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  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • Thank you. I was seriously growing tired of watching you working yourself off on the strawman you fabricated in your mind. How on Earth you came up with the absurd accusation in this comment in particular is beyond me.

    It'll be interesting to see if you actually stay true to your words.

  • Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor Brandsätzen in Paketen

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  • Man muss schließlich russische Pyromanieinteressen respektieren.

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • First a thesaurus, now a dictionary. Will you attempt to score with a collection of formulas next?

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • I guess if you run out of arguments and facts, switching over to using a thesaurus might in some circumstances mask this.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • Thanks for the kind words.

    It's kind of sad though that an appreciative reply is the last thing I ever expected to receive here.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • What you're saying makes no sense. You're rejecting evidence that contradict your conspiracy theory and instead make up a totally unsubstantiated "it's just for appearances" fantasy.

    Just to name one example as to why what you're saying is absurd: Roof-knocking, which they are still doing, costs just as much as an actual air strike and is militarily disadvantageous, since it allows militants to get away with the civilians warnings like these protect. Israel is willing to increase the cost of air strikes and reduce their effectiveness at the same time, just to save lives. Based on how many self-proclaimed pro-Palestinians I've talked to, most are not even aware of what roof-knocking is, so clearly, if this was a PR campaign, it's been a complete failure.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • If this was the case, why did they fire two officers who were responsible for the air strikes that killed seven aid workers in a convoy a while ago - and why did they agree to a ceasefire so that polio vaccinations could be performed in Gaza? Neither of this meshes with your narrative.

  • Israel military fires on humanitarian aid workers from the World Food Program (WFP) in Gaza: "Totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents"

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  • Relevant: https://www.jns.org/israel-begins-shift-to-domestic-ammunition-production/

    Small arms and their ammunition were mostly domestically produced already long before this war, dating back as far as the 1930s, before the nation was even founded. I haven't been able to find any numbers, but I'm pretty certain that domestic arms manufacturer Elbit is responsible for the bulk of the IDF's small caliber ammunition supply:

    https://elbitsystems.com/pdf-category/company-brochures/land-systems/ammunition/

    I know you were implying that it's America who sent these over, likely in an effort to blame America, but in reality, in regards to ammunition, it's mostly artillery shells, bombs and interceptor missiles that are delivered from the US. Israel can and does produce all of these things, but chose not to do so to the full extend of their capabilities in the past out of both convenience and because Uncle Sam insisted. Like the above article says, the issues Ukraine is facing with fickle allies makes Israel, just like Ukraine, look inward and, just like in the past (see the development of their own tanks, fighter jets, missile shield, drones, robots, etc. - many of which started when partners suddenly stopped being reliable) intensify efforts to produce weapons domestically. Some of Israel's current dependency on the US in particular actually happened against at least partially their will: The F-16, the workhorse of the IAF, was practically forced onto Israel by America (because the American defense industry feared Israeli competition), resulting in the shuttering of an advanced domestic fighter aircraft program of their own that was meant to replace the ageing domestic Kfir. High costs were another factor, but who knows what would have happened if the Reagan administration hadn't flexed their muscles.

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • I did not blame Palestinians in my comment, but rather other Arab nations. Some Palestinian leaders most certainly are worthy of being blamed in part though, going as far back as Amin al-Husseini. Still, in the grand scheme of things, most Palestinians are just unlucky. They've never really been able to forge their own destiny, being used like pawns by both foreign and domestic powers who do little more than exploit their suffering for their own benefit.

    If you can show any genocide to me that over the course of decades resulted in a higher birth rate than the nation that allegedly committed it, higher life expectancy and more obesity than the average in the region, then please, do so. I've studied enough genocides to know that this conflict clearly isn't one, to the point that I'm convinced that those who initially made the claim did so maliciously in order to hurt Jews, trivialize the traumatic experience of the Holocaust and mask their own genocidal ambitions against Jews. I'm not accusing you of this - you are likely just repeating what you heard elsewhere without actually thinking about it. Benefit of the doubt.

    Even the way Zionism is used by people like you as if it was some evil, as if Jews are the only people in the world whose desire for a home country is somehow not justified and worthy of being used like a swear word, an accusation against people who don't agree in the disinformation- and hate-infested smear campaign that is being led against Israel. We can argue all day long that there need to be significant reforms in Israel itself, that the far-right government is as much of a stain on the country as similar governments are on other countries, that the settlers are an affront against humanity, etc. pp. - but going so far as to deny a people that is still hunted and persecuted around the world the one place in the world where they aren't an endangered minority is nothing but despicable.

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • Yes, that's the only thing I mentioned. You chose to ignore all the other points, like higher than average life expectancy for the Middle East.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • That's a universal truth about parenting though and not limited to just social media.

  • Carbonara in a can? Chefs get shirty but Heinz is unrepentant

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  • I started out like this when I was in a similar situation, but I gradually worked myself up to cooking instead, initially just by improving or combining canned food. In the end, I had it pretty much down to cook once for several days and eat so much better as a result. You need to sacrifice a few of those minutes of free time though, so if you don't enjoy preparing a meal, that's a big ask after a stressful day or week.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • Educating your kid about the many possible pitfalls of social media is even more important. They will eventually experience it, are likely already to some degree through their friends' devices exposed to it. Don't make the mistake of turning social media into some kind of forbidden fruit, but instead provide them with the tools to deal with it responsibly.

    That said, I would still not allow this Chinese psy-ops tool on any device in my household. Other social media is already terrible enough, but TikTok seems to be engineered to cause nothing but damage.

