Tzeentch

Also, I am not trying to score easy points against you, . :kiss:

I only sought to point out the direct link between the 1967 Six-Day War and the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Obviously the conflict go...

In a sense, yes. But in 1948 the Israelis were very effective at ethnically cleansing the territories they annexed (Nakba). In 1967 they evidently wer...

Gaza has been under a blockade for over 15 years, and the Israelis have in other ways actively tried to prevent Gaza from developing. Hamas didn't con...

Israel probably isn't out of PGM's, but out of anti-air missiles for their Iron Dome. Iron Dome was designed to intercept sporadic attacks from Hamas,...

That won't be the end of it, though. Millions of Palestinians live in the West Bank. If Israel chooses to commit a second Nakba, there will be zero ch...

It's clearly an act of forced displacement, which is indeed a war crime. The problem is that almost all of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) has a ...

What apartheid is referring to in this case is not the situation within Israel, but the situation between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Ther...

Also reports of hostile airplanes (likely drones) in northern Israel. Yep. This is going fully to shit.

Sadly, as many had already feared, settler violence against Palestinians living in the West Bank is now starting to flare up as well. Three Palestinia...

Personally, I wouldn't be comfortable with the idea of imposing something of that magnitude and with such potential risks on Israel. Putting pressure ...

In many ways I agree with you, and it's not so clear whether denying the Palestinians their right to self-determination won't come back to haunt Israe...

It's not clear to me how such a peace plan would address the legitimate concern about what happens if a new Palestinian state would align itself to Is...

Putting the ideological nonsense from the hardliners aside, from a geopolitical view a two state solution would be complicated to say the least (I'll ...

I'm assuming you are talking about Hamas? You don't think every Palestinian thinks like Hamas, do you? Sounds like you might be doing some projecting ...

I am skeptical. An elaborate operation like this prepared and carried out right under the noses of Mossad suggests to me that highly capable actors ar...

If Israel moves into Gaza and it turns into a giant massacre, then yes, I assume rapprochement with the Muslim world will be set back decades. Perhaps...

The assumption is that Hamas has foreign backing.

Honestly, a force of 300,000 against 2,000,000+ Palestinians (lets say 500,000 military age males) who have nowhere to run to, and are possibly quite ...

I think a military incursion, even if ultimately successful, would be a serious struggle. We can reasonably assume Hamas is prepared for Israeli retal...

Mobilizing 300,000 troops is quite an extreme reaction - perhaps exactly the type which Hamas sought to provoke. I'm not sure what Israel plans to do ...

Anyone has any ideas about Hamas' goals? One would have to assume they expected harsh retaliation by Israel, but what do they stand to gain? Keeping t...

I think she's right that these conflicts are related to the war in Ukraine, and perhaps more directly with the shifting geopolitical landscape in a wi...

I agree with you that from a humanist perspective it is a crazy strategy. But I guess close to a century of oppression changed some people's view of w...

There are extremist elements within both sides. Certain zionist and nationalist elements such as ones found in Netanyahu's party Likud, view Israel as...

It wasn't aimed specifically at you. It's just a thing that comes up with some regularity.

I'm sure there are. I just sought to point out that the US isn't a stranger to political killings, and wagging the finger at Russia is rather hypocrit...

That's perhaps not as delusional as you may think. Israel is a tiny country surrounded by historical enemies that have attempted to gang up on it seve...

In Russia political opponents fall out of windows. In the US they get shot in broad daylight. Pick your poison, I suppose.

Hezbollah seems to have bombarded a farm in the north of Israel with rockets and artillery, and the Israelis are retaliating with airstrikes. Certainl...

With international politics being what they are, this is an incredibly tricky situation. One can only hope that this powder keg doesn't finally blow, ...

I gave a pretty elaborate response to this question, by the way:

The way that you phrased your hypothetical, those other countries would be forming a bloc that would function essentially the same as NATO. So in that...

My suggestion would be, don't waste your time replying to forum members that try to frame you as being partisan. They're not worth your time and effor...

Damn. I extend an olive branch and gave a serious response to your question, and you give me this? How sad.

Enough with the sass. If you want a straightforward answer, just ask a straightforward question. Unclear, loaded or passive aggressive questions I don...

What inquiries? I'll happily answer your questions, but you have a rather unclear way of asking them.

On an added note, the Russians seem to be getting rather boisterous as of late. I take that as a clear sign they believe the West is out of aces and t...

I didn't talk about 'forcing'. The US was aware of and crossed the Kremlin's red lines despite over a decade of warnings, and now Ukraine is paying th...

And what do you make of the fact that Washington was deeply aware of the Kremlin's red lines, crossed them anyway and is now having Ukraine pay the bi...

These oompa loompas keep saying the quiet part out loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDOrYkn3vs This time some cringy quotes from the Minister of...

Well, he is not wrong: Victoria Nuland: Ukrainians Deserve Respect From Their Government This was posted on December 19th, 2013. Months before the cou...

This doesn't describe the war in Ukraine, though. Russia doesn't claim any such rights.

The Russians are after world domination by force? You'll have to explain that one. The US has never over the course of some 20+ years veered from its ...

Well, the Russians have never made a secret of what they believe their security concerns are. It is the West (primarily the US) that has refused dialo...

Well, if you have no interest in other countries' views and their security concerns, what situation do you believe you'll end up with other than endle...

Ok, then. Have fun going to war until the only side that's right is the only side that's left, I suppose.

To be honest, Brzezinski deserves to be taken seriously. In 1997 he wrote an influential book called 'The Grand Chessboard' in which he detailed Ameri...

Nah. What you're suggesting is a joke, really.

The depths of the pipeline (80m - 110m) are well within what is considered 'technical diving' range (60m+). Things like oxygen toxicity and decompress...