Do you mean that if you lived in Gaza (say pre oct 7), you’d rather try to kill as many Israelis as possible and sacrifice yourself for that instead of choosing peace?

Also, as per the latest poll, finally a majority thinks that the choice for violence wasn’t the best idea

You might as well argue that Hamas did all the work for their Israeli counterparts. So why would you first describe it so onesided?

The very Palestinians who were in charge of Gaza for the last 20 years and are now posing as righteous were very commited to sabotage Oslo, and did so with numerous bomb attacks against civilians

Sorry but that top picture shows a small crater in the concrete with some sand, and that bottom picture shows a small crater in the asphalt with some sand

I’m going to have to go with the weapons expert from HRW instead of some comically biased website on this one

If you have credible eyewitness reports, please share

Those impact craters look very comparable to me… What do you suppose it should look like?

Do you consider your source to be unbiased towards Israel?

edit: I must say as I read some more on that site or yours that I’d consider them childishly biased against anything ““Israel””…

Can you provide your comparison with ‘previous Iron Dome failures’?

I think this article from AP is much more valuable. They cite, among others, a weapons expert from HRW and the doctor that treated the wounded. What makes you think these people are lying and your source is definitively correct?

trusting Pakistanis for anything [was stupid], moreso

Do you believe it’s something in their genes?

And do you remember what happened to those that didn’t agree to your deal?

First, why would it have to start with Israel and not both sides? Don’t forget that Hamas tried to tank the Oslo accords with a series of suicide attacks in the mid-90’s.

And why wouldn’t a one state solution be an option for peace, given time? A lot of Arab nations were already moving towards normalisation with Israel. Which is why Hamas and Hezbollah need to stoke the fire every once in a while.

I’m reading interviews with Hamas militants who want their children to continue their fight to return to the village that their own grandparents were chased out of (within the 1948 jewish-allocated borders no less). As in: return to the village that these kids’ great-grandparents had lived in. And failing that, probably go on to move back to the villages of their great-great-greatparents?

At a certain point there’s limitations on the links between generations and whether they want to spend their lives trying to right the wrongs done to their ancestors that they didn’t even know themselves, or to go on with their lives in the present. There aren’t, for example, that many African-American slave descendants still trying to reclaim their ancestors’ tribes’ lands in Africa, or native Americans (north and south) trying to push all the immigrants since the late 1400s back into the sea. History and humanity move on.

If by ‘confirmed’ you mean ‘claimed by Hezbollah after the damage became apparent, without any evidence whatsoever’ then yeah, I guess a lot of other things were ‘confirmed’ that mysteriously fit your narrative.

I agree on most points, except perhaps that the ISI isn’t exactly as tightly run that you don’t have strong internal factions. What happens in Pashtun doesn’t necessarily jive with what happens in Islamabad.

Well that brings us to an interesting point

If you are unwilling to vacate from your clearly stolen land… Then why should the Israelis?

I’d say you are the one who’s reaching (of the hard kind) if you think I’m going to argue about whether the US response was well done

I’m just here to point out that your statement that Biden didn’t use it as an example to warn the Israelis was utterly incorrect

Also, I think it’s quite funny that you think they could have just sent in some specops squad to walk around Afghanistan with a picture of OBL and they’d have him by the end of the week or something

Well, you’re going pretty off-topic from your original statement that Bibi should have been replaced with someone that could have prevented the hostage-takings.

Also, you might want to read up on what happened to the natives that lived where you live now.

Perhaps

But a) chances are it wouldn’t have been so easy to just chopper in and out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to nab him, and b) it’s questionable that just killing one figurehead in retaliation for a massive terror attack that killed thousands wouldn’t just embolden them

Spoiler alert

It’s to counter Iran

You couldn’t be more wrong

But I caution this: While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it.

After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. And while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.

I’m not advocating for any of those, but I understand you want to make it appear as such

I’m saying that the most peaceful solution is for Hezbollah (and Hamas) to accept their loss and stop trying to ethnically cleanse the jews out of Palestine. Their sporadic cross-border attacks can only be stopped effectively with a crushing military response and all the death and destruction that comes with it

Sounds and looks like the Persian version

Azerbaijan did it

They’ve given the World a new F1-venue to compensate

Concrete blocks 8ft into the ground