Israel rolls out laser defense system

Post by skinnymuch » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 3:50 AM UTC

ocschwar wrote: post #212

littlestymaar wrote: post #184

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> I disagree profoundly. You say that it wasn't a war because Israel didn't lose too many people? Perhaps the aggressor should have thought about that before starting a war. Its not a war, there is no state involved, just a terror group in Gaza, conveniently left in charge there, while curiously Tsahal is perfectly capable of shutting down any uprising in the territory they want to annex (the West bank), intriguing i…

When you mention the murderous violence that drove Mizrahi Jews into Israel in the same paragraph where you mention the snobbery they faced in Israel, you're not doing much for your credibility.

Post by skinnymuch » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 4:00 AM UTC

hunterb123 wrote: post #106

guerrilla wrote: post #92

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Hopefully people here can do better than get into a flame war when provided with context for weapons technology news and if they can't then they should be down-voted and possibly flagged.

I believe he was complaining about the lack of context you provided. The dropping of the typical (and false) apartheid accusation without providing the response.

Post by skinnymuch » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 4:06 AM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #145

jimnotgym wrote: post #100

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> other Palestinians opposed to the deal can 'break' it Only if Isreal reacts by declaring the peace deal with one group dead because another group fired rockets. It takes two to tango, as they say. If a gunman from Canada fired into the USA, the USA is unlikely to consider it a declaration of war and start nuking Canada!

> If a gunman from Canada fired into the USA, the USA is unlikely to consider it a declaration of war and start nuking Canada! If the gunman had ties to the de-facto government and the government was unwilling/unable to arrest the gunman, i think it is likely they would. After all, wasn't that what happened with 9/11?

Post by dang » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 4:54 AM UTC

jlawson wrote: post #236

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Your account has unfortunately been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of your politics or ideology. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we ban accounts that do it. We've already had to warn you about this multiple times before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from no…

I wish there was more clarity on what this rule actually means. I can see how this particular comment would get a side-eye (though I think it doesn't stand out among the others in this thread), but when I look through my recent comments I'm having trouble figuring out the line here.

Post by skinnymuch » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 4:00 PM UTC

littlestymaar wrote: post #196

skinnymuch wrote: post #153

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They? Do you not see how offensive that is to group together 1.7M people like that? When if that same sort of wording happens for almost any other situation, it’s called out as wrong, which it obviously is, very quickly. There is a common dog whistle and coded word sort of stuff especially recently with China. Instead of specify the authoritarian Govt and elite in China, one may say the Chinese used to be X but now t…

> They? Do you not see how offensive that is to group together 1.7M people like that? Unfortunately, The far right Israeli actually do think that way, here's a quote from the current ministry of Interior, Ayelet Shaked > “This is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. The reality is that this is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The…