking w/ civilian death, because I think it is a. inhumane, b. counter-productive. Particularly, since there is absolutely no PLAN for normalization going forward, as there was also no plan prior to the Oct attacks, or has existed since Bibi strangled Oslo in the crib. Bibi thought he could just trundle along, business as usual, his neck on the Palestinians, as he made normalization agreements with KSA, etc. And it actually looked like he might. And then...
If nothing else, besides the terrorism, retribution and ongoing man-made famine, the situation has put the Israel/Palestinian peace question back on the front burner, and finally challenged the US' un-blinking support for everything Israel does to the Palestinians, which by any objective reckoning amounts to theft/dispossession/oppression. There is a red line somewhere, maybe we're stumbling towards it, wrt unmeasured Israel military/economic/diplomatic support. These questions have clearly become, as they never quite were before, partisan issues and challenges to the general public & diaspora Jews.
A minority who wish to foist their will upon the majority, by any means necessary.
There's your MAGA.