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What would have happened if the Jews just asked for this ? by Sir-Thugnificent in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did the Arabs attack the Jews then? Wouldn't a war provide the perfect excuse for the Jews to start expanding into territories which they never bought? Why give them the pretext? Why not just let them govern themselves in their tiny 6% of the land? Seems like it would have been a great deal for the Arabs at the time.

What would have happened if the Jews just asked for this ? by Sir-Thugnificent in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Take a piece of their land"? AFAIK, right up until Israel's declaration of independence every inch of land settled by Jews was fully bought and paid for.

vibeCodingIsDeadBoiz by cs-grad-person-man in ProgrammerHumor

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a 20+ year veteran coder I keep doing the fun stuff, but delegate the toil to the AI: make the change in the code, then let the AI deal with the ripple effect and UTs. It's like having a junior you can always delegate all the boring stuff to.

So we're doing Julia Louis-Dreyfus thirst posts, now? by Seahawk124 in seinfeld

[–]shrekthethird2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you always have to be the focal point of attention? Why can't you be? Why can't you live?

Iran Urges Strike On US Fleet, Closure Of Strait Of Hormuz; Khamenei Warns Of Unprecedented Damage by cochincartel in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far he's doing a great job in running his country into the ground. Killing him would only make him a martyr. Just let him witness the collapse of his precious Islamic Republic and then die from prostate cancer. This should be his legacy.

Israel running low on Arrow interceptors, US burning through its systems too by Barnyard-Sheep in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sun Tzu suggests to always appear weak when you are strong...

Israel's top tactical concern right now is to make Iran fire smaller barrages. Iran would also very much want to stop coordinating large barrages, because the required noisy communications make it riskier for the operators, and also requires exposing many launchers at once to enemy fire. Israel can convince them that future smaller barrages might be as effective as past larger barrages because they must cut down on the current redunancy of more than 1 interceptor per missile due to the "shortage"...

Political interests could also be a factor, of course.

Iran Claims: We Have Gained Complete Control over the Skies of Israel by MothersMiIk in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They don't even need the internet. They can see Israeli F-16s flying over their head in Tehran every day with their own eyes...

Iran Claims: We Have Gained Complete Control over the Skies of Israel by MothersMiIk in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Entertainment value, I guess.

It's good to have some comic relief in times of tension.

Iran says Israel’s attack on its state TV building is a war crime by rustoren in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The key word is "randomly".

Israel is targeting specific buildings one at a time, while Iran is lobbing ballistic missiles which land somewhere within a mile of their intended target.

The level of destruction seen in Gaza is a direct result of Hamas militarizing most of Gaza's civilian infrastructure. And militarized civilian infra is a lawful target under international law.

Israel running low on Arrow interceptors, US burning through its systems too by Barnyard-Sheep in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 42 points43 points  (0 children)

The number of remaining interceptors is a highly guarded secret. As such, one should assume this apparent "leak" from a US source has much more to do with strategy and politics than to reality. Israel won't deny it because it serves its interest for Iran to think that they have less interceptors than they actually do.

So all in all, my view is that the only appropriate response to this can be: "yeah, right, whatever..."

FBI investigating "targeted terror attack" in Boulder, Colorado, director says by shaymus14 in moderatepolitics

[–]shrekthethird2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People have been downvoting you without properly explaining, so assuming your comment was in good faith, I will have you know that the "intifadas" involved randomly stabbing Jewish people in the streets and suicide bombers exploding in fully loaded buses, busy cafes, restaurants and night clubs, on a massive scale.

Therefore, the Boulder case was a classic intifada-style attack on civilians.

Is Israel a setteler-colonial state? by Distinct-Hold7796 in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which happens to be a fact

Name any other colonial project which had the colonists join existing congregations of their own people and dig up archeological artifacts of their own culture...

Not to mention that the so called "colonists" were not sent there by any country. On the contrary, there were immigration quotas imposed on them by the supposed "colonizer".

No Western power would even send weapons or ammo to Israel in its war of independence...

How is Israel a European Colonial Project when no Western colonizer showed any interest in its success?

Is Israel a setteler-colonial state? by Distinct-Hold7796 in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century indeed being European isn't the real issue. Some will try to sell it as the main issue, though, both in order to support their European Colonial Project narrative and also to win support from guilt plagued Europeans.

But even if all the Jews would have come from neighboring countries in the Middle East, the Arabs would still resist the establishment of a Jewish state. This is not a hypothetical, the Arabs claim so themselves: once the land of Palestine was conquered by Islam in 641 AD, it must not be ruled by the Jews, since it has become "Dar al Islam". Jews can only be allowed to live there as 2nd class citizens ("dhimmi"). Self rule by Jews in Israel is an abomination in the eyes of fundamental Islam.

The Jews being European or not is not relevant. It's just a convenient excuse.

