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@FeserEdward And just so we are clear, proportionality does not mean the same level of force and the exact same number killed. That is an invention of activists. Kill 1200 people, your state gets leveled. Seems fair to me.

Just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the Pearl Harbor attack, what was done to Gaza is grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the October 7 attack. What begins as a just cause is often corrupted by war’s self-righteous bloodlust.

@FeserEdward People that blather about proportionality basically believe that terrorists have immunity and that acts of war should never trigger actual war in response. Meanwhile Japan killed millions throughout Asia. Leveling that empire seems quite proportional. Same for Hamas.

@LeorSapir Oh please. They already kno its bs. They don't care. They won a Pulitzer for a fake famine photo.

Setting aside whether the allegations in the Kristoff piece are true, can we at least agree that the NYT’s decision to publish this in the Opinion section is ill-advised to say the least? Surely the editors knew that such extreme allegations, made at a time like this, with antisemitism on the rise, will draw intense scrutiny and outrage. Surely they knew that fact-sourcing of the kind Kristoff uses requires more, not less, verification. Publishing this as Opinion seems like the editors trying to put something out there while evading accountability if things go wrong, as they have in the past when the NYT reported on alleged Israel war crimes. The whole thing just looks so underhanded.

@NickKristof @RNicholasBurns Your article has been eviserated. Predictable. But the point was to try to get of the 10/7 report. You will be accountable.

If you want a handle on the Trump-Xi summit, this is an excellent podcast conversation with former ambassador to China @RNicholasBurns about the issues and how they're likely to be addressed.

@NickKristof The Red Cross that didn't visit a single Jewish hostage?

I appreciate the intense interest in my column. For skeptics, why not agree on Red Cross and lawyer visits for the 9,000 Palestinian "security" prisoners? If you think these abuse allegations are false, such monitoring visits would be protective. So why not?

@BarryOnHere Hard to miss a guy when he won't leave. The league even colluded to give him an MVP caliber teammate. At some point this is nonsense.

The most ironic part of LeBron hate is that, by simply hating on him at this stage, is to admit he is the best ever, since you're admitting you hold him to a standard you don't hold any other player to. Why? because literally no other player ever has gotten to the stage LeBron is right now. It's a hilarious paradox, to criticize LeBron now is to admit he's the best ever. But that's what LeBron haters get for allowing their pathological hatred/insecurity to override their common sense for the last 23 years.

@Hoopss They score 140 points a game now. Sorry, but it was harder scoring 30 when teams only scored 85 points a game.

28 year old prime Michael Jordan vs. 37 year old LeBron👀 People don’t realize how insane this is.

@bog_beef That would be good.

Leo can’t get a studio to pick up a Jonestown movie with him as Jones. This would be fucking incredible, it’s one of the most horrific and important moments in American history. Don’t Hollywood like Drama? I bet it’s because it’s politically inconvenient

@Megankstack It is call criticism and accountability. The fact that you see this as a meltdown speaks all about you and the closed intellectual world you live in. You even accepted the dog rape claim. So you are an imbecile.

Well, this is a meltdown for the ages.

@Observer853211 @Megankstack Ok. Did Hamas engage in sexual violence on 10/7? So believing that is "credulous" but believing completely unsubstantiated allegations from sources with zero credibility is not? LOLL. Giving away the game.

@Megankstack It's hilarious seeing these people who were so credulous as to claims of rape on October 7 turn into utter skeptics when it comes to much more plausible accounts of rapes in Israeli prisons. Almost like they're bigots or something

@Megankstack Bc you are doubling down on utter inanity.

@Megankstack Maybe bc, and pay attention, this is after endless systematic lies about bombed hospitals, and fake famines, and the fact massacres (Jenin, etc) and claims of organ stealing and fake genocide. Are you truly this obtuse? In a propaganda war people are committed to lying nonstop.

14 people telling a journalist they were raped is, imo, too many to dismiss. Especially in a society where shame/stigma around sexual assault is even greater than in the US. Incredible how many people just will. not. consider that their pre-existing view might be flawed.

@Megankstack Instead of "well 14 Hamasniks made the usual lurid claims about Israel, like they do day after day, so it must be true" (LOL), maybe demand actual evidence. What a concept.

@academic_la Suck our collective dicks. Have your momentary nicotine high. Then back to nothingness in a day.

A massive step towards the end of Israel has been taken and everyone can feel it. A country cannot treat people like that and be part the international community.

@Paladinbob123 @NYTimesPR I believe things when I am presented evidence. Here there was nothing. Just the usual propaganda.

@NYTimesPR yeah , its not that its not true....its just that many that support israel , cannot beleive that israel is doing bad things, for that would justify anti-semitism...ergo, they cant beleive it :(

@NYTimesPR The fact is you blew it and are now digging in rather than admitting the error. Standard nonsense.

@NYTimesPR What studies? The UN HRC? LOLLL. His piece cited zero actual evidence.

@AviBittMD @NickKristof @Megankstack What's not to get. Nick and the NYTS laundered straight up Hamas propaganda. On the eve of a damning report about the real crimes on 10/7.

Hi @NickKristof, I don't understand why you are misrepresenting the medical literature on this topic. No cases of canine rape have ever been confirmed in the medical literature, and the very few cases of rectal injuries that are described are documented as being initiated by sexual/curious zoophilia on the part of the human, not an assault on an unwitting human on the part of the dog. Moreover those very same medical journals specifically state what you are claiming as "never been described, nor is such a such a thing likely". Finally, none of this deranged nonsense was needed to bring light the other cases in your article. Why tarnish your article with pseudoscience, with a a citation to a twitter post by a deranged drunkard (who himself ironically engaged in sexual misconduct) no less? I really don't get it.

I share @megankstack's exasperation, but to those who say that canine rape is impossible, despite the many Palestinians who have described it, I'd note that at least three different medical journal articles discuss rectal injuries in humans from anal penetration by dogs. Sigh.

@AviBittMD @NickKristof @Megankstack Yep. Nicholss is now doubling down. The phantom articles don't support him, but he has no choice but to dig in.

@NickKristof @Megankstack What are those articles Nick. Guarantee they dont support your claim.