eeeeeeeeergh

So the thing there is this is actually Israel’s most preferred outcome - push Palestinians off the last sliver of “Palestinian land”. Then not only do these refugees become egypts problem to deal with, the last remaining part of the land god promised Israel can be conquered this is the playbook being run in the West Bank right now. Keep building settlements, evict a few thousand Palestinians at a time using military force, until they simply give up their last remaining sliver of their homeland. I wish I was exaggerating or using rhetoric but I’m not. The entire international community knows this as well, and has been condemning Israel for it these past 2 decades. if you haven’t, do a quick search up on Deir Yassin. Deir Yassin was a Palestinian village, and jewish paramilitary organizations murdered the citizens and spread the word to get Palestinians out of their homes in Haifa, Jaffa, and other towns that would eventually become Israel. over 500 villages and towns like Deir Yassin were cleansed by Irgun and Stern Gang, to make room for Jewish migrants from Europe and North America. if you go ask these people in gaza what they want - it’s one very simple thing: they just want to go home. If they’re from Haifa, they want to go back to Haifa. They don’t want to live in an open air prison and they certainly don’t want to abandon their homeland entirely and become stateless refugees under control of Egypt

You’re not wrong there will be no peace with extremists in charge That means Hamas needs to go, and Netanyahu needs to go too. Israel needs to go back to a PM like Ehud Barak and Hamas needs to be exterminated and replaced with Fatah or a similar organization

Palestinians can’t rid themselves of Hamas as they are effectivrly prisoners. They can’t arm themselves, or import food or building materials. the only way to get rid of Hamas would be for Israel to say: if you Palestinian citizens get rid of Hamas, we will lift the blockade and reverse settlement building in the West Bank, and if you personally hand over a confirmed Hamas terrorist, we’ll discuss how you can come home if you were forced out of your town at gunpoint by settlers. Also here’s an AR-15, get to work.

Me too, in another thread is fine, but that’s not my point. my point is to say that only one country has used them, and that country wasn’t even on the brink of annihilation when it did. Meanwhile, every other nuclear country has avoided the use, even at a point where their state was dismantled (the Soviet Union/Russia). So we should really be much more afraid of the US using a nuke than Russia, which was in exactly the situation you’d expect a nuke to be used, when its state collapsed.

my most controversial take that I get cancelled for every time I say it is that the US and her Allies have been responsible for more death, destruction, and evil in foreign countries across the board since 1945 than the countries everyone’s so scared of (Russia China Iran) Chinas foreign policy has been the most non-expansionist of any world power in centuries meanwhile the US kills millions of civilians in foreign countries and we worry about chinas foreign policy lol Amazing how when were not the ones having atrocities committed against us, it’s pretty easy to turn a blind eye to our governments committing them against others

Hamas has absolutely been stealing from its people for personal enrichment and to finance terrorist activity but this analysis also ignores why people in gaza are stateless and without resources to begin with Israeli settlers drove these people out of their villages in the 1940s with guns and bombs, shoving them into an ever shrinking space. At the same time, to this day, Israel has continued to build settlements across the West Bank, with IDF military support to throw Palestinians out of their homes. Hamas didn’t rob these people of everything they had, Israel did that. Hamas is looting the corpse. @Alflives @King Heffy please read.

only one country has ever used a nuclear weapon in history and it ain’t Russia

Hamas followed a remarkably similar arc to the FARC in Columbia both gained initial popularity and influence due to providing social services where people had been neglected both quickly turned to thuggery and terrorism when it became more profitable to do so (getting paid by foreign governments is a hell of a lot better than trying to raise donations from poor farmers) hamas is nothing new to this world - it will be destroyed, and a new version will pop up again to fill the void

jon stewart is a treasure unbelievable that for many years the most reliable geopolitical analysis came from comedy central, on a show that aired after muppets making crank phone calls

Gonna give him a wide berth and benefit of the doubt because of the suffering he and his family are going through, and will just assume this is fog of war i dont think in his heart hes actually okay with innocent civilians on either side being killed

Where? Right here: https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hamas-demonstration-israel-blockade-palestinians-306b19228f9dd21f1036386ce3709672 This is a ridiculous analogy, sorry Roman. The UK and Germany were both sovereign countries Israel is a sovereign country, Gaza is an open air prison filled with refugees driven there by foreign colonial settlers. Those colonial settlers have some obligations to their prisoners.

every player who has asked for a trade recently is also on a minimum 82 goal per season pace. One is even on pace for over 300 goals. time for every player to be forced to sign a letter requesting a trade before next game

And it felt like every time Edmonton entered our zone, all our players were already back and swarmed. Gave Edmonton 0 space.

Endure the smell and use it to ward off crease crashers

I’m paraphrasing mcwhiner who was complaining about Vancouver putting out its #1 pp unit when we were already up by a gorillion goals

oh man that post game interview was hilarious "vancouver kept putting out their best players to tear us new assholes even when they were already torn, no fair!!"

not to meniton miller on pace for 410 points

"Suck it Drance"

Where would you put the score between the chicago bears and the edmonton coilers? for me - Bears: 402 to zip.

Miller is on pace for a 410 point season right around where i expected him, give or take a small bushel

imagine the smell.

Gotta love how halfway through the game when the oilers are down by 3, debrusk is like "oooo this is how the canucks started last season and edmonton ended up winning" sugg it debrusk sugg it harnaryan sugg it drance sugg it biden sugg it al sharpton sugg it tom cruise

okay im fine with myers or juulson negating this powerplay if they wanna take a run at draisaitl

hes gonna demolish that toilet worse than the canucks demolished edmonton tonight god be with you, thatcher

I think we could flip mcdavid at the deadline for a couple prospects it’s more of an asset management move, not interested in mcwhiner actually playing here