NoneOfUrBusiness

0 years is the maximum timeline for vigilantism.

I mean… some people just deal worse with food in many ways. You can give three children the exact same food and they’ll all end up with different amounts of body fat.

It’s a place where thanks to Uncle Sam there’s no real power that can object to having their neighbors’ or allies’ sovereignty violated by a great power. Iraq tried to change that and… Uh… We all know how that ended.

Selling weapons to an entity that you know will use them to commit atrocities is illegal under US law, and supporting genocide is illegal under international law. There.

I mean… Yes?

Smooth(???)

So I have a stupid question: Is the current 20% tax actually enforced against actually rich people?

Israel is literally an apartheid state committing genocide. Their democracy isn’t worth shit.

Uh… The Israelites who were there first are, for the most part, the ancestors of modern Palestinians. Your point simply doesn’t stand when you look at history.

Their leadership lives it up in Bahrain I think and has a dictatorship over Gaza

They have leadership in and out of Gaza. Which is so obvious I don’t understand why Westerners like to use it as a point against Hamas. The political leadership of Hamas needs to be able to negotiate with Israel and third parties, and when was the last time Netanyahu went to Gaza to negotiate?

Exactly.

Also Hamas is both a dictatorship and a group of freedom fighters. Fighting oppression is a good act on its own, but it doesn’t need to be done by good people.

No foreseeable workable solution for next 10 years.

Or 20 tbh.

I know but that was more of a fucking mess than anything resembling a policy to my knowledge.

I mean I also don’t think they’re killing hostages (intentionally, anyway), but to say it’s not in their interest is wrong.

Okay admittedly I didn’t know an election was held in 1996. That said, the PNA was (and still is) an Israeli subcontractor, and not at all a state in any sense of the word. The implication that Palestinians had political independence is false. When I said elections I meant elections as a state, which only happened in 2005-2006 after Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005.

I assume they think that Israel is a 1-state solution de facto, in which case half the country does indeed not get a vote.

That person is me, and yes this is exactly the case.

Palestinians held elections until they voted in Hamas

Blatantly untrue. Palestinians in the occupied territories did not hold elections before 2006. The first and only Palestinian election was held as a result of the second Intifada, and after the election the international community refused to accept the result because Hamas didn’t agree to denounce violent resistance (which of course they didn’t because peace doesn’t work with Israel).

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.

Did you understand what A1kmm is trying to say? If Israel was a democracy Palestinians in occupied territories would have equal voting rights. This was never the case at any point in Israeli history, ergo Israel was never a democracy.

I mean yes, only the US did it more than a hundred years ago. A more modern comparison would be Israel, and, well… yeah.

A Gaza war peace deal walked into a bar…