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As another israeli - certainly a good thing. For a nation in our position, in a deeply hostile region, where a major military defeat is certain to be genocide,
by golergka 8y ago
As another israeli - certainly a good thing. For a nation in our position, in a deeply hostile region, where a major military defeat is certain to be genocide, doing everything possible for national defence is the only way possible to survive. Stuxnet in particular is something that I'm extremely proud of.
- timobet 8y agoYou say this as your country is invading and occupying land that doesn’t belong to them and murdering innocents to drive them out. Yeah, nice way to be proud.
- FigmentEngine 8y agovery hard to think of any country that has NOT done this. History shows that people and their countries do bad things.
- floe 8y agoNot a very hard-hitting analysis.
- simiones 8y agoTrue, but there is a difference between 'my ancestors have done this' and 'some of the taxes I'm paying are going into continuing the occupation; I've voted for the people who are ordering the air strikes'. There's fewer countries where that's true today.
- Tepix 8y agowhataboutism
- ionised 8y agoThis is a childish excuse.
- golergka 8y agoWell, that's your interpretation of the events, and one-sided and not a very truthful one at best.
- simiones 8y agoIt is the interpretation of all of the international community except for the US and Israel. The UN has repeatedly voted to recognize this, often being blocked by the US. There is no real controversy on this. Edit: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2334 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci... The entire UN Security Council officially recognized this, with even the US not using their veto power (they abstained).
- golergka 8y agoI'm well aware of UN position on Israel, I just don't understand how anyone who knows how this organization operates can pretend it represents "international community" or has any moral authority.
- bsanr2 8y agoYou characterize it as a superficial institutional opinion rather than the judgment of the vast majority of humanity.
- ionised 8y agoSo when you say that stating there are no boundaries is a good thing for Israel, would you have held that same view in the 1930's and 1940's when most of Europe was busy trying to resist another organisation that also did not believe in boundaries?