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And your criterion for dubiousness apparently is whatever doesn't support what you believe.

It's something you apparently hadn't figured out? Unless of course you had and are now acknowledging it.

Where did I ever assert that Noncombatant lives are all that valuable to them?

Really? Looks to me like that would make it a lot easier for Israeli surveillance.

Which is why when vaccines became available, the death rate from covid in Republican voting areas became substantially higher than it was in Democratic leaning areas. If "feeling a lot better" means feeling nothing at all, then you have a point. Otherwise, not so much.

Sure. Given his reluctance to send the second arms shipment to Ukraine - he had to be threatened by Congress with a lawsuit to motivate him - clearly, Putin would have been too cowed to ever make such an attempt. Especially given this Trump Doesn't Rule Out Recognizing Russia's Annexation Of Crimea U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking two weeks before a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has declined to rule out recognizing Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. Asked by reporters on Air Force One late on June 29 whether reports about him dropping Washington's longstanding opposition to the annexation were true, Trump said: "We're going to have to see." Trump gave a similar answer when asked whether he would consider lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia which were imposed over the annexation. https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-doesnt-rule-out-recognizing-russian-annexation-ukraine-crimean-peninsula/29328403.html

Them underground installations and facilities located in the uninhabited areas, such as they are, of Gaza? By the way have you googled a satellite view of Gaza? Those gray areas are the densely inhabited areas. Not a lot left over.

Thanks for the designation, self-appointed one. who claims that every civilized human being will now support an Israeli incursion into "Gaza unrestricted by any moral obligations." It is to laugh.

Here's a more complete poll. It doesn't support your claim either. https://archive.ph/XGyfO

Says the spokesperson for all civilized human beings.

In fact the Israelis observed Hamas training for those attacks. The just misconstrued what that training signified. And it also observes their rocket tests. Not a lot of hills and such with caves to take cover in. Unlike Hezbollah's situation.

You sure about that? "The poll showed support at an all-time low for the two-state solution: 20% among Israeli Jews aged 18-34 and around 30% for Palestinians in the same age group. The survey also found that, for the first time, support in Israel for a nondemocratic regime — unequal rights between Israelis and Palestinians — is stronger than that for a two-state solution. According to the poll, a majority on each side rejects the other‘s historical connection to the land and believes that violence is the only way to resolve the conflict." https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-13/two-state-solution-for-israel-palestine-hopes-dashed-alternatives

Do they cost so much more than ICE vehicles? China is the by far the world's leading producer of EVs. They have the most experience in mass production. They are managing to produce EVs at a fraction of the cost of those sold by European and American manufacturers. But the Western EV manufacturers are learning. There's a learning curve to manufacturing. The Chinese are just further along on it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evs-experience-curve-pete-o-connor

Can you suggest a locale both away from populated areas and secure from Israeli attack? With around 2 million Palestinians[12] on some 365 square kilometers, Gaza, if considered a top-level political unit, ranks as the 3rd most densely populated in the world.[13][14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip

How did you like 2020 when the GDP fell off a cliff?

Yes America lays in smoking ruins as another 336000 jobs were added to the economy in September. The battered, ruined economy which has now experienced less than 4% unemployment's for the longest stretch of time since the last one ended in 1969, 54 years ago. It is to weep over.

Anti-semites would disagree with you.

But the person I was replying to made it a theological issue about the very nature of Islam.

As you well know, this is what Morch was replying to:

Well, for one thing anti-semitism has a racial tinge to it and the whole blood libel thing. You know, the claim that Jews used the blood of Christian children to make matzoh. In fact, a story from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales features the lie that Jews killed Christian children. It wasn't until the late 19th century that Musliims started to pick up on that thanks to European colonialism. Before that, in areas of the Muslim world where Jews weren't treated well, they weren't demonized the way they were in Christian Europe. Just looked down upon because the faith they subscribed to was incomplete. The same goes for Muslim treatment of Christians in those regions. Which doesn't make such statements by those such as proton's any more acceptable.

For hundreds of years Jewish and Christian communities thrived in many Muslim ruled countries in the Mideast as well as in the Balkans and Andalusia. In fact, when Christian armies of Spain expelled hundreds of thousands of Jews, it was Muslim Turkey that welcomed them in.

