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What has that got to do with Hanuguma's know-nothing claim about Palestinians should be begging to be part of Israel's economy?

You think Israel would let them be part of their first world economy? The explicit policy in the West Bank and Gaza, when Israel occupied it, right from the start was to keep the Palestinians economically suppressed. In the West Bank there are 2 sets of laws. One that governs Palestinians and one that governs Israelis. Anyone with any knowledge of this situations knows how the laws have been used to suppress Palestinian development. Clearly, you are not one of those in the know.

Sure. The way Israel has prosecuted this war and it deepening of oppression on the West bank has nothing to do with it? For a long time the Europeans more or less looked the other way at how Israel treated Palestinians, but Israel's conduct during this war has made that impossible. If Hamas has succeeded, that's because Israel has played right into their hands.

Israel has made it easy for those countries. after taking actions like this: Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group. “While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right over the Judea and Samaria area and the country in general,” Smotrich said Friday, referring to the territory by its biblical name, “we are promoting settlement through hard work and in a strategic manner all over the country.” https://archive.ph/VKF2s#selection-667.0-675.306

And what is Israel's plan for ending the war? Does it even have one?

You are just as free to ignore my posts as I am to address yours. And vice versa. Who said otherwise?

I got exciting news for you. This is an open forum. If you care to carry on a private colloquy with another member, that's what the PM function is for.

So what? I was responding to part of what you quoted. Just not the part you prefer gets paid attention to. And what do you think the significance of that "update" is?

What has this got to do with the specific update the French gave? "Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, speaking in Paris at an event attended by Séjourné, urged him “to announce loud and clear that the decision of the Chief Prosecutor is unacceptable to you and the French government – regardless of the authority of the court.” “This is what our friends around the world did, and this is what I expect from our friend, the French government,” Katz said, referring to denunciations of the prosecutor’s move by US President Joe Biden among others." You're the one who introduced it into the thread. Not me.

That a member nation can find a decision of the ICC unacceptable. It's one thing to disagree with a decision, it's quite another to find it unacceptable.

Therefore not to have its assumptions questioned?

Actually, you didn't claim anything. Maybe you didn't read what you quoted? "Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, speaking in Paris at an event attended by Séjourné, urged him “to announce loud and clear that the decision of the Chief Prosecutor is unacceptable to you and the French government – regardless of the authority of the court.” “This is what our friends around the world did, and this is what I expect from our friend, the French government,” Katz said, referring to denunciations of the prosecutor’s move by US President Joe Biden among others."

Even if one crime is greater than the other, that still doesn't mean they aren't both crimes. And the alleged criminal conduct of netanyahu and gallant are both grave, regardless of what the leaders of Hamas have inflicted.

Without even seeing the evidence that the ICC investigators have gathered.

What Spencer isn't saying now but what he and other experts in this kind of warfare maintain is that it isn't enough to just to defeat your opponent in battle, , but you also have to occupy the territory they held. Otherwise they come back. . Israel hasn't followed that policy. Which is why they're fighting again in the North. Israel may simply not have the resources to occupy all of Gaza.. Which is why they're trying to outsource it to some Arab force. Why would any of the regimes in the Mideast want to wade into this mess and bail out Israel?

This should come as no surprise: Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of aid trucks delivering vital supplies to Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources. Settlers intercepting the vital humanitarian supplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the aid trucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the Guardian. The claim of collusion by members of the security forces is supported by messages from internal internet chat groups reviewed by the Guardian as well as accounts from a number of witnesses and human rights activists. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-soldiers-and-police-tipping-off-groups-that-attack-gaza-aid-trucks

Making things up much? " Ultimately, the Constitution did not create an enumerated power to control free people’s immigration into the United States..25 The Constitution enumerates other powers that are considered inherent to a sovereign, but the Founders did not include immigration as one of them." https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/brief-history-us-immigration-policy-colonial-period-present-day#post-ratification-period

Why do you think he's a "thorn in their side"? Are there lots of mullahs in Iran who are secretly secular humanists?

Whether or not Houthi attacks have dropped in recent weeks doesn't seem to matter to Maersk, the first or second biggest oceanic shipping company in the world. It's the effect their attacks have on shipping that counts. Maersk Says Expanded Houthi Attacks Are Forcing More Delays The shipping company said the militia had recently tried to attack ships farther from the shore of Yemen, putting more strain on logistics.

It hasn't happened for more than 3 months since this topic was posted. Which is a bit longer than "overnight". Apparently, you are operating under the assumption that it will occur.

Obsessed much?

Global mean sea level has risen about 8–9 inches (21–24 centimeters) since 1880. The rising water level is mostly due to a combination of melt water from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms. In 2022, global mean sea level was 101.2 millimeters (4 inches) above 1993 levels, making it the highest annual average in the satellite record (1993-present). https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level#:~:text=The rising water level is,record (1993-present).

It's bizarre that you bring up the issue of tides. Actually, it's denialists who exploit that by taking by comparing oceanfront photos from previous decades and comparing them to current ones without taking note of the effect of tides. So a photo taken at high tide 50 years ago might look the same as one taken at low tide today. And you seem utterly ignorant of how satellite telemetry can gauge the change in sea level over the years. And you take no note of the fact that the seas are getting warmer. So they are expanding. Or do you believe that the warming seas aren't expanding? As far as anyone tell, the only way they have to expand is upwards. As for shifting of natural phenomena. Like virtually all denialists you seem to have no idea of the significance of the rate of change. I guess you believe that if someone puts money into some sort of savings account, the rate of interest doesn't matter. Just so long as there's interest.

I did subsequently post a bypass for the paywall. Here it is again: https://archive.ph/pm1AN

Exactly. And, of course, in some parts of the world the land is sinking in relation to sea level. For instance in some urban areas, like Bangkok and Djakarta, the land is actually sinking because of overexploitation of ground water. Which is why simply measuring sea level in relation to land means calculations are a lot more complicated. But even without satellite telemetry, it's obvious that ocean warming alone is going to contribute to the rise in sea level. And there's also the fact that glaciers are overwhelmingly shrinking. Eventually, that meltwater ends up in the sea.