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Foreign lands? We all live on the same planet.
You can explain it to officers when crossing border without passport and visa.
They also live on the same planet.
A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death
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Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death
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>Israel doesn't want to control Gaza. Israel want to coexist peacefully with it and has been willing to go very far and take risks to achieve that. I think it's good to apply Mearsheimer's realist thinking here, and the intention is obviously clear that Israel does not want peace with Gaza as that would require recognition of a Palestinian state as the PLO had wanted since the 70s, which is a non-starter. Instead, as…
> I think it's good to apply Mearsheimer's realist thinking here, and the intention is obviously clear that Israel does not want peace with Gaza From what I see from my perspective: Last time it was on the table the deal was so good PLO realized it could be forced into a real two state solution with peace and permanent borders. At that time the PLO, not Israel, left the negotiating table without even a counteroffer.…
>Last time it was on the table the deal was so good PLO realized it could be forced into a real two state solution with peace and permanent borders.
This is not true. I am not interested in whatever labels the Israeli or Palestinians might ascribe to their agreements. There has never been an instance where the PLO was offered something that resembles a modern, economically and politically independent nation-state. The closest was in 2001 under Bill Clinton, but Israel refused the conditions set by Clinton while the PLO accepted them.
>Let's also for completeness include that PLO want to eradicate Israel, and are brazen enough to have it in their official charter.
Again, much like the Likud party's own charter, from a realist perspective this is irrelevant. What's relevant is what both parties are realistically capable of doing, and the balance of power clearly favours Israel.
Re: A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death
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You can explain it to officers when crossing border without passport and visa.
They also live on the same planet.
They're the same insane murder monkeys that all other humans are. This hippy "we're all the same people" shit isn't working, and rather than realize that and move on to solutions that do work, you people just want to double down on it and insist everyone's not trying hard enough.
Clinton fucked up. He was a bad president more concerned with getting his dick sucked by interns than doing things correctly. Ukraine should have kept its nukes (some of them, don't need 6000), and if they had none of this would be happening. Maybe Putin would've called the bluff and Moscow would be a glowing crater, but then it would have ended. But I guess he "felt your pain" so that was good right? Enlightened self-interest, and rational strategy. These things save more lives than compassion ever have.