Kudos to the brave dissenting Israelis speaking and acting according to their conscience. I hope they are protected in some way from reprisals because Israel does not take criticism lightly, especially from within it's own borders.

Yeah, and then there's the guy who fired a nail gun at pro-Palestine protesters at one of the events. "Hate was a factor in alleged nail gun assault on pro-Palestinian protesters in Vaughan: police"

Well...allowing for time for prosecutions to build cases, etc. it sounds like we'll be seeing a new batch of traitors join the Jan. 6th insurrectionists in prison around 2026.

Here's a 2-minute video Rich Seigel, a brave Jewish man from New Jersey. In that video he protested what he called the illegal property sale (perhaps one of the ones mentioned in the article) of Western Bank homes in a racially-restricted event. He also succinctly describes how the March 10th event broke both US and international law and why he refuses to let ethnicity = justification. "As Jews, we don't get to fly under the radar and break the law and hide it in a synagogue."

• Iranian officials have said they consider the attack "concluded".
• The US has said it will not participate in a strike on Iran.
• Israel's war cabinet has ended without a decision on Iran attack response. "The cabinet is determined to respond – but has yet to decide on the timing and scope."

As OP's article notes, it's a dangerous moment and a lot is going to depend on which nations are willing to do what. Hopefully there will be a period of calm reassessment leading to stepping away from an open war that will benefit almost no one at all.

Here's an (old) one I can contribute:

I sincerely hope that this time the "line that we refuse to cross with you" is an actual line and not just words because that makes this actually good news. A new open war in the Middle East isn't good for anything except keeping Netanyahu in power via a constant state of conflict and plowing even more money into the arms sector. That last bit is why I have to stop at hopeful, because we've seen bad wars for profit happen before.

AI is about to become a necessity for basically every industry. It's not surprising that those on top are making sure they stay on top. I can't even really fault them for it (although I do fault how greedily they go about it), but I do want government intervention to protect citizens from it. "It" being unethical/harmful business practices.

It's really important to get news like this out, because backdoor cartel-style deals between big companies is basically accepted business practice now. Companies don't charge what things cost to provide, or what it takes to make a reasonable profit - they charge what they can get away with and if that means collaborating with "competitors" then that's not an issue.

My mod log? I've been here two months and never had a post removed by a mod period. You're flat-out lying at this point and I dare you to prove otherwise. He said he accused the wrong person (me) and to me that's completely fair because I certainly make mistakes.

You do it all the time. I don’t see why you suddenly have a problem with it.

Quite an accusation. Have specific proof to make it credible? Because at first glance it seems like an incredibly childish response. As you've written it it's functionally just "NO YOU!" With evidence it could be salvaged into a valid point poorly made. Although it should be noted you don't even attempt to deal with the substance of their argument, opting instead to just insult them.

At least our tests with Solid Snake assure us the Iranians will be unable to launch a sneak attack.

Biden bypassed the need for Congressional approval to make sure Israel got weapons ASAP. Two weeks ago he arranged to send them billions in fighter jets and over 1,800 2,000lb bombs. There are stockpiles of US arms flagged for US use that are inside Israel that Biden has allowed Israel to pull from. “Officially it’s US equipment for US use,” a former senior Pentagon official said, “but on the other hand, in an emergency, who’s to say we’re not going to give them the keys to the warehouses?”

The US is also using loopholes to keep over 100 arms sales under the radar, including thousands of bombs. “This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said" and added “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight”.

No matter your stance on what Biden should be doing, why do you call that "slow-walking arms deliveries"? Seems like you're trying to rewrite the history of how strongly and swiftly Biden has supported Israel - aka doing election season damage control regardless of evidence.

Reminds me of that Shane Gillis bit about Navy Seals jerking off their enemies to really intimidate them. Sorry it's a TikTok link, it's the one I found that had the right part of the special.

Yeah, when it comes to WWIII I'm more worried about what NATO/EU is going to do if Ukraine starts collapsing than Israel vs. Iran. If Russia takes Ukraine and starts eyeing other Eastern European countries, or strongly anti-Putin EU countries decide they are willing to go to war to stop him then things could get messy FAST. That's why it's so important that the US doesn't stop funding for Ukraine (like a some politicians, especially Republicans, seem to want). Ukraine is legitimately the bulwark against Russian aggression that could bloom into something much worse.

Israel vs. Iran would be bad, but I don't think enough countries would join in on Iran's side to make this a world war. I'd expect more of a new Gulf/Iraq/Afghanistan War than WWIII.

Going to guess you mean John Bolton, the infamous warmonger who immediately started calling for immediate, "far stronger" US response yesterday. He's a draft dodger who has admitted he joined the National Guard and then went to law school just to avoid going to Vietnam. "I wasn't going to waste time on a futile struggle," he has written, adding "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy… I considered the war in Vietnam already lost". Yet the whole time he advocated for keeping other US soldiers fighting in the war. He didn't fight in the war of his time, he won't ever go to war now that he's old, but by damn is he ever sure that the US should send people to fight everywhere from Iran to Cuba.

In 2019, Democrat Seth Moulton, who actually served 4 tours in Iraq, called both Bolton and Trump "chickenhawks" because they're hawkish for war but completely unwilling to fight it themselves. (Trump reportedly "avoided service in the Vietnam War after his father called in a favor with a doctor, who wrote a note saying that Trump had bone spurs on his feet, making him ineligible for the draft.") To use the popular Franklin D. Roosevelt quote - "War is young men dying and old men talking."

Jesus Christ the opening to that video had me guessing for a moment until I calmed down and realized it's obviously a hypothetical. Given that it's reported that Iranian officials consider their attack "concluded", it would be great if all the players stepped away from escalation into open war. That video talks about the pressure on both Iran and Israel to back down, and here's hoping they do. The world really really doesn't need yet another open war, USA-involved or otherwise, in the Middle East.

For what it's worth, it's been reported that Iranian officials consider the attack "concluded". They have said if Israel attacks again the next Iranian response will be considerably more severe, and have warned the US to keep out of this conflict. I guess we'll have to see what each country does in the next little while.

Downvoted not because I defend Hamas (which is indeed awful) but because the premise of your post is a lazy, overused attempt to deflect criticism of Israeli crime. Where is the poster defending Hamas? Hamas isn't even mentioned. He's condemning Zionist propaganda and Israeli refusals to stop killing which is completely factual and an ethical stance. Take your strawman elsewhere.

Agreed. Israel is going to the meetings but their proposals amount to "give us back the Israeli hostages, we'll give you a few hundred of the thousands of Palestinians we're imprisoning, and then we'll go back to killing you mmkay?" Even their ceasefire proposals are a) temporary and b) don't stop the terrible conditions of apartheid/hostile occupation the Palestinians were living in for decades before Oct. 7th.

Netanyahu has made it clear he will keep on killing Palestinians until Hamas is eliminated aka for as long as it serves his purposes. Don't forget Netanyahu's administrations are the whole reason Hamas was put in and kept power in the first place.