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@JonesSmythe @DefenseBaron given that they haven’t retaliated much, my feeling is they will escalate to deescalate if iran keeps pushing

@DefenseBaron Are they prepping for an attack on the *source* of a lot of the problems in the region (The Iranian regime) , I have a feeling they are .

Folks, this is not normal. The Biden administration is taking a lot of lumps for their foreign and defense policy choices, but this is a more than a show of force. These decks are being used as US troops in the region have been hit with dozens of Iran-backed attacks.

@christapeterso appreciate your point on rafah, but they’re claiming hamas was using it for covert movement which would remove the protection regardless of marking, if true

A clearly marked medical convoy is protected by international law so if Israel is really limiting their approval like they are with trucks coming in, I don’t think it would be insane to try to send one hoping Israel was bluffing :\

When you read about Israel “letting things through Rafah crossing,” what’s happening is they essentially have a standing threat to bomb things that try, & agreed to not. It sounds like the MoH maybe tried to send an unapproved but legally protected convoy through & they bombed it

@neil_tedrow @whstancil I think the opposite, they lived through vietnam, and had family in ww2 and korea so their tolerance for civilian casualties is much higher

If brutal war crimes by Israel automatically produced this kind of reaction, there wouldn’t be an age gradient. Something is causing the war to affect younger people differently. I think it’s reasonable to suspect it’s because younger people have a different information diet.

If you think the House of Saud is going to walk away from that over even many thousands of Palestinian civilian casualties, you need a refresher on just how little Arab countries' rhetoric about Palestinians' welfare matches their actual efforts in that regard. 11/x

@ProfPaulPoast @WPReview @Noahpinion looks like you were on to something

We need to abandon the "two state" solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. As I explain in my latest for @WPReview, a solution will require MORE than two states. worldpoliticsreview.com/israeli-palest…

@BBolander the saudis, who we arm and fund, have killed 400k yemenis over the past 5 years and almost nobody says a thing about it, but there is hyperfocus on this conflict, that’s pr and advocacy, not values

it's driving me fucking bananas

@kamilkazani irrespective of the current conflict can we say, who partitions a territory like that? an obvious time bomb

What kind of conflict it is? Contrary to the popular opinion, this is not a war of religion. Religious or eschatological interpretations too often obfuscate the underlying reason of why it all happens Territory This is and has always been a territorial conflict

75 years since the first partition, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not over. Based on the last four weeks , we can only expect it to escalate, resulting in more mutual dehumanisation, more reciprocal violence, more of the previously uninvolved joining it on either side 🧵

@ianbremmer land swap gaza for the israeli land between the west bank and golan and then evacuate the civilians there, then give the palestinians a state with contiguous borders

@CougarSpider talk to any of these people for more than 10 minutes and you will find that they basically excuse the methods because they agree with the cause, even if they won’t say it directly

@roofusfirefly @SwannMarcus89 I think the difference is at least with back to the future it was reshot before it was completed, a lot of these reshoot flops now get reshot after bad testing and studio feedback

@SwannMarcus89 Some re-shoots work. Others don’t. Peter Jackson re-shot certain parts of The Two Towers and Return of the King after The Fellowship of the Ring was released. Robert Zemeckis re-shot all of Eric Stolz’s scenes in Back To The Future to replace him with Michael J Fox.

I don't understand why studios do reshoots. It'll add 60 million dollars to the budget and the movie still sucks so it just makes it harder to make your money back Am I missing something about this financial calculus? All the catastrophic bombs have bloated reshoot budgets

@alexplitsas but we already have Menendez

Our new Ambassador to Egypt was born in Erbil, Iraq and spent two years in a Kurdish refugee camp before emigrating to the United States as a child. She went to Georgetown and speak six languages. Previously served as Ambassador to Bulgaria & CPA in Iraq. The woman is a rockstar.

