mclumber1

I hope he actually uses this international trip to flee the country. I demand a fugitive ex-president!

While the allies were able to effectively de-Nazifi Germany after many years of Nazi rule and and indoctrination, I'm not sure the same could be done to de-Hamasify Gaza. At least the allies shared a common religion with the Nazis, which wouldn't be the case with Israel in Gaza.

Hamas deserves to be wiped out. But the price that both Israelis and Palestinians will pay is incredibly high. That's why it's important that the US work with both Israel and Israel's neighbors to evacuate (at least temporarily) noncombatants from Gaza and get aid to these people.

Couldn't you just use zipcode to determine where and how much government aid and other services to give to a disenfranchised group of people?

Israelis will have to move 100 miles to the west of their current settlements in what will known as United Palestine.

He dumps it for cheap and uses it as a tax write off

Race as a modern concept really took off in the 17th century, with "whites" at the top and "blacks" at the bottom, as a means to justify the enslavement of people who were supposedly inferior to Europeans.

If it was a Hamas rocket, it's one they haven't fielded often (or at all) before. If (big if) this is the case, that kind of lends credence to the theory that the rocket experienced a RUD during it's boost phase, as it's an unproven vehicle. Solid rocket motors can fail without any forewarning. I think the most likely scenario is that it was an Israeli rocket that targeted that location. If they did target that location, I would think the most likely answer is because of bad intel. I don't think Israel is stupid enough to target a hospital that holds no military significance, as the blow back they would receive from western supporters would not be worth it.

Consciously or subconsciously, many of these people are hoping for an "end of times" scenario to play out in Israel.

Census should reflect that race isn’t real, advocates say - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM The Human Genome Project convinced the vast majority of scientists that race doesn’t exist. Now a cohort of professionals and academics wants to change society. I've long held that race is a pretty poor way of describing oneself. I think using culture (or sub-culture) or nationality provides better detail about who you are and the way you think compared to race or even ethnicity.

I'm pretty sure Grassley has old people orgies at Dairy Queen.

Israel is committed to going into Gaza at this point. I would figure the humanitarian thing to do would be to give time (more than 24 hours though!) to allow civilians to evacuate. It would be a much shittier thing if they didn't do this, in my opinion. Egypt needs to completely open up its border crossing. It will be a lot easier to bring in and distribute aid in the Sinai then it would be to bring in that same aid into the densely packed Gaza.

Scalise has withdrawn his candidacy for the Speakership.

Entertaining, but it would be nice to have a speaker so the House can actually conduct business again.

I do worry that this will spiral out of control, to the point where sympathetic Muslim majority countries will offer more than moral support for Hamas, and in response the west offers more than just moral support for Israel. There is a risk this turns into a wider conflict, and that only helps countries like Russia and China deal with their own "problems" while the US and Europe are diverting attention to the middle east.

Any dirt that Santos would spill against his GOP counterparts in retaliation for being expelled would be viewed as highly suspect, considering this guy (IF HE EVEN IS ONE) lies about everything.

He might actually be expelled! New York Lawmakers To Introduce Expulsion Resolution Against Rep. George Santos THEMESSENGER.COM The resolution comes a day after Santos was charged with 23 counts in a superseding indictment

It certainly is convenient for Israel. And I don't mean that in a conspiratorial way.

I really wish there was a better way to eliminate Hamas targets compared to the methods that Israel is using. While I have no doubt that the bombs and missiles they are using are very precise in what building they are trying to hit, the fact that they have to destroy whole buildings or even blocks of buildings means they are taking out a lot of innocent civilians too. Sending in ground forces would result in a lot more bloodshed among IDF soldiers, so they probably wont go through with large scale incursions until many of these buildings are completely blown up.

How different is the Palestinian sub-culture compared to their Arab neighbors? Obviously they share the same language and religion, but are Palestinians considered too foreign to fit into Egyptian or Saudi (as examples) societies?

Peekaboo? Doesn't that leap right past dog whistle racism to straight up racism?