re: Israel–Hamas War Discussion Thread: News Links On First Page

One is over Western Iraq now

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Possible Iran is getting hit now?

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In today's day and age there's no way that is happening and we don't know about it within 10 minutes of an Israeli or American F16 or F35 entering Iranian airspace

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In today’s world we have people supporting a terrorist organization that would throw them off a building or burn them alive. That’s the world we live in VS terminate the problem once and for all.

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This is from the article I linked a couple pages ago:

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The open world of liberal democracies—or the West, as it used to be called—is today polarized by paralyzed politics, petty but vicious cultural feuds about identity and gender, and guilt about historical successes and sins, a guilt that is bizarrely atoned for by showing sympathy for, even attraction to, enemies of our democratic values.

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[quote]enemies of our democratic values [/quote

You reap what you sow. That applies to both sides. And there are two sides to this. Israel should exterminate Hamas not use Hamas as an excuse to exterminate Palestinians. Decades of Israeli apartheid make everything they do suspect.

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Decades of Israeli apartheid

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Any news today? Can't find much on main sites

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Any news today? Can't find much on main sites

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I’ve been watching the news while riding my stationary. All they’re talking about is the wave of antisemitism since the start of the conflict.

I think, or I hope, this is starting to open some eyes. The same people who claim to be anti-racist and all about inclusion have exposed themselves to be virulent racist antisemites who are perfectly fine with the wholesale slaughter of women and children for the “crime” of simply being Jewish.

Just in case you care about reality.

2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) put out a report noting that the Israeli government engaged in “systematic oppression of Palestinians and inhumane acts,” which ultimately “amount to the crime of apartheid.” In 2022, Amnesty International reached a similar conclusion, saying that the Israeli state “imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians” that “amounts to apartheid as prohibited in international law.” That same year, Michael Lynk, then the UN special rapporteur focused on human rights in occupied Palestinian territories, stated that the Israeli government used a “deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system,” which privileges Israeli Jewish settlers while disadvantaging Palestinian residents in these areas. (Lynk’s position was based on his review of Israeli government policies and does not reflect the position of the UN as an institution, which has a commission currently investigating this charge.)
Some Israel scholars and former Israeli officials have also started using this designation. In 2022, Michael Ben-Yair, a former attorney general of Israel, said that “it is with great sadness ... I must also conclude that my country has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime.” Earlier this year, Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, emphasized, too, that “there is an apartheid state here” featuring “two people [who] are judged under two legal systems.”
In protests and critiques of the Israeli government’s military actions this month, political leaders and activists around the world have often referenced the term while condemning the country’s policies.

So maybe “apartheid” applies.