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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...

And....there has been an arrest in the case of the murdered Palestinian olive farmer.

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...

The thing I find so depressing about it, is that I don't see a good course of action. I don't see things exactly like you expressed. I don't think the Israeli side wants to kill all the Arabs. At least, the people in charge of Israel don't want to kill all the Arabs. I think they're indifferent to k...

So.....what's so depressing about it? If you didn't watch it, she describes a very hard life. She didn't mention anyone in her family killed, so that's a plus. She lost her three cats, but saved the dog. She's living, along with several family members, in the south of the Gaza Strip, in an area with...

This board is mostly lightweight stuff, but this just struck me. It's a bit depressing. Well.....more than a bit, really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wtdO2e5vwU It's a young woman, 23 years old, describing her life in Gaza right now. It's not good. But I must confess, what truly depressed me wa...

I have a new theory about what's wrong with our country. Everyone takes themselves too damned seriously, and overestimates their own significance. I saw in the news today that the Audobon Society is going to rename dozens of bird names that have racist backgrounds. I think that means that whoever di...