Snowy

High school dropout, but still the smartest guy in the room ( when you're not in it).
SUPPORTING THE FINAL BATTLE. JAVID SHAH🦁

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@tanamakomakoto may you be blessed in everything you do

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@tanamakomakoto follow in the way of Nobuki Sugihara, son of Chiune Sugihara of blessed memory, who was also granted a scholarship to study at an Israeli university

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.

The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.

I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.

In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.

Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.

The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.

These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.

It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.

If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:

"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5

"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H

"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

Another Wildberries logistics center has come under attack, this time in Russia's Vladimir region.

The facility covers 171,900 square meters, making it one of the company's larger logistics hubs.

The strike continues a broader campaign targeting Russia's logistics infrastructure, which plays a critical role in sustaining military supply chains and the wider wartime economy.

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

Nöam, a well-known Montréal kosher restaurant on Décarie Boulevard, was burned to the ground overnight. Nearby surveillance footage shows a man pouring accelerant and deliberately setting the restaurant on fire, according to reports from The Suburban. The owners are Shomer Shabbat and may not even be able to review the footage or fully absorb the destruction of their business until Shabbat ends.

The Jewish community of Montréal will stand together, support them and rebuild. In one way or another, Nöam will emerge from this stronger and more glorious than ever. Because this is what we do.

As for the motive, we already know the ritual that will follow. We will be instructed to remain calm, suspend judgment and wait patiently before calling a spade a spade.

But let us remember the context in which this occurred.

For nearly three years, Montréal’s Jewish schools, synagogues, community institutions and businesses have been threatened, vandalized, shot at and set on fire. Because “Free Palestine.” Because “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.” Because Jew hatred has been excused, normalized and allowed to spread without meaningful consequence.

Each incident may require its own investigation. But the broader pattern does not cease to exist merely because every individual perpetrator has not left behind a written manifesto explaining his intentions.

There comes a point at which the demand for infinite proof stops functioning as legitimate caution and starts functioning as social permission to remain blind.

Whatever this investigation ultimately establishes, the owners of Nöam will not face this alone. The Jewish community of Montréal will rebuild, as we always do. But our resilience should never be mistaken for an obligation to remain silent about the conditions that made an attack like this ultimately foreseeable.

We will rebuild. But we will not remain silent.

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@AdamRFisher i've always wanted to meet the world's oldest man

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@EliAfriatISR the more the merrier

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@Sunnymica if you open Pandora's box, don't expect to find nothing in it.

[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

Its starting to look like the entire Russian leadership has to go before peace is even possible. General Viktor Sobolev said it openly: Russia will not end the war in 2026, and the goal is to “reach Ukraine’s western borders So this isn’t about “talks,” “security guarantees,” or “neutrality.” It’s about total subjugation of Ukraine.
And when a member of the State Duma’s defense committee says this publicly, it’s not a slip. It’s the official position of the regime.

In short As long as the current Russian leadership remains, peace is impossible. They don’t want to stop the war — they want to win a war they cannot win.
Source: Russian State Duma / Sobolev

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

Destroying buildings is not genocide. Warning people that you’re going to destroy their buildings before you do, is definitely not genocide. Stopping the war when we got our hostages back shows it never was genocide. Targeting and taking out people who murdered, raped and abducted our fellow citizens is justice, not “ongoing” genocide. The famine that never happened is not genocide. Taking quotes out of context does not prove genocide. And for all of you who continue to lie about this and treat it like it’s just a simple fact like the color of the sky? You are justifying the harming and killing of Israelis and Jews. You’ve chosen the wrong side.

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@JoeTruzman lostintranslation.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Iran’s power stations and civilian infrastructure remain protected unless their current use makes an effective contribution to military action and striking them offers a definite military advantage.

The fact that they were left untouched during the opening attacks does not settle the legal question, but a sudden decision to destroy them now would demand a convincing military explanation. If the purpose is to punish Iran, deepen civilian suffering or create economic pain without securing a definite military advantage, these would be attacks on civilian objects, not legitimate military operations.

Even where an installation qualifies as a military objective, the attacker must assess whether the expected civilian harm would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated, and must take every feasible precaution to reduce that harm.

An intentional attack on civilian infrastructure, or an attack launched knowing that the civilian consequences would be clearly excessive, may constitute a war crime.

The administration’s record gives little confidence that these limits would command much respect. Trump has pardoned US personnel convicted of, or prosecuted for, serious battlefield offences.

Israel, after investing heavily in warnings, evacuation procedures, target verification and other precautions in Gaza while facing relentless accusations, would be reckless to lend its aircraft and its name to a campaign whose apparent object was punitive destruction rather than military necessity.

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@ClimateWarrior7 "je suis cry-mate worrier"

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@ClimateWarrior7 the only way to teach yourself basic computer programming is to get a basic computer, but those things are obsolete now. so what are you going to do?

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@RealZoya1 @grok improper grammar: cardiac straight liner!

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@nmladenov @BoardOfPeace why are your civilians carrying heavy weaponry?

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@AynReagan so much bile brewing in you.....I love it

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@AnnaDeMilanese and how many unarmed civilians died because of his actions? WAR CRIMES!

[Snowy @snowonder23]

@isaacrrr7 rest in pieces, scum.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

אז עכשיו שטראמפ לקח פסק זמן מאיומי גוג ומגוג, אפשר לחזור להתרכז בנושא המשעמם אך זה שעל סף דלתנו ושנראה שלאף אחד אין באמת רצון לעסוק בו, ערביי עזה.

ושם צריך פשוט סוף סוף הנהגה עם חזון וסבלנות לפעולה שתבהיר שהמשמעות היחידה הרלבנטית לאורך זמן של פירוק חמאס מנשקו היא פירוק חמאס מנשקו האידיאולוגי: כלומר שאין פליטים בעזה, אין דבר כזה בכלל ״זכות שיבה״ למדינת ישראל, אין ‘פלסטין מן הים ועד הירדן’, ויש להכיר בכך שהמלחמה בציונות הסתיימה בהפסד.

כל עוד ישראל והעולם מסרבים לדרוש מעזה לוותר על מיתוס הפליטות, להכיר בכך שאין זכות השיבה ולסיים את השאיפה להחליף את ישראל, שום ‘יום שאחרי’ לא יהיה שונה מהיום שלפניו. מי שרוצה לנצח את חמאס חייב לפרק, במקביל לנשק, את האידיאולוגיה שמחמשת אותו.