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The best chant slogan I have heard during this conflict is, "Let them live, the children of Gaza and Tel-Aviv".

How about we all try to make that happen? Step one has to be to destroy Hammas and let Israel handle security from now on. We can debate all day why the Gaza authorities were unable to prevent the 7/10 attacks. But they did, and since this is at the root of this latest conflict, that's where we need to start if we want a long term solution.
I think step one is a ceasefire.

I don't think it's a good idea to give Hammas a chance to regroup. I think the correct strategy is to keep pushing these fuckers until they break. Yes, it's a shame that Hammas does all in the power to put Palestinia civilians at risk. But the solution here isn't to be soft on Hammas.

Step two is a negotiated transfer of power, because right now the Gaza authorities are Hamas. It will be difficult but not impossible to get something resembling moderates in charge and the price will probably be amnesty for the surviving Hamas leaders, but at some point even the most ardent zealots are going to have to admit their position is untenable.

Lol. This is not going to happen. Hammas made sure of that in the 7/10 attack. The only solution is to have whatever Palestinian authority there is to be monitored by Israel. They should be ultimately in charge.

You are talking about all of Eretz Israel being part of Israel, with Israel in control of the borders, airspace, territorial waters, electrical and water supplies, natural resources, commerce, immigration, etc., and the non-Jewish Palestinians having no real authority at all.

IOW, just like Gaza right now but more ruthless and oppressive.

That is not a path to peace.
Step three is a normalization of Gaza's relationships with other countries, including control of coastal waters and airspace, control of its borders, receiving royalties on resources extracted in Gazan waters, etc. , and a genuine possibility of prosperity. If the Gazans want Jared Kushner to develop their seafront into high end resorts and condominiums, that's fine. But if Kushner tries to screw them over, it could reignite the war, so IMO it's best to keep him out of the real estate business there.

That's not going to happen as long as Palestinians are in positions of power. The Palestinian people have proven that as long as they're in charge Gaza will be little more than a military staging post for attacks on Israel.

You're talking about a One State solution in which Palestinians are oppressed non-citizens forced to live in perpetual poverty in walled off ghettoes, or forced out by the Israelis.

The Palestinians don’t have to be poor. If they stopped using all their energy on attacking Israel, then perhaps they can make some money. Like they did before Isarel handed over control to the PA

They would have to be allowed to prosper. No more Zionist seizing of productive farmland, no more destruction of Palestinian wells or diverting of Palestinian water to Israel, no more Israeli settlements built in the West Bank, no more interference with the importing or exporting of material goods, no more fuckery by cutting off electricity to Gaza, or closing the borders without notice, or preventing foreign aid from reaching people, no more diverting natural gas from Palestinian territorial waters to Israel, or mining Palestinian minerals for transfer to Israel without paying royalties, etc. ,etc.

Israel has to either back off and allow Palestinians to prosper (Two State solution) or go for the One State solution and commit to treating every person with the same level of justice, fairness, and support regardless of whether they're Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Neo-pagan, or whatever.

The only other alternatives are the Rogue State solution (commit genocide) or the Failed State option in which Israel is defeated and dismantled.
The suicide bombings went from a problem to rare after that wall came up. I think, for the safety of all Israelis (Jews and Muslims) that the wall stays

Fine, as long as it is built along the Armistice Line that Israel, the Palestinians, and the international community recognized as Israel's borders when the Oslo Accords were negotiated, and Israelis stay on their side of it.

I doubt the rightwing Zionist faction led by Netanyahu would agree to that. They will have to be defeated at the polls before there's a realistic chance that a separation wall will solve anything.
That is not a plan for peace.

Neither is genocide, if that's what you're suggesting as an alternative.

Lol, genocide. Israel is the only side in this conflict not trying to carry out a genocide

I suggest you try reading up a bit on Hammas

There will be no peace in a world where Hammas has power anywhere

I suggest you read up on my posts in this thread.
But on a note of something more relevant to you, I do hope you are careful and don't take someone's eye out with all your Nazi saluting
Oh, I see. Citing historical facts and calling you on your bullshit is the same as being a Nazi.

Who knew? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, you're right. All antisemites aren't Nazis. My bad. I appologise.
Define the term 'Semitic'.

I get the feeling you think it's a reference to religious belief rather than ethnic origin. I haven't been criticizing anyone's religion, unless you think Zionism is a religion.

I haven't been criticizing anyone based on their ethnic origin, either. So you'll have to explain what you're referring to when you use the term 'anti-Semitic'.

Bla bla bla Yes, semitic refers to another group than the opposite of antisemitic. Because that's how the meaning of words drift over time

So?
So you can't define the term you're using, therefore you can't show that it's applicable when and where you're using it. You're simply throwing it out there to be offensive.