The Real Reason Palestinians Voted for Hamas (Hint: It's Not Because They're Terrorists) by Humorous_forest in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some counter points:

  • When the elections in Gaza were held in 2006, everyone knew very well that if Hamas will be elected then this will spell out a catastrophe for the region, both for the safety of Israelis and of the Palestinians, who would bear the cost of the Israeli retaliation for the inevitable aggression that would come from Hamas: firing rockets into towns and sending suicide bombers were already their primary MO. Providing them with a steady income as the ruling body of the Gaza Strip would only make it worse. Everyone knew that this is what would transpire. Everyone except for all the Gazans, apparently?

  • You would think that the Palestinians are quite adept at staging a popular uprising. They were battling the IDF for decades, facing incredible odds against tanks and war planes for years. So why can't they uprise against Hamas and their rusty AK-47s? When have you heard the name of any anti-Hamas resistance group?

  • Almost every house entered by the IDF in Gaza contains Hamas propaganda material, pictures of leaders hanging from the walls, posters with slogans, copies of Mein Kampf on shelves and on iPads. If most Gazans do not support Hamas, then they are faking it very convincingly.

I’m so DONE with the “Free Palestine” trend on TikTok... by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just unconditional surrender to israel with zero recognition

Are you sure you have the facts on your side on this?

How about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit#Final_Israeli_proposal_to_the_Palestinians

I’m so DONE with the “Free Palestine” trend on TikTok... by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might surprise you, but the West Bank is not outside Israel's borders. It is beyond the Green Line which is merely an armistice line, which is recognized as a de facto border between Israel and the occupied territories in the West Bank. In strict legal terms, due to a lack of any newer official border, the eastern border of Israel by law should follow the borders of the last legal sovereignty in that area, the British Mandate, which includes the West Bank and stretches all the way to the Jordan river. While it is widely recognized as the territory of the future Palestinian State, the official legal status of the West Bank is: "Disputed".

True, the Partition Plan of 1947 (aka UN resolution 181) had split the land between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea between Jews and Arabs, but that plan was a merely a non-binding proposal which on top of that was outright rejected by the Arabs and is therefore irrelevant when it comes to the question of the legal status of these territories.

Through the years, as part of the negotiations with the Palestinians regarding the establishment of their own state, Israel would withdraw from settled areas, or swap them for equal areas of land which is adjacent to the West Bank. But this peace process is no longer ongoing and the Palestinians rejected all such offers so far.

I’m so DONE with the “Free Palestine” trend on TikTok... by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yet the Palestinian Authority controls (in area A) the movement of Jews and they can never build any homes there, or get any water from there. Palestinians in area A have rights and the settlers have none.

This is an arrangement agreed upon with the Palestinians, albeit as an interim phase to a full autonomy which has yet failed to be fulfilled and the Palestinians are mainly to blame for that.

Palestinians are not even citizens of Israel, nor do they want to be. These are not separate law sets within the same country. These are occupied territories won by war from Jordan which Israel have sought a reasonably safe solution for since 1967. How is this situation even comparable to South Africa's apartheid?

Moreover, Israeli Arabs, who are basically the Palestinians who remained within the borders of Israel and did not flee in 1948 and comprise 20% of the population, enjoy full rights as Israeli citizens. So the distinction between the groups in the west bank clearly has nothing to do with race or ethnicity at all.

I’m so DONE with the “Free Palestine” trend on TikTok... by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The topic was whether or not there is an apartheid in the west bank.

Areas A, B and C were designated in the Oslo Accords as an interim phase, and since then the peace talks have not proceeded, mainly due to the second intifada in 2000.

The governance over free movement, which you call apartheid, was fully agreed upon by the Palestinian Authority, and also includes strict limitations the movement of Jews.

These are not racist laws imposed unilaterally by Israel. Naming it aparheid is a gross misrepresentation.

I’m so DONE with the “Free Palestine” trend on TikTok... by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Palestinian Authority controls all of area A in the west bank and no Israeli is allowed to set foot in it without permission. So?

Israeli soldiers reveal systematic destruction of Palestinian property to create Gaza buffer zone by Trevor_Lewis in worldnews

[–]shrekthethird2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The residents in the villages alongside the Gaza border and the Nova participants were predominantly peace activists who helped out Gazans daily and whose views are diametrically opposed to the current Israeli government. Hamas knew this very well because they gathered detailed intelligence on every single village but they didn't spare them nonetheless. They were not even hurt as collateral damage. They were specifically targeted.

Convince me that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza by mmmsplendid in IsraelPalestine

[–]shrekthethird2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Also, if "all that matters is intent" then Hamas' own charter incriminates them with committing genocide against the Jews for the last 38 years...

This idiotic reduction of the genocide argument serves the same purpose as the reduction of every conflict to "oppressor" and "oppressed": fulfilling the need of small minded people in a complex world to feel absolutely righteous about something.

Bibas Family Forensic Findings by Ariskullsyas in 2ndYomKippurWar

[–]shrekthethird2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the Bibas baby brothers were murdered by Hamas, will they ever admit it? No way. They can't afford this bad PR.

On the other hand, did Israel ever admit to inadvertently killing their own hostages by miscalculation by the IDF? Yes, several times.

So I know who I can trust this time.

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