@scrunkoelbunko@speechboy71 The “intense bombing campaign” within Gaza did not begin on the 7th. The initial strikes were fairly limited and the wider operation began the 27th.
@scrunkoelbunko@speechboy71 Palestinian children were celebrating in the streets on October 7th as the widespread response from Israel didn’t begin until later. The authors point is that framing it as though Israel just began bombing 10/7 abdicates Hamas from its role in invading Israel and starting a war
@Saul_Sadka@maxim_k The story was published first yesterday in @Jerusalem_Post and as I read it they weren’t quoting Haaretz. They had about four stories that went out within about an hour that all seemed to come from a briefing they attended.
@CravenMike@SMUHypeMachine Ah yes, don’t Mustang fans miss trips to Tulsa, Birmingham, or Memphis… when instead we have Charlottesville, the Bay, Boston, Upstate NY, or the Carolinas. I have yet to hear an alum or player be upset by our new conference mates and the travel choices
@TheStalwart Ditto the quiet cities. We visited in mid-‘24 and notice that because such a large proportion of vehicles are electric the whole city is so much quieter.
In the past two days SMU has:
Beaten #17 Arizona to win the Holiday Bowl
Beat #12 UNC in basketball
Pretty good for a program that people said didn’t belong at the P4 level
Remember when the UN called for a ceasefire for Ramadan?
Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust on Simchat Torah.
Hezbollah fired rockets on Yom Kippur.
The Iranian regime launched over 180 ballistic missiles on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
The Houthis sent a deadly drone to Eilat in the final hours of Rosh Hashanah this year.
Two Jewish men were killed in a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur.
And today, 11 Jews, including a child, were murdered in Sydney on the first day of Chanukah.
Why is it that Jews are always the only ones who can’t celebrate their holidays in peace?
@Narjes_Rahmati@fried39038@CoreyWriting You cited a Reddit chart — Israel’s government doesn’t collect information of this kind. Most recent academic studies though find that the mizrahi are about 45% of the Jewish population and ashkenazi about 32%.