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The entire Western media and political class when Iran launches its strike against Israel:
  • Palestine was a territory of the Ottoman Empire at the time. Israel did not exist.

    From what I can gather online there was a peasant revolt, but nothing sectarian about it. The Ottomans pillaged the villages during and after the revolt.

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    The entire Western media and political class when Iran launches its strike against Israel:
  • Please provide references and evidence of conflict spanning back a thousand years. The conflict started after the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the region got divided up in a colonial experiment by the French and British.

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    Multiple walkie talkies explode in Lebanon at funeral for those killed in pager attack: State media
  • The BBC reported it was a Taiwanese brand to let a Hungarian company manufacture them on their behalf. The pagers were brought to Lebanon 5 months ago. The Hungarian company has been around since about 2022.

    For this to be a supply chain attack, the level of sophistication indicates Israeli intelligence was at this for years, from setting up a shell company, infiltrating manufacturing companies, etc. We don't know whether the Taiwanese company was compromised as well.

    Now this last part is a bit of a conspiracy theory, but it makes you wonder what the real reason the US banned Huawei. Could they have been approached as a potential manufacturer and they said no? The timeline certainly works.

    Edit: BBC link

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    National poll finds majority of Canadians are opposed to military conscription if war breaks out.
  • Times have also changed. The information available on our fingertips is showing that things are not as black and white as they seem. Back during the world wars, mass propaganda convinced us to go fight for imperialist reasons (remember, we did not go to war with Nazis over their treatment of the Jews).

    It's a lot harder to convince a populace to go to war when it's not clear the opponent is entirely in the wrong.

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    Pro-Palestine demonstrators accused of antisemitism after protesting outside Fiddler on the Roof
  • It is absolutely antisemitic. Fiddler on the Roof is about the Jewish culture and has nothing to do with Zionism or Israel.

    This would be like protesting against Saudi Arabia actions at an Eid festival.

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    Do you think people who consume drugs are cool or they have mental problems?
  • Nobody said anything about combining alcohol and weed.

    I said that if you compared alcohol and junk food consumption against weed consumption, you will find that alcohol and junk food (again, not in combination) are objectively worse.

    I added marijuana in brackets because I didn't want some idiot to come and argue how cocaine would be worse.

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    But Trump
  • "I'm getting my head bashed in by jackboots!"

    "Well if it was Trump they'd be using baseball bats. If you vote Biden in, we'll use runners next time"

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