ashirusnw

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by ashirusnw 3y ago
24M in Europe says wiki
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
jews + usa protestant evangelicals (the only Christians that are specifically pro Zionism) are massively outnumbered by Western world Muslims.
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
Discussions around Israel disproportionately descend into highly polarised opposites. It's a shame @dang allowed this one through.
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
They don't use it as munition, it's used by all countries in the way Israel uses it
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
... 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 Isra
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
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&#
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
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 Gaz
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
It didn't need to be 100% defensive, it can be a calculated deterrent.
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
I'm not sure what you've added to your original comment
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
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 glob
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by ashirusnw 3y ago
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&
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by ashirusnw 9y ago
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.
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by ashirusnw 9y ago
Indeed, the term lobbying was used twice and has bad connotations (as well as being inaccurate).
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by ashirusnw 9y ago
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
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by ashirusnw 9y ago
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
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Ask HN: VC funds competing company, would they maintain confidentiality?
3 points by ashirusnw 14y ago|2 comments
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by ashirusnw 15y ago
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 t
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by ashirusnw 16y ago
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 vi
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by ashirusnw 17y ago
"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 wo