Sancho Banana posted:

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1745824052999045441?t=mm2QrQn7M8fnPNMC2EbY6Q&s=19

Cookie Cutter posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Praljak

Kunabomber posted:

He stole it from the Japanese

Sancho Banana posted:

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1745824052999045441?t=mm2QrQn7M8fnPNMC2EbY6Q&s=19

evilmiera posted:

Intervene how? Providing more evidence? Sending a delegation to protest the decision? They're not involved in any way with the process what kind of involvement could they even do? They could get involved in vetoing any resolution based on the verdict but that's in the Security Council, it has nothing to do with the Court at all.

Honky Mao posted:

Is it normal to need approval to hold fire against a bunch of kids

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Only experts in international law know what it entails because it's never been done before. From what I've seen it apparently involves a lot of disruptive measures that could drag out the proceedings.

30.5 Days posted:

so uh, what happens to Egypt if nobody can use the Suez canal except like china

Honky Mao posted:

Is it normal to need approval to hold fire against a bunch of kids

Cookie Cutter posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Praljak

Sancho Banana posted:

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1745824052999045441?t=mm2QrQn7M8fnPNMC2EbY6Q&s=19

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The military affairs commentator on Israel Defense website, Amir Rapaport, stated that "the most significant events this week took place in the northern front, where assassinations and attacks attributed to Israel have increased, and, in return, Hezbollah has raised the threshold of its response..."

The expert explained that "Nasrallah's declared goal was to trap a large number of army forces in the north, thereby fulfilling his role in supporting his brothers in Hamas."

According to him, a "security belt" was created inside "Israel," rather than in Lebanese territory in an unprecedented event, noting that "this is the first evacuation in the north since the beginning of Zionism."

"Many in the security establishment believe that the evacuation, including even "Kiryat Shmona," was hasty and wrong. Perhaps because this is precisely what gave Hezbollah the legitimacy to launch anti-tank missiles and rockets at civilian homes, something that would not have happened if the houses were occupied."

Meanwhile, statements at the political level, that the northern residents will not return to their homes without the relocation of Hezbollah's Radwan forces north of the Litani River, have "made Israel climb a high tree," Rapaport added, highlighting that such a scenario is extremely difficult as "Hezbollah's military capabilities are significant, and the geographical features of the fighting in Lebanon, when necessary, pose a bigger challenge (except for the tunnel issue. There is an unprecedented global military challenge in Gaza)."

Earlier this week, Reserve Maj. General Gershon Hacohen said that Sayyed Nasrallah "was and still is a professor in managing conflict and combat."

In an op-ed published in the Israeli Hayoum, Hacohen emphasized that Hezbollah's chief "focuses primarily on undermining Israel's morale and humiliating it."

In turn, Major General Itzhak Brik criticized the "deterioration of the army's readiness and preparedness" to confront Hezbollah on the northern front, denying what Israeli officials say about "unprecedented readiness."

Brik explained that the significant gap in the army's readiness is revealed by the poor preparation for the "strategic scenario" of Hezbollah's attempt to take control of army positions in the north.

Honky Mao posted:

Is it normal to need approval to hold fire against a bunch of kids

Honky Mao posted:

They haven't killed a single person

Al-Saqr posted:

is the hezbollah attack on maron base that significant of a turning point?

Al! posted:

its fine to not feel personally guilty for the crimes of the nation state you were born into it just centers that this is more about hating muslims than it is about feeling bad about the holocaust

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Entebbe raid - Wikipedia]On 29 June, after Ugandan soldiers had opened an entrance to a room next to the crowded waiting hall by destroying a separating wall, the hijackers separated the Israelis (including those holding dual citizenship) from the other hostages[nb 2] and told them to move to the adjoining room.[33] As they did so, a Holocaust survivor showed hijacker Wilfried Böse a camp registration number tattooed on his arm. Böse protested "I'm no Nazi! ... I am an idealist".[38] In addition, five non-Israeli hostages – two ultra-orthodox Jewish couples[24] from the US and Belgium[8] and a French resident of Israel – were forced to join the Israeli group.[35] According to Monique Epstein Khalepski, the French hostage among the five, the captors had singled them out for questioning and suspected them of hiding their Israeli identities.[35] On the other hand, according to French hostage Michel Cojot-Goldberg, the captors failed to identify at least one Israeli among the passengers who was a military officer with dual citizenship then using his non-Israeli passport and he was later freed as part of the second release of non-Israeli hostages.[37] US citizen Janet Almog, Frenchwoman Jocelyne Monier (whose husband or boyfriend was Israeli),[39][40] and French-Israeli dual citizen Jean-Jacques Mimouni, whose name had not been called up during the reading of the original passport-based list, reportedly joined the Israeli hostage group by their own choice.[41]

