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Yes if the U.S. were to pull out from the Middle East it would change things, but as you say it’s not likely any time soon. Nonsense, the U.S. is most...

The implications are that in the case of the Ukraine conflict the difference between the two outcomes, 1, that Russia wins and incorporates Ukraine in...

There is within environmentalism a kind of despair which often afflicts one. Rather like the lightbulb moment when one first realises the full magnitu...

Here is the problem, if the quantitative element is totally irrelevant than that definition sounds good also to claim that Hamas’ massacre on October ...

They don’t mean you. They mean the people who inform the ordinary voter.

Like a fulcrum, an arena in which large hegemonic goals, or failure depend on a relatively small arena. Whereas a distraction is an arena where hegemo...

Yeah man! You know those Hindu bodhisattvas with a thousand arms, a thousand cobras coming out of the top of their head, sitting in a thousand petal l...

I think that Bibi will in the end achieve to get Israel into similar international position what Apartheid South Africa was. Israel has more advanced ...

Yet it sounds implausible that a quantitative condition (e.g. for the death toll) and cumulative condition (among the listed acts) are strictly applie...

I find it hard to believe they wouldn't make huge waves in society both politically and technologically. As for whether people believe they're truly g...

rael has allowed 15,413 trucks into Gaza during the past 157 days of war. Oxfam says the population of Gaza needed five times more than that just to m...

How would we know the being was omniscient and omnibenevolent?

You can keep calling it “genocide”, but you have no sentence from an authoritative tribunal that supports such an accusation. And legally speaking, it...

Yes, to a degree, although I consider Russia a waning power, which is punching above it’s weight these days. The new president of Argentina recently p...

I’m not proposing a solution. It’s a comment on the how the suffering of the Palestinian people can be alleviated and who of the two sides in this con...

Well there is a crime being investigated at the ICJ.

The population became expendable when they voted in Hamas. I doubt that was on the ballot paper.

I was replying to someone else. Anyway, it looks like the Great Satan has a conscience after all. He is going to provide humanitarian assistance.

No less than the Palestinian population is expendable in the pursuit of Hamas’ objectives, right? Yes, however this is an asymmetrical situation. Isra...

This answers my question then. The population is expendable in the pursuit of Israel’s objectives. You seem very one sided in these comments. What abo...

I don’t understand what you’re saying here. There may be numerous reasons why Palestinians aren’t in refugee camps in other Arab countries. Firstly th...

If you think the Israelis have a choice, what choice is it that you think that they have? There is an easy solution here. Israel should provide refuge...

But unfortunately, pure terrorist governments don’t want to fight like this because they’d lose. Raping, kidnapping, and beheading people as a policy ...

My question wasn’t aimed at you. It was a response to what someone else said. It looks to me though, judging from the behaviour of the Israeli adminis...

So unless the hostages are returned, the whole population of Gaza is expendable?

And if they're murdered, then everything is off the table. Simple question, how many Palestinian deaths is to many? At what point do the IDF say we’ve...

Al Qaeda was a U.S. client terrorist group created to aid the U.S. in its war on Communism. Who came back to bite its master. It was only loosely affi...

You can dress it up all you like, it doesn’t change the facts on the ground. The people living on that land were expelled by an occupying force. This ...

I saying that their right to the land they are living on is due to their living on and owning the land on which they lived. Well that’s a legal argume...

The US is now just going along with Netanyahu's war, which has no political ends in sight. (Haas remarks that "it's as if Clausewitz hasn't been trans...

This is nonsense. The people who push this line believe in the great replacement theory. It’s batshit crazy. I can see that, where will they go?

Yes, I know, but something went wrong and it’s been going wrong for a long time. Look at it this way, let’s say Hamas is removed from the picture. A p...

Ahh, synchronicity. I know that feeling.

In the U.K. a dyke is a lesbian.

I couldn't consider living in the UK (was last there in 2022, was actually standing in the Tower of London at the moment the Queen passed away.) My pe...

Apparently we are going to have to wait until the rest of civilization catches up with Canada's progressive cannabis laws before we can think about go...

Now, does Israel try this? No. It's a homeland for the Jews and others just can fuck off. And that's why in the end it is an Apartheid system, because...

I didn’t say you had made such a claim, I wasn’t talking about you, I was talking about claims. But you do appear to be positioning yourself there in ...

Perhaps we should try and agree what a state is first, or what a human is.

I will stop when you agree with me about that. Or demonstrate that it is not the case. You proposed a confederated solution. My point was that such a ...

In Britain some cities seem large when they aren’t when compared to cities in other countries.

Brighton is known as London on Sea. Nice place and cool with an alternative slant and a Green MP. Personally I find it to big and busy, I would prefer...

You’re making some interesting points, but there’s something you keep pushing for which seems wrong headed to me. These two paragraphs distill it quit...

As I was saying the glorification of the victims of October 7th to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide.

You’ve just described Palestinians as sub human, as animals. And we know what humans do to animals.

Eastern thinkers are more adept at recognizing nothingness as if it was like a western substance, but they avoid substance talk by leaving things more...

Thankyou Wayfarer, you really are a font of knowledge these days.

Yes, in the U.K., the government is pushing the line, that adapting to climate change, net zero policies are expensive. That the poor will end up payi...

Yes, this is something I’ve tried to do on occasion. There have been attempts to introduce eastern ideas to the West from the pioneering work of HP Bl...

Thanks for the suggestions, Harmless looks interesting I’ll give it a look. We each cast our net depending on our place and time and come up with diff...