You will end up with leaders that will not meet each other or leave their countries. You will end up with leaders eternally paranoid that at any moment they could be assassinated by a foreign power.
This will be a guarantee for much more wars, killing many more people than we already have.
The Nazis used the promise of food to get Jews in Warsaw and other ghettos onto the trains to the death camps without much resistance.
Going house to house to kill people is dangerous. Drawing them out in the open and shooting at them with tanks is easy.
The UN as an institution is distinct from its member states. Unfortunately most member states got a hard on for crimes against humanity again.
That doesn’t make sense. Villagers know perfectly well how to make cheese and the cow is the most expensive part of the process. You add some acid to make the curd, add your starter culture from the sheep stomach, and have that rest for some time in a cool and dark space. After a while start salting it, if you have salt available.
You know how we say that Mushrooms are the largest organisms on earth, because the Mycelium is interconnecting all through the forest and we only see the fruiting bodies?
Well, most reasonably modern towns have all their buildings connected by the fresh water and sewage pipes and possibly gas-pipes. I’ll exclude electricity, because the cables don’t really have a volume they enclose.
So you could argue that most towns in Europe are indeed a building.
Well in this case they don’t want people to accurately report on Israeli sites being hit.
While i understand that in the context of military sites, this should not be relevant in the context of civilian sites. Unless Israel is using its civilian sites as human shields for its military…
According to Al Jazeera Ben Gvir also wants people to spy on and denounce neighbors listening to Al Jazeera:
Ben-Gvir: Anyone watching Al Jazeera should be reported to the police
Far-right Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir just gave a short statement to the media, which our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera Mubasher carried live a few minutes ago.
In it, he reiterated the government’s stance against allowing Al Jazeera to report from Israel, saying doing so would pose a “threat” to national security.
He also called for police action against those caught watching Al Jazeera in Israel.
In the US (so far) the racism by police is worse. However generally people will accept you as a “local” within a year or two. In Germany your great grandparents can have moved to Germany and from your grandparents to you, everyboy can have lived in Germany and you will still be deemed “the foreigner” or “the migrant”.
Syria gets rid of Assad
German mainstream politics: “Syria is safe. Deport all the refugees!”
German doctors union: “We have 5,000 Syrian doctors working in our hospitals. Many rural hospitals will have to shut down without the Syrian doctors.”
German mainstream politics: “Okay, the doctors can stay as long as they are useful to us. The rest must go.”
Your cousin coming to your home to visit or asking you to live there is very different from him coming to murder you and steal your house and tell the world how he is right to life there and your family trying not to have their house stolen is literal terrorism
More like:
“Should we publish your search results, that text with your affair and have your teenager arrested for his drugs? No? Then come over to the office on Friday at 4 PM and suck our dicks. We mean that literally by the way. Brush your teeth beforehand.”
It is written “Ramstein”. The band has a double m. However it doesn’t matter any previous agreements or whatever. If the base is used for illegal activities the hosting country has a right and a duty to stop that illegal activity. Otherwise it is complicit.
Russia is not so much “pro Iran” as it is keeping an ambiguous relationship with Israel and Iran. Russia let Israel bomb Iranian militias in Syria. Israel sold drones to Russia after Russia invaded Crimea. Israel even demanded Ukraine to just give up against Russia behind closed doors. Netanyahu praised Russia and Putin in the past months and Israel refrained from demanding sanctions on Russia since the full scale invasion 2022.
I believe that MTGs position is coming from a sincere “MAGA” position. Why should the US let Israel dictate what it is doing and what it is not doing? Why should the US on top of it pay billions to Israel for Israel to drag the US around?
She already opposed “anti-BDS” laws that would criminalize Americans for publicly declaring that they will not buy products for political reasons.
While she is a terrible person all around, she is consistent in asking “does this help America” in her idea of what “America” is supposed to be.
Evidently wasting billions on Israel, getting US soldiers killed and forbidding people in the US from voicing their opionion including on what to buy and not to buy is detrimental to the US.
While Germany formally was against the war in Iraq it allowed the US to facilitate significant parts of its logistics through US bases in Germany. In the subsequent years and continuing today the Ramstein airbase is used as a major relay station for drone control. Drones the US used for thousands of murders all over Africa and Asia in its “fight against terror”.
What is new and worrying is how brazenly Germany now positions itself in defiance of international law and for wars of aggression.
New one today. The number of people killed has risen further since then, now being at least at 80.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-80-killed-israeli-ambush-aid-centre-gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/09/archives/student-designs-2000-atom-bomb.html
University physics student designed an atomic bomb to prove that nearly anyone with information now publicly available could do the same thing.
The student, John A. Phillips, a 21‐year‐old senior, using information obtained from unclassified sources, has prepared a 34‐page report said to contain plans for a crude plutonium device weighing 125 pounds and allegedly carrying a charge one‐third as powerful as the one detonated over Hiroshima in World War II.
“The point was to show,” he said, “that any undergraduate with a physics background can do it, and therefore that it is reasonable to assume that terrorists could do it, too.”
Mr. Phillips, who took four months for research and to complete his plans, did not build his bomb, and scientists familiar with his work have refused to evaluate the plans.
But the New Haven student, whose father is a professor of mechanical engineering at Yale, contends that his academic advisers have assured him that the device is “workable.”
By the time Mr. Phillips completed his plans, he had concluded that “billions of dollars and years of research are no longer required for the design and construction of a fission bomb,” but that “fanatical dedication to the goal and scientific know‐how are.”
Mr. Phillips said yesterday while outlining his plans for the bomb, which he contends could be built for $2,000, that he could have designed a more extensive one but that he had limited himself “to the crudest, cheapest and simplest device.”
“Any other physics major could do this better,” Mr. Phillips asserted. “It was just luck that I got on the right track. I’m really one of the poorest students in the physics department.”
While i am sure his comments on it costing $2,000 ($11,300 today) are broadly exaggerating, the key point remains. The information needed is really not the obstacle in the process of acquiring a nuclear bomb.
The fact that Iran evidently worked together and upheld the JCPOA, when the West was serious about diplomacy. Then Trump came and everyone was like “okay screw diplomacy, lets just keep increasing pressure and hope the country collapses”- Then Israel came and was like “lets bomb the shit out of them to have the West love me again and stop caring about the genocide i am committing.” Then the West was like “hurr durr, Israel has the right to defend itself by attacking anyone and everyone whenever it pleases and why is Iran defending itself, how dare they?!”
When Israel assassinated politician in Iran last year. Iran only replied in a measured way to safe face, but seek deescalation. When Israel bombed Iran, Iran for the longest time did not retaliate and when it retaliated still only targeted spots with little risk of injuring or killing people, again being a “don’t tread on me” reaction, without seeking escalation. Now Israel is completely out of their mind and went on to announce and celebrate direct attacks on Civilians, effectively telling Iran, that they are out for annihilating the country.
Well, Israel and its allies provided a lot of statements that justify attacks on hospitals.
As the BBC reported, there is military and intelligence sites nearby, which is consistent with Irans claim of having targeted legitimate military targets. I guess the Israelis should be condemned here for using their hospitals as human shields, like they have accused their targets of, usually falsely.
I hope that as little Civilians as possible get hurt, however the attacking nation crying wolf about collateral damage, after butchering Civilians in the tens of thousands during the past years and well before that too, cannot help but raise an eyebrow. This comes especially as many people in the Israel civilian population have cheered on massacre against Civilians.