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jews + usa protestant evangelicals (the only Christians that are specifically pro Zionism) are massively outnumbered by Western world Muslims.

Discussions around Israel disproportionately descend into highly polarised opposites. It's a shame @dang allowed this one through.

They don't use it as munition, it's used by all countries in the way Israel uses it

... and later clarified that his comments had been misunderstood https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/11/03/battles-on-the-public...

(Leaving aside the fact that former ambassadors don't speak for the Israeli government.)

The Israeli government has publicly stated [1] they do not intend long-term reoccupation of Gaza.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67039975

Russia v Ukraine and Israel v Gaza are incomparable, except that they're both wars. A comparable war would be other counter-terrorist warzones like Mosul or Raqqa which in fact have much higher civilian death rate than Gaza.

And that's even taking the UNWRA/ Gaza Health numbers at face value, which somehow indicate zero combatants killed in airstrikes.

you and the OP are conflating civil war with laws of war. October 7th was clearly an act of war, and war has been the result. Hamas knew this, but relied on Hezbollah and Houthies pitching in in a much larger way, they miscalculated and Gaza suffers.

It didn't need to be 100% defensive, it can be a calculated deterrent.

I'm not sure what you've added to your original comment

The UN SC votes are merely levelling out an entirely disproportionate UN SC focus of Israeli-Palestinian conflict whilst largely ignoring all the rest of middle East conflict that he mentions.

And it's US weapons used all over the globe in bloody conflicts.(others here have already put paid to the myth of Israeli dependence on usa military aid as a proportion of Israeli military spending.)

You say "The attacks also proved that Israel's "containment" strategy has a massive flaw."

... and then go on to describe the containment strategy that they've tried since 2005.

The reality is that after Hamas' declaration of war, war was a terrible necessity.

The extent of that necessity will be debated until the end of time, but I haven't seen the large public outrage that you describe. Yes, there's plenty of it, but as a whole just as much understanding of Israel's position and why so many civilians in Gaza died in the bombings.

It's a double shame, because the collation of most of the 6 millions Jewish victims names and details, is a data mining feat worthy of great technical discussion on HN.

Indeed, the term lobbying was used twice and has bad connotations (as well as being inaccurate).

This is true, but likewise the entirety of Europe and much of Asia and the Middle East suffered to. Here in the UK, no-one commemorates the British civilian victims of German Bombings, as one tiny example. Likewise civilian victims of other 20th century wars.

WW2 was a western world international trauma with no-one unscathed, and various groups suffering to different unimaginable degrees.

But the Holocaust, in its extreme brutality and relentless focus on racial genocide by a civilised Western nation, was a different level altogether.

What tptakec is saying is that it's not the Jews that separated the e.g. assimilated Polish Jews as a category, but the Third Reich.

> But a lot of these ethnic Jews did not thing about themselves as Jews, as they were being shipped of by the trains to Auschwitz.

I don't know how you can say that especially bearing in mind the Nuremberg laws defined as someone with 3 or more Jewish grandparents. If you're that strongly Jewish by race, you're very unlikely not to have that as part of your core identity. And in any event, you're not addressing tptakec response to you with this.

> But for some reasons these people were "separated" by some people to show how much more their group suffered.

You may not have fully intended it, but that sentence comes across very poorly.

> To me it's infuriating that we talk about just one specific group that died, while ignoring the rest.

I don't know anyone that talks just about the Jews (you mean jews, right?) that died (were exterminated) and ignores the rest. It is an acknowledged fact that Jews suffered extermination disproportionate to any other race or nationality (90% of the 3 million Polish Jews, for instance). The only other group that's comparable when using the term Holocaust is the Romani (who's true numbers is still hard to hard estimate) who are mentioned (along with gays, the disabled etc.) in every reasonable discourse.

As a native Yiddish speaker, my experience is that schlep is only used to describe a journey-related pain in Yiddish - I think TFA statement that this is a Yiddish word used in this context is what's confusing (has the article been edited to clarify this since?). It appears that its use has been expanded by non-Yiddish speakers to refer to "arduous tasks" - although no-one besides OED seems to think this.

As it happens, in Yiddish, there is a one other use which is more related which is to describe someone as "a schlepper" (or that they "schlepped") which means they take a long time do something.

The dithering of the HTML5 editors has no meant that Microsoft have cemented the video codec for HTML5 as H264. Had they only bit the bullet and not been unnecessarily scared of patent issues for Ogg Theora, we could have had a true open video standard for the future web.

If Google release VP8 as open source and license-free, and HTML5 adopt it as a baseline, will MS change their mind?

"Local notifications (don't require the server)"

Does anyone know if this means any O/S object that broadcasts notifications via NSDistributedNotificationCenter (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Coco...) will now work?

Previously there was no way to receive notifications from any other app or O/S process.