I completely agree with The Atheist on this one. The only way Hamas loses this is for Israel to kill every last Palestinian in Gaza. So, how do they win? That's a serious question. What constitutes "winning" for them, and how do the October 7 attacks directly or indirectly lead to a win? ...
I completely agree with The Atheist on this one. The only way Hamas loses this is for Israel to kill every last Palestinian in Gaza. So, how do they win? That's a serious question. What constitutes "winning" for them, and how do the October 7 attacks directly or indirectly lead to a win?
If you're able to ignore the limbs blown off babies and look at the "war" as an intellectual exercise, Hamas were smart as hell unleashing the attack. They absolutely knew Israel would go all America on their arse and massacre thousands of people, and Israel promptly did exactly what they...
But hey, it's growing a whole new generation of terrorists, so it's all good - we gotta have forever wars. Indeed. And that was predictable. I look at October 7, and I see a truly disgusting event. Really, really, bad. A massive, coordinated attack against primarily civilian targets. The people on ...
We shuttle about; get conquered; explore; exploit...why get zealous about one spot in time? Because it's a religious thing. "God gave this land to me" as the song goes. Israelis believe that they not only have a right to that piece of the world, they have a literal God-given right to it. ...
Maybe we could give a state to the Israelis. A Dakota. Call it Zion. Hitler wanted to give them Madagascar, but he couldn't work out the details, so he killed them instead. Well, not quite all of them. But no one wanted the survivors. My fantasy solution to the problem would be, instead of giving t...
I'm no fan of Joe Biden, in general, but at least he is saying the right things about the settler problem. Or, at least he is saying something. I don't know if any previous president actually openly criticized settler policy, except maybe in slight, mamby pamby, "We need to find a solution"...
When you think that you´ve lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/west-bank-palestinians-israel-settlers.html Paywall. But since it includes the word "settlers", I assume it's about Jews doing something stupid. H...