*Sanctioned but yeah.
*Sanctioned but yeah.
Uh… What? I’m saying that Israel being fascist (at least in their treatment of Palestinians) was never temporary. They were fascist when they declared independence, they were fascist in the 50s, they were fascist in the 60s, etc etc until you get to today. Was there ever a point when Israel wasn’t fascist?
I mean fair enough but the reported number is 8. If they underreport what will they say? 10? 11? It’s very rare for Arab militias to score casualties in the double digits against the Israeli military (October 7th was a massive outlier), so I’d be inclined to take the number at face value or expect it to go up by one or two due to fatal injuries.
Honestly, I don’t think justice for Palestinians is likely. As I see it, peace is inevitable but moderately far at the pace we’re going, but justice would require a perceived violation of Israel’s integrity that Palestinians will never have the bargaining power to demand. It’d be throwing a wrench into a peace process that will likely be reluctant and fragile already. Justice would be nice to have as an addon, but Palestinians will likely choose to take the fastest route towards human rights, which will be a two-state solution where Palestinians make some concessions but gain a state with real sovereignty. If something drastically changes justice might become possible, but in my thinking it’ll be Palestinians, not Israelis, making concessions to make peace possible a la the Oslo Accords.
I mean morally it doesn’t, but it should matter for the US that it’s citizens are getting bombed. More than just a moral failure, America not acting to protect those citizens indicates its failure as a state. It’s very much worth pointing out.
That latter option won’t cause much change. Israel is, as a state and as a people, ideologically poisoned. They need something on the level of the denazification of Germany before you can hope for any change.
Pointless hate? These people are subject to Israeli Apartheid and acts of ethnic cleansing. Daily. What part of fighting that is pointless?
There are, in fact, none. That’s why Hamas managed to gain the Palestinian cause a lot of sympathy over the last 20 years while the PLO did absolutely fucking nothing.
Uh… There are Lebanese American people who want to visit their families. It’s dangerous, but for many people worth the danger when their homes aren’t suddenly made into active warzones.
They’ve been fascist ever since their inception (remember the Nakba?), and they’ll continue being fascist until an ideological revolution takes place at home (unlikely) or they’re made to stop by external forces (inevitable, but will likely take a long time).
I mean the war on terror is widely regarded to be one of the biggest disasters in American history so… uh… you’re not making the point you think you’re making.
Hamas has set the Palestinian cause back by decades.
How so? Hamas has been the leader of both armed resistance and peace talks with Israel for 20 years, and if you look at the change in public opinion in the West over the time period you’ll see the result. You said they set the Palestinian cause back by decades, but then I would like to ask: In what way did they set it back and who else was even advancing it?
In a full-scale war I get you, but in Israel’s case the casualties are usually not enough for that kind of foul play. The number can also be confirmed via publicly available routes, which is why people could tell that October 7th killed 1000 and change instead of the initial 1200 estimate, and that 66% of those were military or security targets. Israel didn’t release that information themselves.
As someone watching from outside (and a born and bred bidet user), this is hilarious.
Okay Hamas is important for the Palestinian cause but seriously can they just stop shit like this? The whole world is paying attention to them and this is how they decide to use that attention?
Isn’t that just cloud computing but with extra steps?
Even then. LLMs are fundamentally unable to create AGI; we’d need another paradigm shift in the field.
LLMs are unable to create AGI. It’s mathematically impossible.
I don’t think they hide their casualties. Can’t really hide that stuff when all the information becomes publicly available anyway.
True to an extent but you need economic output to give you weight in the international stage. Otherwise you start getting pushed around by other superpowers.