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    IDF Chief of Staff Says Israel Will Respond to Iran Missile Attack

    It is important for all countries to retaliate when attacked, not just Israel. Israel attacked an Iranian consulate in Syria killing many including 2 Iranian generals. The attack by Israel escalated the proxy conflict with Iran to a direct conflict. Given that Iran had to respond in kind, with...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    You're right, and its an important point. I should have been much more clear. Hamas is a terrorist organization interested in removing Israel. That's important. But. it's not ISIS. You can't really join ISIS and want to do good. But Hamas is/was the legitimate government. It's not all ideology...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/ https://www.analystnews.org/posts/how-israel-helped-prop-up-hamas-for-decades 🤔
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    Yet up until October 6th the Likud supported and funded Hamas to prevent any moderate Palestinian government from forming. Those terrorist pigs are Netanyahu’s creation. As we speak Hamas is likely brutalizing hostages, yet there are only a handful of reports of IDF conducting rescue...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    Not exactly a great place. Obv thanks for your service. My brother was in the first battle of Fallujah 04, et al. For my part I've stayed on the non-gov side, but I've spent a lot of time interfacing with civ/mil leadership. I agree with the worse before it gets better. With essentially the...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    So how did Hamas continue to remain in power despite a lack of support from the Palestinians? https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/amp/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    More than I’d like, though not from a first person perspective. And agreed.. to an extent. But the extent of the force is where the problem lies. I didn’t criticize IDF strategy in October, but by the end of November we start to see a troubling trend. Consider Sadr city. It was a slum overrun...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67565872 I'm not asking you to believe me. Look for yourself. Entire neighborhoods are being flattened. A children's playground was bulldozed and the star of David was drawn in with tank treads. Israel absolutely has a right to defend itself and Israel...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    Israel has dropped about the same amount of explosives on Gaza as the US dropped on Berlin in WWII. There’s also roughly the same number of people displaced from their homes, 1.7 million. The ordinance dropped is the equivalent of two Hiroshima bombs. Did we all just forget the last 20 years...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    Collateral damage is an ugly inevitable fact of war. But it's never a binary choice. War isn't checkers. You can conduct military operations trying to minimize civilian casualties, or you can simply not care. Let's look at the IDF's priorities. For every Hamas soldier killed, the IDF has...
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    Israel-Hamas war combat resumes in Gaza as Israelis accuse the Palestinian group of violating cease-fire

    Is Israel avoiding legitimate Hamas targets because potential civilian casualties? Evidence says no. Your arguments strongly argue that no is a perfectly valid answer. I keep hearing that Israel has no choice, yet Hamas is using human shields. The thing about human shields is that they "shield"...
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    Elon Musk: I'll say what I want to say, and if we lose money, so be it

    Musk does seem to do an amazing job at avoiding this common CEO pitfall.
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    Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

    It's also worth remembering that the Limbaugh wing of the GOP generally viewed concerns about Bin Laden pre 9/11 as a bit of a Democratic hoax. They viewed the Aug 20 1988 cruise missile attack on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory as a "wag the dog" effort to distract from the Aug 17 1998...
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    Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

    I think that’s a great synopsis. But I wonder if the Likud didn’t want to get caught with their pants down considering how much the Likud’s and Hamas’ interests align. Hamas wants to obliterate Israel but Hamas has zero such ability. Hamas needs a more unified Arab world and a larger...
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    Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

    It made a lot of sense for Saddam to posture that he had WMDs but zero sense to actually have them. The threat that he had WMDs gave him power in the region, and defying the west gave him political cover at home. But it would be insanity for him to actually have any. If he used WMDs he’d have...
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