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From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Role Ex-Nazis Played in Early West Germany - DER SPIEGEL]The Left Party's parliamentary group had forced the government to come clean about Germany's past by submitting a parliamentary inquiry. Bundestag document 17/8134 officially announced, for the first time, something which had been treated as a taboo in the halls of government for decades: A total of 25 cabinet ministers, one president and one chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany -- as postwar Germany is officially known -- had been members of Nazi organizations.

carcinofuck posted:

Exactly, but I feel this way also about Hamas. The people who are standing up for the Palestinians (or whatever passes for it when all you can do is say stuff) are not going far enough in just saying actually it seems like Hamas barely did anything "wrong" to begin with. They targeted military bases and kidnapped a mix of IDF and civilians, and it sounds like the IDF killed more civilians than they did.

The Voice of Labor posted:

for anyone on the fence or confused, every indigenous uprising and retaliation, every slave revolt and every anticolonial action, past present and future, is absolutely 100% justified, every single one every single time

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1745514105027387721?s=20

Adenoid Dan posted:

People keep talking about how oh they aren't actually targeting Israeli ships, it's random piracy!

And how much traffic is going to Eilat these days? Whether or not it's random doesn't particularly matter, the effect is very clear.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nasrallah-succeeded-in-trapping-large-israeli-force--israeli

According to him, a "security belt" was created inside "Israel," rather than in Lebanese territory in an unprecedented event, noting that "this is the first evacuation in the north since the beginning of Zionism."

"Many in the security establishment believe that the evacuation, including even "Kiryat Shmona," was hasty and wrong. Perhaps because this is precisely what gave Hezbollah the legitimacy to launch anti-tank missiles and rockets at civilian homes, something that would not have happened if the houses were occupied."

Lord of Pie posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/halbritz/status/1745628799595614632?s=46&t=UyfxoSAUKW7QZlR_GhkuYA

Raccooon posted:

Just read the article on this dude and his sentence was 20 years minus time aleardy served. Only 5-7 years left at time this happened. Dude would be out of jail right now if he hadn't killed himself lol.

Best Friends posted:

It’s darkly funny that these strikes were planned by a bunch of people in the pentagon pretending to be the secretary of defense, and then approved by people in the White House pretending to be the president.

evilmiera posted:

Intervene how? Providing more evidence? Sending a delegation to protest the decision? They're not involved in any way with the process what kind of involvement could they even do? They could get involved in vetoing any resolution based on the verdict but that's in the Security Council, it has nothing to do with the Court at all.

KomradeX posted:

There's an Iannucci film in all this

Al-Saqr posted:

is the hezbollah attack on maron base that significant of a turning point?

Mister Speaker posted:

Well yeah, but you have to admit it was kind of genius to cut together several different Japanese properties with teenage American actors, the franchise absolutely blew up.

Sancho Banana posted:

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1745824052999045441?t=mm2QrQn7M8fnPNMC2EbY6Q&s=19

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International actors must respond to the Houthis’ attacks, both to preserve the Red Sea shipping route and to prevent further regional escalation. But the United States is confronted by an array of bad and worse options for how to do so. Some politicians and analysts have argued that the best way to counter Houthi aggression is with military escalation designed to “restore deterrence.” This perspective sees the United States’ eventual decision, in 2021, to push for peace negotiations in Yemen as a failed policy of appeasement.

But proponents of airstrikes against the Houthis cannot articulate what should happen afterward. It is hard to see how airstrikes would deter Houthi attacks now when they have failed to do so over the past decade. Airstrikes against Houthi targets might marginally erode the Houthis’ ability to launch missiles and drones, but it will be much harder to effectively target and eradicate the Houthis’ small, cheap manned and unmanned boats.

(...)

To deal with the threat posed by the Houthis, ultimately the United States must push for an end to the war between Israel and Hamas—as well as to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general. Like it or not, the Houthis have linked their aggression to Israel’s operations in Gaza and have won domestic and regional support for doing so. Finding a sustainable, long-term approach to both conflicts will be critical to de-escalating tensions across the region and getting the Houthis to call off their attacks on commercial vessels. Such attacks would have limited utility in the absence of these conflicts.

These measures cannot fully address the threat that the Houthis pose to U.S. interests and to stability in the region more broadly. But they remain the best among bad options—and the United States has only bad options because of its failed approaches to Yemen over the past 20 years. Washington must not repeat its mistakes. Decades of experience have shown, by now, that military efforts to dislodge the Houthis are unlikely to be effective. Instead, they may merely further devastate the lives of the already struggling people of Yemen.

Raccooon posted:

Don’t be shocked when it turns out we will in fact be going back to the law of the jungle