Manuel

As a side note, this is an excellent source for human rights abuses by Israel on the occupied territories, by an Israeli Human Rights organization, ve...

If it's something that never happened before I would agree. But the extensive documentation provided by human rights agencies in the 2012, 2014, and o...

Jeez man, this is vulgar Israeli propaganda and people believe it! Wow, suddenly Hamas has rockets that can destroy entire hospitals. Just gross. Than...

Let's hope so. It has been reported in Israeli media that they have attacked Hezbollah today and they have declared it "a day of unprecedented anger",...

Haha! Yeah, those Christians man, they're wild too. We've just become numb to the BS they spew.

But they don't have the capacity to so. They can say they want to make Israel dust, it doesn't matter. Israel IS turning Gaza into dust and is continu...

They are being nebulous, they of course don't want to be destroyed, but they have issued several warnings. So far, Israel has not relented on not lett...

Well... From Reuters: Iran says 'preemptive action' by resistance front expected in coming hours Iran's top envoy said that a "preemptive action" coul...

Thanks frank!

They may detract Iran, but Hezbollah? That's looking tougher by the day. The didn't go in today, or yesterday because of the "weather". The issue is, ...

Nope. But there is the issue of relevance to the ongoing issue, talking about say, Hezbollah potentially getting involved or Israel proceeding with th...

I don't exactly see how this helps for this situation here. Even if a Palestinian state were to be established, it would've been done so after an enor...

Then this is not much of a problem. I think we agree. That it is a-priori is not in doubt. Nevertheless, it is intelligible for me to suppose that the...

You could try to phrase an intelligible question.

To be fair to the Israelis - of which I am being highly critical of, much more than Hamas - what you say about "all of it", goes way beyond Israel. Of...

Meanwhile eyes are on Hezbollah. They're continuing to respond in a tit for tat manner to Israeli attacks. It's a powder keg. I don't know if they can...

Ah. I see, that is obviously an unusual or rare way to get knowledge about this conflict. One of my oldest friends came here through Jordan as refugee...

Are you Israeli?

I don't think most people here are arguing that civilians ought to be targeted, that is indeed a war crime and is heinous. Granting that - how would y...

Sure, those are all important factors to take into consideration for the modern-day situation. Now, the way forward, it seems to me, is that most of t...

So, by this logic, the Palestinians are forced to destroy Israel, because the oppression and destruction brought upon the Israeli state is incomparabl...

From Reuters: Egypt rejects calls from Israeli army for Gaza Strip's residents to leave their homes and head south

Perhaps. But if they're telling 1.5 million people to move to the south of Gaza, in order to render it dust, something might happen. Israel confirmed ...

Iran says crimes against Palestinians to receive response from axis https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-crimes-against-palestinians-re...

Doesn't hurt if they're Muslim. Nobody cares about them, at least in the so called "West". I'm sounding like a broken record, but what is going on in ...

And I want to live in another planet. Wishes are very easy, reality is a whole different situation. Hamas is in a large part a creation of the Israeli...

I'll phrase this differently to what I usually say: The interaction of res cogitans and res extensa was a problem during the 17th century and before, ...

Finally, some Finkelstein background, from yesterday, quite long but worth listening to part of it: https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/video-rec...

The situation in Lebanon is still very, very dangerous. It will be difficult to show restraint if both sides keep shooting rockets at each other.

Nicely put. :up: I'm sure Hamas expected retaliation. But starving the whole of Gaza? That's genocidal. The people of Gaza are fucked no matter what t...

Very well put, this whole extremely important context is badly missing, and explains a whole lot.

From Al-Jazeera: Three Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon Three Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Israeli shelling of the Lebanese group’s posi...

Correct. If they do go that route, it will be because they've determined that they literally will be in a position where they are being destroyed, so ...

Ah, took long enough to hear about the human shields argument. I mean, given how big Gaza is, Hamas is particularly responsible for Israel shooting do...

Stikes will continue even if captives are hurt. :yikes: This is wild.

Kant touch this. :cool:

Great post, I agree. It's definitely true the Palestinian issue is a thorn in the side of most Arab governments, in large part because they don't have...

This takes us back to the topic of needing others to create some kind of reference to one's self. To this extent, I agree. I don't find it intelligibl...

Yeah- I gave it a brief try, but you are correct. Thanks.

I mean, if I see further, it's because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, is all I'm saying. :snicker:

Man, I mean I think some mystical stuff is pretty cool, like Wittgenstein's stuff in the last parts of Tractatus. It's when it becomes New Agey or "Di...

Depends on how it is formulated. But even Kant - whatever you think of him - put strict limits on what could be said about it, which turns out to be e...

From Haaretz: Reports estimate Israel will launch ground attack in Gaza within 48 hours Sources in the Biden administration estimate that Israel will ...

What's with this sudden concern of things beyond all possible experience or cognition? You do realize that it's literally beyond experience and cognit...

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It can be interpreted that way. On the other hand it could commit the US military to another war. The aid they get through the US, plus the weapons an...

US to send aircraft carrier to Mediterranean to support Israel. Who do they think they are fighting, China? This is the world's largest prison. It wou...

So, the self as an accountable agent for moral decisions and broader social and contextual circumstances, a bit like becoming who you are by acting or...

He's been the like that for a long time. He recent resurgence after his drug withdrawal may have played a role in turning his into a cartoon villain t...

It's a kind of experimental state, in that the US sends cutting edge military technology which can be used on a civilian population and have no reperc...