The invasion was also designed to force Syrian troops out of Lebanon and install a friendly, Maronite Christian-led government in Beirut, ultimately aiming to sign a peace treaty with Lebanon.
Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.
No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.
Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.
Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.
They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.
Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.
Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.
Own it.
Israel launched "Operation Peace for Galilee" on June 6, 1982, with the immediate goal of stopping PLO rocket and guerrilla attacks on northern Israeli communities. Israel aimed to push Palestinian forces roughly 25 miles north, out of artillery range
Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.
No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.
Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.
Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.
They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.
Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.
Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.
Own it.
"Progressive" trying to cure reality with a hyper-fantasy explanation; you can become the richest in the world by doing close to no work if you are skilled in robbing? In tech?! Going to the moon? Where do they come from?!
The idea that Elon Musk worked harder than every person alive and who has ever lived is a very stupid and immature fairytale. Wake up. He’s robbing us.
@joni_askola In a global economy successful entrepreneurs will become extremely rich? The only way to stop them is to deprive them of their ownership? Do we want that? To what cost?
This was the scene in Bangladesh as Islamic militants stormed a medical school classroom, weapons in hand, yelling: “Educating women is haram!”
Islam is the enemy of civilization.
@HackieMoon If Musk is able to build the most valuable company in history while being lazy and on public subsidy I guess it tells that he is one of a kind not seen in the world so far?
Sanders shouldn't argue what value could be achieved in an open society without providing an alternative, would there be a SpaceX with no Musk? The company was founded by Musk and developed by Musk - who is the right owner if Musk isn't? Should we prefer a SpaceX less valuable?
History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
Beauty and life with a future met the brave courageous muslim men of Gaza and then beauty and life ceased to be in a future of void. Conclusion; Never allow from river to sea culture if you want a peaceful life?!
So far, the match hasn't touched the fuse, but it's getting closer, and this week's headline-driven swings show how sensitive that fuse has become.
-- Steve Blumenthal
Where is the money coming from? The Fed has been printing it. Money creation - not tariffs, and not corporate greed - is the underlying driver of inflation and higher rates over time.
If you want a single number that tells you whether this stays a slow burn or becomes a crisis, watch the 10-year Treasury yield. That yield is the match. The debt and deficit are the fuse. The bond and stock markets are the bomb.
"I see very little political will in Washington, on either side, to address the problem. The incentives remain short-term, even as the consequences become increasingly long-term."
The interest expense on that debt, what we pay just to service it, is closing in on $1.3 trillion a year. Roughly one out of every four dollars Washington collects now goes toward interest expense alone, before a dollar is spent on anything else.
-- Steve Blumenthal
The interest expense on that debt, what we pay just to service it, is closing in on $1.3 trillion a year. Roughly one out of every four dollars Washington collects now goes toward interest expense alone, before a dollar is spent on anything else.
-- Steve Blumenthal
But here's the part that doesn't get nearly enough airtime, at least from our legislators: the U.S. government is approaching $40 trillion in debt, running deficits of nearly $2 trillion a year in an economy that isn't in recession.
Wrong conclusion, Musk has a value based on assumptions about the future for his companies. To tax that fictional wealth would be stupid. Wait till the return on assets show up. Then is the time to tax
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
@LongFellaDarius With a wealth tax he would have to sell shares to pay the tax if the company wasn't making profits? Consuming on loan is just a more expensive way of consuming? The loan has to be paid, with new loans or income - if by loan the cost of repayment will exceed the capital borrowed?