BitconnectCarlos

I'd actually like the leaders of Hamas dead, but out of office would be a victory as well. Ideally, Hamas as both an organization and a belief system ...

I don't believe the Gaza or WB are technically annexed; I've heard both referred to as 'self-governing' or 'disputed territories' but not part of Isra...

This is just a semantic issue. Yes, Israel went on the offensive but I wouldn't call Israel the aggressor (therefore they didn't aggress.) If A starts...

I might want Netanyahu out of office, but I wouldn't say "destroyed." That's something completely different. I don't want the Israeli state destroyed....

If you truly cared about the suffering of the Palestinian people you'd want Hamas destroyed.

You could not care less about the genocide of LGBTQ Palestinians by Hamas. You only care, or pretend to care, about violence when it is interracial or...

1. Sure and Israel has offered to give them a state in the past, but with Hamas in power Israel is absolutely under no obligation to go in that direct...

You have absolutely zero respect or care for material reality. The truth on the ground. It's honestly amazing.

I wonder what counts as a "plan" here. Do they mean formal documentation like the Nazis at the Wannsee conference? In what sense do the Israelis have ...

Is that it? Is that your response to what I wrote? God, why did I waste my time with you? Well, I've learned now. Later.

Let me know if I'm misinterpreting Buber here, but AFAIK he really valued consensus but there was no way Israel as a Jewish state would ever come to e...

This is history - no crystal ball needed. Show me where I'm wrong then. Show me that the Arabs were open to a Jewish state in '48 and I will reevaluat...

I haven't read any Buber, but I gleaned some of his ideas about Zionism and while they seem nice I can't help but think they're a little too idealisti...

Yes, Wiesel would have obviously sided with Hamas. :nerd: Since I can't believe you're actually this stupid, I'm just going to concluded that you're a...

The self-reflection barb wasn't aimed at you. I had others in mind. I'm not even following the situation in the West Bank because the current violence...

:chin: Ya know, when your "dignity" is only "defended" via trying to intentionally murder random "enemy" civilians -- with most of the actual damage &...

Out of a sample of 850 rockets launched by Hamas, 200 ended up over Gaza. That's 23.5%, and that figure is from a few days ago. Currently, Hamas has l...

That was not my intended meaning and I'm sorry if it came across that way. Sometimes in conflict people refer to the opposing military forces just via...

Hamas is the ruling party in Gaza. That's where the conflict is. Wiesel always supported Israel's to defend itself so unless you can dig up quotes of ...

He blamed Hamas for using children as "human shields." He called Hamas a "death cult." Now given this information.... what should we conclude about hi...

Eli Wiesel hated Hamas with a passion and always believed in Israel's right to defend itself. Whose side do you think Wiesel would be on today if he w...

Wiesel was an ardent Zionist throughout his entire life. Nice try, though. :wink:

You're asking me where Hamas should launch rockets against civilian populations. The answer is nowhere, but if they are going to pick a place then don...

The proportionality is because Israel actually has missile defense. 90% of rockets are stopped. If Israel didn't have that the kill count would be muc...

Israel raided Al-Aqsa because of a weapons cache there that would later be used against Israel. In hindsight, was this the best way to go about resolv...

This analogy isn't apt because Hamas started launching rockets first. Israel did not just begin the aggression.

"99% of the killing is done by Israel" is a fatuous statement. It has zero bearing to who is right or wrong in a conflict. Israel is definitely defend...

The reason Israel suffers so many less casualties is because they have a missile defense system that intercepts the vast majority of rockets which sav...

I guess now is as good as a time as any for a post-mortem here. For me it honestly wasn't that bad. I've had many other discussions with SL and I thou...

We're at $100 now.

That's the crux of it. Everything else is peripheral. This has been going on since ancient times. Plenty of posters here - Streetlight, 180, among oth...

Yes Hamas is a terrorist group. They are also the sole governing power in Gaza which is a self-governing territory. They were voted into power after t...

Yeah I was thinking something similar. I couldn't imagine the US tolerating rocket attacks on US citizens with their homes being bombed and neighborho...

See my previous post. In any case, Hamas is violating the laws of war by firing rockets from within residential areas leaving Israel in a terrible pos...

It's honestly a complete mess. Rockets are being fired into Israel from residential areas which basically forces Israel to respond by striking residen...

Israel is already guilty by virtue of simply existing for most of these posters.

Haha, that's unfortunately not how it works or I'd be broke very quickly. It's one per a poster.

You just admitted here that Palestinians are genocidal, so given that you've already accepted that, why should the Jews be willing to negotiate with a...

Cool, we got $50 so far. I'll check back on this at the end of the month. Maybe I'll donate it on behalf of the forum.

Sure, we can tally up rights and wrongs and then say "well if it were me...." but I can only take this type of talk so seriously before I start rollin...

They could but that would require an IQ over 70.

Why haven't you acknowledged the attempted genocide of Jews by Hamas? How about by the rest of the Arab countries? How about the slow, gradual genocid...

Streetlight quoted a thinker earlier who basically defined genocide not as the actual extermination of a people, but as the erosion of their social in...

There is no genocide. Never has been. What ever happened to our discussion about America's ongoing genocide against its own minorities? Now that shoul...

Says the person who doesn't even believe in letting other societies rule in their own way and set their own national policies based on their own uniqu...

I feel bad for the Palestinian people but when the ruling body in Gaza refuses to accept the existence of its much more powerful neighbor & launches l...

All I find hateful is Hamas and their insistence on the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. The "occupation" can be negotiated and Israel has mad...

This is not the claim that I am making. I was saying if if you're a neutral third party evaluating a regional conflict between two parties, how these ...

While I agree that the stated goal is noble, his prescription is ineffective towards reaching it. Those resources, instead of being contributed, can a...

Good to know, then you wish the rocket attacks into Israel would immediately stop? Once that happens Israel will stop responding with its own attacks.