All they had to do was wait until the boat entered Israeli waters to do it legally. Why do it in international waters? Israelis seem to want to break laws just for the sake of showing they dont consider any laws to matter. In some ways they are worse than nazis. They are like perpetually angry butthurt toddlers with weapons.
Same. I block every instance and topic thats not in english. I cant read it and am not about to learn danish or german or whatever it is, so its an utter waste of my and lemmys time and bandwidth to show it to me. It should really be a standard feature.
Lots of us who has done some time in search and relevancy early on knew ML was always largely breathless overhyped marketing. It was endless buzzwords and misframing from the start, but it raised our salaries. Anything that exec doesnt understand is profitable and worth doing.
"czars" are unaccountable and powerful. Thats why these public employees like the term. They should be called administrators or "public servants" because thats what they actually get a paycheck for, not for strutting around playing billy badass against American citizens.
This particular borderbitch public servant should go sit his TSA self at an airport and shut his overfed piehole. Nobody cares what he thinks.
They can stop their bribes. cough I mean campaign donations. Because AIPAC is totally not a foreign lobbying entity, right?
The US doesnt have any military interests that relate to the middle east that we couldnt get without Israel. Israel's brutal colonialism in that region and willingness to use terrorism to achieve their ends has always been a massive millstone around our neck and a massive stain on our national character. Do you think supporting them has no costs to us? And what do we get in return?
Most of the "enemies" of the US in that region are our enemies because we support Israel. Osama Bin Laden said specifically that the 9/11 attacks were to wake the US people up to the repression of the Palestinian and Iraqi innocents.
Some things (like supporting war crimes and mass murder) you shouldn't ever make deals on. Thats the difference between you and a progressive.
The DNC knew you'd cave and do whatever you were told to do, no matter what that was. I guarantee that the DNC told AIPAC that they could deliver your vote.
You will take the left's demands of ending AIPAC pay-to-play within the party as a non negotiable or you will not have lefty support in all future votes and the dems will continue to lose and disintegrate as a party-- because theres not enough centrists in the US to win an election.
Israel doesnt let US military planes do overflights, or land. It was a huge deal in 2016 when they let a navy destroyer resupply in one of its ports. Does that sound like a puppet to you? We have no real permanenet military bases in Israel either. They wont allow them.
AIPAC (Israel) runs the US political system. Whenever a bill about israel comes up it gets 97% of the vote and it always has for decades, even when less than half the US supports israel. Its essentially bribes. I dont know about germany-- are your politicians also for sale?
By some strange coincidence John F Kennedy was assassinated right after he pushed to have AIPAC registered as a foriegn lobbyist. After he was killed that effort to rightly reregister AIPAC was cancelled. And after Israel shot up a United states Naval vessel (The USS liberty) in international waters during the 6 day war, we did nothing at all. They own us and we do what we're told. Its impressive really. They are a infitesimal part of our population but they pull it off.
I'd rank it as 'just OK' compared to how the rest of the western developed world is doing and how many resources and advantages we had from the start. We can do much better next time. I think in the upcoming defederation we are not only going to let the south secede, we will insist on it. Godspeed to texas, florida, and the south.
also depends how many other states follow suit, if any.