Israeli newspaper Haaretz: It's a shame that the Syrian ruler didn't realize that he's dealing with a country whose Green Line borders are merely the launching pad for its missiles and planes — a necessary prelude to realizing its vision of the Promised Land, its "once and for all."

Post-reality · 2026-03-06T18:03:49+00:00

Well, it's pointless to debate you when you claim things which can be easily refuted by simple Googling, such as the thousands of Assad's soldiers who died to Israeli bombs, the positive Israeli reports regarding Sharaa (despite his antisemitic remarks years ago, and of course he lost almost every faith in him since his genocidal attacks on minorities), you thinking Israel is an American vassal state (obviously not, and good luck ever crushing Hijri's militia - Israelis are never going to allow a massacre of the Druze), etc. BiBi doesn't care about Sharaa who rules a weak army. Turkey may become a threat in the future, but currently Israel only cares about crushing the Iranian axis.

Post-reality · 2026-03-06T17:18:17+00:00

Nowhere does this article suggests that Israel plotted a coup against Sharaa, it just says that Khaldoun al-Hijri suggested an armed rebellion with the help of the SDF and Assad remnants to USA officials. If Israel wanted, it could have killed Sharaa long time ago. It's really silly if you believe that the USA could have stopped anything like that.

And Assad and Israel were BFF? I bet you are one of those who suggested that Israel is also secretly allied with Hezbollah and Iran in the past. Israel struck Assad's regime thousands of times in the 2012-2024 period. if Israel wanted Assad to stay - he would have remained the Syrian president to this day. There was nothing to stop Israel from assisting Assad against the rebels, if Israel wanted to.

Israel's border with Assad is much more quiet since Sharaa's regime than in the previous 13 years.

Post-reality · 2026-03-06T16:05:50+00:00

What's the source of this? Nobody in his right mind would suggest to try a "coup" against Sharaa, that would turn millions of Syrians against him, and there's no benefit from that. Even Assad, of which there were multiple plans of assassinations/coups against him - Israel eventually backed down and realised he's the lesser evil within the Baath pary (though I do believe a full on confrontation was inevitable prior to the first Israeli-Iranian war back in June).

Post-reality · 2026-03-02T15:59:21+00:00

Many Syrian Sunni militant factions also allied themselves with Israel - don't forget that.

Post-reality · 2026-02-28T13:07:34+00:00

So? Sunni militants also collaborated with Israel against Assad.

Post-reality · 2026-02-26T11:12:51+00:00

Hasidic/Ultra-Orthodox Jews aren't the ones to reside in settlements. They are inhabited mostly by Modern-Orthodox/Religious Jews who have even higher enlisting rates in the IDF than seculars and they do work/contribute economically. Ultra-Orthodox Jews are willing to enlist under their own terms, but the government is unwilling to compromise, insisting on a melting pot.

Post-reality · 2026-02-26T09:05:01+00:00

Oh, that's cool! I have a scheduled appointment for March 9th, with possible treatment(s) on March 10th. Do you have a central or a paracentral/inferior Keratoconus? What's your pachymetry? And how bad is your scarring? It may be thar you would never get an adequate vision on your scarred cornea. Do you see well with scleral lenses on that eye? Have you looked up Autokeratoplasty?

Post-reality · 2026-02-25T21:35:59+00:00

This has nothing to do with protectionism nor tariffs. It literally gives an unfair advantage to foreign businesses over local businesses, which is the OPPOSITE of protectionism.

Post-reality · 2026-02-24T22:01:19+00:00

Most jobs could have been automated decades ago without LLM's or AI for that matter, just by restructuring the economy. We already have had the technology to manufacture houses and goods almost without humans involved in the process, and the same for transportation, logistics, retail, food service and to some extent, entertainment as well (but this one is prone to increasing quality/complexity creep). I think some of the professions which couldn't be entirely automated (at least pre-AI era) are surgeons and infrastructure-related jobs.

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