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  1. Wait, are we now thinking that Iran isn’t just a friend we haven’t made yet?
  2. I don’t think it’s “revenge” that is the motivation to eliminate Hamas. It’s common sense. You either eliminate Hamas, or you pack up and move (Iran is fine with both, although they reserve the right to pursue their final solution globally).
  3. No. Not de-humanize. What Hamas did/does is all too human. I was very careful in my choice of words. Hamas are monsters. From the beginning of humanity, society has to eliminate monsters.
  4. I explained why I believed Israel had to respond to the threat of Hamas, and why their choice, lethal as it is to the civilians Hamas shelters among, is their best (least worst) option. Do you disagree that the government of Israel, which has to stand for popular elections) has to respond? Do you think there is a better option for them?
  5. There is a photo, and I hope I don’t have to copy it here. It is from October 7, and it was taken by Hamas affiliated photographers. It shows a young woman, nabbed from the music festival. She was near naked, bleeding from her groin (she had been raped by many “men”, and the blood was either from brutal intrusions or-and one hates to mention this kind of detail, but it happened often- from knife thrusts into her vagina). Her right leg was formed into several unnatural angles; it is difficult to imagine the process(es) by which it had been broken so often and severely. She was in the back of a pickup truck heading to Gaza; the intent seems to have been to keep her as a hostage. Evidently, at some point, they realized how impractical that was- the effort to keep her alive after those injuries and the problems coming as a survivor relating her horrors- so they killed her and dumped her along the way. She was found with her head severed, and no one can say whether the decapitation was the coup de grace, or some post death ritual debasement. These acts, committed on this young woman, and many others, were not the results of chaos, anger and opportunity. They were the plan. the Hamas leaders are and were proud of them and freely admit plans for more of the same. Israel could negotiate with Hamas. That would be a reward for October 7, and so there will be more October 7’s. Israel could just have a limited military engagement, get a tit for tat, maybe a little more, and call it good, leaving Hamas and its Iranian funders intact. Again, there will be more October 7’s. Israel decided, instead, to slay the monsters, along with many of the innocents that the monsters hide among. That is tragic, but, for the life of me, I can’t think of a better option.
  6. To be clear, Hamas is an anti-Semitic group, to their core. It is their rason d’etre. They live to hate Jews, all Jews, not pausing to differentiate between Jews that are actually pro-Palestinian. Hamas is more anti-Semitic than the Nazis were; the Nazis lived to kill Jews, too, but realized they needed to kind of hide their activities. Hamas blasted their crimes out on social media in real time. Any western group that acts in congress with or in alignment with Hamas goals is going to be (at least) splashed in anti-Semitism. That’s the ocean they’re swimming in.
  7. It is a bullshit question. It isn’t advancing the discussion; it’s just trying to highlight that the progressives have an anti-Semitic faction, to score cheap political points. Which is not something the progressives have had a problem with for 90 years. We know that progressive Woodrow Wilson only hated African-Americans more than Jews; we know that for all the right wing talk, the main difference between Nazi philosophy and 1930s progressives is the willingness to go authoritarian (and, again…Wilson jailed socialist Eugene Debs for speaking against him).
  8. Stoops did this in 2008. Their star RB, Murray, and DR, Granger, were both injured in their shellacking of Missouri in the B12 CG (that we should have been in). He announced immediately after that they were both fine and would be able to play (there was still one more vote to settle the BCS). Neither played against Florida. To this day, Sooners use their injuries as an excuse for losing the BCS CG.
  9. You realize, that for the last dozen years, tens of thousands of lethal rockets and missiles have been fired blindly into Israeli civilian population centers, as a regular occurrence? More regular than the rain? That Israel has just assumed that it has to build and maintain an incredibly advanced air defense system, just to avoid going into Gaza and forcibly moving everyone out?
  10. Israel is not committing genocide. Israel knows what genocide is. Israel has been viciously attacked and is defending itself against similar future attacks (that have been promised). Hamas is the group that has expressed a desire for genocide and taken such actions.
