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"Those who start a war must be held accountable for all deaths and destruction. Israel didn't start any of wars since 1947." By your criteria, no matter Israel does in this war, it can never be a war crime.

It's clear you don't actually read what you write. Let me quote you: " With this latest events of the hostages taken by Hamas, Israel has bent over backwards to meet the terrorist demands..." I guess Israel disagrees with you.

That's a question that needs to be addressed to the mods.

You don't get much more right wing or more supportive of Israel than the Telegraph: Israel sent suitcases of cash into Gaza for years despite concerns about funding Hamas Plan was said to be an attempt to ’buy quiet’ in the enclave but critics say it ended up supporting the terror group’s murderous assault Despite being formally designated a terrorist organisation by Israel, the US and much of the West, Mr Netanyahu has largely ignored military provocation from the group since the last major Israeli ground incursion of 2014, and has simultaneously allowed huge sums of cash to flow into Gaza. The money is said to have come in suitcases via Qatar, where Hamas’s political leadership is based, but also via trade with Israel that has boomed in recent years as tens of thousands of cross-border work permits have been issued to Gazans. Although careful in public, in early 2019 Mr Netanyahu was quoted as saying behind closed doors that those who opposed a two-state solution should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because it worked against Palestinian unity, according to the Times of Israel. https://archive.ph/mSBIm#selection-2571.4-2575.140 You don't seem to understand the difference between editorial positions and reporting. Overall, we rate the Times of Israel as Left-Center biased based on editorial positions that slightly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/times-of-israel/

Living in denial much? Got a problem with the Times of Israel, too? For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group. The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

I won't accuse you of being delusional. But it's clear you are utterly ignorant of the fact regarding this issue. Hamas is an asset' Netanyahu's hawkish defence minister Avigdor Liberman was the first to report in 2020 that Bibi had dispatched Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and the IDF's officer in charge of Gaza, Herzi Halevi, to Doha to "beg" the Qataris to continue to send money to Hamas. "Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas," the right-wing leader complained. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas-1.7010035 Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state. "During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue? Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha." https://archive.ph/EvmiL

At least a persecution complex would be sincere. This is just a transparent attempt to inject emotion into the issue. That said, there are many claiming to be only anti-Zionist, including you, who have occasionally slipped up and revealed their anti-Semitism. I can still recall when you judged some thaivisa member to be Jewish solely because of their vehement support of Israel.

Wow. I feel like I'm in conversation with a living fossil. You should be put on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute. A living supporter of the War in Vietnam. It's nearly an honor to be noticed by you.

The thing is, in those areas that people fleeing the west coast for, like Austin and Dallas are blue.

As though to confirm how empty your comments are, you now resort to making it personal. You've got nothing.

Really? The article linked to this tweet from the Israeli Government Spokesperson

Because you are a scholar on the subject? You too have a deep experience of wading in the archives? Like Shay, you are also fluent in Hebrew and Arabic? On top of that, I am sure he would be very taken with someone who is impressed by the disquisitions of 2 guys from the Ayn Rand Institute who have no relevant credentials on the subject. It is to laugh.

Really? The article linked to didn't back up my claim. First off, the author of this article is Shay Hazkani Associate Professor, History Associate Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies He is the author of Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) So he knows his way around the archives. Here are some excerpts from what I quoted above: "What is clear, however, is that these historians unearthed official documents confirming Israeli culpability in expelling Palestinians, blocking the return of those who fled and committing a series of war crimes. In one seminal document from June 1948—located by Benny Morris and thereafter removed from public view—an intelligence officer listed many of the depopulated Palestinian villages from the first stage of the 1948 war, conveniently explaining for each village the means by which it was uprooted."... "In fact, the chief archivist exposed in 2018 that in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) archives alone, 200 files containing some 20,000 pages that had been opened in the past were sealed again in the last several years"

Thanks for the empty generalization.

Stop with the generalizations. In this case I linked to something relevant. And previously on another topic I pointed out that your understanding of the article was defective.

Another mindreader.

Maybe you should publish in the Journal of Making It Personal

So, we can agree that being Jewish has no necessary attachment to the State of Israel? That the two shouldn't be conflated? That criticism of Israel and Zionism is not necessarily anti-Semitic?

Trump's lawyers are so bad at defending their client that even the Judge scolds them for it Judge Merchan chides Trump’s lawyers for not objecting more during Stormy Daniels’ testimony The judge responded to their arguments saying, “For some unexplained reason that I still don’t understand” there was no objection to certain testimony cited in the motion for a mistrial and again today. Merchan specifically pointed to Daniels’ testimony about the trailer park, in which Daniels suggested Trump told her she would be stuck living in a trailer park before they had sex in 2006. The judge said he felt that was unnecessary and he objected himself. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/09/politics/judge-merchan-calls-out-trump-attorneys-mistrial/index.html

Liicense to fell falsehoods = IMHO

Being against a political state's right to exist is not the same thing as being against the right to exist of people living in that state. Personally, I don't think it's realistic to expect a one state solution. Israel certainly has a right to defend itself against murderous fanatics like those in Hamas. Do you believe that those who oppose not Israel's right to defend itself, but rather oppose the way Israel is waging it's war, are anti-Semitic?

Being Jewish may not be only a religion, but it certainly doesn't mean being Israeli. It certainly doesn't mean that a Jewish person has some inherent connection to Israel. They are free to choose or reject such a connection. Criticisms of Zionism are not inherently anti-semitic. After all, there are far more evangelical Christians who are strong believers in Zionism.

I guess I should be flattered that you would prefer my characterizations of evidence rather than the evidence itself. What exactly is the point of that?

I now you're not dyslexic. Did you bother to read the text? Do you have a problem with reading evidence?

For those of you who didn't bother to follow this link, )and given the evidentiary quality of KhunLA's past posts on this topic why would you.) Here is the sum total of what who tiktoks under the name of Chica Algeciras said: "So the most powerful governments in the world can't solve homelessness, but they can change the earth's temperature if you pay a few more taxes." This is what passes for rational thinking in minds of some.