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 Not a good sign: I think they knew the attack was coming. Later: Iran launches missiles.  (CNN) NPR Biden told USA military to help shoot down missiles. ABC Video of missals raining down. Bibi met with Trump and decided to delay a ceasefire with Hamas till after November 3rd. Now the war is spreading to Lebanon and Iran. Those two countries were looking for reason to lob some bombs, and they gave it. In the world of asymmetric war, where all the fundamentalist Islam countries take their pot shots at Israel. Iran will say they killed a Hezbollah leader in Iran, so they have a right to strike back. Israel invaded Lebanon to stop the Hezbollah bombs coming from there. Luckily Syria is too poor to send too many missiles.  Both sides keep giving each other reasons to strike back. Everyone thinks their righteous killing people.  So many hostile countries lobing in bombs, you root out when they come inside your country, there's going to be no mercy for Hamas. I get that I...

I think people are sick if they think they can bring about a better result for Israel and Palestinians, by not voting for Harris.  Trump would undoubtedly align with the far right Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom it's suspected that he violated the Logan Act , add that to his criminal tab of seemingly endless law breaking and potential law breaking and suspected law breaking. The Palestinians-Americans frustration at not getting more traction with the Democratic party, could be seen as the party just not wanting to take on this fight now. They're trying to consolidate power behind Harris in the quick election drive to November.  I'm not sure they couldn't allow for 2 speeches, one by a Palestinian and one by someone who defends the Israeli side. Just to say we recognize the issues that exist and we give it free expression. We're not so uptight about conflict and dissension within our own party. Heck it might have drawn more eyeballs, but of course it's a no win sit...

Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1967 during the Six Day War . Each side has complex and embedded stories that justify violence towards each other.  ( Vox : "The militant group based in occupied Gaza launched aerial attacks and broke through the heavily secured fence into the State of Israel. Hundreds of Israelis have been killed, a historic scale of violence for the country. The Israeli counterattack will inevitably lead to more death and destruction for Palestinians and a tightened occupation.") The Jewish people were attempted to be exterminated during Hitler's rise in Germany, and the general scapegoating, othering and anti-semitism in Europe. Jewish people just want to have a place where they are safe, since the winds of anti-semitism can easily blow, like the strains of hate groups in the USA. The peaceful ones who walked into the killing chambers are dead, it's the feisty vengeful fighters who are left. No, it's not that simple, nothing i...

Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. In Israel: "Today, Israel’s parliament passed a law that increases the power of the country’s right wing, headed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel does not have a written constitution, and the prime minister’s ruling coalition is in control of both the executive and the legislative branches of government. The only check on them was the courts, which could overturn extreme laws that did not pass a “reasonableness standard,” which means they were not made according to a basic standard of fair and just policymaking. The new law aims to take away that judicial power, and it passed by a vote of 64–0 after opponents walked out in protest. Netanyahu’s coalition has indicate...