  11. If Israel really wanted to commit genocide, it would have been accomplished. Israel doesn’t want to commit genocide. It wants to eradicate Hamas, who has a strategy of hiding among the civilians it claims to represent and govern, and restricting the ability of civilians to relocate. This is ugly, and unfair to innocent civilians. Unfair is not unjust. Unjust would be not allowing Israel to go after the Hamas forces that attacked their people so cruelly and wantonly.
  12. UNRWA teacher alleged to hold hostage for several days. https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-775777
  13. Really, it started with the 2nd half of ISU. Really, there should be some kind of award for that Jarod Hougher guy.
  14. Last NC: Texas 2005, OU 2000, TAMU 1939 Last NC game: Texas 2009, OU 2008, TAMU 1939 Last CFP: Texas 2023, OU 2019, TAMU - Last AP Top 5: Texas 2023, OU 2018, TAMu 2020 Last Conf. Champ.: Texas 2023, OU 2020, TAMU 1998
  15. Tens of thousands of more Russian dead are forcibly mobilized troops from Russian occupied areas of Ukraine. It’s a horror.
  16. Sorry- I thought I was logged in and I wasn’t. This should be the shareable link What happens when Russian convicts freed to fight in Ukraine come back home? “Thousands of criminals are walking our streets.” https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-convicts-ukraine-wagner-storm-z-prigozhin-0fe28acc?st=af918y2ebiq99me&reflink=share_mobilewebshare Sent from my iPhone
  17. What happens when Russian convicts freed to fight in Ukraine come back home? “Thousands of criminals are walking our streets.” https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-convicts-ukraine-wagner-storm-z-prigozhin-0fe28acc?reflink=share_mobilewebshare Sent from my iPhone
  18. All of the civilian casualties (Israeli and Gazan) are caused by Hamas. Hamas is responsible for all of them, every one.
  19. I was disappointed after 5-7, feeling that bowl eligibility had been possible, if Sark had made a couple different decisions. In retrospect, I have to admit to being wrong; since his decisions put us on this arc where we are in the playoffs in year3. List of coaches who turned things around in two years: Stoops Carroll Meyer x 2 Tressel Helfrich Saban took three years to get to theBCS title game. Most of the above coaches inherited better talent on their rosters. I don’t know that we’re going that far this year, but we’re in the playoffs and this team’s success (unlike 2004-2009 Texas teams) isn’t based on the QB carrying the team. The foundation of this team looks very solid. Arguably, Sark is outperforming early years Mack. Can anyone make a counter argument? I suspect that if Texas doesn’t want to pay him market salary, there are other programs that happily will.
  20. Yep. Undefeated ACC being treated like undefeated AAC. That’s not going to make FSU feel like they’re good staying put. Plus, Boo Corrigan was the ringmaster of this circus, and he is an AD at an ACC school.
  21. I think Riley sets his sights a little higher than Gabriel. Gabriel is good, in his sixth year, but he doesn’t have the amazing arm and isn’t a big guy.
  22. Palestinians are not Nazis, nor are they “like” Nazis. Hamas sure as hell is like Nazis. I would compare the Palestinians to the non-Nazi party citizens of Germany. They wanted Germany to win (patriotism, nationalism, social pressure, whatever), were not really given any choice in things (authoritarian government), and suffered for their government’s decisions. I’ve said before, on WWII threads, that Nazi Germany was hell- the first eight years, the Germans were the demons. The last couple, they were the damned. Palestinians, under Hamas rule, never got the period where they had the upper hand, never were the demons. They just get the part where they are the damned.
  23. I work with a lot of aerospace engineers from OSU. They’re cool.
  24. With yesterday’s loss, Gundy is 9-10 against Texas.
  25. I'm on my 5th Makers Mark Central Markwt sells an Old Fashioned mix that makes those a whole hell of a lot better.
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