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Atrocities occur when one side deliberately kill or harm non-combattants, n ot as a side-effect of an attack, but as the primary target .... If they were to deliberately kill non-combattants without a legitimate military objective, that would be an atrocity. Body count alone is not an atrocity. (em...

Israel is committing atrocities, apparently, Such as......? Here, this might help: There have been five Israel-Gaza wars since 2008. These charts show the latest one is by far the deadliest It doesn't help in the least. War sucks. People die. This includes civilians. Men, women, children, old peopl...

National holiday this week - Thanksgiving. Because, Murica! https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/cape-coral-business-offers-free-turkey-ar-15-with-roof-purchase/3149085/ That's ... weird. "Virtue signalling" is not a new phenomenon. We used to call it "holier than thou". But it's...

Israel is denying they ordered the evacuation of al-Shifa, but the statements of the people who used to be inside seem pretty credible. It seems the Israelis just might be lying. In so many different contexts, I'm always surprised when people do things that are absolutely guaranteed to piss people o...

All the focus on whether or not Hamas was using the hospital is kind of bizarre to me. Israel believed Hamas was using it. Were they really? Why does it matter? So we can assess the quality of Israeli intelligence? What we know, for certain, is that as the IDF tried to reach the hospital, they were ...

If they don't do that, then a pox on both their houses. I'm betting a grand to a teaspoonful of shit they don't. It appears you are very likely to win a teaspoonful of shit. I've been looking for any news stories about what's happening at the hospital after the Israeli raid, and there seems to be n...

I've been pretty supportive of Israel, but then things like the raid on al-Shifa happen, and it just gets more depressing. I have no problem with them going into al-Shifa, but in my opinion, once they're inside, they have an obligation to fix it. It's a fairly stable building. Now that they're in, t...

John Oliver did a very good job, as usual. (Sometimes, I think he's dead wrong about stuff, but most of the time I like him.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9PKQbkJv8 Although, I disagree with the very end. Spoiler alert, he calls for a cease fire. The tone of it is that if there is to be any pos...

Stopping what they are doing would be a start. Think it through to the end. Well, there is no end. Think it through to next month. "What they are doing" is fighting a war. If they stop doing that, where they are, they keep getting shot at. If they stop doing that and withdraw, Hamas resum...

But...what to do? I don't see any good options for the IDF. It's a choice among evils, and I don't know what I would say to them. To Hamas and friends, I know what I would say. Stop shooting. I don't think they'll take my advice. It doesn't seem to fit with their goals. That's the exact point for H...