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Read animal farm. Your rephrasing is a bit silly.

So proportionality isn't a thing?

yeah, saw it too. Very good.

Aka "more of the same". At what cost do we destroy terrorists? History is replete with peace deals with the most vile dictators, terrorists (didn't we...

Obviously this. After the first die is cast, most plans are for the rubbish bins. Especially if you don't have several battalions in reserve and optio...

For those illiterate on what Hamas is: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-hamas At the very least very popular. And if Fatah hadn't ousted them in ...

You have reading comprehension problems. There's a clear difference between "Hamas can be made peace with" and "I think Hamas did the right thing". Bu...

I'll do it for your then. So much for the "I'm so unbiased I can't even quote in the right context". The paragraph titled 2 is no more and no less tha...

Any news on the liberation of any of the hostages? And would that give space for deescalation if those would be freed?

Yes, maybe continue reading instead of selectively quoting it. Edit: actually, I think you should be the one to now quote the full paragraph you pulle...

Based on what? Since 2017 they've explicitly changed their charter to allow for a two states solution along the 1967 borders.

Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me but I seem to recall Israel instituting the blockade almost immediately following the election and there was a...

The rather obvious point why I don't care about these "who would you rather be friends with? " is that that doesn't preclude friends from acting immor...

Haha, you're an idiot. Is your tactic now, let's ask stupid hypothetical questions to deflect from the war crimes being committed? Or are your serious...

sigh. This follow up question is as stupid as your question about where you'd rather live.

Yes, the Allies also committed plenty of war crimes.

I agree. When is Israel going to stop with it?

Here's a piece from a Dutch historian and expert on the US about the radicalisation of the Republican Party: https://www.maartenonline.nl/als-een-part...

I was replying to your reply to RogueAI (one above your Bibi quote) and think RogueAI's original question was silly. Define "its" land.

I think the question in general is idiotic. We're dealing with a question of justice not what's more comfortable or easier. Would you rather have been...

The security problem in the region goes both ways. And let's not pretend terrorism wasn't a reaction to the illegal occupation and not the other way a...

The long term solution for Likud is to ensure a two state solution is not viable. Bombing Palestinians to the stone age is effective.

It would be very convenient for Israel to cast this as a war between two sovereign nations instead of between oppressor and oppressed (or at least a t...

Errr... Didn't the Romans have to continually expand to bankroll their government? The roman empire was one big expansionist war until it started to c...

Well, I guess we should be happy we're fucking up the world to such an extent, in pursuit of shareholder value, that such municipal scale societies wi...

Definitely true. It's just that changing everything to a nuanced form was more convoluted and less clear in clarifying the point.

https://www.tiktok.com/@menilek27872/video/7288444630201290027

I can see where you're coming from but I don't think the analogy works because in the wardrobe I'm not actively contributing to the situation why the ...

So this is interesting again: US envoy talks about attack against Jews If I'd say Jews are oppressing Palestinians or say they're complicit in the mur...

It's not an insight but I consider Netanyahu depraved enough to make such a calculus that I worry it might actually be true. And given that he thinks ...

What is the likelihood Bibi ignored it on purpose considering all the flack he's gotten in the past year? And now score big by levelling Gaza. I think...

It's not hollow but logically consistent. What rings hollow is your "might makes right" argument as a reason to ignore their position. Given what I ju...

It will certainly not come from within Israel any time soon. We need a boycott, divestment and sanction program just like what we did with south afric...

Future risks are a reason to mitigate those risks and therefore do something, it's not an argument for doing nothing. Clearer?

It doesn't address Palestinian security either. You need to keep things open-ended, especially in light of the fact that both sides have their utterly...

I do think it's possible but it requires a lot of good faith negotiations. To me it would look like something like this: Here's a two-state solution a...

Intent based on hearsay is not admissable so there should be actual actions and statements from Trump himself unless this is just a reformulation of p...

Even the political wing of Hamas is in favour of a two State solution but refuses to recognise the Israeli state as a fact in law. Recognising the sta...

I have to apologise to @"Hanover" in particular but I'm devastated by what's going on (both ways) and it's turned me totally cynical on the whole issu...

Yes, I think we're beyond morality for some time already but it's taken me until this latest bullshit to realise it. That probably happened around the...

Yes, why should I justify it for one party if the other doesn't and gets all the moral support and best wishes and guns? That doesn't seem like a leve...

I'm merely using the same arguments as Israel does. Seems perfectly morally tenable to me.

I indeed didn't follow the link. In any case, a personal tragedy for those involved, and at the same time exactly what Israel has sowed. As I've state...

The two-states solution had been made de facto impossible already. It's a good distraction though as everybody can pretend they're still in favour of ...

Successfully striking against an oppressor seems a good reason to celebrate.

With the current lock down I don't think foreign backing is relevant. I'm actually impressed how Hamas has managed to keep this operation hidden. I wo...

Sure, in that case I agree.

Define situation.

A very good reply if you want to kill people. Leave morality at the door when figuring out Israeli calculus.

Seems the most likely outcome when you mobilise this many troops. I don't see a lack of support as a problem. They don't care about a stern talking to...