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by dlubarov 2y ago
I thought we were talking about cross-border conflicts, not internal violence. I never said anything about UN peacekeepers, don't put words in my mouth.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
There might be an argument that the morally optimal thing for Israel to do is just tolerate terrorism, including tens of thousands of rockets from Gaza, with no response other than trying to mitigate damage with air defense. It's not r
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Hezbollah's presence might not be illegal under Lebanese law, but it is illegal under UNSC 1701. Israel's current presence might technically also be illegal under UNSC 1701, but Israel has a very strong casus belli from self-defen
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Close to? Yes, to some extent that's unavoidable in countries as small as Israel. But under? Do you have a source for that?
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by dlubarov 2y ago
What seems more relevant today is that UNIFIL was supposed to support the implementation of UNSC 1701, which was a complete failure, with Hezbollah ignoring it outright and the Lebanese army not doing much to stop them.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Has the US asked for a base? They do have Site 512, not a typical base but still a base. In many ways Israel does the US' dirty work, like crippling Hezbollah which is responsible for numerous attacks against US (and other Western) per
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Ukraine has also been laying mines in Kursk, not only its own territory. I would take "12 civilians" with a grain of salt, given the fog of war and conflicts of interest at play, as well as Hezbollah's secrecy around who is i
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Israel is defending itself against Hezbollah. Hezbollah started the current Israel-Hezbollah conflict on Oct 8, the day after the Hamas-led attack. They can end it at any time by merely stopping their bombardment of Israel, but they have in
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Well, Russia isn't a party to the Ottawa Treaty. Ukraine hasn't formally withdrawn yet, but has hinted that they consider adherence impractical. Stepping back though, there are literally millions of mines hidden in Ukraine, crea
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Do you consider it worse than conventional alternatives, such as artillery strikes, even if the latter is likely to result in a worse civilian casualty ratio? Also, if booby traps aren't considered a legitimate tactic in a military con
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Per Reuters, "The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country in the spring." I suppose the source could be lyi
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Wars often result in innocent farmers having mines in their fields (at least temporarily). How is this worse?
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Mainstream sources are saying it was a specific shipment of 5,000 pagers, which Hezbollah ordered from Gold Apollo (a manufacturer, not a local reseller), that was tampered with. Are you claiming that these sources are wrong, and Hezbollah
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by dlubarov 2y ago
We'll need to await more info about the second wave of explosions from other devices, but the first wave was widely reported to be from a specific order of 5,000 pagers for Hezbollah, see e.g. https://www.reuters.com/wo
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by dlubarov 2y ago
This isn't about pagers generally, this is about a particular batch of 5,000 pagers ordered by Hezbollah. They weren't distributed to random Lebanese citizens.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Sure, there has been at least one civilian death, and others might be reported later. While we don't have numbers yet, the evidence so far suggests a low ratio of civilian casualties, probably much lower than what's possible using
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by dlubarov 2y ago
It's a reasonable point but this would probably be a losing battle; at this point terms like "classical security", "classical adversaries", etc. are common in the literature. To me what's worse is "zk&quot
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Okay that fair, but it's a rough consensus among political entities, each with their own flaws. Some are authoritarian, some don't share Western values, some represent countries with deeply ingrained antisemitism. It's not a
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by dlubarov 2y ago
It seems like you're treating law and ethics as more or less interchangeable, which I think is a mistake. International law is more about politics than ethics. For example, parts of international law come from UN security council resol
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by dlubarov 2y ago
It seems like you're veering into a different topic with the assertion that West Bank is an apartheid system. If we're talking about Gaza still, Hamas is the de facto government there, having won the election and the subsequent wa
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by dlubarov 2y ago
> Either they treat Palestine as an independent country with all the same rights as Israel Are you saying that as an independent country, Gaza's sovereignty can't be violated? This isn't absolute; there are exceptions like
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by dlubarov 2y ago
If you want my interpretation, it's that Gazans are effectively citizens of Gaza, which Hamas is the de facto government of. (Palestinians in the West Bank are a separate matter.) Gaza should have been a place of freedom, independence,
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Their nationality certainly is not Israeli. One could say Palestinian, or Gazan, since Hamas' rule of Gaza makes it more of a separate state in practice. If one were to take the view that neither Palestine or Gaza are states (a semanti
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by dlubarov 2y ago
That's not really responsive to what I wrote. I was pondering the long-term effects of validating human shield tactics, which has nothing to do with the laws of war, or semantic questions of what constitutes a state. Every country &quo
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by dlubarov 2y ago
I think an argument can be made that validating human shield tactics may result in much greater loss of live in the long term. More groups will use such tactics, and groups which don't value human life will gain leverage over those tha
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by dlubarov 2y ago
> They would have had to work with the non-militant parts of Hamas leadership and the PLO of the West Bank and with neighboring Arab countries to bring these murderers to justice I don't really see how this could work? As far as I k
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Your interpretation doesn't seem right. It is certainly permitted to use the word Nakba, and there's no requirement to celebrate anything.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
> Nakba happened (which is illegal to even talk about in Israel) This is very inaccurate, the actual law is described here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Law#Provisions
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Using cash generally means there's no need to involve a financial institution that KYC regulations would apply to.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Sure, users with some understanding of the tech can get a weak form of privacy (or at least plausible deniability) if they're careful about shuffling funds around different wallets. Why should that be the limit? Are you against stronge

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