@wil_da_beast630 eh it’s a bit further left than center, basically every mainstream dem is giving the green light

The basic center-left position boils down to: "Israel should not seek revenge for this. Killing a civilian citizen of an enemy nation is never acceptable." Perhaps because I see post-castration Western "morality" as absurd, I do not find that position tenable or even sane.

Don't watch if you don't want to, but it's worth a reminder that almost all of the Hamas atrocity footage is on video. This stuff is not "debated." Noting it is not a "right wing smear campaign." For the 'good-faith de-colonial leftists:' your pets just actually did this, and want to do it here. You need to process these simple facts.

@thmpsnii @CentristMadness can be semi treatable without surgery apparently

Imagine tearing your Achilles in the 1600s

@thedragonLML eh disagree, the answer is “we’re not counting” because it isn’t the stated objective

how many children does Israel have to kill in order to feel safe? the disturbing answer - which govt officials have made clear is their answer - is all of them, because the goal is ethnic cleansing, not security

@jeremycarl4 @LeaderMcConnell best way to reduce debt is to bolster the IRS and raise taxes but your benefactors won’t let you, even the GOP plan for funding aid is based on cutting from the IRS, it’s moronic

The idea that supporting the fight against Russian aggression detracts from other security priorities is false. Here’s the truth – Our investments are expanding defense production capacity here at home and equipping America and our allies to deter Iran-backed terror and compete with China.

@seyitaylor the techno libertarians deserve a lot of blame in this regard, the sector has lost a lot of trust, do you think people feel good about the idea of elon running around with one of the world’s only strong ai with the way he’s been acting?

The saddest thing about how this AI "debate" has panned out is how completely unlike America it has felt. Over the last 5+ years, the narrative around technology has changed — and the knee jerk reaction of most people is that any new tech is probably bad in some way, and you just don't know how. The idea that tech == unfettered capitalism has really taken root. Perhaps some of it is deserved but I think that on the balance of it, internet technology has mostly been good. This is not a "press vs tech" thing per se, even though the "press" has been somewhat complicit in pushing this narrative. I think that it leaves everyone more pessimistic in general, and America (and the people aligned with it) more vulnerable, with less hope in the future, and with less to look forward to.

@Variety this thinking is why so many movies are messy, directionless, and too long, superhero stories are fundamentally straightforward, hero has values that make them a hero>a villain symbolically threatens those values>they overcome the test and affirm the values, don’t make it hard

One person familiar with the “Blade” script changes says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons, with Mahershala Ali's Blade relegated to the fourth lead.  wp.me/pc8uak-1lDbvS

@lakecountydem @glcarlstrom everybody says they want peace but nobody wants to be responsible for it

@glcarlstrom Most 2SS proposals include international peacekeepers of some sort. Are people interested in peace or just want the status quo?

This is a hell of a trial balloon. Absolutely nuts: "The US and Israel are exploring options for the future of the Gaza Strip, including the possibility of a multinational force that may involve American troops if Israeli forces succeed in ousting Hamas." #xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@StevenNadel @nycsouthpaw yeah it isn’t, it depends on the value of the target that you’re hitting, the first strike seems to have hit more than just 1 guy so was probably legit

@nycsouthpaw Can you expand on this? I don't actually think it's right that you can't strike wherever the enemy is. (Setting aside the meaning of "camp" here....)

Hitting a refugee camp once to purportedly kill a Hamas commander ensconced within it is contrary to the laws of war. Hitting it two more times after claiming you’ve already killed him is openly contemptuous of international human rights concerns.

@kamilkazani eh that’s a stretch, if you’re somewhat following the laws of armed conflict then you are not using every means available to you and are thus limited

Now, how often do we fight a Just War? We always do (as no side ever will say it fights an unjust one) Consequently, neither of our wars can have limits or boundaries. The Just War argument logically excludes a possibility of limiting the war-related violence

Loved this @LindseyGrahamSC interview It shows why and how a Just War is logically equivalent to the Total War 1. As we fight a just war 2. Against the total evil 3. The war must have no limits, nor boundaries It must be necessarily total, until the full annihilation