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"small land swaps", sure, the Palestinians know what that effectively means: Israel grabbing East Jerusalem and further valuable land in exchange for tiny stretches of worthless land somewhere in the desert. As to the general situation: Israel has been stoking the fire for decades, yet now...

It's possible that the counter-protest was intended to be peaceful and it was infiltrated by bad actors intent on making it go south. That has happened in a number of peaceful protests in the US over the last 25 years. We may never know for sure. At 10:50 pm, innocent "counter-protesters"...

Just in case some people have lost out of sight what's going on in Gaza : One Photo That Captures the Loss in Gaza https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/gaza-child-deaths.html Parts of Gaza Are in Famine, World Food Program Chief Says...

How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours ....The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment. The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours...

You really have to admire the sheer brass neck of the Israel supporters who seriously seem to believe that Israel is owed even more.

Musk is blathering about working "hardcore" again. Anyone who isn't completely dense should have realized by now, that working "hardcore" doesn't save your job. It didn't save the job of that woman who slept on the floor at Twitter/X and it didn't save the job of the man at Tesla who worked so...

What nonviolent path was that to be? Israel never saw Gaza as anything else than an open air prison. With the expansion of the illegal settlements over the past years there is the question, how any Palestinian state is supposed to be viable anyway.

What's there to negotiate? The Palestinian Authority has been so cooperative that the Palestinians see it as a collaborator, and what did the Palestinians get out of that? Nothing at all. Radical settlers. You seem to have missed that Netanyahu has admitted that he wouldn't allow a Palestinian...

The current government could fall and a more liberal minded government could take its place and actually make a treaty with the Palestinians, but the next time the conservatives get power, they could tear up the agreement and go back to the old ways. Where is that "more liberal minded...

But hypothetically if you replace the current Muslim population with any other non-Muslim society or ethnicity in Gaza - Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Chinese, you name it - peace would be restored in an instant. What I outlined is a surest way forward for peace and prosperity. Israel is not...

Seriously, your argument collapses at the very first question: no, you aren't minimising civilian casualties when your preferred and prime method of attacking members of Hamas is hitting them at home, while accepting to destroy the whole apartment block by doing so. Any attack on Israel could...

(moderator edit) As to "Israel pouring aid into the region", it really doesn't get more risible than that. Israel isn't giving any aid at all. Instead it's expecting huge handouts from Western taxpayers for itself and it expects others to provide the money to rebuild Gaza.

You seem to have missed Israel's programs Lavender and Where's Daddy: "We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity," one of the officers told +972 and Local Call. "On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes...

Israeli Officials Believe International Court Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over War The officials said they thought that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others could be charged by the International Criminal Court and that the court was also considering warrants for Hamas leaders...

Well, it's notable that none of the people here who were dismissing protesting students as being ignorant felt called upon to repeat those claims when it comes to the experts of the State Department. Instead, we got advocacy in favour ot genocide. As to the mass graves, it does seem as if they...

I suggest you read the text you have linked yourself. Israel has obligations under International Law and there are convincing arguments that Israel has seriously violated those obligations. It can't use any "but Hamas" excuses. The rest of your arguments have been out there for a while. No one...

Thanks. Given that Scheffer's opnion was written in October of last year, it doesn't look as if Israel is coming out to well here. Famine because of a lack of aid, huge number of civilian casualties, displacement of the civilian population - it's no surprise that Netanyahu seems to get worried...

There is this fascinating concept of using trains in tunnels, which can shift far more people with even less energy. I wonder if Musk has thought about that?

Right, I had missed the embeded link and I deleted my post when I noticed it.

I consider your post as an open request for ethnic cleansing and genocide. I was aware of Musk veering far to the right, yet I wasn't aware that some Tesla drivers not only have followed, but far surpassed him on that trip.

As if many traditional media weren't propaganda channels. How would you rate something like the Murdoch media or the NY Post?

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/some-us-officials-say-internal-memo-israel-may-be-violating-international-law-2024-04-27/ A joint submission from four bureaus - Democracy Human Rights & Labor; Population, Refugees and Migration; Global Criminal Justice and International Organization...

The IDF has killed thousands of civilians. When we go by sheer numbers, then Hamas will have a tough job to catch up. And we aren't talking just about Gaza, there are also hundreds of killings of Palestinians in the West Bank each year, that can't be blamed on Hamas. Additionally, the IDF has...

Thanks, that's quite interesting. Let's see if independent organisations manage to shed more light on these issues.

Maybe, maybe not. Neither Hamas, nor the IDF are trustworthy. Might be useful if there were at least some journalists on the ground, yet Gaza has turned into a kill zone for journalists, with 97 killed since October of last year - many of them by Israeli airstrikes, drone strikes, snipers...

While we are supposed to be outraged about the discomfort of some Jewish students and professors at US universities, there are mass graves being uncovered at two hospitals in Gaza: U.S. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel on Tuesday called the reports of mass graves at the hospitals...

