Fun fact! The US is spending more on healthcare than it does on its military. By A LOT. The military gets around 4% of the federal budget, healthcare gets around 12%.
The US taxpayer pays MORE on healthcare in taxes than the the taxpayers in Switzerland or Norway!
Where does that money go, you ask? Why, to the pockets of the corpos owning private healthcare, of course!
What if your ancestors got forced out 500 years ago? Got claim then?
I never understood the scale of this bullshit until I had a user request his script packaged. Now, Intune doesn’t like executing random python scripts, so I gave him several options for 8 KB, 50-lines-of-code script.
He disregarded them and wrapped it all in Electron.
I received a 380 MB zip file.
But, well, it had an .exe inside so I could work with that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know it’d be expensive, but I wonder if it’d be worth it to valve to start producing ram.
There’s a reason why there’s only, like, three RAM manufacturers. It’s horrifically expensive to start production.
Already answered here. In short: you’re wrong.
They want to be separated. Palestinian nationalism grew extensively in the 1930s, there was unrest and a civil war. Palestinians want to have their own nation, just like the Israelis do.
Ah, so we now need to start doing genetic check-ups? How many of the Palestinians still have Persian DNA, considering the land historically belonged to Persia?
Also: you’re wrong. Israelis have very significant percentage of Near Easter and Middle Eastern DNA.
On the contrary! I’m saying: leave it as it is, just give Palestinians a helping hand.
YOU are saying that the existing population (Israelis) needs to be purged in a genocide and the area returned to their historical owners.
Well, might be news to you, but Palestine as a nation exists since 1947, so the closest “historical owner” we have is Iran.
Israelis lived there for 3000 years non-stop. How are they foreign invaders?
Like I said: makes as much sense calling them Iranians as calling Israelis/Jews “Europeans”.
Well, by that token, Palestinians have zero claim on the land, since there was never such a concept as “the Palestinian Nation” before around 1920.
Mandatory Palestine was never peaceful due to nationalists (both Zionist and Palestinian) fighting the British. Even if the British weren’t a part of the equation, the rise of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism would make co-existence impossible, as exemplified by the 1947 fights and the 1948 civil war.
Agreed the claim of Europeans on land of Palestine is bullshit.
Who are you replying to? This is basically the exact opposite of what I wrote.
Zionists achieved the land by force and have only expanded like a cancer.
First gained by diplomacy, then by force. Unless you can kick them out (you can’t) there’s nothing you can do about it.
Two methods of handling the situation: the Palestinian method (“let’s chuck rockets at them non-stop, and then cry when they retaliate with overwhelming force”) or the Egyptian and Jordanian method (“fuck it, let’s just have civil relations, verging on an alliance”).
You people keep saying that it’s impossible to have peace with Israel - Jordan and Egypt seem to disagree. Shit, Jordan was actively shooting down Iranian missiles when Israel was under attack!
I don’t think 35% of the population would be considered as most.
Yeah, if you take statistics about something completely different than what we’re talking about, you can get that kind of number, true. Here’s something relevant, however: Likud has around 20% in election polls.
“European Jews” is like calling Palestinians “Iranians”. Makes exactly as much sense, mate.
they can’t help themselves from genocidal tendencies
Right, because, as we know, Israelis are a hive-mind and if one of them wants to commit genocide, then we know that ALL of them have genocidal tendencies.
Yeah, but neither wants that, so how do you solve it?
Which Arabs? Lebanese? Egyptian? Jordanian? Syrian? Make it an Iranian exclave?
And what do you do with the Palestinians and Israelis already living there? Genocide both groups? That’s your solution?
So now they have the right to displace the people who are living there
They started off fully mixed, but that didn’t work, and both parties involved are to blame here. The clear solution was to separate them, yes.
genocide them
No. Where did that come from…?
So by your logic, US should give the land back to the native Americans. Or does might makes right.
See, that’s the thing - by my logic, all the “historically this land was XYZ” is bullshit, and the only actual right to hold land comes from either diplomatic or military power. That’s how it always worked throughout history and only nationalist/genocidal maniacs ever talk about “historical rights”, everyone else just moves on.
Palestine AND Israel have the right to their own nation, and they both managed to achieve that through diplomacy. Later, Israel kept its land through military power, even when attacked by literally every country it shared borders with.
They are not the genocidal maniacs. They have right to stay just as the Palestinians
You might be surprised, but most Israelis aren’t. In fact, most Israelis want to get rid of Netanyahu and his clique.
Because both Palestinians and Israelis want their own nation?
Israel in its present avatar didn’t exist before the British have it to Europeans
Yeah, same with Palestine.
The land was taken from Arabs who were living under the Ottoman rules.
Who took the land from Jews/Israelis.
There were Jews living there but were a minority.
Because they were persecuted and forced into exile, yes.
Yet it allowed for the theocratic colony of Israel to continue is genocide.
You keep using that word, but I don’t think you understand what it means.
Palestine went from a population of 600k to 5 million in the span of 100 years. That’s a faster growth than Denmark. If that’s “genocide”, then, my god, it has to be the most incompetent genocide in the history of our species, considering it worked backwards.
The only way to ensure peace in Middle East is for Israel to not exist and all the Europeans go back to their own countries.
Or, and hear me out, a strong contingent of culturally-neutral forces that ensure no settlers take land from Palestine, the prosecution of said settlers, the proper establishment of the rule of law and democracy in Palestine (last elections in 2008 due to Hamas’ theocratic authoritarianism).
And, please, stop with this ridiculous “Europeans”. Or, if you don’t, I’ll start calling Palestinians “Iranians”. Makes as much sense. Deal?
GOP - Gas & Oil Party.