The entire patriarchs narrative was created circa 650 BCE, most likely out of the legendary ancestors of multiple different Hebrew-speaking peoples who were then shoved into a single narrative. It’s not historical. It’s littered with anachronisms.

All these ads have done is made me want a Guinness. 

You cannot understand the “tenets” of many Christians without knowing the history you incompetent charlatan. Things like the schism between Chalcedonians and Miaphysites or Iconoclasm are revelant to doctrine. You seem to be one of those people who thinks Christian beliefs were fixed with the New Testament, which is…

You’re putting quite a bit of effort into avoiding explaining the “clear” and “real” differences. Making vague assertions, half of which seem to rely on tonal differences and as I said minutia, really underscores my point.

Then you know very little about history. The Byzantine Empire, the center of Orthodox Christianity, regularly had violence over tiny and mostly irrelevant points of theology. Street violence and wars were fought over issues with no practical and only the barest theological importance.

It would’ve gotten out regardless, the anti-Muslim trolls always pop up on articles like this and support each other.

No, they aren’t vastly different. Bombastic fools like you always think that even though all you monotheists are arguing over minutia in the grand scheme. But, especially for bigoted Christians like you, you’re incapable of understanding the diversity of thought you’re ignorant of.

It actually is true. Arabic-speaking Christians use the word “Allah” as well. The term simply means God. There’s no distinction.

Why would anyone think this would be convincing? The damage from such a stupid error has to be far greater than the benefit of half-assedly trying to justify Trump’s stupidity. 

The whole “Palestinians are corrupt and hateful” narrative really falls apart when you know more than two Israeli politicians. Every bad figure in the PA has a counterpart in Israel, the difference being in Israel they actually have meaningful power. The PA is just a subcontractor of COGAT and the security services at…

This is so fucking stupid I’m pulling it out of the greys because the only hope for this racist buffoon is to be so thoroughly shamed they have an epiphany.

I do this a lot to the mostly Christian bigots I have the misfortune to interact with. “May the Gods take pity on your broken dishonorable soul”. They take it poorly. Half of them correct it to “God” like they can’t even wrap their hateful mind around what I wrote. Weirdly a lot of jerk New Atheist types do the same…

I was just looking at ACLED’s stuff actually, but their data shows a decline post-2018 in al-Hudayda which made me wonder about that number. Even combatant deaths have slowed, though they’re picking up elsewhere like Ta’izz. Though now with the UAE proxies fighting the Saudi proxies who knows what will happen next.…

I don’t want that libertarian charlatan “Max Contrarian” in my subthreads. Please dismiss him if he responds to you. I’ve heard all the cliches before and his actual grasp of IR, IHL, and international events is much weaker than he wants you to think. 

It was counting all military-age males as combatants. It was a CENTCOM policy I’m fairly certain, and I think I remember discussions about the issue though my memory is a bit fuzzy. There’s evidence AFRICOM used the same system in Somalia as well.

It’s about 2/3rds the coalition by most data sets I’ve seen. Which one had 48% of civilian deaths in al-Hudayda? (or Hodeida, for folks following this. News outlets use different methods of transcribing Arabic) 

The ICC would run a narrow investigation targeted at the worst abusers. The US would be on the political side, pushing a negotiated peace and possibly (though doubtful under Trump) pressuring the Saudis to do something, even if they don’t accede to the investigation (which I highly doubt, they aren’t party to Rome…

Any US role would be more direct, between the parties in Yemen. If it wasn’t for the Iran obsessives in the Trump administration we probably would have already, but accepting that the Houthi had some legitimate grievances was beyond the ideological pale, even though I’m sure State analysts have been saying that since…

We don’t technically need to be party to the Rome Statute, as the crimes took place on Yemeni soil. If the government of Yemen requests an investigation we can refuse to cooperate but not stop it. Yemen hasn’t ratified the Rome Statute but did sign, so I’m not sure how that’d affect the issue. Customary law just makes…

Years ago it was warned continued arms shipments and refueling to the Saudi/UAE coalition could make the US party to war crimes, given the number of serious examples of strikes that violated the law even under the most generous set of assumptions. Weddings, hospitals, funerals, markets. The coalition has committed far…