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Russia to Hold Drills on Tactical Nuclear Weapons in New Tensions with West
(nytimes.com)
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Its stated war aims, at the outset. By this point these aims appear to have evolved, and it now seems primarily concerned with encouraging what it refers to as "voluntary migration" from the Gaza Strip. And as a secondary aim,
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2y ago
I don't agree, but more to the point I didn't say or even suggest this: Hamas is a creation of Israel So I think we can wrap up here.
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2y ago
Of course it's an independent actor, but I'm talking about the bigger picture and the strategic rational behind its continued existence. The Leitmotif if you will.
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Many distortions above; let's just pick one: They elected Hamas Hamas won a narrow plurality in the 2006 legislative elections. That government dissolved entirely in 2007 after a military conflict between Hamas and Fatah. So since 2
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2y ago
If I may simplify what you're saying to what seems to be the gist: [The criticism] focuses on Israel as a uniquely colonizing entity In essence the criticism seems to boil down to this: Israel indisputably maintains the longest-runni
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2y ago
Except those links don't substantiate the factual claims you're trying to make. And when you people draw attention to this, you say they're "nitpicking". And then you switch to entirely different topics and give pe
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The point is, you seem to be in the habit of making stuff up. In regard to specific events you allege to have happened. And when someone challenges you to provide some kind substantiation for what you're saying, you change the subject
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Here are four lecturers talking about being barred That's not what the article says. Of the 4 academics, 1 of them (Hoftman) spoke of being assaulted after approaching the protests (just as protesters have been assaulted by folks fr
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Hamas is an overtly genocidal organization; their charter says it in plain language The 2017 Charter absolutely does not, and if you think it does you'll have to cite specific paragraphs to back up this view. In fact it specifically
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Sometimes ethnostates make sense due to special circumstances in history and in the present. Hypothetically. But when established by force on top of other people's land, not so much.
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2y ago
Not to quibble, but because you like to nerd out on these things: Maximalist land claims from the Israeli side go back much further than the Kahanist movement - specifically to the Revisionist Zionism movement founded circa 1925. Which arg
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2y ago
Many were locked out. Who? You've yet to provide examples of people barred from the campus for reasons other than specific, well-documented charges against them (in the case of Davidai, of stalking and harassing other students. And
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Bucha is contested By Russian propaganda outlets, perhaps. But beyond that it's no more contested than other well-known atrocities such as My Lai, Guernica, Katyń, etc. A Ukrainian Gaza would be bombing densely populated city cente
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I don't see most critiques of Zionism as "demonization", though I would agree they are sometimes misinformed and involve lousy choices of wording and phrasing. Many of most serious (and highly informed) of these critiques com
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2y ago
An excellent point + thanks for the golah/galut reference. I certainly didn't mean to imply that forced assimilation was an issue solely for the Mizrahi.
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2y ago
Israeli Jewish people of Iraqi origin are MENA people, not "colonial Europeans." I'd recommend you also start reading more carefully, please. This (the idea that "MENA are European") is very clearly not what runar
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2y ago
Aside from the relatively recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union (starting from the 90s) Jews of all backgrounds speak primarily Hebrew. It sounds like you’ve never ... You must not be reading the post above yours. Because very
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I completely bombed the interview with David Fullerton and I’m pretty sure that’s what killed my application. [His] question, which I’ve heard is a Facebook favorite, was “convert a decimal number to base negative 2”. This question, which
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Putin has been the only one threatening to use nukes. That much is crystal clear.
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He sought to join the protestors He went to "check out", and for a fraction of that time "talk with" the protestors, by the words you are quoting. To "join the protestors" (implying some sort of direct partic
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2y ago
Can you boil it down to 1 or 2 unsavory facts about Biden (to pick one) that we "should" be seeing on his page, but aren't, due to the incessant State Dept / corporate media troll-editing that you maintain obviously exis
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2y ago
Some do, but reliable percentage data on this topic seems to be hard to come by. And many Israelis (and the current extremist regime) want the exact reverse of course. And make no apologies for this fact.
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Israel doesn't restrict citizenship to only Jews, But its laws extend greatly preferential treatment to (certain kinds of) Jews, of course. "Jews" (or those deemed as such by certain disputed criteria) may naturalize, but w
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2y ago
The user who posted this is perfectly legit, and not the person who created the site. As their follow-up comment makes clear -- they weren't doing this to promote the site, but to warn others of its existence: https://news.
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Profoundly obnoxious of course. It'll take some time, but hopefully a mix of manual flagging and automated countermeasures will be sufficient to quash this onslaught. Meanwhile, as to the visionary genius behind this thing: Experimen
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2y ago
How is "checking out a protest" while on one's lunch break disruptive? If you read the original article it specifically says he sought out the protestors He was being "Googley" and curious, in other words. And go
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Imagine filing a Title VI complaint against someone because they "required of Belgium or Canada a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."
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2y ago
Non-paywalled: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-wild-rise-of-zillow...
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The wild rise of Zillow Gone Wild
(washingtonpost.com)
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