Jack Mirkinson you are a sick demented obnoxious Israel hating freak. The only reason Gazans are dying is because they are attacking the border of a sovereign country . This is not a peaceful protest by any standard ,it’s an attempted invasion .And Damn you for not mentioning the fact that gunman opened fire at…

That place is sacred for three religions, it should be country free.

They took it and they’re keeping it. 1967 happened and wars have consequences.

are you really that delusional? Did you not see the fire bombs, rocks, kites with bombs, actual bombs, burning hundreds of tires, etc? Hamas’ stated intention is to infiltrate the border, go to towns and murder jews. When someone says they are coming to your house to murder you and your family you don’t sit around…

They are not being murdered. Some of them are committing “suicide by cop”. Others are actually trying to hurt the Israelis and getting killed in self defense. The whole reason that Israel takes these Hamas border incursions seriously is because Hamas has murdered multiple thousands of Israelis throughout its history…

Ah, my apologies. I thought you were looking for genuine insight into the situation as opposed to just a forum to air your 9th grade level knowledge of the conflict rhetorically.

I don’t think it’s that deep and complex a matter, historically, until you get to the formation of Hamas and the cryptofascist actions of the USA during the 1970's and 80's in their weird Middle East shadow wars. Then it gets downright confusing.

While that may be an admirable sentiment in spirit it’s almost certainly never going to be the case. Realistically any two-state solution will see West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state with some sort of shared access to holy sites.

Why is this Splinter site so anti-Israel? What is the correct ratio of Israelis that their government should allow to be murdered by Palestinians before Israel is allowed to shoot back?

“worse than apartheid”. Interesting since you can’t make the apartheid claim with any validity you’ve moved on to it being WORSE...... while ignoring that a terrorist organization who called for these marches INTO Israel to kill jews.

Not a “greytroll”, I’m just someone who disagrees with you on the facts (for fuck’s sake, DISAGREEMENT IS NOT TROLLING). You may disagree on what constitutes “joining the axis”, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that having your leader join the Waffen SS serving in other theaters of the war, conducting joint…

It’s a militarized border. If you charge a militarized border, you get shot. This has always been true of every militarized border. It’s like jumping into a lion’s pen at the zoo and blaming the lion when you get mauled to death.

Israel is the only functional democracy in the Middle East, as 1.6 million Palestinian citizens, and has created a better quality of life for its residents than any other place in that miserable region.

You are missing about one million details.

That’s what’s been happening in Jerusalem and the West Bank. No one wants Gaza. Israel’s offered it to Egypt, who told them to fuck right off.

I was forced to drown a home invader in my swimming pool last year.

That’s not actually correct. They can’t spend government funds on advocating gun control, as your article says. They’re allowed to research gun violence all they want so long as they aren’t predisposed to implementing gun control as being the solution. Given that most of the people researching gun violence tend to…

The CDC’s own numbers estimated 500,000 defensive gun uses per year at the minimum, with a maximum of over 2.5 million per year. That far eclipses any mishaps.

The fact that something hasn’t happened to you personally does not negate its existence, does not invalidate the experiences of others, and is not evidence that it will never happen to you.

I know lots of people that collect guns because they think they’re cool and fun to shoot at the range. None of them think they’ll ever use them to protect anyone or that there are a bunch of people out to get them. This is a gross over generalization. I’ll probably never own a gun because they’re not my thing but many…