This would be true if Andrew had counted for the aid which cherubic Hamas saints deserve as is their TWAIL right. After discounting those quantities, Gaza is being epically starved.
We can’t fund our own defences but we can spunk £23m on a terrorist-aligned group whose enclave has been flooded with more aid than it is humanly possible to consume.
I know this because I have sat in Kiryat Gat and seen truck after truck enter Gaza with my own eyes.
Gaza shows the perverse nature of Zionist morality. At no other point in history has it ever been considered acceptable to attack a territory just because that territory attacked first and started the war.
In class I sometimes ask my students: It’s 1940. Imagine you have a grenade in your hand and you come across Hitler greeting some children. Do you throw the grenade?
(For the record, I would not.)
Hate and demonization are not always wrong. If the hate and demonization are of a group progressives have decided they don't like, then hate and demonization are morally good.
I've heard this "Gaza as a proxy" theory a bunch but as a proxy for what?
What do Katz and Hamid agree on except for Israel? Is Nick Fuentes as an example of someone who has demonstrated moral courage and willingness to oppose injustice?
When a state comes under attack and refuses to immediately surrender to the attacker, people die as a result. That's why failing to surrender is a human rights violation.
International law is often misunderstood, but it's not that hard. In short: terrorism is OK under international law, but fighting back against it is a grave violation.
Ezra Klein is talking trash. This is the most common question that comes in two forms: Should I have kids, given the unfree Palestine they will face? Should I have kids, knowing they will contribute to an unfree Palestine because they are from the Global North?
The Israel and Lebanon accord is null and void. It breaks the cherubic Hezbollah right of self-determination, which is super-duper ius cogens and defeats the right of self-determination of ordinary Lebanese people.
I spoke to Hezbollah MP Hussein Hajj Hassan about the traitorous agreement signed between the Lebanese authorities and Israeli occupation, which he called “a scandal on every level. It represents the complete surrender of the Lebanese authorities before the Israeli enemy.”
VPol: How will Iran respond?
MP Hussein Hajj Hassan: “The ones who started the war were the US and the Israelis. Iran is acting in self-defense against this war that was launched by these two enemies. Now, Iran has said that it will insist on Lebanon's demands, particularly the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, in any agreement it may sign with the US. So, Iran has clearly stated that it supports Lebanon, while the Lebanese authorities have surrendered to the US and the Israelis.”
VPol: Does Hezbollah consider the war to be over?
MP Hussein Hajj Hassan: “Hezbollah did not start the war. It was the Israelis and the US who started it. And if they do not respect the ceasefire—that is, if Israel violates the ceasefire—it is Hezbollah's duty to respond.”
VPol: If US soldiers come to southern Lebanon, how would the resistance respond?
MP Hussein Hajj Hassan: “Who said they have the right to come to Lebanon? Who said that?”
Wait what? If this account were correct then the whole process would be vitiated, it would not be up to a bunch of diplomats to “fix” it. If this were the case then they should have been the ones to investigate from the start. Which obvs everyone said would be wrong - till now
The surest way to guarantee the #CourageToSurrender is to use unavailable time to ponder about life’s choices. By the time you finish that process, the surrender becomes so much more straightforward because you no longer have a choice.
Innovation cycles in theatre are 3-6 weeks.
The British Army are 'testing' an already 3-year old platform, that the US Army adopted two years ago.
People still believe that the UK is moving 'at pace' to adopt a 'war fighting readiness'. Laughable.
Turkey's Interior Minister says he prayed to one day govern Jerusalem, comparing it to the fall of Damascus, Aleppo, and Karabakh. Credits Erdoğan as the leader who will deliver it.