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  1. Let me be clear, he does not. For one, his political associations alone casts a tremendous amount of skepticism over this statement. More importantly, his conception of the two-state settlement runs in contravention to the international consensus. He has said that he wants to maintain all or some of the settlement blocs (the ones he definitely wants to maintain are the very largest of them, namely Ariel, Gush Etzion and Ma'aleh Adumim). So he won't adequately even define what the "Palestinian State" would be, he insists on settlement inclusion, he insists on said Palestinian state being demilitarized, he bitches about all the "threats" Israel faces while wholly ignoring the much bigger threats Palestinians face, etc. Furthermore, he's stated numerous times that he would only insist on negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, which is a completely illegitimate entity that does not speak for the Palestinian people, and they've been known not to for decades. They were created via a concession by Arafat in the Oslo negotiations, largely because it was the life preserver that Israel and the US were willing to throw to him after tacitly supporting Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. It has since been maintained despite the fact that they were defeated in the 2006 elections and continue to do so mostly through intimidation, coercion and violence. This would be akin to some Arab leader saying that they'd only negotiate with the US via the Tea Party. Bottom line, this has nothing to do with the two-state settlement as it's understood by the vast majority of the world. That consensus includes, among other things, to quote the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question: The Palestinians will never recognize those settlement blocs, which means they will never recognize whatever "borders" Lapid proposes. Yeah, Lapid is absolutely opposed to this. That advisory opinion, which to repeat was unanimous when you consider what Buergenthal said in his separate declaration, deemed that all segments of the wall in the West Bank that were built in Palestinian territory as a means to protect Israeli settlements are, to quote Buergenthal, "ipso facto in violation of international humanitarian law" and that those segments of the wall must therefore be dismantled. Again, that can't happen when Israel is proposing preservation of illegal settlements. Lapid insists on maintaining large swaths of that territory. Again, opposed. You get the idea. What he has said about it is akin to when David Bar-Illan said back in 1996, "If Palestinian sovereignty is limited enough so that we feel safe, call it [the Palestinian State] fried chicken." It's that same dismissive, imperialist attitude that Bibi has about it. Again, they're changing the style. Not the substance. Just as a guide, if what Israel is proposing falls shorter of the international consensus than the Clinton Parameters did, it's a non-starter. Lapid knows that.
  2. Gee why would he say that?
  3. In furtherance of the wrestling analogy, we’re at a point in our history where Vince Russo writing for it would be an improvement.
  4. Shouldn’t take a confession in a lawsuit to establish that. His bewildering inanities should speak for themselves. But hey, feelings and emotions.
  5. He’s been a douchebag on several areas, to name just a few: -Israel/Palestine -Covert military operations -Obsessively equating right wing efforts to suppress freedom of expression with “left wing wokeness” -Not being able to connect dots on a host of issues (his gripes with K-12 education and college make it sound like they’re in completely separate vacuums, which is especially perplexing given his propensity to cite Scandinavia as a model of success) -Romanticism of Bill Clinton This latest New Rules segment is just more of the same.
  6. Certainly nothing else would explain why this moron has even a single person supporting him.
  7. Dude it’s the same guy that fathered Jake when his mother was 13. Just a fucking horrible person.
  8. You don't think 2020 perhaps softened UND's stance on joining a conference in any way?
  9. Btw, is anyone else feeling extra creepy that this story came out just days after the Dark Side of the Ring episode regarding Grizzly Smith?
  10. Depends on whether or not there's unanimity. If it's not a unanimous move, it'd have to wait 'til after the current CFP contract runs out (through 2025 season). Unless I'm mistaken, a unanimous vote means...immediately, right? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
  11. That's how much of an asshole he was. 34 years of death, and still isn't nice.
  12. Exactly. SMU was among the more saintly actors out there. There wasn't a campus-wide rape culture like at Baylor, there wasn't a campus-wide gun culture like at OU, there wasn't a campus-wide drug culture like at...well various places. No Joe, no Bo, no Woodrow getting a woody about dead kids in Vietnam or punching players in the throat on national TV. No, SMU was executed because some guys decided to pay football players and acted like asses about it when questioned by the authorities. Fuck. How else are you supposed to explain to a kid that the lessons you learn playing college football are anything other than "whatever you do, don't get caught?" And I'm not in any way suggesting that Michigan, or any other program, deserves/deserved the death penalty. But holy shit, each one of these stories actually makes the NCAA look worse and worse for doing that compared to other things that were happening right under their noses. That decision did not age well...at all.
  13. 1992, definitely not the first
  14. BUT BUT BUT THE REGULAR SEASON WON'T MEAN ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!THINGS!!!!
  15. Again, only the highlighted teams would have made it.
  16. Meh, most of the playoffs in college football have them. In fact, D3 is the only one that regularly doesn't. I tend to prefer the 8/16 proposals myself, but I wouldn't necessarily tell a 12 to "get fucked." I would argue that it seems bound to present screwy situations between the 4th and 5th teams from not having any concrete methodology to separate them, but that's still a whole lot better than this bullshit ass "let's have a committee of people involved with universities in the P5 choose 4 among 130!"
  17. They rely on the Hitlerian strategy to advance their little rabbit-assed nonsense. And I don't say that pejoratively, I literally mean that this falls right in line with what Hitler described in Mein Kampf. His mini-thesis on that was that if you tell a small lie, it's actually harder to sell than a colossal lie. With a colossal lie, the liar is relying on the idea that enough people will think to themselves "there has to be some truth to it. Why else would he be saying it? Surely no one could be so brazen as to just make up a whopper like that." So Biden didn't steal the election directly? Ok, blame the voting systems that were developed in left wing Venezuela by socialist Hugo Chavez. What? Chavez has been dead for 7 years and the voting systems have no connection to him anyways? Ok, blame the Italians. After all it's the perfect plot! Italy is one of the most right wing of European governments not named Russia, so what better way to fool everyone than to sabotage Trump's re-election? It's genius!!! After this gets shot down in flames, my guess is their next move is to blame Santa Claus and the North Pole sending us subliminal messages in our Xmas gifts in 2019 to vote for Biden. They have nowhere else to go...but they will keep going. They will never fess up to reality.
  18. And we have a winner. There's a difference between a registered Democrat and a person who understood that however terrible Joe Biden is w/r/t public policy, he's still miles ahead of Trump just on that front alone. Unlike "insane" and "21st century Republican," that Venn Diagram has two circles.
  19. Right, it's about changing the face and not the substance just like when the GHWB admin wanted Saddam Hussein gone without fundamentally changing the government of Iraq.
  20. I was gonna say, I’m struggling to find a downside to this. And of course it’s bullshit anyways. The difference between the mainstream of Israel’s political far left and far right covers the length of a flea’s hop.
  21. It probably will fail and it’s fucking stupid because football is the only sport with this issue. MLB has all those minor leagues NBA has the G league NHL has multiple minor leagues Only with football do you have this dynamic where the top dog is actively trying to sabotage what amount to minor leagues that don’t even play during the fall. It’s so ironic that Vince McMahon, of all people, has tried this twice because the NFL is to football as the WWF/E was to wrestling post-1983: expand it as far as possible and kill all developmental leagues/territories that aren’t even there to compete. It’s ridiculous because so many football players who might have had a chance to make it in the NFL after a couple years in a USFL/XFL-type environment have been snuffed out.
  22. Well grass does have chlorophyll in it
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