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This is crazy. Britain's intelligence collaboration with Arab Gulf states was based on its access to Israeli intelligence. If that's even half-true, it's wild. And pathetic. x.com/stephenpollard…

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@polphiloecon @bartov_omer @IhabHassane @afalkhatib Are you asking if there’s strategic value to denying your enemy territory? I don’t think Israelis trust anyone who would step in to form that government. And I don’t think the Israelis are wrong on that score. In fact, I suspect that deep down you agree with them. So if you

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@polphiloecon @bartov_omer Then it’s a shame Hamas doesn’t test us by disarming and abandoning its rule of Gaza, as every poll of Gazans says Gazans themselves would like to happen. Then we’ll know for sure. And exacting consequences from Israel will be very easy for the world, because Israeli intentions

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Holy shit. Algebra is Persian. If Algebra is your problem, then your problem is with Iran. It's important to keep your villains straight. The Jews are controlling the world and eating your children. But don't you dare blame us for algebra. x.com/MaxNordau/stat…

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@ChrisJingledell It's almost as though you desperately need Israel to be vulnerable and dependent on you. I don't know what this emotional journey is, but it smells from afar like a weird little power trip. Do you know the first thing about our military, how many men we can actually field, our

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@YYcaute Quite possibly. Though some other leaders were raging against the policy. But every other Israeli leader would have owned the failure, admitted it and apologized. And would have gone to meet the victims without waiting months or years. And wouldn't have dared to spread

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@SizzliSuperfan Maybe, inefficiently and only if the planes are low-flying and slow and lacking in protective tech. But that's not what they're designed for, is it? Israel invested countless billions in literally building bomb-shelter rooms for every apartment across vast swaths of the country,

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@ChrisJingledell Oh hon, yes, it totally cool. We're the Jews who actually had to survive the 20th century without anyone rescuing us. You had an arms embargo on us in '48 and didn't help at all in '67. We won our most desperate wars and absorbed millions of our refugee brethren and survived

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@DraidenHasNoFun You should absolutely do everything you can to protect Palestinian civilians. You might struggle to do so with Hamas. You can't defend the civilians of a regime that won't itself defend its civilians. And Hamas is a regime that built the most comprehensive bomb shelter system in

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@MellingerBarry With respect, it was Rav Aviner who failed to offer analytic discipline, not I. Halacha fears the appointment of a non-Jewish king over a Jewish polity, which is a kind of return to bondage. It's about unchecked coercive power. Even Rambam's examples are drawn from military and