As if this mercenary fuckwit speaks for the entire US.

Yes, being late to the party did benefit the US, but only because we stopped being isolationist.

The problem is isolationism often leads to situations we can’t ignore, as with the world wars. We were isolationists before then, and we benefited greatly from our international involvement ever since. We are the richest country in the history of the world largely thanks to our geography and international involvement. The dollar is the world’s fiat currency. We prefer not to fight wars for other people, rather we usually just fund and arm groups that share our interests.

If we withdraw back into our shell, we lose the privileged place we have in the world.

Now now let’s not forget France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

It’s “mixed” factual reporting, which is literally the minimum acceptable in this forum to not be removed, and has high anti-Israel, pro-Islamist bias. Citation above. It’s not what I’d consider a good source. Pointing this out is not, “misinformation.”

Wow, that’s incredible. He was at ~20% approval rating among Palestinians, guess he’s going for 0%.

Good news for those who want their storms like their networking cables.

Not a credible source.

According to Ehud Rosen, MEMO generally supports Islamist positions within Palestinian politics. According to Andrew Gilligan, the Middle East Monitor promotes a strongly pro-Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Hamas viewpoint. Anshel Pfeffer described MEMO as a “conspiracy theory-peddling anti-Israel organisation”. Our review shows that the Middle East Monitor has a left wing bias in the use of loaded words and also in story choices that promote Islamic positions. We could not find any instances of the Middle East Monitor failing fact checks, but they do sometimes source to questionable media outlets and hence garner a Mixed factual rating.

That’s a onecan.

Sexism. Expendable men, precious women.

Someone has been playing mass effect 3

Because two separate events can’t happen without it being a conspiracy evidently.

There was no recliner and Ottoman from which to comfortably launch my intifada, I’m giving it two stars on HamasBNB.

(Image caption says that’s a tunnel, not sure if that’s the office part.)

No, what I said was, “they shouldn’t qualify as refugees if they haven’t been personally displaced.” The rest of that is a poor attempt at putting words into my mouth. I never said anything about Jewish claims to the land based on the Roman Empire expelling them being valid.

You can’t get away with ad hominem, so you go right for the straw man fallacy. Is that what you consider to be, “engaging in good faith?”

Collateral damage, happens in every war. Especially against Hamas who is fond of using Palestinians as human shields, yet curiously remains popular among them.

Because anyone who disagrees with the pitchfork-wielding anti-Israel mob must be a shill, right? lol.

an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.

Literally, no. It’s not indiscriminate, these deaths are due to attacks against legal targets, intentionally selected due to evidence of Hamas militants and infrastructure.

Have you been keeping up with news the last… three months? They’ve been shooting civilians carrying white flags, rounding up men and killing them, designating safe zones and bombing them

None of that holds a candle to the barbarity of what Hamas did on Oct 7. (Warning: NSFL, gore, cruelty, death.)

• Collateral damage is unfortunate but common in war, and my understanding is that Israel’s strikes cause far fewer civilian deaths than the average when explosives are involved in urban combat.
• I’ve only seen men rounded up and incarcerated, not killed. Trying to understand what you’re talking about, I googled found some articles about accounts of IDF soldiers killing civilians in Al Remal and the UN wanting independent inquiry about it, is this what you’re referring to?
• Israel has been clear they will strike legal Hamas targets wherever they are found, the “safe zones” have been changing as the war progresses, and it appears there was some inconsistent and unclear messaging about safe zones. Pretty much getting people to leave keeps innocent civilians out of areas where anyone remaining will be considered a potential enemy combatant, and is not a guarantee of safety. Hamas also knows about them and likes to attack from refugee camps, hospitals, schools, mosques, etc.,

It’s collective punishment regardless, but the UN still considers Gaza to be occupied because of the amount of control Israel has over it.

I’m aware. The UN’s anti-Israel bias has been on display lately. I’d argue that a blockade and secure borders is not the same as an occupation, and it seems odd to have to supply a nation that’s actively at war with one’s own, but they were just ordered to supply Gaza, so… I guess there’s not any reason for them to not occupy Gaza again. They’re being treated like they are anyway. Unilateral withdrawal didn’t prevent any of the legal consequences of being an occupier. It didn’t provide safety. I wonder if the settlers will return to Gaza along with the IDF after Hamas is defeated.

More on the argument whether Israel is an occupier or not.

They won’t and you know it.

I suspect they will but their attention is elsewhere on more existential matters at the moment.

IDF soldiers openly participate in that “civilian violence”, and when a Palestinian tries to defend themselves the IDF shoots them.

A lot of hate has been cultivated on both sides and this is a civilian army. This doesn’t justify it but I would be surprised if such acts didn’t occur. I can only imagine what it would feel like if my friends and family were one of the above victims.

“no u”

The earliest massacres in mandatory Palestine were instigated by Arab nationalists. That’s what really got the cycle of violence going and led to the various Jewish terrorist groups and militias.

More relevant to the current war, modern Israel does not behave that way.

I’ve never seen the IDF do anything remotely comparable to the barbarity on display by Hamas. At worst they don’t care as much about collateral damage when attacking legal targets as some people say they should, despite taking precautions that no other countries do to minimize civilian deaths during their military operations.

Reacting to a nation collectively when their government declares war on your nation is par for the course. Were Gaza occupied, you’d have a point, that would be collective punishment and therefore a war crime… but Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005.

I’m less informed about what’s going on in the West Bank, but the news articles I’ve read seem to indicate that it’s mostly settler violence that is the problem there, civilian violence. I hope for everyone’s sake that Israel prosecutes and punishes those responsible for crimes.