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  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/middleeast/israel-genocide-gaza-rights-groups.html Two of Israel’s best-known human rights groups said Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, adding fuel to a passionately fought international debate over whether the death and destruction there have crossed a moral red line. The two groups were B’Tselem, a rights monitor that documents the effects of Israeli policies on Palestinians, and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel. Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide, an assessment previously reached by some organizations like Amnesty International. In a report titled “Our Genocide,” B’Tselem cited the devastating effects of Israel’s war on ordinary Palestinians to support their claim: the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza; the razing of huge areas of Palestinian cities; the forced displacement of nearly all of Gaza’s two million people; the restriction of food and other vital supplies. All together, the Israeli campaign has amounted to “coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the organization wrote. “In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” The debate over whether the war in Gaza constitutes genocide has also played out at the International Court of Justice, where South Africa has brought a genocide case against Israel. The court has yet to rule on the matter. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately comment. Speaking at the International Court of Justice in January 2024, Tal Becker, a member of Israel’s legal defense, said that Israel was fighting Hamas, not targeting Palestinians wholesale. “What Israel seeks by operating in Gaza is not to destroy a people, but to protect a people, its people, who are under attack on multiple fronts, and to do so in accordance with the law,” Mr. Becker told the court. Genocide has a specific definition in international law: particular acts carried out with intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The accusation hits a painful nerve for Israel, a state founded after Nazi Germany’s attempt to exterminate European Jewry. Israel vigorously denies that its war against Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide, countering that Hamas seeks to destroy the Jewish state. Israeli officials have also pointed to the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, which prompted the devastating Israeli response. The subsequent Israeli bombing campaign and ground offensive in Gaza have killed more than 59,000 people, including thousands of children, according to the Gazan health ministry. That toll does not distinguish between civilians and combatants; at one point, the Israeli military chief said nearly 20,000 Hamas fighters had been killed in the conflict, without providing evidence. Yuli Novak, the director of B’Tselem, said that she was not seeking to minimize the “horrific attack” that Hamas had perpetrated on Oct. 7. But the assault had prompted an Israeli assault on Palestinian life in Gaza that had spiraled into genocide, she said. “The report we are publishing today is one we never imagined we would have to write,” Ms. Novak said at a news conference in Jerusalem. “But in recent months, we have been witnessing a reality that has left us no choice but to acknowledge the truth.” As part of the case for genocide, international law requires that there be proof of intent. In the report on Monday, B’Tselem cited a string of dehumanizing remarks by Israeli government officials, such as a statement by Yoav Gallant, a former defense minister, that Israel was fighting “human animals” in Gaza. Some Israeli politicians have also said that their goal is to drive the remaining Palestinians out of Gaza. Israeli leaders argue that the country has adhered to humanitarian law, that generals work closely with legal advisers who ensure compliance with standards, and that Israel has gone above and beyond what other Western countries have done in similar situations. Mr. Netanyahu has at times distanced himself from the most extreme statements made by his political allies. But for the vast majority of Gazan civilians, the past 22 months have been a desperate attempt to survive constant Israeli bombardment, find enough food and clean water for their families, and flee amid Israeli warnings to immediately evacuate or risk being killed. The growing number of Gazans now starving has contributed to rising criticism of Israel by some of its longtime allies. Israeli military officials often attributed the deadly impact of the war on Palestinians to Hamas’s strategy of fighting its insurgency by hiding among civilians. The Israeli rights groups said that alone could not explain the rampant death and destruction in Gaza. “Israel’s claim that Hamas fighters or members of other armed Palestinian groups were present in medical or civilian facilities, frequently without providing any evidence, cannot justify or explain such widespread, systematic destruction,” B’Tselem wrote.
  3. Chuck Fairbanks routinely used spies to glean information from his opponents' closed practices. He tried the same thing against Colorado in 1972 and got caught red-handed.
  4. 33 Days 🤘 Edwin Simmons Steve Edmond "C'MON MAN" 😋
  5. I live just south of the red there. Gotta tighten the ratchet straps holding down my trailer.
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  7. That's a great post. I feel like I was being more specific, in terms of Alabama already has a bunch of schools that consider them a rival. I mean, Georgia does, too, but more fan bases get even more pumped up about the Alabama game than fan bases getting pumped up for the Georgia game. A huge part of it is their success, but also the feeling of entitlement they have around their success. Alabama fans consider it a birthright that the Crimson Tide is excellent in football in a way that the rest of the SEC hopes and aspires to be excellent in football. But everything else you said there is pertinent and right on. If I could describe the UT culture in one word it's arrogance, and that arrogance seeps into the soul simply by association. It's not about football. It's about everything. We simply think we're better than you regardless of the context, or the factual evidence. Shockingly, that tends to rub people the wrong way. Who woulda figured?
  8. 33 DAYS 🤘
  9. The Stampede: 10 recruits Texas is in good position for in the 2027 cycle Horns247 Staff
  10. Wilson was fired for not winning enough and Bum Bright hired Jackie Sherrill to come in and cheat like hell on the recruiting trail.
  11. Great TR Francisco. Can also vouch for the Luger burger lunch.
  12. I don’t even think you have to make up shit.
  13. And Wilson modernized the offense, and aggy prospered greatly. Right? Right?
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  15. Haha - I was going to mention that as well! That cover and a James Bond shower scene in Thunderball when my Dad when took me to the Downtown Houston Loews theater in Houston as a 6-7 year old? probably permanently perved me out. 😉 But I love hearing all those old songs from my parents adult child rearing era. Amazing how many song on the charts in the 1960's were related to movie soundtracks. I highly also recommend the A&M records documentary, "Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records." It shows the type of musical environment that allowed a great like Mangione to flourish and collaborate. It's on a couple subscription services but worth a watch. Here's a Herb Alpert Freebie documentary I found that started to suck me in. I still love a full band with some trumpet and sax... always will...
  16. The OL is the area I worry about the most. Failure at who to block and what angle on Sawyer on our final meaningful snap are burned into our collective retinas.
  17. I was gonna ask why would you want to get out of it and then I saw the list of teams. NC State will probably be a tough team, but besides y'all the rest is oof and probably a feelsbad if you don't win. I know the players usually love these kinds of things but you'd hope to play a bit tougher field for sure.
  18. You are way over complicating this. All Dems have to do is wage all out class warfare against the oligarchs. Make it a battle of haves vs have-nots and pin coddling up to the Elmos, Zucks, Dimons, Bezos, etc on the GQP. Make up vile shit about them. Put on blast. Win.
  19. Doesn't mean they're not good luck at Fenway. By all means, attend more!
  20. Austin is a shithole. Please tell everyone you know. Please tell strangers. Please tell Forbes to write articles about it.
  21. You DO realize the Southern Strategy was an explicit effort to conflate economic and social issues, so that they could attack social issues like integration using economic terms? That muddying of the waters is a very successful republican strategy
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