  • WHO says its deal with Israel will allow limited pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations

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  • I think there's a massive difference between some trigger-happy idiot of a soldier at a checkpoint firing ten shots and injuring nobody and a whole series of miscommunications and mistakes leading to seven dead aid workers through a series of air strikes.

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • You are making it seem as if Hamas are some legitimate resistance organization. They are not, they are brutal oppressors of their own. Their history also goes back further than 30 years, starting out as an offspring of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Radical Islamists like these are enemies of humanity and need to be eliminated. In order for Palestine to be free, they need to go first, with both Gaza and the West Bank experiencing the equivalent of denazification in order to prevent Islamofascism from rising up again in a few years after the end of this war. What should also happen at the same time is that the Israeli equivalent, the settlers, meeting the same fate, but expecting Israeli society to critically look inward when they are somewhat justifiably going through a phase of siege mentality isn't exactly realistic. If Hamas only goal was to prevent Israelis and Palestinians growing used to coexisting, then they most certainly succeeded at that, for decades to come. The times when tens of thousands of Palestinians worked in Israel and up to 100,000 were treated in Israeli hospitals per year - both of which played a huge part in enabling peaceful coexistence - are most definitely over, likely for many decades to come.

    The slow genocide claim is absurd. Since when has any genocide resulted in more births from the supposed victims than the alleged genociders? Palestinian birth rates are high, consistently higher than Israel's, and before the war, this also applied to obesity - in both Gaza and the West Bank. How exactly were they conducting this genocide? By making them all die from heart-disease due to overeating? Life expectancy was higher than the average in the Middle East too, which most certainly is not what would happen during an actual genocide. Even at the current rate of this war, it would take over 80 years for Gaza to be depopulated, assuming no new births. As horrific as the current war is, it's "just" a war, but it's perhaps the most televised (to use a slightly outdated term) and propagandized war in history, a battlefield in the current global Cold War between the West and an unholy alliance of Russia, Iran, China and their vassals. Most people following the war seem to be simply unprepared for the ugliness of an asymmetrical between a ruthless movement that would rather sacrifice every single Palestinian man, woman and child than surrender - vs. a military that after October 7th appears to be compelled to strike with the big hammer to prevent any chance of events similar to that ever happening again. It's a dangerous combination. I'm glad that for all the mistakes the IDF has made that they haven't given up on roof-knocking and similar warnings, which is why despite the immense destruction of buildings, far fewer people have died than in past wars that saw similar destruction. Doesn't help the many innocent who are still caught between a rock and a hard place, of course.

    I find it rich to blame Israel for the violence in the region. The original sin claim is almost offensive, given that the Holocaust led directly to its creation and that the young nation was attacked on day one of its existence. Seems to me like you want to blame the Jews for the antisemitism that caused both the Holocaust and the Arab League attacking Israel.

    The creation of Israel itself is not the problem and neither is its continued existence. One would have to be utterly naive to assume that if Israel didn't exist, there would be anything close to peace in a region as messy as the Middle East. The problem is that there are 22 Arab nations (or about 50 Muslim-majority nations), many of which can not accept the existence of a single tiny Jewish nation. One look at the treatment Palestinian Arabs are receiving in other Arab nation tells us just how little they actually care about the fate of this people. There could have been an Arab Palestinian nation from day one, but instead, Arab leaders wanted to take it all and subject the survivors of the Holocaust to yet another genocide a mere three years after the end of the previous attempt. When they failed, they occupied Gaza and the West Bank instead of allowing the people there to forge their own destiny, which shows that Palestinian freedom was never even a consideration.

    This doesn't mean that I don't acknowledge the crimes against humanity that came with the creation of Israel. The Nakba was inexcusable, there is no doubt about it. Israel should honestly deal with this part of its history instead of trying to suppress it. Using it as an excuse to keep a subset of the Arabian people in a perpetual state of statelessness however is nothing but irresponsible. It cannot be that Palestinian Arabs are the only humans on this planet who can pass down their refugee status, that they cannot gain citizenship in many Arab nations, leaving them trapped in this absurd limbo. By that logic, half of the people in my little town in Germany would be classified as refugees. Several Israeli cities that started out as refugee camps (housing many of the close to one million Jews that were expelled from Middle Eastern and North African nation at the same time as the Nakba) would also still have this status.

    Meanwhile, while we squabble about this one conflict, far more horrific wars like the one in Sudan, where people armed with nothing but rusty AKs and blades are massacring more people in a single day as died over the course of months of fighting in Gaza. What are we doing here? Why is everyone so focused on this one war instead of appropriately dividing their attention and outrage? Is it the cultural and religious significance of this small part of the Middle East? Is it an echo of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union suddenly switched from supporting a sympathetic Israel to aiding its enemies, dragging much of the educated left with it in a move that seems right out of Orwell's playbook? It almost feels like the entire human species is suffering from a collective form of ADHD, unable to address actually important problems and instead procrastinating with what should be nothing but a small regional conflict of limited global importance. I'm not saying that we shouldn't pay some attention to it, but it just feels wrong for it to dominate the foreign policy part of our public discourse so much.

    Sorry for the that stream of consciousness in the last paragraph. Wasn't planned.

  • Gaza War: Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Israeli Hostage Says The Israel Military Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her

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  • She wouldn't have been there if she hadn't been abducted. Hamas are still at fault.

  • WHO says its deal with Israel will allow limited pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations

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  • Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto

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  • It's a bit too traceable for that though.

  • Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining

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  • I wonder how quickly they reverse this decision if Ukraine manages to reach a certain nuclear power plant in a certain formerly Russian-controlled territory.