Ponca Dan said:

Yes, it would have been better. Israel has done the same thing, you know. Their military HQ is located deep under a mall in a shopping district, and Mossad HQ is surrounded by residential districts. Gaza and the West Bank are occupied territories, surviving under the boot of the Israeli military. People in occupied territories are allowed to resist (think of the Polish resistance against the occupying Nazi forces). On the one hand Oct 7 seems like a blunder for the ages. But on the other hand Israel’s over the top reaction has exposed it for what it has been for the world to see. Its very carefully constructed facade as the perpetual victim has vanished.

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2012Bearcat said:

Another thought for you to consider, instead of Hamas building tunnels and acquiring military equipment to prosecute a war against Israel ,wouldn't it have been better to use those hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit the Palestinian people. Who benefits from keeping the Palestinians in generational poverty?

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Ponca Dan said:

I think of Laurel & Hardy.

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Ponca Dan said:

Bingo! It wasn’t until the west crammed Israel down the throats of the people already living there, drove them out of their homes (and murdered the ones that wouldn’t leave), and locked them in open air concentration camps that resentment welled up into hatred.

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Ponca Dan said:

It was a terrible idea. If Hamas was going to do it it should have first declared war. Then according to the Bearcat doctrine what Hamas did would have been moral (but still a terrible idea).

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2012Bearcat said:

Maybe attacking Israel on October 7th starting a war wasn't such a good idea.

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aliabedi said:

No

none of them are replying to my questions

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davidallen said:

It's kinda like this:

Seems like magic, but it really isn't. It's called distributed systems and eventual consistency...

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fairdinkem said:

[P-DAN], I thought you were smarter than this. Terrorism is not religion-specific. Anyone can be a terrorist. "Look in the mirror boy". (With all deference to Pete Townshend, of course)

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Ponca Dan said:

If Iran wants all Jews dead why have they allowed 200,000 Iranian Jews to emigrate to Israel? If Iran wants all Jews dead why didn’t they go ahead and kill them rather than let them leave?
If Iran wants all Jews dead why do 10,000 Jews still live there? Why hasn’t Iran killed them if what it wants is all Jews dead?

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LAY THE WOODY said:

Dan's researching reassignment surgery.

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