NoneOfUrBusiness

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Maintaining that an Apartheid state has the right to keep being an Apartheid state is very Nazi-like.

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Countries, as a rule, don't have a right to exist. People have a right to self-determination. These are different things. That said, Israel is fundamentally an Apartheid state. If Israel stopped being an Apartheid state it'd stop being Israel. And if a state needs to treat half the people in it as second class citizens to exist then it can go die in a ditch.

I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for 2 Senior Russian Security Officials ( www.nytimes.com )

The Hague-based court accused Russia’s most senior military officer, Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, and a senior member of the country’s security council, Sergei K. Shoigu, of directing a campaign of strikes against Ukraine’s power plants in the winter of 2022....

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Okay not saying they don't deserve the warrants, but after this if they don't issue one for Netanyahu nobody will take them seriously ever again.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

That wasn't my intention. The ICC is actually called a colonialist tool and criticized for only going after nations opposed to Western interests. If they go after Russia but not Israel that pretty much confirms the accusations are true, is what I wanted to say.

Israel's high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men, rattling Netanyahu's government ( apnews.com )

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza....

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Lemme just grab the world's smallest piano.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean the Bible is like that too and fundamentalist Christians exist no?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Nope I just misremembered.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

BDS has a list of companies to, well, boycott, divest and sanction so you might wanna look at that.

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But then how do other non-European groups like Middle Easterners and Asians drink it normally? Did they independently evolve the same mutation?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

But Biden has slowed weapon shipments to Israel

He hasn't. Netanyahu is making up shit because he can.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

He paused a shipment. Overall flow of weapons from the US to Israel hasn't changed.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean okay. I'm not sure how true that is, but what I'm trying to say isn't "fuck Biden"; it's "Netanyahu is making shit up".

‘They miscalculated’: Gaza’s floating aid pier failing to deliver in rough seas ( www.theguardian.com )

The pier has been usable for just 12 days since it began operations on 17 May. On most of those days the assistance arriving by sea has had to be left on the beach as there have been no trucks to distribute it to warehouses in Gaza, because of lack of security....

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I hope they don't learn anything from this. The US military should just get the fuck out of the Middle East.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Huh? I haven't heard about this before.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

By your standards I could provide a counter argument like: Has any Israeli launched an unprovoked attack on Palestinians and kidnapped 300 of them?

Setting aside the naivety of calling October 7th unprovoked, uh... Yes?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

but they still chose violence over diplomacy.

Look at the PA and tell me that diplomacy with Israel works again.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

coming back hundreds of years.

Huh? The conflict began about a hundred years ago.

You can claim this was a provoked attack. I for once can hardly justify an attack on civilians.

The attack had real military objectives. It wasn't just "let's kill some civilians in Israel".

IMO the best outcome at the moment is to stop the conflict as soon as possible

Only one side has the power to do that. Putting the oppressed and the oppressor on the same level only serves to justify their oppression.

The idea that the best outcome is to stop the conflict as soon as possible is correct, but for that you need Israel to acknowledge Palestinains' right to self-determination.

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I mean...even for someone in a wealthy context, that would seem oversized.

How so? Each member is only raising four or three children here. If you're having issues with people having more than two children then that's just kind of ridiculous, frankly.

Also raising children being a ridiculously expensive affair is partly a Western problem with uniquely Western causes. It's not a thing everywhere.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Huh? How so? Hezbollah, like everyone else actually doing something, want Israel to stop genociding Gaza.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

And? Does that automatically make them the bad guys in anything they do? You just dropped a logical fallacy and left.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

So it's tribalism? I mean at least try to make it sound reasonable. Yes, fuck your greatest ally trying to commit genocide.

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In this case they're the good side because they're trying to stop genocide so... that.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

You'll need more argument in your argument before you get a response here.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

It's not far fetched to see antisemitism being an issue and think "they're gonna come after the anti-zionists too". This comes up in the article. This isn't "all lives matter".

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

This isn't just an article about a little girl being sexually assaulted; it's an article about a little girl being sexually assaulted and the effect of that on French politics. People saying "but there's a genocide in Gaza" are concerned about the latter half here.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Can we just appreciate "breakfasted"? Why doesn't English have that?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

No, now they're going to actually go to war instead of bombing defenseless children. The other front would be Egypt if Sisi hadn't sold his soul to Uncle Sam.

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even in emergencies where the woman will die.

I seriously can't understand this. I mean I'm not even particularly pro-choice but what the fuck is going on in these people's heads?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

My man Israel had to evacuate 200 thousand people from their homes because of Hamas's rockets. And they're much less well armed than Hezbollah.

Wikipedia declares Anti-Defamation League 'unreliable' on Israel, antisemitism: Report ( www.middleeasteye.net )

Wikipedia's editors voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League "generally unreliable" on Israel and Palestine as well as the issue of antisemitism, adding the organisation to a list of banned sources, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA)....

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

It's a surprise it was considered reliable before, but better late than never I guess.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

There's no way that'd ever be justifiable, but what's their excuse?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Okay setting aside the tons of other problems with this statement, "worship" him? Really?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Muslims do not worship Muhammed, at all. Shia do have a weird obsession with his family that can reach worship according to my knowledge as a Sunni Muslim, but no serious sect of Islam worships Muhammed. "We don't worship our prophet, unlike what the Christians did to Jesus" is an important part of Islamic identity.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Not this time. Because of the Israeli blockade Hamas's arms are all homegrown or smuggled Iranian.

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To back up your stats, here's more up to date stats saying rhe same thing..

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Actually no, since they only want the return of the hostages. That's kosher as long as they don't call for the cessation of Israel's genocide, which they haven't.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Okay I did not mean that. I guess the context could make it confusing, but I was using this meaning of kosher:

2: being proper, acceptable, or satisfactory

The fact that the topic is Israel is actually a coincidence.

Also, would you use the term 'halal' to say something similar when a predominantly Muslim country does something bad?

Actually as an Arab Muslim I could easily see halal being used in a similar context in an Arabic conversation, but that's neither here nor there.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Definitely. If I'm gonna die in the near future it'd make no sense to continue university.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

If you think any of this is new I have a Nakba to sell you.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean the US is also doing that. It's not a subsidies issue; it's the fact that Chinese companies are using subsidies to actually make things while US companies are just pocketing them.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean nobody is blocking US goods, but the subsidies are definitely a thing. Also why would China even block US EVs when they're uncontestedly winning that market?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean they are but they're also delivering.

Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba ( www.cbc.ca )

The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean doesn't help when everyone else is embargoing them.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Oh I mixed Cuba up with another country nevermind.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

It's true, to an extent, but not because migrants bad. You can look at this, but the short of it is that the stats you see in the news are like that mostly because they're counting illegal immigration and illegal stay as crimes in their stats, which as you can probably guess is pretty flawed. You remove that and the numbers look... still bad but a lot more realistic. Then you realize that migrants are more likely to be poor young men (aka the demographic most likely to commit crime). As the article explains, Syrians for example are actually underrepresented in crime stats, because they tend to be complete family units (most Syrians in Germany were allowed to bring their families over) so the demographics are more representative of a normal society.

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