When was Palestine a liberal democracy?

Pretty different set of circumstances to shooting tens of thousands of your own citizens.

If anyone wants to avoid twitter, just set up a browser redirector that sends you to the relevant xcancel page. I haven't seen the native Ttitter interface for months now. Don't put the expectation on HN when it's so easy to fix yourself.

This isn't sexist, it's reality. It's the rationale for male conscription and male disposability.

Hasn't Trump and the unitary executive theorists decided that since the executive actually administrates the departments and moves funding, that the executive can just decide to not send money to, or fire the staff from any given executive function Congress authorises?

While the courts may not agree with the new theory, it's a lot easier for Trump to destroy and delay than it is for the courts or Congress to compel him to rebuild and fund.

Now Trump starts a war that'll make the COVID inflation look cute and fun, with apparently very little preparation, and it's got 2/3 Republican support.

How does this make sense?

No, it's likely retaliation with a military excuse.

>US managed to use ground forces against the Taliban without leveling the city.

Not in Raqqa or parts of Mosul. Dense urban fighting produces major destruction. Neither was Afghanistan a sealed, prepared, hyper-dense urban enclave. The Taliban largely withdrew from key cities rather than making their last stand inside them. If you check the state department reports [1], neither did the USA use troops to assault entrenched Taliban positions. It was bombing, and then local proxy infantry.

>So you do think Hamas stay around after launching a rocket?

Probably not. But the alternative is Israel just intercepting rockets with no retaliation which is unrealistic.

>Then they use block levelling bombs rather than a smaller precision bomb.

They use a variety of munitions with varying sizes and precision.

>Do you think the lies and denial for the buried ambulances case or the killing of journalists like Shireen Abu Akleh were just one off cases?

I think many Israelis have been radicalised (like the Palestinians) and several army commanders are perpetrating war crimes and atrocities. I don't think their system directs or encourages it, but it certainly doesn't do enough to prevent it. The fog of war, deference to people on the ground, the bullshit the radicalised commanders feed upward, and the political cover from the extremism of the Israeli cabinet cause the system to defend the atrocities. Although, sometimes, when the case is very obviously unjust, Israelis are held to account.

[1] https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2001/html/10262.htm

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