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  • The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.

    Did you comprehend this section? There's a faction in Israel that is pro 2 state solution. Unless that faction takes power, Israel will never roll back it's West Bank Settlements. Since that faction is responsible for the pullout in Gaza, the Israeli body-politic is not going to vote them into power until the Gaza Strip is peaceful.

    The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other.

    The faction that was against that in Israel implemented the Gaza pullout. You're right it is one of the other. Advocating for Gazan violence is defacto advocating for settlements.

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  • You're just straight up defending Settler Colonialism.

    I'm doing the opposite. The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.

    As long as we in the West continue to invest massive dollars into Gaza and just accept that they use it to find their war machine, were perpetuating the settlement situation in the West Bank.

    We can deny patterns in human behavior as long as we want to. But Israel's body politic will never accept a two state solution while their two state solution experiment has a hundred hostages and openly says they want to bomb, attack and rape them again. Stop being a child.

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  • They withdrew the Gaza settlers into the West Bank and used the Oslo Accords to justify the ever expanding settlement of the West Bank

    Two different leadership coalitions. The coalition responsible for pulling settlers out of Gaza lost power because of the massive failure that was. And the alternative coalition (still in power today btw) who advocated for increased settlements in Gaza and in the West Bank won power.

    Look at the numbers between 2000-2005 on this chart. The growth (192k, 226k, 249k) over that 5-year span is congruent with the growth you'd expect from a slightly younger-than-average population and a small ingress of settlers. Over half of that growth occurred in the three biggest West Bank settlements established before the Gaza pullout. So certainly some settlers in Gaza likely relocated to established settlements in the West Bank but not a significant chunk. Additionally, look at the settlements they pull out of in Northern Samaria (in the West Bank). They did that to prove that pullout was a viable option. Yes those settlements were small, but there's like 50 settlements smaller than the largest that they pulled out of.

    And if you look at the biggest 10 settlements on that list, it makes up over half of the total population of Israeli settlers. And they're all like 15 miles or less from the '67 border. It's legitimately plausible for Israel to pull 50% of it's settlers out of the West Bank and fully pull out of 85% of the land area of the West Bank in just a couple of months. And more importantly, there is an active political coalition attempting to do that in Israel. But every rocket, every suicide bomber, every organized rape, every hostage prevents them from being able to be a big force again politically in Israel; because they're still seen as being responsible for the boondoggle that is Gaza.

    You're mistake (and the HRW's mistake) is believing that the group of Israeli's responsible for pulling out of Gaza is the same group responsible for expanding into the West Bank. They're opposing groups. And as long as Gaza is non-peaceful; the group advocating for expanding into the West Bank is going to continue to win.

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  • Small correction, Israel hasn't occupied the Gaza strip since 2005. Over the course of 2004 & 2005 the withdrew behind the 1967 borders, and evicted several sizeable Jewish settlements and settlers at gunpoint. And ceased their military occupation of Gaza.

    And at the same time they withdrew from a handful of small settlements in the West Bank to show that they were serious about following a similar path across that significantly large chunk of territory.

    But the point is that this recent war and violence is not caused by an occupation of Gaza.

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  • Ya it's almost like consistently committing to and conducting operations to murder your neighbors for 20 years will lead them to engage in ways to mitigate those deaths.

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  • Has the ever been a war where one side was expected to fund the other side's government and military?

  • Indians who prepaid $1,000 to order Tesla EVs ask for their money back as cars fail to arrive

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  • But instead, what about a truck with truck bed?

  • JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip

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  • lols

  • JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip

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  • Slight tangent. But I've recently been pulling old home videos off of MiniDV tapes. And I've found that the ffmpeg dv1 decoder can correct several tape issues when re-encoding from dv1 to essentially any modern codec. So I've got like 3GB video files that look incredibly poor, but then I re-encode them into h264 files that look better than the original. It's baffling how well that works.

  • Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates

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  • The problem is that the quality on Mac has been degrading so It might just be time to consider a switch. Honestly, for that type of user, I recommend Chromebooks.

  • ‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal

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  • Link the other comment?

  • ‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal

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  • The bot is accurate. Most people getting mad at Times of Israel are just getting mad because Jews. It's nominally accurate, and most of the political scandals of Israel itself are reported there. It's clearly not propaganda.

  • Israel Has “Flattened” UNRWA HQ in Gaza in “Blatant” War Crime, Agency Says

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  • Is this the same HQ that had a Hamas HQ in it?

  • Saudi Arabia threatened to sell off European debt if G-7 seized Russian assets: Report

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  • My dude, but essentially that’s whats already happening.

    Yes but it's happening with Natural Gas as the baseline power generation method. Which is much better than oil or coal for carbon emissions, but it's not green.

  • Saudi Arabia threatened to sell off European debt if G-7 seized Russian assets: Report

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  • How long do you think they (the Houthis) can keep it up?

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  • Fossil fuels have to be eliminated by 2050. Why wage war for something we won't even need in 25 years.

    I don't think that fossil fuel usage will be eliminated in 25 years given the opposition to mass nuclear deployment. I think this would ideally be a carrot that dictates green energy buildouts in exchange for subsidized oil.

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  • That's why we don't take all the oil, just the offshore oil. It's significantly more difficult to conduct terrorism when you have to swim to it.

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  • This analysis is from 2019 and it doesn't break down the cost difference for onshore vs. offshore oil. But it estimates the cost for the Saudi's at $8.98/barrel (approximately $11.01 in todays dollars).

    Do you have the analysis where it says $25+/barrel. It is certainly possible that production costs have risen significantly in the last half decade.

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  • The Saudis don't have a Navy. About half their reserves and a massive chunk of Iran, Kuwait and the other Gulf State's reserves are in the Gulf. We don't have to set foot on the Peninsula.