paintbucketholder @ paintbucketholder @lemmy.world

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if Israel would put in the effort to help Palestinians

That's sounds good.

What would that look like?

As a reference: from 2014 to 2020, the UN spent $4.5 billion in Gaza. NGOs have poured in hundreds of millions, have opened schools, have financed hospitals, have distributed aid. USAID has spent billions of dollars, the European Union spent hundreds of millions of Euros just to put in reliable water infrastructure. Just recently, Israel agreed to open the borders to Gaza so a number of Palestinians could work in Israel and live in Gaza.

But Hamas has been intercepting foreign aid, has seized donated supplies, has interfered with aid workers, has used schools and hospitals financed by the UN and NGOs as terrorist headquarters, as weapons caches, as launching sites for missiles, as prisons and torture sites to hold, torture and murder opponents.

So what, specifically, would you suggest?

Hamas might not exist, but unless you can travel back in time, that doesn't answer the question what to do about Hamas today.

Hamas is a terror organization, they've been in power in the Gaza strip for the last 17 years, they terrorize the Palestinian population in Gaza, and they desperately need the conflict to stay alive so they don't lose relevance.

As things are today, treating the Palestinians well, giving them aid, food, water and the promise of a brighter future is a direct threat to Hamas. That's absolutely not to say that those things shouldn't be done - it's just to say that these things pose a direct threat to Hamas's position of power in Gaza. That's why Hamas reroutes international help and keeps it from reaching the Palestinian population, why they stage terrorist attacks against Israel, why they torture and murder "collaborators," why they place their infrastructure in schools and mosques and hospitals, why they use Palestinians as human shields.

So lacking the option of traveling back in time and preventing the creation of Hamas, what should be done in a world where Hamas exists, has been in power for many years, and has no intention of ever ceasing its terrorism?

Regular counselor? Sure, doesn't need to be on the bridge.

Mind-reading empath, though? Massive strategic advantage in any encounter, friend or foe! Put her on the bridge!

If you think transporter room duty is boring,

Side note: why are they even using the transporter room at all? Site-to-site transport exists, and the transporter can be controlled from any terminal.

So why, when there's an emergency, do people frantically run to the turbolift, traverse a dozen decks, run along corridors, enter the transporter room and jump unto those little platforms, when they could just beam to wherever they need to go right from where they're standing?

Same question about medical emergencies - why is it not standard procedure to simply beam people to sickbay? Instead, doctors are running along corridors, taking turbolifts up and down and across decks, running some more along corridors, only to arrive at a patient and declare "bring him to sickbay immediately!!!"

"Yeah, but everybody already knows that the Republicans are insane and only want to destroy government, so they obviously can't be blamed. Let's blame the Democrats instead!!!"

It doesn't "serve the people" to help right wing extremist bomb throwers into positions of power after they've already attempted to overturn free, democratic elections and tried to install an unelected leader against the will of the electorate.

There's not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn't matter whether they're being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

I know you're citing the United Nations as an authority, and providing a link is definitely welcome, but the site you're linking literally says

The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there

thereby acknowledging that even the UN is merely repeating the numbers that Hamas is giving them.

Could we maybe agree that blindly accepting whatever Hamas is saying as truth is not the best policy?

Well, it's an option.

You can decide to leave it set to countdown + calling without further interaction.

That's just an ellipsis to avoid repeating the subject, even if just by using a pronoun, in a headline. It's completely fine as far as grammar goes, but since we're not living in the age of the telegraph any more, it arguably wouldn't hurt if journalists ditched that antiquated format and made headlines more readable.

There's literally deposition in front of lawyers, in various court cases, with Trump being taped, on video, saying "well, if it feels true, then it must be true!"

One was the Trump University case where he was claiming that it was fine that people who had never even met him were saying they had been personally instructed by Donald Trump, because "if they felt that way, then it was true in a way" and therefore not fraud.

The other one was him suing a New York Times journalist who had found that Trump was really only worth somewhere between $150 and $250 million. Trump claimed that he was worth more than $2.7 billion and therefore sued for $5 billion.

In the deposition, Trump claimed his wealth fluctuated and depended on his feelings on any given day.

One book, "The Kraken Lady, 2020 Election Fraud And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby", written by Donald Trump.

By Yemen against Israel? I would think so.

what cease fores will do …it’ll stop the creation of more terrorists. Maybe create a road map to peace.

There have been several ceasefires in place between Hamas and Israel in the last 17 years since Hamas seized power in Gaza, and arguably none of them stopped the creation of new terrorists.

And let’s be honest and truthful; as bad and awful as Hamas is, the oppression imposed created the environment for them to exist.

Hamas is a terrorist organization that oppresses and murderes Palestinians. The first thing they did when Israel deoccupied Gaza was to seize power from Fatah, murder Fatah members, and suspend elections.

They purposefully murdered Israeli civilians when they could have targeted military targets. They purposefully place terrorist installations next to civilian places like hospitals, places of worship, etc. in the Gaza strip.

There's a lot of blame on Israel for propping up Hamas in a belief that they would be less violent than Fatah, but there's also a point where you have to admit that people who decide that they want to commit terrorism have some agency of their own, and that not even terrorist act committed by Hamas can be squarely blamed on Israel.

If it's not processed on device, there shouldn't be any reason why this feature has to be limited to the Pixel 7 and 8, right?

But they aren't willing to support election deniers (like Jordan),

I just want to say that while people who refuse to acknowledge that Biden won the 2020 election should be rightfully called election deniers, Jordan's role is so much more involved: he actively attempted to get the election decertified and throw the vote to Trump.

That makes him at least one of the figureheads of an attempted coup d'etat, someone who tried to end democracy in America in order to install an unelected leader in the White House.

If he had succeeded, America today would no longer be a democracy, a nation where the electorate chooses its representatives.

If it was up to Jim Jordan, we would now live in a dictatorship, with Trump as the unelected ruler who would no longer be beholden to the will of the people or the rule of law.

At this point, one of the things keeping Twitter alive is that 99 percent of journalists and media outlets have refused to leave, despite all the evidence that there's nothing to be gained for them on that platform.

It's just their own FOMO that keeps them there.

I'd wish they'd follow the lead of those organizations who simply left, or, better yet, started up their own Mastodon instances.

It's not like the ceasefires were unilaterally observed by Hamas, and only broken by Israel.

I'm not even trying to defend Israel here. My entire point is that there is absolutely no reason to put your entire trust into a terrorist organization that just murdered 1,400 civilians.

She's a paleoconservative like her dad

Funny. I remember when her dad and his ilk were called "neoconservatives."

Time moves fast in the political realm.