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Israel shot down a ballistic missile in space for the first time

wiz21c 3y ago
if only they could put their might into not shooting things...
- giuliomagnifico 3y ago
  I agree but if someone shoots something, someone else needs to shoot it down.
  - lr0 3y ago
    I think you shoot down every kid first
    - cooloo 3y ago
      I think truth is that only place in the worlf were official organization control the region kidnapped more more than 30 children. In which the youngest celebrate 10 months in prison if he wasn't beheaded already
- myth_drannon 3y ago
  The modern history if the middle east shows that it's easier for them to kill and pillage than build and invent. Is it a culture thing or the nature of the people in that region? I don't know, but looks like this has been going on since the Arab colonializm/Islamic expansion and doesn't look like it will change any time soon.
  - inawarminister 3y ago
    eh, algebra and algorithms were invented by people there. Agreed with modern history though; certainly post European colonization something broke. Especially as the colonization hasn't ended yet.
    - jfengel 3y ago
      The breaking happened before European colonization. There are (as always) a lot of reasons, but most historians point the finger at Genghis Khan and the Mongols. The fall of Baghdad in 1258 is often cited as the end of the Islamic Golden Age. The area was dominated mostly by the Ottomans until the 19th century. Only then did Europe begin to colonize it in earnest. (They'd been focusing on the Americas instead.) So European colonization plays a big role in what's going on now, but it's distinct from the end of that period from the 8th through 13th centuries where Islamic scholarship far outstripped anything going on in Europe. Unfortunately, all of that broke down, and the world was much the poorer for it.
h2odragon 3y ago
Ballistic missiles being a common weapon of oppressed, starving peoples. The cruise missiles the US shot down were interesting, too.
- dgrin91 3y ago
  People in Gaza/West Bank are not the only ones threatening to wipe Israel off the map
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - xinuc 3y ago
    Maybe because Israel shouldn't be there in the first place
- lm28469 3y ago
  North Korea has ballistic missiles... the oppression and starvation levels don't have much to do with a country's military I assume you're hinting at Gaza, oppressed ? I guess you can make that argument, but not that much. Starved ? At 25% overweight/obesity rate this is a comfy starvation
expertentipp 3y ago
Since covid, the bad news are eclipsed with another even worse bad news.
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  Bart Simpson: This is the worst day of my life. Homer Simpson: The worst day of your life... so far. Just wait until places like Bangladesh really start seeing climate change hit.
slowmovintarget 3y ago
> The ballistic missile was launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis, and flew almost 1,000 miles over the Arabian peninsula on the way to its target, the Israeli port city of Eilat. A city known for... tourism and vacationing.

if only they could put their might into not shooting things...

giuliomagnifico 3y ago
I agree but if someone shoots something, someone else needs to shoot it down.
- lr0 3y ago
  I think you shoot down every kid first
  - cooloo 3y ago
    I think truth is that only place in the worlf were official organization control the region kidnapped more more than 30 children. In which the youngest celebrate 10 months in prison if he wasn't beheaded already
myth_drannon 3y ago
The modern history if the middle east shows that it's easier for them to kill and pillage than build and invent. Is it a culture thing or the nature of the people in that region? I don't know, but looks like this has been going on since the Arab colonializm/Islamic expansion and doesn't look like it will change any time soon.
- inawarminister 3y ago
  eh, algebra and algorithms were invented by people there. Agreed with modern history though; certainly post European colonization something broke. Especially as the colonization hasn't ended yet.
  - jfengel 3y ago
    The breaking happened before European colonization. There are (as always) a lot of reasons, but most historians point the finger at Genghis Khan and the Mongols. The fall of Baghdad in 1258 is often cited as the end of the Islamic Golden Age. The area was dominated mostly by the Ottomans until the 19th century. Only then did Europe begin to colonize it in earnest. (They'd been focusing on the Americas instead.) So European colonization plays a big role in what's going on now, but it's distinct from the end of that period from the 8th through 13th centuries where Islamic scholarship far outstripped anything going on in Europe. Unfortunately, all of that broke down, and the world was much the poorer for it.

Ballistic missiles being a common weapon of oppressed, starving peoples. The cruise missiles the US shot down were interesting, too.

dgrin91 3y ago
People in Gaza/West Bank are not the only ones threatening to wipe Israel off the map
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- xinuc 3y ago
  Maybe because Israel shouldn't be there in the first place
lm28469 3y ago
North Korea has ballistic missiles... the oppression and starvation levels don't have much to do with a country's military I assume you're hinting at Gaza, oppressed ? I guess you can make that argument, but not that much. Starved ? At 25% overweight/obesity rate this is a comfy starvation

expertentipp 3y ago

Since covid, the bad news are eclipsed with another even worse bad news.

ceejayoz 3y ago
Bart Simpson: This is the worst day of my life. Homer Simpson: The worst day of your life... so far. Just wait until places like Bangladesh really start seeing climate change hit.

slowmovintarget 3y ago

> The ballistic missile was launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis, and flew almost 1,000 miles over the Arabian peninsula on the way to its target, the Israeli port city of Eilat. A city known for... tourism and vacationing.