Hanaguma

Biden is a stuttering ruin, walks like a Roomba automatic floor cleaner. Trump not much better. More words but less meaning. How about both parties agree to kicking them both to the side and nominating someone under the retirement age?

If the economy is good, most people ain't feeling it. Car loans at 10% plus. Mortgages at 7%, added to the rise in housing costs in general. High cost of living brought on by inflation. I could go on. A strong majority of Americans disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy. You can argue how much of it is fair or not, but the man at the big desk always takes the heat.

This is good news! The terrorists are being confined to a smaller and smaller area, and can be hunted down and eliminated over time. Meanwhile in the north, the destruction of the vast network of terror tunnels can continue apace.

Apologies. The KFCs are actually located in the West Bank, not in Gaza. But your story was interesting- it freely admitted that there are HUNDREDS of tunnels used by Gazans to smuggle goods into and out of their area. Which is a first class, excellent reason why Israel needs to shut them all down. Again, not much of an 'open air prison' when KFC can be smuggled in. Or places like the Al Mathaf Hotel do business... https://www.facebook.com/mathaf.hotel/

Most of those problems are exascerbated by an overabundance of labor, especially vulnerable people who are easily exploited. If you want to solve those issues, tighten the border.

Why don't the asylum seekers instead go to one of the many American consulates in Mexico, or their home countries, or any country in between? It would save them a lot of shoe leather. If you want to know just one tiny cost of this fiasco, consider New York City. Housing and feeding the migrants costs millions of dollars a DAY. The city pays $33 per day just to feed one migrant- that is over a hundred bucks a day for a family, just for their food. And a lot of the food is thrown away by the migrants anyway. Needs to stop.

Nobody blames immigrants. However, people DO blame illegal aliens. They are two completely separate categories. If you believe that the working class is becoming the working poor, then you should also be on side with limiting all forms of immigration. Putting pressure on the labor market at the bottom will only cause wages for legal residents and citizens to fall. Also, adding millions of people who need housing when there is already a housing shortage will cause prices in that sector to rise. Perhaps the most basic function of a nation is to control its borders. Fail to do that one task and bad things happen. Tens of thousands of young, fit, military age men from myriad countries flowing into the US (especially from China) does not bode well for the future.

Funny kind of 'genocide' where the population of the supposed genocide victims actually GROWS. Grows by 400% since 1967. Same as the other tired shibboleth of Gaza being an "open air prison". Funny kind of prison which has KFC, 3 star hotels, and thousands of guests from outside visit for extended stays.

Neeranam; what is this "right of return" that you mentioned? Can you be specific about what exactly it entails? I have heard this phrase bandied about but nobody wants to define the term itself.

Not at all OK. I think Hamas should definitely distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths. But for some reason, they don't.

Another rather important piece of information that, curiously, is never mentioned: "Hamas's figures do not distinguish between male civilians and combatants."

For all the billions poured into Gaza over the years, one wonders why it is still a mess. Gee, where did the money go....

Sounds good. You mean the border after Israel kicked Arab butt, right?

,,,and people wonder why the Israelis did not flinch when they were criticized for targeting hospitals. Same came up years ago when Hamas first took over, they used hospitals to torture and murder their local enemies.

Yes. This is the woman's 19 year old daughter. She has obviously been raped repeatedly and abused, if the bloodstains around the crotch of her sweatpants are anything to go by.

If that were true then the IDF is doing poorly. They have 300 attack aircraft but have only managed to kill 18,000 Palestinians in 2 months? Pretty poor showing. Or perhaps, that is NOT their objective...

Blame Hamas. Hamas is the group that hides behind civilians, disguises itself, and so on. Hamas kidnaps, rapes, mutilates, and murders innocent men women and children. To their credit, the IDF will look into this. There may be repercussions, if so then fine. That is how a professional military handles things like this. Hamas are neither professional nor military. Just sub-human thugs cowering behind civilians.

The democrats have been trying for years?!? Give me a break. They want to quickly legalize people, give out green cards like candy. Just look at the border now. Thousands of young, fit, suspiciously clean young men are crossing weekly. They look remarkably fresh and well groomed for people who supposedly have walked 1000 miles to the border. Because they didn't. All are transported by cartels and human traffickers. Nobody can approach the border on the Mexican side without paying up to the drug kingpins and their ilk. There are very few of the "huddled masses yearning to be free", few families, few genuine asylum seekers. All are economic migrants at best, drains on the social system at worst. How to stop it? Do not release ANYONE until their case is resolved. Build detention camps along the border to hold illegals until their status is determined. Simply releasing them into the country is folly of the worst kind.

What oppression would that be in Gaza? The Jews left in 2005. The bottom line is that the Palestinians backed the wrong horse since 1948. Lost successive wars also by backing the losing side (Arab League etc). So they are now screwed. Better that they come to terms with it and make peace with the victor. Numerous deals were offered, but all rejected. They need to give up the idea of returning to their previous land, because it is a non-starter. It would be a simple start to say, "OK, we give up on the idea of killing all of you". Then some serious negotiations could take place. But until that point, they are doomed.

Encroach? Hardly. Israel was invaded constantly. They took territory to stay safe. You forget that five countries invaded Israel in 1948 and tried to wage a war of genocide? Of course the losers lost territory. That is the way of the world. Lose a war, lose land. Germany lost a lot of land after WW2, but you dont see ex residents of Prussia sitting around complaining.

Nope. Other countries did the same thing, with the same results.

Can't argue with that. Trump shutting the country down was lunacy, exacerbated by printing trillions of dollars to burn in response to the Wu Flu. Biden continued the same idiocy, fuelling inflation with too many dollars and not enough to spend them on.

According to Wikipedia, average 6.6 hours of sunshine a day in December/January, average of 4 inches of rain per month. Or 10 centimetres.

All celcius of course. Don't want to confuse my European friends! Hardly 'winter' as most of us understand the term.

According to our friend Wikipedia, January is the coldest month in Gaza City- average high of 18 degrees, low of 10. This is winter?