Gosh, I hope ISIS doesn't think to start up sub-organizations that masquerade as "moderate rebels" in order to collect free money and weapons from the USA! They wouldn't come up with something that dastardly, right? I'm probably being paranoid.
That's So Reagan
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So if J. Aaron is wrong, what is the point? I mean what are you proposing? Should city planners and zoning laws be changed to prevent move ins and gentrification? You're fighting a 5000 year old phenomenon and human nature here.
Nobody should ever move anywhere ever.
The second letter has a glaring omission. He says, "Once Israel declared itself a Jewish state in 1948 the Palestinians had only three options; accept a division of the land into two states, accept being second-class citizens in the Israeli state or perpetual conflict because they could not win. The Arab states…
It is interesting that Al Qassam had a pre operational strength of 30-37 thousand and Islamic Jihad another 8-10 thousand have both been largely devastated... It is estimated that both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have utilized close to 75-90% of their munitions. A good bulk of their strength is deployed in these tunnels…
I'm just going to go out on a limb and say this is bullshit and you're a troll. Linking to the Iranian gov't run news site? Really?
I'm fully on-board with Schwartz's "there's no right side" analysis.
These pictures devastating and I agree with your sentiment, but Brian Eno? Is there a reason I'm missing why we should care what he thinks about foreign policy?
Thanks for posting both letters. That was a really interesting "conversation" to watch. I do wonder what people thought of Schwartz's argument here: I find objectionable the unique singling out of Israel for condemnation. So if we are prepared to boycott, condemn, shame, etc, the Saudis, the Qataris, the…
No it has to do with "where are the news stories" "where are the boycotts" even John Oliver mentioned it last week (something like "and Syria, haven't heard from you in the news, but know it is bad).
The destruction of certain parts of Gaza is not in doubt. However, showing just these photos doesn't tell the whole story (as usual). Photos are great support, but can be misleading without the proper facts surrounding them.
i always get my political beliefs from Brian Eno
That was a soldier still in training, who went to prison for that post.
"Now, before you go to the comments to slam these satellite photos and data analysis, saying that it is one-sided and that Israel is responding with terror attacks to Hamas' terror attacks, I encourage you to read the following open letter from my musician friend."
As much wrong as Israel has done in this campaign, this story reeks of bullshit.
By all accounts, Israel did a good job in minimizing civilian casualties, given that they were fighting against non-uniformed enemy combatants who were hiding in and firing from hospitals, schools, and other civilian areas.
The US uses flechettes all the time. They won't back anyone up because they consider it humane.
Israel has a military goal — to stop Hamas' ability to threaten them with missiles and tunnels. Hamas has a PR goal — to hurt Israel's reputation (since they can't hurt them any other way) and to get more support and funds for Hamas.
one hypothesis is that the IDF clears vegetative cover where rockets were said to have been launched.