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by tkahn6 15y ago
The solution is to find higher quality news outlets. NPR and PBS come to mind.
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Yes forgive me if don't trust Amnesty international on Israel (or any Western country for that matter) [1]. Also, WP is legal when used in a civilian area if that's where the battlefield is (Israel did not choose to fight in an urban area,
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> and the white phosphorous used in the Gaza Strip [2] were both made by the US and given to Israel through the US Military Aid program. Also very true. And it should be noted that WP usage is legal under international law provided that
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It's slightly more complicated than that. No doubt it's a stimulus to defense contractors, but this money also comes with stipulations. For example, Israel is not allowed to sell certain military technologies (of its own invention) to count
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It appears you are correct, though my second point still stands.
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I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from. At $30 billion over the next 10 years, per year, US aid to Israel is $412 per Israeli [1]. And of course, that will go down with population increases. And another thing to note is that th
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Well as long as you're consistent I don't mind. I imagine it's easy to be self-righteous when it's not your safety on the line. I don't pretend to understand the security concerns of those countries with regards to their facilities.
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I have no problem with low-res only views of sensitive areas. I don't tend to be staunchly idealistic at the expense of security. So not having high-res satellite imagery of sites in Israel is an affront to your rights, but these aren't? h
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Yes I agree completely. The Rabbinate should not have as much power as it does.
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> So they have some R&D there. As I outlined above and which you are purposely and blatantly ignoring, our relationship is more than economic. Ireland doesn't face an existential threat from anti-Western regimes, nor does it have th
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index According to that Israel is a 'Flawed democracy' and Lebanon is a 'Hybrid regime'. I cannot say I'm familiar with the political system in Lebanon, but I do know they've been having some major i
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Ah didn't see that about the French guy. The article isn't very explicit about this point, though if you look at the totals by nationality, there are 105 hostages (all Jews) and of them 92 are Israeli. Also, if your mother converted to Juda
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> they were separate by nationality - which happened to separate them by Jews and non-Jews I'm not sure where you see this. There were French and American Jews who were among the hostages. In fact, the Israeli forces accidentally killed
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> there are a lot of people in occupied territories that don't have a vote. Yes they do. In their own government(s). What are you talking about? Edit: Oh gosh... downvoted? I feel as though I am on reddit. Edit 2: They voted for Fatah
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> You think it is an obvious fact that doesn't need to be supported or argued about it is just common sense and I think many would disagree with that. I don't think it's an obvious fact which is why 7 minutes before you wrote this, I r
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That's correct, although it does possess the only armed force in the world interested in protecting the Jewish people. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe for why this is important.
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Seeing as Turkey is vying for a position in the EU and it's part of numerous European councils, Turkey isn't generally considered a Middle Eastern country.
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And?
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Numerous innovations (like the bandage that saved Gabriel Giffords' life), numerous American companies doing R&D in Israel (Intel is fabricating their upcoming Sandy Bridge line in Israel), and of course, military relations (weapons/def
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Ah I see your point. But an ally asked for something that's rather trivial (for us)... I don't see why we shouldn't comply.
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Yes but in this case America does benefit from a healthy relationship with Israel and, more importantly, from Israel's existence.
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> How is this not a violation of the first amendment? Google is a private company. > I quite honestly don't understand why we have such a relationship with Israel as it yields us zero benefit and many losses. If you don't understand
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^ This is a statement of fact and yet I am being heavily downvoted. Just because the threat is overblown, does not mean it's not a real threat.
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> "they should quit attempting to fight for freedom because authorities will use them as an excuse to crack down" Who's fighting for freedom? Anon is a bunch of man-children (or actual children) 'fighting the man' behind anonymity from
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> A few short years ago we had scary arab terrorists, I think they're still a bigger scapegoat than anon. Both Anon and arab terrorists have carried out numerous attacks...
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That's not what he said.
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Which state do you live in, how rich are you, and what are your SAT scores/grades?
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A related comic which gives away the answer: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/43
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I've posted imgur links to share screenshots of an extension I wrote for Chrome. Yours is the first meme image I've seen on HN.
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CUDA has a much simpler API (and your entire program can be written in CUDA C) because it makes assumptions about the hardware you're using. OpenCL is for 'computing on heterogeneous platforms' meaning that if you do it right, your code can

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