It's Israel that has to care about optics. Hamas doesn't care about optics. The optics right now are that Israel is acting like a bull in a china shop...
Why would they meet Israel's offensive head-on? Hamas doesn't need to fight, since Israel doesn't have an endgame here. What are they going to do? Occ...
What's actually happening in the world? Enlighten us please. :roll: That's why I didn't understand why you mentioned March/April 2022 in relation to t...
I think popular opinion within Europe is generally more critical of Israel, if that is what you're asking. The term 'anti-Israel' would be a misrepres...
I view the European countries as little more than US vassals. What they do or think is generally irrelevant, because on important issues they fall in ...
It's one of the groups that make up the lobby, but they don't go into much detail. It's more about how the lobby functions, and what historical impact...
The tone of your reply doesn't really invite an elaborate response, so I'll keep it short: Putin has virtually for his entire time in power attempted ...
Mearsheimer actually makes a good point about why the possibility for Jews and Muslims to live together in a single state is basically never considere...
John Mearsheimer recently gave this talk at the Centre for Independent Studies in Brisbane, Australia. As usual he delivers a straightforward, realist...
I get that these are practical guidelines, but not quite the clear delineations one might expect when something is claimed to be a moral obligation. A...
While charity is generally regarded as a moral virtue, I think calling donating a moral obligation goes too far. There are several gripes I would have...
To be honest, I think much of the worrying authoritarian trends we have seen in the last decade are a product of a lack of conflict. Voters are lulled...
Neither the US nor Israel is in the position to lecture anyone on human rights. In addition, modern-day Iran is a problem Israel and the US themselves...
Also, yesterday a resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a c...
We can only hope. Reports are that four US carrier groups are headed to the eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea. That's a massive deployment, likely not...
Purposeful murder and accidental manslaughter are not morally equivalent. But what group B is doing is not accidental. It is calculated, just like gro...
As far as I am aware, the majority of settlers are regular Orthodox Jews. The ultra-orthodox Haredi have largely (but not always) opposed settling on ...
The ultra-orthodox even protest against the existence of the state of Israel, because they believe it is claiming the land that belongs to God. You ca...
So various US bases around the Middle-East have been bombed and taken under fire in the past weeks. Now the US is actively bombing those who it deems ...
:up: Agreed with this also. Imperfect though it may be. if we agree that we can't expect the two battling sides to come to a rational solution, we wil...
I think this could just as easily apply to Israel. But honestly, I have no problem envisioning myself being in the shoes of a Palestinian or Israeli a...
Rationally speaking, had the Israeli government practiced restraint there would have been no doubt at all within the international community who the v...
I get a sense that maybe you'll agree with my view that neither side can be expected to act in a completely rational manner here, after all the damage...
Just to note how utterly detached from reality this US admistration is, this is National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Anthony...
What do you expect from the Palestinians? Their land was literally given away without their say, and their plight was only acknowledged amidst much dr...
While the existence of such states or a theoretical Jewish ethno-religious state is not inherently problematic, when that is pursued through violent m...
People are up in arms about a slogan that supposedly suggests ethnic cleansing, while ignoring - no, in fact proclaiming unconditional support for - a...
I think it's best to be careful with such assumptions. We can't read people's minds, and to say one has done so and found genocidal intent sooner betr...
The slogan is a bit edgy, but I agree. Things like these should spark a healthy public and political debate, and not be used cynically by the old cadr...
WW2 comparisons are pointless anyway, unless one believes this war between Israel and Gaza should be fought on the same terms, that is to say, on the ...
Also, Israel is now committing war crimes in 'broad daylight': Southern Gaza in Israel's sights as world leaders seek pause in fighting First telling ...
The "slag heap" as it's referred to is the terrain feature that commands the battlefield over Avdiivka. That's why they are fighting over it. Basicall...
Proportionality is generally associated with international humanitarian law, and it is indeed one of the fundamental pillars of international humanita...
It doesn't happen very often that I feel proud of something that happens in the Netherlands, my home country. But today I saw this appeal, made by Pal...
My sense is indeed that Iran is heavily involved, and I don't think it's a coincidence that there are now three members of BRICS who take an adversari...
That wasn't my claim. So why write a long post ignoring it? :brow: Sure, if you're Stalin and willing to resort to mass murder, ethnic cleansing and g...
That might sound reasonable in theory, but in practice it never works out that way, and because Israel is seen as the occupying force it will receive ...
Personally, I don't think a siege will do anything to destroy Hamas. If anything, the suffering of ordinary people plays right into the hands of Hamas...
And how exactly does this excuse human rights abuses and crimes against humanity? Equating Palestinians to Hamas is tasteless. I'd love to see where y...
With all due respect, the prinicipal bias I see in this thread comes from people who are unwilling to condemn widespread human rights violations for w...
Israel's hardline is basically ultranationalist, and I think that is deeply problematic. They envision an Israel without Palestinians, or in the absen...
Netanyahu receives widespread criticism for this policy. How Benjamin Netanyahu Empowered Hamas (The Telegraph, 2023) I'm not sure what else there is ...
Just to clarify, my main point is not that Israel cannot defend itself using military force (assuming the humanitarian principle of proportionality is...
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