Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds

Very well said sir.

 

Or consulted with the lawyers. Why you chose to divorce yourself from reality, I don't know.

 

Politicians don't get sued, schools do.

 

I would like to know how exactly leveling entire city blocks is meant to be described as 'precision bombing'.

Answer me this: if you think there was nothing wrong with their bombing campaign so far, why do you think the Biden admin is pushing back against a similar tactic used in southern Gaza?

Honestly I cannot take a lot of folks seriously any longer who post in here. Thousands of kids have died but this is apparently with maximum operational care to avoid civilian casualties. The realities on the ground have so horrified even Israel's closest ally that their secretary of defense has openly criticized the way the operation was conducted in northern Gaza. But sure, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the level of care for civilians that this war has been conducted with.

 

Actually no, we have had countless "but what about Hamas?" type posts in a topic where as far as I can see no one has even expressed a smidgen of support for Hamas or what they did on 07/10.

 

Then what is the point of the Hamas whataboutism posts exactly? In the sense that you are arguing with literally no one who posts in this topic.

 

More totally normal statements.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/galla...wns-wont-return-before-hezbollah-pushed-away/

 

This level of devastation is always going to cause civilian casualties, whether or not Hamas members were among them. The fact that it's somehow controversial so point out such an obviously reality is why I'm about 1 micron away from quitting this topic entirely.

 

You can only say this if you know nothing about the history of this conflict.

 

We have found something we can agree on.

 

I have made the point several times and he doesn't seem to care about life in Gaza on 10/6. Everything was great until 10/7.

 

The cruelty is the point.

 

Indeed:

My exchange with State Department Spokesman concerning the question “Is pulling the plug on baby-incubators a war crime?”. pic.twitter.com/1Zqiv9RUnU

— Said Arikat (@SMArikat) December 6, 2023

 

Do you honestly think that is what happened? It feels to me like you posted a video that was a Congress critter playing silly gotcha games, people pointed out it was a silly gotcha game, and now you’re trying to prove you were right all along.

In your next post you mention the specific congresswoman, but that wasn’t what I was getting at when I replied. Anyone here could have told you it was an exercise in disingenuousness, but you treated the back and forth as some kind of meaningful, legitimate attempt to get to the truth.

 

Exactly

 

They only ********ed up in the eyes of people who are either very naive, or pretending to be very naive so as not to piss off stupid voters or to stop this mini story from dragging in for days.

 

As was pointed out online in several places, there is no way these university presidents would be been so equivocal in their answers if the question was "is it against your university's code of conduct for someone to call for the genocide of black people or trans people?" I have no doubt that these college presidents would come down harshly under their code of conduct against a group of students rallying in favor of killing transgender people.

If Universities want to allow pretty much unlimited speech on campus (other than things that are illegal, such as threats to individuals), fine. And if they want to impose codes of conduct that uniformly ban things like calls for genocide or speech targeting against specific groups based on things like race, gender, religion, national origin etc., fine. But, there seems to be a two tier system of what type of speech is acceptable on campus, based on how in favor the targeted group is in left wing ideology.

 

Well, that's why I said 'for past couple of decades'. That was back in 2000, wasn't it?

The problem is since then the Israeli administration have made it effectively impossible for that to be used as the basis for any future deal. Even the much vaunted withdrawal from Gaza had the benefit, (for the Israelis), of them not having to try and protect Israeli civilians within a majority Palestinian enclave. Basically, it turned Gaza into a form of south African style Bantustan.

 

That’s not true at all.

 

Do you honestly believe there have been no expressions of hate against black or trans individuals on college campuses?