Nobody says "veinte y media". It's "veinte treinta", and everyone understands that and it's shorter than "ocho y media de la noche", which everyone understands as well. They're completely interchangeable and nobody would find either strange or unusual.
That's a nice saying. It's also a deflection from answering the question.
I don't agree with what Israel is doing, but I also don't see what an appropriate response would have been. Certainly not responding was not an option. And innocent civilians are going to be victims in any form of response.
I'm sorry, I realize I'm going in circles, repeating myself comment after comment.
My parents fled the Holocaust and even though I don't consider myself Jewish, by ethnicity and by family history I am. I think nobody deserves to be killed no matter what.
I hope there's a solution and that I'm wrong. I hope my opinion is not based on experience but on the fact that I'm old and jaded.
I'm not blaming an ethnicity, I don't care what ethnicity anyone is. I'm blaming religious extremism.
I commend you for your optimism, I wish everyone thought like you. The world would be a better place.
But in this case, all of that has been tried, and it failed. It should absolutely continue to be tried, and I want to be clear that I don't support what Israel is doing right now, but let's not kid ourselves. There's no solution, there will never be one.
Do you're realize the Palestinians were given that option and they rejected it?
Everything you described sounds great, it's the reasonable and kind way to think, but I keep asking the same question: how do you do that with a population whose most extreme members, which are a significant proportion, have one mission in life, and that is to kill every single one of you, not just because of your oppression (that's a contributing factor of course) but because of your religion?
Also, in this case, you'd need to overcome the religious extremists not just in the population you want to integrate, but in other countries who are using that population to attack you by proxy.
I haven't listened to my country's propaganda, even though I know the general attitude here is mostly in favor of Palestine. I know the history of this conflict from my own family history
Ah come on, they're not that big. Also, it's much nicer to sit higher so I can see further ahead, over those ridiculous tiny you cars most people here drive!
I would rather have parking spaces be larger, it's very hard to park in them, I can barely open my door and squeeze through.
This. People on cars know that they can hurt pedestrians. Cyclists, not so much. Yet they can still hurt pedestrians, at least as much as cars, if not more.
So what do you suggest? Let's assume the Israeli government stops the retaliation right now (as they should). What's next? Who do they talk to? The rest of the Arab world doesn't want to have anything to do with the Palestinians, except, of course, those who want to use them as pawns to attack the Jews by proxy.
Israel and the west have tried to solve this situation since the creation of the state. It's been sabotaged every time. If course the Israeli right has done some horrible things as well. But that's not the reason they're being attacked. Even if they didn't do any of those things, the Islamic terrorists would still be killing them at every opportunity.
I don't know what the solution is. But let's not be naive.
Nobody says "veinte y media". It's "veinte treinta", and everyone understands that and it's shorter than "ocho y media de la noche", which everyone understands as well. They're completely interchangeable and nobody would find either strange or unusual.