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  1. J

    Angela Chao accident

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

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  3. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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.
  4. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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
  5. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

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

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  7. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  8. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  9. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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
  10. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  11. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  12. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  13. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  14. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  15. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  16. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    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...
  17. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Did Gaza have sovereign control over its borders? No, it didn't. It didn't even have an airport or free access to the sea. It was a prison and it was controlled by Israel. Anyone who wanted to leave Gaza was only able to do so with permission by Israel, the very definition of a prision...
  18. J

    Cybertruck is a scam.

    Why the barriers, as if it were a fragile museum exhibit?
  19. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Well, what a shame that Israel can't just get away with just about everything nowadays any more, isn't it? Even at the time it was quite embarrassing for Israel to have its Mossad agents get arrested in Norway, after killing an innocent Moroccan waiter, though...
  20. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Israel was not only encouraging those Jews to come to Israel, as it was eager to increase its Jewish population, it was also happy to kick up trouble in Arab countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair
  21. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Plenty of people care and are well aware of the fact that all common principles of self-determination and decolonisation were violated when Israel was founded. Given that ISIS was only able to establish itself after the US destroyed Iraq and turned it into chaos, the West should better not start...
  22. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    OK, so as I understand it we are supposed to treat Israel as its neighbours? Just another Middle-Eastern s******e and no more claims that it's a Western style democracy and no more big military aid packages? Additionally, no journalist gets fired from Western TV stations for calling these...
  23. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Well, I suggest you take a look at the Biographies of the staff from the President down and at their Board of Governors, and then try to tell me again that these Jewish "Friends of Israel" don't run a massively pro-Israel organisation. Should you still not be convinced, they are also running...
  24. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    The "Middle East Forum"? A right-wing US think tank with a pro-Israel Jewish staff. I mean, who wouldn't consider them as the very source for unbiased, credible information? I'd rather say that they rate exactly zero when it comes to aspects of impartiality and credibility. Yet even this outfit...
  25. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    You claimed that Muslims immigrated as a result of Jewish immigration. Yet while the Muslim population only doubled, which can largely be explained by the normal population growth of a society with many children, the Jewish population grew sixfold. It's quite obvious whose population grew by...
  26. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    With a population that is mostly ignorant of history, they have succeeded quite well in selling the Palestinians as the victims of Israeli aggression. Look at this...
  27. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Sorry, but I consider it as unreasonable to compare population figures that are 1700 years apart. I suggest you take a look at the figures and particularly so at the sixfold increase of the Jewish population between 1922 and 1947. During the Ottoman period the Jewish population in Palestine was...
  28. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    These claims are simply not supported by the census figures.
  29. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    but rather are motivated by seeing and interpreting the world through a lense of oppressor/colonialism/imperialism vs oppressed/victim/underdog Well, I'm not "younger" and I consider this viewpoint as quite correct. From Herzl's "Der Judenstaat" over Balfour's declaration to the creation and...
  30. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    (moderator edit) You may want to look at the far nastier opnions that were voiced by prominent Israeli politicians (and industriously collected by the South Africans). Again: what is the proposal if you don't want to establish a two state solution? I believe that you are mistaken if you believe...
  31. J

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Likud Party: Original Party Platform (1977) The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed...
  32. J

    Cybertruck is a scam.

    Munro's sole consideration seems to be how cheaply a car can be slapped together by the manufacturer. I stopped watching him quite a while ago but I recall him doing a teardown of the VW ID.4 when it came to market. That ID.4 had a very solid build quality below the skin, with plenty of metal...
  33. J

    Tesla Unionization

    Gigafactory Berlin has to stop production for two weeks as the attacks by the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea have disrupted the delivery chain. I don't believe that their actions can count as "sympathy strikes" for Metall, but obviously the "we can always get all the stuff from China" attitude has...
  34. J

    Model 3 Highland Performance/Plaid Speculation

    Porsche has reported a couple of days ago that their upcoming new Taycan has pushed the Nürburgring time down to 7:07,55. That should put the ball back into Tesla's court. More information on this and the new version - likely called Taycan Turbo GT - will be published in March.
  35. J

