Interested to know when the got the PL VAR officials ruling on police video evidence. We looked at the footage, there was no knee on the neck. Beg pardon? Which footage?
They have chosen to do so. Satellite imagery shows that more than 50% of all structures in Gaza are damaged or destroyed. At least 15000 civilians have been killed. An unknown number are wounded, or buried under the rubble. It is a clear end phase of the ongoing ethnic cleansing that has been settled policy in Israel for decades.
Hamas lacks the resources to enact such rapid cleansing on the Jewish population as they don't have any serious military that can face off against the IDF, even without unrestricted US aid. If they did have those resources I have no doubt they would choose to do exactly what the IDF is currently doing, possibly using various settler attacks on Palestinians as justification.
Israel is committing genocide, Hamas would like to commit genocide. Stop picking teams when both teams are filling the scoreboard with atrocities. The people who deserve amplification are the Israeli and Palestinian civilians threatened by the activities of the military factions on both sides.
Regarding the designation of "intelligence chief" there may be no error. The RCMP runs an internal program called CIP or Criminal Intelligence Program. It's purpose is to collate, analyze, prioritize, and action information gathered across the country related to criminal investigation and activity. This type of setup is necessary to coordinate enforcement between regions and local jurisdictions. The FBI and Scotland Yard are similar in role. It doesn't say specifically but I'm thinking this would be where this guy was located.
It is definitely true that the numbers are unlikely to be exact. That is both for the reasons others have noted, propaganda is definitely at play on both sides of any conflict. A second reason for the likely imprecise number though, is that many casualties are probably uncountable currently as numerous buildings have collapsed under bombardment. Fully surveying those sites for bodies is difficult with continuing combat in the area. We know the buildings are destroyed due to surveillance and other intelligence sources, but can't yet know how many people were killed and injured during the destruction.
There are also reasons that the UN and other international organisations take the figures seriously. This is primarily because of historical accuracy, this is not the first occasion of strikes in the area and surveys in the aftermath of previous incidents have generally shown reasonable reporting accuracy from the Gazan health authority. Additionally there are other international organisations on the ground and reporting corroborating evidence of mass collateral casualties. UNICEF has supported the reporting on the 3700 children killed so far, inclusive of civilians on both sides. Recently Doctors Without Borders here in Canada issued a plea to our government, based on their presence in Gaza, calling for ceasefire directly because of the unreasonably high number of collateral casualties.
At this juncture it doesn't seem likely that the numbers are precise, but even a much more conservative estimate would be quite shocking and aligns with action in the Syrian civil war (for example) much more than with action in western invasions or Ukraine. That suggests that, at the very least, insufficient effort is being put toward limitation of collateral casualties. It's also important to remember that while the three-to-one rule of casualties in war is very loose, we are likely looking at much higher numbers of wounded than killed. That is badly complicated by the blockades, lack of power and water, as well as current military operations against the remaining hospitals in the area.
Israel is making things difficult. The number of civilians killed is 10000+, that's very uncomfortable for our governments. It's also not like our countries can just quickly say, "whoa, those are blatant war crimes you're committing with our weapons!" It's impossible to pretend that we couldn't know what the IDF would do with them based on the ongoing history of the conflict. In the end it's a situation similar to Yemen, Iran and some others feed support into one side and atrocities are committed. The west feeds weapons into the other side and atrocities are committed. At this point the only thing that makes our ethical situation tenable is if everyone would just ignore it. Hence, no protesting please, you're pointing out some deeply shameful policy, please stop.
Deep defense cuts, now? That's certainly one way to approach a destabilising great power neighbour, a new cold war, and an ongoing peer conflict in Ukraine.
Then sanction Israel, they are operating free of consequences while we all watch genocide take place. At this point supplying weapons to them or Hamas is a coin flip. They will both use them to conduct atrocities.
What I generally got from their policy is that, while it qualifies objectively as terrorism, they do not decide that internally. They communicate the label as assigned by governments and other authorities. It's a very reasoned policy as journalists can quickly become editorialists if they start inserting their own conclusions.
I don't think the opinion that the Hamas attack was an act of terror has been obfuscated at all.
For the commenter confused about who is being referenced, it is in the first paragraph of the article. The UE (United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America) is not the government, it is a labour union.
It's quite an obvious geopolitical win for them. It's not hard to notice that the "western" reactions to the Russian occupation of Ukraine is pretty inconsistent with the support of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Obviously support for Ukraine is the right thing to do, but again, inconsistent policy is easy to critique.
I like the saying that MAGA stands for Make Attorneys Get Attorneys. No wonder lawyers eject. More than a few have joined the defendants. Work with criminals and sometimes it rubs off on you.
This was totally out for me. It ran ok on my setup, but it was a shit game. It randomly generated traffic when you turned your back. AI for NPCs was often barely functional. Numerous build options seemed either broken or just untested. Itemization was boring and poorly balanced. Vehicles handled like crap in a game with a car collecting activity. The crime system was so undeveloped it felt like it was a joke from the Devs with police spawning in a bowl of rice to bust a cap.
Anyways, I played about 20 hours and realized the game wasn't finished or feature complete, and absolutely wasn't what had been advertised. I refunded, but I'm watching feedback now and may buy again if the game is closer to it's original sales pitch.
I always thought it had more to do with how the center/left are concerned about policy content and how it will affect systems and society, making decision making more complex and creating fragmentation. The right trends to compete by creating target groups or issues and uniting votes behind attacking them.
He has made it a priority to court both nations as part of his effort to counter Russia and China, even as India has been backsliding in its democracy and Saudi Arabia never had one to begin with.
I am using Nobara, which is a Fedora based gaming distro. I definitely do not have to reboot for updates to software outside of system updates to the OS specifically. Updating Discord, Firefox, Steam, Heroic Launcher, Signal, etc does not require a reboot. Something sounds amiss. I am running straight Fedora on my Surface Pro and same story there, basically restart for system upgrades only.
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