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There you go again making personal comments about members rather than addressing the issues. In this case I addressed not only turley's previously sorry track record, but in this case his take on a current situation

Speaking of citing irrelevant info... Overreaching much?

Well, it's either a future reference or an unsupported assertion. What percentage of the tunnels in Gaza have Israeli forces destroyed? Does anyone really know? Should we accept skeptically whatever claims the IDF makes in that regard? As I have previously pointed out, always suspect to denigrate the capabilities of a less conventionally capable enemy.

It's a surprising fact and an important story. And you can dwell on the headline all you want. The fact is that Hamas was getting un a surprsingly large portion of its armaments from Israeli ordinance. There certainly isn't going to be a shortage of that lying around in Gaza now.

They were turning ordinance into weaponry before the war broke out, and before the tunnels were destroyed. So, it isn't a question of having to resort to finding unexploded ordinance, it was a practice well in place before the war. Also, it's a common assumption made by some in cases of asymmetrical warfare to underestimate the resourcefulness and adaptability of an opponent weaker. We've seen that mistake made over and over again elsewhere. And in Israel, too.

First off, if they were doing it on Disney property , Disney might be held legally liable in civil court. But to be held criminally liable it would have to be shown that Disney management actually was involved in orchestrating the killing and raping of customers.

I think the adjective weird being used to describe vance should be promoted to "creepy." JD Vance Adds to 'Weird' Behavior by 'Stalking' Kamala Harris: Mary Trump Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance should be hit with a restraining order if he can't resist "stalking" Vice President Kamala Harris, according to former President Donald Trump's estranged niece Mary Trump. https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-adds-weird-behavior-stalking-kamala-harris-mary-trump-1936230 In the case of Vance, "weird" should be replaced with "creepy". Does Vance think that stalking is going to help him get the women's vote? Maybe he wants to cement in his support from the psychopath bloc of voters?

Actually, if you want to allege back room deals, look no further than Trump's commutation of the corrupt Blagojevich's prison sentence. It makes a lot more allege to suggest that this is Blogevich's way of repaying his debt to the Don than the Obama orchestrated Biden's removal.

How can a headline give a false narrative? It was a very surprising fact and a great article. It reported on a topic which was at best, underreported on. And it gives the lie to claims that tight border control will cut off the supply of weapons.

Because for it to be a valid question you would need some evidence that the UNRWA was somehow involved in the action. Is there any evidence that this theft of a body was officially sanctioned by the UNRWA and just the act of someone who happened to be an employee?

Citing the future as evidence?

First off the headline isn't false. In fact, it highlights a surpriding fact about where Hamas is getting some of its weaponry from. I don't think the NY Times should be held responsible for people who refuse to read past the headlines. A misleading headline, which I see a lot of on the internet, would be where an unreliable party is quoted in the headlines but the body of the text refutes it. Anyway, what's really going on is that it calls into question the issue of whether Israel's control of the Philadelphi corridor is really going to cut off the weapons supply to Hamas. And that is the issue that you keep on avoiding by focusing on a headline.

ANd this is the question posed by an Israeli mother: You think that's a fair question? That the UNRWA kidnapped the body of her son?

So, stealing bodies for ransom is worse than death? And there are plenty of other reason for outrage short of death - outrages inflicted on the living that outweigh the gravity of stolen bodies.

What do you think the mums of murdered Palestinians are saying? You think evidentiary issues should be decided by enraged and grieving people? That standard would certainly make for interesting jury selections.

Why is it fake news? The headline is actually true. Just not the way you would expect it. Which actually makes it a great headline. And, of course, it's a reply to the rhetorical question quoted belkow posed by bkkbrian re: how can Hamas get weapons if its external supplies are cut off. "Where are these fighters going to get their weapons and ammo from? The smuggling route philadelphi corridor is now under the control of Israel and the smuggling tunnels being destroyed. Bow and arrows?"

Wow. 9 employees out of 13,000. As for Israel's allegations about thousands of UNRWA workers being involved, foreign governments including the USA have been waiting in vain for Israel to provide support for those allegations. Which may be why, almost all countries that originally suspended funding for the UNRWA have resumed it.

Good question.... Where Is Hamas Getting Its Weapons? Increasingly, From Israel. The very weapons that Israeli forces have used to enforce a blockade of Gaza are now being used against them. Israeli military and intelligence officials have concluded that a significant number of weapons used by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks and in the war in Gaza came from an unlikely source: the Israeli military itself. For years, analysts have pointed to underground smuggling routes to explain how Hamas stayed so heavily armed despite an Israeli military blockade of the Gaza Strip. But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html

Poor Jonathan Turley. He's the same guy who, unlike the big majority of legal experts, including conservative ones, thought that Barr and Durham had developed 2 strong cases in its FBI investigations. Both ended in ignominious failure. He repeatedly tried to cast suspicion on James Biden's payments to Joe Biden even after it was shown that these were just repayments of loans. He gave credence to reports of Burisma corruption on Joe Biden's part even though there was no hard evidence and the vague incriminating evidence that was referenced was finally exploded as fake. So, in this case, he's trying to cast suspicion on Joe Biden because of the way the case against his son was prosecuted. He has no real evidence to offer so he just indulges in casting suspicion. Turley's got nothing.

Musk's legal team also lost the court case in Delaware.

I got a suggestion for you: try reading the articles before you comment on them. The first three articles were about three separate incidents. The 4th was about a baseless defamation lawsuit that musk launched. In a way that last one is the worst since it's using the legal system to suppress criticism by making it unaffordable for those at targets.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-musk-silencing-his-critics-as-journalists-are-suspended-by-x/ https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-business-dac21de7abb6167bb604f5317aeda10a https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-still-banning-journalists https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/08/elon-musk-silence-critics-twitter

Because the merits of the case don't count when it comes to Team Elon!

Is this the same legal team that tried to extricate Musk from his deal to buy Twitter?

Only if they're competitors. And there a huge and obvious difference between selling and buying.