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by nsguy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure your first paragraph is not true (personal experience- I used to live in Israel). Link to surveys? I'm not even sure what you're referring to specifically as "Jewish Israeli Mainstream". The Orthodox
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These things always happen at intersections. There are lots of smart people with ideas. The magic happens at the intersection of ideas, time (what technology is available) and luck. Apple Newton was too early. Apple iPhone was just right. D
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You can criticize Israel all you want without making it a blood libel. As I said, that is not a problem. I will accuse people of blood libel when part of their strategy is the intentional misuse of language to intentionally deceive and misr
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by nsguy 3y ago
Also to comment further on my "Gaza is not occupied" point. You mention the movement of people to Israel (a different country) and movement of people to the West Bank (a piece of land occupied from a different country by a differe
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by nsguy 3y ago
An airplane doesn't suddenly drop out of the sky because its controls stops responding. So I agree that on the face of it it's either turbulence or some sort of aggressive manoeuvre, either initiated by the pilots accidentally or
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IIRC there were other Airbus incidents and concerns. It's been so long I don't recall the details but I remember being worried about flying Airbus.
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Does it sell more ads? Does it get more eyeballs? Do people click on the story? Does the writer get promoted? A bonus? Is this a conspiracy against Boeing? Is the owner of the newspaper short Boeing and long Airbus? (those last four questio
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by nsguy 3y ago
So checking my dictionary: - Apartheid: (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. - Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of po
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by nsguy 3y ago
Israel didn't occupy Gaza. It completely withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The use of the word "occupation" in this context is newspeak. Gaza used to be under Egyptian control until 1967. The term "occupation" in the cont
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by nsguy 3y ago
It's my personal experience. Whenever I navigate to CNN's web site it mostly features the plight of Palestinians in manipulative and repetitive ways. Stories showing Israel in a bad light will persist for days on the front page. I
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by nsguy 3y ago
What recent bomb blast on Iran? You're not seriously comparing slaughtering and raping party goers (to say the least), abducting woman, babies and elderly, to a clandestine operation against some infrastructure. Iran says it wants to d
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by nsguy 3y ago
I think most Israelis do not believe peace is possible with the Palestinians. This is a result of the suicide bombing campaign that followed the Oslo peace process. But I don't think your survey shows what you're saying it shows.
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That's not the order things occurred. When Israel left Gaza it left it to the Palestinian authority and it wasn't blockaded (there was some partial blockade but it was practically open). The present walls and barriers around Gaza
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by nsguy 3y ago
The Palestinians have their own version of history which let's just say is inaccurate. One example is they underplay the seriousness of the Arab attack on Israel in 1948 and things like the Egyptian air force bombing Tel-Aviv seem to e
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by nsguy 3y ago
I'm not familiar at all with these stories. I should read about them. I think there's a fairly clear delineation between a terrorist and a freedom fighter. A terrorist's goal is to sow terror among the target entity. It does
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by nsguy 3y ago
I think we do agree given your last sentence. I'll sign on to that. On the details of the history this wasn't "my country come to your land and forced you to leave" it was more like "Jewish people immigrated to this
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by nsguy 3y ago
Israel has bombed the designated safe areas significantly less than the other areas. This is fact. It also never promised not to bomb them and has consistently said that it will go after military targets in those areas as well. This is also
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by nsguy 3y ago
To your last question I think I know a fair bit. But it's true the average Israeli does not. The average Israeli also doesn't go around telling South Korea what to do or campaigning for the North Koreans or making judgments on whi
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by nsguy 3y ago
It's less of a context than your political position or opinion. I think it's also at the very least naive and simplistic. As one example, those checkpoints you're describing did not exist before terrorism such as suicide bomb
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by nsguy 3y ago
Sure, a large number of civilian deaths, and massive destruction of property. I have a problem though when the media just shows an endless stream of emotionally manipulative images and stories. I also have a problem with their selectivity,
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by nsguy 3y ago
Interesting since in my book CNN is very anti-Israeli. Maybe not as anti-Israeli as The Guardian. The "funny" thing is that if some consider you pro-Israeli and some consider you anti-Israeli that doesn't mean you're neu
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by nsguy 3y ago
I expect Hamas is still exerting plenty of control. I'm not sure what "confirmed what had been reported" really means here. The problem isn't that we're necessarily getting outright lies and fake news (I'm sure
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by nsguy 3y ago
It did not. Find me that language in the ruling. Some media said that, but not the ICJ. If the ICJ thought this was really plausible they would have ordered Israel to stop. They did not. 30,000 dead is way too much for me. Not for the Hamas
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by nsguy 3y ago
There's certainly been no shortage of rhetoric on the Israeli side to exact revenge for Oct 7th. Some of it very extreme. The events of that day traumatized Israelis. I don't think most Israelis really think the Palestinians are t
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by nsguy 3y ago
The ICJ said no such thing. Read the ruling. It said something along the lines of the "rights of the Palestinian people to be protected from genocide and the rights of South Africa to seek this protection are plausible". The use o
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"Rule 28. Medical units exclusively assigned to medical purposes must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to th
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by nsguy 3y ago
That's true but if the UK military intentionally embeds in all UK cities, in civilian clothes, and launches rockets at Russia from those cities, and the UK sends raids into Russia to kill Russians and then retreats and mixes with civil
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by nsguy 3y ago
The Hamas may(?) have less leverage over foreign reporters. For local reporters there's a history of Hamas threatening and using violence against the reporters and their families to get the kind of reporting they want. I agree with the
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You can see videos with the pattern of "civilians" grabbing an RPG, firing it, and dropping it. One minute they're civilians, the next 2 they're not, then they're civilians again. They don't have rifles when th
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by nsguy 3y ago
Israel has ordered hospitals to evacuate, e.g.: https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-calls-for-israel-to-resc... I think you're generally wrong on the "they have not been doing" comment. Israel has been giving

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