    BYD now the largest BEV manufacturer on earth

    I see BYD cars increasingly here in the Frankfurt region. They all have Munich plates, therefore I suppose that they are owned by Sixt, one of the major car rental and leasing companies here in Germany, which is located in Munich. Sixt has placed an order of something like 100,000 cars with BYD...
  36. J

    Tesla Unionization

    Transportation for freight and mass transit in the US, as designed, does not earn enough to support itself. Indeed? You should tell Warren Buffet, as Berkshire Hathaway is the sole owner of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, the freight railway company. At the time of acquisition in...
  37. J

    Tesla Unionization

    Well, look here, mate, I seriously wonder why you believe that your post is anywhere close to being on topic. You are welcome to ignore me if a sudden confrontation with an opposing opinion ist too upsetting for you or threatens your mental health. With plenty of Americans claiming here that...
  38. J

    Tesla Unionization

    Please take a look at #1,131. Obviously management would attempt to use some pressure to motivate employees to stop their sympathy strike. That doesn't mean that they would be able to go through with redundancies.
  39. J

    Tesla Unionization

    No one has lost his job at Hydro, but apparently that's too difficult to understand for some people. Any objective criteria clearly show that the US has the crappiest working conditions in the Western world. No minimum holiday time, no paid maternity leave, the US is not only the only country...
  40. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Yes, it's extremely strange to have warehouses full of Abrams that were esentially mothballed by the USMC, yet to waste precious time building new and less capable tanks for Ukraine. Laws can be changed, if there were legal impediments to exporting these tanks.
  41. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    It's quite difficult to accept that as a valid excuse. Many countries have sent their latest weapons systems to Ukraine, where they are at risk to be lost to Russian forces or to be exposed to Russian espionage. Yet a run-of-the-mill MBT contains such sensitive technology that it can't be used...
  42. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Just to add you my previous post: It's completely implausible that the US Army had so much surplus stocks of 155 mm shells that it was able to support the Ukrainian war effort without depleting its own essential stocks. No one was prepared for the return of a WWI style artillery war as we see...
  43. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Oh, really? That's a very neat and wholesome story. Too neat and wholesome to be altogether credible. It's difficult to square this story with the fact that the US Army has asked Congress just this November to approve more than $ 3 billion for additional shell production capacities and for the...
  44. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    It is remarkable that the US is supposedly running low on 155 artillery ammunition, yet Blinken has just approved the sale of almost 150 million $ worth of 155 mm artillery ammunition to Israel. Apparently priorities and the moral evaluation of killing civilians change massively depending on the...
  45. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Sorry, I'm getting fed up with this kind of claims. Back in the Cold War West Germany on its own had a standing army of almost half a million and up to 2.3 million reservists that could have been called up at short notice, complete with the required materiel. That's hardly an insubstantial force...
  46. J

    Cybertruck Police, Military etc. fleet orders

    Logistics vehicles in wartime also need to be able to refuel easily.
  47. J

    Cybertruck Police, Military etc. fleet orders

    Sorry, as an infantry soldier I would always have preferred a vehicle that can be refuelled within five minutes from some jerry cans over something that needs to be hooked up to a high voltage charger for 30 minutes. Add the fact that you can get diesel from any friendly force, without being...
  48. J

    Germany bans Cybertruck

    This would render the CT immediately illegal to be driven on public roads, resulting in substantial fines for the driver. The issue isn't just that the front isn't sufficiently soft, it's also because the edges are too sharp.
  49. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Well, Bild is definitely a tabloid. Given that Russia is bogged down in Ukraine, I wonder how Putin wants to attack Europe. Where are the necessary troops and the materiel going to come from?
  50. J

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    The Daily Telegraph is an old and traditional UK quality paper. It may not have the same quality as it did in the past, but is by no means a tabloid. It is also staunchly anti-Russian. You've just shown your ignorance of the UK newspaper market.