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by dlubarov 1y ago
Israel never funded Hamas, you might be thinking of them facilitating Qatari aid funds.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Genocidal speech? Where? The site you linked to just seems to brazenly misrepresent each of Shaun's tweets - e.g. the tweet that "demonized Palestinians" never mentions Palestinians, but does explicitly refer to Hamas twice.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
It's because of an agenda which goes beyond the politics the present conflict. For example, just in the last 24 hours, there were at least two submissions here about Jewish/Israeli sexual violence. Both were old articles (so not n
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by dlubarov 1y ago
By this logic, the US is funding X at 173 countries, where X is anything governments spend money on (healthcare, soup kitchens, cocktail parties?)
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Would you prefer English content? You could try ynetnews.com, which I believe is translated from Ynet's Hebrew articles, for a very mainstream Israeli source. There are also fully English sources like Times of Israel, though though it
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Not for ideology alone, but for example Abdallah Aljamal (a Palestine Chronicle writer) was holding hostages in his apartment.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I would just take this to mean that most people are bad at estimating timelines for complex engineering tasks. 15 years isn't a ton of time, and the progress that has been made was done with pretty limited resources (compared to, say,
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by dlubarov 1y ago
The headline makes a bold claim, but the only direct (translated) quote they offer to substantiate it is "force Hamas to surrender". Why not provide more context so we can see for ourselves if their characterization is accurate?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
You mean the letter to the Guardian [1]? There were two former lawmakers who signed it, no current ones. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/the-starvation...
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by dlubarov 1y ago
An actual famine would mean FMR over 2, or at least ~400 starvations per day given Gaza's population, not ~7. That's why we normally hear about a "risk of famine" or "famine-like conditions". It seems The Guard
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by dlubarov 1y ago
They didn't correct it though; when BBC inquired about it their response was a somewhat evasive "We are pointing to the imperative of getting supplies ..." I did separately point out a couple misstatements in your comments. M
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by dlubarov 1y ago
> Instead, he should have said over 12 months. In addition to ~12 months turning into "48 hours", "children aged between six months and five years" turned in "babies", and "acute malnutrition" turn
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by dlubarov 1y ago
> prohibion on genocide (ICC/ICJ is awaiting trial) ICC is not pursuing any genocide charges. Khan initially sought a charge of extermination, but it was rejected by the pre-trial chamber.
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> Oslo Accords, earmarked the West Bank exclusively for Palestinians, or more strictly, their state The two Oslo agreements themselves don't contain this sort of earmarking. There was a sort of informal understanding that Oslo would
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Are we talking about the West Bank now? Jordan relinquished any claim they may have had to the territory.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Realistically, I think the plan is just reoccupation of Gaza. The military presence would make it harder for Hamas-like organizations to organize and assemble rockets etc. It might be something like pre-2005 Gaza.
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Israel doesn't really have a charter, are you thinking of Likud?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Occam’s razor suggests that he probably just meant what he said: that Israelis should remember the atrocities committed by Hamas and other attackers. There was nothing in Netanyahu’s speech, or even the Torah’s passages about Amalek, about
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by dlubarov 1y ago
It was Oct 9-21, so 12 days; I wouldn’t call that “several weeks”.
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Even if he could somehow be guaranteed a fair trial, why would Israel send anyone to a court whose jurisdiction it never consented to?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
1. There’s no quantifier for “civilians”, so this is just a vague statement that some number of civilians support Hamas. 2. There have been many sieges throughout history, surely they weren’t all genocides? It was also lifted shortly therea
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by dlubarov 1y ago
That was shortly after the Oct 7 massacres, and the total blockade was lifted shortly after. "Remember what amalek did to you" is about remembering evil. The same statement appears at Yad Vashem, for example, yet no one has accuse
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by dlubarov 1y ago
He didn't reference that particular passage about Amalek though, he just said "Remember what Amalek did to you". And it was pretty clear from the context of his speech that he was talking about Hamas and their invasion, not r
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I wasn't assuming pre-war birth rates. [1] suggests 45~50k/yr; [2] suggests ~34k/yr. They're rough figures, ignoring seasonality etc, but it's clear that there are significantly more births than GHM-reported casualt
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by dlubarov 1y ago
If we assume GHM's data is accurate, Gaza's overall population slightly declined during the first several months of war, but increased since. Casualties have been around ~20k/yr (fighters included), compared to something like
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by dlubarov 1y ago
GHF isn't only reporting casualties recorded by the regular health system though. They've been incorporating casualty reports from a variety of other sources, including a Google form where regular Gazans report casualties.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I don't quite see where the miscommunication is. Serious claims about genocide normally come with (at least rough) temporal and geographic scopes. If we use too broad a scope, like "the Holocaust occurred from 1933-2025", the
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by dlubarov 1y ago
The (arguably) relevant metric is population change during a purported genocide, not afterward.
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Israel’s disengagement plan was a huge topic of internal debate before being approved by the Knesset. Arguments for it were about demographics and security. I don’t recall any proponents of the plan saying that it was a temporary measure (t
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I don’t think anyone here is denying the suffering that’s occurring, but it’s still important to make sure we have our facts right.

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