Nitrous has these moments of pseudo enlightenment on me in combination with psychedelics.

Your minimum estimate should be your actual estimate times three.

There has been one temporary ceasefire with hostage releases. Also remember the recent ceasefire for vaccinations. There are a string of other events that happened because of successful diplomacy.

Israel’s message to Hamas since the beginning of the war has more or less been: surrender or die.

Netanyahu never does anything in good faith. He is all about his personal advantage.

Israel has honored similar deals in the past.

Your disdain for lower class people is repulsive.

GRT is one of the strongest ideological narratives of current racists.

Back in the days of the Nazis, the number of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africans forms France was tiny compared to the millions of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa into Europe today.

These are more likely to be used as support workers or for cleaning up debris.

Now try reading what’s written in Arabic.

Could you elaborate a bit?

People make and take illicit drugs all the time. What’s the difference here?

Yes, the software might depend on outdated technology like oil burner heating and you want to transition to solar with a heat pump.

Negative Karma on a post means people cared enough about your writing to downvote it.

The longer you live in a place the more crap you will accumulate in your home. Windows need to be cleaned. Walls need to be painted. There’s this one tap, that’s fixed with some wire and tape.

Tech debt is like that just for software.

Transitioning a tech stack will lead to tons of unforeseen problems and also add zero new features. It’s only very rarely useful.

Since when does the West Bank have restrictions on Journalists entering?

You don’t believe the president of the court you cite, okay then.

Any nation that murders at least 100,000 children is fucking evil. And those are not Hamas’s numbers. Those are the Lancet medical journals numbers.

That number is an estimate in an opinion piece, not a peer reviewed article. There’s no factual basis. The authors have already regretted putting the numbers in there.

People under 18 are not all children. Young adults of 17 definitely aren’t children like 3 year olds. Plenty of teenagers in Gaza are members of armed groups and participating in the fighting.

That is just one of the reasons the ICC, the organization literally with the legal authority to determine of some thing is genocide or not determined that Israel is plausibly committing genocide.

That is a misrepresentation of what the ICJ ruled. You can’t even tell apart the ICJ and the ICC, it seems. You can’t even get the organization right.

Here you can hear the President of the ICJ explain what is meant by plausible.

“At this stage of the proceedings, the Court is not called upon to determine definitively whether the rights which South Africa wishes to see protected exist,” said the ICJ. “It need only decide whether the rights claimed by South Africa, and for which it is seeking protection, are plausible. “In the Court’s view, the facts and circumstances… are sufficient to conclude that at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible.”

Plausible only refers to the right of South Africa to bring this case to the ICJ.

the ICJ had only ruled that Gaza Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide - in other words, that it had been dealing with a complex and somewhat abstract legal argument.

A day later, Joan Donoghue - now retired from the ICJ - appeared on the BBC’s HARDtalk programme and explicitly tried to end the debate by setting out what the court had done. “It did not decide - and this is something where I’m correcting what’s often said in the media… that the claim of genocide was plausible,” said the judge. “It did emphasise in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide. But the shorthand that often appears, which is that there’s a plausible case of genocide, isn’t what the court decided.”

There’s no genocide going on. It’s a war against an extremely deeply entrenched enemy in a densely populated urban environment.

systemized rape, torture

Rape and torture have happened, but are not systemic.

Israel does questionable and bad things, for sure. However it’s not the most evil state ever, that it’s often depicted as.

Nuance, truth, and perspective of the other side are important in this conflict.

No, idea what you mean by predecessors.

no matter what happened in this single incident

Who cares about the truth.

No