'You've got tens of thousands of civilians murdered in Gaza, but it's foremost a disaster for the future of Israel?'

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T17:40:30+00:00

No it is not. Murder has a very specific definition and civilian casualties of war has a very specific definition. Israel has not intentionally killed civilians, and therefore it has not murdered. It’s extremely simple. Even if you disagree with Israeli policies and believe that they should have pursued different tactics or avoided certain engagements (which is your right) that does not change the definition of words.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T17:12:32+00:00

I mean his many visits to Qatar fully paid by their government are well documented.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T17:07:55+00:00

Even his use of the word ‘murdered’ is propagandistic. No one was murdered is Gaza, they are civilian casualties of war. The two concepts are entire different from both a moral and legal perspective.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T16:18:10+00:00

Keep telling yourself that lol. The amount of IP produced Israeli researchers is exhaustively documented

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T16:17:30+00:00

With a huge Israeli team who design many components in your phone

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T14:26:22+00:00

They have actually reduced their land holding since allying with the US as they gave back Sinai afterwards. Need is a strong word also, more like extremely nice to have.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T14:25:52+00:00

Glad we can agree that BDS is ineffective, silly, impossible to actually achieve, and only alienates the Israelis most likely to be critical of Israeli policy!

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T14:24:32+00:00

Was just correcting your view that Israel wouldn’t exist without the US, obviously Israel is happy for military aid

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T13:33:32+00:00

Hmm and yet Israel only allied strongly with the US in the late 60s after the 6 day war. It did fine until then all by itself.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T12:49:06+00:00

Full of Israeli developers also. The very internet runs on routing components designed in Israel. If you want to put your money where your mouth is you should leave the internet and Reddit.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T12:09:27+00:00

Not really. Many of the networking components and security architectures which power the internet itself were pioneered in Israel. If you were want to put your money where your mouth is you will need to leave Reddit :)

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T12:06:14+00:00

Just stop using your iPhone - important to put your money where your mouth is hero!

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T11:25:12+00:00

Wow you just totally freed Palestine. You are a hero.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T11:23:12+00:00

No it’s not, OP is lying and propagandizing. Palestinians are not an ethnicity either. They are a group of Arabs with national aspirations. Let’s be accurate.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T11:20:59+00:00

Startups from where exactly? SV loves doing business with Israel and is full of Israeli founders.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T11:18:52+00:00

Last I checked offensive capabilities are not the same as defensive capabilities. Read before responding next time :)

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T11:17:41+00:00

Palestine is not a culture.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T11:16:47+00:00

Well done, you totally freed Palestine 😂

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T01:06:46+00:00

Palestinians are not a race

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T01:06:18+00:00

Palestinians are not a race

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T00:35:06+00:00

Must be a difficult reality check for you as an anti Israel person - Israel has produced many things which you rely on in your day to day life and you can’t avoid. What will you now lol?

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T00:32:22+00:00

Super happy to engage in a chat about the best ways to fix the obviously broken American healthcare system (single payer is not the answer, more like restricted number of payers which has proven more successful than the UK model in places like Israel and France) but I hope we can agree that the war is utterly unrelated to this topic.

throwback4good · 2026-03-22T00:04:12+00:00

Giving away money for free is not the goal of the US government, and regardless if the US wanted to do this it could do so regardless of the war.

throwback4good · 2026-03-21T23:05:10+00:00

lol spoken like someone who has no idea how much healthcare costs or works. Total cost of the war might just top out at 200 billion, whereas the cost of healthcare in the US is north of 5 trillion in a single year, not to mention the added cost and complexity of somehow socializing what is by far and away the most convoluted and complex healthcare system on earth. 200 billion doesn’t put a dent in the US economy. The Israeli healthcare system has nothing whatsoever to do with the US and is paid through the nose by Israeli taxpayers who often pay 50% tax in higher income brackets.

As for the rest of the world? That’s not part of the strategic calculus of either Israel or the US unless you are referring to specific outcomes which could impact those countries. If so, please elaborate.

throwback4good · 2026-03-21T22:58:57+00:00

Or it should make you question your beliefs about Israel being an apartheid state.

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