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sqgl, to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]

Brendan Behan quote: The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

sqgl, to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]

Was it with an iron fist though? Genuine question because I know zero about that period.

sqgl, to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]

Bibi is in power because of religious zealots (and just under half of Israel hated him for it).

sqgl, to piracy in Starting to use "soulseek" do I need VPN

Other users do not have your IP address. It is not like torrenting.

sqgl, to news in Unguided ‘dumb bombs’ used in almost half of Israeli strikes on Gaza (Gifted article - no pay wall)

Legally possible because Israel is not a party to the convention on cluster munitions. Neither Ukraine nor Russia are either.

I can’t imagine cluster bombs being useful in urban warfare though.

sqgl, to news in Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support

I once did the sums to calculate that USA could have afforded a run a gun buyback scheme (like Australia) rather than invade Iraq, you know… to cut down on Americans killing Americans.

sqgl, (edited ) to news in Video of Palestinians stripped, forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire

Firstly this is a non-story of try-hard outrage. Secondly, the real concern of bombing was addressed just today by Biden who sees through Bibi’s ultra-conservative agenda and publicly criticised him for it.

sqgl, to news in Video of Palestinians stripped, forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire

16⁰C is not the temperature they were sitting in. What is wrong with you? How many times must you be told?

sqgl, (edited ) to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]

Nothing was ever given to them, only taken

Who is “them”? I was talking about the land given to Jews by the colonisers: England and France.

The 6 day war had a larger army on the Arab side. I dunno how much financial backing Israel had from USA or how it compared with the backing (if any) by the Arab oil states and I doubt you know or care either.

I am trying to learn here, but you just insist on lazy mud slinging. Blocking you.

sqgl, (edited ) to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]

Why do i keep hearing it described like losing a game?

What do you mean by “it”?

I thought we were talking specifically about changes to the borders of what was given to them (irresponsibly?) by the Allies after WW2.

The 6 day war in 1967 was initiated by surrounding Arab countries. Israel won that war and expanded into the Sinai and Gaza (Egypt), Golan Heights (Syria), West Bank and East Jerusalem (Jordan). They didn’t initiate the expansion. They then returned the Sinai to Egypt.

Admittedly after that they did take more without provocation. The chipping away with settlements is happening to this very day.

I just rewatched the above video in order to spell out the details. It is all new to me. Have a look yourself if you are genuinely interested in discussing the conflict. It really is well made and easy to follow (I dunno if there are errors though).

sqgl, (edited ) to news in Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion]

What vote? I wasn’t talking about any election and neither was blazera (who correctly said Jews were given the land).

I was talking about the 6 day war. Great animation showing the history here youtu.be/m19F4IHTVGc/

sqgl, to news in Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

I put it in both this time. There is so little content on Lemmy. Still early days. Why c/ prefix? c for community? (vs r for Reddit)

sqgl, to news in Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

Sorry, am new. I saw this other relatively trivial Trump post approved here so I thought it was OK.

I won’t leave it to the mods. Will police myself in future.

sqgl, to news in Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

So maybe they are only performing token work at the moment? Handing in documents late, not bothering to read evidence etc

That is brilliant actually.

Most lawyers do the minimum work possible anyhow in my experience — have ditched four so far.

The very first one failed to write the letter he promised and yet billed me for our one hour meeting (where he failed to disclose costs). I naively thought he was an anomaly. I did win my case with my fifth lawyer eventually.

sqgl, to news in Israel Closes Al Jazeera Facilities

To their credit, the g20 video they streamed alongside their false commentary is enough to discredit their interpretation of events.

It isn’t “to their credit”. They slipped up by including the visual evidence which proves their reporter lied. The reporter was on site, not in a studio.

The hospital was not hit by a missile. The car park was. There was no way 500 people were sleeping there. The footage was available the same day.

In addition, AJ streamed live footage of missiles from Gaza including the one which turned around and (presumably) hit the hospital.

Meanwhile zero images of the hospital being hit have been released to this day.

I doubt Israeli newspapers are any better but AJ messed up big time.

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