Within ...30 days? As in, after the US election? What a joke.
How would you rewrite it, o paragon of impartiality?
Maybe I'm not expressing myself clearly. They are gamifying it, therefore incentivizing doing it more: earn more points!
This is about an Indian-Canadian being assassinated in Canada by the Indian government.
None of the corruption cases publicly reveal what reading materials the fallen cadres had accessed. But a list of banned titles published by China Digital Times offers some possibilities. The list includes writings on Chinese politics and history, including the Tiananmen Square massacre and the disastrous Mao-era policies that saw millions die from famine, violence, and political purges. There are books scrutinising the modern CCP’s politics and power, or sharing the views of political enemies and critics like Hong Kong tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, the exiled Tibetan Dalai Lama, and Bo Xilai, the fallen political foe of Xi Jinping. Hillary Clinton’s memoir is on the list, as is Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Between Olmert's time in office and now, the population of illegal settlers has gone from 450k to 700k. If it was hard then, it's impossible now.
My argument stands even if we assume the worst of Palestinian culpability. Every time the Palestinians reject a plan, the Israelis have made a future solution plan that much harder.
The data simply does not support the conclusion that Israel is interested in a viable two state solution. And the problem in our era is not Arab nationalism. That's dead. It's been defeated. There are no Arab nationalists in power anywhere of consequence in the MENA area. Most major Arab countries are ready to accept a two state solution. They literally just came out and said in explicitly a week ago. They guaranteed Israeli security. The problem at this point is quite specifically Israeli nationalism.
Iran, yes, I can see that concern, but the only reason Iran has managed to insert itself in a conflict that is two countries away from its borders is due to Israeli policy and its failure to give Palestinians a positive vision for a solution.
I am willing to accept that the Israeli turn to the right is the result of the intifadas etc. But again the intifadas did not drop from the coconut tree. They were in return responses to legitimate Palestinian grievances. At every turn, Israel has not been able to understand and address those.
And ultimately Israel is the powerful party here. They get to dictate the terms of the conflict. And they keep winning every war and losing every peace. From Napoleon's time we know that "you can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them." The Europeans learned at Versailles that in the modern era, total victory does not give you the right to enforce humiliation and oppression on a population and expect the argument to be over.
This is the framing of information warfare. There are no facts, no truths, only "narratives" that are deployed by adversarial actors.
In such a framing, it doesn't matter whether the IDF ordering the displacement of 400k people is legal, legitimate, suspect, in good faith or in furtherance of ethnic cleansing. All that matters is whose narrative dominates the information space.
This framing already gives up on debate. Your response does not refute anything I wrote, does not engage with anything. You just labelled my argument a terrorist narrative and you're done. You've counterbalanced the "narrative".
But, my brother in Lemmy, even we were to accept that Hamas is saying this for this reason, can't you see that it's based on exactly the legitimate fear and reasonable expectation of Palestinian civilians that Israel is NOT a trustworthy, humanitarian actor here? The Hamas propaganda would not have a leg to stand on if it weren't for 30 years of illegal settlement in the West Bank and for the Israeli governing coalition not being dependent on the fascist right.
Expelling 400k people might be spinned as "getting civilians out of a combat area" if Israel were not a state that systematically settles conquered land (to the tune of 700k settlers in the West Bank) and if its government didn't have ministers (on whom the ruling coalition depends to stay in power) that are explicitly saying that they want to do exactly this again.
Like, bro, who the fuck do you think is reading these things you write? Umpa Loompas from Jupiter?
Honestly, it's like a well known organ trafficker is saying trust me bro, I'm putting you in this ice bath and giving you this sedative and prepping these surgery tools because I'm trying to remove a tumor from next to your kidneys.
If it's dead and in Vietnam it's Vietcong, amirite?
The Italian defense minister explained it pretty well: https://youtu.be/Ox0AzK7iVe4?si=1D4m8M7B-DIYcBci
There is a UNSC resolution, if Israel has a problem with that, they have to take it up with the UNSC.
This thing they call "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" has as much in common with Marx and Engels' idea of Communism as a Big Mac has with a plate of hummus.
Edit: western dengists, man.
Lol, yea that's not unbiased. That's an IDF press release title.