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The Four Radical Steps Needed for a Sustainable Future
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in World News
"The question is, where are we going to get the energy to put in?" The same source all those fossil fuels got their energy from: the sun. -
What I can see is that you refuse to engage with the notion of payback. As bad as what the Northern Irish suffered, it was not even close to the same league as what Israel has done to the Palestinians since 1967. This is what happens when you oppress the locals. It's not just in Palestine that this kind of vicious and bloody payback occurs. All you have to do is consult history from the 2nd half of the 20th century onwards. Israel has become a disgrace of a democracy empowered by an increasingly bitter and bigoted majority.
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Criticizing for someone "making it personal" is categorizing it as unfriendly comment. Are you seriously claiming that because you didn't use the words "personal attack" therefore that wasn't what your reply meant. It is to laugh. And you still are clearly avoiding the issue of an historical perspective. It's clear now, as far as that goes, that you have nothing to offer in the way of a reply.
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Telll that to all the iinnocent civilians in the UK who were the victims of IRA violence. And, of course, the treatment of the Catholics in Northern Ireland is as nothing compared to the way Israel has treated the Palestinians in Gaza. Inevitably, the more vicious the repression, the more vicious the counter-force. The velociraptors have come home to roost.
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Trump Booed at Libertarian Convention ‘No wannabe dictators!’
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Please. At about 37:54 when he asks for the audience's vote, the boos are overwhelming. -
You're the one who made a claim about the link. It's up to you to provide it. As for "hyjacking the topic"... This is the topic. "Israeli Lawmaker Advocates for Global Action Against Wartime Sexual Violence" Ostensibly not about Hamas, per se. But all wartime sexual violence. At least that's what the Israeli women say that's what it's about. Are you insinuating that their concern is actually a ploy to spotlight Hamas crimes of sexual violence and that these women don't really care about sexual violence during wartime committed elsewhere? Is sexual violence during warfare only a crime if it's committed by Hamas fighters?
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Trump Booed at Libertarian Convention ‘No wannabe dictators!’
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in World News
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It might actually be possible for Israel to take on this scourge right away without having to wait for the international community to take action. UN experts demand investigation into claims Israeli forces killed, raped and sexually assaulted Palestinian women and girls United Nations experts have called for an investigation into what they described as “credible allegations of egregious human rights violations” against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank by Israeli forces. The allegations include extrajudicial killing, arbitrary detention, degrading treatment, rape and sexual violence, according to a statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released on Monday. It did not detail how they did their fact-finding, but they referred to photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances reportedly taken by Israeli troops and uploaded online. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/middleeast/israel-hamas-un-investigation-sexual-abuse-intl/index.html
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The ICJ Ordered Israel to Halt its Rafah Military Offensive
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
I can see it's really difficult for some people to wrap their minds around the plain English of Hanugama's claim that Hamas was stealing most of the food aid. No evidence, just assertions. And even on commonsense grounds your claims fail. There are about 2 million people in Gaza. Why would Hamas be stealing most of the food to feed its fighters who were reckoned to number 30,000 before the war. Even with the strangulated quantity that Israel allows into Gaza, that doesn't literally add up. . I remember well the "it stands to reason" arguments like yours were made to justify invading Iraq. -
The ICJ Ordered Israel to Halt its Rafah Military Offensive
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
And yet you offer nothing yourself to support this statement from Hanaguma: "Given that the majority of relief supplies are stolen by Hamas, perhaps you are pointing your finger in the wrong direction." Put up or... -
The ICJ Ordered Israel to Halt its Rafah Military Offensive
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
As I've pointed out, it's common for judges who dissent in whole in whole or in part from a decision to explain their differences with the majority. 4 judges out of 15 disagreed wholly or in part with the decision. They are speaking for themselves. Not for the other 11 judges. -
The ICJ Ordered Israel to Halt its Rafah Military Offensive
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Oh, he's a lawyer. I guess that means he's impartial and fair-minded? It's a good thing that lawyers don't try to make their case by slanting evidence. At least, that's the case in oppositeworld. What don't you understand that out of 15 justices, 4 had a problem of some sort with the ruling? And 2 of those disagreed with the ruling in its entirety. -
The ICJ Ordered Israel to Halt its Rafah Military Offensive
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
I posted the entire quote to Twitter without a problem. So I would expect others to do the same. As for the judges opinions. The vote was 13-2. Both of the dissenters wrote opinions. Of the other who voted with the majority, 2 supported this interpretation and one contradicted it. That leaves 10 judges. None of whom has dissented from this pronouncement from the President of the Court: “Israel must immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” Judge Nawaf Salam, president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), said on Friday. The court considers the humanitarian situation in Rafah to be classified as “disastrous,” he said, adding that UN officials have indicated that the situation was set to “intensify even further” if the Israeli operation in Rafah continues." https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/24/middleeast/israel-icj-gaza-rafah-south-africa-ruling-intl/index.html