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  • It’s literally his MO either through incompetence or hubris, he consistently plants landlines for both himself and others:

    • Crash out of the JCPOA despite Iranian compliance and the EU trying to maintain the deal without the US, setting the stage for the current crisis
    • Completely disregard the Palestinian question in the Abraham Accords, signaling to Hamas(/Iran) that the window is closing and soon the whole Gulf will be onboard with permanent Israeli domination of Palestine
    • Give the Taliban whatever they want in the Doha Accords, but in a timeline that forces it to be the next President’s problem
    • Publicly declare he’ll solve Ukraine-Russia in 100 days… signaling the limits of his patience, and that Putin only needs to delay, delay, delay
    • “I’ll make a decision in two weeks on Iran”

  • Israeli diplomacy on this issue has been virtually non-existent. It really cannot be reiterated how badly the Israeli state department has bungled international relations, given that they had an open hand at genocide as recently as a month ago.

    It’s genuinely incredible to see how openly evil the Likud/Khanist extremists in charge have acted, and how reflexive and hollow the counter-messaging has become from Netanyahu

    Yair Golan, the leader of the opposition Democrats who served as deputy chief of staff for Israel’s military before entering politics, said that after an unjustifiably brutal campaign, much of the damage [to Israel’s reputation] had already been done. “A sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set the expulsion of a population as a goal,” he said.

    Netanyahu attacked Golan’s comments as “contemptible antisemitic blood libels against IDF soldiers and the state of Israel”, but Golan later doubled down on his position in a press conference.







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    1 year ago

    That’s American, Jewish voters surveyed last fall. 68% support land swaps, an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, Palestinian return from the diaspora, and financial/population restitution.

    A lot of regular people get swept up into the default of supporting the concept of Israel and protecting the lives of the 6-7 million Jews living there, but the topic has so many land mines and risks of misunderstanding that people don’t delve into the topic openly. But if you look for it, there’s a lot of silence from folks who are uneasy about the direction Israel is headed.





    1. Patent pool

    The AR market is not just entertainment, Microsoft has been failing to build a viable AR helmet for soldiers for years now, after the latest-and-greatest fight jets got them.

    Professional use too - think of how much simpler and safer ‘realistic’ training could be for deep sea commercial divers or oil rig workers. Live schematic overlays for aircraft technicians at work/in training.

    Those are a few of the applications where an absurdly high unit cost/license fee would be gladly swallowed instead by governments or business.




  • Never, until he doesn’t obey Trump.

    Gaetz was reportedly two days away from the House Ethics Committee releasing its report on his… activities with minors - which was going to be damning. Gaetz instead quits congress to nullify their jurisdiction, and Trump gets easy blackmail over his new AG.

    Obviously having a crony run the Justice Department kills all of Trumps investigations, but it also lets him steer the department as he pleases.





    1. They’re ineffectual, weak, and don’t do anything, and have failed their mission.
    2. They are so effective and strong, that they need to leave so the IDF is safe.

    Pick one.

    They’re literally hunkered down inside bunkers in their bases - which are well documented, flying UN flags, and painted peacekeeper white. The only place they’re “standing in the way” is in your propaganda. And now they’re “human shields” for Hezbollah, which if history is repeated, means they’re days/weeks away from direct Israeli bombing.

    When you shoot at UN peacekeepers, you’re almost always the bad guy.