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23 minutes ago, Tuco said:

 

I think what you do and who you target still matter even if a lack of a standing army affects how you do it.  For example, I can see certainly see an argument for flying a commercial jet into the Pentagon.  We would bomb enemy military headquarters and accept significant civilian casualties to do it.  The difference is more about the "how you do it" vs "who you target", and we have more options that Al Qaeda.  The Twin Towers is harder to rationalize, but I get that Al Qaeda sees Corporate America as part of the war.  I'm not saying 9/11 is justified, but I don't think that argument comes down to how it was carried out. 

But targeting kids, no.  Rape, no.  Hamas doesn't get a pass for that. And Israel doesn't get a pass for targeting civilians just because Hamas targeted civilians. But, more to my point of the Algerian reference, I think ultimately it will cost they much more than it helps them.  Bibi is making October 7th effective in its goal.  

 

I should give that a go.  Thanks. 

If you haven’t ever seen The Battle of Algiers (sounds like you might have), it's a great, great watch and could apply to just about any insurgency. It's also available to stream on HBO.

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43 minutes ago, Tuco said:

But targeting kids, no.  Rape, no.  Hamas doesn't get a pass for that.

I assume you realize that I was not giving Hamas a pass.

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21 minutes ago, Tuco said:

 

I think what you do and who you target still matter even if a lack of a standing army affects how you do it.  For example, I can see certainly see an argument for flying a commercial jet into the Pentagon.  We would bomb enemy military headquarters and accept significant civilian casualties to do it.  The difference is more about the "how you do it" vs "who you target", and we have more options that Al Qaeda.  The Twin Towers is harder to rationalize, but I get that Al Qaeda sees Corporate America as part of the war.  I'm not saying 9/11 is justified, but I don't think that argument comes down to how it was carried out. 

But targeting kids, no.  Rape, no.  Hamas doesn't get a pass for that. And Israel doesn't get a pass for targeting civilians just because Hamas targeted civilians. But, more to my point of the Algerian reference, I think ultimately it will cost they much more than it helps them.  Bibi is making October 7th effective in its goal.  

 

I should give that a go.  Thanks. 

It is a very good book. Worth the read. Just ordered a new copy since I am doing some independent studies into the French in Indo China and Algeria. 

There is a part in The Centurions and reiterated in Trinquer's thesis on the French in Algeria. A capture terrorist is being bombarded about how could he place bombs in market places. His response was we do not have airplanes. 

 

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On 7/11/2025 at 7:51 AM, statsman said:

Before assuming her role, she also suggested in an open letter posted on a personal Facebook account in 2014 that “the Jewish lobby” controlled the United States’ stance on Israel. Ms. Albanese later told The Times of Israel that her choice of words was “infelicitous, analytically inaccurate and unintendedly offensive.”

 

Sounds pretty accurate to me.

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6 minutes ago, Thermos H. Christ said:

It’s not the Jewish lobby it’s the Israel lobby. Don’t do their work for them conflating the two. Tons of American Jews are not zionists. 

Unfortunately, the conflation is intentional by the fascists. It is a means to preempt discourse and discussion on the topic, and ultimately control the dialogue. 

It's why any criticism of Israel is met with accusations of antisemitism

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Cross posting so the liberal Zionists that still post in this forum can stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it:

Netanyahu Ministers Vote to Dismiss Israeli Attorney General, Pending Top Court Ruling - Israel News - Haaretz.com

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In a letter to ministers ahead of the vote, Gali Baharav-Miara said the move effectively removes the chief prosecutor in the prime minister's trial. She won't be dismissed until the High Court rules on petitions against it. Government officials doubt her removal will succeed, expecting the court to block it.

 

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Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate closure of US and Israelibacked aid group in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

Not going to let the story of this genocide die as many of you seem to be willing to.

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Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate closure of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation


The medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the immediate closure of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US- and Israeli-backed aid organisation operating in Gaza, describing GHF-run food distribution sites in Gaza as having become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”.

In a social media post on Thursday, MSF wrote:

“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid.

In a new report, MSF analysed medical data, patients’ testimonies and first-hand medical witnesses at two MSF clinics in Gaza and found that it “point[ed] to both targeted and indiscriminate violence by Israeli forces and private American contractors against starved Palestinians” at food distribution sites run by the GHF.

According to the report, between 7 June and 24 July 2025, 1,380 casualties, including 28 dead, were received at MSF’s al-Mawasi and al-Attar clinics in southern Gaza, located near the GHF-run distribution sites. It added:

During those seven weeks, our teams treated 71 children for gunshot wounds, 25 of whom were under the age of 15. Faced with no alternatives to find food, starved families frequently send teenage boys into this lethal environment, as they are often the only males in the household physically able to make the journey.

Patients have also included a 12-year-old boy hit by a bullet that had passed all the way through his abdomen, and five young girls, one of whom was only 8 years old and suffered a gunshot wound to her chest.

“Children shot in the chest while reaching for food. People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points,” said Raquel Ayora, MSF general director.

In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.

The GHF distribution sites masquerading as ‘aid’ have morphed into a laboratory of cruelty. This must stop now.

MSF said it called for the “immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme; the restoration of the UN-coordinated aid delivery mechanism; and calls on governments, especially the United States, as well as private donors to suspend all financial and political support for the GHF”.

 

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