Wtf are you babbling about?
What part of my post are you having difficulty understanding?
 
You take the position that Hamas is in the "18th year of a 4 year term" as some kind of proof that that is where it would be if Gazans could genuinely vote in a fair election with Hamas on the ballot.
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 would take outside help to give Palestinians in general, and Gazans in particular, a representative government.

Those are quite uncommon in the Muslim world. I believe it's because Islam is a primitive tribal culture, with a strong authoritarian streak. Not everyone by any means, but a bunch.
Enough.
Tom

That's not the problem. Loads of newly liberated countries that have free and fair elections rapidly go to shit.

The problem wasn’t the freeness or fairness of the election. The problem is that people will vote for what they think is in their own best interest.

Even before 7/10 Gaza was unstable and people lived in grinding poverty. Any wealth came from political connections. This was a pattern set by PLO under Yassir Arrafat.

If that's people's reality, that's how people will vote. Of course Hammas will win if there's an election today. Iran's money to Hammas is the only real income Gaza gets

The problem isn't that the Palestinians are idiots. The problem is that they are smart. But what is good for the individual Palestinian isn't what is good for the Palestinian people. Only wealthy and secure people have the luxury to vote based on higher ideas

What needs to happen for peace to be possible is that the Palestinians are given incentives to work toward productive goals. But as long as the entire Muslim world are putting big money on skewing the incentives toward conflict, that's not going to happen.

Free and fair elections in Gaza isn't a solution. An external force (like Isael) needs to take over and run it. There's just no other way
 
Everyone, come on....thread topic is Columbia campus potests and if that diverts into something once removed...such as expanding to root cause, other protests or impact of protest, great....but we've gotten so far off-topic, Ukraine is coming up. Let's try to keep the subject of posts more in line with topic. Please.
 

They would have to be allowed to prosper. No more Zionist seizing of productive farmland, no more destruction of Palestinian wells or diverting of Palestinian water to Israel, no more Israeli settlements built in the West Bank, no more interference with the importing or exporting of material goods, no more fuckery by cutting off electricity to Gaza, or closing the borders without notice, or preventing foreign aid from reaching people, no more diverting natural gas from Palestinian territorial waters to Israel, or mining Palestinian minerals for transfer to Israel without paying royalties, etc. ,etc.

Israel has to either back off and allow Palestinians to prosper (Two State solution) or go for the One State solution and commit to treating every person with the same level of justice, fairness, and support regardless of whether they're Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Neo-pagan, or whatever.

The only other alternatives are the Rogue State solution (commit genocide) or the Failed State option in which Israel is defeated and dismantled.

Jesus what a load of rubbish. Stop reading antisemitic propaganda. This is all nonsense

??? Are you saying the things Arctish described never happened?
 

 

Places mentioned in the article:

UK

The protests have expanded to more universities. For example, Leeds, University of Warwick, and Newcastle University.

Canada

Now also at the University of Toronto.

Italy

University of Rome

Japan

University of Tokyo in Japan

Lebanon

American University of Beirut

Lebanese American University
 
Are you actually expecting me to change my mind about the moral acceptability of killing hundreds of thousands of children to achieve vague and insubstantial political goals?
I ignored your 130,000 figure before because I figured it was a simple typo. Apparently you meant it--you have a zero error there.

And what "political" goal are you even talking about? Israel's goal is to dismantle as much of Hamas as possible and to recover their hostages. Military goals, not political goals.

130,000 dead children from atrocities is a threshold only reached by Hitler, Stalin, Sudan, and probably Iran. (I am excluding Mao from this list because I believe most of the deaths he caused were by mismanagement, not by intent.)

So you've retreated from your bizarre claim of 880,000 Hamas terrorists killed? :unsure:
 
Everyone, come on....thread topic is Columbia campus potests and if that diverts into something once removed...such as expanding to root cause
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.~
 
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Looks like these campus riots are not organically springing from grass roots, but are rather astroturfed by extremist groups.

Student protesters on US campuses trained for months with anti-Israel groups including SJP – report

Times of Israel said:
Some of the organizers of anti-Israel protests on university campuses across the United States in recent weeks were trained for months by pro-Palestinian activists and left-wing groups, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Student organizers held consultations with groups such as the anti-Israel National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of previous campus protests and former Black Panthers, the report says.
[...]
The newspaper article mentions a “Resistance 101” training session that was scheduled at Columbia in collaboration with the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a Vancouver, Canada-based group that reportedly celebrated the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
The session was banned twice by the university, according to the report, and was eventually held online.
During the virtual session with one of the speakers, Samidoun coordinator Charlotte Kates told attendees, “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas… These are the people that are on the front lines defending Palestine,” according YouTube footage cited in the WSJ report.

