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That's a bit of a stretch of the definition. So the notion of "an intense and selfish desire for wealth or power (or for food for or other pleasures)"...
June 07, 2021 at 10:43
Gaza is one strange concentration camp, so having an effect from there is limited. First of all, the Palestinians would have to overcome the highly di...
June 05, 2021 at 15:25
Thanks for those words, Schopenhauer1! When we know we agree on those things, we can go further with the topic... How can it change for the better? Ho...
June 04, 2021 at 09:01
Not only misinformation, but also simple ignorance. Just take for example the Israeli nuclear deterrence or it's biological and chemical warfare capab...
June 04, 2021 at 08:49
The easiness and the outreach of it is crucial. When you think that earlier one had to get something published in the opinion section of any newspaper...
June 04, 2021 at 07:43
Nice to have an opposing view to the lab-leak hypothesis, but have to say that article is truly difficult to read. Yes, and oncologist editor of a sit...
June 03, 2021 at 14:37
Yet this is the typical, standard line from woke people like Hamilton Nolan who actually cannot even see their own wokeness: How dare anybody even tal...
June 02, 2021 at 23:44
Just ask yourself: How did (West) Europeans find this harmony to try something as crazy as the European Union? Even if it has it's faults, it's pretty...
June 02, 2021 at 22:21
This is a tactical / operational modus operandi that Israel has. It's basically a "Tit-for-tat" strategy added with a larger operation every once in a...
June 02, 2021 at 21:48
Well, if you consider everything that any intelligence service says to be total propaganda. I think the real debate ought to be on the safety of the g...
June 01, 2021 at 13:22
Pappe has gotten some criticism, but I think the main argument that the exodus was planned by the Yishev holds. But then again, parts of Galilee did h...
June 01, 2021 at 13:09
I don't remember if I've invested in Black Rocks funds at some point or not. At least it has been an option to invest in some of their funds in my inv...
June 01, 2021 at 09:38
Well known is the massacre at the village of Deir Yassin: Here's a clip from a documentary explaining Deir Yassin. People from both sides are intervie...
June 01, 2021 at 09:17
Sounds about right where we are for me too.
June 01, 2021 at 07:33
Yes, there was (is) this narrative going on that to utter the Lab-leak hypothesis, you were racist pizzagate-level conspiracist Trump-supporter and on...
June 01, 2021 at 07:29
It's called now days ethnic cleansing. The Jews didn't perpetrate large massacres, but enough to start the Palestinian exodus. Yet I don't know how bi...
May 31, 2021 at 16:12
And likely will float counter conspiracy theories, which will sink into people as a knife to soft butter. The objective is smudge everything over and ...
May 31, 2021 at 15:52
And I have not yet rejected the possibility that it isn't a lab leak. I can change my views if new information comes to light.
May 30, 2021 at 00:16
Absolutely wrong. A possibility is a possibility. You are the one making the argument that a person in one article says that it's extremely unlikely, ...
May 30, 2021 at 00:09
I don't think you got my point: If you fear that your own citizens will turn your back on you and go with the enemy, then you obviously have done some...
May 29, 2021 at 21:23
I think people here are talking about a hypothesis. So It's pretty odd replying to @"Apollodorus" that there is "no logic" in the schema and that the ...
May 29, 2021 at 19:19
That's just to show that the issues aren't fabricated, propaganda and actually everything is just fine with the Arab Israelis. You said it very well: ...
May 29, 2021 at 18:43
Nice that you can be an optimist. I remember a same kind of front made by Time magazine about those killed in the US by firearms: http://img.timeinc.n...
May 28, 2021 at 10:05
I think the reason is that one of the leading medical journals, The Lancet, published a condemnation of all "conspiracy theories" of possibility of a ...
May 28, 2021 at 09:24
Possible, I suspect the biological weapon hypothesis. Something like flu as a weapon is simply stupid. The Japanese that actually used biological weap...
May 27, 2021 at 20:44
Seems that the Lab-leak hypothesis is finally getting some interest in the correct circles: See Covid: Biden orders investigation into virus origin as...
May 27, 2021 at 18:31
I think the counterargument to anything here is: "Israel has the right to defend itself and Hamas wishes to destroy Israel." And that basically covers...
May 27, 2021 at 18:17
Yeah, let's root for more humane terrorism. :cheer:
May 27, 2021 at 16:56
Ok, where do we start? How about the systemic discrimination based upon legislation: Then of course the downgrade of Arabic being an official language...
May 27, 2021 at 15:26
And of course the real issue is that these Palestinians, who officially aren't even called Palestinians but Arab israelis, do face discrimination in t...
May 27, 2021 at 10:48
That's one good way how to think of it. And other thing is that they focus their message on two special audiences: the US and the religious zealots. P...
May 26, 2021 at 23:00
I think war is morally dubious and those that only look at the moral justifications typically are the culprits for the war in the first place. Bombing...
May 25, 2021 at 21:46
On the other hand, the actions of the British Army during "Operation Banner" and the actions of the Israeli Armed Forces toward the Palestinians are a...
May 24, 2021 at 20:32
Look at the bright side: they keep tabs on everybody. Pro-choice and Pro-life groups, right-wing militias, left-wing anarchists. After all, domestic t...
May 24, 2021 at 13:24
Once when just the riot police seems not to have the situation under control, then there is the next step. And this isn't limited to "other races". It...
May 24, 2021 at 11:11
You think the Palestinian conflict is only about Israel and Hamas? BC, do you know what the objective was of the "Peace for Galilee" operation? What w...
May 23, 2021 at 21:45
Baden, we in Europe were just fine with Yugoslav's killing well over 100 000 of each other. And in that conflict there were catholics, orthodox and ye...
May 23, 2021 at 20:58
Don't forget President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. He was killed after making a peace agreement with Israel (and getting back the Sinai) in an military vict...
May 22, 2021 at 22:50
Yet those standard operational procedures (SOPs in general) do matter a lot. It starts from things like is fighting a terrorist group a police matter ...
May 22, 2021 at 22:35
I doubt you would. One impartial observing side have been the blue berets in the Middle East, especially in Lebanon. I know a few reservists here who ...
May 22, 2021 at 13:27
The proponents of scientism define science to be so different from political or economic investigations. Yet one can be objective, trying to observe r...
May 22, 2021 at 12:44
Only for some.
May 22, 2021 at 02:18
Bibi can thank Hamas for getting a boost in the upcoming elections. And religious extremists hold hostage the whole conflict on both sides. Of course ...
May 22, 2021 at 02:12
That's the result when you teach only criticism. Before criticism, you have to learn what the actual idea is and how it explains issues. By only teach...
May 22, 2021 at 02:05
OK man, I'll repeat it. But I think that the vast majority of the people here are influenced by the current environment, be it social, political or ec...
May 22, 2021 at 01:59
Has Israel proclaimed exactly where it's borders are? I'm not so sure it has. One basic problem is that Palestinians (and for that matter Lebanon) are...
May 21, 2021 at 14:17
On the other hand, any forecast of price development of something like Bitcoin is on shaky grounds
May 21, 2021 at 14:10
Lol. Of course. Got it.
May 20, 2021 at 22:44
But notice the longer term discussion activity compared to Bitcoin price movement. The thread was active three years ago in December 2017 - January 20...
May 20, 2021 at 22:39
It has the word 'social' in it? :snicker:
May 20, 2021 at 21:08