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I don't know what sort of knowledge you are supposed to have anyway, in order to judge Israel's actions properly. Killing thousands of civilians; bombing civilian areas with heavy, dumb bombs; inducing a famine; destroying hospitals; killing aid workers and journalists - these are war crimes...

Oh dear, what a rant. Calling people with different opinions morons, I wonder if that's the acceptable style of debate here? Add to that the very selective memory that neatly apportions blame, while forgetting inconvenient facts. The Zionist movement with its aim of replacing the local...

This is quite a dismissive attitude towards the students. What makes you believe that they aren't informed about Israel's history? The more you learn about Zionism, the way Israel came into existence and the way it treated the Palestinians, the less likely you are to like this history. There is...

That's a very dissmissive attitude towards the students. One might as well say that they haven't been bought yet by AIPAC or their big donors. It's difficult to think of a more cringeworthy and spineless performance than Columbia's Ms Shafik in Congress: "Would you risk getting cursed by the God...

When it comes to the DT, anything they write on Israel is an opinion piece, even the supposedly neutral reporting. Usually you get hammered with several pro-Israel opinion pieces each day. They have this awful Colonel Kemp writing for them, who has always been one of the most shameless shills...

The Daily Telegraph used to be a reputable conservative newspaper. Nowadays it's just a parody of its former self, read by hard right, highly unpleasant people, at least if you judge their readers by the kind of comments you can find in the comments section. As regards Israel, you might just as...

These dorsal fins aren't new at all. Just look at Audi's competitor for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011, as one example for their use.

I guess that all these economic predictions are based on the assumption that no competitors will be able to produce robotaxis? What is that assumption based on?

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

These claims are simply not supported by the census figures.

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...