“October 7th was a terrorist attack” is basically Israeli propaganda at this point.
Let me see you try telling that to the folks who were at the music festival.
“October 7th was a terrorist attack” is basically Israeli propaganda at this point.
Let me see you try telling that to the folks who were at the music festival.
a rarity in a region where many countries give long jail terms and even death sentences for people convicted of marijuana possession, consumption or trafficking.
Anything that can get you the death penalty is dangerous by proxy.
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It’s because of the Geneva Convention (origin of the modern concept of war crimes.)
It’s designed to be applied mutually, if only one side does then it’s basically non-functioning.
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Egypt proposed elections while offering assurances to Hamas that its members would not be chased or prosecuted, but the Islamist group rejected any concessions other than hostage releases, the sources said. More than 100 hostages are still believed to be held in Gaza.
They could still have won the elections.
Blinken noted in the briefing that “understandably, everyone would like to see this conflict end as quickly as possible,” but, he observed, “if it ends with Hamas remaining in place and having the capacity and the stated intent to repeat October 7th again and again and again, that’s not in the interests of Israel, it’s not in the interests of the region, it’s not in the interests of the world.”
Obviously not but it’s an important part of the discussion, especially with their stated interest in repeating it.
US not really looking to fight, or you’d be saying don’t bring drones to a missile fight.
Oh Trump has blubbered about it enough that I would take it seriously.
It wouldn’t be a legal mechanism if there was something stopping him from doing it.
(from the article)
“We’re losing a lot of people because of the internet,” Trump said. “We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.”
“ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the internet better than we are using the nternet and it was our idea,” Trump said. “I want to get the brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS can’t do what they’re doing. I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.”
When challenged, he added: “I’m not talking about closing the internet. I’m talking about closing parts of the internet where ISIS is.”
It doesn’t prevent terrorism, but where the hits land it does usually stop whatever is going on.