Actually, the people who know what they're doing have long been predicting that things are going to get worse.

The claim that humans use only a small portion of their brain has long since been debunked. And it never made much sense. How would it make evolutionary sense for an organ that uses so much energy to grow so large if most of it was not used? "The notion that a person uses only 10 percent of their brain is a myth. fMRI scans show that even simple activities require almost all of the brain to be active." https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#takeaway "The brain requires a tremendous amount of energy to do its job. While it only represents 2 percent of the body mass of the average adult human, the brain consumes an estimated 20 percent of body’s energy supply. " https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/study-sheds-new-light-on-brains-source-of-power#:~:text=The brain requires a tremendous,percent of body's energy supply.

Basically this petition is a scam. The linked to articles were written when the claim as that 1200 scientists had signed on to the petition. "Rather, they said, the post seems to be the latest iteration of a broader disinformation campaign that for decades has peddled a series of arguments long discredited by the scientific community at large. Furthermore, the experts told me, the vast majority of the declaration’s signatories have no experience in climate science at all, and the group behind the message—the Climate Intelligence Foundation, or CLINTEL—has well-documented ties to oil money and fossil fuel interest groups. “Looking at the list of signatories, there are a lot of engineers, medical doctors, and petroleum geologists and almost no actual climate scientists,” said Zeke Hausfather, a longtime research scientist at Berkeley Earth, a non-partisan nonprofit that specializes in analyzing climate data, and the former director of climate and energy programs at the Breakthrough Institute, another independent environmental research firm." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082022/experts-debunk-viral-post-claiming-1100-scientists-say-theres-no-climate-emergency/ "When looking closer at the list of signatories, there are precisely 1,107, including six people who are dead. Less than 1% of the names listed describe themselves as climatologists or climate scientists... According to an independent 2019 count of the declaration's signatories, 21% were engineers, many linked to the fossil fuel industry. Others were lobbyists, and some even worked as fishermen or airline pilots." https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/16/fact-check-did-1200-climate-experts-sign-declaration-denying-climate-emergency

You sure about that? How Green Is Wind Power, Really? A New Report Tallies Up The Carbon Cost Of Renewables Citing data from the likes of National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, and Bernstein estimates, Venkateswaran determined that the biggest contributors to the carbon footprint of wind turbines are steel, aluminum and the epoxy resins that hold pieces together — with the steel tower making up 30% of the carbon impact, the concrete foundation 17% and the carbon fiber and fiberglass blades 12%. Good news: amortizing the carbon cost over the decades-long lifespan of the equipment, Bernstein determined that wind power has a carbon footprint 99% less than coal-fired power plants, 98% less than natural gas, and a surprise 75% less than solar. https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/04/28/how-green-is-wind-power-really-a-new-report-tallies-up-the-carbon-cost-of-renewables/?sh=5897d36373cd Green or not? Environmental challenges from photovoltaic technology The booming demands for energy and the drive towards low-carbon energy sources have prompted a worldwide emerging constructions of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy facilities. Compared with fossil-based electrical power system, PV solar energy has significantly lower pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. However, PV solar technology are not free of adverse environmental consequences such as biodiversity and habitat loss, climatic effects, resource consumption, and disposal of massive end-of-life PV panels. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749123000684#:~:text=The booming demands for energy,greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. YSE Study Finds Electric Vehicles Provide Lower Carbon Emissions Through Additional Channels With new major spending packages investing billions of dollars in electric vehicles in the U.S., some analysts have raised concerns over how green the electric vehicle industry actually is, focusing particularly on indirect emissions caused within the supply chains of the vehicle components and the fuels used to power electricity that charges the vehicles. But a recent study from the Yale School of the Environment published in Nature Communications found that the total indirect emissions from electric vehicles pale in comparison to the indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles. This is in addition to the direct emissions from combusting fossil fuels — either at the tailpipe for conventional vehicles or at the power plant smokestack for electricity generation — showing electric vehicles have a clear advantage emissions-wise over conventional vehicles. https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/yse-study-finds-electric-vehicles-provide-lower-carbon-emissions-through-additional