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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
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its crazy the number of people downvoting me for this, sadly i will not compromise on my beliefs
I didn't downvote you but I can understand people who did - your comment doesn't add meaningfully to the conversation because it doesn't add any new ideas or food for thought that the reader doesn't already have. It just expresses your frustration with the state of affairs. While there is a place for that kind of comment in certain kinds of conversations, many people come to Hacker News to engage in curious and enlig…
Hello, thanks for your comment but i don't think there's anything bad in frustration, anger and sometimes insults, i think emotional intelligence is a meaningfull addition to these kind of conversations, particularly when empathy and other natural human emotions have been demonized to this point. I also think that some angers and frustrations are perfectly healthy, i even think that in some cases it is not sane to not feel. Anyways thanks to those who don't downvote, seeya
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What does de-escalation look like in Gaza? Allowing Hamas to regroup and re-arm, so they can repeat October 7 as they publicly promised to do?
A newly created throwaway account, repeating the prop of a genocidal military. Surely you can do better than this.
GP wasn't me, but it's a great question.
What does de-escalation look like in Gaza? Allowing Hamas to regroup and re-arm, so they can repeat October 7 as they publicly promised to do?
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From a historical, economic, social perspective... Why does Israel hold so much power over the world?
The theory I've been operating under is that Israel was created as a pretty bad solution to displaced Jews post-WWII, and operates essentially as a vassal state of the US's commercial military interests as a totally intractable perma-war in the region to ensure that even in lieu of other conflict taxpayer money can continuously be laundered to them in the form of expended munitions. There's obviously a lot more going…
> Israel was created as a pretty bad solution to displaced Jews post-WWII
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerus...
Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
#936The trouble is, what is the right medium or long term solution. If Israel militarily fails as a state, which seems to me to be an implicit aim of a significant number of anti-Israel folks, the results will make the current Gaza conflict look like a joke.
You are misinterpreting the facts. Israel bombing Qatar for instance is only going to bring them more hate from Arabians, they could have fought back on the hamas while maintaining peace with the rest of the Arab world.
There was an alliance in 2020 between Israel and UAE United Arab Emirates. No need to say that it’s not the most promising alliance anymore.
Other countries that were neutral on Israel see their arabian population utterly hate Israel so they have to adapt and behave consequently.
They manage to unite the whole Arab front against them when they should have played on their division.
This is really a bad plan on long term. Despite what trump is saying, Iran nuclear weapon is very close. They failed on that matter too although there was a real opportunity with the agreement during Obama.
I don’t see a bright future for Israel in these conditions, all the weapons in the world can’t defeat hate from 450 millions Arabians.
Beside, people don’t want Israel military to fail, they want it to stop killing 80% civilians and 50% women and children. That’s completely different.
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"Never again" - Was that ever an idea that Israel committed to? I thought this is only something that Germany and potentially other countries committed to, and Israel saw itself as the victim since forever, so they have no reason to commit to anything, but the victim card, which allowed them to have their own country in the first place. Note though, that Germany's commitment to "never again" got somehow repurposed in…
> which allowed them to have their own country That's a weird thing to say, I thought it was because they set up governance amid a collapsed empire and defended themselves in a war
The idea is, that without the victim role of the Jews in the 2.WW, they would never have had the international support, that they enjoyed for decades. They would never have had the "social credits" among nations, that they had. Countries like Germany, supposedly would have opened their mouth much sooner and sanctioned Israel, if it were not for our perpetrator role in 2.WW. The idea was, that finally the Jews have a safe haven, and that that needs to be protected.
Israel has been playing that victim card for decades. It allowed them to get where they are. Now that card is crumbling, as they did the unthinkable. I hope that one day our German politicians will also realize this. It is becoming quite ridiculous, how Germany behaves in foreign policy in that regard, and many people here are ashamed of their own country and government. This is stuff that makes people vote for extremists, which I can tell you, we have no additional need for right now. To me it is unthinkable to ever elect the ruling parties again, due to how shitty they handled everything. Well, already wouldn't vote for them anyway, because of all the corruption in their ranks.
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I don't think you have to be an evangelical Christian to belief that Israel should exist. I think a lot of people not heavily invested in politics or world affairs simply see Israel as more of a Western country aligned with their values and beliefs and want them to exist. > Which I’m sure he’d be a fan of all the lying and killing that was done to make that happen… I'm not sure if Israel ceased to exist there would b…
Why would the terrorists exist to begin with if Israel didn't exist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
same you can ask why Islam conquests would even exist to begin with if everybody was already Muslim. Just that one thing ruins everything eh?
same about Christian crusades etc.
Religions want to expand. Some more than others.
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#939From John Spencer, a retired United States Army officer, researcher of urban warfare, and author.
> The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking
https://freebeacon.com/israel/the-u-n-genocide-report-agains...
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#940Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't downvote you but I can understand people who did - your comment doesn't add meaningfully to the conversation because it doesn't add any new ideas or food for thought that the reader doesn't already have. It just expresses your frustration with the state of affairs. While there is a place for that kind of comment in certain kinds of conversations, many people come to Hacker News to engage in curious and enlig…
Hello, thanks for your comment but i don't think there's anything bad in frustration, anger and sometimes insults, i think emotional intelligence is a meaningfull addition to these kind of conversations, particularly when empathy and other natural human emotions have been demonized to this point. I also think that some angers and frustrations are perfectly healthy, i even think that in some cases it is not sane to no…
I think what the parent comment was trying to emphasize is that making comments that don't contribute towards a discussion is against the guidelines of HN.
Comments like your original one, that only expresses your emotions, fall under this category, and are frowned upon. Not the opinion contained in your comment, but the comment itself.
HN users also use the downvote+flag buttons to enforce these guidelines. The downvote button is not an indication of user disagreement here the way it is on other sites.