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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
Judaism isn't just a religion; Israel happily accepts non-religious Jews. The goal was to solve a massive refugee problem for a persecuted group with nowhere else to go. In any case, as a sovereign state, Israel gets to decide on its o
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
They're unguided rockets which can only vaguely target civilian population centers, not any military assets. That's quite literally terrorism.
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
Yes, Israel attempted one false flag attack 72 years ago, intending to damage some empty buildings with no casualties. Still nothing to do with any synagogue.
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
> The Palestinian state already exists, so the least they could do is recognize its right to exist There exists a national identity, but the organization that claims to be its government does not enjoy popular support, and more important
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
Synagogues such as..?
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
What would recognizing "Palestine's right to exist" look like? They proposed the creation of a Palestinian state several times; what more would you expect? > israeli ideological wishes of destroying Palestine, Lebanon, Ira
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
> October 7 was the culmination of (then) 75 years of [...] Nothing you might say after this can justify massacring, kidnapping or raping civilians. > the denial of clean water, the denial of electricity This is pretty unreasonable fr
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
How is it exploitation when both sides are benefiting? If anything the US may be benefiting more, considering that Trump is keen on continuing the arrangement while Netanyahu is not. > Israel would have bankrupted itself The Lavi program
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
> Israel couldn't afford the Lavi Israel may not have started the program without US funding, but it was plausible enough to continue without it. After all, the decision to cancel it was only a slim majority, 12–11. If the US positi
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
You'll be happy to learn that Netanyahu favors tapering off US aid, although some US politicians are less enthusiastic. > What are we paying for Some very important influence. For example, US thought Israel's Lavi program would
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
> Oh so the UN is a huge red flag now ? The UN doesn't adjudicate such matters. The ICJ does, and they have made no such finding. South Africa recently requested an 18-month extension in their "urgent" ICJ case, delaying t
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
Your demand for a highly specific friendly-fire incident seems a bit silly. Can you cite an example of the opposite - a tiny country intentionally attacking a ship of a superpower, then pretending it was accidental, giving a apology and mil
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
Screwups happen, and it wasn't only on Israel's side. USS Liberty was way closer to the coast/warzone than it should have been due to missing an order, and once attacked, wasn't able to even communicate with its fleet fo
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
It's pretty absurd to think that Israel would intentionally attack a neutral superpower in the middle of a war for its survival, knowing that at best it would have to apologize and pay reparations, and at worst it would be destroyed by
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by FunnyUsername 3mo ago
Presumably he's a reservist who was drafted after his country was invaded, and tried to attend a few work calls (although he should have been on paid leave) while drafted. What's the issue? Also one reservist is not "soldiers
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by FunnyUsername 4mo ago
> Israel keeps attacking civilians Such as..? > Iran has been attacking military targets Maybe a few, but the vast majority of their strikes illegally targeted civilian infrastructure. Off the top of my head, there was Dubai airport (
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by FunnyUsername 4mo ago
You seem to be implying that the Israeli strike targeted or harmed dissident prisoners, rather than regime targets. The article doesn't say that. It says there was some "panic" about a damaged ceiling, "although they did
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by FunnyUsername 4mo ago
> I have no issue with Jews. You do with at least the 95%+ of Jews who support Jewish self-determination in the Jewish homeland. That's all Zionism is.
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by FunnyUsername 5mo ago
> I am not aware of a reliable Israeli news source. If you consider Al Jazeera a reliable source, then we'll probably disagree on this. But I would say Ynet, Times of Israel, and Jerusalem Post and reliable, just to name some of the
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by FunnyUsername 5mo ago
Hitler regularly negotiated with other leaders, should he have been off-limits as a target? Why should it be any different with Hamas leaders, who sometimes negotiate and sometimes organize terror attacks?
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by FunnyUsername 5mo ago
What quote are you referring to?
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by FunnyUsername 5mo ago
Israel hadn't agreed to anything yet though. There was apparently some confusion in the Pakistani mediation. Vance called it a "legitimate misunderstanding".
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by FunnyUsername 5mo ago
> every major news outlet was including Lebanon in the agreement Israel never said anything about having accepted an agreement, and in fact stated the opposite. The Pakistani mediator can't just declare Israel part of an agreement w
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
I did, can you just spell out what you're trying to say?
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
One can similarly become Palestinian by immigrating to Palestine (and "fitting in", which involves speaking Arabic etc). Arafat was born in Egypt, for example. Does this refute the notion that Palestinians are from Palestine? I wo
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
If you're suggesting that a peoples' right to live in their homeland is forfeited as a result of immigration, terrorism or ethnic cleansing, that would be bad news for Palestinians. Gaza and WB Area A are Jew-free zones, and there
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
They don't rely on infrastructure like morgues, they collected casualty reports from a Google form, and later a self-hosted form: https://sehatty.ps/moh-registration/public/add-order
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
Sharing the land with another group of people who are also from the region would not be "giving up their homeland".
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
> There is no census scheduled for 2027 2027 is the expectation, since it's supposed to be at least every ten years. > Numbers of deaths aren't being estimated from WhatApp chats. Unfortunately they are. [1] was based on mes
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by FunnyUsername 8mo ago
It's like defining Germany as "a state that genocided various groups", or defining Irish nationalism as "a movement characterized by terrorist attacks against British civilians". Whether or not those claims are accu

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