I don't know what sort of knowledge you are supposed to have anyway, in order to judge Israel's actions properly. Killing thousands of civilians; bombing civilian areas with heavy, dumb bombs; inducing a famine; destroying hospitals; killing aid workers and journalists - these are war crimes...

Oh dear, what a rant. Calling people with different opinions morons, I wonder if that's the acceptable style of debate here? Add to that the very selective memory that neatly apportions blame, while forgetting inconvenient facts. The Zionist movement with its aim of replacing the local...

This is quite a dismissive attitude towards the students. What makes you believe that they aren't informed about Israel's history? The more you learn about Zionism, the way Israel came into existence and the way it treated the Palestinians, the less likely you are to like this history. There is...

That's a very dissmissive attitude towards the students. One might as well say that they haven't been bought yet by AIPAC or their big donors. It's difficult to think of a more cringeworthy and spineless performance than Columbia's Ms Shafik in Congress: "Would you risk getting cursed by the God...

When it comes to the DT, anything they write on Israel is an opinion piece, even the supposedly neutral reporting. Usually you get hammered with several pro-Israel opinion pieces each day. They have this awful Colonel Kemp writing for them, who has always been one of the most shameless shills...

The Daily Telegraph used to be a reputable conservative newspaper. Nowadays it's just a parody of its former self, read by hard right, highly unpleasant people, at least if you judge their readers by the kind of comments you can find in the comments section. As regards Israel, you might just as...

These dorsal fins aren't new at all. Just look at Audi's competitor for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011, as one example for their use.

I guess that all these economic predictions are based on the assumption that no competitors will be able to produce robotaxis? What is that assumption based on?

Wasn't it possible for her to roll down the side window and to escape the car that way?

We all know that policwe brutality in the US is over the top and that the US is a complete outlier among the industrialized world. I just wonder why you believe that standards in the US are also representative for the rest of the world? As the assassination in the hospital - which was a clear...

Ah, kid was shot into the back while attempting to flee. As with the assassination in the hospital, apparently the concept of "arrest" has been largely abolished when it comes to Israeli security forces and Palestinians.

Right, and look how well they are being treated by Israel in return: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/24868-rising-violence-against-palestinians-by-israeli-forces-in-the-west-bank-reports-amnesty.html

The Saudis killed just one journalist. Compared to Israel they are obviously rank amateurs.

Well, in times past governments that claimed to be democratic tried to arrest people, even terrorists, instead of simply sending a hit squad. Even dictatorships often used to be ashamed to admit to have ordered a hit and claimed that people had been shot "while trying to escape" or died "because...

Not even 1‰ of the employees of UNRWA were supposedly involved in the attack on Israel, yet that's supposed to be sufficient reason to stop any financial support. Sorry, this brazen hypocrisy and unconditional support for Israel has really shattered the credibility of Western countries...

Just at the moment when there is a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza Western countries use the pretext that some UNRWA employees may have been complicit with Hamas to remove all financial support for UNRWA. It's obviously a complete coincidence that this happens right at the same time that Israel...

Not a total, but a quite substantial success for South Africa at the ICJ: The mere issuing of a provisional order is viewed as a harsh diplomatic blow for Israel, one that gives South Africa’s genocide claim tacit legitimacy. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783852

I really don't know where you are heading to with this, and I don't see the relevance. Additionally, you do realise that the small gene pool was and to some extend still is a massive issue for Jewish communities as well, particularly for the Ultra-Orthodox, which has led to a prevalence of some...

BTW, anyone who is interested in the Jewish emigration from Germany to Palestine after the Nazis seized power may want to read up on the Transfer Agreement between the Jewish Agency for Palestine and Nazi Germany, also known as the Haavara Agreement...

Obviously the Holocaust and WWII were essential for the establishment of Israel, but Zionism started in the late 19th century, Balfour promised Palestine to the Zionist movement in 1917, and many Jewish immigrants to Palestine moved there from Poland and from Russian controlled territories in...

Rabin was murdered by a terrorist who shared his ideology with members of the current Israeli government. Since then there was absolutely no support for a two state solution any more. As to "giving Gaza back", it was just too inconvenient and costly to protect a rather small Jewish population...

Israel has no peace partners? Secretary of State Kerry clearly stated in 2016 that Israel had sabotaged any attempts to find a solution. Even if there were really people left until now who believed that Israel was genuinely interested in a solution, they would have been forced to lay that to...

Stuff from the 1960s, 1970s, really? We don't even have to look at the Israeli PMs who started their careers as terrorists in the Irgun, as with Itamar Ben-Gvir Israel has a current minister who was convicted of terrorism offences. Anyway, the fact that even the West Bank has neither an airport...

Nice try, but the Palestinian authority in the West Bank doesn't have any control over any of its borders either, not even over the border to Jordan, and neither are there any civilian airports in the West Bank. I suppose that's also because of Hamas? The attempts to justify the stifling Israeli...