Now do the same for girlfriends

Certainly, nobody holds more swing over German foreign policy than /checks notes/ Finland!

the humanitarian values that religion supposedly have

you have been duped

Who else should they negotiate with? He was apparently their top dawg regarding both their military as well as the hostages

Mind to share which mysterious country is that wants to send its military despite, well, not doing so?

Do you think every NATO country is willing to join open war with Russia?

Do you think even one is?

‘Sandy’ should have stayed on the sand

Potentially.

Wait you have to put it in?

What’s the difference with your own country occupying?

The US sent ships to the region immediately after oct ‘23. So I’d say the’ commitment’ to put military personnel directly in harms’ way was already there

No no no

You’re in trouble

For making us all think impure thoughts

Nonono that was all made by G. O. D.

Do you mean that if you lived in Gaza (say pre oct 7), you’d rather try to kill as many Israelis as possible and sacrifice yourself for that instead of choosing peace?

Also, as per the latest poll, finally a majority thinks that the choice for violence wasn’t the best idea

You might as well argue that Hamas did all the work for their Israeli counterparts. So why would you first describe it so onesided?

The very Palestinians who were in charge of Gaza for the last 20 years and are now posing as righteous were very commited to sabotage Oslo, and did so with numerous bomb attacks against civilians

trusting Pakistanis for anything [was stupid], moreso

Do you believe it’s something in their genes?

And do you remember what happened to those that didn’t agree to your deal?

First, why would it have to start with Israel and not both sides? Don’t forget that Hamas tried to tank the Oslo accords with a series of suicide attacks in the mid-90’s.

And why wouldn’t a one state solution be an option for peace, given time? A lot of Arab nations were already moving towards normalisation with Israel. Which is why Hamas and Hezbollah need to stoke the fire every once in a while.

I’m reading interviews with Hamas militants who want their children to continue their fight to return to the village that their own grandparents were chased out of (within the 1948 jewish-allocated borders no less). As in: return to the village that these kids’ great-grandparents had lived in. And failing that, probably go on to move back to the villages of their great-great-greatparents?

At a certain point there’s limitations on the links between generations and whether they want to spend their lives trying to right the wrongs done to their ancestors that they didn’t even know themselves, or to go on with their lives in the present. There aren’t, for example, that many African-American slave descendants still trying to reclaim their ancestors’ tribes’ lands in Africa, or native Americans (north and south) trying to push all the immigrants since the late 1400s back into the sea. History and humanity move on.

I agree on most points, except perhaps that the ISI isn’t exactly as tightly run that you don’t have strong internal factions. What happens in Pashtun doesn’t necessarily jive with what happens in Islamabad.