Samidoun is an organ of the Marxist-Leninist Palestinian terrorist organization PFLP (splitters!)
 
OMG, THEY WERE AN ORGANIZED GROUP!!!!111!!!??????

Post#12: "One of the groups who helped to set up the encampment was Jewish Voice for Peace which is an anti-zionist Jewish group."

"One of the groups" means there is more than one group, too, such as for example, the national group for divestment.
 
Looks like these campus riots are not organically springing from grass roots, but are rather astroturfed by extremist groups.

Student protesters on US campuses trained for months with anti-Israel groups including SJP – report

Times of Israel said:
Some of the organizers of anti-Israel protests on university campuses across the United States in recent weeks were trained for months by pro-Palestinian activists and left-wing groups, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Student organizers held consultations with groups such as the anti-Israel National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of previous campus protests and former Black Panthers, the report says.
[...]
The newspaper article mentions a “Resistance 101” training session that was scheduled at Columbia in collaboration with the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a Vancouver, Canada-based group that reportedly celebrated the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
The session was banned twice by the university, according to the report, and was eventually held online.
During the virtual session with one of the speakers, Samidoun coordinator Charlotte Kates told attendees, “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas… These are the people that are on the front lines defending Palestine,” according YouTube footage cited in the WSJ report.

Samidoun is an organ of the Marxist-Leninist Palestinian terrorist organization PFLP (splitters!)
So?
 
Looks like these campus riots are not organically springing from grass roots, but are rather astroturfed by extremist groups.

Student protesters on US campuses trained for months with anti-Israel groups including SJP – report

Times of Israel said:
Some of the organizers of anti-Israel protests on university campuses across the United States in recent weeks were trained for months by pro-Palestinian activists and left-wing groups, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Student organizers held consultations with groups such as the anti-Israel National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of previous campus protests and former Black Panthers, the report says.
[...]
The newspaper article mentions a “Resistance 101” training session that was scheduled at Columbia in collaboration with the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a Vancouver, Canada-based group that reportedly celebrated the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
The session was banned twice by the university, according to the report, and was eventually held online.
During the virtual session with one of the speakers, Samidoun coordinator Charlotte Kates told attendees, “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas… These are the people that are on the front lines defending Palestine,” according YouTube footage cited in the WSJ report.

Samidoun is an organ of the Marxist-Leninist Palestinian terrorist organization PFLP (splitters!)

For those who seemed to have missed the link belonging to the quotes with a little ellipsis in the middle, here is the link:

I will remind everyone that Columbia divestment said it was sponsored by around 100 groups and that this article has a lot of "some"'s this and "some"'s that.

"Some of the organizers of anti-Israel protests on university campuses across the United States in recent weeks were trained for months by pro-Palestinian activists.."

That makes sense. Would SOME of them have been trained by anti-Palestinian activists?

"Some... left-wing activists..." Also, makes sense.

"...consultations with groups such as the anti-Israel National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of previous campus protests and former Black Panthers."

So some of the organizers at the various months, no years that divestment groups have been around consulted with some other groups some of whom did other protests, especially some that are pro-Palestine.

Now the part that was snipped:
While there is no central organization coordinating the anti-Israel encampments and protests sweeping US campuses, the report notes that NSJP has been sharing updates and advice on its highly active profile on X, formerly Twitter.

And now the kicker:
...the group shared cartoons giving protesters ideas for “non-violent” resistance, including throwing what appears to be a smoke bomb, jumping over barriers and lifting a garbage can...

The actual photo has to be zoomed in, though, and you can tell because the words in the sentences and the imagery are cut-off:


So click it and zoom in:
twitteractivism.PNG

"...we take care not to endanger others with our actions."

Children being slaughtered -- check
Details being left out -- check
Complain about activists mooning people when they aren't -- double check
 
Virginia

Interesting article here:

People say that the protest was peaceful. The administration argues that tents violated policy, but they actually changed the policy that morning to remove a link to a document that said recreational tents were allowed.


One of the protestors shouts at the state troopers something like "Where were you in 2017?" ... a reference to Charlottesville.
 
That's not the problem. Loads of newly liberated countries that have free and fair elections rapidly go to shit.
I know one such country which starts with Ukr and ends with ane :)

Yeah. Well. If only we can somehow stop Russia for trying to control Ukraine, then they will at least have a chance to be free.
If only we can somehow stop US from trying to control EU.....
Why, why do you have to do that? what's your business there?
 
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