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I joined IIDB over 20 years ago and your screen name rings a bell. But I don't remember well enough to remember everything, I may have been drinking at the time. Your post was kinda retro though. This iteration of IIDB I consider at least IIDB 3.0. More like Pendarica than the IIDB I joined...

Heh I'm remarkably tech stupid. I still remember the Star Trek level of communications technology when my Mom got a phone in the laundry room. It was a TouchTone! My sisters keep trying to drag me, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century. Tom

I totally agree. Palestinians are not idiots. But they have been in a really bad way for generations. Under circumstances that most of the people here can hardly imagine. I'd say it's more like brainwashed or something. Assuming someone needs to be at least 5 to understand what is going on...

Honestly, I am inclined to make the distinction between the event and history (which has it's own thread) and outsiders reactions like Columbia and such. But yeah... Tom ETA ~I clipped a bit of @DrZoidberg post and responded to it in the Gaza thread.~

How many democratic and representative governments does the Muslim world have? It's something I learned from some highly educated Muslims. They were explaining how unlikely it was that the USA invasion of Iraq would result in anything resembling a western style democracy. They predicted a...

I have pointed out several times that I believe that the Israeli government knew enough about the impending attack to do something about it before hand. Maybe not the exact scope or date, but I am very sure that they did. I have mentioned that I believe that Zionist hardliners were giving Gazan...

Conclusions like "desperate, starving, infrastructure destroyed" Gaza is described as "in shreds" and you don't understand that? Yeah, I stopped taking your responses seriously a while back. You just illustrated why. Tom

If I thought your opinions worth the effort, I might go back and quote all the posters describing the situation. "Desperate", "starving", "destroyed infrastructure", I think I remember. If you don't think that qualifies as being "in shreds" fine I guess. Oh well. Tom

Seriously? You think I need access to diplomatic communications to recognize that Gaza is in shreds? Or that "Hamas", whatever that means, is in charge of Gaza? Which might be why I didn't say that. However, destroying the military installations in Gaza is definitely defending Israel. Since...

Here's another inconvenient truth. Hamas' leadership and tactics have been well known for years. Nobody, including the UN and ICJ much less Iran, have expressed interest in supporting peace in Gaza. Bitching at Israel for defending themselves is not a Peace Plan. Tom

How many and how much do you think qualifies as "enough"? I'm talking about the facts. Regardless of how or why, it was enough. That's all I said about that. Tom

If the goal was the destruction of Gaza would you say Likud failed? I wouldn't. Of course, Bibi and Likud can't just come out and say that. But they couldn't have done it without Gazan help. If they'd launched this battle on October 6, 2023 it would be a whole different narrative. So they...

So giving aid to Palestinians was a huge fuck up? Not if the goal is the destruction of Gaza. Tom

Blowing up the treaty with Iran started well before that. When Obama first described it, the Teaparty leadership announced that they wouldn't support it. Trump just put the last nail in the coffin of peaceful relationships with Iran. And now we've got what we've got. Teapartiers like Trump...

How did Israel fuck up, if the goal was to trash Gaza? Tom

What do you think I am in denial about? Hamas' use of human shields, including little kids? Seriously? Hamas' starting the current conflagration by building up a military installation and then attacking Israel with it? What? I think you are the one in denial. Tom

I've said no such thing. I don't think it's possible to have a free and fair ballot in Gaza at this time, or for the foreseeable future. Whether Gazans want one or not. I'm confident that Hamas would be more likely to kill any potential threat to their power and grifting. That's why I think it...

That's pretty stupid. It's a fact that Hamas is in the 18th year of a 4 year term. Regardless of why or how strong the support, it's been enough. I'm confident that a bunch of it is because Hamas is violent to the point of psychotic. It will require a ton of outside support to get rid of...

Bullshit. The kids are being used as human shields no matter where they are. Living in a house adjacent to a missile launcher makes them a human shield. Frankly, living anywhere in Hamas controlled territory makes people human shields to some degree. I saw a video of a student demonstrator...

Depends on what your goal is. Given Bibi's life history and background, using Hamas to destroy Palestinians would make sense. It certainly worked. Yeah, I'm a cynical old curmudgeon. Tom