cholantesh

This press release was definitely shat out by it.

That's the pretext, yes.

Was my comment too long? I quite literally referenced raw footage in my second sentence; the point is that Israel uses a definition of human shields that only holds water with them and their apologists. And they don't even apply that bullshit definition to their own practices, contemporary or historical.

There are also cities in Europe where Muslim women are harassed for wearing a hijab, where mosques are either illegal to construct or vandalized outright, and hotels in which refugees from Arab countries are torched in race riots.

>A couple of months ago a religious jew tried to walk through London, and a police officer stopped him because there’s a pro Palestinian protest, and his presence there would be inflammatory.

Gideon Falter is rather specifically a pro-Israel campaigner who, per a 13-minute filmed exchange with the officer involved, had behaved provocatively towards protesters, and was accompanied by members of Isaac Herzog's security detail. The clip that was widely circulated omits this context. But even if it was as clear-cut as Falter makes it out to be, it would be weird to cite this incident of one cop being a racist dope as evidence of endemic antisemitism in Europe - Orthodox Jews frequently participate in such protests, after all.

Why is it a requirement that such a safe haven's existence is predicated on apartheid and ethnic cleansing?

How can anyone forget when it is introduced context-free literally every time an Israeli is held to account?

And the name _Israel_ is derived from another Bronze Age tribe, from which Zionists draw the legitimacy of their project. Rather a fatuous question.

I have the address for the many IDF bases that are in residential neighbourhoods, as well as the schools from which their predecessors in the Irgun, Haganah and Lehi stored weapons and hid their soldiers.

They mean the name that has been used for the region for much of human history.

Literally no human rights organization endorses this claim. Meanwhile, the IDF has been caught on video forcing civilians at gunpoint to enter combat zones ahead of them. This actually fits the definition of 'human shielding', but oddly, it doesn't factor into your calculus. So much for being an adult.

Israeli administration of Gaza preceded Hamas' foundation. Its administration of the West Bank is characterized by regular IDF incursions into its settlements where homes are demolished, residents are kidnapped and tortured without cause, and armed, escorted settlers are let loose to assault the same residents and loot their businesses. Hamas' founders were all born either in settlements that have been forcefully depopulated by Israel or in refugee camps that still exist today because they keep getting filled up by people who lived in those settlements. I imagine most people would be miffed by this set of circumstances.

>human-shielding

The '''adults''' are not the ones accepting this and other canards that Israel and their apologists keep bandying about.

The US scaffolding the vast majority of the IDF's offensive apparatus, the EU pumping 70 billion € into its economy, multiple ICC warrants, an open ICJ case, multiple G7 states weighing in on the question of Palestinian statehood, and Yemeni, Lebanese, and Iranian military cooperation are all rather odd shows of indifference.

Funny; I thought it was referencing the practice of C-suites to effect 'transparency' basically at their leisure. Though I suppose that's not really stochastic, it's quite clear when it is self-serving for them to be transparent or to lie.

"trust me bro, I'm psychic"

Evidently Theodore Herzl was not a Zionist.

Good news, he isn't; he resigned in order to take his appointment as the Lebanese PM, in which capacity he was speaking in the article you linked. Any more thinly veiled ad hominems you'd like to throw around?

So, collective punishment, further making the ICJ and ICC cases.

A separate set of recommendations for anyone sincerely making this argument:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Very interesting choice of yours to omit the context, in which Hezbollah also drew his ire. Surely a coincidence and not a product of bias, though, right?

"choose" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

I think it's fucking weird to create a sock account to pore through a person's comment history and respond to one from eight years ago in a completely unrelated context.

Yeah in that regard they are more honest than the cryptofascists on HN who yammer on about rational self-interest and the inviability of demographically heterogenous populations.

Most Americans, who are working class, want the state to collaborate with their employers against their interests? Quite a bold assertion.

No, it's fascist in the sense of nativism and public-private collaboration that was normative in fascist states. Most Americans are ambivalent to communism.

>Musk has been pushing the idea of starting a new political party to better represent the people and is for less regulation and smaller government.

This is self-contradictory gibberish. Deregulation and small government for him means further weakening labour laws to the point where the interests of the majority of Americans, ie, wage workers, have no ability to advocate for their needs and no recourse when he encroaches on them.

>Trump [...] seems to be consistently anti-war.

This was already a surreal claim to make when he was sending troops and PMCs into Iraq and Syria, deploying SEALs on abortive raids in Yemen, where Saudi troops were using arms his administration provided them, oh and, I dunno, ordering the assassination of the highest military official of a sovereign nation. It becomes solipsistic in the month after he oversaw the US' direct intervention in Israel's war with Iran.

Wow, how did i not know about kagi news? Thanks for this!

I mean they published Bari Weiss for a long time.

No leaders are 'ideal', but the only way you can equivocate between these two is taking it making a tacit assumption that reorienting the state apparatus and your economy towards the needs of foreign clients - and away from the enrichment of regular people at home - is good.

Did you read about how the IDF arms settlers and escorts them into the West Bank, where they harass residents? How about how they arbitrarily arrest and detain Palestinians and torture them without cause? Does this qualify as terrorism or is the US designation all that matters to you? If so, I wonder if you regard the US' documented sponsorship of AQ affiliates as an indication that their heuristic may be flawed. Cute deflection, though.