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by dlubarov 1y ago
This seems a bit besides the point; I think the point stands that if Israel always wanted Gaza, its unilateral withdraw wouldn't have made sense.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
> by only counting bodies that they have directly observed This was only true in an early phase of the conflict; they've long since been adding casualties reported by "reliable media sources" as well as a Google form.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
If that was always the goal, how do you explain Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza and removal of Jews living there?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Some of the rescued hostages were held by a family that included a doctor (Ahmed Aljamal) and a journalist.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
It's a good point - IMO is about performance under some specific resource constraints, and those constraints don't make sense for AIs. But I wonder how far we are from an AI solving a well-studied unsolved math problem. That would
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by dlubarov 1y ago
There were some fairly questionable translations, like translating "Yahud" (Jews) to "Israel" or "Israeli forces". To me that's more of a red flag than any Hamas affiliation.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
"The whole of Israel was formerly Palestine" was rather ambiguous. If the poster meant "The whole of Israel was formerly Mandatory Palestine", then okay that's accurate, but it seemed like the idea was to draw a con
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Yes, but I don't see how that helps - it's still mostly conscripts who didn't really choose to enlist, let alone choose to fight in Gaza, let alone commit any war crimes.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Why would Bezos / Washington Post be an example of pro-Israel bias?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Well, IAEA did find Iran to be in breach of their safeguards agreement, mainly given the state of their uranium enrichment and their unconvincing claims about civilian uses. "Not building nukes" can mean "not at the final dev
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by dlubarov 1y ago
What do you mean about "no clear indications Iran was in breach"? Iran was in breach of its safeguards agreement with the IAEA, according to a resolution by the IAEA board [1]. > Finds that Iran’s many failures to uphold its ob
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I don't quite get the point you're getting at; we're all in agreement that there is a blockade. The flotella doesn't really add anything to our understanding of the situation - we already knew there was a blockade and th
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Post Oct 7, of course there's an occupation now that Israel has boots on the ground.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
There is no genocide charge in the ICC case. Khan's initial charges included extermination, but that was rejected by the pre-trial chamber.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Thunberg's flotella isn't a very good example of Israel preventing aid. The flotella carried a symbolic bit of aid, and Israel didn't reject it, they just insisted that it go through proper channels rather than violate a bloc
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by dlubarov 1y ago
The accusations of genocide were brought by South Africa, not the ICJ which hasn't made any finding on the matter yet.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
It seems like we're in agreement now that total casualty ratios alone (like that 1:17 ratio) aren't very meaningful metrics. Civilian casualty ratios are more relevant to ethics, but we don't know that number since Hamas does
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by dlubarov 1y ago
The Gulf War had a more extreme casualty ratio of ~1:1,000+. Would you consider that an extremely unethical war? Should the US have done something differently to even out the ratio?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
What's the alternative?
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Even Carter directed Operation Eagle Claw (unsuccessfully). I think we'd have to go back much farther to find a president who didn't order any military operations on foreign soil.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
There isn't really such a thing as (forcefully) enforcing the NPT. Israel's casus belli (if we consider this a new war and not a continuation of one) would be based on self-defense.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Regardless of whether any past claims were misleading or what not, today noone disputes that Iran has a large stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, and is officially in breach of their NPT obligations per the IAEA board.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Maybe they were far from implementing modern nuclear weapon designs, but there are simple applications like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon delivered by ground. With that approach the bomb assem
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by dlubarov 1y ago
You mean Khan? The charges he tried to prosecute didn't include genocide. Khan's initial list included extermination, but that was rejected by the pre-trial chamber.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I don't think anyone believes that, it's just a matter of giving up on a diplomatic solution and resorting to the use of force. It might only be a short-term solution, but it is what it is.
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by dlubarov 1y ago
To quote an ISIS report, "Iran has no civilian use or justification for its production of 60 percent enriched uranium, particularly at the level of hundreds of kilograms". In theory it could be for naval propulsion, but experts (i
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Just to clarify, is your position that Iran was never working toward nuclear weapons, or just not until recently? I think enriching uranium to 60% is pretty clear evidence of their intent, even though it's just one component of an even
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by dlubarov 1y ago
They had already crossed the line into nuclear tech that's specifically for weapons, i.e. with a 400kg stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%. Unless we accept explanations like "scientific curiosity", they were already somewhe
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I'm not dismissing food scarcity concerns, just asking that we use accurate language to describe them. You seem to maintain that a famine is occurring or probably occurring. I pointed out that starvations would need to be something lik
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by dlubarov 1y ago
3 million meals a day doesn't seem like a token gesture. It may not be enough, but GHF has been operating for less than a month and is still ramping up. You can criticize their implementation, but I don't see how you can deny that

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