Osama Bin Laden wasn't assassinated in a hospital bed by soldiers wearing civilian clothes. It's a literal textbook case of a war crime, as in someone earlier brought up a document of examples of War crimes and wearing civilian clothes was in there lol.
Holding the hostages is leverage. There's no proof their raping, they might be they might not be. Terrorists aren't the greatest of people obviously. But we're talking real politick, as in from their point of view, what's the best thing to do to achieve their political aims, not what's morally right. No one is defending Hamas, we're just saying we could say why they wouldn't want to release the hostages because then they have nothing to bargain with, and Israel will continue to kill Palestinians, oppress Gaza, and take West Bank settlements as they have for the last 70 years. They've even said their terms, they want a ceasefire.
Your reply is nonsensical with that context. It's like your brain is so warped by rage and Zionist propaganda that you can't imagine anything from anyone else's point of view. Holding hostages is leverage whether you like it or not, because as long as their alive, people want to see their family members back.
More people know about the Palestinian conflict and Israeli war crimes than ever before. Plus, for a brief moment, the deaths on the Israeli side were higher than on the Palestinian side for the first time. It's also the only time they've had a large number of hostages to use as leverage for a deal.
Hamas wouldn't go through all the trouble to capture them if they weren't willing to free them for a deal. They're not excusing it, just explaining why militarily it would be dumb for Hamas to let go of their only leverage without a better deal. They let go of a bunch and it only led to a couple days before the massacre began again and Israel basically recaptured about the same amount of people they exchanged. When is the next chance they'll get to have hostages for negotiation again? October 7th was an unprecedented attack that probably won't happen again for a long time.
State owned public housing has worked all around the world. Council houses in the UK for example looked good and helped lots of people get houses, and didn't really get associated with poor people until Thatcher and her shitty policies. In Finland, like a third of their housing is public housing and they've managed to essentially eliminate homelessness this way.
It would have been nice, but I don't think felt they could have because Hamas wasn't a signatory to the accords that bound Israel. They also didn't for the Rohynga genocide either, so this is consistent with how they usually handle cases between state and non-state actors. That doesn't Israel wasn't doing a genocide, this will come out over time.
None of that will help until they stop oppressing Palestinians. You can't security or military solution your way out of making enemies out of an entire population. Even lots of Israelis realize that Netanyahu's solution isn't working, they need to work on a diplomatic solution, one state or two state, something.
Personally I am missing Scaled sort, a new sorting options for instances on 0.19 that I don't think Sync has but some other apps like Thunder and Voyager do. But other than that, I still like Sync.
Tbh the time with the US as the world police isn't great. It's great in the US because we don't ever get attacked, can import the financial success from our victories, can come back home after and are basically naive to conflicts at home. But I don't think they'd say the same for all of South America, Asia, the Middle East, or Africa.
I know China is spooky, but the US has destabilized so many democracies and ruined so many countries in its attempt to stop the spooky ghost of communism to keep its financial stranglehold on its imperial sphere that a multipolar world could be better. He waxes poetic about the time of peace from interstate conflict but ignores how the US has arrested the world from progress, trapping us in this late capitalist hell-hole the working class is in now. There's still violence form the upper class on the poor, or the Imperial core on the third world.
I also noticed he links to an article on the USSR attacking countries but that doesn't even compare to all the wars we've been involved in where we didn't have to be, usually on the side of the colonial or imperial power or the dictator. And a lot of the military build up in countries such as the USSR, Cuba, or North Korea is in response to the US threatening war all the time during the Cold War and having the capability and will to enact it. They put forward the possibility of a first strike with nukes in all those countries. It was public knowledge that the US refused to live in a world with communism and even when countries would want it themselves without the USSR doing anything, the US would see that as a reason to interfere, trying to connect it to the USSR anyway. They've succeeded, but that doesn't mean they've made the world better, just the US richer. Plus, a lot of the latent conflicts that are coming to the surface in that article are a result of Western interference in local, civil conflicts during the Cold War - such as the China-Taiwan or North Korea-South Korea ones. Not all, like the Serbia-Kosovo stuff, but a lot. Maybe if we had just left and stopped propping up local separatist movements things would've been calmer in some of those places, like in Vietnam right now.
Its definitely possible I'll eat my words because the world is getting scary and chaotic, and I'm not sure how other powers will act without US restraint, but hey, maybe it won't be worse. Maybe it'll be better. God I hope so lol.
Biden has some emergency parts he used to give Israel aid around Congress. He's also encouraging Congress to pass a huge aid bill for Israel. He hasn't been shy about supporting them at all, it's not like he's being forced to do or say this stuff.
Osama Bin Laden wasn't assassinated in a hospital bed by soldiers wearing civilian clothes. It's a literal textbook case of a war crime, as in someone earlier brought up a document of examples of War crimes and wearing civilian clothes was in there lol.