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"In the past two decades Israel has given back complete control of Gaza to the Palestinians." Bollocks - there is a complete naval blockade. [Before the Hasbarati downvote me - I truly couldn't care whether is a good or bad
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"Arabs aren't forced to do military service but they're welcome to do so" Exactly the same situation in Apartheid South Africa. There were whole battalions of volunteer black soldiers. Hell, after 1981 there were even bl
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So why then put the extra burden of defending Israel on just the Jews? An act of unsolicted kindness? Unless of course Israeli jews really, really, really want to avoid training generation after generation after generation of Arabs citizens
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Volunteers aren't conscripts. Surely you know this. Non-apartheid-type governments by definition do not have laws that discriminate by race. Both Apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel had and have laws explicitly preventing
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Well, except for the bit about deliberately not conscripting Arab citizens. Apartheid South Africa also didn't give rifles to the conscripted black Africans either and ask them to patrol white cities. For the same reasons.
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GDP isn't even measured in the same way in different countries. 1. The USA gifts itself > $6 trillion in imputed values. Or about the GDP of Japan; 2. If China measured their GDP using the formula used by India, its economy would be
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Nope, African here. May I recommend some Lithium for your condition though.
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(there are safer and more lucrative buyers) Only if the the Chinese navy doesn't sink those.
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> most of the time cancel culture is really plain moderation Most moderation ends with people losing their jobs? Really?
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> Because life shouldn't be spent afraid to apologize Unless by apologising you start a new process of (often absurd) penalties that you cannot control. Exactly why lawyers instruct people to never apologise or admit fault in even t
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> If you can't speak a slur in the context of a conversation about racist language, when can you? Rap and/or hip-hop + the politically-approved ancestry.
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There aren't "western" or "eastern" or "southern" scientists. There are just scientists. And deal with that chip.
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Here is one being hatched: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1
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No mandate from the board. CEOs shouldn't be kings.
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If you want a really damming example more recent than a war our grandparents were children during: consider that the IDF provided they could get to Entebbe in Uganda at short notice, but failed to muster the moral courage to intervene in Rw